海報上的那張臉,以及被它借去的比喻
一個字面、一個比喻,中間只隔著一次借用。
noun · B2
A child whose photograph is used on a poster by an organization, to show the illness or difficulty that it is raising money to help children with.
(慈善海報上的)代表孩童
Picture a fundraising poster at a bus stop with one child's face blown up large. That single face is standing in for thousands of others: you look at it and you think of the whole cause. Everything the phrase does today comes from that one face on the poster.
The phrase comes from the practice of using appealing young people and children in charitable advertisements.
這個說法來自慈善廣告的做法:用討人喜歡的孩子或年輕人來做宣傳。所以「海報上的孩子」不是後來的聯想,它就是這個詞本來在講的事。
Wiktionary entry 'poster child', etymology_text supplied in packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1179535593)
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海報上的那張臉,以及被它借去的比喻
一個字面、一個比喻,中間只隔著一次借用。
noun · B2
A child whose photograph is used on a poster by an organization, to show the illness or difficulty that it is raising money to help children with.
(慈善海報上的)代表孩童