时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 奥巴马4日宣布将参加2012年总统选举,拉开竞选帷幕。竞选运动将于4月14日在芝加哥正式启动。今天我们学几个流行在美国政界的习惯用语。先讲的两个常用来攻击政敌。


  第一个是:blow smoke。 Blow smoke从字面解释就是喷吐烟雾。这个习惯用语来自军界。军队有时会放烟幕弹来掩护自己的行动,不让敌军察觉。有时军舰也会以烟雾来掩护自己,使敌舰的炮火难以射中他们。
  Blow smoke这个习惯用语被很多政界人士借用,引申为“说空话蒙混他人”。我们来看一个例子:
  例句-1:My opponent keeps talking about cutting our taxes by 20 percent. But, my friends, he's just blowing smoke at you; he knows as well as I do that Congress will never ever approve it.
  我的对手老说要削减百分之二十的税,但是,朋友们,他这不过是蒙混你们的空话,其实他和我心里都明白,这在国会是绝对通不过的。
  第二个习惯用语是:mudslinging。我们都知道mud是泥巴,而sling是“投掷”的意思,所以 mudslinging可不就是扔泥巴吗?往人身上扔泥巴,或者给人脸上抹黑,不就是污蔑那人吗?政客有时会在选民中说污损政敌信誉形像的话,而遭到攻击的那方也会针锋相对,指控那些话是mudslinging, 也就是“恶意中伤的话或者污蔑人的不实之词”。
  例句-2:Folks, these nasty lies the other side keeps telling about my past life are nothing but mudslinging -- they just show how desperate they're getting because they're so far behind us.
  各位,对方反反复复地在讲有关我过去生活的一些可恶的谎话。这些话纯粹是恶言中伤。它们只能说明那些人已经急得不择手段了,因为他们已经大大落后于我们了。
  再学一个政坛选举中常用的习惯用语:homestretch。选举在大选年的十一月举行,而过了十月中旬,人们常会说竞选运动已经处于homestretch,也就是最后阶段。 Homestretch这个说法来自赛马运动。政坛人物借用这个说法,来指“最后阶段的竞选工作,尤其是临投票前一两星期里的竞选运动”。
  例句-3:The campaign started over a year ago when candidates warmed up for the early primaries. But folks, now we're in the homestretch -- only a couple of weeks until it's all over.
  竞选运动早在一年多前就开始了,最初是候选人为早期的初选在做准备。但是,各位,如今我们已经处于竞选的最后阶段,再过一两个星期,这一切就都过去了。

标签: 习惯用语
学英语单词
a knight in shining armor
abdominal mass
ac ringer
ACDS (acoustic crack detection system)
acne punctata
admiralty Redwood viscometer
aerological wire
alpha hinges
aspidosamine
assembler compiler
assembly line control
asynchronousness
bar resistivity measurement
be out the window
Bilasuvar
Biomorphyl
boat-deck
bonus record
Bostānābād
breadmaking
burning in bulk
cartilage (pl. cartilagines)
charmwise
Chinese dialectology
cis-1,4-polyisoprene rubber
cluthalite
coastal-management
colloid pseudomilium
contract
controlled facility
copper-rich matrix
costume-maker
DAP (direct access programming system)
direct component restorer
disc of confusion
economic competitiveness
ephedrine sulfate
fabians
foam extinguishing agent
fowler
GC-MS
germanuss
gully(ravine)
gyroelectrics
ion exchange resin chromatography
jacked crystallizer
lack of mucosal luster
laser-fusion reactor
law of combination of errors for indirect measurements
lever fork notch
Machmeters
monopolistic concerns
mosaic rhyme
Mullah Mohammed Omar
myringoincudopexy
nasopharynxography
nesemia
odd mass number
olympic-class
onthophagus (onthophagus) lutosopictus
Osong
out of it
Padrauna
Paisley Seamount
Paramyxida
Parson brown
pitchblendes
pressure bleeder
raddle straw rack
rambert academy
ramus maxillaris
Rangsdorf
realy
reregard
rescure tug auxiliary
room lamp
satisdatio
satran
scalptia crenifera
shipless
social benefit
spool valve pump
square brackets
Stammsried
straight b/l
strain axis
Suez Crisis
superconducting thin-film ring
symsepalous
Theophrastian
three-phase commutator machine
thwop
tin plated steel sheet
treager
trofe
tunable dye laser
two-counsel rule
ULSI
vertical solution
VTVL
wedding ball
xoanodera maculata