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
anomalous propagation of sound wave
automatic answer back code exchange
Babylonism
Bhilwara
Black Wolf
bore for the hollow horn
brindled bricks
burgaw
chronic undermining burrowing ulcer
circumaxillary
clear away
clepsydrae
clorethat
coach carter
coiling apparatus
comparator in analog computing
county boundary
Courlon-sur-Yonne
Cyrenius
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dimension stock
dry fog
dwell upon
dynamic mechanical loss tangent
electronic message
Eucalyptus viminalis
Eurhinosaurus
fall low
field induced junction
fig bars
foreign teacher
forward magnetic tape
genus Xenorhyncus
geometrids
gives rise to
grand staves
graphic electrode
graphical method of integration
ground - effect machine
groundwood decker
Gröben
half-select
hybridisation
instill
interrogate generator
joint session(convention)
krat
ladder company
macroscopical character
magnetorotation
malacosteon pelvis
medium aquamarine
metaalbumin
metalogical
meter number
metric-ounce
misdoings
movemen
Ncheu(Ntcheu)
Nkonge
not care a pin
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oil roll machine
one-celled
osteochondropathia
paraplegia
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pipe-wall gauge
plenishing-nail
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printing smoothness
pro-vide
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rectal tracheal gill
retrospiraliss
rohrbeck
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saw setting
self contained boiler
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slip page
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solid-state cementation process
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symmetrical centre
technolust
torok
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traduces
transaxle
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tympanists
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um-hum
unbreaks
us mia
vascular dysmenorrhea
wheel and deal
xylotrechus (xylotrechus) latefasciatus latefasciatus
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