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Marie:You look a bit tired. What have you been doing?
瑪麗:你看來有點疲倦，剛才做甚麼？
Yvonne:Shopping for some new outfits.
伊鳳:逛商品買些新衣服。
Marie:Did you get what you want?
瑪麗:買到合適的嗎？
Yvonne:I did, but it took me all day.
伊鳳:買到，但花了一整天。
Marie:What do you want to do now?
瑪麗:你現在想做甚麼？
Yvonne:I just want to sit down somewhere and relax. My feet are killing me!
伊鳳:我只想找個地方坐下來，休息一下。我雙腳酸得要命！

伊鳳說雙腳痠痛：My feet are killing me。以kill（殺死）說「痛苦得要命」，是口頭上常見的誇張說法。伊鳳還可以說：How my feet ache!（我雙腳痛極了）或My feet are sore from all the walking（我走了那麼多路，雙腳痠痛）。說「痛苦得要命」的kill，當然不限於指腳患，更不限於指走路多了的腳痛。鞋子太緊夾腳（The shoes pinch）、患香港腳（You have got athlete's foot）等，你都可以說：My feet are killing me。肩膀、背部等痠痛，你也可以說：My shoulders are killing me、My back is killing me等。我見過一則按摩器廣告說：Are your feet killing you? Our massager can stop the murder（尊足是否正在取閣下性命？我們的按摩器可遏止謀殺）。那是以killig一字開玩笑。瑪麗說伊鳳看來有點疲倦：You look a bit tired。這a bit可不可以改為a little？Bit是「小片」或「少許」，例如a bit of ice cream是「少許冰淇淋」。A bit之後接tired之類形容詞(adjective)，則是作副詞(adverb)用，和a little沒有分別，I am a bit/a little angry即「我有點憤怒」。但請留意：not a bit和not a little意思完全不同。Not a bit是「一點也不」，not a little則是「不只有一點」，也即「十分」。所以，I am not a bit tired/surprised是「我一點都不疲倦/不驚訝」，I am not a little tired/surprised則是「我疲倦/驚訝得很」，兩個說法切勿混淆。