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星島日報的記者問謝霆鋒情人節要怎麽過？他笑著說：“沒有節目啊，我約了朋友在家看DVD。”不過，謝霆鋒的好朋友已經有女朋友了，所以他等於是在情人節當天還做電燈泡......
電燈泡，用英語怎麽表達呢？------fifth wheel
fifth wheel 原指車上的備用車輪。普通車子通常都是四個車輪。第五個一般都是擱置一側，作為備用。因此被認為無甚大用處，故fifth wheel 常比喻‘多餘的人或物’。
A mother-in-law on a honeymoon is a fifth wheel.
度蜜月時，丈母娘是個大電燈泡。
其典故來源是（摘自“Cliches”一書）：
fifth wheel------an unneeded extra a superfluous person or thing. This expression was already listed as a proverb in the sixteenth century in a French collection; in its complete form it pointed out that the fifth wheel on a wagon does nothing but impede it (C.B. bouelles, Proverbia Vulgaria, 1531). Thomas Dekker repeated it in a play (Match Me In London, 1631, Act I), again a fairly literal fashion:"thou tyest but wings to a swift gray hounds heele, and addest to a running charriot a fift Wheele." But it also was being used figuratively during this period, and has continued to be ever since.
電燈泡，用英語怎麽表達呢？------fifth wheel
fifth wheel 原指車上的備用車輪。普通車子通常都是四個車輪。第五個一般都是擱置一側，作為備用。因此被認為無甚大用處，故fifth wheel 常比喻‘多餘的人或物’。
A mother-in-law on a honeymoon is a fifth wheel.
度蜜月時，丈母娘是個大電燈泡。
其典故來源是（摘自“Cliches”一書）：
fifth wheel------an unneeded extra a superfluous person or thing. This expression was already listed as a proverb in the sixteenth century in a French collection; in its complete form it pointed out that the fifth wheel on a wagon does nothing but impede it (C.B. bouelles, Proverbia Vulgaria, 1531). Thomas Dekker repeated it in a play (Match Me In London, 1631, Act I), again a fairly literal fashion:"thou tyest but wings to a swift gray hounds heele, and addest to a running charriot a fift Wheele." But it also was being used figuratively during this period, and has continued to be ever since.
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