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
ABDs
accessible promoter
Aconitum tangense
advance economy
ale posts
Alice Downs
assedate
Aupaluk
back stop motion
beam(-pumping) unit
bequarrel
bidaily
bledel
blue northers
Bogie-truck
bunt gasket
burn someone in effigy
buzick
Caripare
cathode tube
center-driven antenna
chlorbenzuron
chosisme
chromium oxide scale
circumvall
Cumberland R.
database initialize
deca-joules
dice with death
direct fired drier
disposall
economic reconstruction and readjustment
eight-floor
electron diffusion constant
electron transfer couplet
erbolino
etoposide(vp-16)
Fittleton
flamper
fluorochloroparaffins
Geoffrey of Monmouth
glaude
glenn
gregus
gripper latch
guaranteed cycle
gudgeon pin hole cap
guei
have oneeye on
Hayasakaia
heartachingly
hinge axis
Hydromanganosite
life cycle hypothesis
light bread
macroassociation
manohars
margin of dumping
marsh border soil
mass absorption effect
massless theories
mirrorsmooth
mitior typhus
mixed leucocyte culture test
mobile communication systems
modulated sound source
monothecous
pajamas
pakracs
paving depth measurement
pedo-stache
physical segregation
pons hepatis
primitives
proper adjective
proportional pressure reducing valve
pseudotrachoma
red-light-camera
resident salesman
Savelli
selecting market targets
shareware
silicone resin finish
sinewer
stacked arry
syndrome of dampness-heat of spleen and stomach
tax apportionment
technical level
thumomancy
trixie
Truchet tiles
truck-trailer log hauling
uncertainty element
upper sector of triangle
Upside risk
vagotonin
waveguide attenuation
Wufeng Formation
yarn defect
zirconate