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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adductor minimus
all above
alonall
babysh
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boero
cherry sawfly
class hepaticopsidas
codominant gene pair
commercial vehicles
convent schools
coral plant
directive wireless telegraphy
dolesomely
driver, bus
dupping
emulsion adhesive
enantioconvergences
epidermoid galactoma
eutocia
Feast of Fools
fender system
foreign exchange broker
freightliners
goeldi
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half tones
halicampus macrorhynchus
haliee
haptically
Haste makes waste
heparinlyase
humogelite
integrated package
interlends
inulic acid
karpoff
Kitler
knock sb up
lindemann mechanism
loading material
look after a baby
man machine interface
meltre
menispine
mexican capitals
multicentric
musk deer
nasomental reflex
Nevskoye, Ozero
non-contributory pension scheme
nonshorting switch
nuclear triode detector
nutrient value
odd bod
off the premise
oil absorbent fibre
optically pumped gas cell
oral proficiency
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part of the whole
pirola japonica sieb.
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proctodeum
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right aft service door
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TAPPI
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vasa biliares
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