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
acid catalysed
aerobic fungus
aimee
anomobryum filiforme concinnatum
antitrichomonal agent
apportionment of reliability
atmospheric front
b-field picture
back contact solar cells
bring sb into touch with
bulk transfer rate
caput obliquum
cartridge heater
case of conscience
cathode noise
cave canem
charonia lampas
chesnutt
circumpulpal dentin
CNSA
compensation for damages
contrasuppressor T lymphocyte
corporateness
crack sb to the nines
csid
cylcorectifier
dagger shore
dearness allowance
displacive phase transformation
dry tetter
Dunbeath Castle
end file command
epithelial whorl
experimentale
fatten ... up
ferric oxide
field slaves
flow coater
free-breathing
galmounding
geomagnetic physics
glass water gage
gloxazone
glucosum anhydricum
golanth
holystoning
hydraulic clamping mechanism
impingement process
inside fire box side sheet
instance of mathml
isostrophic
kitchen chopping board
lamella roof
laper mandrel
levelling of dyeing
liquid applicator
Locomobiles
magnetic contactor
marine bucket
mercantile law
miedo
minor character
naiass
non unified
offshore supplies interest relief grants
one-phases
Orange Free State(Oranje-Vrystaat)
owner of record
oxidized wastewater
palate process
personal power
philly-willy
physiological acidity
postero-anterior position
Pseudosasa amabilis
purisima
qap (quality assurance prigram)
rebellious spirit
rhodamins
richard rodgerss
Salminella maracaibo
seckilling
self-portrait
Shuitu
silk spinning
Spaulding.
state farming
Sundlia
surfday
systemic insecticcide
take a brace
Tiranës, Lumi i
total bankwidth
unregularised
vacuum ladle degassing process
variable deductions
variational inequation
versemaking
video technology
water valve packing nut
writing master
Yangirabot