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。
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学英语单词
access mode
acutely aware
alleviatory
assembler language expansion
asymmetrical meter
atlanticus
baby-to-be
back-pressures
baseband receive terminal
besped
biopak
blue horizontal branch
BOB ship
boiler
boundary disturbance
calendar machine time
cash in transit policy
cellulose xanth(ogen)ate
chain of simplices
chocolate ice
ciba black
combinatorial embedding
crookneck squashes
deuteron accelerator
diseur
ditrigonal equatorial class
do a ton
dog musher
drop in the bucket
endocrinological system physiology
ensembl
equivalent viscous damping
faul
fighters
fire resistant oil treatment
fluorescent lamps
frame grabbing
full duplex telephone lines
highly concentrated solution
hydration polymer
in your tracks
insulation discharging voltage
integer double variable
intrain
Itramine
kaliankaratrite
know sth like the back of your hand
lensia tottoni
megalonychid
MENASPIDAE
milklike
multiple block boundary
Ne Win
noise isolation
nuclear particle
omitted variables
operacao
opophilus
oscillatory mode
otter trawler
outstanding business
parall
Pemba I.
periwig
print pad
prism crack
put the boot in
qubs
resurfacers
rising sun magnetron
roneos
semantic distance
shaygetz
sheet grab
shell perturbation
short message
simple sieve plate
simulated work environment
skotogram(scotogram)
soberon
Sofians
sulfonic acid
surface broach
teaching module
tear-off
tearing machine
tendresse
thermo-tolerant bacterium
thick-film test
threshold character(dempster & lerner 1950)
threshold moisture
Togakushi
trunkcall
two-stage countercurrent elutriation
up town
Valens, Flavius
Villamandos
villi synoviales
weak component
wet katathermometer
winter hedge
yoshihara