时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

rain check


It never rains but it pours 1


今天我们要讲的两个俗语是和下雨有关系的。下雨是不可捉摸的,有时你不要它下,它却突然下个不停,可是,到了十分需要雨水的时候,它却偏偏又不下。就拿美国人喜欢的垒球赛来作例子吧。正当三万个球迷在看一场紧张的球赛时,突然下起暴雨来了。球员和观众一个个地四处乱跑去找地方躲雨。可是,那些出了五块或十块美金买一张票的球迷却不会空手回家的。


在美国,只要在球赛开始以后下雨,每个人在离开体育场的时候都可以得到一张特别的票子。你可以用这张票子下回免费看一场球。这种特别的票子就叫rain check。Rain就是雨,check 就是支票。Rain check的意思就是,你买了票,但是因为下雨而没有看成球。为了补偿你的损失,就给你一张下次可以用的免费票。可是,rain check这个词已经不局限在体育球赛方面了。它已经应用于生活的各个方面。它的意思是:给予第二次机会。


比如说,一个百货公司减价出售电视机一个星期。可是,不到一个星期,所有减价的电视机都已经卖完了。在这种情况下,店员就对顾客说:


例句-1: Say, I'm sorry but we just sold the last TV set we had on sale. But I'll give you a raincheck so you can still get the special price when we get in a fresh stock 2 a couple weeks from now.


这个店员说:"对不起,我们刚刚把最后一架减价的电视机卖掉了。但是,我会给你一张rain check,这样过两个星期我们进了货以后,你仍然可以按减价的价钱买电视机。"


Rain check这个词也可以用在社交场合。假如一个男学生要请一个女孩子去吃晚饭,可是这女孩当天已经有了约会。不过她很喜欢这个人,很想跟他出去玩。这时候,她就说:


例句-2: I'd love to go out with you, Ben. I'm sorry I'm busy tonight, but I'd like a rain check.


她说:"本,我很愿意和你出去玩。但是,非常抱歉的是我今晚很忙。我们下回去玩好吗?"


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下面我们要讲的一个和雨,也就是rain这个字有关的成语就是It never rains but it pours. It never rains but it pours这句成语翻到中文就是"祸不单行"的意思。我们举个例子来看看It never rains but it pours这个成语在句子里是怎么用的:


例句-3: I really feel sorry for Mike. First his wife left him. Next he lost his job. Then somebody stole his car. Like they say, it never rains but it pours.


这是说:"我真是为迈克感到难受。先是他的太太把他扔了,然后,他又丢了工作,接着,他的车又被人偷了。这真是像人们所说的,祸不单行呀。"


不过,看来倒霉的人似乎还不止他一个。下面说话的人也是够倒霉的:


例句-4: Oh boy! You can't believe the trouble I had today. My alarm 3 clock didn't go off, so I missed biology class. Then, I lost my home work assignment 4 for math. I invited my girlfriend to lunch and after we ate, I found I'd left my wallet at home. It never rains but it pours.


他说:"咳,你真不会相信今天我有多倒霉。首先,我的闹钟没有响,所以我没有上生物课。然后,我又把我的数学作业给丢了。我请女朋友吃午饭,吃晚饭我才发现我把钱包忘在家里了。呵,这可真是祸不单行呐。"



涌出( pour的第三人称单数 ); 倾,倒; 涌流; 倾泻
  • The railway station pours thousands of people in all directions. 成千上万的人从火车站走向四面八方。
  • Thick liquid pours much more slowly than thin liquid. 稠的液体倒出来比稀的慢。
n.存货,储备;树干;血统;股份;家畜;adj.存货的;平凡的,惯用的;股票的;畜牧的;vt.进货,采购;储存;供给;vi.出新芽;进货
  • The shop takes stock every week on Friday mornings.这家商店每星期五早晨盘点存货。
  • Experts have forecast an upturn in the stock market.专家已预测股票市场价格有上升趋势。
n.惊慌,恐慌;警报器;v.使……恐慌
  • The man on duty rang an alarm.值班员发出警报。
  • The alarm spread rapidly.警报迅速传开。
n.任务,作业;分配,指定
  • His assignment was to follow the spy.分配给他的工作是跟踪这个间谍。
  • He has got a new assignment.他得到一项新任命。
学英语单词
a-c bias
Abde's zero in variant
active securities
adiabatic diagram
adormin
aerial telegraph conductor
amirite
authorityless
average relative molecular mass
bananeros
Baquios
between hell and high water
bidirectional diode-thyristor
biographizes
boundary integral equation method
cacodyl hydride
cancer-causing
canoeings
cleome pinnatas
cold-pressed
compost shredder
coriander
country-wide survey
criophores
cystiferous
data reorganizer
Deganol
distribution of heat flow
duc de sullies
eaves course
electric coal drill
energy production capacity
Erytonal
extima
extrachance
figgle
fluorescent x-ray spectrographic analysis
fob chain
forefence
frictionwelding
ginsoaked
give witness on behelf of
gorgoil
government ownership
haphazardous
hexagonal wire
high-sr aragonite
indirect shop labor expense
input voltage range
invisible children
judging panel
keep over night
Knucklas
labour-saving
Legionella pneumophilia
lifting appliances
long offset addressing
lophophoras
macellum
mandatory attribute
mathfest
matrix column vector
mazers
measured deviation
mimically
morphotactics
neck screw
nitrogen-fixer
non-commitments
Pan American
papoose roots
parallel condenser compensation device
parchmyn paper
paroleine
payment on behalf of others
petrifiable
plunderous
potassium tetraborate
propdev
pseudocercospora hibisci-cannabini
pseudorandom
quiverfuls
realisability
receive dividends
redoing
reenable
representation of programming knowledge
rough ride
sheep laurels
side-loading ramp
sitara (as sitarah)
small outline package
solubility
somchai
statistic detector
syndicater
texas-gate
to count the cost
traverse measurement
trypsinising
unresectability
uroporphyrinogen(III)