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
aligning housing washer
alkaline etch
ambrosiodmus lewisi
anthorism
aquod
backwoodsy
be on the lookout for
Berchtesgaden
blind as a bat
Bovet
butt-ended tube
caught some z's
caving interval
centers on
cerrobase
cholangiohepatopathy
chutzpa
clean heater
coassemble
coordination of insulation
cordant
counter-weight
crisis planning system
diabetes mellitus
dollfaces
Dorno's rays
dual synchronous
energy rich phosphate
epidemiological investigation
fall in a groove
field-emitter array
friction-tube viscometer
frowsier
gastric fluid
golden shiner
grandmother hypothesis
gravimetric geodesy
halonens
Harsono
high tamperature
hot line
hot trod
hunt-wesson
idle funds
indivisible thing
ineligibles
intercrops
job orientation
juvenile library
k-k domain
karikari
labour science
lime crown glass
linsy
Lunda, Prov.da
manufacturing processes
multivariable optimization
myoclonus-dystonia
noting
Nouméa, Rég.de
nourishing tranquilizing prescription
ocular band
oleanene
onsen
Penn, Sean
periphlebitis of retina
phasonic
plant standard
pleomorphism
pleomosteosis
policy of product-use price differentials
power spillover
programmer's template
propylcysteine
pure yeast culture
ramus carpicus dorsalis
ring iodination
rotelli
saide
sartell
secondary water pollution
SRO
storage access control
studio decorations
sub-zero treatment device
subrogations
suite of applications
tetrazomal
tied retaining wall
timing experiment
toadflax
toy businesses
tubular flow
Twelve Apostles
ultramicroscopic microbe
unscreens
unstrangulable
utriculo-sacculary canal
Visoderm
waitstaff
wroke
zeba