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【典故何故？】

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第6期

Dark Horse
黑马



黑马，现今比喻实力难测的竞争者或者出人意料的优胜者。

　　Dark horse is a term used to describe a little-known person or thing that emerges to prominence, especially in a competition of some sort[1] or a contestant that seems unlikely to succeed.
       黑马（Dark horse，注意不是Black Horse），原指在赛马场上本来不被看好但却意外获胜的马，后来用来比喻那些出人意料获得佳绩的人、球队、股票等等。

       The term began as horse racing parlance, to describe a race horse that is not known to gamblers and thus is difficult to place betting odds on.
       The earliest-known use of the phrase is in Benjamin Disraeli's novel The Young Duke (1831). Disraeli's protagonist, the Duke of St. James, attends a horse race with a surprise finish: "A dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph."
       “黑马”一词源于19世纪的英国政治家本杰明·迪斯雷利的小说《年轻的公爵》（The Young Duke，1831）。该小说有一处对赛马比赛的描写，比赛中一匹不起眼的黑马在最后关头赶超了两匹夺冠呼声最高的良种马。黑马就用来比喻出人意料的获胜者。

       Politically, the term reached America in the nineteenth century when it was first applied to James K. Polk, a relatively unknown Tennessee Democrat who won the Democratic Party's 1844 presidential nomination over a host of better-known candidates. Polk won the nomination on the ninth ballot, and went on to win the presidential election to become the 11th President of the United States (1845–1849).
       “黑马”一语后来于19世纪传到美国，被用于政治竞选中，而最早被称为政坛黑马的是时任相对不知名的田纳西州民主党人詹姆斯·诺克斯·波尔克，他在1844年连续挑落多位负有盛名的候选人而赢得了美国民主党的总统候选人提名，并最终当选美国第11位总统（1845-1849）。

       The term dark horse is also used outside the political context, typically in sports, movie awards and music prizes. Surprising or unlikely nominations for such prizes as the Academy Award (awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) are referred to as dark horses.
       此典故在政治之外最被广泛使用的场合，是体育赛事以及影视和音乐类的奖项评选。例如最为典型的奥斯卡颁奖中出人意料或者不太可能获奖的提名者最终获颁了奖项。

       我个人印象最深的二只黑马是04'年皆以小胜登顶欧洲杯（Euro Cup 2004）的希腊（Greece）；

以及NBA 07'年满城尽带黄金甲击败联盟常规赛胜绩达65+达拉斯小牛（Dallas Mavericks）的黑八金州勇士（Golden State Warriors）。

       也有人说今年中国好声音（The Voice of China）梁博夺冠是黑马，我自己不这么看，我读到的是一种叫做稳定和稳定中提升的可贵品质，相信看过完整赛程的您可能也会有新的判断。

    Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book publisher.
    此外，美国有一家漫画出版社名为Dark Horse Comics。

参考：
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_horse
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BB%91%E9%A9%AC
http://baike.baidu.com/view/245.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_K._Polk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Horse_comics