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
-pathia
acebrophylline
aerodreadnaught
aeromonads
allenarly
amatuximab
and-a
anthopogon
asphaltic base oil
at the crack of dawn
automatic dictionary
base and limit
be likely of success
bestigial sideband (vsb) modulation
beta-turn
boston-area
chemical coagulation
choreographers.
close down
colourfields
corticopontocerebellar system
dafc(digital automatic feequecncy )
database manager
dermatitis impetiginosa
detecting material
Diastat
drop hanger bearing
electric shock experiment
elements of life
Eremopoa altaica
exhaust pipe bracket
extreme situation
Fastie-Ebert spectrometer
film form varistor
flange heater
frilled arch
Frullanieae
gamma-mno (nsutite)
Gangetic
gentle manners
gotten me
gust alleviation system
hayatanum
His bundle electrogram
hypertonic glucose injection
inclosed
index number of food production
Lapri
lead spitter fuse lighter
live shell
loan to affiliates
maltase
market-economies
mastoid lymph nodes
methylmercury nitrile
microform rubber
more positively
navigation risk
neuroganglion
obatogamau l.
oem-only
open-office environment
owens-illinois
pay duty
pectinal
Premna henryana
procedure control word
pseudopositor
pterygo-
raisinless
random sampling oscilloscope
range of thermal neutrality
re-analyzed
reflective transitive function
regular cinder-discharge
rent purchase
Riemann curvature tensor
roadway pressure arch
rope's-ending
sabara
sandpapering machine
Schwarzschild coordinate
Scopulariopsis brevicaulis
sequencing criteria
settling day
sire
snelf
sniffer keystroke logger
spontaneous change
steglitz
stochastic coalescence model
sub-schema name
Sun-blister
taxage
tearing mode
the reith lectures
Thiorhodaceae
tuberculous vaccine
Tudhope
uranium plutonium fuel cycle
Villamanrique
Vycor