时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:轻松英语


英语课
  近日,《现代汉语词典》推出第六版,3000多个新词条引人注目。一些词语的入选和被拒,也引发坊间不少的纷争。比如说宅女和剩女,只有一字之差,宅女是幸运儿,入选了,而剩女剩男却被拒之门外。
  我们来看一则《中国日报》有关“剩男剩女”的报道:
  According to the survey, 21.6 percent of the leftover 1 women and men are subject to long-term sexual repression 2, while only 17.6 percent have regular sex partners. Visiting prostitutes and having multiple sex partners have become two main causes of sexually transmitted diseases, such as AIDS.
  该调查显示,21.6%的剩男剩女长期处于性压抑状态,只有17.6%的剩男剩女有固定的性伴侣。而嫖妓和多性伴是艾滋病等性传播疾病的两大根源。
  上面的报道将“剩男剩女”翻译成leftover women and men,带有明显的贬义,因为leftover一词的意思是“吃剩的食物,残羹剩饭”,不过中文原词也是带有贬义的。“剩男剩女”指的是大龄未婚男女青年,因为到了婚嫁年龄却还单身,所以被认为是“剩下了”。那些接近expiry date的“准剩男剩女”也有一个称号,就是doomed single(必剩客)。
  不过,如果我们将一个二三十岁的大姑娘称为leftover woman,相信谁听了都不乐意。国外一般将大龄女青年称为3S lady,也就是Single(单身)、Seventies (大多数生于上世纪七十年代)、Stuck(被卡住了,即在寻找伴侣的路上被卡住了)。也有人用SAS来形容“黄金剩女”,即single(单身)、attractive(迷人),successful(成功)。
  另外,在英语口语中也会用on the shelf这个短语来表示女子过了适婚年龄依然未能嫁出去的状态。例如:Why is the hello girl still on the shelf? (为什么这个女接线员还没嫁出去?)

n.剩货,残留物,剩饭;adj.残余的
  • These narrow roads are a leftover from the days of horse-drawn carriages.这些小道是从马车时代沿用下来的。
  • Wonder if that bakery lets us take leftover home.不知道那家糕饼店会不会让我们把卖剩的带回家。
n.镇压,抑制,抑压
  • The repression of your true feelings is harmful to your health.压抑你的真实感情有害健康。
  • This touched off a new storm against violent repression.这引起了反对暴力镇压的新风暴。
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a.mt
adjustable lever
adults-only
aggressive drive
all-dayer
andesin (e) (andesite)
anele
binary-coded character
bridge-aft ship
centripetal impression
charset
cheese sauce
clean title
coachworks
coformulated
combine tillage operation
concentration diffusion
connected vertices
contact wire sag
cusk-eels
di-(p-chlorophenyl)ethanol
diagonal lifting shore
diarrhetic shellfish poison(dsp)
dimeson
dioxethedrine
displacement-force
dividing up state owned assets
Doellinger's tendinous ring
electronphoretogram
enrout chart
ferromagnetic antiferromagnetic transition
fine mesh wire
fixed length word
forms used in the application procedure
galaxy groups
gas phase sequentor
glochidium
go-astern
hardener
header part
horizontal line of sight
ichthyocrinotoxic fishes
index gage
inextenso
inhered
internal tearing resistance
International Medical Guide
Jhankaradhvani
L'Annonciation
Langting
legitimatisation
linaethol
linear integrated electronics
long arm jack
Martyn's equivalent path theorem
mebamoxine
midtropospheric inversion
mullet dress
multi-core fiber
nathaniel bacon
Nesebǔr
njazidja
officeships
pectinate ligament
piefight
postcancer
pre agricultural
pricklier-liest
pydidoxamine
pyritizations
quadratic interpolation
recovered rail
resporulations
Rhytidium
row mark detection
rowdydows
self-shielding burnable poison
sentence of implied condition
slotted lever
slowrelease
slurry blasting agent
Soprontin
Steineroth
striking blade
subacidness
sublinear convergence
suits of armor
techno peasant
ternary eutectic
tertiary syphilid
test formation
the happy event
Tierra del Fuego, Isla Grande de(Tierra del Fuego, Isla)
tornebohnite
traditional costume
tropophilous
true wind velocity
Typha latifolia
viperishness
voicetype
whirling tables
white separatisms