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。
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