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
acrylic based emulsion
all-intertial guidance
alto-rilievi
analogical control
bar-grinding-attachment
be out of the bounds of possibility
betray'd
bilateral circuit
brain-tree
CAO2
Chloradion
coded passive reflective antenna
commercial paper houses
commy
cumhuriyet
Cunninghame Graham
d'hebron
debouncing circuit
decision situation
defrancesco
dexterious
direct access mode
doffers
dual-duct air conditioning system
economic problems
electrolytic oxide film
emergency electric equipment
entry to motorway
fanno curve
FERC.
fetch sb a wipe
fibrinogen degradation product
first-footer
forcing tree
Galilean invariance
Galium tricornutum
gastrointestinal absorption
glow discharge lubricant
Guayalejo, R.
hairbows
high pressure nozzle spray drier
hold the graduation
indium(iii) sulfate
infundibula tubae uterinae
ingesting
ionosphere wave
kadsura coccinea (lem.) a.c.smith
lanperisone
legal malpractice
lucarnes
lugwork
macroradiography
magnetic drum data processing machine
mainframelike
man-bun
marcantant
mtjs
multi-phase flow
noteword processor
on the way home
one-trick-ponyism
peiminine
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phaeno
phenol alkylation with olefin
plat-
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potassium gallium sulfate
powershifting
pro rata
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quadric curve
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reserpoids
respecs
Sammamish
scituate
sewer tunnel
sharp-nosed rocket
Ships Call Sign
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specification test
spy glass
State of the Vatican City
stripe-sheet
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the fifth century
time-traveller
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touch all bases
Transtainers
unitarian hypothesis
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velocity compound turbine
wage administration procedure
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Y-moth