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
a shadow of your former self
acer flabellatum rehd.
acrinyl
Ampasimanjeva
Anaphalis suffruticosa
antipairing effect
archeometry
artificial rainmaking rocket
beshitten
blockishness
break for tall timber
bushshirt
business sector
cilly
cinchophen,phe-nylcinchoninic acid
clerecia
comitas kirai
completion of the liquidation
conversest
deathpool
decentralist
declaration prelude
derect
diego de alvear
double screen
EMT (electromagnetic transducer)
endorsers
epithermal fission
eu countries
exo-electron proportional counter
external electric field
fatty-acid floatation
field shunting contactor
force comparison
germ-tube formation
graphic graduation
Grimes Golden
haliaeetus leucocephaluss
homaged
hydrodynamical nomenclature
hyperfiniteness
hypermethylating
impact penetrometer
inherent safety features
keyword parameter
liquidation committee of inspection
micrencephalous
molle
mononucleosis
MOS transistor
moss peat
MSSR
multipactin(multipactoring)
nonanedioyl
nondepository
on the swag
Only think!
optional local peripheral
oxamidines
padestal socket
pennyworths
pesyn
phyllosticta hranicensis
picture collection
plaintively
planetary rotation
polling stations
post-edit program
presidiate
primary service area
quarrel with sth
quick-silver
Rate features
reddi
renouk
reversal of machine
rundgrens
salient pole type rotor
Scutellaria reticulata
socket (joint) fitting(s)
soda-Heterosite
stipuleanoside
storage feed
supra-angulare
test of crosswind stability
thumb head
tie someone up
time to manoeuver
to be sure of
transferable instrument
tritium dating method
Tundra Wookies
uncountrified
uniform extension
unneutrality
vacancy decontrol
varifocal Moire zone plate
Walpia
welding gloves
whoosies
wide-band communication system
wound shock