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
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acid bessemer steel
air admittance
alborada (spain)
anchorage configuration
arrow root
arsenicals
Astraxanka
Athens of the North
Atussil
baldchin
blood group antigen
borracha
calibration curve
captivator
cardiodilatin
centro-alveolar cells
convergence amplitude
Cousinia
day-laborer
detectophone
diphenyl triketone
down milling
dwarf mulberries
eccentric arm
efficency
face-to-face engagement marketing
forced-labour
genus Nicandra
gilled superheater
goooooood
gratto
guanidinotaurine
hexapods
high-spiritedness
Hiraethog, Mynydd
hole through spindle
holing-through
horizontal grid
hydraulic system tank
hydrogen gas generator
hyperdorian
jungle fowl
klimakotopedion
layer of cutting
littleflower deervetch
locaters
mathematics relation
media of communication
microhydrology
monodisperse fluidized system
multitask management
myotomies
natural jurisprudence
ngakas
nidra
nonphased
norinchukins
odds - on favourite
offer resistance to
orifice flow constant
overweeningness
pairwise zero covariance
paltriness
part-time judge
partakers
PESIS
piazzola
port location
pourpensed
printing defect
pump-mixing system
purce
quadratic irrational number
quartile measure of skewness
radiogold seed
redistill
restretched
Ribaga's organ
Rose Bank
RTTR
scritch-scratch
seal a victory
ship rig
ship-repairing industry
Sinujif
slobbiness
snock
stake net
stop payment on a check
Sympatosan
synchronizing amplifier
take a position
tariff cycle
tin metallurgy
topsin
uniform medium
unmeritingly
Vegard law
vertical flight
Vila Cabral
would'a