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Rob 因为节目稿子没写完，非常紧张而且表现得有点儿过于激动。不过菲菲用了一个有 “mountain 山”和“mole 鼹鼠”的表达给 Rob 讲道理，这个表达是什么？Rob 的稿子没写完怎么办？听节目，学习一个表示“小题大做”的短语。

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（关于台词的备注: 请注意这不是广播节目的逐字稿件。本文稿可能没有体现录制、编辑过程中对节目做出的改变。）

Feifei
大家好，欢迎收听 BBC 英语教学的《地道英语》节目。我是冯菲菲，还有我的搭档 Rob。Are you OK Rob?  

Rob
No, I'm not. I haven't finished writing the script for this programme – I still don't know how it's going to end.

Feifei
Rob 为了写这个节目的稿子，急得团团转，不至于吧！Rob, it's not important.

Rob
What?! A script is not important – how am I going to make this programme word-perfect, without any mistakes? What will the audience think of me?

Feifei
At the moment, they probably think you are a little crazy – 你这样的反应有点儿过火吧，you're overreacting Rob – you're making a mountain out of a molehill.

Rob
Making a mountain out of a molehill!  I won't be making any mountains, I haven't got time.

Feifei
No, Rob – it's just a saying! Make a mountain out of a molehill 是一个固定表达，意思就是“小题大做，反应过激”。So, calm down Rob, it's not a big issue not having a script, is it?

Rob
[silence]

Feifei
Rob?

Rob
Er, I don't know what to say. It's not on the script. 

Feifei
Oh dear – we'd better hear some other examples of this phrase.

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I only asked him to do the shopping and now he's going on about how he has no time to go to the pub – he's making a mountain out of a molehill.

It's only a 2000 word essay; stop making a mountain out of a molehill!

Feifei
我们多用这个表达来形容某人把一件小事故意扩大，使其看起来比实际的糟糕。And Rob, not finishing a script for this programme is a small problem.

Rob
If you say so, Feifei.

Feifei
Just do what we always do – 临场发挥。Make it up!

Rob
OK, I'll try. Hold on, what's that?

Look! A real mole has buried into the studio – so now we have a real molehill to make a mountain out of.

Feifei
You would never have written that in a script Rob!

Rob.
True. Bye!

Feifei
Bye!