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
abstract science
Allobroges
armored forces
arpels
ATDM
automatic starting air shut-off valve
boyarism
budget of the central government
bus based
cherry witchess broom
chicaco
class-d channel
Cobitalium
Codaesti
colo(u)r purity control
common reactance
congratulator
consuetudinary law
crisp breads
critical volume
custom options
cylinder rake
decoded stream
denktashes
derandominzation
digital compression
diluvial age
direct overhead
dramshop
dual latency
earnings management
fare box
feasiblest
ferrotransferrin
freebase cocaine
ge-rca
gossipy
Goulbin Kaba
group delay equlaizer
half-through girder
hammered iron
hartlepools
have as many lives as a cat
hemangioblastoma
hemiretinas
hereditary elliptocytosis
i-rooted
iacovleffs
interruptedly
jyrki
lead plants
les jeux sont faits
li hing mui
lowry
magnon
mene, mene, tekel, upharsin
Minas, Sa.de las
multiple crops
Nasva
neurosedyn
nuclear magnetic resonance medicine
official hour
oligoribonucleotide
par terre
pasted valve type
pawkinesses
Petit-Bourg
portfolio careers
Praxelis clematidea
propiomazine maleate
public address,broadcast
pulsed magnetic field
put someone to a trade
puukot
sandy desert soils
scarlet hamelia
secondary input
shortwall
solar radiation simulator
Southern Triangle
springing of carbolate
stepdaddy
success go to field
surface dose rate
tandem arrangement
tee-shot
thermodynamic function
tracksuit
tunning susceptance
ulnar arteries
ultracellular
unmatched
urbanisation
Uredinales
us camel
vassalries
VCT (voltage current transformer)
Victor Emanuel II
vysoke tatry(tatry)
well-hung
X.25 gateway
yesilk?y (san stefano)