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
2-(4'-morpholinodithio)-benzothiazole
Aberdeen terriers
AHES
all interests
Anthophyllite-asbestos
ashcan
atrolactamide
bats an eye
bioelectrical integrator
caeruleus
carbunule on scapular area
clearwell
coffs
cogradient matrix
counseller
countach
cutting logging
density fluids
destructive plate margin
detect idle time
different in a thousand and one ways
Dingalan B.
dioxygenase
doppler correction
double electric conductor seal
electromagnetic cam group
electroneutrqlity principle
Empire of the West
enanthema
engine synchroscope
Eupheterochlorina
flosser
free piercing
gastro-
graphical integral
Groszowiec
hardness ratio
hemicraniectomy
hot rolled steel
human agancy
index of import volume
inflectional ending
internal phasing
invisible stock
iron lead matte
Kodaira
loadsa
macebearers
map direction
methoxyaspidofractinine
Miss Nancy
monstered
motorjets
mousse
multiday
multiforous
multiple microprocessor system
N-ethylpyrrole
Namkyo
non-ionogenic linkage
non-productive thinning
nonmetallic sheathed cable
nonrecurrent apomixis
nothing to write home about
output file collation control
pagehood
peterbaylissite
place-brick
Polaris
polite behaviour
polymethyl aromatic
porcelain paper
projection screen
reduce weight
reflection efficiency
resmooth
rip one
ruds
sandification
sentence length
separation manoeuver
Siderocalcite
sleeveful
solely
spanner double ends
standard instruction memonic
structural skin panel
surface scratch
testing with Seleroscope
the female sex
thematic overprint
thickness by reflection
trading service product
travelling down tilter
trendoids
Tridin
tubular magnet
uncommon
up convert
variable argument
welken
x-ray diffraction powder camera