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
aksoys
Al Muladdah
already-present
amarnath
American Business Law
amte
backflow connection
barnes-jewish
be at feud with
bloodfin
cambiata
carapata disease
cartridge seal
catch somebody red-handed
center plank
coaxial carrier system
counter-plight
cross action
crystallisation fouling
Cum Warrant
cupola shaft
dicyclohexyl phthalat
door operating gear
drag plate
electric panel heating
epibranchial organs
erasable holographic memory
extend credit to
family Gerrididae
feel like making love
ferro-johannsenite
fibroma virus
FRELIMO, Frelimo
full-scale test
galactosidases
genus erythrocebuss
giant glory scattering
global HRM
heatproofs
interferometric fiber optic accelerometer
keep someone waiting
keto-bodies
LED Wafers for Communication
linear scale ohmmeter
loss of heterozygosity
Magnolia balansae
mangina
mask potential
maximum matching problem
mechanicized
medium stress
meshugganers
microchannel electron multiplier
mileewa nigrimaculata
mohuhu
Moradabad
Mullidae
non aqueous cell
OLAP cube
original dramatic work
parvovirus rat parvovirus
pasting frame
perfectly well
phosphoenoylpyruvate
Picoperidamine
piddle around
pipe gage
printless
proctorrhaphy
pugheadness
quick-eyed
range setter
red-green crossover
rhachidosorus pulcher
roggeveldberge (roggeveld mts.)
RoSPA
runrigs
s-bend
salivary maltase
sappurative marginal gingivitis
sinapisms
slickensided hair cracks
slope-deflection method
sluaghs
spheno-occipital cartilages
stepped evaporation
superimposed superstructure
symmetric induction machine
synsedimentary growth
tax software
Texas root rot
thiazolinone
tilting chair
to stand aside
translucence(-cy)
tri-process separator
triforia
Trigonostylopoidea
two-rate well testing
vibratory bowl hopper feeder
voicestra
water value of Engler viscosimeter