一天下午我打开收音机,偶然听到一位节目主持人正在介绍西方流行歌曲,其中有一首歌名为“face the music”,他随口就把它译为“面对音乐”。我当时想其他听众一定会纳闷,真不知怎样才能“面对音乐”。其实,“face the music”作为一个英语成语已有一百多年的历史了。关于这一成语的来源,有两种说法。一种说法是:这个成语最初是一个戏 One afternoon when I turned on the radio, I heard that a show host was introducing western popular songs. One of these songs was called “face the music.” He casually translated it as “face music”. I thought that other listeners would be puzzled. I really don’t know how to “face music.” In fact, “face the music” has been used as an English idiom for more than 100 years. There are two arguments about the source of this idiom. One argument is: This idiom was originally a play