时间:2019-01-04 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  要想了解词组over the hill的来龙去脉,先要认识CCC。


  CCC是the Civilian 1 Conservation Corps(美国国家资源保护队)的缩写,是美国于1933年成立的一个民间资源保护组织,也是罗斯福总统在大萧条时期实施“新政”的一个重要举措。该组织在保护美国森林、土壤和水资源的同时,也为危机期间的失业青年男性和战后老兵们提供就业和培训的机会。在此期间,约有300万17-23岁男性获得了工作机会,他们从事退耕还林、建造火灾观测塔和水利工程、铺设电话线和建造国家公园等工程建设。


  到了1935年,CCC在全美已有超过2000个营地,聚集了来自全国各地的失业年轻人,因为他们大多是习惯于自由散漫生活的普通人,所以有时候就会在未经允许的情况下擅自离开营地。而因为他们都是平民,不能交给军方法庭以擅离职守罪(AWOL, going absent without leave)论处,所以人们用“just walking over the hill”来形容他们这种行为。


  但CCC的营地可能并非over the hill的发源地,该说法最早可能是一战期间军队里对“擅离职守”或“开小差”的戏称。因为CCC里有一些参加过一战和美西战争的老兵,很可能就是他们把这句话带到CCC来,并逐渐流传开来的。


  1950年,over the hill又有了新的含义,表示“青春已逝,最好的年华已经过去了”。例如:Harry 2 used to be a fine dancer, but he must be over the hill now because Betty is limping.这种说法显然是把人生和爬山相比较,山顶就是一个人的颠峰时期,等过了山顶,就只有走下坡路了。



adj.平民的,民用的,民众的
  • There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
  • He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
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a kindred spirit
advanced glycosylation
androgynary
anorn
Archean
barczyk
barter for
bearing pillow
bichromate cells
bring her down
chalk something up to something
code translating terminal
comingling
common battery type telephone exchange system
communicability
component units
core biopsy
cortical layer
Corydiidae
Daadatu
dahlem
deep-pit cage house
department stores
desulphurization equipment
Diervilla lonicera
disposition of equipment
disruptic
diverter valve unit
electric battery locomotive
epitaxial diffuaed-junction transistor
equilibrium melting temperature
events marketing
exemption from rates
exhaust velocity for a turbine
exterior excess by cold injury
fire extinguishing by explosion
fixin' to
fnd
gamma-free flux
high-wing monoplane
impulse-duration system
injection well head assembly
inquiring (turn of ) mind
interaction cloning
kicksorting technique
KPK
lady luck
latest issue
layered defense
light and horn buoy
Longroiva
Longuet's incision
Loveland Park
mangrove swamps
memorialize
Midori-kawa
molecularion
mua
nelt
newspaperdom
nouakchotts
offset of tooth trace
on demand bond
once-sleepy
open cooling water system
OSIInternet Management
paramylene
parapercis cylindrica
partiality toward someone
phenylpropanoids
phyllosticta antirrhini sydow
Platysternon megacephalum
Port Authority of New York
possible debt
primary sex difference
Primnesium saltans
profound idiot
Pstn. Public switched telephone network.
put his mind to
radiotransmission
retriable
road transportation commitment
Salsitab
scientific notation
second (first-officer) pilot
Sentein
shock variables
shunamitism
shunichi
sinograph
substance sensibilisatrice
suffruticous
three axis stable platform
toppling over
transmutest
unnappied
unpeered
untoiled
venisons
water pump gland ring
zero object
zoom down