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
a broad joke
accloyed
algorithm for computer link method
ampelopsins
antimetabole
append link
arrers
arteriolosclerotic contracted kidney
atrophic hyperplastic gastritis
autodilutor
autostrada
Ban Saen To
barrel oozing
binding handle
biofortify
bulk piling
cache controller
canasite
car journey
cartilaginus ossification
chiffon cake
co precipitation
comminu(a)tion
condomlike
direct-connected exciter
divider chain
eased out
electret transducer
enteridium intermedium
exelon
false trevally
Ferula karataviensis
final procedure turn
fine measuring instrument
fine-boned
flory-boat
forecasting reliability
free action
general term formula
genus pisonias
genus Reticulitermes
give sb. in marriage
harvester oil
hemp-palm
host and guest
influence sweep
interfacial turbulence
Kalida
knockdown chain
kosky
labeling theory
life-experience
linear eccentricity
lionelloes
lymphemia
main reasons
master reticle
measured data
micro-programmed
microaggresses
microstrip-to-coaxial adapter
mini-skirts
Minskian
normal magnetic moment
not playing with a full deck
organizational plan
oxmoors
Peano axiom
picking shuttle
potato cake
psychic vaginismus
rack-type drawbench
radish harvester
receptive-field
remote party
resisting force
robotism
salutatorily
selenyl halide
self-coupling separable contact
Shadwell, Thomas
signal lamp housing
slotted-core armature
smoothing filter
sober-headedness
swaggering
teleferique
the reverse of a medal
Toshitake
traction armature type relay
transformation-ratio meter
tube-life charts
tuberculide
tuxenentulus wuluensis
unfavourable season
unscaly
upgushed
valid notice
vase-form
volcano-tectonic line
well gas poisoning
yizz