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
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9-demethylrhodopsin
analbuminemia
ananis
back-scratcher
baeksu (paeksu)
barsons
bilateral preliminary agreement
biophytum sensitivum
biseke
blue chip shares
box packing
butcher-boy
calibration lamp
carpet pile
Carrero, Cerro
Ceratiaceae
chain oiler
check her out
combined column
conference on disarmament
crane radias
cries out for
current-free field
development prospect
Donati, Giovanni
draw pin
dsek
dysopia
earth element
economical speed range
eldern
Eurasian blackbird
evolve the truth
fellow-citizen
form board
four-way jack
garbageology
grisogono
gymming
inbound procedure
jazz around
lasitter
launers
leaching rate
lease rod
lemon-juices
lenovo
liquid fuel oil
Lozhnikovo
Mareline
Martha's Vineyard
mastermeter method
maxillectomies
metalaxyl
methylprogesterone
modulator pressure regulator
monitoring test apparatus
multidetermined
Nayfah
neglectingly
normalized coordinates
Nuremberg defenses
outwardly opened casement
overtalks
Paglieta
para-tellurite crystal
percolation network
photonephographs
podzolized lateritic soil
potential step method
prenter
s chart
saddle type milling head
secretory reflex
semisymphiostemonis
Senja
set off firecrackers
sheep pox
slack fill
specific reaction rate constant
spinycheek sleepers
stand shot
stinging insect
supramentalis
Talgar
tallowy
Tamarindo, R.
technological process of cargo handling
tensor geometry
the human comedy
theory of perturbations
top-shell
transportation survey
type 1 language
upsetting couple
vacuum bomb
video signal separation
village headman
WAXD
weighted entropy
x-shaped
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