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
actual count
African wildcat
agricultural lands tribunal
alcala
anaerobic culture apparatus
annualized standard deviation
arboroid
ascochytin
awakenings
bank effect
Barrett, Mt.
belt-like
Berezhnykh, Mys
bialosky
blush on
bridged carbocations
castigliano's second theorem
cathodic wave
coin-box television
complementary hue
convasid
counting partition
cranial segments
curialism
Daugaard Jensen Land
direct current holdover voltage
dry-steam energy system
electrical masking
elementative
Erdheim tumor
erumny
for the sake of convenience
four-flute taper-shank core drill
fucopyranose
gingkolic acid
gram-charlier series type a
halterbreak
hand touch
hard sells
henbits
hofmeyrs
Hrvatoslav
iliac ilial
Indian fig
inhaling method
IP adress
keep your hair on!
kerkut
line control unit
load data base
logic seeking
low intensity magnetic field
miniyachts
moderator brick
natural starter
Nebraska fern
needlewood
networking initial condition
oesophag-
operating system control
order raptoress
oxygen comsump-tion
parmales
pentaerythritol tetran-haptanoate
phonogrammes
pipinas(las pipinas)
Plantingan
polytrimethylene formal
Potamophila
preferential species
preforceps
prefrontal instability line
private packet network
prizm
pushdowm list
recoil strength
regional community
regression rater
retinohypothalamic fibers
retrograde condensate gas
Ripuarian
sea captain
sessilinasis
single chamber furnace
skin degerming
Sphaerula insularis
spoke bone
swab man
telephone line density
thermal cleaning
thorium lead
three gorges
thrombocythaemia
to hell with her
took the reins
trimethye-ethylene
tungsten (filament) lamp
turnip cabbage
vector for many diseases
vent-sleeve
water injection station
yellow slug