Rub It In——挖人瘡疤

** to increase the pain or embarrassment of something（增加某些事情的痛苦或尷尬）// exacerbate an affront or a defeat（加劇侮辱或失敗）// to keep reminding someone of something annoying or unpleasant（不斷提醒某人的煩惱或不愉快）

~~挖人瘡疤；揭人的底；觸人痛處；強想錯事；火上加油；提人過失；強人想起；講個沒完

~~ rub salt into the wound; rub someone's nose in it; add insult to injury; add fuel to the fire; throw/pour gasoline on the fire; keep going on about

!! The “it” in this expression might have come from:

1.Rub salt in it (a wound). Rubbing salt in a wound is painful physically, or painful mentally, or both.

2. Rub someone's nose in it. The term came from the unkind practice of house-training a pet by rubbing its nose in its excrement.

此句表達中的“它”可能來自：

1.在裡面撒鹽（傷口）。在傷口上撒鹽使人身體疼痛，或精神上疼痛，或兩者兼而有之。

2.在裡面擦着某人的鼻子。這個術語來自於對寵物進行家訓的不友好做法，即搓寵物的鼻子在其排泄物上。

>> On the false advertisement, our competitor acknowledged it and has apologized for it. Let’s forgive and forget, and not to rub it in anymore.

關於虛假廣告一事上，我們的競爭對手已承認了它，並為此道歉。讓我們原諒並忘記，不再挖人瘡疤。

>> You’ve been telling your daughter to work harder, without encouragements nor incentives; it’s not going to work. Stop rubbing it in and focus on what she wants.

你一直告訴你的女兒要更加努力卻沒有給她鼓勵或獎勵，這不會起作用。不要講個沒完没了，讓她專注於想要的東西。

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