细说英语粗话:2. Animal

2. Animal

 worse than an animal 禽兽不如的

 party animal 派对上醉酒狂欢的人

 political animal 醉心政治者

 like an animal 如动物般的

Animal除当“动物、畜生、禽兽、残暴而无理性的人”及“保镖、刺客”解外，另指“男人”，也偶指“女人”。 美国人称男人是animal时，褒贬参半。褒者是称赞其“魁梧，英俊，性感，有斗志”，乃对运动员及明星之崇拜；贬者如骂他是“失去理性的残暴之徒”。指女人时，几乎都指“热情奔放的性伴侣”。party animal多指“派对上醉酒狂欢者”，虽不算是骂人，不过语带讽刺。political animal是“醉心政治的人物”。Animal此字语气并不粗俗，正式社交场所仍可使用。

Animal 用以骂人或贬称

1. animal,animals 畜生、禽兽

A. No court would try you, Captain，because no one would hold that a black was a man. He was an animal which you beat and chained, and all he had to offer up against1 you was a prayer.

(California(1946)影片中的对白)

上尉，没有法庭会审判你，因为没有人认为黑人是人，该黑人是你殴打禁锢的禽兽，他反抗你只有祈祷一途。

注：

1. offer up against… 对……所做之不利行为或勾当。

A. The newspaper says they caught the killer who escaped from prison last month.

报上讲上个月越狱的那个杀人犯已被抓到了。

B. That animal should get the death penalty!

那个畜生应判死刑!

A. You’re the animal！ Doesn’t your religion forbid killing1?

你才是畜生。你信的教不是说不可杀生吗?

注：

1. forbid killing forbid(禁止)是及物动词，可以用动名词的killing当宾语，要记住哪些及物动词可以跟动名词，哪些只可跟不定式，有的又两可。

A. We’ve all become animals with exactly one instinct left1. Self-preservation.

(A Foreign Affair(1948)影片中的对白)

我们都成为禽兽，唯一剩下的本能是自保。

注：

1. with+名词+分词。在介词with后只能用名词性的字、短语、从句当宾语，而又常用现在分词、过去分词、形容词来当这些名词的补语(complement)。

A. That gambling joint was controlled by the Mafia and their animals.

该赌窟从前被黑手党和他们的徒辈所控制。

2. worse than an animal 连猪狗都不如的

A. Every time he is eligible for parole， the community petitions prison officials to reject his request and keep him behind bars1.

每到他有资格申请假释时，社区人士都请求狱方驳回，不让他出狱。

B. As well they should. He and his followers broke into a house and killed five people， including a pregnant woman. He’s worse than an animal.

那是应该的。他和跟随他闯入民宅的人，把五个人包括一位孕妇在内给杀害了，他连猪狗都不如。

注：

1. behind bars 在囚禁中。是地点副词短语。

3. an animal，the animal 有斗志的运动员，健儿

A. “When I1 saw that he was leading the team in tackles every game，I knew he would have a good wrestling season，” said Spinneweber.“The year before， his coach told me that he was lazy and out of shape，2 but［last fall］he was an animal.3 He was stronger than ever and in the best shape of his life.”

(The Washington Post, 2／1／97)

史宾维伯说：当我发觉他每场擒抱次数都领先群雄时，我就知道他在摔跤赛季会有好的表现;前年，他的教练告诉我他又懒又没锻炼身体，但［去夏］他奋战不歇，体力较前强壮，呈现一生中巅峰状态。

注：

1. I 乃指Herndon高中摔跤队教练史氏谈及该校角力队选手白勒 (Boyle)。

2. out of shape 因缺少运动使得肌肉松弛无力，是形容词短语。肌肉结实，精力旺盛叫“in good shape”。

3. 文中animal指他是汉子，有奋战精神及充分获胜的信心。

A. Who’s the animal with that broad1?

陪伴那个女郎的性感男人是谁?

注：

1. broad 指与俊男为伍的“美女”。

4. (a real)animal 热情奔放的性伴侣(尤指女性)

A. I hear Camille is a real animal in bed!

我听说嘉蜜儿是个热情奔放的性伴侣。

B. I wouldn’t know.

我可不知道哟。

5. party animal 派对上醉酒狂欢的人

A. COPS TO TAME TEEN-AGE PARTY ANIMALS TOWN’S PARENTS CAN LET POLICE ENTER HOMES TO CHECK UP ON KIDS

(Rocky Mountain News， 5／9／97美联社讯标题)

警方欲驯服狂欢青少年，家长可准警方登门检查

注：

1.此系报纸标题故英文无标点符号，且文字可全大写。

2. cops 乃coppers的简写，是“警察”(policemen)的土语，用警察制服上的铜纽扣寓意。

3. party animals 指为庆祝高中毕业派对上喝酒狂欢的年轻人。

A. Cory’s depression over the loss of Topanga makes his friends not want2 to be with him so he steals a pint of whiskey from his father for companionship. Whiskey in hand，Cory crashes a party and transforms himself into a party animal，coercing Shawn to get drunk with him.

(Boy Meets World电视剧3／6／98单元简介)

托班亚走了，寇利的沮丧使友人不愿跟他来往，因此他从他爸爸那儿偷来一瓶威士忌，借酒浇愁。手拿着威士忌混进一场派对，继而酒后失态，逼邵恩陪他一起喝个酩酊大醉。

注：

1.本文为美国以青少年喝酒的恶果为题之电视剧。

2. make his friends not want… 在make， have， see， hear等及物动词后，加了宾语，可再加不定式(Infinitive)当宾语补足语，但应省去“to”。

6. political animal 醉心政治的人，对政治有相当影响力的人或事

A. As a new form of borderless state，Cspace(Internet/cyberspace) has demonstrated sovereign power over its internal information policy. The front pages of newspapers around the world are demonstrating a growing awareness of this new political animal. But neither the global body politic nor the corporate realm has come to terms with the extent of the Net’s sovereignty and the future impact of this‘new wired world order’.

(摘录自网络)

国际网络作为无边界的新领土，已展示其对内部资讯政策的自主权，世界各国报纸头版逐渐反映此醉心政治的新媒体，不过无论世界是统一国家或是法人机构，对网络自主的范围及对联网新秩序的未来影响，都未达成协议。

7. like an animal 如动物般，动作粗鲁地

A. Mainly I would say I make animal sounds. I consume food like an animal—until it’s gone1.

大概来讲，我［吃东西］竟会发出动物声，我狼吞虎咽直到食物吃得精光为止。

B. I open Christmas presents like an animal. I rip it open.

我猛力打开圣诞礼物，把礼物包装撕去。

注：

1. gone 在此处已不是动词，而是形容词，表示“消失的，过往的，逝去的”。