时间:2019-02-22 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   最近好莱坞爆发了一桩大丑闻,多名知名女星指控著名制片人Harvey Weinstein性骚扰,听听Jenny和Adam怎么说。


  丑闻核心人物:Harvey Weinstein
  这次被爆性骚扰女星的人是著名制片人:
  Harvey Weinstein: Weinstein的发音一般是/?wa?n?ste?n/, 也少有少数人会发/?wa?n?sta?n/
  Film producer: 电影制片人
  Weinstein brothers: Weinstein兄弟,他们两兄弟都是美国著名的电影制片人
  这样有权势的人,英语中称为:
  Power broker 1
  Mogul
  He is the Hollywood mogul. 他是好莱坞的大人物。
  “性骚扰”怎么说?
  性骚扰:
  Sexual harassment 3: 名词
  To sexually harass 2 someone: 动词
  程度更高一等的:
  Sexual assault: 性侵犯
  Rape 4: 强暴
  很多英文媒体形容他是:
  Predator 5: noun. 掠食动物
  Sleazy: adj. 下流的
  潜规则用英语怎么说?
  “潜规则”名词怎么说?
  英语当中“潜规则”词很多,意思上有稍有差异(这些词不能直接被用作动词)
  Unspoken rules: 没有言明的潜规则
  Hidden rules: 潜规则
  Behind the scenes: 幕后的故事,不一定是负面的
  Behind the curtain: 黑幕,一般比较负面
  Backdoor deals: 幕后交易
  Backroom deals: 幕后交易
  在好莱坞的“潜规则”里还有两个专门的词:
  Casting couch: 试镜沙发
  Playbook: 潜规则,剧本
  Weinstein's playbook: Weinstein的“剧本”。
  潜规则 (动词)
  英语中“潜规则”这些词,可以直接用作动词:
  Play by the rules: 要按规则玩游戏。但这个不一定是“潜规则”,要结合上下文。
  美国福克斯前新闻董事长Roger Ailes,曾说过一句特别恶心的话:
  "If you want to play with the big boys, you need to lay with the big boys".
  也有人会用这句话去指责女明星:
  Sleep your way to the top

n.中间人,经纪人;v.作为中间人来安排
  • He baited the broker by promises of higher commissions.他答应给更高的佣金来引诱那位经纪人。
  • I'm a real estate broker.我是不动产经纪人。
vt.使烦恼,折磨,骚扰
  • Our mission is to harass the landing of the main Japaness expeditionary force.我们的任务是骚乱日本远征军主力的登陆。
  • They received the order to harass the enemy's rear.他们接到骚扰敌人后方的命令。
n.骚扰,扰乱,烦恼,烦乱
  • She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。
  • The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。
n.抢夺,掠夺,强奸;vt.掠夺,抢夺,强奸
  • The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
  • He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。
n.捕食其它动物的动物;捕食者
  • The final part of this chapter was devoted to a brief summary of predator species.本章最后部分简要总结了食肉动物。
  • Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard and a fearsome predator.科摩多龙是目前存在的最大蜥蜴,它是一种令人恐惧的捕食性动物。
学英语单词
advertocracy
Alnair
Anstie's
anthranilo nitrile
Arutanga
ash shinas
automatic photometric titrator
azorin
barotropic eddy
blocking antigen
buck up
capital underutilization
Chanukah
cicraticine
CIIA
complete inspection
compound dunes
cover-like
croakier
deformational strain-energy
disincentivised
dispersed fluorescence method
electronic building brick
ereption
estuarine zone
familial multiple telangiectasis
fappiano
fibre concrete
generalized strain
geomyricite
graphic works
hip hone
hot iso-static process
igniting-chamber
imitative behaviour
insect-bornes
insurable person
Jesuits
kathy
kifts
Kilcock
landlers
LaxatolPhenolphtaleinum
limnologically
mad doggin'
madder family
manske
match lines
medical instrumentation
memorizing meter
monomode fibre
monoskiss
nidified
nitrate reducing organism
Northern prickly ash
oneat
ovulens
Paquelin's thermocautery
particle terminal velocity
photoresistor ceramics
phrasally
pliant rule
preliminary inquiry
protective conductor current
proton-electron spectrometer
re-fighting
real figure
recoalescing
register of stock transfers
rhamnus parvifolia bge
rhizobial nodule
Rules for the Load Lines of Sea-going Ships
selfsynchronizing
semihandle
septarium (pl. septaria)
shadowy
slip off
slope circuit
snapshoot
sorbitic pearlite
spheroma
spot lens
sprouting test
starspots
stator circuit
Studzinski
styrax wilsonii rehd.
surface of revolution of minimum area
Thach Edward
the gnomes of Zurich
Total asset turnover
touchy-feely
true implication
ungenerous
unintimidated
unperch
untranquil
ursa majors
Véménd
Welsh rarebit
windbaggeries
Yosemite Sam