英语习语俚语：Dig sth/someone up from dirt

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Dig sth/someone up from dirt：to go to great effort to find someone or something or reach a certain level. （从底层摸爬滚打出来，从下游拼搏出头，类似：start from bottom/scratch）

英语习语"Dig sth/someone up from dirt"情景会话：（绝望的主妇S01E10）

Gaby：How am I supposed to live without a car?没了车我还怎么过活

Lawyer：Gabrielle, Listen！Tanaka's still at large 田中还潜逃在外

------>> and they want Carlos to flip on him. 他们要卡洛斯做替罪羊

------>> So this is their way of playinghardball. 所以他们开始来硬的了

------>> I'm guessing that they're not done yet. 而且我猜这还没完

Gaby：Why? What else could they take from us? 为什么 他们还能拿走什么

Lawyer：Pretty much anything. 所有的东西

------>> It's all fair game if they even think 只要能够追查到不义之财的下落

------>> they can trace it to ill-gotten gains. 对他们来说怎么做都不为过

Gaby：No, some of this stuff is mine, 这怎么行 有些东西是我自己

------>> when I modeled, before I even metCarlos. 做模特时买的 当时还没遇到卡洛斯呢

------>> See this? Kosta Boda. 看到这个没 珂丝塔[瑞典著名水晶品牌]

------>> I bought it when I landed my firstcover. 是我第一次登上封面时买的

------>> This... I spent eight hours on a rock ina bikini 这个 是我穿着比基尼在石头上

------>> for that painting.晒了8小时换来的

Lawyer：I understand how you feel. 我明白你的感受

Gaby：No, you don't understand. 你不明白

------>> I have dug myself up from dirt to affordthese things 我含辛茹苦才买来的东西

------>> and no one is gonna take them away fromme. 谁也别想把它们抢走

Lawyer：Then I suggest you find yourself a goodhiding place. 那我建议你找个好地方把它们藏起来

------>> They can't take what they can't find. 他们只能带走他们找得到的东西