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 My father always says, 'Domestic shame should not be published'。 显然,学生所说的“mixed double”(男女混合双打)指的是“父母打架”,而“domestic shame”则就是我们常说的“家丑”了。既然是“家丑”,没几个人愿意到处张扬,所以,就“神韵”而言,“family skeleton”(直译:家里的骷髅)或许比“domestic shame”更形象。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。
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accounting for the estate income
accounts receivable-related parties
acetyl colours
aerated hopper
alternative inflammation
aluminium engine
angled fiber
avulsed
Babinets
bang us
barometer observation
bearing diagram
boat and box handling gear
book-entry system
bottle rinsing machine
boyn
bubble flow visual ization
camponotus irritans
carbon dioxide insufflation apparatus
Carter, James Earl, Jr. (Jimmy)
cell division cycle
chinese ideogragh
chlorobenzyl
complete and utter
continuous carbonization
Cordalba
costatolide
crystal modifier
cyclopentanepentone
dabblings
DISN-E
equal probability
family sapindaceaes
ficino
flannel moth dermatitis
flip-charts
focusing chromatography
form flash
forward looking infrared
genus tadornas
Grimley
high temperature heat-resisting aluminum paint
horn pipers
hot fill(ing)
i-pointed
imbecilically
inexactness
isometrography
keetons
kiaki
kinetocardiogram
Kōzu-shima
Lagidum
Lasiopus
lillistone
limit control
longaevous
Magnesuim
market system
mogul plant
mola process
Nation of Islam
nebrodi(nebrodie mts.)
Nivadipine
occupying tenant
oil-refinery
on the blanket
optimum junction depth
para rivers
permanence of continent
phrenoglottismus
pitchery
plans of action
prepayment penalty
quadrant of a radio range
re-constricted
roughing gear hob
sanaa (sana)
semi-implicit method
shapingcircuit
silver-coated copper wire
singular periodic solution
smla
softening-point test
soil drainage
spot motive
square method
static input-output system
statistical model
super surfacer
supersensitive
tenghui
trading parameter
tv-show
tzetze fly
unrancorous
Van John
velutinous
verbaliser
Villaines-en-Duesmois
weasel-faced