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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acknowledged run flag
adjective phrase
alba pityriasis
alkyl disulfide
anal wiring
antephase
Asian country
assimilation ratio
authorized carrier frequency
axle
ballad-opera
belluno
blacklers
bmo
body of pubis
bohr principle of permanence
Bosch-Omori seismograph
bursal cyst
cariogenici
ceramic colour(ant)
civil air regulations
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co-tenant
compensation plate
concrete base
crosscaps
current special assessments
dauntless
desktop case
deterministic modeling
discharge passage
double shaft
driver's compartment
egg-crate grid
emergency signalling
end sizing
Federal legal holidays
finite dam
Fischerella
flagellum staining
furnacestat
half-rate message
hand laced behind head
handicappeds
hfes
Hoeppner connection
hoet
intact buoyancy
intermediate relay
invitation to treat
just opinion
king truss
Ligoncio, P.
low-temperature drier
magnoliidaes
manducation
mass-produced
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Mereprine
Merikótanya
microflakes
mixer stage
mudheap
muller plow
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nonsubscripted integer variable
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penetrating ligature
Peristerona
pituitary glands
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potaholic
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preferred order
property gains tax
radioactive materials
raster flyback time
reverse elevator pawl
rolling door
rotation field
self-living
sercer
serological epidemiology
slab pass
small craft
soil evolution
space jam
Spirochaeta nodosa
stubwort
sucr-
Tadeus Reichstein
tete-a-tete
total macroscopic cross section
traditional accounting
Tragopogon gracilis
train ferry
turnour
under-compensation
up to the scratch
urokinase-like-immunoreactivity
waste coal