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
abraided
Acanthus ebracteatus
alien race
all around the clock
Arseny
associated system
atmospheric radio window
be before
belt feed mechanism
bismuth(iii) sulfide
black insulating tape
boroaluminizing medium
brush box
burr wire
carmarthen (caerfyrddin)
Chagres
cheese-grater
chemical industry
classified application
Clinovir
cobalt green
color infrared photograph
decidualizations
deoxyribonuclease
economic fertility
edge work
Eucalyptus dumosa
Fahr-Volhard disease
financial flexiblity
fixed bed reactor for propylene ammoxidation
forging alloy
formation curve
freezing-tolerant plant
glinn
go screw yourself
graphic situation display
grasseaters
header brick
heel-tap tests
Heraclea
high voltage wire
integrated circuit logic
interrog.
intestinal forceps
jury-rigged
K-vitrat
Kachin State
leaf protein concentrate
Los-Alamos meson physics factory linac
manganese(iv) oxide
mechanical features
messiter
minisagas
Mira, Bukhta
mirsky-herrmann shell theory
modifier register (index register)
Morbihan, Golfe du
naphthalenol
Naphthoquine
negotiation reaching a standstill
noncherty
nonnies
orthogonal partition
particulate inorganic carbon (pic)
pegology
positional isomerism
positive infinitely variable gear box
precision annealing
probit model
pseudosplenic leukemia
pulse transmission method
rainfall meter
regiones mesogastrica
reinsurance reserve
resplendant
ripping stone
roof bolting jumbo
Schmelzer method
seed-corns
semiautomatic controlling machine
semitendinosus
simulation software program
sir john falstaffs
slack adjuster pull rod
staphylocossin
suggest themselves to
taxing body file
teillays
tespa
theatre and cinema
town-level
transrecursive
traveling autodoffer
trypomastigotes
tussled
Tyk, Zaliv
uncompensated acidosis
under-sexed
uniformity of relay protection
untwirling
working co-operative society
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