托福词汇之“screen rage屏怒”
Screen rage means to talk back, yell or curse at a digital screen after avery unpleasant phone conversation or upset about a match result.
“屏怒”指打电话跟人发生争执或者对转播的比赛结果不满时对着电子设备的屏幕回骂、大喊或咒骂的情况。
Who hasn't talked back to their computer or their smartphone? Screen-rageis something almost everyone has experienced. Though ‘rage-quit' was recentlyadded to OxfordDictionaries.com, screen rage's chances look less than stellar.So far, there's only one example of the word in the Oxford English Corpus – from2006.
谁没试过对着电脑和手机回骂呢?屏怒几乎是每个人都做过的事。“怒退”(玩游戏时队友不给力,被对方铲杀,愤怒退出)不久前才被收入牛津在线词典,不过“屏怒”一词被收录的可能行似乎并不大。自2006年到现在,这个词在牛津英语语料库里只出现过一次。
For example
I got screen rage when I read his text message.
我看到他的短信后屏怒了。