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
acceptance division
acetic acid solution
ailantine
autogenousgraft
azacrin
Balqash
banthas
blue pus
calf cloth
capillary network
caraomer (negru voda)
check lever
civilian police
coincidence resolving power
compact-disc
complete combination
cost of information
Delay in Port Clause
deviation tolerances
dichotomisation
Diepenveen
Digambara
diverging route aspect
divets
DNA modification
economic co ordination region
efficiency of supply
Fdn.
feudal courts
file shredder
gas-drive reservoir
geffroy
harbor equipments
Hash based Message Authentication Code
highline trolley
highway environment
huckster
hydracid
increment strain theory
instrument indication
intagliated
Israelitesses
katoptric
Kinsha
kithly
Kolomak
learning by imitation
Leif Ericson
logicalnesses
long-stroke steam engine
M'-
marked ratio
market finance
massaranduba
MB (megabyte)
moderate fixed duty
Mona Quimbundo
multiversities
mustards
Nettilling L.
opeidoscope
other woman
out-lading
Pachyrhizua angulatus
parallel electric field
phonon mode
poche
posting of tariff
postnasal
pressure seal
pripyat
pupillometric
put store by
reteaching
rift cut
rostrum of corpus callosum
safe sexes
Senecio graciliflorus
siding wall
special gas
stabilizer foot
static probe
subsurface grid
surrealist film
Tagetes patula
talonavicular dorsal ligament
tetranitro-anisole
thermanaesthesia
thief in law
thrombospondins
Toilet Mummy
trotwoods
tungsten hexacarbonyl
tympyn
unstriated fiber
ureteropyelography
us -sleeved
wandering organs
warning bell
washing out loss
wear resistance carbon-graphite material
weedwhackers