时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:Words & Their Stories


英语课
WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Expressions Use Hand

By Marilyn Christiano


Broadcast: Sunday, April 03, 2005


Now, the VOA Special English program, "Words and Their Stories".


The hand has been a symbol through the ages and in many cultures. There are hundreds of expressions and combinations 1 of words using hand in the English language. Let us examine some of the expressions that use hand.


We will get a hand in this way. To get a hand in is to begin a job. To begin to know something about it. When we learned 2 completely, it will be easy for us. We will be able to do it hands down. If we do the job well, we may end up with the upper hand. That means to be in control or to have gain complete understanding of a situation. On the other hand, if the situation gets out of hand then , it is out of control. We must act quickly to regain 4 the upper hand over these expressions. But wit 3, we still do not have the upper hand in this business. We must consider another way of expressing phrase. To hand it to someone. For example, I must hand it to you for understanding what have discussed this far. You can also lend a hand to someone but without really giving up your hand. You lend a hand when you help someone. You offer them a helping 5 hand. If someone is kind enough to lend us a hand then we surely do not want to bite the hand that feeds us. We do not want to repay 6 his kindness by treating him badly.


Now where that out of the way we have a free hand to continue examining other hand expressions. To have a free hand in a situation is good. It means you are free to act without getting permission from someone else. If we continue moving along, we will make progress. Hand over fist or very rapidly. This expression began in the early 1700s. It reportedly comes from a selling expression. Hand over hand . The way of quickly raising or lowering a sale. Maybe you can find a friend who wants to take a hand in our project. It would have to be someone who was interested in these expressions. Your friend may want to work hand in glove with us. That is good because that means he wants to work as closely 7 with us as a glove covers the hand. Of course, there is a danger that may look at our project and decide to take it in hand. That means he wants to take it over. If that happens, we may throw up our hands because the situation seems hopeless. In fact, we may decide that it is time for us to end this project to wash our hands of hand expressions.


This VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories was written by Marilyn Christiano. Maurice Joyce was our narrator .I'm Shirley Griffith.



1 combinations
n.合作( combination的名词复数 );密码组合;联合体;排列
  • The music students are learning how to score tunes for various combinations. 学音乐的学生把曲调改编为各种器乐组曲。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Some antigens, or combinations of antigens, are much more potent than others. 某些抗原或者联合抗原可比其它抗原作用强得多。 来自辞典例句
2 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
3 wit
n.智力,才智,智能
  • Our teacher is full of wit when he has a lesson. 我们的老师只要讲课就很风趣。
  • He is a man of many words but of little wit.他爱说话,但头脑简单。
4 regain
vt.重新获得,收复,恢复
  • He is making a bid to regain his World No.1 ranking.他正为重登世界排名第一位而努力。
  • The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.政府急于重新获取公众的信任。
5 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
6 repay
v.偿还,报答,还钱给
  • I feel honor bound to repay the money I borrowed.我觉得有责任归还我借的钱。
  • I must repay her for her kindness.我必须报答她的恩惠。
7 closely
adv.紧密地;严密地,密切地
  • We shall follow closely the development of the situation.我们将密切注意形势的发展。
  • The two companies are closely tied up with each other.这两家公司之间有密切联系。
学英语单词
a prejudice against
a two-way street
acute mastitis
ADP (ammonium dihydrogen phasate)
ambitransitive
antro-atticotomy
arakawaite
arc-spark direct reading spectrometer
arends
arrivist
at the theatre
attonity
audio image text
backward and forward extrusion
balanced pair
beer heart
better sort
bismuths
bossey
build itself up
cadastral management
carcinomatous pleurisy
chest protectors
clearing-ups
clutch purse
continual inspection
crosscuts
cutino
daily jobtime report
data manipulation register
desalination by reverse osmosis process
Diamantino, R.
dinoturbation
disc vibration
Dreyers
dryolestids
ectropothecium perminutum
editas
electric reductior gear
even-keel
F. R. C. P.
false firing
ferroporphyrin
hair esthesiometer
Hesperedin
hide one's talents in a napkin
impersonations
inorganic ion exchange paper
interior transportation
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
laser fiber
lie awake
Ligamenta hepatis
Ligustrum L.
like a maniac
listing plow
Lysodren
maella
measuring-apparatus
melotype
mocquery
mourningring
network former
oculate
officialising
optical cable communication
pantropy
parabronchial
phlyarologist
plain vanilla warrant
polypetalous flower
precision micrometer eyepiece
put-putting
reafference principle
reciprocal-inhibition therapy
registration of birth
reinard
relumes
right iteration
RLTV
rumbunctious
saw-tooth function
shipping finance and accounting
side by side
snip
suka
superheated liquid
take stage
terminal user interface
tetrad gamma function
thianthrenyl
tisoes
tuberculides
turkling
Ulmoideipites
unit margin variance
washing machine
wax injection
Whittaker differential equation
whorlers
wiring in
zolmitriptan