2011-06-09
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2011-03-24
Cockney Rhyming Slang
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Cockney rhyming slang is a form of English slang which originated in the East End of London . Many of its expressions have passed into common language, and the creation of new ones is no longer restricted to Cockneys. Up until the late 20th Century, rhyming slang was also common in Australian slang, probably due to the formative influence of cockney on Australian English.
It developed as a way of obscuring the meaning of sentences to those who did not understand the slang , though it remains a matter of speculation whether this was a linguistic accident, or whether it was developed intentionally to assist criminals or to maintain a particular community.
Rhyming slang works by replacing the word to be obscured with the first word of a phrase that rhymes with that word. For instance, "face" would be replaced by "boat," because face rhymes with "boat race." Similarly "feet" becomes "plates" ("plates of meat"), and "money" is "bread" (a very common usage, from "bread and honey"). Sometimes the full phrase is used, for example "Currant Bun" to mean "The Sun" (often referring to the British tabloid newspaper of that name). There is no hard and fast rule for this, and you just have to know whether a particular expression is always shortened, never shortened, or can be used either way.
Other examples of Cockney Rhyming Slang, or phrases inspired by it, are:
- Adam and Eve = believe = as in "would you Adam and Eve it?"
- Almond Rocks = socks
- Apples and pears = stairs
- Aris = Aristotle = bottle & glass = arse (a two-stage rhyme) [see Plaster below]
- Artful Dodger = lodger
- Ascot Races = braces
- Aunt Joanna = piano
- Bag of fruit = suit
- Baked Bean = queen
- Baker's Dozen = cousin
- Ball and Chalk = walk
- Barnaby Rudge = judge
- Barnet = Barnet Fair = hair
- Berk or Burk = Berkshire Hunt = cunt (used as an insult, never as an anatomical reference)
- Boat = boat race = face
- Bob Hope = soap
- Boracic (freq. contracted to brassic) = boracic lint = skint (i.e. penniless)
- Bottle = bottle and glass = arse (i. e. courage; Courage also happens to be the name of a brewery)
- Brahms = Brahms and Liszt (classical composers) = pissed (i.e. drunk)
- Brass Tacks = facts
- Bread and Honey = money
- Bricks and Mortar = daughter
- Bristol = Bristol City = titty (i.e. breast)
- Brown bread = dead
- Bubble = Bubble & Squeak = Greek
- Butcher's = butcher's hook = look
- Chalfonts = Chalfont St Giles = piles (i.e. haemorrhoids)
- Chalk Farm = arm
- China = china plate = mate
- Cobblers = cobblers' awls = balls or 'bollocks' (i.e. testicles , but usually meant in the sense of 'rubbish' as in "You're talking a load of cobblers")
- Cock and Hen = ten
- Creamed = cream crackered = knackered (i.e. exhausted or beaten)
- Currant bun = sun or The Sun newspaper
- Daisies = daisy roots = boots
- Darby and Joan = moan
- Dicky = dicky dirt = shirt
- Dicky or Dickie = dickie bird = word = as in "not a dickie", or even "not a dickie bird"
- Dog = dog and bone = phone
- Duck and Dive = skive
- Ducks and Geese = F--k-in' Police
- Duke of Kent = rent
- Dukes = Duke[s] of York = fork, i.e. hand, now chiefly when balled into a fist
- Dustbin Lid = kid
- Emmas = Emma Freud (English author and columnist) = haemorrhoids
- Farmers = Farmer Giles = piles (slang for haemorrhoids )
Flowery Dell = ( prison ) cell - Frog = frog & toad = road
- George Raft = draught
- Ginger = ginger beer = queer
- Gregory = Gregory Peck = neck, or cheque
- Gypsy's = Gypsy's kiss = piss
- Hampsteads = Hampstead Heath = teeth
- Hampton Wick = prick (i.e. penis)
- Half-inch = pinch (i.e. steal)
- I suppose = nose
- Jack = Jack Jones = alone ("On my Jack" = "On my own")
- Jam jar = car
- Jam tart = heart
- J. Arthur = J. Arthur Rank (1930s UK flour magnate and film producer) = wank (i.e. masturbate)
- Jimmy = Jimmy Riddle (unknown person, not the character killed during the Waco siege)= piddle or widdle (urinate)
- Jugs = jugs of beer = ears
- Khyber = Khyber Pass = arse
- Kick and Prance = dance
- Lady Godiva = fiver (i.e. five- pound note)
- Lionels = Lionel Blairs (English variety performer) = flares (as in flared trousers)
- Loaf = loaf of bread = head ("use your loaf")
- Lucy Lockett = pocket
- Mickey Bliss = piss (as in "take the Mickey" = "take the piss" = satirise)
- Minces (or mincers) = mince pies = eyes
- Mutton = Mutt and Jeff = deaf = named after Mutt and Jeff , two early 20th century comic strip characters
- Nobbies = Nobby Stiles (English footballer) = piles (haemorrhoids)
- North and South = mouth
- Oily rag = fag (i.e. cigarette)
- Ones and twos = shoes
- Orchestras = orchestra stalls = balls (Orchestra stalls = part of a concert or other hall. Example = "A kick in the orchestras.") [Coincidentally, "orchi-" is also the Greek root meaning "testicle."]
- Peckham Rye = tie (i.e. necktie)
- Pen and Ink = stink
- Pigs ears = big beers (large glasses of Ale )
Plaster = Plaster of Paris = Aris = Aristotle = bottle = bottle and glass = arse (a three-stage rhyme) - Plates = plates of meat = feet
- Porky = pork pie = lie, e.g. "He's telling porkies!"
- Pony = pony and trap = crap (note: Cockneys also use "pony" to mean £25 - hopefully the meaning is clear from the context)
- Rabbit = rabbit and pork = talk
- Raspberry = raspberry tart = fart (as in "blowing raspberry/ies" = making rasping noises with your mouth)
- Richard = Richard the Third = turd (lump of faeces)
- Richard = Dicky Bird = bird (slang for girl) but also Dicky Bird = word
- Rosie = Rosie Lee = tea e.g. "Have a cup of Rosie"
- Round the houses = trousers
- Rub-a-dub-dub = pub = public house
- Ruby = Ruby Murray (popular singer in the 1950s born in Belfast ) = curry
- Salmon and Trout = snout
- Scarper = Scapa Flow = go (as in "run for it!")
- Septic = septic tank = Yank (slang for an American)
- Sexton Blake = cake
- Sherbet Dab = (taxi) cab
- Skin = skin and blister = sister
- Sky = sky rocket = pocket
- sweaty = sweaty sock = jock = Scottish person
- Syrup / sirrup = syrup of figs = wig(s)
- Tea leaf = thief
- The Sweeney = Sweeney Todd =Flying Squad , a special division of the Metropolitan Police ; used as the title of TV series The Sweeney
- Taters = Potatoes in the mould = cold
- Titfer = tit for tat = hat
- Tod = Tod Sloane = own (as in "on your tod", meaning "alone")
- Tom and Dick = sick
- Tomfoolery = jewellery
- Treacle = treacle tart = sweetheart
- Trouble = trouble and strife = wife
- Vera = Vera Lynn (famous British wartime singer)= 'skin' or cigarette paper, eg, "got any Veras?", or chin, or gin
- Whistle = whistle and flute = suit = as in "a nice whistle"
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2011-01-22
Top 25 best blogs
时代周刊最近举办了第一届年度博客评选,选25个最好的博客,让我们一起来看看。
1.The Huffington Post
政治类博客。通过大量的视频、图片和文字关注米国热门政治、军事、传媒和民生等问题。
生活类博客。生活中有如此多的麻烦事,主要提供Windows、Mac os x、Linux等操作系统的技巧,当然也有诸如如何通过游泳减肥,旅行时不要带太多东西,钱包要放在前面的牛仔裤口袋里等生活小技巧。lifehacker的口号是不要生活得像个奇客,而要像奇客一样生活?
媒体聚合类博客,metafilter已经有长达9年的历史,和国内的爱枣报有点类似。
环保类博客,关注自然、饮食、健康等,口号是“给你一个绿色的世界”。
5.PostSecret
blogspot上架设的博客,目前我这里无法访问。
6.Blog di Beppe Grillo
评论性博客,因其上面有free ti-bet等不河蟹内容,故没有给出链接。
7.Engadget
关于电脑周边的科技型博客,中文博客名为瘾科技。
又一个评论性博客。
9.Gigazine
日本语博客。
10.Ace of Spades HQ
评论性博客,博主的简介很暴力,图片上面的注释是“FBI通缉犯”,而捐款文字更是暴力:我穷困潦倒,请给我钱。(I have no life,please give me money.)而其最近的评论居然全部都是”上海翻译公司“的spam,强。
11.Radosh.net
关注流行、趣味和美女方面的东东。
12.Gawker
关注一些八卦消息。
不知道怎么归类。
人文类博客,貌似是个学生写的。
15.Boing Boing
趣味类博客。
16.TechCrunch
关注互联网最新产品和应用。
17.Web 2.Oh…really?
wordpress.com下的博客,同样无法访问,看标题应该是关于web2.0的。
18.The Sartorialist
blogspot博客。
19.Daily Kos
政治性博客。
博主自我介绍是关于消费折扣之类的博客,但内容却又许多交通工具、笔记本电脑等方面的消息。
21.Indexed
blogspot博客,无法访问。
22.Threat Level
关注隐私、安全、政治和网络犯罪等。
23.The Dullest Blog in the World
世界上最枯燥的博客,作者像记流水帐一样记录生活中极其无聊的事,诸如“今天,我看到一只钢笔掉在了地上,我就把它捡起来“之类。
24.Bad Jocks
生活、人文类博客,貌似无法访问。
摄影博客,作者是给花花公子等杂志供稿的摄影人,关注女性,有不河蟹内容。
遗憾的是,这些所谓最好的博客我一个都不知道,之前也一个都没有看过。什么时候也评出最好的中文博客呢?相信你也有自己的想法吧,留言告知吧。
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