“惊掉果酱”：果酱掉了会怎样？看歪果仁如何表达大吃一惊

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我们中文里描述“特别惊讶”的场景时，常说让人“大跌眼镜”，或者让人“惊掉下巴”。而在国外，被你吓掉的可能是一坨果酱。

Marmalade dropper refers to a news story so bizarre it makes you drop the marmalade when you are reading the newspaper or news on your iPad tablet at breakfast.

“惊掉果酱”指的是让人匪夷所思的新闻报道，早餐时当你在报纸或iPad上读到这类新闻时，你会惊到把手中的果酱扔了。

This phrase has appeared almost exclusively in British newspapers and magazines, which makes some sense since marmalade consumption is common in Britain and isn’t so common elsewhere (particularly in North America).

这种说法仅在英国的报纸和杂志出现，因为果酱在英国很常见，而在其他地方则没有那么常见（尤其是北美）。

Some phrases that have appeared on this side of the pond are muffin-choker, cornflake-choker,and coffee-spitter.

其他类似的说法有muffi n-choker（吃蛋糕被噎到）、cornfl ake-choker（吃玉米片被噎到）和coffee-spitter（咖啡喷一地）。