对话：

A: What did he say?

他说什么呢?

B:He said he would tell us the secret of becoming a successful man.

他说会告诉我们成为成功人士的秘诀。

A:It’s too good to be true! If I were there, I would ask him if he himself was a successful man.

哪有这样的好事啊!如果我在场，我会问他自己不是成功人士。

B:Nobody woulddrive him up to a wallby asking him such a question, you know.

要知道没有人会问这样的问题把他逼得无可话说。

解词释义：

up to a wall是指“到了墙边，已经没路可走了”，比喻人“走投无路”。短语“drive sb up to a wall”则指“把某人逼上绝路”，亦可做“push sb to a wall”。

支持范例：

Thatguyin the next apartment has been playing histrumpetfor four solid hours now and it’s driving me up the wall! I’ about ready to go next door and tell him to stop all the noise.

隔壁那套房间里的人吹喇叭已经吹了整整四个小时了。这简直快把我逼疯了。我真是要跑到他那里去，叫他不要再吹。

Mary and I have been friends more than ten years.She’s very nice and I like her a lot. But she likes tocriticizeme whenever I wear a new suit. Itdrivesme up the wallevery time she does it.