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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Abd el-Krim
Acer chienii
air transportable sonar
archipterygial theory
articulated dumper
autoxidizes
bargain store
biohazard suit
borromeans
butane fuel gas tube
cheddite
cloakrooms
cloud point analyzer
cmc(critical micelle concentration)
collector
compensation signal
conversion of viscosity
copy choice thoery
cream up
current system
data time
dead reckoning analyzer indicator
drip-flap
dual vision
dwarfing culture
eastlins
epoxy powder coating material
faccious
false flagger
feed per minute
field spaniels
Fuencaliente
Fukuroi
generator stop and start panel
germanium-orthoclase
gilloflowers
gold debentures
good-selling
handycam
Hughes formula 1189
in imagination
induced transition cross section
intertrack bond
interzooidal
jedlicka
lacera
layer of concrete
lead bath
lifting board
lipomatosis of renal hilus
loan loss reserves
maja
mansoors
masterminded
Mbaéré
mean number of sheets
meta-phthalic acid
mill effuent
Nastrofil spinning frame
nervi supraorbitalis
net present worth
OAVs
Ogasawara Plateau
oiltightness
on the shore
outorganizing
pen attribute
phagocytolytic
piston type areameter
political relations
polyptoton
press-photographer
pressing upon
priori probability
rapid cycle telemetry
rhinocryptid
Rhododendron populare
ritual-constraints
rub the wrong way
s-a-t
scorbutic gingivitis
servo tab
Shahr Sultān
shifting level
shunted field control
silcocks
single-precision
slaframine
Sonnengerg
summer weed
synchronous machine transient analysis
synonymical
theory of lateral folding
threephase alternator
to meet end on
transverse tissue
vas lymphaticum intestinale
vectible
vitamin a (antixerophthalmic v.)
water-walled furnace
well-stirred
ywryed