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









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alloy steel traverse guide
Alshain
amortisement
anhypostatic
antiagrarian
aspirating screen
be barred with
be one's turn
big-ass
bloom's taxonomy
Boers
brachial fascia
clinker floor
cocaethylene
conservates
core sand moulding
CRAWBER
crop-full
degree of freedom of a kinematic pair
designing engineer
desk-bound
dioptases
direction for use
dock and depot district
dorothy
dustpanful
ecce homos
Equitos
Etox
FDPC
filature gum waste
firesetter
fluidized packed bed
follicular occlusion tetrad
forehanding
foreperson
full speed turbine stages
gas-tightness
goat's cheese
grillez
hypodermal strand
i ought to know
incertitude
interneoglacial
japanners
Lampetra mori
lie about
manual on reception facilities
marcomm
microstrip limiter
model-companion
mud suction line manifold
multiple lesions
murexes
naval station
neon diode counter
nonpulsatile
normalized distribution
Nävekvarn
Oxipendyl
Para Abyssal Plain
part memo
peckham rule
phytomelane
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polydicyclopentadiene
polyhedranes
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pseudomedical
public address room
pyrophosphate
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refrigerant system receiver
relative coordinate
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scramjet
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serial-attached SCSI
shrewmice
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six-pounders
soil thread
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thone
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tier brooder
tissue colour
to inhale
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turnover
Ultrapred
vallauris
well-wove
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zinc-carnosine