你在電影中一定不止一次地看過有人絕望地捂住了臉，說(shuō)“完了！沒救了”，這就是他們悲催的“捂臉時(shí)刻”。你在生活中是否也曾有過這樣的“捂臉時(shí)刻”呢？

A facepalm is the physical gesture of placing one's hand flat across one's face or lowering one's face into one's hand or hands. The gesture is found in many cultures as a display of frustration, embarrassment, shock, or surprise.

Facepalm指的是用手捂住臉或?qū)⒛樎襁M(jìn)手掌的姿體語(yǔ)言，這一姿體語(yǔ)言在很多文化中都存在，用來(lái)表達(dá)絕望、尷尬、震驚或驚訝之情。

The word "facepalm" may have originated as recently as 2008, and has been popularized based on an image of the character Captain Jean-Luc Picard performing the gesture in the Star Trek: The Next Generation. Images of stockbrokers facepalming have also been widely used in the media to convey the dismay associated with poor financial performance, and a wide variety of regrettable film, business, and political decisions have been described as facepalms or "facepalm moments".

Facepalm一詞的誕生應(yīng)該是在2008年，由于電影《星艦迷航：下一代》中尚路克?畢凱艦長(zhǎng)的捂臉動(dòng)作而廣為人所知。股票經(jīng)紀(jì)人捂臉的姿態(tài)也廣泛地被媒體用來(lái)表現(xiàn)他們?cè)诮鹑陬j勢(shì)面前的沮喪情緒。我們也會(huì)用facepalm或facepalm moments（捂臉時(shí)刻）來(lái)形容許多遭遇敗績(jī)的電影、企業(yè)和政治決策。

This gesture is not unique to humans. A group of mandrills at the Colchester Zoo has adopted a similar gesture to signal the desire to avoid social interaction or to be left alone.

這種捂臉姿勢(shì)并不是人類所獨(dú)有的。科爾切斯特動(dòng)物園的一群山魈（猴科）也用相似的動(dòng)作來(lái)表達(dá)逃避社交或獨(dú)處的欲望。

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