out of your depth

/ˌaʊt əv jə ˈdepθ/NEUTRAL · C2
中文对应近似对应
力不从心
字面意思: «到了你踩不到底的深水里»

含义

without enough knowledge or skill to deal with something

缺乏应对某事的知识或能力.

例句

  1. 1On my first day in the advanced class, I felt completely out of my depth.
  2. 2Leo was out of his depth when his boss asked him to run the whole project alone.
  3. 3Maria had never cooked for more than four people, so she was out of her depth at the wedding dinner.
  4. 4Are you sure you won't be out of your depth, teaching physics with an arts degree?
  5. 5The questions in the final round were so hard that even our best player was out of his depth.

语法

常用于 be 或 feel 之后。your 随主语变化:my、her、their。

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