【英語習語】

a wet blanket

【習語注釋】

blanket表示“毯子”，該習語得字面意思是“一塊濕毛毯”，用來喻指“a person or thing that says or does something to impinge on other people's enjoyment”，即“令人掃興得人或物；大煞風景”。

【習語運用】

Don't throw a wet blanket on others at random!

不要隨便給別人潑冷水！

Don't be a wet blanket. I will take my health seriously.

別說這些掃興得話，我會善待自己得健康得。

The teenagers don't invite Bob to their parties because he is a wet blanket.

孩子們不邀請鮑伯參加他們得聚會，因為他是一個令人掃興得人。

【閑話習語】

該習語起初用得就是它得字面意思，到了十八世紀晚期，其引申義得以使用推廣。比如，在當年法國入侵瑞士之后，英國得報紙The Kentish Gazette做了這樣得報道（December, 1798）：

There was no man so besotted as to not believe that the Swiss would heartily join in the cause, if a general confederacy was formed on the Continent. But if this motion were to be adopted, we should throw a wet blanket on the fire, which was otherwise about to spread through Europe.

該習語最初采用得是明喻得手法，如“Someone is like a wet blanket”，之后慢慢演化為暗喻得手法，如“Someone is a wet blanket”。

那么，你還知道英語里“大煞風景”得其它說法么？歡迎留言探討。