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。



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-xor
a grand total
ac potentiometer
air escape codk
annual household income
apples to oranges
aqu-
audiotapes
automatic stereotype activation
bacteriociasis
Baksan
Bartle
be in a fix
blashy
Bradysaurus
Brahmana
breach point
carabus (coptolabrus) nankotaizanus kano
Castledawson
cercospora brown spot of peanut
color difference fier
commercial thinning
continuous-drawing machine
corporate accounting
cross density
Cuesmes
disintricating
dolly shops
Epidermophyton inguinale
family Cunoniaceae
first certification
flannelette,flannelet
fluorine-containing polyacrylate rubber
formosan white-bellied rat
forwax
fracture trimmer
froth at the mouth
gaff yawl
gang-violence
give a tap
granuiosis rubra nasi
graphitizing treatment
halibut
hardest-won
have an inkling of sth
Honami
horizontal pressure leaf filter
hulseas
hydronymies
hyperactivity hyperkinesia
hyperwhites
ignition delay time
invariant factor
invasive growth
Kweso
lan-free data movement
leboyer method of childbirths
left-hand component
liroth
loftier
lupus hypertrophicus
marketing theory
meta-uranopilite
modern-type
multiple context
musculi helicis major
mview
near-tragedy
nitroso dyestuff
nonhuman productive resources
official log book
offuscating
olive-greens
online courses
ovolemma
panmyelotoxicosis
peroxidability
phallobase
physiotherapist
pollution restriction
portable air compressor
preed
Raphidioptera
rational Z-transform
rectangular cross ripple marks
repayse
right hand rope
second pilot
sfg
soil sealing
synathroisis
tai-tsai
take the fancy of someone
tapani
total time of construction
tuberactidine
united-front
uredinopsis ossaeiformis kamei
vocalis rimae
waited upon
world champion team
yin-yang coil