三级aa视频在线观看-三级国产-三级国产精品一区二区-三级国产三级在线-三级国产在线

 
 
 

We just got our head handed to us

中國日報網 2016-01-29 11:27

 

We just got our head handed to us

Reader question:

Please explain this sentence: “We just got our head handed to us by a very good team that played very good on their home floor.” Got our head handed to us? What does that mean?

My comments:

The speaker means to say that his team suffered a bad defeat, an embarrassing one in which they were thoroughly outplayed by the home team.

Literally, they all got beheaded because only after that could someone hand their head, or rather heads back to them.

The speaker means what he says metaphorically, of course. If he were decapitated, he wouldn’t be able to talk but anyways, to say you’ve got your head handed to you is one way of saying that you suffered a total defeat, either in battle, a game, a political debate or any other competition.

It’s the same to say you’ve got killed by the opposition – that, too, will give a feeling of how thorough and complete the loss (and your subsequent suffering) is.

It’s the same as to say that you’ve got clobbered, trounced, destroyed, slaughtered – all actual expressions sportswriters use to describe a one-sided contest, in which the loser had no chance.

To use a similar expression, you’ve got your rear end kicked and that is that.

Anyway, to get one’s head handed to one is an expression which may find its way all the way back to the story of the beheading of Saint John the Baptist, in a biblical revenge saga. Wikipedia explains:

According to the Synoptic Gospels, Herod, who was tetrarch, or sub-king, of Galilee under the Roman Empire, had imprisoned John the Baptist because he reproved Herod for divorcing his wife (Phasaelis) and unlawfully taking Herodias, the wife of his brother Herod Philip I. On Herod’s birthday, Herodias’s daughter (whom Josephus identifies as Salome) danced before the king and his guests. Her dancing pleased Herod so much that in his drunkenness he promised to give her anything she desired, up to half of his kingdom. When the daughter asked her mother what she should request, she was told to ask for the head of John the Baptist on a platter. Although Herod was appalled by the request, he reluctantly agreed and had John executed in the prison.

All right?

All right, media examples:

1. Hawaii (6-9) returned to Gym 1 yesterday, the first home practice in nearly two weeks. The Warriors went 2-2 on their nine-day road trip, downing Pacific twice but losing at Stanford twice.

The first night against the Cardinal went five, with the Warriors coming up short for the third time in five five-game matches. The second night, Hawaii went down in three “and we had our heads handed to us on a platter,” Warriors senior co-captain Jake Schkud said.

“We had a meltdown as a team and Stanford came out and took it to us. I don’t know if it had to do with us playing three games in four nights, but overall we simply got outplayed.”

- Warriors look for payback against Loyola-Chicago, Star-Bulletin.com, March 4, 2008.

2. Steve Jobs hated Flash. Hated it. And not just a little bit.

“Flash is a spaghetti-ball piece of technology that has lousy performance and really bad security problems,” he said, according to biographer Walter Isaacson in his book published earlier this month.

On Wednesday, Adobe announced it will no longer be developing Flash, its media-player tool, for mobile devices. More than a few bloggers have noted the news would have been vindication for the late Apple co-founder, who felt betrayed by Adobe more than a decade ago.

According to the biography, Jobs’ longstanding animus toward Adobe helped form his vision for Apple’s tightly controlled mobile environment.

In 1999, he was flatly denied when he asked Adobe to create a version of its popular Adobe Premiere digital-graphics software for the Mac. Adobe also wouldn’t rewrite Photoshop for the Mac’s operating system, even though Macs were popular with designers.

“My primary insight when we were screwed by Adobe in 1999 was that we shouldn’t get into any business where we didn’t control both the hardware and the software, otherwise we’d get our head handed to us,” Jobs said, according to Isaacson.

- Did Steve Jobs kill Adobe Flash? CNN.com, November 9, 2011.

3. We have seen the future of the GOP and Jeb Bush ain’t it.

Jeb got his head handed to him by Marco Rubio in the third GOP debate. Bush, the heavily-funded establishment choice for president, is still stumbling around, trying to figure out what happened.

Rubio did it honestly, efficiently and respectfully. It was like a mercy killing. Dare I say it? The boy was in touch with his inner Reagan.

Rubio even finished with a nod to Reagan’s 11th commandment: Speak no evil against another Republican. Rubio says he’s not running against the other candidates, he’s running for president. Like a golfer just playing against the course.

Rubio is a young ’un. But he’s got skills, energy and passion. And he took down his mentor, Jeb, like a sick old dog that needed to be put out of its misery.

- ‘Reagan-esque’ Marco Rubio mercy kills Jeb Bush campaign, by J.D. Crowe, AL.com, October 30, 2015.

本文僅代表作者本人觀點,與本網立場無關。歡迎大家討論學術問題,尊重他人,禁止人身攻擊和發布一切違反國家現行法律法規的內容。

About the author:

Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: [email protected], or raise a question for potential use in a future column.

(作者:張欣 編輯:丹妮)

上一篇 : Theater of the absurd?
下一篇 : High wire act

 
中國日報網英語點津版權說明:凡注明來源為“中國日報網英語點津:XXX(署名)”的原創作品,除與中國日報網簽署英語點津內容授權協議的網站外,其他任何網站或單位未經允許不得非法盜鏈、轉載和使用,違者必究。如需使用,請與010-84883561聯系;凡本網注明“來源:XXX(非英語點津)”的作品,均轉載自其它媒體,目的在于傳播更多信息,其他媒體如需轉載,請與稿件來源方聯系,如產生任何問題與本網無關;本網所發布的歌曲、電影片段,版權歸原作者所有,僅供學習與研究,如果侵權,請提供版權證明,以便盡快刪除。

中國日報網雙語新聞

掃描左側二維碼

添加Chinadaily_Mobile
你想看的我們這兒都有!

中國日報雙語手機報

點擊左側圖標查看訂閱方式

中國首份雙語手機報
學英語看資訊一個都不能少!

關注和訂閱

本文相關閱讀
人氣排行
熱搜詞
 
 
精華欄目
 

閱讀

詞匯

視聽

翻譯

口語

合作

 

關于我們 | 聯系方式 | 招聘信息

Copyright by chinadaily.com.cn. All rights reserved. None of this material may be used for any commercial or public use. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. 版權聲明:本網站所刊登的中國日報網英語點津內容,版權屬中國日報網所有,未經協議授權,禁止下載使用。 歡迎愿意與本網站合作的單位或個人與我們聯系。

電話:8610-84883645

傳真:8610-84883500

Email: [email protected]

主站蜘蛛池模板: 亚洲国产精品视频 | 日本免费毛片在线高清看 | 亚洲精品不卡午夜精品 | 美女一级一级毛片 | 亚洲香蕉在线视频 | 国产大尺度福利视频在线观看 | 欧美jizz8性欧美18 | 一级黄色录像在线观看 | 日韩国产欧美在线观看一区二区 | 俄罗斯胖老太与小伙交 | se01亚洲| 欧美黄区 | 免费jizz在在线播放国产 | 国内精品自在自线在免费 | 三级很黄很黄的视频 | 麻豆传媒视频网站 | 免费播放国产性色生活片 | 亚洲欧美日韩三级 | 国产不卡视频在线播放 | 国产秦先生大战白丝97在线 | 日韩精品一区二区三区国语自制 | 久久精品a | 伊人久久大香线焦综合四虎 | 久久免费福利视频 | www.日韩在线 | 国产日韩欧美亚洲精品95 | 免费看一级黄色录像 | 免费国产成人高清在线观看不卡 | 成人国产亚洲欧美成人综合网 | 极品主播的慰在线播放 | 在线精品免费观看综合 | 国产乱视频在线观看播放 | 精品湿| 亚洲欧美第一页 | 国内一级片 | 国产在线观看高清精品 | 操出水视频 | 久久不卡精品 | 亚洲精品色综合久久久 | 国产一区二区精品人妖系列 | 国产精品免费播放 |