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
a good bet
a.f.d.
Acetalgin
adverse judgement
Agadir Melloul
articulation of elbow
assembly pulley
associated space
Bachelor of Laws
be bad company
become extinct
blaest
body effect diode amplifier
Bourgignot
broner
carbide tipped reamer
carpogenic
cash account method of cash budget
cause elimination
centre-of-pressure travel
cerulescent
climbing irons
corkier
cross-track
cutleaf coneflower
dischevel
discovers
double beam densitometer
external trigger input
field beans
floccillation
Form-figure
glomus nigrum
gone to waste
haploid(haplotype)
hawke bay
heat and vent system
hemogallol
homeness
homocerebrin
homoresistant
hotel appointments
in-house
information transfer experiments
intermatic
international council of ballroom dancing (icbd)
inverted receiver
jus fruendi aut frucus
kirk session
legal force
local population sample
low water period
macaroni-and-cheese
marine vertical seismic profiling
master's mate
minimax sequential decision function
modified jelly-roll process
mount a ladder
multitemporal image
neuroelectric
non-viability
nonconifer
nondecreasings
npm
nuclear strategy
operating system component
orthophyric texture
output end mirror
paradoxists
precausation
primary database
prostrators
punched card processing equipment
punish the bottle
qutayba
renewable energy resources
reoffending
Right up your street
Roca Partida, Pta.
sanaa (sana)
slope ramp
solubilizes
Streptococcus saprophyticus
subspiracular lobe
summitt
ta-da
taiya
teeth zone
telemetered medium environment buoy
the better part of
the hokey-pokey
time of useful consciousness (tuc)
time-pressed
uniaos
unsyringed
upskier
wachtmeisters
waste liquid
wet lay-up technique
width of transition steepness
wild pumpkin
winnfield