时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

今天我们要讲的习惯用语都包含fit这个词。这个词看来短短小小,但是作用却不少。它既可以当形容词,也可以当动词或者名词。它当形容词的时候有好几种解释。最常用的意思是“适合的”,“恰当的”。例如在我们要学的第一个习惯用语里fit就是这个意思。这个习惯用语是: fit to be tied。


Tied意思是“捆绑”或者“系住”。如果按照字面意思直译,fit to be tied可以解释为“被捆起来才恰当”,也就是“该被捆住的”。


让我们想一想处于什么状态的人才该被捆起来呢?也许你先会想到狂暴型的精神病患者。他们举止暴躁,在危及安全的时候就只能把他们捆绑起来,以防万一。


当然习惯用语fit to be tied说的不真是精神病患者。这个习惯用语是带有夸张意味的。它来由已久,在一个世纪前就开始流传。著名的爱尔兰作家 James Joyce在他于1922年问世的名作 Ulysses里面曾经应用fit to be tied这个习惯用语。让我们听个例子来琢磨它的含义究竟是什么。


这是个十多岁的男孩儿在描绘当自己触犯了家里立下的头条清规戒律时,爸妈有多生气。好,我们来听听他说什么。请大家特别注意里面用到的fit to be tied。


例句-1:I have to be awfully 1 careful today. My parents were fit to be tied last night when I came home after midnight. They just don't realize how much things have changed since they were sixteen.


他说:我今天可得倍加小心。我昨晚半夜以后才回家,进门时我爸妈简直气得发疯。其实他们不明白当今时代和他们自己十六岁时已经大不相同了。


显然他家定下的严格规矩是孩子必须在半夜前回到家,而他却打破了父母心目中至关重要的传统,可以想象爸妈在他进门那一刻是如何地暴跳如雷!所以这里习惯用语fit to be tied夸张地表现了愤怒的发作。意思是暴跳如雷的,或者愤怒得发狂的。


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刚才说过fit当形容词的时候可以有好多不同的解释,有时它的意思是“健康的”。在下面的习惯用语里,fit就是这个意思: fit and trim. Trim当形容词用的时候可以解释“整齐的”,“整洁的”。如果按照字面意思来解释,fit and trim不就是“健康整齐的”吗?这样解释听来似乎不太通顺,让我们听个例子来体会fit and trim究竟是什么意思吧。


这段话说的是胖子Tom减肥的事情。


例句-2:My friend Tom was quite overweight. But he has been on a diet and never touches the junk food he used to love. And what is more, he has been doing regular exercises and running ten miles each morning ever since he joined a health club. Now he has lost thirty pounds and is looking very fit and trim.


他说:我的朋友Tom曾经一度超重。但是他坚持节制饮食而且戒绝过去好吃零食的习惯。他参加健康俱乐部以来每天都做体操,天天清晨还坚持长跑十英里。如今他体重减轻了三十磅,看来健康而匀称。


Tom以前超重,但是由于他坚持不懈地控制饮食,并锻炼身体,他减去了三十磅赘肉,就象一棵经过修剪的树一样茁壮匀称,所以fit and trim是用来描绘健康而匀称的体格的。Fit这个词常用来表示“健康的”。例如我们还常说这样一个习惯用语: as fit as a fiddle 2. Fiddle原意是拉提琴的弓,as fit as a fiddle意思就是健康而神采弈弈的。例如在这句话里:


例句-3: In spite of his old age he is still as fit as a fiddle.


这句话是说他老当益壮。

 



adv.可怕地,非常地,极端地
  • Agriculture was awfully neglected in the past.过去农业遭到严重忽视。
  • I've been feeling awfully bad about it.对这我一直感到很难受。
n.小提琴;vi.拉提琴;不停拨弄,乱动
  • She plays the fiddle well.她小提琴拉得好。
  • Don't fiddle with the typewriter.不要摆弄那架打字机了。
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