- 1n/ˌdʒɒn ˈbʊl/England as one man英格蘭／英國人的擬人代稱
England, or the English people taken together, spoken about as if they were one man. You meet it mostly in writing about the country, and more often in older writing than in speech today.
文法不可數名詞：通常不加 a/an，也不加 -s 來表示複數。
John Bull 是把整個英格蘭當成一個人來講。英文裡有時會給一個國家取人名。這樣寫的時候，句子裡做事的其實是國家。所以看到 John Bull，可以先讀成「英格蘭」或「全體英國人」。它不是任何真人的名字。這個用法多半出現在文章、報導或漫畫裡。比較舊的作品特別常見。今天的日常聊天很少這樣說。
示範例句 · Example
In this old picture, John Bull wears a tall hat and stands for England.
中文翻譯在這張舊圖片裡，John Bull 戴著一頂高帽子，而且代表英格蘭。
John Bull is a name given to a whole country. English sometimes turns a country into a person so that people can talk about it the way they talk about a man. When a writer says John Bull did something, or wanted something, the one doing the wanting is England, or the English people as a group. Nobody is actually called this at home or at work. The name only works in this public way, in a book, an article or a drawing. It shows up often in older writing. You can still meet it now, but it carries an old flavour.
意思相近
Englandthe English
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Uncle Sam
- 2n/ˌdʒɒn ˈbʊl/typical Englishman典型的英格蘭男人（刻板印象）
A man who is seen as typically English in the way he looks, speaks and thinks, especially one who is sure that his own way of living is best and who does not like people from other countries.
文法可數名詞：前面可以加 a/an，要表示複數時常常加 -s。
這個意思講的是一個人，不是國家。所以前面可以加 a，也可以有複數。它指的是「很英格蘭」的那種男人。形象大概是：踏實、直接、對自己的生活方式很有把握。重點在後半段：這種人常常不喜歡外國人。所以這個說法帶有評價，不是單純的描述。它把一整群人畫成同一個樣子，屬於刻板印象。作者這樣用的時候，通常自己也知道這一點。
Here John Bull is one man, not the country, so you can say a John Bull or two John Bulls. The picture behind it is a set of ideas about what an English man is like: solid, plain, certain of himself, happy at home and not curious about anywhere else. The second half of the picture is the important one. The source adds that he often does not like foreigners, so the name carries a judgement about him and is not simply a friendly description. Because it paints a whole group of people with one brush, it is a stereotype, and a writer who uses it is usually aware of that.
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