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
1-octyne
atreol
auditorship
billion-plus
Billiter-Siemens cell
booster coil
branch of farming
bright pickling
calibrations
cheese-dicks
closed hydraulic system
crosshead taper sleeve
cyclic strain aging
Daïro
deci-ampere
demigraine
desert dolly
dianisyldiethynylsilane
double-element relay
drug interactions
ekert
embolized
embryoniform
equilibrium load
Eremopoa oxyglumis
extraction feedwater heating
Extreme Edition
fast path databases
fifth generation computer systems
freezoner
fundamental period
gunny sack forming machine
hanfmann
Hem-Prep
heraths
high water-content crude oil
horizontal planer
hot-wiring
humping bead
in a line
interest formula
invigorating kidney qi
iPad touch
iridial folds
Katoka
lake plain
liabilities for guarantee
liquid form of dyes
lizardtech
manufacturers
mapul
marcasites
microtus pennsylvaticuss
mixologists
mousher
musical (comedy)
nerve-energy
Nigerian scam
nonverbal intelligences
Nusku
off - year election
OGDCL
old-time dance
operational recording level
orfordnesses
Origanum vulgare
perpendicularis
petrol level ga(u)ge
Pontife hand
porte-meche
promenade
Puerto Ricans
pulmonary chomodectoma
qyzylorda (kzyl-orda)
random surface profile
recent projects
refresh the inner man
retackled
rice sclerotial disease
rigged out
schonfelds
self-propulsion apparatus
shibh
sleere
spare bag
specled
spermatoplasmon
stimulosa
strikes through
suction type carburetor
t-bands
tapered winding
tetrahydro-compound
thermoelectric coolor
transfer vesicle
undersling
unhistorically
uniform boundedness principle
universal wheelwright machine
user agent spoofing
valvae
Vishera