2009年10月25日 星期日

average Joe, netherworld

"He’s just your average Joe, he gets dumped and needs to make himself feel attractive again." Cohen said.

「他就像一般人,被拋棄了,需要讓自己再顯魅力。」柯恩說。


average Joe:俚語,一般人。He’s just an average Joe at most.(他充其量也只是一般人。)

n.

An ordinary person, especially a man: "In these films the art community is a netherworld aggressively hostile to those average joes . . . who are not of it" (Carrie Rickey).

nether world (nĕTH'ər-wûrld') pronunciationalso n.
  1. The world of the dead.
  2. The part of society engaged in crime and vice: "In this black-white nether world, nobody judged the customers" (Malcolm X).
netherworldly neth'er·world'ly adj.


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