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
accented letter
aeolic (aeolian)
agathidium (neoceble) tarokoense
agilops
amsonine
amylocorticium indicum
angiomatosis retinoserebellosa
Antemin
anterioposterior
autonomous right
bakersheet
baritsu
blackcraig hill
body dissatifaction
bridge limiter
budget amount
chemical identification
circulus umbilicalis
city men
cpmas
daffodilly
Diphantine
Drunker than a peach orchard boar
Dubovoye, Ozero
electric quantity sensor
F. U. O.
fellermelad
Ferroprehnite
ftoes
gaseous star
gistings
gonotrophic cycle
Gori
Gourmont, Remy de
heavy intermittent test
highly leveraged
Inactive National Guard
independent-sideband transimission
job oriented language
junpei
kafila
Kauria
kottabos
lambiest
laser trimming equipment
lipogrammatism
lyriform organs
mechanical water shut off
metachromophil
mopd
motherferyer
neo-marxism
neutral soil
nitride ceramics
nonrelativistic mechanics
object balls
orientation
overclothess
paranyline
parsecs
passive tracker
pedicle flap
pleaseing
pointlessnesses
polyetherimide
pregression
production people
proper inflated tire
pump input power
re-argued
reaction water pump
redelivery of vessel
Reppisch
Rich Cheap Analysis
rosa spithamaeas
santa's
second run
serum alkaline phosphatase determination
set something on foot
single-photon-emission computed tomography
substrategic
subsurface ice
supply and marketing
tail adjuster
The early bird gets the worm.
timber rattlesnake
to administer to...
total infrared absorbance reconstruction chromatogram
train-jumping
training hall
Tyazhet
unfrequents
various people
visting
warm someone's blood
warrener
weight index number
well-swelled
wowen
wreckin'
yamahas
zayre