2025年1月7日 星期二

average Joe, netherworld. "I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."

"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。

《麥田捕手》的作者 J.D. 沙林傑:

"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."(我厭倦了沒有勇氣做一個完完全全的無名小卒。)

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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