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59. 他被戴上了綠帽子。
[誤] He is made to wear a green hat.
[正] He is a cuckold.
注：中文的“戴綠帽子”是指某人之妻與他人私通，但直譯成英文西方人只會按字面意思理解為“某人頭上被戴了頂綠色的帽子”，無論如何也不會理解漢語的喻義。而英語的 cuckold 是指“奸婦的丈夫”（a man whose wife deceives him by having a sexual relationship with another man），所以用be a cuckold 才能正確表達原文的意思。
