时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:英美文化


英语课

   绿色是大自然的颜色,常常给人一种祥和博爱的感受,它能令人充满青春活力。绿色则可以提高人的听觉感受性,有利于思考的集中,提高工作效率,消除疲劳。还会使人减慢呼吸,可以降低眼内压力,减轻视觉疲劳,安定情绪,使人呼吸变缓,心脏负担减轻,降低血压,但是在精神病院里单调的颜色,特别是深绿色,容易引起精神病人的幻觉和妄想。绿色一般是生长中的植物的主色,因此绿色代表着活力、生长、宁静、青春、希望。


  中文中的绿色是生命的象征,“绿色的原野”、“绿色的草坪”、“红花绿叶”等词组给人带来了蓬勃的生机。
  而英语中的green除了表示颜色外,在不同的语境中还有不同的含义。例如:“green apple”不是“绿色的苹果”,而是“生苹果、未成熟的苹果”;同样“a green worker”当然不是“绿色的工人”,而是“生手、学徒工”;“Mr.Smith has a green thumb”更不能译成“史密斯先生有一个绿色的大拇指”,句子的真实含义是“史密斯先生是个园艺高手”。
  绿色green在英语中还可以表示“嫉妒、眼红”,如:green with envy, green-eyed monster都是指“十分嫉妒”的意思。汉语中表示“嫉妒”意义的“眼红”,应该翻译为green-eyed而不能翻译为red-eyed。
  由于美元纸币是绿颜色的,所以green在美国也指代“钱财、钞票、有经济实力”等意义,如:
  In American political elections the candidates that win are usually the ones who have green power backing them.在美国政治竞选中获胜的候选人通常都是些有财团支持的人物。
  在英语中绿色还用来表示没有经验、缺乏训练、知识浅薄等意思,如:
  The new typist is green at her job.刚来的打字员是个生手。
  You cannot expect Mary to do business with such people. She is only eighteen and as green as grass.你不能指望玛丽同这样的人做生意,她只有十八岁,还毫无经验。

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Abu Bakar
acid resisting concrete
acid-phosphatase
acte gratuit
alternating accumulator
amidophosphoribosyltransferase
angle variable
anodes
aquo-cytobion
associated physical address
bear malice to
Blake's hydraulic radius
BLDSC
blepharophimoses
bureaucratically
Cambrians
capstan headed screw
carbon dioxide corrosion
chigetais
chooranilam
closing of the circuit
common-law defenses
complexifications
copper-bearing pyritic-deposit
core pressure loss
depending on the condition of the soil
diffusive infection
dysaemic
early stages
emilia coccineas
Euler's numbers
false alumroots
family Violaceae
firing danger area buoy
fried beef curry
fully developed flow
general-purpose operating system executive
gms (geostationary meteorolgical satellite)
good price
harmonic constant
hemi-brachy-pinacoid
hereout
hidden behind
hilara melanichira
ion-molecular reaction
IR-S
keracare
killer ship
ksp
laburnine
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license server
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parkouring
peat gauze
Persian
phaseoloides
plated ring
plowwright
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pronounce judgement at court
psychic trait
radiation-damage dating
recurrent sensitivity
reticulin fibre staining
river-mouths
rubrice
rumble level
Ry.
sallah
sans nombre
single-premium
speaking key
strong aqua ammonia
summing up evidence
Taraktogenos kurzii
tessellated soil
test score
tiberias, lake
to order of shipper
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tomato cans
ungrounded system
Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis
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