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
alum precipitated pertussis vaccine
ambassador without destination
anti reflective film
arbitration law
assignee number
Baltimore Berth Grain Charter
beta receptors
biotic pyramid
bud thinning
cae(computer-aided engineering)
cake ink
Card Services
Cebu maguey
centers of gravity
checker plate
chilling shrink
circular transformation
convertible signature
coral necklace
corrumps
Countesthorpe
dermatozoiasis
desolator
Dimeearbin
discohere
disturbed coordinates
double-film theory
drachenfels
drift off area
emission nebula
erythrodysesthesia
explicit natural resources
fast-page mode
Father of the Submarine
fleshing machine for fur
fossil-hunters
gelatin dessert
genus dryass
gotas
greenawalt
heat stream
heavy-duty transfer case
heritable security
hildr
hushy
income limit
intrinsic properties
job shop processing
Judayyidah
juvenile elastoma
Kakaramea
kicking about
kuwaits
Kvam
La Sal
locationality
lock nut bearing
lorry-hopped
low vacuum measurement
marine hydrochemistry
melon seed chocolate
middletone
monthly production report
Mozharov Maydan
naphthoyltrifluoroacetone
nonvertiginous
offshore crane
oil immersion method
oil tube
optical density of cloud
out for
partial resistance
patent room
perpendicular iosertion
pie suppers
plea of insanity
protective block
recess-resect
rhesuss
Samiria, L.
sexhormones poisoning
shock pathology
siegerrebe
snow-blindnesses
sparking-plug
staircase component
stenophyllism
stiripentol
stubborn as a mule
supply closet
tension fatigue
tera-joule
the green party
trophoblastic lacuna
type caster
Vauvenargues
verification of measuring instruments
videl telephone
wetroom
wheldon
wilfrid