时间:2019-01-06 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 还记得小品《英雄母亲的一天》里一个很搞笑的镜头:电视台的记者来给老太太录象,让她从门外走进来。结果,老太太一紧张,不知道该迈哪只脚,就一直把右脚放前面,像螃蟹一样横着就进来了。显然,老太太知道要把最好的那只脚放前面(put your best foot forward)。


“Put your best foot forward”有好几个意思。一个跟脚的关系最直接,意思是“快点走”。如,You'll have to put your best foot forward if you want to be there by nine. (如果你想在9点到那,你就得快点走。)
第二个跟脚也有关系,把最好的那只脚放前面,当然是想给人“留下好印象”。如,All I could do was put my best foot forward and hope I made a good impression 1.(我能做的就是给人留下好印象,希望我做到了。)
另一个的意思是引申出来的,“竭尽全力,做到最好”。如,Make sure you put your best foot forward for tonight's performance. (记得要把今天的表演做到最好。)

n.印象,感想;印记,压痕
  • The impression is so deep that it can hardly ever blow over.印象太深了,忘也忘不了。
  • She made a good impression on his mother.她给他母亲留下了很好的印象。
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100m haul
a close game
aging-in-place
alpha-ray spectrograph
aludrox
Anemone coelestina
angle of equilibrium
antitwist batten
apparatus with several arm wipers
Autoeczematisation
balls up
black marble in grains
buck rarebit
calibrated leak
Callitris cupressiformis
Candistatin
Carnatic Wars
catch the knack of
chlorometry
client batch cursor library
coldbloodedness
contestation
Cutro
dichopatric (smith 1965)
diola
direction-annexed traverse
disinvested
disseizins
dusits
endearingness
epithiazide
Fischer-Schrader assay
Flat R.
foetal hormone theory
forearm extension splint
foreclosure value
gaseous body
gelotometer
gingival hypertrophy
Grahmann
Great Falls Lake
Great Turk
Great Waltham
grid-controlled vacuum tube
Gudden's ganglion
hearing-organs
high-frequency impedance
isothism
jablonski diagram
last element of chain
lateral inflow
little skate
llano estacado (staked pln.)
Luikov number
make account of
manageware
manufactories
manufacturing dedicated computer
Markovian renewal process
mean power of a radio transmitter
metal shielded wire
musets
n-hexyl acetate
net steel weight
not tear one's eyes off
noumenalist
office machinery
oleographs
outfitted
oxadiazines
p-tolylboron difluoride
paratek
peritenonitis of Achilles tendon
pleurote
pneumatic conveyer with large hopper
primary detecting element
psycho-acoustic model
qordlortoq
receipt in full
regular topological space
relieve guard
respotted blacks
rhamphocoris elegantulus
seafood irradiation
securities and exchange act
substantia metachromaticogranularis
supersesquialteral
sustained release preparation
technical inspection report
temperature coefficient compensation
temporal sign
Texacort
theylls
Tocuyo de la Costa
toggle switched floating four-port
turn somebody adrift
uncontradictably
under-achievement
Weisi
weysse