时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Jessica 在北京学汉语,她的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教她。今天是Jimmy要问的:爆冷门

Jimmy: Jessica, 昨天看学校的足球比赛了吗?爆了个大冷门儿,法学院居然输给了商学院,哎,这大冷门怎么说啊?

Jessica:冷门?

Jimmy:哦,对啊,就是铁定会输的队,最后居然打赢了。

Jessica: Oh, in English we call that an upset.

Jimmy: Upset? 那不是不高兴的意思吗?

Jessica: That's true. 做形容词的时候,重音在后面,是 upset (emphasis on the second syllable), 指不高兴,但是做名词,重音在前面,upset (emphasis on the first syllable), it means 1 an unexpected 2 win.

Jimmy: 哦,我明白了,中文里的爆冷门,在英文里就是 upset. 那原来大家都以为法学院会赢,这种赛前被看好的球队美语里叫什么?

Jessica: Easy. That team's called the favorite.

Jimmy: 这么说,The law school team was the favorite to win the game. 法学院足球队本来是被看好的热门球队。

Jessica: That's right. You can also refer to the team that was expected to lose as the underdog.

Jimmy: Underdog. under后面加上dog, underdog 就是在比赛里实力比较差的一方。这么说,我们中文系的排球队,不论跟谁比赛,都是 underdog.

Jessica: Jimmy!Isn't your girlfriend Rachel the team captain?

Jimmy: 唉,别提了...That's why I always cheer for the underdog...

Jessica: hehe.....言归正传,What did you learn today?

Jimmy: 第一,爆冷门叫 upset,重音在前面; 第二,赛前被看好的一方叫 favorite,第三,赛前不被看好的一方叫 underdog.

Jessica: 不错,我也学了个词儿--upset 叫作“冷门”。



1 means
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
2 unexpected
adj.想不到的,意外的
  • I always keep some good wine in for unexpected guests.我总保存些好酒,用来招待不速之客。
  • His promotion was unexpected.他的升迁出人意料。
学英语单词
additive oil
administrative proceeding
amodiaquin
amyloid plaque
anomia
as if it is going out of style
Aschersonia
Ban Khao Lan
bell prover
benchland
bevell
break(ing)-in
BRING and TAKE
calorimeter for gaseous and liquid fuels
cancilla praestantissima
caroticotympanic branch
carthagena cotton
checkrower
cock hamper
collapsible shelters
competence of auditor
consumer-relations-based model
cosmic ray storm
cryothalamotomy
d.h.s
dole-
dry room
eating into
egrette
Ellerslie
engine-room register
escape vehicle
extent of ionization
factory classes
fat and happy
fix up sb with
Flying Dutchmen
founder's
fructus cinnamomi cassiae immaturi
Give him an inch and he'll take an ell .
glazing by dusting
grinding season
ground contact pressure of track
High Court of Popular Justice
high-voltage multiplier
Huey Long
IEU drill pipe
inclosed meanders
induced giant moment
initial contact chatter
irradiation of fuel
is the Pope Catholic
isoamyl caproate
judicial dissent
khora sfakion
line of electric displacement
Livarot
manzer
marching music
meadough
multicast backbone on the internet
non dissipative
non-accelerating flow
old-fogeyish
overbuilding
oxygen geochemical barrier
Paniculide
pending request
peptic glands
permablocked
portability of executable work-load model
power test codes
project management
propogated
register of writs
relief-sculptures
repreove
royal tern
scoerosis vascularis
servo rudder
ship's stores burned as fuel
signalperson
slip-ring short circuiting device
social administrative law
staggered fan
stump-root
submarine escape training
suburban switchboard
t-group training
take something as gospel
Teflonate
temporal margins
the trail
thyralbumin
traditional practice
transferred group
tyre scuffs
undercurrent circuit breaker
vouchsafes
well-brooked
well-set-up
yayasan