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
adjustment of chin relatives
Alawoona
Alimesin
angelozs
antireticular-cytotoxin
artificial island
automatic phototypesetting
beam dump
become extinct
Bermuda buttercup
biconic
boiled dumplings
Borobia
bound oil
breakdown lane
chromatoskiameter
cinerous
comic stage
currency revaluation
dahlgren damping system
decrial
dombrau (doubrava)
dreikaiserbunds
Dublin
eight-inches
error lock
Erysimum longisiliquum
fearnley
first resonance
foreshow
Gershum tube
glissant
glycyrize
graphite cylinder
herbologists
hold sb in great esteem
horsepower nominal
humidly
Incudopexy
interosculant
it won't kill you
itoyama
ixora lutea hutchinson
Junee
large scale ore car
leukorrheal diseases
loan (paper)
long-distance navigation aid
long-distant
long-shore drift
lottery-choice experiment
melanostomatini orientalis
minimum earning level
morally bankrupt
murex aduncospinosus
Mylocon
Mystromys
Nebraska
neuric
neutron selffission measurement
no bottom!
non-destructive inspection equipment
old-fogy
outer dedendum
Oxoralen
Palmalmal
Peddāpuram
pennycress
pericardia
Pfeifferella melioides
picture in straw
plea to jurisdiction
primary accent
pyrocore
QAM chrominance signal
reference beam method
remote-reading tachometer
Salins-les-Bains
sampling scheme with replacement
sapro-legnia
screw-meter
self-discharging trailer
ship design
Simon's theory
sofio
staggered spot-welding
stigma plate
stripping solution
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
taste mixture
tax offset
telemetry strain indicator
topas (topaz)
total over shoot offset
Tremella fucitormis
trigger gate width multivibrator
tyremesis
unadored
uncontrolable
undancerly
walter william skeats
zoomedical