时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  在排球、乒乓球等比赛中,经常会出现双方前几场持平,最后“一局定输赢”的情况。在英语中,“决胜局”就叫做rubber game。


  为什么要用rubber来表示“打破平局,决一胜负”的意思呢?这和英式保龄球运动(bowls或lawn bowling)很有渊源。早在大约1599年,rubber就被用来描述保龄球运动中“打破平局”的情况,后来又用于桥牌游戏。到了1744年,人们习惯把纸牌中三盘构成的一局叫做rubber。


  不过,rubber的这种含义和富有弹力的橡胶或橡皮可没什么关系。据《英语成语寓言大辞典》(Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable)大胆猜测,rubber可能和打保龄球时两个球滚到一起产生的摩擦(rub)有关系,这种摩擦通常属于重大失误。另一种可能是rubber在这里产生了比喻义,即像一块橡皮一样轻轻擦去前几局的胜负,忘记过去,让最后一局决定参赛者的命运。而最后一局如果失败,则会完全“抹去(rub out)”失败一方最后的希望。



学英语单词
a tanning
analytical theory
anticorrelated
attemptable
be jealous of
bems
billards
bite one's head off
blog roll
cable-pulley
CALCIIFOLINAS
canulae
carancho
ceratocombus taivanus
Chernyshovo
Christic
climbing bog
Codonopsis ussuriensis
contact irradiation
contd.
counterflowing
cowgill
crewed
current argument stack register
Cynodon dactylon
definition chunk
delayed apoplexy
denevan
Dewey, Melvil
discrete distribution
dog-whistle politics
drop call
drysaltery
dysomma polycatodon
effective rate of tax
euchromatopsia
gallien
Ganlu Xiaodu Dan
Gavoi
greenhouse ventilation
hole layout
hotrodder
identifiable cost
interosseous intercarpal ligaments
labor capacity
live up to one's name
lysosomal enzymes
methylantramycin
motor vessel
multicomponent fertilizer
muzzle print
net present worth
network device
non-conformist
noncombustibility
norma frontalis
notice of objection
orbicular
output equations
Oxytropis ciliata
Plica interarytenoidea
power craft
processing trade
protein synthesis
protogynous hermaphrodite
pseudogestation
pseudosurface
Raney nickel
Rhinoptera bonasus
rubriflos
scaling hypothesis
self-inflation surface target
sensory evaluation
serrae
shimano
single-column manometer
sir anthony hopkinss
slam the door in sb.'s face
smarting
smokeless burner
solidly grounded system
spread-over system
stage of fattening
starting preheater fire pan
stenothyra edogawensis tanabensis
Straussler
subcrustose
systemiser
tannic acid glycerin
taping and sealing
tell right from wrong
time-out monitoring
to invade
trematosphaerella oryzae
tsingtauite
Tsongan
ultra-audiometric
universal dummy
value parameter expected
wing guard