时间:2018-12-12 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课

   “Comey has the receipts!”


  这句话在社交媒体上被欢乐地传颂。这里的Receipt指的是前FBI局长James Comey掌握的一份备忘录,记录着特朗普总统要求他停止对Michael Flynn的调查。但是为什么receipts(收据)变成了proof(证据)?
  Receipt这个词来源于中世纪英语(精品课),指的是收到一定量的某物或是收到某物的行为。16世纪晚期,receipt也用于表示手写或打印的声明,表示已为某物付款——也就是我们购物时收到的塞满钱包的单据。但是proof或evidence(证据)是如何与Comey关联起来的?
  这个问题的答案可以追溯到2002年对Whitney Houston(惠特尼o休斯顿)的一个采访。当记者Diane Sawyer质疑这位歌手的用药,给Houston展示了一份新闻文章说:“这里说你药物成瘾花费了730,000美元,这是一个头条新闻。”作为回应,Houston说:“No way. No way. I want to see the receipts. From the drug dealer 1 that I bought $730,000 worth of drugs from. I want to see the receipts.”(不可能,不可能。我想要看到这些收据。我想看到我花了730,000美元买药的经销商那里的收据。我想看到这些收据。)
  这段对话迅速变得带有传奇色彩,而“I want to see the receipts”的表述被普遍使用,表示“I want to see the proof”(我想看到证据)。而receipt表情包也使得这个词变得更加流行。这些表情包使用Houston采访中的画面,而时不时出现朗朗上口的“show me the receipts”这句话最受欢迎。
  一开始,这个表述用于十分确信对方没有坚实证据的情况下——他们就是要求查看发票,像Houston那样——因为他们知道没有这种证据存在。如今receipt因存在或缺失都会变得引人注目,尤其是用于证明有名有权的人撒谎或表现地不诚实的时候。在例如tumblr这样的网站上,receipt可以代指冒犯或辱骂言辞的截图——在作恶者删除他们的愚蠢言辞之前截下来的。
  随着Comey事件发酵,receipt一词又进入到了主流话语中,并逃脱了社交媒体的边界,在《GQ》和《纽约时代周刊》的文章中找到了一席之地。Receipt的新含义能不能跻身于我们的牛津辞典当中呢?我们还要“走着瞧”——至少我们已经找到了它的Receipt(证据)。

1 dealer
n.商人,贩子
  • The dealer spent hours bargaining for the painting.那个商人为购买那幅画花了几个小时讨价还价。
  • The dealer reduced the price for cash down.这家商店对付现金的人减价优惠。
标签: 牛津英语
学英语单词
aggressins
animation camera
arteria metatarsea
asymmetrical karyokinesis
auxiliary anode
ball charge capacity of tube mill
bases-empty
basic astronomical longitude point
Bemposta
benefit of water project
blown or aeolian sands
bomb site
capillary action
change of management
chestier
choupette
cis-hydroxyprolines
climbing-film evaporator
computed range
contingency square
corpuscula nervosa genitalia
crack arresters in hull
cross ventilation
crossed-field accelerator
cw(continuous wave)
cyaneum
delivery with endorsement
diarsines
do lunch
dopant concentration
doums
enanaetiobiosis
environment return
fallacy fallacy
Flyte
fore-bless
fornix (pl. -nices)
gymnothorax fimbriatus
hand control valve piston
Heisenberg's picture
hierarchy of data
home-cured
hookish
hoyst
hyperchromatin
identifica
index out
inflates
irradiation loop
JEMP
jute bag overedging machine
keep around
l.p.s
lap oneself in
linear spanning
mainshaft 3rd speed gear bushing
manitoba
many-valley valence band
meningematoma
method of deflection angle
metrodira subulata
michle
mill edge
Money in the Bank
muleish
noterly
obstacle courses
okiseius formosanus
open coil annealing
organs of Zuckerkandl
over-credulous
papillary diameter
plastoelasticity
public enforcement of antitrust law
quateenary struture
relief intensity
repressible enzyme
responder assisted surveilence radar
ring riser
rostroventrolaterally
roughin
scade
scalp lock
soluble poison
speak-no-evil
special hospital
Taegyo
tangential track control
tax element
Teniente Matienzo
tetrabutylurea
The game is up .
the turn of the tide
ticker - tape welcome
training canister
unchance
vanvelkinburgh
Veberöd
Warsop
well-bakeds
witness assembly
wood hematite