时间:2019-02-07 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 适用于科技的“万灵丹”


熟悉吸血鬼的人都知道吸血鬼最害怕什么,阳光,银器,大蒜……在现代的吸血鬼电影中,人们不断发明出对付吸血鬼的新型武器,其中一个就是银弹,也就是我们今天要提到的这个词——silver bullet。 当然,这个词的出现不会比枪支发明的时间更早。Silver bullet最早出现在18世纪的民间故事中,据说,法王路易十五时期,有一只神秘人狼总是出没于法国南部地区,其杀人手段凶残却无人能够制服。最后,一位降魔高手用装着银弹的枪除掉了凶残人狼。 现在,silver bullet常用来喻指新技术,尤指人们寄予厚望的某种新科技。日常生活中,silver bullet也指一劳永逸的办法,有点像中文中所说的“灵丹妙药”,例如:There was no silver bullet or panacea 1 that will solve this problem.(根本没什么妙方能解决这一问题。) 值得一提的是,外交政治上被普遍使用的“silver bullet diplomacy”(银弹外交)指在国际上搞所谓“金钱外交”、“银弹外交”、“经贸外交”,就是企图达到“以经促政”目的,以先经济后政治、先民间后官方的方式发展与一些国家的官方关系。

n.万灵药;治百病的灵药
  • Western aid may help but will not be a panacea. 西方援助可能会有所帮助,但并非灵丹妙药。
  • There's no single panacea for the country's economic ills. 国家经济弊病百出,并无万灵药可以医治。
标签: 万灵丹
学英语单词
'Amara East
a capacity house
absence of pectoralis major
abudrahm
advance print
Agueraktem
Alvira
ammonium purpurate
anomalistic months
anticipated fixed cost
aquaintance
aqueous adhesive
automatic body maker
bank information
beat down method
brazennesses
butt-hole
cable-tramway of single rope
cake walks
carminic acid
clincher boarding
coal as fired
Coley's fluid
coramine
database access program interface
deceleration of electrons
Deliftin
dtss
dynamic evaluation
Eubetin
fairly
genus Hevea
get back up
Gorkhanat
ground thread chaser
have the end upon
high-speed test
high-temperature polymer
highway carrier
initialize routine
Jeanne d'Arc, Presqu'île
jparacorolla
lamellar crystal
Laverin
le moliere imaginaire
letter shift
liposuctioning
lottery paper
malthuslan principle
mandogenal suture
methylmercuries
mtrans
Mulemba
multiphonon absorption
nasal wing retractor
nerat
neuromarketer
new waves
non reproducible goods
non-humanistic
oligotrophic water
oncosts
PCI DSS
penetrate through
philological
Pompeu
Porsena
redmann
reduced ratio
retailing function
salipurpol
sawtooth sweep
schiefer abrasion testing
spate-bone
spilitization
spread it on thick
sprint medley
stage frame
steady brace
stomatopathy
swamp cancer
synucleins
tallying by crew
testation
text message injury
TFM
thermopren
thornthwaites classification
time-continuing process
tin-protoporphyrin
uk reg
uncultivability
underjaws
underwater tv monitoring system
uniformly connected multigraph
university library
up to the eyebrows
viscous interference
water acrobatics
water supply facility
wiper roll
X-ray flaw detector