Steven英語筆記:點滴積累Nobody/Somebody
[精彩開場]
相信大家都很熟悉，Nobody和Somebody作代詞用的時候，表達“沒有人”以及“有人、某人”的含義。那么你是否也知道它們作為名詞時的意思呢？
請大家先看看下面這段話：
Tom is a mere nobody. But he always thinks himself to be a somebody. As much as we know, he is only nobody posing as somebody.
湯姆是個無名小卒。但他總自以為是個大人物。其實就我們所知，他只是個冒充大人物的小人物而已。
[名詞解釋]
這下知道nobody和 somebody在這里是什么含義了吧：
Nobody->小人物
Somebody->大人物
請大家再體會一下我們開始的時候給大家的那段話：
Tom is a mere nobody. But he always thinks himself to be a somebody. As much as we know, he is only nobody posing as somebody.
（Nobodies posing on somebodies 冒充大人物的小人物
Think oneself to be (a) somebody 自以為是個大人物）
[作業]
想一想，下面這句話的含義吧：
臺灣某知名企業家曾說：If everybody is somebody, then anybody is nobody!
[Steven擴展]
下面這則小故事在Everybody, Somebody, Anybody 和 Nobody之間展開，仔細想來真是很有道理呢，一起來看一下：
Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, And Nobody
Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, And Nobody
This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job.
Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
這里Steven就暫時不做解釋了，留給大家自己回味吧。。
[補充閱讀]
1）
Joe Somebody (2001)
Synopsis: Everybody wants to be somebody and Joe Scheffer is no exception. But Joe feels like he's a nobody. A talented specialist at work, he's been regularly passed over for promotion. And Joe is faring no better in his personal life, as he still pines for ex-wife Callie. Things for Joe go from "ordinary" to worse when he endures a cruel embarrassment at the hands of office bully Mark McKinney. The incident spurs Joe to embark on a quest for redemption, or at the very least a rematch. The first step: martial arts instruction. Next: a makeover that reaps unexpected dividends. As news spreads of the rematch, Joe makes an un
