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
airsupplied
algol variable
alveolocapillary
amine solvent
antialgal
antimanic drug
astragalus mongolicus bune
atom set
Beremend
business to business
cargo warehouse
caseln plastics
cheek pouch
chevrony
chord load
chromatography in aqueous media
claim sb's life
cleaning screen
combined clasp
conarite
crossbar column
crowths
crush barrier
cupo
de-atomized
demented
disable pulse
dizzy heights
estimatedstatement
falsifiers
fasciculis semilunaris
frame bulge
frontotrans-verse wrinkles
getting past
go to blows
Güeňes
have one's nose open
hermatology
heteroband
hooper
housing washer back face
Hygrophila phlomoides
hyperthyrosis
intensity of magnetization
interlocking equipment
Ioanna, Gora
Kasala
kaysen
layout
lead magnesiotungstate ceramics
lifting drum
limbering-up
logoes
low shear rate
Makongo R.
master valuation account
mastotermitidaes
metastable equation
microaerophilous
misbehaved
Nadezhdinskoye
Niagestin
nickel aluminium-oxide coating
Noto-hantō
offences of receiving stolen property
palaeographists
palog
panpsychism
parallel operation test for generator set
peltier coefficient
pesewas
photogenetic
polltical awareness
property basket
pulmonary juxtaesophageal lymph nodes
radioimmunoadsorbent test
retail industry
robbing pillars
rouge box
Roystonea
salvage enzymes
screw augur
seize with both hands
Sesamum indicum
Shearer plastometer
silicone heat sink compound
Skudeneshavn
sliding expansion bearing
society islandss
somatosensitive
space link
splashed glaze
support on the croup
tackhammer
tardyonic
testicular ossification
trabeculotomyprobe
Trichophyton violaceum
unpegs
Vabanite
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