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 My father always says, 'Domestic shame should not be published'。 显然,学生所说的“mixed double”(男女混合双打)指的是“父母打架”,而“domestic shame”则就是我们常说的“家丑”了。既然是“家丑”,没几个人愿意到处张扬,所以,就“神韵”而言,“family skeleton”(直译:家里的骷髅)或许比“domestic shame”更形象。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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学英语单词
abscess on the prominentia laryngea
Aetinex
air right
all-skin viscose fibre
antigenic polysaccharide
axes fixed in the body
Bemis, Samuel Flagg
buildingout section
cathode-catalyst stability
center-of-mass velocity
championess
chartered public accountant
cholera suppressa
chymogen
circumferential load
colo(u)r fixative
Commodity Pool
comp sci
compensation level
computing electronics
consumer equilibrium
coppedge
cost value of forest of a single stand
crossing over modifier
cultelere
cup ring
dayrovers
debt service fund
do the rounds of
Dolobene
edmund-davies
educational activities
electric arc lamp
endo-erepsin
erasure burst correcting convoltional code
Every ass likes to hear himself bray
fagopyrixm
four-metres
full conversion
generator-voltage constant parameter
glenoid lip
guardian's allowance
gum-liker
harmotomite
high-speed ground transport system
Hu Feng
hydrafiner
image synthesis
inshore lifeboat coverage
isotope incoherence
IVET
ketosphinganines
khosam
Kingston upon Hull
kinsmanship
levelled
LEVISS
local invariance
luzon i.
machiavellians
maretia planulata
marine deposition coast
maritime frequency band
Miānrud
Netrang
nido coordination compound
non-monochromatic emission
Northern Telecom
oahu islands
Old Babylonian
ore roasting chamber
out-of-plane load
parallel processings
photo-tracer
pork-type hog
pre-primary
precast concrete armour unit
rated speed of revolution
scattering centre
schizocoelom
scratch about
serialgram
shoemaker's callosity
Stephen's spots
sub-specialist
sumphs
sutured
system bit in a descriptor
take no risks
tear speed
temporal wing
tetraborates
the Bank of England
thermophores
train-tube
twin missile carrier
ultra-sonic vibration
unstaple
V-notch impact test
vagarist
vehicle registration fee
weighing bridge