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
ac voltage
acetabular bone
acoustical signaling
active folding
aggregateness
Alphalipoproteinemia
artemisinin
author-defined path
banner color
be on the shelf
Bis-(p-Chlorophenoxy)
bromoacrylic acid
buccal occlusion
Bupul
business reference
Calamus orientalis
calcinatories
Canje
cecocele
class leader
Collins, Mt.
component index
cord blood bank
correlated jitter
dependent element
DHE (data handling equipment)
directed program graph
dittmen
domestic sewing machine
Drogelon
drygum waxed paper
epibranchial placodes
extradossed arch
filter drum
Fimbristylis schoenoides
flesh-worm disease
garbage disposal unit
glass enclosed scale clinical thermometer
glycypicron
Guardian Seamount
gypsys
hedychium
hydro-stop
imperceptibility
inter company receivables and payables
intertrochanteric fracture of femur
invested company
isotope mass spectrometer
kuramerine
linguistic support
lvhhn
magnetic ignition
main battery circuit
Malabarians
marcidus
melancholics
methyl ether para-cresol
microbeers
neotropical region
NP (normal pitch)
Official Organ as a Legal Person
open-learnings
oxidized sludge
parrinder
paul adrien maurice diracs
percentage quota system
phenazopyridines
phosphatrane
photoelastic material
pileage
Piranga
pistiology
pyrophosphoryl
Rask, Rasmus Christian
reduced ratio
Renzhong
reopposing
rhamnulose
rotating coordinate system
run time engine
samper
self-deliverance
spelling program
stabling area
statistic treatment
sternoglossal
Streptomyces purpeochromogenes
strict quality control
structure of compiler
supersentence
swaddling-clouts
tend the ship
thermolytic center
Thermoplasmales
tompots
trachelocystitis
treatment.
tributary inflow
Turgenevo
vorarlberg
weatherproof cover