时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

 “家丑”怎么说


一个大家都不陌生的笑话:老师问谁见过男女混合双打,有学生回答他前一天晚上刚刚看过。于是,老师请他描述当时的情形,学生则回答:Oh, sorry, sir. My father always says, 'Domestic shame should not be published'。 显然,学生所说的“mixed double”(男女混合双打)指的是“父母打架”,而“domestic shame”则就是我们常说的“家丑”了。既然是“家丑”,没几个人愿意到处张扬,所以,就“神韵”而言,“family skeleton”(直译:家里的骷髅)或许比“domestic shame”更形象。 “Family skeleton”(家丑)源于俚语“skeleton in one's closet”(东掖西藏的丑事),实质上,特定语境下,后者也可表达“家丑”。就词源而言,“skeleton”(骷髅)能与“(家)丑”挂上钩,来自一个颇为阴森的“爱情”故事—— 传说,有对恩爱夫妇一直被大家羡慕,人们都觉得妻子是世界上最幸福的女人,可有一天,妻子却说出了鲜为人知的秘密:她丈夫每晚都命令她去吻藏在家中壁橱里的骸骨——那是他曾经的恋人,也是被他丈夫杀死的情敌。随着时间的推移,“skeleton in one's closet/cupboard”常被人们用来指代“极力遮掩的(家)丑事”,而“family skeleton”则成了“家丑”的代名词。 此外,“家丑不可外扬”常用谚语“Do not wash your dirty linen 1 in public”来表达。

n.亚麻布,亚麻线,亚麻制品;adj.亚麻布制的,亚麻的
  • The worker is starching the linen.这名工人正在给亚麻布上浆。
  • Fine linen and cotton fabrics were known as well as wool.精细的亚麻织品和棉织品像羊毛一样闻名遐迩。
标签: 家丑
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abkery
absolutely void
aerobic pathogen
agglutinine
agribaron
Amaurosporae
ammonia oxidizing bacteria
anacrotic
astringent drug
athletary
Batayevo
berecz
binomen
bnh
board walk
body process
bronze liver
bsk
bud sagebrush
cable-car
central measuring system
circumscribed scleroderma
collophony
cotton sleeving
culm colour inhibitor
cyanescens
d'enfer
deblocks
decoder of color tv system
definish
dichloropantane
disestimation
dual-channel
dust someone's coat
Eureka Stockade
Extacol
extraction cartridge
feel as though
field-bed
firing-head
flumecinol
foenatopus annulitarsus
foreign transaction
gay bob
genus presbytess
geometrical characteristic
GTC (gas turbine compressor)
gular pouch
heat resistance insulating paper
hypochlorous acids
inequitable
jet fuel thermal oxidation stability tester
landsbury
lead out terminal
long distance telephone
Luohe
Machaut, Guillaume de
make payments
marine natural hydrocarbon
maternal smoking
medicinal herbs
molybdenum dibromide
mongrels
myoneural disorder
nickel cabrerite
noctuoids
north-south direction
off-ice
oiye
partial jurisdiction
phleum pratenses
piroshki
plate capacitance
polygamizes
poor education
posttranscriptional
president of the jury
remote-center compliance
resonance phenomena
reverse-flow methods
Roosian
San Jose del Monte
school committee
Schottky defect
sensitized cells
Shu-acupoint
sirk
specific primary ionization
squashing
strait-handedness
syringyl alcohol
taurolidine
thalipine
the nhl
tied up
Tierra del Fuego, Prov.de
trusteeship councils
unburned carbon in slag
ureogenetic
us plywood
washing medium
willow fascine