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 flash in the pan
acid light dyestuff
address strap
advertising rates
al kubri
ansu-
askews
back swing actuator
beeman
bioptikon
boron alkyl
bungaloids
buyer-seller relationships
catalyst promoter
Charley's Aunt
chirred
class B auxilliary power
condiment vegetables
controlled import articles
critical, time
damage of materials
durodentine
Dātāganj
ehrenkranz
elbow-knee position examination
electronic processing
fet (field effect transister)
fireglows
free flow valve
fructerist
gaussian kernel
gave good reason for
genri
glove boxes
Gūk Tappeh
high albedo
holohedral form
in lines
independent model aerial triangulation
Indigofera wilsonii
internal flow field visualization using optical fiber
intraband
ivkovic
jacqueline cochrans
Jaune Desprez
javeler
kick at the can
laser dynamometer
launch vehicle rail transporter
lignocellulosics
loss of rigidity
lower-class
malvo
mean aerodynamic center
mean error
mechanical tilting-pan filter
menskfully
microcomputer-based process controller
mid afternoon
Mount House
Mr Bean
multimillion
nitroformaldehyde phenyl-hydrazone
olfactory lamella
opponing
oven rack
paper-thin
pictorial representations
plectorrhizas
PM us
pneumatic vane motor
ponderous
pulling lifeboat
put someone to the expense of
rasagulla
ratio coverage
receive a jab in the arm
rhizoma nardostachyos
root mean square (r.m.s.)
Rosa duplicata
rotor loss
sanchi
sand-cored water jacket passage
Santa Apolonia
scavenging air receiver
sclerotsium rots
scsrsosssss-s
searching quesion
sky fog
smash the jinx
Spiraea mollifolia
superimposed effect
surf
syringe reaction
tetraamylbenzene
Tittabawassee R.
topping line
Vernean
verre
vibrating separator
weisfeld
wound roller