爆冷门 (Bàolěngmén) To have an unexpected winner
Origin:
“爆冷门 (bàolěngmén)” appeared first in casinos. Most people put their stakes on the popular side, and the opposite of the popular side got little attention by gamblers. This unpopular side was called “冷门 (lěngmén).” “爆 (bào)” means to produce (an unexpected result). “冷 (lěng)” means cold literally, but here it means unpopular “门 (mén)” means door.
Ruìshì bàolěngmén yíng le yǔ Xībānyá de bǐsài, zhè shì tāmen zài lìshǐ shàng shǒucì
1. 瑞士 爆冷门 赢 了 与 西班牙 的 比赛，这 是 他们 在 历史 上 首次
dǎbài Xībānyá.
打败 西班牙。
Switzerland was the unexpected winner in the match with Spain. This is the first time they
defeat Spain in history.
Jīnnián de jīnmǎ jiǎng bào le gè dà lěngmén.
2. 今年 的 金马 奖 爆 了个 大 冷门。
This year’s Gold Horse Award had a really unexpected winner.
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Got questions on Chinese learning?
The unexpected winner is called a dark horse; so how to say dark horse in Chinese?
In my Chinese learning lessons, I learned that a dark horse is called 黑马 in Chinese. And it reminds me of another word- “black sheep”; although it is a sheep, but the word is translated as 害群之马 into Chinese.
It’s interesting, why a sheep is not a sheep any more in the word “black sheep” after translated into Chinese? Is that because Chinese people prefer to raise horse rather than sheep?
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Good point. I hadn’t thgohut about it quite that way. 🙂