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
a leap year
acceptable limit
accessory body
acridology
aerial mammals
asphericity
astragalan
atomic absorption spectrometer
bad times
block circuit
boudinage
caliginosa
centumvirs
charge conservation
chief justices
Cope's points
coqs
cyclopentadienylidene
decayed
dentins
dermacalyptrogen
Digitaria magna
dislocation pile-up
Djibouti
dye receptor
emblem of
equa
flattened dried squid
fork process
Fridenberg's card
frle
garnisheed
genus Liomys
global mobility
gnathostoma spinigerum hispidum
gridless klystron
gula (gaula)
heat balance of soil
helium-3
Holfos bronze alloys
hominal
hoshonah
hypolodous acid
invalidated bonds
isoarticulatin
KING-KONG
la'i
land area covered with trees
Le Coudray-St-Germer
limit theorems
liver and egg sausage
Louis le Begue
love slave
markup
maximum unam-biguous range
Mentha spicata
milled helicoid
music sense
Mūshakī
nacfa
NetWare Extended Memory Shell
nittiness
non-linear coefficient of sawtooth wave
notornis
ohhhh
one's foot has gone to sleep
paragnathus
parallelogram theorem
parcel bomb
Parenchelyurus
patrus
percentage of accounts receivable
Petzval lenses
photoelastic-coating method
Plaidt
putrid sore mouth
rampish
redemptionary
regal
rotary irradiation apparatus
Savinskiy Rayon
saw grass
Schmidt hydrazoic acid reaction
scirpean
serial digital adder
Sierra Morena
sjp
somewhereness
space coordinate
speedboat clause
stirring vane column
superbia
surge voltage suppressor
Tanabe Hajime
telecommunications equipment
tetrandrine
There you go.
tick off something
track-boat
wheel balancing device
withstander
yunkin