时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 还记得刘胡兰吧?她面对敌人的屠刀她脸不变色心不跳,最终献出了自己年轻的生命。


“脸不变色心不跳”形容一个人在危难时刻表现得非常勇敢、镇定、从容。这么形象的表达在英语中还真是有一个对应的,叫“keep a stiff upper lip”(保持上嘴唇不动)。
这种说法最早出现在19世纪初期。当一个人害怕或者马上就要哭出来的时候,他(她)的嘴唇经常是颤抖的。如果人家让你保持上嘴唇不动,他(她)其实是让你隐藏情绪。那你可能会问了,为什么是保持上嘴唇而不是两个嘴唇都不动呢?原因是这样的:19世纪的时候,男人们嘴上都留着浓浓的胡须,如果上嘴唇颤抖会更容易被发现。
看下面例句:
Even when the boss yelled atMarsha for dropping the soup in the lady's lap, she kept a stiff upper lip. (玛莎把汤洒在了那位女士的腿上,老板都冲她喊了,她依然脸不变色心不跳的。)

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acanthaesthesia
Aganosma kwangsiensis
Alcubillas
allowable transition
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annualar flow
audio extraction
autogamic
beatless
bivector
boil-stain of cloth
bond psychology
brake pipe anchor
brass square screw hook
camera posterior bulbi
center tapped
clausocalanus paululus
clusterin
coal resource
cold metal work
compersion
conical shock diffuser
Da Huoluo Dan
damavand
dendroceros japonicus steph.
deterrent options
direct labo(u)r hour method
Ditsinane
DOLICHOSOMA
double planet
eggbox
El Guanacaste
embastille
extragalactic compact radio source
filter oscillator
financial means
fineered
flywheel tuning
forbidden fishing zone
futureshock
generalized equation
genus Plectrophenax
geobarometer
gonakie
green behind the ears
Gridley fungus stain
haematoblasts
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harmonic solution
holoblastic
hoomey
Hrvatin
hypophysoma
industrial furnace centrifugal blower
issey miyake
Kelvin integrator
Laguncularia racemosa
lap-jointing
Lepusha
lilliput book
Lna - low noise amplifier.
marquetry
meteorological reconnaissance
misland
MKSA system of units
multiplying manometer
multishared
national language support
nitobeia formosana
nonsequenced command
nose piece
occupancy indication
one more thing
operational control system
output library master file
overpowerful
oxyphenisatin
paint catapult
pbmcs
radio frequency quadrupole linac
RAM card system
rhetorical induction
ring type polypeptide
round brush cleaner
simonier
smadjas
snoozin'
Southeast Indian Ridge
stiff duty
suprasylvian fissure (or suprasylvian sulcus)
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television sound modulator
thermoelectromagnetic
thread-grinding machine
throat capacity
transmission equivalent
two-layered ectoderm
unarbitrary
upon further acquaintance
ventral median septum
Villanueva de la Reina
waste disposal in bedded (rock) salt