drug bust: 毒品搜查

时间:2008-12-09 00:26:31

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常说大千世界无奇不有,瞧这篇题为“Fishy1 discovery leads to Australia drug bust2”的新闻,不仅标题用词醒目,内容也甚是新奇——澳大利亚一名毒贩竟然将39个装有海洛因的安全套塞进腌制成的咸鱼腹内——可惜,伪装再巧也在劫难逃,在通过海关时“咸鱼”被边境人员一双亮眼全部缴获。

请看外电相关报道:Australian customs officers thought something was fishy when they inspected a man's luggage and found jars of pickled fish. Closer inspection3 found 39 condoms of heroin4 inside the fish.

"Closer inspection revealed a number of condoms sewn inside the fish pieces," said the statement on Thursday.

对英语学习者而言,这篇新闻最大的价值在于它的标题,颇值推敲。先来看bust一词,我们最常见的bust用法是形容“半身雕像”或“女性的胸部”,如“量一下她的胸围”就可以表达为:to measure her bust size。在这则新闻中,drug bust指“毒品搜查”,其暗含意“毒品被缴获,毒犯被逮捕”。

Drug在这里是俚语,常用作动词——“逮捕、搜查”,请看下面两个例句:
The man was busted5 for pot.他因吸食大麻而被捕。
His house was busted this morning.今天早上,警察搜查了他的房间。

另外,标题中最精彩的一个词当属fishy,在这里它采用了“双关”修辞手法。Fishy在俚语中指“可疑的、靠不住的”,如:There's something fishy about it.(这里面有鬼。)在这桩案件里,fish恰是主角,所以,新闻中的fishy既指“与咸鱼有关的”(搜查),又指这些咸鱼里面有“鬼”,一语双关的手法很是巧妙。


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1 fishy ysgzzF     
adj. 值得怀疑的
参考例句:
  • It all sounds very fishy to me.所有这些在我听起来都很可疑。
  • There was definitely something fishy going on.肯定当时有可疑的事情在进行中。
2 bust WszzB     
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。
3 inspection y6TxG     
n.检查,审查,检阅
参考例句:
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查,发现肉变质了。
  • The soldiers lined up for their daily inspection by their officers.士兵们列队接受军官的日常检阅。
4 heroin IrSzHX     
n.海洛因
参考例句:
  • Customs have made their biggest ever seizure of heroin.海关查获了有史以来最大的一批海洛因。
  • Heroin has been smuggled out by sea.海洛因已从海上偷运出境。
5 busted 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。

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