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
a duckling
abduct
additional mark up
adjutant bird
aeronautical charting
antemortem clot
Araloop machine
attenuating blast
automatic cut-out
basaloid carcinoma
BIG suits
body centre plate
calculates on
charcoal grey
chiastoline
chronic spinal muscular atrophy
Comblanchien
copper-zinc cell
corn holes
Coulounieix-Chamiers
coupling characteristic
crew cuts
curing mixer
darnei
deceue
differential pickup
display processor
drum-type filter
duplex one-tape
eddycard memory
effects track
electron-beam scanner
empyema tube
epicanthus
eupatorium purpureum l.
faculative
fastest mine sweepers
Favorskii-Babayan acetylenic alcohol synthesis
Fill Subpaths
fixed linkage mechanism
flagged up
flat filament
focus-skin distance
foreign-trade
forest scenic spot
fuel pressure control
gallophone
giant source
glossopalatine nerve
guntrip
hematopathologists
hyperoxygenised
instantaneous quantity
inventory determined size
kite
ks steel
layer ploughing
Leonardian
lichen verrucosus
locked-rotor exciting current
lyttletons
marmoses
metamorphic rock gas
mid-facial plate
okta
optical prisms
overhang crankshaft
Peeping Tom
plain loop
polystage
post captain
pseudoserosa
rapping hammer
rate of dispersion
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recovery position
resolve to do
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rumbustious
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seal by stainless conical ring
seasonal items
secondary nucleation
sehr
semi
shield relay
smoothness check
starter gear housing
state vector
strikes through
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supraglottic
surgical nonabsorbable sutures
terminal bond
Triboulet's test
trigonometopus (tetroxyrhina) submaculipennis
trophozoite
unpliable
Uta, Wai
water supply and sewerage drawing
weale away
welding on