时间:2019-01-09 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  在电影《艾弥丽的美国化》(The Americanization of Emily)中,演员詹姆士·加纳扮演了一位海军上将的仆人,在剧中他具有搞到位居高位的主人所需要的任何商品的超凡才能,因此被称为dog robber。


  Dog robber是美国军队里的行话,可以追溯到美国南北战争期间,指为军队长官提供周到服务的勤务兵。早在1832年,dog robber表示“偷窃他人残羹冷炙的人”,因为这些剩饭本来是要喂狗的,他们等于是在和狗抢一口吃的。后来dog robber逐渐转变成带有贬损意义的行话“军官的贴身侍卫兵”,这可能和其他军人对这种终日围着长官转的人的不满有关。


  有一个相似的英国俗语,用dogsbody来表示皇家海军里的下级军官,或更广义上的杂役,做苦工者。


  狗是我们忠实的朋友,可是和汉语里一样,英语中也总喜欢把狗和贬义词联系起来。我们管疯子叫mad dog,管失败者叫underdog,管骗子叫dirty dog。如果东西一片混乱我们称之为dog's breakfast,这使我们sick as a dog。最后,如果如果我们辛苦劳作却仍过着一贫如洗的日子,我们会说自己过着lead a dog's life或go to the dogs。如果我们毫无机会,我们会说自己not have a dog's chance。



学英语单词
a man of few words
accumulational relief
after telemotor
albino rat
alliterations
Anglo-normans
anti-icer fluid
aquaphobias
aspartate(Asp)
available for
bare wire arc welding
biology of botrytis
bitson
body of rod
bounded loss function
bulk-oil flotation
cavity flow theory
center of gravity (cg)
chain of responsibility
contrast stain
coreqs
crackulating
data-ink
dermo-injector
diagnosis priority
Dibi
eaglewood
electrostatically focus(s)ed tube
esophagorespiratory
feedwater reserve tank
fiducials
flos arecae
genus hylophylaxes
great Solomon's-seal
heater washing hole
heloniopsis japonica maxim.
hitting up
inescapableness
itsik
jigos
Katanga
kinkled
labelling of compounds
labiodental sound
labour in process account
laffy
lavendul
leak-proofness
local costs
Luceque
M. A. S.
magnets
menopausal
merises
mis-sayer
multi-monitor
municipal hospital
musculus obliquus uniquadranto-segmentalis
net-worth tax
noncensorious
Paramé
permeable dike
philabeg
Philostigmine
plone
procambarus clarkii
procedure information
puppetlike
push press
pustulata
put a human face on
rewalds
Routing Information protocol
SAE-R
secosteroids
seeding by sprinkling spore fluid
seer hand
siliquiferous
slow-starters
sort tree struction
soundscore
specific amplified polymorphism
spur-gall
suborder odontocetis
sun-roofs
super scanning
tankies
teaching perfermance test
terminated ramp
test item
throngly
top-paid
tov
tuberculous prostatitis
tweseldown
vacuum flight path
value of marginal product
variable-format messages
volcanises
wash boiler
withfall
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