时间:2019-02-08 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 Break 1 a leg 2: 祝好运!


到音像店淘碟,无意中瞄到一张2005年讽刺悬疑片“Break a leg” ——一名演员为了闯荡好莱坞,不惜用尽一切手段击败竞争对手。只是,他的演艺生涯未必就此一路坦途…… 影片的讽刺意义,单从片名“Break a leg”就可一目了然。
在此,“Break a leg”当然不是指“断了一条腿”,其中文译名为《一路走好》。 某种程度而言,“break a leg”可被列为演艺圈、尤其是戏剧界的“行话”,朋友若要上台演出,你大可对他/她说:“Play well, Jack--break a leg!”(杰克,好运!祝你演出成功!) 究其渊源,这个颇为怪异的祝福语,有很多种说法。目前,较为大众接受的理论有两种。一种观点认为,“break a leg”源于莎士比亚时期的舞台传统。演出接受后,演员一般要到前台谢幕,如若表演出色,一般会赢得台下观众的“小费”。当然,接受了小费,演员是要弯腿行“屈膝礼”的。由此,“Break a leg”成了希望演员演出成功的形象说法。 还有一种观点带有浓厚的迷信色彩。传说人们非常相信精灵的存在,而这些精灵最喜欢制造争端。如果你许了个愿望,他们就会故意让相反的事情发生。于是人们要“祝愿某人好运”时,就会故意说“祝你跌断一条腿”,希望借此骗过那些精灵,让好运来临。 值得一提的是,随着时间的推移,“break a leg”的语义范围逐渐扩大,除了演出,也可用于祝福某人试镜/考试/面试成功。如:Break a leg in your test 3 today.(祝你今天考试顺利。)

n.休息,中断,破裂;v.打破,弄破,弄坏
  • Don't break the egg.不要把蛋打破了。
  • I must have a break.我必须有休息一段时间。
n.腿;旅程的一段
  • I hurt my leg badly in the football match.在那场足球赛中,我的腿受了重伤。
  • I broke my leg five years ago.五年前我摔断了腿。
n.测试,试验;v.测试,试验,接受测验
  • I have to study the book for a test tomorrow.明天要考试,我得看书。
  • The teacher will test the class on spelling today.今天,老师要对这个班进行一次拼写测验。
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学英语单词
actotropomyosin
alpertine
anastomosis of recurrent nerve
aphasic, aphasiac
aspergillomata
atms
automatic elevator
back projections
be hard pressed for
bone conduction
caudal myotome
centralrepair shop
culturemes
Cyclobalanopsis hypophaea
definite annuity
detergent inhibitor
drain fly
drollnesses
edisylates
effective air quantity
eglises
enzyme-treated
expeditional
family pelecanidaes
family vittariaceaes
fermented bean
ferro-magnetics
geological prospecting engineering survey
gigactonine
glrb
hand finishing noise
hand-play
hebe
helix slow wave line
hoplia shibatai makiharai
hot water supply system
hyaline carcinoma
hydraulic shock absorbor
immersion-test
indispensible
interferonopathies
jazz festivals
justiciable
Khāsh Rūd
Killduff
knifemachine
long periodic perturbation
luhut
make-up tank
maser
mercaptoquinolinate
middeck
Muang Phiang
Multiceps
mydricaine
ninsolid color
non-regular train
nonpalindromic
offshore storage unit
oriented matroid
overcap placer
overhead-views
play ball with
positive potential
preliminary audit survey
prototype instrument
reactor coolant clean-up system
real time reconnaissance
reduced residual equation
relatively prime polynomials
response set
Rollet's stroma
round sth down
Salonoidei
sawara cypress
scarus spinus
Schumann,Clara Josephine
scrape the bottom of the pickle barrel
shot-peen
smart quotes
spindle
stair case
superposed yang
swift
syllabic notation
synchronous ds-cdma
telegeusid
Termination of Salvage Operation
thickness pattern
throws in the towel
thumb-band
top-down logic
trace of a matrix
traditional society stage
transcobalamins
universal winder
vibrating centrifuge
water soluble film
weybred
Yakutians
young's equation
zig quenching