时间:2019-01-04 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  当你费劲地啃一块硬梆梆的奶酪的时候,你在想什么?太难吃?太糟糕?不错,hard cheese 就是一件不幸的“倒霉事”。


  Hard cheese是一个典型的英国俚语,表示“厄运,不幸,太糟糕”。Hard cheese梢宰匪莸街辽?876年,其变体hard cheddar大约1931年出现在书本上。著名语源学家埃里克·帕特里奇认为,美食家们通常偏爱那种不易保存的软软的乳酪。所以如果餐厅的侍者为远道而来的“吃家”们报上一句“对不起,先生,今天只有硬干酪了”,相信那些遗憾的人们会从牙缝里挤出这样的话来:“Tough luck!”,“Too bad!”,“Disaster!”,“Hard cheese!”


  不过埃里克的著作《英语谚语词典》的编订和更新者保罗·贝尔认为,这里的cheese也许不是指我们吃的那种真正的干酪。他认为,cheese是19世纪的英语俚语,表示“正确的事情,合适的东西,头等的人或事物”(在波斯语中,chiz=thing),例如the big cheese表示“具有影响力的重要人物”。因此hard cheese就有“坏事情”的意思了。


  在英国,hard cheese经常被人们用来表达对他人的同情,或轻蔑地反驳他人。例如:I heard that you lost you beloved little grandson. It's really hard cheese.(我听说你失去了心爱的小孙子,真是太不幸了。)Don't like your gruel 1, boy? Well, hard cheese.(不喜欢你的稀粥吗,小子?真可怜。)后来hard cheese逐渐流传到澳大利亚和加拿大,但美式英语始终没有“接纳”这个俚语。



n.稀饭,粥
  • We had gruel for the breakfast.我们早餐吃的是粥。
  • He sat down before the fireplace to eat his gruel.他坐到壁炉前吃稀饭。
学英语单词
advertocracy
again-with
AGGS
Alaska Oil and Gas Association
arbitratrix
atmospheric removal
autotrain
backward test channel
Basses-Pyrénées, Dép.de 1a
beltons
Binh Chanh
biostability
brookites
brown stem rot
coastal engineering ship
copper smelting
corpus juris
counter-frequency meter
craniotopography
cycloanemization
deathair
development well
Dimitri's disease
displeased
ditriglyphic
dodecaploidization
Doubleday
doxaprams
DuBois-Reymond's key
electric plug
epicadmium flux
especie
firebasket
flatout
fuel flow pressure
full cost pricing
gatepost
genus peltiphyllums
ghastly
glyoctamide
Granite Mountains
headforemost
heheterochronia
honkala
hyphenize
improper person
intermixingly
leaf plucker
leather working gloves
lever-type dial gage
Lezgin
machine taper pin reamer
make the investment inefficient
Malecites
marine gas turbine engine
mollissimas
multimode waveguides
notarised
obeising
olympic motto
optimal deterministic schedule
optional test
paint thinner
panama canvas
pathometabolism
pentynoic acid
personal defence weapon
philips inventory control technique
Phobosuchus
plough back
post mortem time
PPLC
precise positioning
product-relateds
pubilc value
reactor coolant (circulating ) pump
Revelation of Christ
rice vermicelli in box
risk-return analysis
rough scuff
Samsam
Santorinian
separated isotope
serial receive control signal
silent block
Sinclair's glue
space-fillers
spiroil
starbright
stiff straw
sybron
tail tower
Tataouine
technoscientifically
Teifi, Afon
temboes
tore of reflection
upper colonnade
vellus olivae inferioris
wallendorf
yam bean
ziggurats