今天学的一个巴掌拍不响和Tango有点关系！正如斗牛代表着西班牙一样，探戈是阿根廷的代名词。男人的粗犷奔放，女人的妖冶放荡，形成了探戈舞的极大张力。It takes two to tango.一个巴掌拍不响。

It takes two to tango: spoken used to say that if a problem involves two people, then both people are equally responsible.基本来说，这个短语很容易误导人。"It takes two to tango"的字面意思是“探戈舞需要两个人来跳”，照此推理，本应推出个鼓舞人心的“团结才是力量”，可它怎么竟成了贬义词“一个巴掌拍不响”？Tango这个音很容易让人联想到它的同音异形词tangle（纠缠、扭缠在一起）。如果看过奥斯卡影片“Scent of a woman”（《闻香识女人》），想必您还能记得老上校对tango的经典定义："If you make a mistake, get all tangled up, just tango on."（如果（探戈）跳错了，那就让大家的舞步都混乱好了，这才是探戈。）It takes two to tango其实是取了tangle的谐音，而整个短语"It takes two to tango"实质上由英国俗语"It takes two to make a quarrel"（一个巴掌拍不响）发挥创造而来。来看下面例句：1. 下次如果有朋友向您抱怨，女朋友又跟他闹矛盾了，您就可以这样回敬他：A conflict is not the fault of just one person or the other; they are often both to blame, because it takes two to tango.矛盾不能只归咎于一方，你们两个人都有错，因为一个巴掌拍不响嘛。2.A: Why does the couple next door often quarrel?A：隔壁那对夫妻为什么经常吵架啊？B: Well, it takes two to tango. Maybe both of them are at fault.B：一个巴掌拍不响，或许他们俩都有不对的地方吧。

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