Badass在美语中是一个非常流行的口语单词,你经常可以听到人们用badass来形容不同的人、或者物,比如:I heard this guy’s a real badass, so you better stay away from him。又比如:Maggie Q plays a badass character in the hit TV show Nikita。还有,That’s a badass sports car you got over there。由于构成badass的词bad和ass似乎并非褒义,使得badass看起来更具负面意义。那么badass是否真如它看起来那样,是个贬义词呢?Will的美语课给大家带来了解答。(注:本文于2024年更新,补充badass中文译法,以及多个实用英文例句)
我们来看看权威怎么说。在Wiktionary.com(若无法打开请访问这里解决),对于badass的名词含义有两种截然不同的解释:首先看负面的,A mean or belligerent person; a person with unpleasantly extreme attitudes, behavior or appearance(刻薄、好斗者;具有使人反感的极端态度、行为、或外表者);再看正面的,A person considered impressive due to extreme attitudes, behavior or appearance(某人因特立独行或外表出众,而令人印象深刻)。
综合上面的英文解释,其实答案已经比较明了。Badass既可表达贬义,亦可用于褒义,取决于所处的语境。你可以尝试把它翻译为:牛逼的、强悍(凶悍)的、厉害的、拉风的、生猛的、屌炸天、酷毙了、狂拽酷炫的,狠人,或是狠角色。不过总体而言,在今天的语言环境下,尤其是在美国,badass所具备的褒扬、赞美含义要更多一点。它不仅可作名词,还可作形容词,用来修饰令人惊艳的事物(如前面例子里的:badass sports car)。在亚马逊(Amazon),你随便就可以搜出一打含有badass关键字的畅销书,比如:《You Are a Badass》、《The Badass Life》、《The Badass Body Diet》等等。
接下来,Will的美语课给大家带来了几个badass有关的例句,帮助你更好掌握其用法:(1)You look badass in that leather jacket and sunglasses.(你穿皮夹克戴太阳镜的样子太拉风了)(2)She watched a badass action movie with lots of explosions and car chases.(她看了一部充满爆炸和追车场面的生猛动作片)
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我想,下面这篇来自Wikihow,名为How to Become a Badass文章的精彩开头,颇能概括如今人们对badass角色的喜爱之情吧(大家可以阅读体会一下,相当有画面感):
“You know the guy — he parks his motorcycle and walks fearlessly into the bar, clad in black leather. He opens his jacket, revealing tattooed sleeves. He puts a bill on the table, which the barkeep accepts, putting a shot in front of him. You catch a glimpse of the man’s a devil-may-care look in his eye before you quickly look away. You’ve just seen a badass, and you like the idea of becoming one yourself.”
P.S. 提醒大家注意一下badass的拼写,这个单词里的bad和ass需要连写,中间没有空格,不要误写成了bad ass。
参考链接:
Wiktionary对badass的英文解释(无法访问Wiktionary请点这里解决)
YouTube精彩访谈:Badass habits and making them stick(无法打开YouTube可通过这里解决)