carpet大家都認識么？

地毯的意思

call someone on the carpet / be called on the carpet

字面意思，某人被叫到地毯上去了

實際是：被問責，被訓的意思

why?

這個地道表達來自軍隊

在軍營里

只有高級將官的辦公室里才有地毯

被叫到地毯上去

意味著一個士兵（下等軍官）被叫到將官那里被訓話問話

后來就引申為被訓話的意思了

例句：

1. The student tried to make the teacher think that his

report was original, but the teacher knew it wasn’t,

and?called him on the carpet.

那學生想法讓老師相信他的報告是原創(chuàng)的，但老師知道它不是

所以就叫他去問話了

2. I got?called on the carpet?for being late again.

我因為遲到，又被訓了