Name: 高級英語5 個具有意外歷史的成語 (Advanced English: 5 Idioms with Unexpected Histories)
Uploaded: 2025-06-17T18:31:21.000Z
Duration: 16 min 32 s

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Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo, E, what's confusing you?

嘟 嘟 嘟 嘟 嘟 嘟 嘟 嘟 嘟 嘟 嘟 E，你怎麼搞糊塗了？

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Listen, E wants to do this lesson with you, and it's kind of interesting, because a lot of times you'll do idioms.

聽著，E 想和你一起上這一課，這很有趣，因為很多時候你會用到成語。

But he has an idea where we can use idioms as conversation starters.

但他有一個想法，我們可以用成語作為對話的開場白。

Because everybody knows the idioms, right?

因為每個人都知道這些成語，對嗎？

How do you start a conversation like that?

You can't really, because if it's raining, they're going to go, duh, yeah, it's raining.

真的不行，因為如果下雨，他們就會說，咄，是啊，下雨了。

But what happens if we gave you five idioms that people probably don't know the total idiom because it's been changed through time?

但是，如果我們給你五個成語，人們可能不知道全部的成語，因為它已經隨著時間的推移而改變了，會發生什麼呢？

And with that change through time, sometimes it means the exact opposite of what they're using it for.

隨著時間的推移，有時它的含義會與他們使用它的目的完全相反。

That is a cool conversation starter, because it shows you have a depth of knowledge that you can share with someone else.

這是一個很酷的開場白，因為這表明你有淵博的知識，可以與他人分享。

So, I'm going to give you the first one when we go to the board.

所以，當我們進入董事會時，我會給你第一個機會。

Now, I'm going to give you the idiom as it's supposed to be, okay?

現在，我把這個成語原原本本地告訴你，好嗎？

But then I'm going to write what people say, so you can see the difference between what is said and what it used to be, and then we can quickly discuss why it might be the opposite or has greater information that's given, and you'll see people go, hmm, I never knew that.

不過，我會把人們說的話寫下來，這樣你就能看到人們說的話與過去的不同之處，然後我們就能快速討論為什麼可能是相反的，或者提供了更多的資訊，你會看到人們說，嗯，我從來不知道。

And that makes you look smart, and that's what we want.

這讓你看起來很聰明，而這正是我們想要的。

Not that you're smart, that people take interest in you because you can bring something new to them.

不是說你很聰明，而是說人們對你感興趣是因為你能給他們帶來新的東西。

I know, not pretty, but some blood, and there's some water causing ripples.

我知道，這不好看，但有些血跡，還有一些水激起的漣漪。

Well, in Western society, specifically North American and, you know, English society, or, you know, England, the island, the British Isles, they love to say this particular idiom.

嗯，在西方社會，特別是北美和英國社會，或者，你知道，英國，這個島，不列顛群島，他們喜歡說這個特殊的成語。

The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the room, the room, the womb.

盟約之血，濃於房中之水，房中之水，子宮之水。

子宮就像一個房間，但又不完全是。

Okay, so, a lot of complicated language here, so you might be like, what the heck?

好吧，這裡有很多複雜的語言，所以你可能會想，這到底是怎麼回事？

Well, when you have a covenant, it's sort of people coming together and making a vow or a promise to each other to be like brothers.

那麼，當你有一個盟約時，它就像是人們聚集在一起，彼此發誓或承諾要像兄弟一樣。

So, you say you're like my brother, and I'm your brother, we will work together.

所以，你說你就像我的兄弟，而我是你的兄弟，我們會一起工作。

It's the agreement we make with each other.

So, we make an agreement with each other to work as family.

是以，我們彼此約定要像一家人一樣工作。

But this is something you find and you choose.

Now, when you look at the water of the womb, I've gained a bit of weight, so just leave me alone.

現在，當你看到子宮裡的水時，我的體重增加了一些，所以別管我了。

The womb is when a woman is pregnant, she has a big belly.

子宮是指婦女懷孕時的大肚子。

Well, you're inside of that, and when you're inside the womb, you share your mother's water, because it's water.

當你在子宮裡的時候，你分享著母親的水，因為那是水。

So, what this is saying, the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb is kind of true, because blood is...

是以，"聖約之血濃於胎水 "的說法是正確的，因為血...

Got more stuff in it than water, but the idea is the friends that you make, the friends that you make and the people you call that you decide to be your family actually have a stronger connection for you and are better than the water of the womb than family you have.

雖然裡面的東西比水還多，但我們的想法是，你結交的朋友、你交到的朋友以及你決定把他們當作家人的人，實際上與你有著更緊密的聯繫，他們比子宮裡的水更好，比你擁有的家人更好。

So, it's not just your mother, but they're saying if you have family that you were born into and you have family that you have created, decided to create through people from work or friends that you have met, those bonds are stronger and they should be stronger, because you decided to make them.

所以，不只是你的母親，他們還說，如果你有自己出生的家庭，你也有自己創建的家庭，通過工作中的人或認識的朋友決定創建的家庭，這些紐帶會更牢固，也應該更牢固，因為是你決定創建的。

When you are born into a family, you're just born into it, but when you make a decision, you've consciously thought about it, so they probably share more of your values.

當你出生在一個家庭時，你只是生在這個家庭，但當你做出決定時，你已經有意識地考慮過這個問題，所以他們可能更認同你的價值觀。

Now, we know blood is thicker than water, but they've changed it to mean that family, the bonds of family are thicker than the water that you share amongst your friends.

現在，我們知道血濃於水，但他們把它改成了家庭的意思，家庭的紐帶比朋友間分享的水更濃。

But as you can see, that's not what the original idea...

但正如你所看到的，這並不是最初的想法......

I'm going to say the original intent or the original idea was.

我想說的是，最初的意圖或最初的想法是。

It was to say that the choices you make to create a family are...

這是說，你為建立一個家庭所做的選擇是......

Create stronger bonds than just being born into a family that you had no choice.

建立更牢固的紐帶，而不僅僅是生在一個你別無選擇的家庭。

It means the exact opposite of what it was supposed to be.

它的意思與本來的意思完全相反。

Because when you walk up to me and go, have you ever heard that saying, the blood is thicker than water?

因為當你走到我面前時，你聽說過 "血濃於水 "這句話嗎？

And I go, that's not what it originally was.

I'm going to say right away, what do you mean?

And I get to start talking to you, and you get to go...

讓我們看看二號機是什麼樣的。

Okay, number two is interesting because in the last few years, or last decade or so, you've heard this many times when you find a CEO of a company has done something bad, or a police department has done something bad, or a politician has done...

好吧，第二點很有趣，因為在過去幾年，或者說過去十幾年裡，當你發現某家公司的首席執行官做了壞事，或者某個警察部門做了壞事，或者某個政客做了......時，你已經聽過很多次了。

And what they usually say was the leader of these particular groups will get up and say, it's a few bad apples.

他們通常會說，這些特定團體的領導人會站起來說，這是幾個壞蘋果。

And they say, it's a few bad apples, meaning it's only one or two, so what's the problem?

他們說，這只是幾個壞蘋果，也就是說只有一兩個，有什麼問題呢？

Well, the original idiom wasn't that, because the original idiom understood something that's not usually talked about, and that's this.

好吧，原來的成語不是這樣的，因為原來的成語理解了一個通常不被談論的東西，那就是這個。

The original idiom was a few bad apples spoil the bunch, meaning if you have one bad actor, one bad person in a group, they will make the whole group bad.

最初的成語是幾個壞蘋果壞了一鍋粥，意思是如果一個團體中有一個壞演員、一個壞人，他們就會讓整個團體變壞。

Does it mean they're all going to be terrible individuals?

這是否意味著他們都會成為糟糕的人呢？

No, but because they don't do anything about that one bad apple, they allow that bad apple to keep doing things and it ruins the group, so you end up not trusting politicians, not trusting police, not trusting company presidents, because that one bad apple, like they say, it's just one, the actual saying is no, no, no, even one will destroy everything, so we have to be careful not to let one bad apple there.

不，但是因為他們對那個壞蘋果不採取任何措施，他們允許那個壞蘋果繼續做事情，結果毀了整個團體，所以你最終不相信政客，不相信警察，不相信公司總裁，因為那個壞蘋果，就像他們說的，只是一個，實際的說法是不，不，不，即使是一個也會毀了一切，所以我們必須小心，不要讓一個壞蘋果存在。

所以，幾個壞蘋果就會壞了一鍋粥。

Okay, so let's do number three, shall we?

好了，讓我們開始第三項，好嗎？

Well, with number three, this is rather interesting, because in the old days, there was sort of like...

那麼，關於第三點，這就相當有趣了，因為在過去，有一種像......

Today, we insult people in a way who have...

今天，我們在某種程度上侮辱了那些曾...

Know a little about a lot of things, but not a lot about one thing.

對很多事情都略知一二，但對一件事卻知之甚少。

In fact, we praise people who have a PhD, you know, they know one thing really, really well that's very, very narrow.

事實上，我們稱讚那些擁有博士學位的人，你知道，他們對一件事的瞭解非常非常好，而且非常非常狹窄。