| 单词 | 坏消息 |
| 释义 | 〔receive〕receive bad news; received a good report of the group's activities.接到坏消息；收到了有关该团体活动的良好报道〔downplay〕downplayed the bad news.对这则坏消息轻描淡写〔chill〕bad news that put a chill on the celebration.使庆祝活动变得扫兴的坏消息〔bummer〕"Now, the bad news: the book is a bummer"(Newsweek)“现在宣布坏消息：这本书失败了”(新闻周刊)〔with〕arrived with bad news; a man with a moustache.带来坏消息；留络腮胡子的男人〔expressionless〕Their faces remained expressionless as they listened to the bad news.听到那坏消息时，他们的脸上仍然毫无表情〔give〕gave out the bad news.宣告了这个坏消息〔ring〕The whole town rang with the bad news.整个城市到处流传着坏消息〔convey〕An envoy came bearing the sad news.一位使者带来了坏消息。〔news〕If you take the first letters of the directions North, East, West, and South,it is true that you have the letters of the wordnews, but it is not true that you have the etymology ofnews, contrary to what has often been thought. The history of the word is much less clever than this and not at all unexpected.News is simply the plural of the noun new, which we use, for example, in the adage "Out with the old, in with the new.”The first recorded user of this plural to mean "tidings" may have been James I of Scotland;a work possibly written by him around 1437 contains the words "Awak . . . I bring The [thee] newis [news] glad.”It is pleasant to see that the first news was good.However, his descendant James I of England is the first person recorded (1616) to have said"No newis is better than evill newis,”or as we would put it, "No news is good news.”如果你取北、东、西、南四个单词各自的首字母，就得到单词news 的所有字母， 但是这并非news 的出处。 这个词的历史远比这巧妙且不是完全不可想象的。News 是名词 new 的复数形式， 举例来说，我们在谚语“旧的去了，新的来了”中使用了这个词。关于把这个词的复数作为“音讯”来用的最早记录是苏格兰的詹姆士一世，在他写的一本约1437年的书里有这样的话语“阿瓦克……，我给你带来好消息，”看到第一条是好消息是很让人高兴的。然而，他的后代英格兰的詹姆士一世却是记载(1616年）最先说出下面的话的人：“没有消息比坏消息好”或者如我们所说的“没有消息就是好消息”〔upset〕The bad news upset me.那则坏消息使我心烦意乱〔fear〕I fear you are wrong. I fear I have bad news for you.我认为你错了。恐怕我有个坏消息给你 |
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