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 terre
Aarau
Afric
augmented feature vector
axodines
be filled with
Bischofsheim
BP-scope
camphoretted
carabined
clusterized
cobalt(iii) acetate
consecutive mean
contact hardening
corelative
Deoxykaempferol
diffusional transformation
Dioctyi-medoforte
Diplosporium
e-counseling
edentics
electronic chart database
euler-lagrange equations
externally fired hot blast heater
felt pen
funaria hygrometrica hedw.
geiger-muller region
general medical science
genielike
gifblaar poison
grouses
heat exchange tube bundle
hirame rhabdoviral disease
Hitchita
Honea Res.
horizontal stratification
hrqol
hydraulic-brake controls
impeller selection
inarmoured
It is no odds.
ivaxillarane
janeane
jerebko
Jurong Bird Park
Kamyshinskiy Rayon
Kuřim
laserane
low density polyethylente
lower ionosphere
Macugnaga
magnesium-manganese alloy
marriage proposal
MAVTR
metreurynte
mixed business
multiplicity of zero
neep
non-Aristotelian
park-likest
parsva
particular sphere of producion
planning-programming-budgeting system
PNNI
programmed optional stop
Propiopromazine
quotas of international money fund
radioactive dirty water
radioactive discharge
ramularia coleosporii
rapists
re-joined
Romblon
rostas
sad sack
satellite mass characteristic
scratching pest
shantell
sodium washing effluents
spechler
spitzberg
stencil-coloured print
stratum intermedium (tooth)
submerged water plant
surprise check
symmetrical negative sequence current
tawhid
three-chamber air reservoir
tiered silhouette
TN-I
tognonis
toso
tour-operator
traditional chinese medicine
transgenic seafood
try-work
unsisterlike
vukasin
walk on tiptoe
work-share
wrouht
zinc hydrosulfite (zinc dithionite)