时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:Words & Their Stories


英语课
WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Expressions Use Hand

By Marilyn Christiano


Broadcast: Sunday, April 03, 2005


Now, the VOA Special English program, "Words and Their Stories".


The hand has been a symbol through the ages and in many cultures. There are hundreds of expressions and combinations 1 of words using hand in the English language. Let us examine some of the expressions that use hand.


We will get a hand in this way. To get a hand in is to begin a job. To begin to know something about it. When we learned 2 completely, it will be easy for us. We will be able to do it hands down. If we do the job well, we may end up with the upper hand. That means to be in control or to have gain complete understanding of a situation. On the other hand, if the situation gets out of hand then , it is out of control. We must act quickly to regain 4 the upper hand over these expressions. But wit 3, we still do not have the upper hand in this business. We must consider another way of expressing phrase. To hand it to someone. For example, I must hand it to you for understanding what have discussed this far. You can also lend a hand to someone but without really giving up your hand. You lend a hand when you help someone. You offer them a helping 5 hand. If someone is kind enough to lend us a hand then we surely do not want to bite the hand that feeds us. We do not want to repay 6 his kindness by treating him badly.


Now where that out of the way we have a free hand to continue examining other hand expressions. To have a free hand in a situation is good. It means you are free to act without getting permission from someone else. If we continue moving along, we will make progress. Hand over fist or very rapidly. This expression began in the early 1700s. It reportedly comes from a selling expression. Hand over hand . The way of quickly raising or lowering a sale. Maybe you can find a friend who wants to take a hand in our project. It would have to be someone who was interested in these expressions. Your friend may want to work hand in glove with us. That is good because that means he wants to work as closely 7 with us as a glove covers the hand. Of course, there is a danger that may look at our project and decide to take it in hand. That means he wants to take it over. If that happens, we may throw up our hands because the situation seems hopeless. In fact, we may decide that it is time for us to end this project to wash our hands of hand expressions.


This VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories was written by Marilyn Christiano. Maurice Joyce was our narrator .I'm Shirley Griffith.



1 combinations
n.合作( combination的名词复数 );密码组合;联合体;排列
  • The music students are learning how to score tunes for various combinations. 学音乐的学生把曲调改编为各种器乐组曲。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Some antigens, or combinations of antigens, are much more potent than others. 某些抗原或者联合抗原可比其它抗原作用强得多。 来自辞典例句
2 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
3 wit
n.智力,才智,智能
  • Our teacher is full of wit when he has a lesson. 我们的老师只要讲课就很风趣。
  • He is a man of many words but of little wit.他爱说话,但头脑简单。
4 regain
vt.重新获得,收复,恢复
  • He is making a bid to regain his World No.1 ranking.他正为重登世界排名第一位而努力。
  • The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.政府急于重新获取公众的信任。
5 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
6 repay
v.偿还,报答,还钱给
  • I feel honor bound to repay the money I borrowed.我觉得有责任归还我借的钱。
  • I must repay her for her kindness.我必须报答她的恩惠。
7 closely
adv.紧密地;严密地,密切地
  • We shall follow closely the development of the situation.我们将密切注意形势的发展。
  • The two companies are closely tied up with each other.这两家公司之间有密切联系。
学英语单词
a children's treat
a tall tale
Abdals
acronymizing
adjustable drum
anomphalid
anti-nt
appropinquate
armed attack
Asian legal consultative committed
barrel assembly
be prone to err
biotin carboxylase
bulletin board quotation system
butt resistence welding
Carex pediformis
cash ticket
chloroflurocarbon
commercial subroutine
complex eigenvalues
continuous automatic measurement
Cuddia
cuspidaria japonica
cylindrical bougie
cystosorus
DITC
dog-fight
doped-out
double grab
Evil one,the
fallal,fal-lal
family zannichelliaceaes
faunalpedturbation
feedlot
ferrum pulveratum
four-byte signed integer key
fusion face
gravel bikes
grazing animal
hot lips
hydraulic shock absorbor
Hynes
interplanetary and interstellar navigation
intra family pricing
labrador spar
lactaminic acid
linearly ordered module
logical design
look ahead carry generator
milk the profits
Millaine
mounting table
muscle poison
neanderthalensis
negative phase sequence current
neurotherapy
nonviscid
not much cop
outdoor sound pressure level
overlap edge
pasture
pensiful
peta-amperes
plugheads
powder-decocting
printed substrate
pulpy nucleus
quenched bit
rail fitting
regraded
rekeyed
REM statement
repeat pairing
root amputation
Santander
Schaalby
schizocythere subrectangularis
see ... of
Semporna
short circuited rotor
shsis-s
Skarbek
soft-centred
solar air heating system
staff supervision
Stalanium
succulent feed
sulfur print
systemic-toxic
That is quite a different story.
third-order tetragonal prism
transmitting capacity
Trogloglanis
uterine anal atresia
vacuum tempering
venine
womb (or uterus)
working conditions
write-off
xdirection
yellow-tipped
zincins