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
4-OIP
AAFA
all-point addressability
angle cleat
Ascaridida
bearing washer
blockheadly
blocking cement
Bromsulfophthalein
browse-wrap agreement
cabrito
case-carburizing
cloudless
coastguard station
commercial relations
commonly-held
cutting piler
Desmethylmorphine
double hexagonal closed single head wrench
end standard
endomycorrhizal
epidemic acne
equation of wave motion
eriocarpa
euro-equity
evaporatively
exaugurated
fascia sling
four-needled
gabrielis
gassing of copper
genetic hypertension strain
globaloney
Goss process for the continuous casting of metals
government-fundeds
grand rond de jambe ? terre
group addresses
grub slinger
Hautefort
health production function
hortus conclusus
immersed heat transfer surface
internal-conversion electron
James Augustus Murray
Kanthal super
Kawasato
kernel maturing
KLBAC
klerer-may system
Kurakhskiy Rayon
Kypchak
latesummer
linebreeding
lipophicity
madrassah
main driving wheel tire
maximum gust speed
multiple access carrier
neuron simulation
Old World least weasel
otic bone
oval plate
pok fu lam
profile position
pump suction head
re-emphasized
renegotiation
rotary die
s-k
Sanak I.
shahriyar
shelter thermometer
shritch-owl
Spamorin
standard key
steel creek
Store Heddinge
Subartu
succus taraxaci
surplus conditions
systemic gain drift
tension link
the swinging sixties
thermo-motor
thinny
Tominé
traffic test
training aircraft
translational system
trial plates
type of transmission
Ulita
Ummerstadt
unfluidized
United S-band system
unscholastic
Uthithini
Vanderbilt, Harold Stirling
voltional
walk someone's legs off
wet opener
xenon build-up after shut-down