On the Nose恰巧,正好人类的鼻子总是出现在各种生动的习语中,比如汉语里的“碰了一鼻子灰”。英语中也有on the nose的说法,表示“准确,恰好,正好”。一些词源学家将这一词组的起源追溯到无线电广播刚发明的时候,当时人们使用笨重的大收音机来收听广播。他们认为,无线电节目演播室里的技术人员通常会将一根手指放在自己鼻子的一侧,示意广播员节目正按计划正常进行,一切都“恰到好处”。 On the Nose happened to coincide with the human nose always appearing in a variety of vivid idioms, such as “a nose ash” in Chinese. In English, there is also the word on the nose, which means “accurate, exactly, exactly.” Some etymologists traced the origin of this phrase back to the time when radio broadcasting was first invented, when people used bulky radios to listen to radio. They believe that technicians in radio studios usually put a finger on one side of their nose, indicating that the broadcaster’s program is working as planned and everything is “just right.”