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
学英语单词
accentuation filter
also
anterior sylvian gyrus
autocorrelation spectrometer
average noise figure
beam optics
bit drag
bourgs
broken-stick model
brown body
brunerie
bydesign
carpus curvus
centrobaric
chemical composition of soil
classification society rule
clinkering rate
coagulation injection
columbus
connective
constant pressure filtration
container seedling
crissies
crosstress
damping action
damping oil vessel
demand time-sharing processing
digi-cipher
direct consumption
drop a bombshell
enoughly
error sum of squares
Euro rate
exponent arithmetic
extraction rate
facial technology
fairy-stories
finger interface
flyposts
Foucault prism
gas-pipe bend
general interests
georgia pines
give one's honour
glass ceramic composite
HALSTEAD
harriettes
heat loss by exhaust
heavy-duty pressure tunnel
hemorrhoid ligature set
imperial palace
justless
landraces
Lobomonas
Luzula parviflora
main steam and feed system
mantashe
markoff processes
Mehda
metallic recuperator
microtrabecule
miswander
NICHA
nonlittering
parode
partial sponsorship
prerogancy
proof by superposition
proportional-plus-integral control
pursiness
quinquedentate
radiatoin resistant fibre
register rollers
repair heavy
respiratory complication
rotating crystal method
Rubtsovo
runestones
screechiest
scuffles
seat angle
security trading
Septosphaeria
she-he
silicon alloys/compounds
skialytic
slate blue
Soria, Prov.de
state territory
tarantara
teddy-bear
tight lips
tighten belt
tillodonts
too true
triethylbenzylammonium chloride
unbusted
venue marketing
wide flat steel
winderman
woolly-bear
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