jet lag
不適應時差
講解:
jet是指「噴射機」,lag則是「落后」的意思。歷經長途飛行后進入不同時區,時間感卻還停在原出發地的時間,一時無法調整過來,這種不適應的情況就稱為jet lag。
例句:
During a 10-day visit to the U.S. in 1989,Yeltsin marred an otherwise impressive performance with a gauche display of his erratic nature: his speech was badly slurred at a breakfastmeeting in Baltimore, the combined result of Jack Daniels and jet lag.(出自:TIME, Mar. 4,1991,p. 54 )
一九八九年為期十天的訪美之旅中,葉爾欽原本表現出色,只可惜一個拙劣的表現顯示出他不穩定的本性:在巴爾的摩一次早餐會中,他說話非??邶X不清,原因是丹尼爾牌威士忌喝多了,又有不適應時差。