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
'all
address complete signal
adult-type
amethystoglossum
ammonia lyase
anacrotic incisura
australian-owned
B ring
battery dialing
best-maintained
bone standing
botetourt
boven
browze
buckhorn
budino
burrlike
butter-fat content
calciphobes
cementation hardening
chequer work
clamping interval
clearance drawing
clitoralgia
compare
complex reactor
cooperative fuel research committee
cor anglais
diablos
dispicience
drimenol
duodecimal base
elshtains
end-position nystagmus
equestrianesses
extremal subset
finished form
formaldehyde
Fornax System
genus Pilosella
get something into one's head
gingival-lingual wire
gotten a move on
grid filament capacity
hookeriana
hot joint
Iksancheon
indulge in
isotope tracer studies
Komoe
language binding
lepidotrichia
liquid-vapor flow
local cause
measure of variability
Molenbeek-Wersbeek
mulligrubs
multigrounded common neutral
naftopen
narran l. (terewah l.)
Niwāri
not in a hurry
obscuring
order release summary and material detail update
paint spraying pistol
parahoxozoan
passerinas
pelopathy
performance manager
period mean
phosphoroclastic cleavage
phototoxic drug eruption
pointset
pointsmen
polycythemia vera
polymicrian
pomellos
record level access
register holes
resistance form
RNA recombination
safe loading
Sansovino, Andrea
Santesson's anemia
sedimentation constant
semi cantilever
sintaxanthin
spinovascular
structured COBOL programming
take ... to task
Tarumirim
televised microscope
the infrared distancer
undisheartened
unhabited
unmanlinesses
venae facialis posterior
vivande
voice to text
width of wheel rim
year-earlier
Yushania maculata