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弹

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释义

名词

用来比喻婚宴请帖，含有揶揄的意味。

DEFINITION

Noun

The Mandarin term “红色炸弹” (literally “red bomb”) is an analogy for wedding invitation and carries a mocking undertone.

由来
  • 婚宴的喜帖通常为红色，而人们收到请帖后一般必须破费花钱送礼。
  • 来人们便将婚宴的请帖比喻成炸弹，即把钱包炸出一个大洞。
ETYMOLOGY
  • Invitation cards to wedding banquets are usually red in colour, and people usually have to spend money preparing a gift after receiving an invitation.
  • Later, people likened a wedding invitation to a bomb as it would “blast a big hole” in the wallet.
例句
最近收到 “红色炸弹”，才获悉公司部门的一位女同事和另一部门的男同事其实老早已经走在一起了。（《联合早报》， 17/2/2020）
SAMPLE SENTENCE
I recently received a wedding invitation. It was only then that I found out a female colleague in my department and a male colleague in another department at my company have actually been together for a long time. (Lianhe Zaobao, 17/2/2020)
参考资料
点击查看红色炸弹的参考资料
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