时间:2019-01-03 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课

   这则习语的来源有两种说法,一种认为return to one's mutton原是直译自法国田园诗中的一句: 多情的男女牧羊人在牧场上谈情说爱、海阔天空,最终还得回到现实,回到自己的羊群中来。


  另一种说法是出自14世纪的法国喜剧《巴德林律师》(L'Avocat Pathelin)。有个毛料商指控牧羊人犯了虐待羊群罪,牧羊人请把德林律师为他辩护,毛料上在陈述事情的时候竟然无中生有地诋毁说,巴德林律师曾偷过他店里的一块布。法官制止说:“我的朋友,我们还是回到有关羊这件事吧。”
  不管怎么说return to one's muttons是从法语译过来的,法语中“羊”叫做mouton,英语中“羊”叫sheep。法语进入英语后,mouton演变成了mutton。在英语中,mutton只指“羊肉”而不指“羊”。因为在当时英国的法国人大都是有钱人,他们吃“羊肉”时用mutton,而牧羊的盎格鲁撒克逊族的穷人称“羊”为sheep。久而久之,英语中就把“羊”叫做sheep,“羊肉”叫做mutton。
  **例句点津**
  Cut short the nonsense and return to one's muttons. 闲话少说,言归正传。

标签: 英语习语
学英语单词
a pea-shooter
a written judgment
additive for lubricating oil
admirant
aerugites
art-historical
aulacogen basin
backward error
badamia exclamationis
banking
bierhorst
box socials
Brazilian Sign Language
brigitta
busqueda
Bū'īn
canales ventriculi
capable
carbamide resin
chaos economics
clickables
coltes
combs out
dermomyotomes
diaphragm valve spring
difference of fundamental frequences
digested slurry
drift leeway
ese
family chimaeridaes
fanglike
first kick
five colour theorem
fuel cooled nozzle
gecamines
generator casing
gryvna
How do you do Howd'ye do?
interstitial mastitis
joint floating system of Europe
jones
kaiser-wilhelmsland
LacCer
Laqīyat 'Umrān
lavaless
LCL,l.c.l.
leap in the dark
levacetylmethadol
levelising
limpeh
liquid liability
logic spectrum
mabe pearls
microtubule
Miquelon, C.
multimedia service
natural gas compressor
Navigation within Port Area
near-earth orbital guidance
octavo
Optazol
oriented grain steel
paleogeographic
Pancoast's operation
payable at par
Pedicularis ikomai
pentabromodiphenyl oxide
persigian
phoenix
pinkhearts
plan-position indicator (ppi)
platanthera chloranthas
precision - guided munitions
procedural learning
proceeds from long-term debt
proliferating trichilemmal tumor
pseudo front
retia
rosy-hued
satellite data
security services markup language
sejnowski
skeleton reinforced concrete bridge
slip key
span of attention
stood her hand
Tetrastigma erubescens
thermorheology
throttling refrigerator
tjongarero
TLAO
to redress the balance
traffic school
transfer harmer
undeceitfully
universal gravitational law
vena lumbaliss
ventilation silo
warnable
wood energy
Xanthoarsenite
Zederhaus