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看英文新闻频频遇见 red herring,你真的读懂它了吗?

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不少小伙伴看到 “red herring” 这个表达可能会困惑,“red” 是红色,“herring” 是鲱鱼,字面直译好像是 “红鲱鱼”,听起来和“转移注意力”有什么关系?先来听一下它的英文解释:In our examples today, however, a red herring means something that takes attention away from the real issue.然而在我们今天的例子里," red herring" 意思是分散人们对于真正问题的注意力。这个词的起源通常和熏制鲱鱼有关。鲱鱼被烟熏后会变成红褐色,气味特别浓烈。流传较广的说法是:猎人把熏红的鲱鱼拖在地上留下强烈气味,用来训练猎犬学会不被其他气味干扰,继续追踪原目标;也有人说逃犯用红鲱鱼误导追捕的猎犬,让它们追错方向。19世纪英国政治作家威廉·科贝特还曾用“red herring”来比喻转移公众注意力的假消息。后来,“red herring” 就逐渐引申为“误导、障眼法”。它在日常口语、侦探小说和新闻评论里使用频率很高,带有一点“别被骗了”的提醒语气。“red herring” 翻译成中文可以是:烟雾弹、障眼法、误导线索、转移注意力的事物、掩人耳目的东西。The missing document is a red herring; the real issue is who had access to the system.那份丢失的文件是个障眼法,真正的问题是谁能进入这个系统。原声再现And the rest of these things are just sort of red herrings, right?剩下的这些内容不过是些烟幕弹,对吧?The book contained a large number of clues to help readers find the hare, but Williams put in a lot of " red herrings" , or false clues, to mislead them.书中包含了大量的线索来帮助读者找到兔子,但威廉姆斯却加入了很多“转移注意力”或虚假的线索来误导读者。更多卡卡老师分享公众号:卡卡课堂 卡卡老师微信:kakayingyu002送你一份卡卡老师学习大礼包,帮助你在英文学习路上少走弯路

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