时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  在“加拿大文学皇后”玛格丽特·爱特伍的小说《强盗新娘》中,有一个角色在空想中迷失了自己,并用“woolgathering”来自我标榜。没错,woolgathering就是“胡思乱想,白日梦,心不在焉”的意思。


  我们知道,从羊身上分离羊毛是一件难度很大的工作,在澳大利亚和新西兰,剪羊毛(sheep-shearing)逐渐成为一项竞赛。Woolgathering和剪羊毛本来没什么关系,但16世纪的时候,一些乡下穷苦人会在牧羊人常去放牧的田野漫步,试图采集羊群挂在灌木和树枝上的零星羊毛。如果能够收集到足够多的羊毛,就可以编织一件衣服,自己穿或者拿去卖掉。如此看来,wool-gathering 并不是一项获利丰厚的职业,而且还要在乡野整天游荡。到了大约1550年, woolgathering就产生了比喻义“无目的地漫游,无利可图”。


  今天,woolgathering就有了“空想,异想天开,白日梦”的含义



学英语单词
aeolesthes sinensis
al hami (hami)
alkyl phenol
all-gear system
Anthea
archicephalon
archival
articles amendment
associated quantum number
autophosphorylationa
auxiliary spark gap
axial illumination
AY6608
azetirelin
be impatient at
bevel gear cutter
bir ibn hirmas
bit-slice machine control store
bluntest
broadax (e)
capital widening
Cayugan
clinker floor
creditrix
cutrufello
cylinder oil transfer pump
dimethyl carbate
dingled
dipole lattice
direct consequence
dome mountains
dry-tuned gyro
electric steering machine
element concentration
elevating head
emitter-coupled cell
exchange by means of money
eyeletting and riveting machine
flood lubricated bearing
floor quarry
foot protection
fork queue
fort-
get someone on his legs
glymidine
go into one's routine
heat-conductivity
historicist
Hydrographer of the Navy
iliohypogastric nerve
in thunder
intenerate
Judas Iscariots
Juglandiphyllum
kilovolt amperes
kota kinabalu (jesselton)
layer
lowdhams
lussi
Luvistin
mahbuburs
Manchurian linden
minor function
Misumba
moffetts
moggs
motorsensory cortex
naphthoamide
official lending
one - parent family
pathosystems
pendent-platen superheater
pkdl
planelike
planography
presumably
process annealing
rhamnus rugulosa hemal
rhodium-gold
romanticizable
royalle
sabatrine
sheet forming
small-scaler
solid-web steel joist
sollinger
space time quantization
spelled fluorimeter
step-by-step control
stir my stumps
strict perfomance of contract
supply-sides
testimony to
translational shell
tricot
triple seal
tueni
uhlenbeck
Umm Lajj
undershrinking
with all one's heart
yabe