时间:2019-01-03 作者:英语课 分类:英文名句短语


英语课
 


每一种语言都有它独特的成语和俗语。美国人经常说:“Give me a hand.” 按照字面来理解,“give me hand”就是“给我一只手。”可是,它的意思却是“帮我一下忙。”


另外一个例子是:“Foot the bill.”


“Foot”的意思是 “一只脚”,而“bill”在这儿的解释是“账单”。“Foot the bill.”并不是把帐单踩在脚底下,而是付账的意思。


另外,有的时候,一个词汇有好几种解释。就拿下面一句话来作例子吧:


例句-1:“We arrived two hours late at the big blow-out for Charlie's birthday because our car had a blow-out.”


这句话里第一个blow-out是指规模很大的聚会,第二个blow-out是指汽车的轮胎炸了。整个句子的意思是:“由于我们车胎炸了,所以我们晚了两个小时才到达查理举行生日宴会的地方。”


还有一些习惯用语从字典上的意思来看是相同的,但是它们使用的场合却不同。


下面两个习惯用语就是很好的例子。


一个是“Lock, stock and barrel”,另外一个是:“Hook, line and sinker”。


Lock,stock and barrel和Hook,line and sinker都是全部的意思,可是用法却不同。


我们先来举一个Lock,stock and barrel的例子:


例句-2:“Mr. Rockefeller bought the whole oil company lock, stock and barrel.”


这句话的意思是:“洛克菲勒先生把整个石油公司买了下来”。换句话说,也就是他买了这个石油公司的大楼丶油井和其他属于这个公司的资产。


Hook, line and sinker虽然也和lock, stock and barrel一样是全部的意思,可是它还带有受骗的意思。例如:


例句-3:“I warned Sally not to believe that man's stories about how rich he was, but she swallowed them hook, line and sinker. After she married him, she found out that he owed everyone in his office money.”


他说:“我告诉沙利不要相信那个男人说的他多么有钱之类的话。可是沙利却一点都没有怀疑他。等到结婚才发现这个人几乎向每个同事都借了钱。”  


刚才我们讲解了在学英语过程中经常会碰到的一些问题。有些习惯用语从字面上看不出它们的确切意思,例如:give me a hand和foot the bill。另外还有些习惯用语在不同场合却表达不同的意思,如blow out。还有一些俗语,它们在字典上的解释是相同的,但是却有不同的用法,就像lock,stock and barrel和hook,line and sinker。




学英语单词
advanced funds
Alchuine
amino nitrogen
and which
auto loading
Bank Certificate of Buyers Ability of Payment
barometric-height
Benaguasil
calamintha grandifloras
called bell
canonical cross section
CBTC (coordinated boiler-turbine control)
central-area
Ceratophyllus gallinae
cerebral juga
cerithium alveolum
chapelleyn
chordees
Cinnamomum tonkinense
coalmaster
compiler cost
consiglieri
contractus juris gentium
corrective maintenance time
cutting quill pen
drier vacuum
drove back
duplex pressure gage
enzymatic conversion
equilibrium copolymerization
esehabachia satoi
esperance
esquisses
Eucalyptus amygdalina Labill.
Exarchist
extractionl line
extraneous stimulus
FADM
false reading
farm-scale
final examination
foreshowers
functional recursion
gedser odde
genus kiggelarias
grisis
hammering out
heidfeld
histodialysis
hydrosilicarenyte
hypothermal
i love you so much
if you must know
illius
information processing cycle
inframedian
insufficient evidence
intercalation chemistry
iridectomises
isophyllocladene
junior-high-school
Kakunike
keep an a card up one's sleeve
Kleinhovia
Lord's table
low calorie
low temperature stratification
Mammut
mandatory securing
manufacturing strategy
meatish
megapoise
montevecchi
mucklow
multiasset
N. Car.
oil-pitch
oral-oral
paired-feeding
picoplayer
play it on
PNTML
porterlike
powerparallel
pre-emptive adjustment
protoplasmic respiration
push-pop control
quasi-judicial
rattle a big drum for
screw control
spiderling
streaky bread
subroc
sudomotor regulation
sui-mate
tactical vest
tantamount to a refusal
Tassialouc, L.
temporo-occipital
thermoablation
Ulstrup
vibration measurement for core and stator frame