殺出一片天
查看维基词典中的词条「make one's bones」。
殺出一片天（make one's bones）是美式英語中的慣用語，意為闖出名號。[1]與習慣用法中的「夠格」(establish[ing] one's bona fides)一詞同義。[2]
此詞雖似起於美國黑道，[2][3]但其用法後來逐漸變得更流行，沒那麼殺氣騰騰，[4][5][6][7]可用在各行各業上，包括執法人員、[8]法界人士、[9][10]和記者。[11]
用於流行文化中
[编辑]這句習慣用語因1969年的小說《教父》及其1972年的電影改編而廣為流傳。例如桑尼說：“我十九歲的時候就‘殺出一片天’了，那是家裡前一次還打打殺殺的時候”；以及莫·格林說：“我是莫·格林！我殺出一片天的時候你還在約啦啦隊出門！”[12]這句話中也在《黑道家族》中出現過幾次。正如這些例子所示，在黑道用法中，這句話指的是殺人立威。[2]
參考文獻
[编辑]- ^ Alice Abel, Kemp; Buczek, Linda. Women Police Officers at NOPD: On the Job (PDF). 杜蘭大學: 8. December 2002. （原始内容 (PDF)存档于August 13, 2012）.
Making your bones refers to establishing yourself as someone who could be counted on, someone who was reliable and trustworthy in all situations; in short, one of the guys.
- ^ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Rapkin, David P.; William R. Thompson. Transition Scenarios: China and the United States in the Twenty-First Century. University of Chicago Press. 2013: 4. ISBN 9780226040509.
To gain status, they have had to first 'make their bones,' which, in organized crime parlance, is to establish one's bona fides by killing someone.
- ^ Milan, Michael. The Squad: The US Government's Secret Alliance with Organized Crime. SP Books. 1989: 10. ISBN 9780933503366.
After the hit, I acted like a real tough guy about it. I'd made my bones.
- ^ 波登, 安東尼. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. 哈潑柯林斯. 2000: 109. ISBN 9780060934910.
My life improved immediately. The other cooks began addressing me as an equal. ... I had made my bones.
- ^ Heller, Ted. Funnymen: A Novel. 西蒙與舒斯特. 2002: 158. ISBN 9780743242363.
I'm not a hard-hearted man, Teddy. I'm not made of stone. ... Floyd Lomax's band – that's how I made my bones in this business.
- ^ Silvester, Christopher. The Grove Book of Hollywood. 格羅維出版社. 2002: 579. ISBN 9780802138781.
... John Alonzo ... 'You got me ... I owe it to ya. Made my bones on Chinatown, didn't I?'
- ^ Hardy, Greg. The Vault: Hunter S. Thompson, Part III. ESPN. May 6, 2010 [May 23, 2018].
Since the 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson made his bones by writing about Fear and Loathing when it comes to politics, motorcycle gangs, guns and Las Vegas.
- ^ Alice Abel, Kemp; Buczek, Linda. Women Police Officers at NOPD: On the Job (PDF). 杜蘭大學: 8. December 2002. （原始内容 (PDF)存档于August 13, 2012）.
Yes, I enjoyed the reputation of being fair, one of the highest compliments you can get. I made my bones on the street, too, so I could see all sides.
- ^ Shannon, Roy. (circa 2005). "The Internal Schism of the National Security Lawyer: Exploring the Fractal Geometry of Ethics, Privilege, and Loyalty". 太平洋大學麥克喬治法學院. "Worse yet, the Senator himself is an attorney and former Massachusetts prosecutor who made his bones as a 'law and order' Democrat."
- ^ Marquis, John (District Attorney, 奧勒岡州克拉特索普郡). The Kittles Case audits Aftermath. Animal Law Review. 1996, 2.
I have tried about a dozen other murder cases, starting in fact with the one I tried against Jerry Spence in 1985. That is how I have made my bones in the prosecution community, but I still get an enormous amount of flak.
- ^ Silk, Mark. Family Ties. Religion in the News (三一學院 (康乃狄克州)). Spring 2009, 12 (1).
Sharlet is a smart guy and a talented long-form journalist who made his bones looking into some of the odder corners of the American religious landscape.
- ^ 馬里奧·普佐. 教父 (小說). G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969.