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旋元祐Time时代杂志核心短语 名词短语46: thumbs up (or down)

thumbs up (or down)

支持(或反对)

古罗马时代,常命战俘和猛兽在竞技场中格斗,以娱皇 帝。若皇帝看得高兴,举出拇指朝上(thumbs up)的手势, 那么斗士就得以活命。反之,若皇帝拇指朝下(thumbs down),则表示斗士小命不保,至死方休。因而thumbs up (or down)即有「支持」(或「反对」)的意思?

[Sean O’Brien,a lawyer pleading for death-row convicts] “They’re saying we shouldn’t be looking toward the judicial process,but the political one. If thats how we're going to decide death-penalty cases, we may as well take the condemned man out to a football stadium and let the crowd decide thumbs up or thumbs down"(出自:TIME,Nov. 22,1993,p. 46 )

〔为死刑犯诉讼的律师欧布莱恩说:〕「他们说我们不该走司法程 序,应该走政治路线。如果死刑案是这样判定的话,干脆就把犯 人带到足球场上,让观众来决定犯人该活命还是死刑。」