时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

 It takes two to tango:一个巴掌拍不响


基本来说,这个短语很容易误导人。“It takes two to tango”的字面意思是“探戈舞需要两个人来跳”,照此推理,本应推出个鼓舞人心的“团结才是力量”,可它怎么竟成了贬义词“一个巴掌拍不响”?不急,咱们慢慢来解析。 先说tango(探戈)。探戈一般要男女对跳,男人粗犷、女人妖冶,构成了探戈舞的巨大张力。这种舞蹈源于18世纪的阿根廷,当时被认为是上流社会的色情面具,同时也是草根阶层释放欲望的最好方式。 Tango的这层“诱惑、情色”意,很容易让人联想到它的同音异形词tangle(纠缠、扭缠在一起)。如果看过奥斯卡影片“Scent of a woman”(《闻香识女人》),想必您还能记得老上校对tango的经典定义“If you make a mistake, get all tangled 1 up, just tango on.” 如果(探戈)跳错了,那就让大家的舞步都混乱好了,这才是探戈。 说到这儿,想必您也明白了,(It takes two to)tango其实是取了tangle的谐音,而整个短语“It takes two to tango”实质上由英国俗语“It takes two to make a quarrel”(一个巴掌拍不响)发挥创造而来。 下次如果有朋友向您抱怨,女朋友又跟他闹矛盾了,您就可以这样回敬他:A conflict is not the fault of just one person or the other; they are often both to blame, because it takes two to tango.(矛盾不能只归咎于一方,你们两个人都有错,因为一个巴掌拍不响嘛。)

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