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发表于 2007-10-28 10:31
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Now, the VOA Special English program, Words And Their stories.
From birth to death, the word kick has been given an important part in the expression human experience. The proud of happy mother fills the first signs of life, kicking inside her w/. And that since life, many years later, comes to end in a widely used expression "to kick the bucket", meaning to die.
Expression "to kick the bucket" is almost two hundreds years old. One belief is that it started where an English disable man committed suicide by hanging himself while standing on a pale on bucket. He put a rope around his neck and tied to a beamed / and then kicked the bucket way from under him. After a while, to die in any way was called "kicking the bucket".
Another old expression comes from England is "to kick over the traces" meaning to resist a command of one's parents or to oppose on reject authority. Traces, were the changes that held on horse, on mule to a wagon or /. Sometimes an animal rebelled and kicked over the traces.
The word "kick" sometimes is used to describe complaint or some kind of dis/ faction. Workers, for example, kick about long hours and no pay, there are times when workers are forced to kick back some of their wages to their employers as part of their job. This "kick back" is illegal. So is another kind of "kick back", a secret payment made by supplier to an official who buy supplies for a government or company.
"Kick around" is the phrase that is heard often in American English. A person who is "kick around" is someone who is treated badly. Usually, is not really being kicked by somebody's foot. He is just not being treated with the respect that all of us want.
A person who asks "kick around" for almost his life is someone who is spent his life moving from place to place. In this case, "kicking around" means moving often from one place to another. "Kick around" has the third meaning when you use it with the word idea. When you kick around an idea, you are giving that idea some thought. There is no physical action when you kick a person upstairs, although the paying can be a strong. You kick a person upstairs by removing him from an important job and giving him a job that sounds more important but really is not.
Still another meaning of the word "kick" is to free oneself of a bad ha/. Such as smoking cigarettes, health campaigns urge smokers to kick the habit.
This VOA Special English program, Words And Their Stories, was written by Marilin Chiristiano. Moris Jois was the narrator. I'm Sheily Garefid.
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