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词汇 take the wind out of someone's sails
释义
take the wind out of someone's sails idiom
(also knock the wind out of sb's sails, knock the wind out of sb)使(某人)泄气;使(某人)不坚定
to make someone feel less confident or less determined to do something, usually by saying or doing something that they are not expecting
I was all ready to tell him that the relationship was over when he greeted me with a big bunch of flowers - that took the wind out of my sails. 我已经准备好要告诉他我们分手吧,可他捧着一大束花向我迎来——这让我的心又软了下来。
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