THE DEATH OF JESUS
By J. M. Coetzee
By J. M. Coetzee
Before Jesus became the man-god of Christianity, he was a brat. Or so say the Infancy Gospels, gnostic folk tales popular in their day but left out of the Scriptures for obvious reasons. The stories feature a boy Jesus too immature to control his supernatural powers. He kills friends who anger him, then revives them. Teachers who mistake his wisdom for impudence are made to fall down in a faint. His parents don’t know what to do with him.
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throw a fit
Also, have fits or a conniption fit; take or throw a fit; have kittens. Become extremely upset. For example, She'll have a fit when she sees Anne wearing the same dress, or Mom had a conniption fit when she heard about the broken mirror, or Don't take a fit--the car's not really damaged, or Jill was having kittens over the spoiled cake. One can also give someone a fit or fits, as in His dithering about punctuation is enough to give me fits. Fit and fits, along with conniption fit, have been used in hyperbolic expressions to denote a bout of hysterics since the 1830s; throw a fit was first recorded in 1906, and have a fit in 1924; have kittens, alluding to being so upset as to bear kittens, also dates from about 1900.
The boy who became an internet sensation for getting angry at getting books for Christmas was given a present on live TV - and promptly threw another fit.
因耶誕禮物收到書生氣而成為網路熱門人物的男童，獲邀上電視現場節目，馬上又鬧了一頓脾氣。
Hilarious video of three-year-old Michael Helms getting angry when he realized the gift he was unwrapping was just books became a holiday viral hit, with more than 1.4million people watching it on YouTube.
3歲的麥可．荷姆斯發現他拆開的禮物只是書就發脾氣的滑稽影片，成了耶誕節爆紅影片，在YouTube上有140多萬人看過。
Michael, now four, went on The Today Show - and pulled so many strange faces he ruined his mum Antoinette’s attempts at insisting he was ’disciplined’ and ’not a spoiled brat’.
現在4歲的麥可，在上「今日秀」時扮了一堆鬼臉，讓他媽安朵瓦內特堅稱兒子是「有受管教」，而非「被寵壞的小孩」的企圖破功。
At the end of the interview, he was even handed a present - and instantly complained. ’Again? I got this already!’ he moaned at seeing it was a doll of Woody from Toy Story 3, forcing his mother demand he say ’thank you’.
在訪問尾聲，這名男童還獲得一份禮物，馬上又抱怨。「又來了？這個我已經有了！」他看到這份禮物是「玩具總動員3」的伍迪玩偶時抱怨著說，讓他媽媽得要求他說「謝謝。」
Earlier on the show Mrs Helms said she has been inundated with criticism since the book strop went viral.
在稍早的節目中，荷姆斯太太說，這段書的影片爆紅後，她就被排山倒海的批評聲浪淹沒。
She insisted： ’The video is just him being a typical four-year-old. But he loves books, and he’s very disciplined ... not a spoiled brat at all.’
她堅稱：「這段影片只是呈現他是個典型4歲小孩。但是他喜歡書，他是非常受管教的…根本不是被寵壞的小孩。」
新聞辭典：
throw a fit：動詞片語，發脾氣。例句：He threw a fit with his girlfriend when he knew the cost of her new dress.（當他得知他女友新洋裝多少錢時，對她發了一頓脾氣。）
pull a face/faces：動詞片語，做鬼臉。例句：Kids like pull a face when they pose for pictures.（小孩子照相時喜歡做鬼臉。）pull a long face意為擺臭臉、愁眉苦臉。
spoiled brat：俚語，被寵壞的小孩。例句：That boy acts just like a spoiled brat.（那個男孩行為舉止就像個被寵壞的小孩。）
brat
(brăt)
n.
- A child, especially a spoiled or ill-mannered one.
- A child of a career military person.
[Possibly from brat, coarse garment, from Middle English, from Old English bratt, of Celtic origin.]
brattish brat'tish adj.brattishness brat'tish·ness n.
n. - 頑童, 小搗蛋, 小傢伙
idioms:
- brat pack 討人嫌的一伙, 新起之秀
n. - 軍人的小孩
NOUN
derogatory or humorousOrigin
mid 16th century: perhaps an abbreviation of synonymous Scots bratchet, from Old French brachet'hound, bitch'; or perhaps from dialect brat 'rough garment, rag', based on Old Irish bratt 'cloak'.
Baby Boomers Also Jumped From Job to Job
The Atlantic's Daniel Indiviglio has potentially surprising news for twentysomethings bouncing from job to job: Their parents probably did the same thing. Contrary to conventional wisdom, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that baby boomers held about 11 jobs during the 22 years after college, spending "about 2.4 years at each job." The survey looked at the number of jobs baby boomers held before they were 44—the group included people born between 1957 and 1964—and how long they stuck with them. Like their kids, only 4 percent of boomers who got jobs between the ages of 23 and 28 kept them for longer than 15 years. Researchers also found that the number of jobs people held wasn't affected by their level education, although it was impacted by age: "As careers mature, the boomers stayed at their jobs for longer." With millennials taking a similar attitude toward their professional lives, Indiviglio suggests that today's parents might not have such a hard time relating to their kids.
Read original story in The Atlantic | Monday, Sept. 13, 2010
unwrap
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Pronunciation: /ʌnˈrap /
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