2018-11-23 soft spot

1. 这是什么词?


词:soft spot


英英释义:to feel that you like someone very much, often without knowing why


例句:I have a soft spot for cats.


2. 为什么选这个词?   


“soft spot”的字面意思是“柔软的地方”,常用来表示“特别喜欢某人或物”——因为特别喜欢,便毫无招架之力。soft spot 是个好玩的,可以用在口语和写作中的表达,我们想表示“非常喜欢”的时候,除了用 like something/someone very much 外,很多时候还可以用 soft spot。


比如,我们想表示“xx控”时,就可以用到 soft spot:


I have a soft spot for stationery/cats. (文具控/猫咪控)


英文中常用“sweet tooth”表示喜欢吃甜品,someone has a sweet tooth 就是某人很喜欢吃甜品。我们可以用 soft spot 来解释这个表达:


If you have a sweet tooth, you have a soft spot for sweet foods, especially sweets and chocolate.


今年三月份,法国总统马克龙在巴黎法兰西学院(Académie Française )演讲,表达自己希望弘扬法语的心声。《经济学人》随后在语言板块 Johnson 中写道:


The French have a soft spot for authority, and the mighty presidency and the academy are both symbols of that.


这段话是说法国人崇尚权威,这一点可以从法国总统的权力和法兰西学院的设定中就可以看出来。


和 soft spot 类似的表达还有 weakness,在掌握了 soft spot 后可以再了解一下 weakness。


3. 怎样学会使用这个词? 


1)翻译下面的句子:

She has a soft spot for children.

Children are her soft spot.

她很喜欢孩子。


(参考翻译:She has a soft spot for children. 或者 Children are her soft spot.)


2)结合自己的生活、学习、工作、兴趣等,想象在什么语境下会用到这个表达。先简要描述这个场景,再造句。


例子: 如意琳琅图籍

场景 :An interactive puzzle-solving game book, Migong: Ruyi Linlang Tuji(Mystery Palace: Map of Treasure in the Palace), which looks deeper at the life of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty(1644-1911), will be published by the publishing house of the Palace Museum.Readers can flip through pages while play the part of the protagonist more realistically through their smart phones. Whether this innovative puzzle-solving game book will become a soft spot for game lovers all over the world, we will soon find out.

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