Oh, please! That was a gentle nudge.

拜托，我只是给他个下马威。

I warned her off Mr Barrow, that's all, but I wasn't having a go at her.

只是提醒提防巴罗先生。我没有给下马威的意思。

Strict and clever, she gave them a talking to the moment they had sat down in her first class.

、聪，他下来上第一堂课就给他来了个下马威。

I wish you had been there, my dear, to have given him one of your set downs.

我真希望你当时在场, 亲爱的, 给他一个你的下马威。

Strict and clever, she gave them a talking-to the moment they sat down in her first class.

麦教授跟他都不一样。哈利没有看错。他一眼就看出这位教授不好对付。、聪，学生下来上第一堂课就给他来了个下马威。

A senior. Okay. Cool. Hey, Phil. Sweetie. Honey. He is Dylan, and he is a senior. You need to scare him.

高三。很好。菲尔，亲爱的。这是迪兰，他读高三。你得给他个下马威。

Harry had been quite right to think she wasn't a teacher to cross. Strict and clever, she gave them a talking-to the moment they had sat down in her first class.

哈利没有看错。他一眼就看出这位教授不好对付。、聪，他下来上第一堂课就给他来了个下马威。

They had got as far as agreeing that it was likely to be something extremely difficult, just to catch them off guard after a two-month holiday, when someone walked around the corner towards them.

他一致同意那大概是一件很难很难的事情，为的是在两个月的假期后给他一个下马威，就在这时，有人绕过拐角朝他走来。