曱甴 2007-10-24 21:42
英语说－－－－过了这个村就没那个店
布兰妮本月初失去两个儿子的监护权。本月３日，布兰妮把两个儿子的临时监护权转交给她的前夫凯文·费德林。由于布兰妮对于法官先前提出的多项条件一直都没有履行：包括每周定期接受毒品检测（曾以睡觉为由两度缺席毒检）以及参加亲子教育辅导课程等，又被法院禁止探视儿子。
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[b][color=#000]Britney: [/color]You Snooze, You Lose?[/b]
by [b][i]Natalie Finn [/i][/b]Thu, 4 Oct 2007 04:51:06 PM PDT
Who would have guessed that in her new single, "Gimme More," Britney Spears is actually talking about [b][u]sleep[/u][/b]?
The besieged pop star reportedly [b][u]snoozed[/u][/b] through two court-ordered drug tests before a family court commissioner turned custody of her two children over to ex-husband Kevin Federline on Monday.
Sources close to the proceedings told the Los Angeles Times that Spears' assistant twice informed the testing lab that her boss was [b][u]asleep[/u][/b] and then on another occasion told the technicians that Spears would be unavailable to take a test at home.
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文章题目是：[b]You Snooze, You Lose？[/b]
[b]snooze[/b]的意思是：[b]To take a nap／doze／brief sleep[/b], typically during the daytime hours. Usually short in length, and used to rest up before an actvity.
例如：
I am going to take a snooze for a minute. Wake me when it's time to leave.
我打个盹。走时叫醒我。
布兰妮以睡觉为籍口拒绝接受毒品检查，使她又失去了儿子的探视权。因而，文章题目用了[b]You snooze, you lose[/b].
而实际上这只是其中之一意。在美国[b] You snooze, you lose [/b]是一条常用[b]slang[/b]，建议他人把握大好时机，切末错过。
但翻查遍手头字典、资料，上网google，仅在 urbandictionary.com上看到You snooze, you lose这条slang的解释：
an expression which states that anyone will miss out on a great opportunity if they don't remain aware
中文意思大概接近：[b]机不可失，时不再来／过了这个村就没那个店[/b]
笔者是个懒人，不爱动。‘美’友们周末喜欢满世界跑，我便经常听到这句：You snooze, you lose. 另外，好像有的咖啡杯上也印着这句话；再有，体育比赛时，教练及队友间也常用此互相激励。
所以上文题目[b] You Snooze, You Lose?[/b]， 一语双关，既道出布兰妮惹祸的事实所在，又给予中肯的建议。笔者认为
可翻译成中文：[b]醒醒吧，过了这个村就没那个店
[/b]你认为呢？