英语词汇实用小百科 打人的词汇

 

Xiaohua: Hello and welcome to Roundtable's Word of the Week.

John: And so this week we're going to be looking at how to talk about hitting people. We don't suggest you do hit people, but if you want to talk about hitting people in English, well, we'll give you some words and phrases. So there is bang, to hit or to punch. So if he keeps saying that, watch me walk over and bang him. Then there is beam, to hit in the head, so Tony just beamed me in the head with a pencil. That's usually when you're throwing something, and you get beamed. And then there is to brain, and that's to hit someone in the head quite hard.

Xiaohua: 英语中描述怎样打人的词汇还真的不少。我们就一个一个看过来。Bang, beam, 和brain都差不多，但有细微的区别。Bang是撞，beam是打头，而beam是狠狠揍某人的头。

John: Then there is to bust¹, to punch or hit. So if you don't shut up, I'm going to bust you in the mouth. And then a variation on that is bust on. The bouncers busted² on some drunk guy last night. And then clock. Clock is usually to punch someone in the face.

Xiaohua: Bust本身就有打破的意思。To bust somebody就是揍某一个人的意思，bust on 也有同样的意思。而clock就是揍脸。

John: And then crack, so hit or punch. Cream means to beat up or to hit extremely hard. Xiaohua really made me angry the other day so I just really had to cream her.

Xiaohua: I don't think you'd have the guts³, though. Anyway, cream听上去像是个好词，但也可以用作狠狠打的意思。

John: Then fist of fives. So if you don't shut up, I'll give you a fist of fives. Get banked on. He really pissed those guys off and so he got banked on. Give a thumper⁴, a thumper is a hit, a very strong hit, and so to give a thumper is to strike someone very hard.

Xiaohua: Fist of fives就不用解释了。Get banked on挺有意思的。因为Bank on somebody不是有trust someone的意思吗，但是when you get banked on, you're basically punched.

John: And then jack⁵. He got jacked in the face. Then knock out, you see this a lot in boxing. So you hit someone so hard, usually in the face or in the head, that they lose consciousness. We were just playing around and I accidentally knocked him out.

Xiaohua: Knock out someone就是把某个人击昏。

John: And then knuckle⁶ sandwich, very similar to fist of fives, but it's usually to the face or to the mouth area, because you give them a sandwich and you usually eat sandwiches.

Xiaohua: OK. 请别人吃拳头做成的三明治吗？Anyway，就是对脸一拳。

John: And then to nail is to hit forcefully with a blunt object. He got nailed in the face with the football. Or I nailed him with the basketball.

Xiaohua: Be nailed是被重物砸到。

John: And then to pop, to hit someone on the back of the head with the flat of one's hand. It's kind of like a slap, but to the back of the head, usually used to get a person's attention or to assert one's authority rather than to inflict⁷ harm. So it's really not meant to hurt someone, but you pop someone in the back of their head in order to get their attention, right?

Xiaohua: Pop是扇后脑勺，学生时代的你们如果不认真听讲的话经常会被老师pop。

John: Right? And then to smack⁸, that's basically a type of slap. Sock is another type of hit, and last but not least, sucker punch, it's basically to attack sneakily. So a sucker punch is when someone is totally not expecting it, the fight hasn't started yet, you're not necessarily in an argument, but you just punch them in the face, without giving any kind of warning, that's what we call a sucker punch.

Xiaohua: Smack是扇，sock就是hit someone的意思，那sucker punch则是突袭。 OK, I have to admit there're far more words describing hitting someone in English than in Chinese.

John: There're quite a few. And a lot of them have definitely specific history in our culture. I will also advice our listeners that some of these words aren't only about hitting. A lot of it is slang usage. And so you may go up to someone and try to use this word, and they may not completely understand you given the context. For example, to nail, it can also be used to describe, in slang terms, sexual intercourse⁹, or something like that. So on the one hand, these can be used depending on the context to talk about hitting or to be hit or something like that, but there's also many other uses for some of these words.

Xiaohua: 很多这些关于揍别人的词都是有上下文，在一定的场合中才可以用的，而很多词有多重的意思。所以如果用错了还是挺麻烦的。

John: So just be prepared. There may be an instance where you don't use it correctly.

Xiaohua: And got smacked¹⁰ in the face.

John: Yeah, don't get popped.

Xiaohua: Alright. That's all we have for RoundTable's Word of the Week.

1 bust   

vt.打破；vi.爆裂；n.半身像；胸部

参考例句：

• I dropped my camera on the pavement and bust it. 我把照相机掉在人行道上摔坏了。
• She has worked up a lump of clay into a bust.她把一块黏土精心制作成一个半身像。

2 busted   

adj. 破产了的，失败了的，被降级的，被逮捕的，被抓到的 动词bust的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• You are so busted! 你被当场逮住了！
• It was money troubles that busted up their marriage. 是金钱纠纷使他们的婚姻破裂了。

3 guts   

v.狼吞虎咽，贪婪地吃，飞碟游戏（比赛双方每组5人，相距15码，互相掷接飞碟）；毁坏（建筑物等）的内部( gut的第三人称单数 )；取出…的内脏n.勇气( gut的名词复数 )；内脏；消化道的下段；肠

参考例句：

• I'll only cook fish if the guts have been removed. 鱼若已收拾干净，我只需烧一下即可。
• Barbara hasn't got the guts to leave her mother. 巴巴拉没有勇气离开她妈妈。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 thumper   

n.击键声检测器；轰鸣器

参考例句：

5 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

6 knuckle   

n.指节；vi.开始努力工作；屈服，认输

参考例句：

• They refused to knuckle under to any pressure.他们拒不屈从任何压力。
• You'll really have to knuckle down if you want to pass the examination.如果想通过考试，你确实应专心学习。

7 inflict   

vt.(on)把…强加给，使遭受，使承担

参考例句：

• Don't inflict your ideas on me.不要把你的想法强加于我。
• Don't inflict damage on any person.不要伤害任何人。

8 smack   

vt.拍，打，掴；咂嘴；vi.含有…意味；n.拍

参考例句：

• She gave him a smack on the face.她打了他一个嘴巴。
• I gave the fly a smack with the magazine.我用杂志拍了一下苍蝇。

9 intercourse   

n.性交；交流，交往，交际

参考例句：

• The magazine becomes a cultural medium of intercourse between the two peoples.该杂志成为两民族间文化交流的媒介。
• There was close intercourse between them.他们过往很密。

10 smacked   

拍，打，掴( smack的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He smacked his lips but did not utter a word. 他吧嗒两下嘴，一声也不言语。
• She smacked a child's bottom. 她打孩子的屁股。