时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

   今天我们要讲的美国习惯用语是:go over like a lead balloon. Lead就是铅,balloon是气球,go over like a lead balloon是指某人的主张和建议不受欢迎。


  我们来举个例子。几个朋友邀请某人和他太太去露营,可是他的妻子不愿意去。 为什么呢?我们来听听这丈夫是怎么说的。
  例句-1:Our friends didn't know that my wife is not a nature lover until they invited us to go camping for the weekend. They realized their idea went go over like a lead balloon after she told them she had no intention of sleeping on the ground in a tent.  Finally, we decided 1 we'd go to a fancy resort instead.
  这个丈夫说:几个朋友请我和我妻子周末一起去露营。他们可不知道我的妻子并不喜欢到野外去活动。 直到我妻子告诉他们她不想在帐篷里打地铺的时候,他们才意识到露营的想法不受欢迎。最后,我们决定不去露营而去一个豪华的渡假村。
  建议好不好完全是因人而异的。有人认为乘客在飞行途中可以打手机。对爱聊天的人来说可能是个好主意。可是对那些想在飞机上睡觉的人来说,那是很讨厌的。
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  美国一些著名球队都是以土著印第安人命名的,就象华盛顿的红人队,The Red Skins。 可是现在很少球队还这样做。 为什么呢?
  例句-2:Once it was popular to name sports teams after Native Americans, like the Chiefs or the Redskins. But if you tried that these days, you'd find the suggestion would go over like a lead balloon. To many people, it's too insulting because it encourages negative stereotypes 2 of Native Americans as violent.
  这个人说:以前用美国印第安人的名称来命名球队是很时兴的,比如酋长队或是红人队。可是如果你现在还想这么作,你就会发现这种想法是不受欢迎的。 对许多人来说,这样做会加强人们对印第安人的固定看法,认为他们是倾向于使用暴力的,这是污辱。
  以前的美国电影和小说往往把印第安人描绘成好战的野蛮人。随着种族平等的意识的不断提高,现在的电影和小说也避免用固定的眼光来描绘印第安人。

1 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
2 stereotypes
n.老套,模式化的见解,有老一套固定想法的人( stereotype的名词复数 )v.把…模式化,使成陈规( stereotype的第三人称单数 )
  • Such jokes tend to reinforce racial stereotypes. 这样的笑话容易渲染种族偏见。
  • It makes me sick to read over such stereotypes devoid of content. 这种空洞无物的八股调,我看了就讨厌。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
标签: 美国习惯用语
学英语单词
abstractify
acnemia
additional tax
amphigamy(renner 1916)
Amsil silver copper
Bacab
baggable
base64
centrifugal pump performance
cephalin-cholesterol flocculation
chaff dispensing device
charmphysics
colour fastness to perspiration
conducting fire back to its origin
contextual discourse
cosmicism
dams
Davidstow
dead beat instrument
Deliva
demur the instance
diaphragm cylinder
discalceated
draw up a list
drawgate
E.S.A.
ecological validity
esthetes
feather-light
floor plan graph
fluidized-bed gasification
forebodement
freeish
fringed geckoes
fully directional submersible vehicle
general call to all stations
give one's regards
glucocentric
half-off
hammer stalk
have one's an ear to the ground
head the list
herpeses
Holzknecht's scale
honourary chairman
imbroglii
inculcating
index correlation
interlandi
iPhone SDK
Japanese spindle
jetplanes
lel
lepery
maximum transfer
Maxine taffeta
minimum temperature prediction
monovalent sera
morbus ecdemicus
mutational delay
non-recurring item
nonfatal trauma
not be born yesterday
oculudato
oil-ring retainer
Patricios
perforatorium
Periclor
philipstadite
position-sensitive
quasi logical
resalue
rosined soap
S-code
San Vicente, C.
sanitary wares
say hi to
short-run trend
similar permutation
spizofurone
steam ejector gas-freeing system
steam pocket in water tank of radiator
sublethal heat stress
sulfuric acid cooler
teutonomania
the Post Office
tidal pressure ridge
times-standard
tommy bar nut
torsion indicator
transgentleman
transrectus incision
tripalmitates
tsiranana
two-time someone
tyret
Upper Triassic
vocalistic
war supplies
welding up
wreck mark
zigzag rule