1. 1(英國的)紅報頭小報、八卦通俗報紙,如《太陽報》《每日鏡報》。台灣最接近的感覺是「小報、八卦報」,帶點「內容別太當真」的意味。

    A British newspaper that prints its name in white letters on a bright red box at the top of the front page — The Sun, the Daily Mirror, the Daily Star. The word is really a polite way of saying 'tabloid': cheap, hugely popular, full of large photographs, football, television people and short headlines, and not trusted the way the serious papers are. British people use it as a quiet judgement — when someone says 'that was in a red-top', they often mean 'so I would not believe all of it'. It is also used before a noun: 'red-top journalism', 'the red-top press'. This is very much a British word; Americans say 'tabloid' and would not know it. You will meet it mostly in writing about the news media rather than in daily conversation.

    red-top 指英國那種報頭印在首頁上方亮紅色方框裡的報紙,像《太陽報》《每日鏡報》。這個詞其實是 tabloid(小報)的委婉說法,指內容通俗、很受歡迎的報紙,充滿大照片、足球、電視明星和大字標題,不像嚴肅報紙那樣被信任。台灣比較接近的感覺是「小報、八卦報」。

    英國人常用它來暗暗評價。說「that was in a red-top」時,常是在說「所以我不會全信」。它也可以放在名詞前面,寫成「red-top __」,像 red-top journalism(小報式新聞)、the red-top press(紅報頭小報)。這是很典型的英式用語,美國人通常說 tabloid,平常閒聊時較少聽到,多半出現在談新聞媒體的文章裡。

組成red + top — the red block of colour at the top of the front page, where the paper's name sits.

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • red top

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。