blarney
blarney 英 [ˈblɑ:ni] 美 [ˈblɑrni]
n. 奉承话；谄媚；胡扯 vt. 奉承；哄骗 vi. 拍马屁；用好话劝诱
进行时:blarneying 过去式:blarneyed 过去分词:blarneyed 第三人称单数:blarneys 名词复数:blarneys
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- n. 奉承话；谄媚；胡扯
- vt. 奉承；哄骗
- vi. 拍马屁；用好话劝诱
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1. Maybe all this started when I peed on the blarney stone.
也许一切始于我在布拉尼之石上撒尿。
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2. One who has kissed the blarney stone, so the story goes, can speak words of praise so smoothly and sweetly that you believe them, even when you know they are false.
有个故事讲到：亲吻布拉尼石的人能够将溢美之词讲得十分流畅甜蜜，以至于就算你知道这些话是假的，你也不由得会相信。
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3. A former Roman Catholic bishop of New York City, Fulton Sheen, once explained, "Baloney is praise so thick it cannot be true. And blarney is praise so thin we like it."
一位纽约前罗马天主教的主教——富尔顿·谢恩曾经解释道：“吹嘘（baloney）赞美有余，实在不足，难以成真；奉承（blarney）赞美适度，虚实相应，使人喜欢。”
- blarney (n.) "exceedingly complimentary language," 1796, from Blarney Stone (which is said to make a persuasive flatterer of any who kiss it), in a castle near Cork, Ireland. As Bartlett explains it, the reason is the difficulty of the feat of kissing the stone where it sits high up in the battlement: "to have ascended it, was proof of perseverence, courage, and agility, whereof many are supposed to claim the honor who never achieved the adventure." So to have kissed the Blarney Stone came to mean "to tell wonderful tales" ["Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848]. The word reached wide currency through Lady Blarney, the smooth-talking flatterer in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield" (1766). As a verb from 1803.
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