Reader question:
What does this – He's from the old school, fool – mean?
My comments:
Ha, it means the speaker is not very fond of "he" who is from the old school. The speaker considers him foolish, perhaps not in the straightforward stupid, unintelligent way, but in the way that the old-school man might be intolerably inflexible. Just a guess.
First, definitions. Someone who is "from the old school" is one brought up and trained the traditional way. He has conventional ideas and ways of doing things. For example, the painter from the old school might have a difficulty appreciating the avant-garde. In music, he may prefer classical music to, say, rock 'n' roll and rap.
"Old school" is not a derogative term. The term itself is mutual. In "he's from the old school, fool", it's a putdown, but in "he's from the old school – he's impeccable in speech and behavior", for example, it is a compliment.
Also, it's the same thing to say someone is "old school" (the coach is old school – he trains us three times a day) or "from the old school" (the teacher is from the old school – he never tires correcting our pronunciations).
And, by the way, "old school" has nothing to do with your Alma Mater, that is, the old school you graduated from.
Here are a few examples from the media. But before the examples, let me say happy holidays to you all. Guo Nian Hao!
Examples:
1. For his most recent single, "Feel It," Erick Sermon didn't invite the reggae vocalist Sean Paul into the studio to sing the song's chorus. Sermon didn't even call Paul — he just sampled him instead.
Owing to the high cost of samples, mainstream hip-hop producers do very little actual sampling these days, but Sermon, an ambassador from the old school, still relies on such tried-and-true methods for his solo career.
- Erick Sermon Keeps It Old-School, mtv.com, June 29, 2004
2. Gar Heard calls himself an old-school guy. He believes rookies should carry the bags of veterans. Heard also benches people, regardless of their reputations or the size of their contracts. He rarely raises his voice. Heard, the first-year coach of the Washington Wizards, treats players like professionals, unless they deserve otherwise. He coddles no one. Here's his one departure from the old school: He doesn't believe in fines; he believes in benchings. Guys make too much to care about fines, he says. Burying them gets their attention…
Old-school methods. Maybe it works.
- Heard is giving the Wizards the old-school treatment, Sporting News, August 11, 1999
3. If there is an engineer on site, is it better that he is from the old school, who understands the plant equipment from having stood next to it, worked with it, and seen the faults that develop: or from the new school, who understands the diagnostic messages transmitted over the fieldbus into the IT system?
- Finding experienced freelance process engineers, Processingtalk, November 9, 2007
既能带不定式,又能带-ing分词的动词
消耗万圣节糖果的最好方式
年味十足的九十九个春节英文词汇
我对克隆的看法 My Opinion On Cloning
各种名词的翻译技巧(1)
大学生考证热 Certificate Craze on Campus
各种笑的英文表达(附男神示范)[1]
三八节谈谈英语中对女性的搞笑称呼
大寒节气,如何用英文说寒潮
盘点外媒创造的中国特色词汇
了解国粹:京剧词汇普及
《疯狂动物城》里都有哪些动物?
英文中各种符号标点都怎么说?[1]
看成语 学英语
所看的美剧与智商有关?
带你了解不同音乐类型[1]
iPhone 7硬件和软件的规格
报告显示 中国大陆学生涌入英国寄宿学校
专八考试高频短语汇总[1]
健康的恋爱关系
戛纳电影节的各个“单元”
管理者不能要求员工做的十件事
英文词汇里的中日外来词
海淘党双11必备购物英语[1]
盘点会让你加速衰老的十个坏习惯
备考:专四高频200词[1]
麻将8级核心词汇
小马与泰迪熊妈妈
毕业简历必备词汇:课程名称篇
NBA比赛解说常用词汇[1]
不限 |
英语教案 |
英语课件 |
英语试题 |
不限 |
不限 |
上册 |
下册 |
不限 |