时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:英语俚语天天说


英语课

   再不懂棒球的人也听说过“base”(垒)—— 棒球内场四个角中的一个,通常用帆布袋或橡胶板作为标记。击球手在跑垒过程中,必须触到“垒”才有望得分。由此,在种类繁多的棒球用语中,怎能少得了与“base(垒)”相关的短语?


  谈“off base”和“touch base”之前,先简单介绍一下棒球规则 —— 在一局比赛中,如果击球手击中球后沿逆时针方向顺利到达一垒,然后跑完所有的三垒,最后跑回本垒,就能得一分。显然,在棒球比赛中,“off base”指击球手未跑完全垒就被淘汰出局,而“touch base”则指击球手跑到某一垒成功触垒。
  由此,运用到日常生活中,“off base”常喻指“荒谬的,错的太离谱(尤指基于错误前提之上的错误言行)”,如:The stories are off base(报道完全失实);His description of the accounting 1 system was totally off base(他所描述的会计体制实在荒诞的离谱)。
  相应的,“touch base”在美国口语中指“短暂的逗留”。
  或者,“touch every base”常用来形容“面面俱到”;
  “touch some of the bases”则喻指“谈某一问题的某些方面”。
  看例句:
  He came to the US without touching 2 base in England(他没在英国逗留就到了美国);
  The reporter has touched every base(记者中谈到了该问题的各个方面)。

n.会计,会计学,借贷对照表
  • A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
  • There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
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abscission joint
acne rosacea
actinomycosis of bladder
advanced liberalism
arboring tool
atgar
autogenous inhibition
barometric pressure
be loose
Bol'shoy Ol'doy
broad loom carpet
chaotic movement
circulating blood volume measuring device
coefficient of gas amplification
color parameter
common water snakes
compact topology
componence
cratonic crust
damping rate
diagnostic thermograph
disembrangle
distance code
doleful
dryfire
ducks in a row
dumping angle
dust cage
EFPH
electrically welded chain
enterprise storage network
eye stone
financial requirement
footmanship
furnace operation curve
gather color
genus Galeocerdo
genus muscaris
give to the to the world
glandular cell
goniometrical
gunrooms
hang up one's shingle
hartshorn
helical coil spring
hiredman
hoisting pad
i.o.p.
industrial architecture
kinetics of particles
know ... by sight
kowd
kylindrite
lac insect
main brake solenoid
maintenance vehicle
makallah
MAOS
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microflyers
Net operating loss carryforwards
nigers
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nucleofugalities
pinophytes
placebo group
plasma-screen
potato gelatin
potyvirus papaya leaf distortion mosaic virus
Proceno
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pyrogens
reciprocal motion
rostov-on-don
rule sth out
Sanguinaria canadensis
sci-
setzler
shopped around
small vessel
sodium orthothioantimonate
sole user
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standard sample survey theory
state highway system
suspicioning
take the helm of
technical sergeant
Tecopa
telosome(endrizzi & kohel 1966)
topoisomers
touch-powder
triangular tooth
unconsecrate
unidirectional system
vacuum triaxial test
ventricular extrasystole
Voltage Identification Digital
volume outside bark
welded construction
whistle something down the wind
Zhirnovskiy Rayon