今天，我同事Jacky 喜滋滋地跑到我座位上，跟我說：Last night he makes a bomb。what??? 難道他昨天晚上去「造原子彈」去了嗎？
原來，在英語口語中，make a bomb表達的不是」製造炸彈「。make a bomb 表達的是「發財，掙大錢」的意思。
另外，口語中我們可以使用make a bomb, 但是我們如果在寫作的時候要用make a fortune 來表達。
make a bomb + V-ing sth 通過做某事來賺錢
例： I could make a bomb selling these cupcakes!
賣這些杯蛋糕，我可以賺一大筆錢！
make a fortune + V-ing sth 通過做某事來賺錢
例：Tom made a fortune selling and buying real estate.
湯姆通過買賣房地產賺了一大筆錢。
Bomb （電影，音樂）賣座率低，不受歡迎
例： A newspaper says that a picture that had cost 34 million dollars to make has bombed at the box office.
一份報紙說，一部花了三千四百萬美元攝製的影片賣座率很低。
例：This young producer made money on his first three films, so the studio invested forty million in his fourth film. But it turned out to be a real bomb-it did't make enough to get back the investment.
這位年輕的電影製片人開始拍攝的三部電影賣座率都很高，賺了不好錢，所以電影公司就投資四千五美元讓他拍第四部電影。可是這部電影賣座率實在太低，因此連本錢都沒賺回來。
Bomb a dropshell （消息）令人震驚，叫人吃驚
例：Grandfather dropped a bombshell last night when he told the family he is marrying a woman 40 years younger than he.
祖父昨晚上對家裡的人說，他要和一個比他年輕四十歲的女子結婚，這可真叫大家吃了一驚。
例：In March 1968 President Lyndon Johnson dropped a bombshell one of the biggest bombshells ever dropped in American politics when he announced that he would not run for re-election because of the Vietnam War.
1968年3月美國總統詹森宣布，因為越南戰爭，他決定不競選連任。這可是美國政治歷史上最令人震驚的消息之一了。