时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  在以警察破案为题材的影片中,我们经常会看到的一个角色就是一个罪犯,为了保全自己性命而向警察告密。你知道在英语中哪个词可以专指这样的罪犯吗?这个词就是stool pigeon.


  Stool pigeon最早起源于美国,表示“诱捕用的鸽子,诱饵”。原来北美以前有一种候鸽,19世纪初时约有50亿只,由于这种鸽肉细味鲜,结果被人大量捕捉直至灭绝。最后一只叫Martha的候鸽死于1914年美国辛辛那提动物园中,享年29岁。从此,这种动物成了在书本上被人描绘的东西。


  在当年十分猖獗的捕鸽狂潮中,人们为了轻易捕捉到鸽子,就把一只鸽子系在凳子上,这只受惊的鸽子在苦苦挣扎时会吸引其它的鸽子,这样就使捕捉变得更加容易。


  在19世纪早期,Stool pigeon变成了一个俚语,最开始的意思是“为收集情报而潜入犯罪分子内部的卧底警察,密探”。到20世纪初,它又有了新的意思:“a criminal who informs on his ilk to save his own skin”。



学英语单词
.ve
After a storm comes a calm
ammonium bromoselenate
apex time
archaeology
arrest on final process
Baka, Bukit
battery current
bearing insulation
Berezhany
blow-overs
bombardment aviation
boroughhead
brake-shoe link pin
break one off
central equipment
chicken cooked sausage
common-base characteristic
common-pressure liquid chromatography
concordat
conditional sale agreement
coral atoll
cracker-box
cyberattacker
design development tool
determinism of technology
dysarthrosis
electrolytical refined copper
extorters
ferm
fifty cents
for one's sake
for your guidance
fruitlet
glare shield visor
guesstimate
guttered
harkinson
herbologists
horatio walpoles
hypertrophic dngioma
immunotoxin(antitoxin)
inertia center
integration symbol
isoetid
javanella pingshih
khettrie
kotwal
labo(u)r usage variance
laboratory sandbath
laminar jet
late burning
locked middlings
Luepa
maintenaces
map of navigation system
metaphoricity
mint master
mitotic spindle
MPEC
multiple line controller
nmeros
okapias
opto-thermodynamics
oscedo
pharmacologic
pharyngealize
plane antenna
planer-type surface grinder
Plattner's process
podginess
polyamides
program documents
protactiniums
Pseudomonas cyanogenes
public entrepreneur
raw food
read ahead
receiving bay
rheophile
rule oriented
running across
schwefel
scram switch
shaped bar
Sintuism
sleeper fastening
slide duplicator
solvent pairs
space telemetering earth station
strikeless
Sutro weir
tabacism
taxes and dues
theory of protective colloid
time costs of working
transformer overcurrent trip
transit apron
up drive press
visual guidance
voluminous author
xu