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
activated support
adolescent pathology
agglomerated flux
alphabetical typewriter
alumina gel
Amorphophallus mellii
answer machine
Anthering
anti-coalitions
arithmancies
Atena Lucana
Bacillus letalis
ballast consolidating
beaver shots
black patches
blowing up at a point
call-not-accepted signal
candelabrums
centaurium pulchellum altaicum
CGH
chain wall
character recognition machine
CLH
Congress Party
cud dropping
dingy
dinosphere
disbosomed
doughts
dragoness
elephant-ear (sponge)
elliptic parallel
equine encephalitis
fee-TV
Finance Container Leasing
firetraps
flake out
fluidics flight control
Free Democratic Party
free-radical interceptor method
glycinal
go-aheadism
grant suffrage to
graphite-rod furnace
hard-backs
HARFO
heading record
heloniopsis japonica maxim.
high temperature fatigue
hjorth
interleaves
Jōbōji
lacquer formation
leptocyte
linen reed count
look to the future
marrakeshes
metal tape core
moochary
multiple thread mill
normal figure
normal single head wrench
oily-water separating equipment
once-glorious
optically controlled
per hour factor
phase-intercept distortion
physical ability
political conditions
poncets
protophyll
putting forth
queeps
ram ways
raptiva
re-trace
re-types
release of bank account
rhodium sesquisulfide
ring busbars
Romanzof, Cape
rumer
Schanz's disease
serpentine aneurysm
shrinivasan
signal interval
sleep cure
sore pain
staple product
starter pedal
swee
T-section filter
third sphincter
toponomies
traffic separation scheme
transition tissure
valences
weir flowmeter
whaaas
whisker jack
with the even hand
yepes