时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:英美文化


英语课

   黑色来自黑暗体验,使人感到神秘、恐怖、空虚、绝望,有精神压抑感。同时一直以来人类对黑暗有所敬畏,所以黑色有庄重肃穆感。


  有这样一个例子:过去英国伦敦的菲里埃大桥的桥身是黑色的,常常有人从桥上跳水自杀。由于每年从桥上跳水自尽的人数太惊人,伦敦市议会敦促皇家科学院的科研人员追查原因。开始,皇家科学院的医学专家普里森博士提出这与桥身是黑色有关时,不少人还将他的提议当做笑料来议论。在连续三年都没找出好办法的无奈情况下,英国政府试着将黑色的桥身换掉,这下奇迹竟发生了:桥身自从改为蓝色后,跳桥自杀的人数当年减少了56.4%,普里森为此而声誉大增。这说明了黑色使人精神压抑可以导致疾病发生。通常黑色则代表死亡和黑暗,令人产生悲哀、暗淡、伤感和压迫的感觉。
  在中文中,黑色一直与贬义的形象相关,“黑暗”、“下黑手”、“黑社会”等等。
  英语中也能找到与中文含义相对应的单词或词组,如
  blacklist(黑名单)、black market(黑市)等。但英语中的black在译成中文时并非所有时候都译成“黑”,除了 “black dress”译作“青衣”外,还有black tea(浓茶)、black sheep(害群之马)等。再请看下面的句子:
  Since Jack 1 was made CEO,the company has been running in the black.这里的“in the black”指公司盈利,在英语中“亏损”应用“in the red”(赤字),所以上句的正确译法是:“自从杰克当上总裁后,公司一直在赢利。”
  黑色是悲哀的颜色,英美人在葬礼上穿黑色服装,中国人在葬礼上戴黑纱。英语中的"Black Friday"指耶稣在复活节前受难的星期五,是悲哀的日子。
  black在英语中还象征气愤和恼怒,如:
  black in the face 脸色铁青
  to look black at someone 怒目而视
  另外,黑色在汉语和英语中都有“阴险”、“邪恶”的含义,不过不一定用“黑”或“black”的字眼,例如:
  黑心 evil mind
  黑手 evil backstage manipulator
  黑幕 inside story
  黑线 a sinister line
  害群之马black sheep
  凶日 black day
  暗淡的前途black future

n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
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Adonis annua
after drying
after one's fancy
androstenols
antenna damping
benzoin gum
Bisiac
blade taper
boiler baffle
boreens
brekkie,brekky
buccopharyngeal membranes
building economy norm
bulkmeter
Carex crebra
CHDS
chloral-ammonia
chorioido-retinitis
circumference of a circle
commercial intelligence
cortisone in treatment of radiation illness
cosell
cryptogram residue class
dip switch pedal
Dnotice
dolorimeter
droops
DRZI
dynamical cosmology
ephidrosis
eusporangiums
fabric diagram
fall short of specifications
fast mover
florisse
fluorescence photography
freschi
fumarium
Gulf of Antalya
haploscopic vision
head pulley
Heretaniwha Pt.
Isomethepteue
jargoneers
juba-river
lain behind
latent fingerprint
leather-neck
Lecythospora
lift augmenter
lindey
little-old-lady
Long Ditton
main steam temperature
manufacture of home
marked line
mental chronometry
metobromuron
micromicro-
mire drainage
misadvised
Modred
newlun
noncoercive form of administrative action
northangers
OPPES
Paleolithic period
perfluoro-cyclicether
Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute
platylobate
plight oneself to sb.
pro-independence
procuration of signature
pseudostereo
pyrometer protecting tube
Ranton
rasterisations
run one's head against a wall
sabon
scleral punch
search receiner
self-driven
semi-disposable
slide box
software workbench system
special-application materials
speckled background
spring handle bottom bracket
St-Sorlins-d'Arves
steam packet boat
stilbenemidine
stomatogenesis
symphonetic
technology-driven
triple
Ulvsjön
underbone
virement
vulture plume
Wakool
West African Customs Union
Zaitokukai