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🐽Food Idioms 美國生活用語：Pork 豬肉
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1⃣eat like a pig; pig out
2⃣fat as a pig
3⃣sweat like a pig
4⃣pigsty
5⃣put lipstick on a pig
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Pigs are known for being noisy, greedy eaters, 1⃣so if someone says you “eat like a pig,” well, you know what they mean. Ex: I don’t like eating out with Sean because he eats like a pig. In fact, pigs are so famous for their eating habits that they’ve even become verbs: “pig out” means “to eat greedily or gorge.” Ex: If you pig out on junk food, you’re going to get a stomachache.
豬吃東西一向又吵又急，所以如果有人說你 eat like a pig，嗯…我想你應該知道他是什麼意思。如：I don’t like eating out with Sean because he eats like a pig.（我不愛跟尚恩吃飯，因為他吃相像頭豬。）事實上，豬也因為吃相太出名，pig 一字也變成動詞了：pig out 指「狼吞虎嚥；大吃大喝」，如：If you pig out on junk food, you’re going to get a stomachache. （如果你猛塞垃圾食物，你會肚子痛。）
What happens if you eat like a pig? You get fat! 2⃣So if you say someone is fat as a pig, the meaning is obvious. Ex: Josh used to be thin, but now he’s fat as a pig. 3⃣The fat tend to sweat a lot, and “sweat like a pig” means “to sweat profusely.” Which seems strange, because pigs don’t actually sweat. As it turns out, this expression comes from pig iron, which “sweats” as it cools. Ex: I sweat like a pig whenever it gets hot.
那如果你吃得像一頭豬，會有什麼後果？對，你會變胖！所以如果你說，某人 fat as a pig，這意思應該也很清楚。如：Josh used to be thin, but now he’s fat as a pig.（賈許過去很瘦，可是現在肥得像頭豬。）人一胖，也很容易流汗，所以 sweat like a pig 就是指「汗流浹背」。這個說法其實沒道理，因為豬事實上是不流汗的。其實這個用語是出自生鐵（pig iron），一旦生鐵冷卻下來，就會一直『出汗』。如：I sweat like a pig whenever it gets hot.（天氣熱的時候，我總是汗流浹背。）
We all know how pigs love rolling around in the mud, so a 4⃣ “pigsty” can mean a place that’s really dirty or messy. Ex: Why is your room such a pigsty? 5⃣ Pigs are so dirty that putting lipstick on them wouldn’t make them look much better, so “put lipstick on a pig” means to make superficial changes in an attempt to makes something (or someone) seem better than it really is. Ex: The government’s PR campaign is just putting lipstick on a pig.
我們都知道豬喜歡在泥巴裡滾來滾去，所以 pigsty「豬圈」可以延伸形容又髒又亂的地方，如：Why is your room such a pigsty?（你房間怎麼可以亂得像豬窩？）因為豬太髒了，即使幫牠們塗口紅也沒用，所以這個譬喻用法 put lipstick on a pig 可以指「再怎麼粉飾美化也沒用」。如：The government’s PR campaign is just putting lipstick on a pig.（政府的公關活動只是給豬上口紅。）
【✍重點單字】
1. gorge「狼吞虎嚥」：當動詞。
2. pig iron「生鐵」：未經鍛造、品質不純的生鐵。
3. profusely「充沛地、大量地」
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