英語習語：(your) heart isn't in it「對……不感興趣，」

Idiom of the Day

(your) heart isn't in it

對……不感興趣，心思不在上面

Today： Wed， 14 Oct 2020

Meaning:

If your heart isn‘t in something you’re doing， you don‘t really want to do it。

如果你的心思不在你做的事情上，就證明你真的不想去做。

For example:

Ali was studying to be a doctor， but his heart wasn’t in it so he decided to follow his real dream and study film-making instead。

Ali 在學習做醫生時，他的心思並不在上面，所以他決定跟隨自己的夢想，去研究電影製作。

We could tell that Sally‘s heart wasn’t in it when she tried singing jazz， so we said she should stick to pop songs。

我們說Sally在嘗試唱爵士樂時心不在焉，所以我們認為她應該去堅持流行歌曲。

Quick Quiz

She‘s doing the photo shoot to promote her book， but her heart isn’t in it。 She looks

a。 quite happy

b。 really bored

c。 very funny