[請益] CNN student news裡的一些問題

[tupacshkur (coalwood boy)]

Leave it to the famously plainspoken Alan Simpson,

Republican co-chair of President Obama's deficit commission,

to boil it all down. He says the president's budget is still drowning
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
in red ink for one reason: politics as usual.
^^^^^^^^^^
紅墨水? 赤字的意思嗎?


還有一句SIMPSON: It isn't going away. This is a stink bomb
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^臭炸彈?
                 in the garden party.


請問boil it all down, in red ink還有stink bomb是什麼意思?

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→ heziying:boil it all down->直接、簡單地說明
→ heziying:red ink那樣用很特別 那不是常見的用法 我猜是赤字(因為
→ heziying:共和黨愛喊deficit) stink bomb也不正常 我猜Simpson是
→ heziying:鄉下人 很像鄉下人用的比喻 就是"某某東西把一切弄得很糟
→ dunchee:"赤字的意思嗎?"-> Yes. (發揮一下想像力，其實很容易聯想
→ dunchee:http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/boil_1
→ dunchee:找 boil down (phrasal verb) -> 1 ...
→ dunchee:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stink_bomb
→ dunchee:這配合開頭的"It isn't going away" 也很好聯想。比如你
→ dunchee:(在一個場合)聞到屁味，(如果你不刻意走開)那臭味不會瞬間
→ dunchee:消失，你會一直聞到。那麼 stink bomb 當然更厲害(配合後
→ dunchee:頭的 in the garden party. 如果只是某人放個屁，在那種
→ dunchee:戶外地方別人恐怕聞不大到)
→ dunchee:這類"生動"表達方式很常見，配合內文(時事)多發揮一下想像
→ dunchee:力/聯想力，其實不難理解