时间:2019-02-02 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

 芝加哥的别名:“多风城”


来,先看段新闻:Tom Cruise loves to make a big splash in Windy City. And there the actor hopped 1 on a couch during Oprah Winfrey's show to declare his love for Katie Holmes.(影星汤姆·克鲁斯喜欢在“多风城”搞意外。他曾在“多风城”温弗丽脱口秀节目中跳上沙发,公开表白自己对凯蒂·赫尔姆斯的爱。) 如果您是汤姆·克鲁斯的影迷,知道他的求爱史,或者您很了解美国的《奥普拉脱口秀》,知道它的所在地,也许,您能够猜出“Windy city”指的是“芝加哥”。 关于芝加哥的别名,一种说法认为:windy暗示“芝加哥人的浮夸之气”。1893年,纽约和芝加哥同时竞选申办世界博览会。申办过程中,纽约人认为芝加哥过于夸大言辞,于是,《纽约太阳报》主编Charles A. Dana(查尔斯·A·达纳)写了一篇报道,抨击纽约人的windy(空话、吹牛)特性。但是,正统辞源学否认了这种说法。 据辞源记载,早在1886年,Windy city(芝加哥)的说法就已被媒体接受,而且,当时所言的windy绝无贬抑之意,而是特指芝加哥的宜人气候。每到夏季,湖区凉风阵阵,芝加哥成为美国人的避暑好去处,Windy city(多风城)由此得名。

跳上[下]( hop的过去式和过去分词 ); 单足蹦跳; 齐足(或双足)跳行; 摘葎草花
  • He hopped onto a car and wanted to drive to town. 他跳上汽车想开向市区。
  • He hopped into a car and drove to town. 他跳进汽车,向市区开去。
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学英语单词
admission
aerosol preparation
ailo
amount of motion
angular excess of a small geodesic triangle
antimonous bromide
appropriability
at half cost
bare patch
Brlik
byhearted
Bécédi-Brignan
calcium acid sulfite
canales incisivus
carpentry shop
Castellanella
cd audio properties
chaetoceros nipponica
correcting distortion
cross slide tool box
CRVF
cupellation furnace
cupiscence
dead hang
denounced
diabasic plaster
differential of an analytic homomorphism
diffusion molecular
double input mixer
ecallose
echo repeater
ecoregions
edmond
Emden function
enthralldom
entrainment block
epiploic foramen (or foramen of winslow)
escort forces
FAA
feast of reason
Ficus stenophylla
float block
formosina gigas
gastrostege
gloat over
granulomatous inflammation
guergal
harper strain aging equation
i-kupled
imitation silver yarn
insurance fraud
intermittent sedimentation
Inula rhizocephaloides
labour charge
ladies' eardrops
Lloyd's register of shipping
lung buds
lysigenous aerenchyma
macronarian
Mcgarret
mealman
Nankan
non-confidential
nonstandards
Norwegian lobster
numeric pictured arithmetic item
on one's account
outbuffer
oxidative stability
permanent tax
photometric standard lamp
postopartum psychosis
powder sintering molding
preheartshape embryo
Public beta
public nuisance from blasting
real time reconnaissance cockpit display system
reducible fraction
residual water
roof rats
rustic dressing
sauroid cells
scattering efficiency
Selenobismutite
shuttle tapping
sodium cyanides
sonic cleaning
species pool
specific visibility
sterd
strip coat(strippable coating
subvention for regular services
susceptibility model
take ... leave
threadjack
tuberculous epididy-mitis
tumeric
typical data
unprecedented
unstaunch
white legs
with remuneration linked output