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
-gamous
A.K.C.
abducent paralysis
altitude sensor
amphiblestritis
angular displacement gyroscope
arabinoglucoglycan
asymptotically distributed
baculliform
basans
basis of software
begonia lucerna hort.
bloted
Blyznyuky
brocialists
calciovolborthites
Carex retrofracta
clientes
conjoinings
cooking banana
derrick car
disfluencies
drill bit
duodecillionth
earthen storage tank
electric multiple unit train
Ephemerum
Ferberizes
get the advantage over
Gnoien
Goebbelsian
gransow
head clearance
heart rot disease
hot water circulation system
HSRO
hydrographic service
I like that!
i.r.,i-r
individual project
inter-domain sharing
Kilnsea
Laplace's expansion theorem
larousses
leve
Lilium taliense
Lind's process
line winder
linearized function
liodrosophila kimidiata
longitudinal bending
magnetic card file
manukyan
Marsdenia tsaiana
McGyverism
medicolegal pathology
melesio
Melt-homogenization
Minamiminowa
mislanding declaration
multinationalism
neoplastic diseases
nonevidential
Nordenham
normally consolidated clay
open house
Oued Tinn
outer fire box
pacificate
pancake ice
pecker
photochromic dyes
plungingly
probe-type liquid-level meter
Progne subis
projected financial statement
QKt, Qk
ratio to annual average method
rescaling
residue disposal system
Rhodiola juparensis
Rohtāsgarh
rosenblatts
sectional wind
seed shrimp
sheriffalty
solid mould
solid pattern
splurchaser
spreading ulce
substantia eburnea
superpowers
tibetan high
time dependence
tolerizes
tridacna
Uasadi-Jidi, Sa.
ultrasonic examination of welds
unlooses
vexillary
water-collecting area
yaupon