时间:2019-01-06 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

我们上次讲了两个个带有fit这个词的习惯用语fit to be tied和fit and trim。今天还要学几个由fit发展而成的习惯用语。第一个是: fit to a T。这里的T是大写英文字母T。Fit to a T是个相当古老的习惯用语,从十七世纪后期开始就流传了。在这个习惯用语里最令人困惑不解的可能就是字母T究竟代表什么。


有人说这里的T指人们制图用的确保绘图精密准确的丁字尺。但是也有人说这个习惯用语的出典在人们写小写字母 t 的时侯最后要把一横恰到好处地划在竖勾上和它相互交叉。让我们通过一个例子来体会fit to a T含义是什么。


例句-1:The roast turkey was cooked fit to a T. We were amazed - Mary's such a hard-working business executive that we never thought she could make such a good meal.


他说:火鸡烤得恰到好处,我们都大为吃惊,因为 Mary 是如此辛勤工作的企业总裁,我们从没想到她竟能制作这样的美味佳肴。


可见was cooked fit to a T在这里的意思是火鸡的调味和火候等都掌握得恰到好处。习惯用语fit to a T就解释“恰到好处的”。


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我们再来学个习惯用语: fit for a king。King是帝王,可想而知,帝王的生活有多养尊处优、安逸奢华,那么fit for a king,即“适合于帝王的”,这该是什么样的待遇呢?让我们通过下面这段话来体会。这是一个美国人在比较两个不同国家的旅馆服务。


例句-2:If you have the money, the luxury hotels in that country are fit for a king - they wait on you hand and foot. Here, it's different - you have to do a lot of things for yourself, no matter how much money you have.


他说:你要是有钱,那个国家的豪华旅馆能把你当帝王一般地侍候,但是这儿的情况不同,不管你多有钱,你也得亲自动手料理很多事情。


所以fit for a king用来描绘享受和待遇是“极尽奢华的”。


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在刚才学的几个习惯用语里,fit都是形容词,意思是“适于”或者“合适的”。但是fit有时会当名词,可以解释象愤怒、失望之类的情绪反应或者发作。例如在下面这个习惯用语里,fits就是这个意思,fits是就是fit加上s, give someone fits。让我们听个例子来体会give someone fits确切含义是什么。这是一个老师在为一个叫Tom的捣蛋学生调出班级而庆幸。


例句-3:We were glad to see Tom transfer to another class. His loud noise and rude behavior was disruptive and gave the teacher and most of the students fits every time they had a special meeting.


他说:我们很高兴看到Tom调到另一班去了。他的大声吵闹和粗暴行为在班里起了破坏作用,每当老师和学生开特别会议的时候,他总是把多数学生都惹得冒火。


显然这儿gave the teacher and most of the students fits意思是惹火了老师和多数学生,所以give someone fits就解释“令某人恼怒”。



学英语单词
0371
2-tridecanone
a gentleman
Academy of Medical Science
Alevaire
approximate value
balanced development
Berck
biparental zygote
birds of minerva
Bisenzio, Fiume
blended fabric
blomary
by pass current
cantharus
cathelectrode
chloroquine phosphate injection
circumflexes
clark science interests checklist
crimes of commission by omission
declining balance
deseasonalizing
die lines
digitaria radicosa hirsuta
diver'divided bearing
domestic investment
efx
entr'acte
environmental tobacco smoke
erysy
extra-limital
facial profile
fibromyxosarcoma
garbage pickups
global threshold
go Fanti
god-given
gunze
gynie
hempatargia
hollow drill steel
idle revolution
inoperable sensor
Investment Horizon
isolu
Kelts
kithairon
Krav Maga
lamellar domain
landscape pattern
legal ethics
Leschenault, C.
LFTk
Lianga B.
Littlemore
locking tray
mariscuss
marmota caligatas
mechanical seal ring
methylene dicotoin
mint master
misogyny
modernize
monochamus fascioguttatus
Montelupo Fiorentino
most-favo(u)red-nation tariff
musculo-spiral nerve(or radial nerve)
nonabsolute
on premises sales
one term
ortho-alkylation
oust from
perceptively
perges
petromorphology
plasson
pressure-die-casting
psammopapillary adenomyoma
race-goer
reinhabit
release identification
second-order block
shallow water species
shideler
shortfin makoes
smart way
special drawing right
split straws
spoligotype
spriteliness
stricture of pancreatic duct
tax planning scheme
teething problems
the plate pieces of spherical storage tank
to one's heart's content
trichosperma mytri
uenobrium piceorubrum
unequities
vuorelainenite
wingbeat
zymogeneous flore