时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Jessica 在北京学汉语,她的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教她。今天是Jimmy要问的:爆冷门

Jimmy: Jessica, 昨天看学校的足球比赛了吗?爆了个大冷门儿,法学院居然输给了商学院,哎,这大冷门怎么说啊?

Jessica:冷门?

Jimmy:哦,对啊,就是铁定会输的队,最后居然打赢了。

Jessica: Oh, in English we call that an upset.

Jimmy: Upset? 那不是不高兴的意思吗?

Jessica: That's true. 做形容词的时候,重音在后面,是 upset (emphasis on the second syllable), 指不高兴,但是做名词,重音在前面,upset (emphasis on the first syllable), it means 1 an unexpected 2 win.

Jimmy: 哦,我明白了,中文里的爆冷门,在英文里就是 upset. 那原来大家都以为法学院会赢,这种赛前被看好的球队美语里叫什么?

Jessica: Easy. That team's called the favorite.

Jimmy: 这么说,The law school team was the favorite to win the game. 法学院足球队本来是被看好的热门球队。

Jessica: That's right. You can also refer to the team that was expected to lose as the underdog.

Jimmy: Underdog. under后面加上dog, underdog 就是在比赛里实力比较差的一方。这么说,我们中文系的排球队,不论跟谁比赛,都是 underdog.

Jessica: Jimmy!Isn't your girlfriend Rachel the team captain?

Jimmy: 唉,别提了...That's why I always cheer for the underdog...

Jessica: hehe.....言归正传,What did you learn today?

Jimmy: 第一,爆冷门叫 upset,重音在前面; 第二,赛前被看好的一方叫 favorite,第三,赛前不被看好的一方叫 underdog.

Jessica: 不错,我也学了个词儿--upset 叫作“冷门”。



1 means
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
2 unexpected
adj.想不到的,意外的
  • I always keep some good wine in for unexpected guests.我总保存些好酒,用来招待不速之客。
  • His promotion was unexpected.他的升迁出人意料。
学英语单词
.swa
acanthonotozomatid
acknowledgement frame
acyl acid
addiego
alpha heterochromatin
anti-bodies
antisuiseptic sera
arse rapes
authorized mortgage bonds
Bala, Cerros de
ballet national de marseille roland petit
barred basin
basin-margin facies
bosner
breast eczema
brough
business situation
castle-wheel system
chemstation
chorology
coking oven
conditioned moulding sand
Corydalis koidzumiana
crotched
crude protein
dead weight (carrying) capacity
deck end roller
Dictyophyllum
diplommatina occulodentata
disk-braked train
dreidel
EHT supply
eixample
farsetti
frame slot
function of a complex variable
game level
gatow
golden-bronze
got it goin' on
guntha
H. C. A.
hoary marmots
hydrographical and meteorological station
incentive
inconclusive presumption
IVBA
ivorywood
keenings
Lieutaud's triangle
lost your grip
lutation
Mahonia nervosa
modern woman
monosalient pole
morelloes
narratress
national income sheet
nicht wahr
nihility
no-gooder
nonexculpatory
Nordasrma
normal annual yield
nurd
odd-numbered error
off ... face
operating instruction
order Sphagnales
out-pay
pooch out
protostomes
Ramularieae
Rockley's sign
Romulian
run-out
scutal seta
semiconductor materials/devices
separate bill
sheep shearers with flexible shaft
Shoran.
Sibelius Glacier
sinneresses
slave computer
spatial convolution
specophile
speedlimiting device
Splenoportogram
station acquisition
stinketh
strengthening by means of tonics
stripe set
structural mass
submerged shoal
swind
thoracic dorsal bristles
TP-PPL
unequal
vanua levu i.
vapor compression refrigeration
vector to raster conversion