骂人不带脏字五种英式损人口语_BEC初级作文

骂人不带脏字五种英式损人口语

“THINKS HE’S GOD’S GIFT”

觉得自己是上帝的礼物

As I revealed in another article for KanDongSee, most of Britain’s insults come from Christian references, and here we see another example. God gave humankind many gifts, but it’s pretty pompous to assume that you’re one of them. The phrase is usually said of a man who thinks he is “God’s gift to women” (and he probably blows his own trumpet about it), and subtlyundermines the man in question is a classically British fashion. He will no doubt return home to curl into a ball and flounder in his own tears.

我在看东西另一篇文章中曾披露，大多英式的奚落方式来自基督教，这条也不例外。上帝给予了人们许多礼物，但要是你觉得自己就是其中之一，就不只是一点点的浮夸了。这个说法一般用在男人身上，这人认为自己是“上帝给女人的礼物”（这些人应该也会自吹自擂），而经典的英式做法就是用这句话微妙地贬低他。你这一说，他肯定会灰溜溜地回家，蜷成一团嚎啕大哭的。

“EGGHEAD”

蛋头

If there’s one thing the British love more than slyly insulting each other, it’s food – so it’s not surprising that they’ve combined the two things into one (also note “bad apple”, “sour grapes” and “couch potato”). An “egghead” is an annoyingly intelligent person, so-called because smart people are thought to have larger heads which look like upside-down eggs. If they get much more big-headed, they might end up scrambled.