Make my skin crawl 讓人頭皮發麻

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“Make my skin crawl” 這個表達非常形象地描繪瞭一種強烈的生理反應——皮膚上有東西在爬的感覺……是不是光想想就已經讓人感到不舒服瞭？“Make my skin crawl” 的意思和中文表達中的 “讓人起雞皮疙瘩” 相近，常用於描述令人害怕或惡心的場景。聽節目，學習 “make my skin crawl” 在日常交流中的用法。

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Feifei
大傢好，歡迎收聽 AYYBLOG 英語教學的 “地道英語” 節目。在每期節目中，我們都會介紹一個英語母語人士或講英語流利的人會用到的習慣用語或短語。I’m Feifei, and I’m joined by Georgie.

Georgie
Hi everyone. Feifei, how’s your day going?

Feifei
Not too bad, thank you! What about you?

Georgie
Well, actually… not great. I was taking out the bins this morning and there were maggots everywhere! It was disgusting – it made my skin crawl.

Feifei
EURGHH! Georgie, you just said the maggots ‘made your skin crawl’. And that’s the expression we’re learning in this programme. But, what does it mean?

Georgie
OK, well I’m sure our listeners know what skin is, but Feifei, what does ‘crawl’ mean?

Feifei
Well, ‘crawl’ is a verb and it’s a way of moving your body along the ground. For example, babies crawl on their hands and knees. And animals can crawl too – and it can be quite a creepy movement when they do so.

Georgie
That’s right! So, we even have a nickname for bugs which is ‘creepy crawlies’. And if something makes our skin crawl, it means you have the sensation of horrible insects crawling over your body – that doesn’t sound very nice, does it?

Feifei
No, it doesn’t… So, if something makes your skin crawl, it means you’re incredibly disgusted or frightened by it. Let’s hear some examples.

Examples
I watched a film about an alien that attacked a group of people on a spaceship. The alien made my skin crawl.

My brother changes his bedsheets about three times a year. It makes my skin crawl just thinking about it.

I saw a news story about a plague of mice. There were thousands of them running through people’s houses. And it… it just made my skin crawl to see it.

Feifei
你正在收聽的是 AYYBLOG 英語教學的 “地道英語” 節目。上面我們聽瞭三個使用瞭 “make my skin crawl” 的例句。

Georgie, what kind of reaction did you have when you found those maggots this morning?

Georgie
Oh… I don’t want to think about it. My whole body shuddered and shook. It was like my skin was physically crawling!

Feifei
So, to remember this expression, you can either think about insects crawling over your skin, or that your skin itself crawls.

表達 “make my skin crawl” 的意思接近中文表達裡的 “讓人起雞皮疙瘩” 或者 “令人頭皮發麻”，它用來形容 “某件事情或某種感覺讓人非常不舒服、惡心或恐懼，就好像皮膚上有東西在爬的感覺”。

Georgie
Yes. And, join us again next time for another useful English expression. Bye!

Feifei
Bye-bye!