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 round peg in a square a square peg in a round hole
after-claps
airline code number
Ajax induction furnace
anti-androgen
anti-friction pivot
antrapurol
apolar
apsides
astrocladus coniferus
at home with
balance relay
Battenberg cakes
biedermeiers
biomedical dosimeter
blasthole
bootful
Bornheim
c.p.i
calcaneums
charter freight
clipping and sculpturing technique
cock blockers
cold heading machine
configure driver
darcy-weisbach friction coefficient
Davydova, Mys
degenerate plasma
dendriform ulcer
digitalis poisoning
Egyptian monetary unit
electromagnetic penetration
exporter's association
Felici generator
flame-out
floodwalls
flow of cash
fredrilksonite
gender gap
hawaiarca uwaensis
head-tank
heat conductivity of rock
heat-and-eat food pack
high-level relief
HMHS
immunolimulus
in orbit
injection-quantity
isomorphic source
itties
juniperus chinensis tsukusiensis
kattis
leac
longaeval
Mek'et'ewa
mid-ocean-ridge
modified internal return rate
myristical
net-net weight
neurophysin
New Holland
nonaqueous solution
off his line
orthotectite
Oxford shirting
parslows
peden
pig-fucker
piptoblast
plastication mastication
plicat-
postulative
principal stockholder
Rasikapriya
Reddish's culture-medium
replacement of artificial trachea
reshape
reversing limit valve
Riley oxidation
rubels
rukam
Saint Thomas Aquinas
San Clemente
self energizing brake
semen ignatii
sheepskin
silk bolting cloth
speed measuring motor
St-Marcellin
state relations
Storavatn
storm precipitation
streaky pork
subnet
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synthetic rubber washer
to entertain
trainspotter
unipotent elements
velvet disease
white funguss
zeptomole