
美:/'ʃəˈlækt/
打敗
The Republicans got shellacked in the elections.
共和黨在選舉中一敗塗地。
Now, the new stairs look great, but are so shellacked, they've become a huge slipping hazard in the winter!
現在,新的台階看起來好極了。隻不過我們上了太多的蟲膠,到了冬天變得其滑無比。
The bank's stock is getting shellacked this week. The shares fell as much as 6 percent on Tuesday morning and were down nearly 3 percent by midday.
本周美國銀行的股票損失慘重,周二早上最高跌了6%,午間又下跌了3個百分點。
But profitable lenders' earnings can get shellacked in future periods if they suddenly have to start adding large amounts to their bad-loan reserve to catch up with credit losses.
但如果為了應對貸款損失而被迫突然開始增加壞賬準備金的話,目前盈利的貸款人的收益在未來也可能受到沖擊。
"Shellacked" 是動詞 "shellac" 的過去分詞形式,主要有兩層含義:
字面意義
指用蟲膠(一種天然樹脂)塗抹物體表面形成保護層,常見于木器工藝或工業塗層領域。例如家具制造中,工匠會對木材進行打蠟抛光(shellacking)以增加光澤和耐久性。這一用法可追溯至18世紀,詞源與印度梵語詞彙 "śilājatu"(天然樹脂)相關,通過法語 "shellaque" 進入英語。
比喻意義
在美式英語口語中,該詞常表示"徹底擊敗"或"嚴厲批評",例如體育賽事報道中描述某隊"被對手完全壓制(shellacked)"(《韋氏詞典》收錄此釋義)。政治領域也常見類似用法,《紐約時報》曾用該詞形容候選人在辯論中的失利。
雙重語義的演變反映了語言從具體工藝術語向抽象表達延伸的過程,語言學研究表明這類隱喻化現象多源于行業術語在公共語境中的擴散。
“Shellacked”是動詞“shellac”的過去分詞形式,主要有以下兩層含義:
例句:The new stairs were shellacked, making them dangerously slippery in winter.(新台階塗了蟲膠,冬天變得非常滑。)
例句:The team was shellacked 10-0 in the final match.(球隊在決賽中以0比10慘敗。)
若需進一步了解詞源或具體例句,可參考權威詞典(如、2)。
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