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
aesthetic calisthenics
amygdule
APDC
arthrotyphoid fever
atrioventricular blocks
available record
banman
base cylinder
baycol
bottom roll assembly
cavoequinovarus
certhium lissum
charades
Chinese cassia
chlororthalonil
coded weather reports
corel
CT (compressor turbine)
cum-guzzlers
cutting entire stalk
divide into several classes
dump sth in sb's lap
entomacrodus decussatus
exhaust guide
false sorts
Filterkeys
flagitiousness
flooding rate
focused logging
forced-choice test
freeze-fracturing
full chord
geminated consonant
gerenuk
hair-pin winding
hemoscope
historizing
hydroxyxanthine
immunization therapy
in account with
irredeemable bank note
Kembridzh, Proliv
leaderless group
lesser flamingo
lever actuated pusher type stock guide
like-minded
Lithuanian Hound
longwall stalls
low hurdles
maggott
malumbas
massachusetts b.
Maturitas
medusome
mesetas
mono-starch phosphate
nitrobenzyl acetate
noncores
Norfolk coat
on ground
on-site storage
osteocollagenous fibers
output budgeting
PALAEOPTERYGH
palma christis
peer pressure
peithona prionoides
periodically waterlogged
photomultiplier with wide spectral response
pilococcus miscanthi
props
quarry pitched
quote symbol
racial discrimination
resown
Rhinoptera javanica
roadlike
Rohuküla
Saussurea pinetorum
schedule of increase and decrease of properties
second generation bank
series type excitation
short-range optical radar
single-phase shunt motor
snowhill
strapped bar line
subtractive combination
tetinaldehyde
tillmanns
ultraviolet sterilization
ungrammaticized
unhollowed
unloading area
unmultipliable
Unmunsan
Ura
utility indifference curve
variant form
Venetian needle lace
world strategy
worm-geared winch
Xanthopsylla cheopis