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
2-thiopheneacetic acid
abandons
after staying dormant for a while
agriculture location model
alkylsilcon isothiocyanate
Alvorada do Sul
American cowslip
backpack nuke
bearablest
Beaumontia grandiflora
blanket felt
boat lowering bollard
bukharins
cathode arc
citri reticulatae pericarpium
clatts
codrug
designer brand
diffuse lipomatosis
EDM machines tracer controlled wire
egotises
electronic signal transmission range
eyebags
flavane
fluctuating loudness
fuel injector needle
Gerlev
gestaclone
gold trihydroxide
grab-rail
gyro room
hapten-antibody aggregate
head works
heat insulation liner
height inner circle
hypnum
illuminor
imperative macroinstruction
interconnectable behavior model
interior minister
Kihoku
lamalera
lassers
light-welterweight
little shit
long u
Lotioblanc
make a good show
marmin
maximum axial compressive force
Mefonitin
Morozovo
multipuncture
necessary means of livelihood
neutron number
nominal maximum reduction ratio
non-tapered aerofoil
normal high water level
octavofinal
officer of the quarters
olyvia
open mindedness
pariah dogs
pays for
phylosophers
pseudo-range measurement
radiocontrol
raising prise
rat proof construction
reflex streak
refuge pocket
rering
risk-manager
rupixiao tablets
safety castnet
Santa Rita do Araguaia
SCGE
sendto
severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome
ship power station
smoothed-over
solantoin
somniferous
spare oneself
special actions
spectrophobia
spectrum envelope of voice
tachen
takefuji
traffic analyzer
trampolins
transit mixer
tray elevator
turbulence of atmosphere
under-gardeners
uridrosis crystallina
usambarine
vernoguinoside
wall-washer
water glaze
xanthogenates
yne