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
学英语单词
2-Carene
air masses
air of arrival
alimentary diabetes
angle-shooting
ayson
binomial index of dispersion
bowdlerism
brooks's law
bubble transfer switch
Chandauli
cistron-transcription unit
Citrus hongheensis YLDL.
coconspire
comparative figures
condra
conjugate harmonic functions
controlled account
creatine phosphate kinase
culverings
density-dependent theory
dichotomous nature of sovereignty
dirtinesses
downtown business district
Doyle log rule
driving horse power
dry-liner
dweshula (kwadweshula)
echoless
Eckermann, Johann Peter
Edinburgh(Turnhouse) Airport
epz
erroneous digit
exclusive disposal
exudatory
forward spacing
Genalloy
George Washington
give sb a shout
guede (haiti)
helium-neon maser
home permanent
hot light
hull efficiency
igks
IHP,ihp.,i.h.p.
incited
isotephrosin
keggers
kemonomimis
Knobby Hd.
Laudean
Lautaret, Col du
lindera fruticosa hemal.
loially
main hydraulic ram
makotoes
Manipur R.
manufacturing sector
message sequence chart
nikkaz
nonmobile
O. B.
overcosts
pink cigars
pitpat
plastering over
plasticiser
practice of planning
pressuring container
presurmises
pushed for time
quackademics
refueling
residual vertical wheel clearance
rhetta
rough-skinned
satellite navigation equipment for user
Schmidt nucleus test
self-certify
Shikaribetsu-gawa
shock resist
shroud can
side-lining
silico-butane
Slavon
slip off slope
stability board
stagonospora foliicola(bresadola)bubak
strainer gate
sulfhaemoglobin
Sungkiang
surface trawl
tenthredo issikii
Teucrium canadensis
thermal gasoline
tip of my tongue
to level off
turbo-generator compartment
undercloth
underpaddings
yewe