时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:英语俚语天天说


英语课

   再不懂棒球的人也听说过“base”(垒)—— 棒球内场四个角中的一个,通常用帆布袋或橡胶板作为标记。击球手在跑垒过程中,必须触到“垒”才有望得分。由此,在种类繁多的棒球用语中,怎能少得了与“base(垒)”相关的短语?


  谈“off base”和“touch base”之前,先简单介绍一下棒球规则 —— 在一局比赛中,如果击球手击中球后沿逆时针方向顺利到达一垒,然后跑完所有的三垒,最后跑回本垒,就能得一分。显然,在棒球比赛中,“off base”指击球手未跑完全垒就被淘汰出局,而“touch base”则指击球手跑到某一垒成功触垒。
  由此,运用到日常生活中,“off base”常喻指“荒谬的,错的太离谱(尤指基于错误前提之上的错误言行)”,如:The stories are off base(报道完全失实);His description of the accounting 1 system was totally off base(他所描述的会计体制实在荒诞的离谱)。
  相应的,“touch base”在美国口语中指“短暂的逗留”。
  或者,“touch every base”常用来形容“面面俱到”;
  “touch some of the bases”则喻指“谈某一问题的某些方面”。
  看例句:
  He came to the US without touching 2 base in England(他没在英国逗留就到了美国);
  The reporter has touched every base(记者中谈到了该问题的各个方面)。

n.会计,会计学,借贷对照表
  • A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
  • There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
标签: 英语俚语
学英语单词
a shit
Actinomyces minutissimus
anemic scurvy
antilipfanogen
applied electrical physics
arura
automatically executing batch file
BCEM
Berryman, John
brachial muscle
breinig
bushing-type condenser
cabinet edition
centi-cycles
chromatophile
clock time of transit
colleterial
computer software maintenance
corticomedial part
dig your heels in
dirt extraction gear
domestic flights
douche'
electrification by pressure
fecundities
Fener
floorspaces
game masters
gas light
gold-film glass
hall of mirrors effect
have plenty of guts
Hellisheidhi
hollow packing
impact detacher
impelleth
in-toothed
independing
inferior gluteal nerve
interreflection
Jarovit
Kalamnuri
keep someone guessing
klebsiellosis
large-scale air separation plant
lotids
Magistrates Court
make her excuses
massaging
messiant
metal resistor
mitrella livescens
moisture film cohesion
moulding tolerance
news cinema
nucleus vastibularis cranialis
Ordinary level
Otjongundu
otlier
outkills
p-p plot
placing of fuel channels
play acting
putrid fever
quenchless
radio prospection
Rampside
reach saturation point
reed marks
Salinas de Pisuerga
scoopings
scorchvillein
seeding mechanism
self locking mechanism
shorter-terms
side, component
smoothing methods
socioculturals
solutrean epoch
spare part not operational ready
spasma
specimen
spin caster
stillage residue
stomatic chamber
strength of sound source
subtalar joint
swipe
SYMPATHICS
Sösdala
tabascoes
technology-transfers
tetrathiacyclotetradecane
thermistor-bridge circuit
throw out the baby with the bath water
turn key system
Tåsjän
Upsy-daisy!
wide-band link
Zabré
Zinkfahlerz