“大煞风景”英语怎么说？

【英语习语】

a wet blanket

【习语注释】

blanket表示“毯子”，该习语的字面意思是“一块湿毛毯”，用来喻指“a person or thing that says or does something to impinge on other people's enjoyment”，即“令人扫兴的人或物；大煞风景”。

【习语运用】

Don't throw a wet blanket on others at random!   

不要随便给别人泼冷水！

Don't be a wet blanket. I will take my health seriously.   

别说这些扫兴的话，我会善待自己的健康的。

The teenagers don't invite Bob to their parties because he is a wet blanket.   

孩子们不邀请鲍伯参加他们的聚会，因为他是一个令人扫兴的人。

【闲话习语】

该习语起初用的就是它的字面意思，到了十八世纪晚期，其引申义得以使用推广。比如，在当年法国入侵瑞士之后，英国的报纸The Kentish Gazette做了这样的报道（December, 1798）：

There was no man so besotted as to not believe that the Swiss would heartily join in the cause, if a general confederacy was formed on the Continent. But if this motion were to be adopted, we should throw a wet blanket on the fire, which was otherwise about to spread through Europe.

该习语最初采用的是明喻的手法，如“Someone is like a wet blanket”，之后慢慢演化为暗喻的手法，如“Someone is a wet blanket”。

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