时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 Fly by night: 不可靠


Fly by night,“在漆黑夜里飞行”?当然不能这样望文生义。不过,Fly by night(不可靠)倒真的与夜晚行动有关——赖账房客为逃房租,夜晚偷逃出房东家。 19世纪早期,fly by night被用来形容“赖帐的房客”——因为没钱付房租,他们只好在半夜偷偷逃走。很明显,fly在这里表示“逃离,逃跑”。随着时间的推移,fly by night的词义范围有所扩大,可表示任何不光明的行为,特别指那种犯下恶行后逃之夭夭的犯罪分子。 值得一提的是,在19世纪,fly也可指“一种只有两个轮子的轻型(出租)马车”。这种马车最初由一个车夫来驾驶,后来改为由马拉。 今天,我们常用fly-by-night来形容某个商人“不可靠,不可信任”,所以,做生意或搞投资千万别找那些fly-by-night company(无信誉的公司)来做自己的商业伙伴。看下面一个例句: I want a reputable tour operator, not one of these fly-by-night outfit 1. (我想找一家信誉好的旅行社,而不是那些靠不住的公司。)

n.(为特殊用途的)全套装备,全套服装
  • Jenney bought a new outfit for her daughter's wedding.珍妮为参加女儿的婚礼买了一套新装。
  • His father bought a ski outfit for him on his birthday.他父亲在他生日那天给他买了一套滑雪用具。
标签: Fly
学英语单词
Ack, acknowledgment.
alternating current motor
antennal process
athm
be the scorn of
branch table
butt welded drill
Canoinhas, R.
childhood myxedema
chlorophenyl
clericalizes
closed compounds
closed-doors
convoy short title
corona separator
daily girl
degenerative collagenous plaque
Dendrocalamus brandisii
dibasic (darlington & janaki-ammal 1945) polyploid
Dipsacus asper
draft mechine
emulated executive
external attribute
fairy forts
fiber ring
five-year forecast return
fleshly
flps
fourth-down
Fria, Rég.
fumigation blow head
glass-half-empty
grinding spindle
gun car
haere mai
homosexualism
hydrostatic head
hyperlocomotor
inner segment
inter-current
islamic groups
istok
Judge Roy Bean
kinyika
kodo (godo)
krumholz
lead alkylide
ligamenta intertransversatia
line conditioner
lividomycin
LLVY
long range order
losane
mckinleyville
mechanically trip free
Meckel's stalk
Merceyopsis
message throughput
MGL
mini-assembler program
model propulsion point method
monoxygenase
montipora foliosa
naturalizing
nucleus of accessory nerve
number eight wire
odorously
oligo-element
parasympathetic nervous systems
Pavy's disease
peristernia nassatula
phyllopyrrol
Picea brachytyla
pipe tester
pomacentrus moluccensis
Porter's sign
potential reserves
reinstatement
relative spectral energy
reverse shaft arm
rickettsial infection
sacred cow
saddle retrograde
Savala
scalpclip
Schoenoplectus lineolatus
sententially
Sigging
superheat
tax on land
Telemong, Sungai
thawed out
tidines
tristitiate
tuffaceous facies
unchaste woman
unidirection push-button switch
upper quartile length
user node interface
vezirs
Wurtz,Charles Adolphe