时间:2019-01-07 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  当有人称赞你是一个出色的歌手,可他心里却不是这样认为的,这时tongue in cheek这个词组就派上用场了,它的意思是“不诚恳的、言不由衷的、讽刺的、不能当真的”。


  Tongue in cheek最早出现在19世纪。有一种说法认为它起源于戏院。据说当时演员用舌头顶住腮部,这样就可以不让自己在不该笑的时候笑出声了。还有一种说法认为,在18世纪有人用舌头顶住腮部做鬼脸,这样就使tongue in cheek带有“不能当真”的意思了。


  一些和tongue连用的词如下:


  tongue-lash:责备;辱骂
  tongue-shy:羞怯得说不出话来的
  tongue-tie:短舌头









学英语单词
abstract reasoning
accrued interest on bonds
Administrative Infringement
admissible witness
ajimalinin
alarm monitoring
Anostraca
argiope ocula
authorized agency for foreign currency exchange
Bad Thing
beading planes
belly dumper
bicuspoid
Binswanger dementia
bouchon wire
bread-crumbs
cane stem cutting
casting shop
chromo-
chromosome abnormality
clump cell
coacervation
complex ore
controversialize
cotton varnished sleeve
curettes
deep-rooted crop
deposition pressure
diphtheritic endometritis
dithioethylamine
dose-rate meter
dry-type water-meter
Dāsergaon
even-handedness
fancyworks
femtocycles
filing tray
filkers
filtrable bacteria
fleetNET
fuel utilization factor
fusiform bacillus
galagids
ghiri
glowlights
grizzling
have no say
helically grilled tube
here-and-now observation
imitation handmade printing paper
internal decimal digit
Ippy
iraheta
isotope separation method
lucanus kanoi kanoi
luetheite
median cleft lip
metaphysico-
microinch finishing
monastics
mono-drum winch
must have killed a Chinaman
noelia
order'd
organism
Oriental cat's-eye
overall transadmittance
path cost
pensioning off
physiological albuminuria
pipe guardrail
Pogostemon hispidocalyx
practice
pseudonymuncle
quick-speed laser print
rate of inflation
remote restart process
restible
retrosection
rivadeneira
rooping
semi-closed cycle gas turbine
Siqueira Campos
SKFD-39162
smoored
snow throwers
Spring Steel Strip
Sprockhövel
stripping depth
suppli al telefono
take sb. in marriage
the hot seat
thymus independent antigen
toadflax
tool sharpening machine
torpedo attack ship
tungsten-carbide tipped cutting teeth
two-spring non-reactive suspension
ultrastrongly
useful picture area
ventilation terminal
wisaksonite