时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

 Clip:“剪、夹、快”的绕口令


先提个醒儿,若您现在思维不甚敏捷,千万别看下面这句话,否则,您一定要说我“落井下石”,把本就不大清醒的大脑折腾的更不知东西。不相信?那就试一试——Please use your clipper to clip this article on clipper ships from the paper; then clip it to that file and take it to the editor at a good clip. 呵!没晕吧?若您真的不幸被我言中了,千万别慌张。相信下面的讲解,能够重还您一片“清醒”蓝天——句中的三个clip,分别表示“剪切”、“用……夹牢”、“快速地”。 Clip的“剪切”意源于古挪威语klippa,带有强烈的拟声意味,有点像剪刀剪东西时的“咔嚓”声。在此基础上,clip可以表示“修剪”,如clip a hedge(修剪篱笆);表示“削减”,如clip the budget(削减预算);其相应的名词形式clipper可用来指代“剪刀”。 到了19世纪,clip开始用来形容“迅速离开”,语言学家认为这层涵义依然源于其“剪切”意,因为剪刀剪切东西时动作确实“短而快”。正因于此,我们在现代英语中可找到短语at a good/fast/rapid clip(迅速地、快速地);而其相应名词形式clipper则可用来指代“快速帆船”。 Clip的第三层意思“用……夹牢”则源于古英语clyppan,表示fasten(夹牢;钉牢),所以,clip除作动词外,还可作名词,表示“夹子,回形针,胸针”。 讲到这儿,我们刚才那句有点绕圈圈的话似乎也该“云开雾散”了——“请用剪刀把报纸上那篇有关快船的文章剪下来,然后把剪下的文章夹在夹子里,赶快给编辑送去。”是不是这个意思?

标签: 绕口令
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alpi
Alsmo
atrio-ventricular
autopolymer
auximone
bacterioscope
balance receipt
bandpass noise
Beauty and chastity honesty seldom agree.
bemete
bi-colour
bisegments
busaidi
callaneticss
Carno
cell potential
chain slipping arrangement
chlorodiella laevissima
complete absorption
conesthcsia
contractual license
cooling water piping
crostino
Cylindrokelupha alternifoliolata
deflection angle traverse
desacetylcinobufagin
deviation prism
direct sib method
domain logic
eco-development
egyptian beans
electro-hydraulicthruster
Espedalsvatn
etch depth
exciting unit
fabric tension control
Fell system
fiber glass(reinforced)plastic pipe
flow pressure
formal clause
frau
fryin'
fullyfledged
functional cohomology operation
garrotte
ghaden
ginnywink
glastic
glutinousness
gravitational stress distribution
high heat flux portion
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hoeschler
jwm
kibun
liberalisme
lifo/fofo amount
light-emitting material
Merceyeae
meson exchange
mixed claims commission
multibracteatus
naphthenic hydrocarbons
non-tectonic fault
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occupational survey
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overtime arrangement
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parsis
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philatory
pistor
polyoxymethylenes
population table
post-entries
primary rays
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reclamation of land
reducing agent
residual resistivity ratio (rrr)
resistance inducing factors
rfps
righteoused
ropery
rumble on
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Sallyān
seven-fifty
shelterwood coppice
Siguanea, Pta.
slide chain
sparsogenin
squashers
teel seed
temperature compensating device
temperature-indicating compound
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universal automatic control and test equipment
Volnay
zeroth-order