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。
学英语单词
aballenation
anemopses
bactcriostat
barcarole
Boeun-gun
book of accounts
boorde
bouqueted
Cerezyme
cleftpalate
CMIR
complementize
component substances law
confidential informant
crown cutter
cumulative pump stroke
decision table conversion
dergues
dihydrouracil loop
disinclines
drowned coast
dual induction logging
ehi
Elatostema xanthophyllum
envy
Erythroconite
evennett
face waling
field day
fine-toothed combs
forearc
fretting corrosion
get in front of oneself
Granulostim
gridpoint
Guanyin Township
handchimes
hospital for gynaecology and obstetrics
housey
implicit order
inferior maxilla
inland waterway port
linen industry
lingjiao gouteng decoction
lonesomeness
metal-covered window
Mount Rainier
moving bed adsorber
mustang mints
mynah
negotiating state
New Weird
nightlies
object-oriented operating system
ocarinas
occlusion of wounds
OLCA (on-line circuit analysis)
old hag syndrome
on one's part
orthosilicic acid (silicic acid)
overconsuming
oxyurids
Pajares, Pto.de
panel saw
picture-synchronization signal
prebone
premack
pretends to
program tansformation
Prowazeckia
rabdo-
re-absorbs
rent taker
Retamosa
robart
sapphic odes
sbell pessary
shipload
Sludka
souviron
spring cloth wind-up motion
stomatomycosis
stopped flow method
Tenrikyoist
to nurse a viper in one's bosom
unactuated
uncategorizably
uncoupling lever shaft
unit boiler turbine arrangement
unsaturatedness
unseatbelted
uranium antimony catalyst
vector geometric interpretation
venditor
verandahless
vertical-attitude takeoff and landing
walcroft
wicket keeper
withdrawal of charge
Xanthium strumarium
xanthocalanus agilis
zadaks