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
Apollo computer address matrix
arctic ecology
atoles
autotransfused
berthage
betanins
biology of bacteria
Camas County
Cancelling of Cargo
carcinogenic action
cheilolejeunea scalaris steph.
Churchilliana
ciphering set
circular systematic sampling
command destruction
congelifractate
connexion ticket
crack blunting
Crohn disease
dananberg
descresept
DIRFT
discoctaster
doughtery
elliptical spike
ethynyl-terminated polyimide
faucals
filling defect
fixed bias
floating harbor
fraudulency
fruitbodies
gas driven displacement pump
gas permeable lenses
Gelidiales
glove boxes
glucosylmannitol
greater coasting
gurgled
happy-families
harmoniously
heliskiers
heterophonies
HFFIV
hydrogen pressure
hypothyreosis
IDMSE
insert hole
inverse proposition
L. M. D.
Lamina lateralis processus pterygoidei
love spoon
magnate
maison
make your exit
malaccense
mall walker
marries off
Max Factor
migmatitic gneiss
mixed current
Mlicrococcus urinae albus
modified from
monoblock casting
MSCU
Myrviken
Māligaon
official development assistance flow
onychograp
optical attitude sensor
overall aniseikonia
overhead collector
penguin suit
perruchet
PERSCO
phsryngostaphylinus
rat-out
retarding effect
rhabdite
rubidide
seed and blandet core
segarra
selcouth
semiprofessional
shift hysteresis
stalberg (welcome kop)
statement label listing
Strob.
suget
Sulphanilylurea
super-centenarians
tachytrechus picticornis
Taka-dake
three-dimensional simulation
top-to-noil tear
trade oscillation
transfer principle
tunneling machine
ulerythema
umbilical part
ungainsaid
zeckendorf