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30岁了学习英语会太迟吗(水逆期间就不能学英语了吗)

30岁了学习英语会太迟吗(水逆期间就不能学英语了吗)baloney:胡扯【slang俚语】retrograde:going backwards 后退的,getting worse 恶化的先来罗列一下标题里出现的生词和短语:mercury in retrograde:水逆Mercury:水星(首字母通常大写);水银(托福学科高频词哦)

30岁了学习英语会太迟吗(水逆期间就不能学英语了吗)(1)

写在前面

前段时间很多朋友被水逆(水星逆行)折磨得诸事不顺,作为一个马克思主义的好奇宝宝,我登陆了英文版知乎“Quora”,看看歪果仁对水逆有多大的仇恨。今天就精选一个问题来和大家分享~

精选的问题是:

What does “Mercury in retrograde” mean? Is it a bunch of baloney?

先来罗列一下标题里出现的生词和短语:

mercury in retrograde:水逆

Mercury:水星(首字母通常大写);水银(托福学科高频词哦)

retrograde:going backwards 后退的,getting worse 恶化的

baloney:胡扯【slang俚语】

提问的这位仁兄一看也是满腹狐疑,对水逆一说不愿相信,那我们就来看看“答友”们怎么回复的吧。

通过这一部分我们来学几个天文学术语:

orbital :轨道的

spin:make sth turn round and round rapidly 旋转

rotate:move in circles round a central point 旋转

rotation of earth:地球自转

Venus:金星

Uranus:天王星

大部分答友还是意见一直地表示星相学“水逆”之说不靠谱啊:

Ed Robertson

It is an illusion because nothing is actuallygoing backwards. It therefore has no action or effect on anything else.Anyone who says otherwise is talking unscientific gibberish.

直批水逆之说只是“illusion”,因为没有任何事物或者力量是真正在逆行的。这里我们读到一个题目中“baloney”的同义词:gibberish“ 胡言乱语的”,动词形式gibber指猴子等发出的无意义的声音。

Robert Kimball

Now if you want to “drill down” and focus on day to day events (if that is your thing) I would agree that Mercury retrograde needs to be considered. Admittedly I suspect that it is overrated.

这位答友自称有18年占星术师经验,但他同样认为水逆被夸大了:overrate:have too high an opinion of sth

但我们还是要来看一段支持水逆说的答案,因为里面有很多日常表达,都是值得学习的地道搭配(collocation):

Maya Kenebrew

Mercury Retrogrades are said to be times of lowcommunication issues with technology automotive issues can arise apoor time to sign contracts or enter any deals due to theirbeing possible hidden agendas.……I have personally seen cars break down phones freeze and crash computers crash entire commercial buildingsshut down due to communications errors during Mercury Retrogrades.

low communication:低效沟通

poor time:坏时机

enter deals:考虑交易

cars break down:汽车抛锚

phones freeze and crash:手机死机

building shuts down:大楼关闭/瘫痪

Anyway,我们看了这么多,虽然没有对水逆是否存在给出确切的答案,但我的一种理解是,生活本来就会有大大小小的不如意,或许是别人都说“水逆啦!”,我们便格外在意那些倒霉的事情,久而久之就有了水逆期间特别倒霉的错觉。事实可能是我们的生活一直坎坎坷坷,水逆给我们的坎坷加了个高亮而已吧。

最后还是祝大家诸事顺利~

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