托福词汇之“摊手耸肩smugshrug”

　　前两天，牛津词典宣布2015年度词汇是一个表情符号“笑cry”。由此，我们可以看出，表情符号已经成为我们生活交流的一部分。今天，我们再教大家一个表情符号的说法：smugshrug。

　　The shruggie or “smugshrug,” as it is sometimes called, is an emoticonrepresenting the face and arms of smiling person with hands raised in ashrugging gesture, ˉ\_(ツ)_/ˉ. It’s similar to an emoji or emoticon, but itincorporates characters from the katakana alphabet for a wider range ofexpression.

　　Shruggie或者smugshrug是一种表情符号，指一个人一边笑一边摊开手耸肩的姿势，就是这样ˉ\_(ツ)_/ˉ。这个符号类似于表情符号，但它还结合了日文中的片假名字符，由此传递出了更宽泛的意思表达。

　　It went viral in English when, after Kanye West shot down Taylor Swift infavor of Beyonce during his infamous 2010 Video Music Awards interruption, hegave a little shrug with his hands outstretched in a slight acknowledgement ofhis own ridiculousness; the rap crew Travis Porter immediately tweeted, “Kanyeshrug —> ˉ\_(ツ)_/ˉ” as a crude representation of the gesture.

　　2010年MTV音乐录影带大奖颁奖典礼现场，坎爷KanyeWest打断泰勒·斯威夫特的演讲，并表示对碧昂斯的支持，之后，他微微耸肩，两手摊开，一副对自己的荒谬举动小得意的样子。饶舌歌手TravisPorter立马发了一条推特“坎爷耸肩—> ˉ\_(ツ)_/ˉ”，用一组符号表示了他当时的动作。

　　For a time, post-Kanye, ˉ\_(ツ)_/ˉ continued to represent a kind ofself-aware victory over the world.

　　在那以后的一段时间，ˉ\_(ツ)_/ˉ 这个符号就一直被用来指代那种“我赢了全世界”的表情。

　　When someone performs ˉ\_(ツ)_/ˉ in real life, shrugging their shoulders andraising their outstretched hands in supplication to the sky it evokes anabdication of blame and a good-humored acknowledgement that shit, at times,happens, and there’s nothing we can do about it.

　　现实生活中，有人做出这样的耸肩、双手摊开动作时，表达的是，放弃责难，用轻松的方式承认，有时会有这样那样的破事儿发生，而我们却什么也做不了。