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
a rash advance
acid hydrogen
acid weighing tank
acoustic afterimage
acrosyl
adaptive segmentation
Anderbergite
area modulus
arteriolonecrosis
Ban Bo Thong
bastardtoadflax
bruyette
cellular segregttion
census day
chloroform liniment
cocooning tool
commensals
cone bit
conveniencing
corallaceous
core drill with parallel shank
CRT-photo chromatic film projection
deflection of main journal
disease-carryings
electrode opening
eminent domain
en-
enemy character
eosentomon coruscoculi
FDSL
flowgraphs
genus budorcass
genus Melanoplus
geomodeling
heptyl esters
hybridisation
hybridist
if-and-only-if element
inconclusive vote
interdigitated element
intrastratal
isopropene cyanide
juvenile hormone biochemistry
Kandinski
lift screw
log.
lovebud
low frequncy oscillator
methodological individualism
mid point of curve
miding
monosulfides
monsterizes
multi-synchronizing display
neo-racism
nerterology
nonabstractive
nuwms
Ohara's fever
oil cleaning device
outraged
passing braid
pathogeography
pemosors
Philipic
picciotto
primal cuts
proletarianized
provokement
pseudorickets
PSRO
PTCD
pyrogenicity
quality score
race conflict
repolarise
run risks
run someone out
runic texture
second epistle of paul the apostle to the corinthianss
service diagram
shot noise reduction factor
sketches out
slope map
soul-music
splenomegalic
stereo-irrelevant
subhomomorphous
submarine gate
supporting measures
syllid
tetraplegias
the price is high
trafficability
ubah
umn
unpublishable
variable frequency speed control
Villa Cisneros
voidable trust
wish on/upon/up
woollacott