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
agreement of imf
anchorable drift velocity
anemometric
April-fooled
arseniureted,arseniuretted
awalt
bactrocera (zeugodacus) synnephes
barium plasma
be full of yourself
blue screen process
branglers
bursae mucosa submuscularis
cell broadcast center
civil aviation hygiene
clonic selection
combustion vessel
computer-assisted software engineering
cousse
direct file organization
disposable profit
distortion-free
end of file card
ensiform appendix
executives information system
feel like making love
flat probe
gate-valve
Gateshead
Guadiana
hardness unit
heliodor
hinge moment testing
Hmongness
homogeneously staining regions
HP charging pump (high pressure charging pump)
igneous body
interchangeable sub unit
intertrabecular
inward
irignit
jump spark system
Kamanjab
Kotabunan
kVA, KVA, kva, k. v. a.
large dyne
Maslow
microphagocytosis
mid-Atlantic belt
molten salt process
monsieurs
motor naphtha
naso-lacrimal
nepaliss
nine-men
nuclear sixing
nyctomete
original image
paranormals
peptidoglyean
personality label
Phoskil
pierdues
pissing matches
Planchonella
plum-porridge
pneusometer
power plant control console
profesor
public-house
quantity of contribution
raja erinaceas
retinacula tendinum musculorum extensorum
Rhododendron leptothrium
rock drill boat
rod withdraw block
root thorn
rumchunder
russula solaris
satirical drawing
set something off against
shaft for cover close
shoo
shooting jacket
signal code
solid layer method
South Alligator R.
spitsticks
stub shaft drill
SU UMa star
system feasibility
tetraphosphine oxide
toluric acid
track wind
transaction history
tuning category
uncleus
undramatic
vorticity
was real
woody perennial stems
Zābol