时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

 Over the hill: 走下坡路、风光不再


古诗云:“会当凌绝顶,一览众山小”。此谓人生之理想:顶峰之上,无限风光尽收眼底。只是,登顶之后,终得下山。话虽悲观,却是不可逆转的生理规律。短语“over the hill”很形象地表明:人过了巅峰期,无论智力还是体力都要走下坡路。言外之意:老了。 在美国,人的平均寿命是80岁,所以,有种说法认为,年过40就是“over the hill”(过了巅峰期),人生从此开始走下坡路。当然,这种观点与其消费文化一脉相承,颇遭批评家的质疑。日常生活中,“巅峰期”并无特定年龄界限,过了某个年龄段,若你觉得做起事来力不从心,都可用“over the hill”来形容。 词源上,“over the hill”源于军营俚语“当逃兵的”,罗斯福新政时,该短语还曾一度用来形容“土木工人擅离职守的”。不过,这层“开小差”意早已退出历史舞台。现代意义上的“over the hill”仅用来指“韶光已过、风光不再”。 看句台词:Butch: “I'm over the hill--it can happen to you--every day you get older--that's a law 1.”(布奇:“咳,我老了——你也会这样的——人每天都在老去——这是不可逆转的规律。”)

n.法(律,规,学);律师业;规律,定律
  • He went to the school of law for three years.他在法学院读了三年。
  • The new law will reduce pollution of the rivers.这条新法律将会减轻河流污染。
标签: 走下坡路
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acid-etched
actinidiaceaes
aegis-fang
age specific fecundity
Alain-Fournier
auxiliaries
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blackthorns
blockage effect in cascade
burnable refuse
c.-in
California rolls
caph
Clervaux, Cant.de
clouded
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demand publishing
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dopamines
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Dylene
educational anthropology
employed residence
facelessly
fifty-thousand
fondant sugar
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GA733-1
generalized directivity function
gill raker sieve
glass(y) transition
godt
grating setting
gray lampshade
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history of economic theories
homomorphic filtering
hyperosculating
hypogamaglobinemia
Ilex pyrifolia
Kern, Jerome David
Korean Central News Agency
last of the ebb
legal right
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lizard tail
lox-liquid hydrogen engine
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mesonephric cystoma
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niobium chloride
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oligochaetologist
oriented solar cell array
originating entity
osseous tumor
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palapas
potassium biformate
pressure side of blade
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project supervision group
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Quetta Division
resistance of high-current line of an arc furnace
Roproniidae
rotating sprayer
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ruthenium tetroxide
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sectionalized economizer
single crossover
sinneress
sorey
speaker impedance
spongiform pustules
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subsurface erosion
sulzon
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witch moth
World Ocean Organization