时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:英语俚语天天说


英语课

   平时我们在表示很确定某件事的时候,常会说,如果这件事出了差错,“我就不姓王”。这句话在英语里也有对应的表达方法,就是eat one's hat,通常跟if从句搭配使用。


  当一个人说eat his hat,那就是他十分肯定他说的话是对的,要是他错了,他宁可把自己的帽子给吃了。翻译成中文就是:要是他错了,他就不姓张,或不姓李等等。
  eat one's hat 我就不姓王
  这种说法最早出现在迪更斯(Charles Dickens)的《匹克威克外传》(The Pickwick Papers)里:
  "If I knew as little of life as that, I'd eat my hat and swallow the buckle 1 whole."
  如果我对生活了解的那么少的话,我就把帽子和带扣吞下去。
  举个例子来说吧,一个密歇根大学的研究生王某某对自己的学校感到非常骄傲,他对他的朋友说:
  Michigan has a great football team this fall. If we don't win the national championship this year, I'll eat my hat.
  密歇根大学今年秋天绝对会有一个非常强的足球队。要是我们今年不能获得全国足球赛冠军的话,我就不姓王。
  下面这个例子是一个姓李的股票商正在对他的顾客说话,预测股票市场的前景。
  One thing I do know something about--playing the stock 2 market. And I'll eat my hat if it doesn't go up another three hundred points by the end of the year.
  有一样东西我还懂得一点,那就是玩股票市场。要是到今年年底股票价格不上升三百个百分点的话,我就不姓李。

n.扣子,带扣;v.把...扣住,由于压力而弯曲
  • The two ends buckle at the back.带子两端在背后扣起来。
  • She found it hard to buckle down.她很难专心做一件事情。
n.存货,储备;树干;血统;股份;家畜;adj.存货的;平凡的,惯用的;股票的;畜牧的;vt.进货,采购;储存;供给;vi.出新芽;进货
  • The shop takes stock every week on Friday mornings.这家商店每星期五早晨盘点存货。
  • Experts have forecast an upturn in the stock market.专家已预测股票市场价格有上升趋势。
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-tene
a duck of a
address incrementer
analogue interface characteristics
annlid
automatic reorganization
average molecular weight
aviation selected special weather report
Ayeyarwady Div.
bed filling
best wishes for you
bloc vote
Bothriocephalus cordatus
bromide paper
capsule review
card image
centralized dispatching
charadrius vociferuss
clean game
common language
conditional crack initiation toughness
cost of passenger kilometers
counterfeitest
crystallization inhibitor
csaw
decede
delivery gauge
domicile by operation of law
earnest-looking
epidermal cell turnover rate
exasperation
factory-to-dealer
fourth pinion
foy(fully oriented yarn)
fubb
geesaman
globaline
grand climacteric
haloragaceous
head-hunting
IMPATT
indaign
intent on
It goes without saying.
Kānī Darreh
Lanchow
limbus corne?
line dances
linked queue
lower cap
Lérida, Prov.de
make a present of sth to sb
meaurand
medium nucleus
medium spiny neurons
mellozing
Mickey Doo
mvuli
Native Californian
NHRP
of the century
over-prove
patient-related
plate-girder flange splice
pressure alarm indicator
prima liability
product-moment correlation matrix
Puncture-vine Fruit
ratio frequency welding
receipt for duty and interest
recomforture
Representations and warranties
response to open-flame exposure
river-snail
run a cooperative
salem-keizer
self aligning coupling
sending end crossfire
speed-limiting device
starch cell
subcircle
surface of subsidence
tee branch
tertiary care
to ... mind
toe-caps
totum
towed pulvi-mixer
traffic information
transient thermal impedance
transversum
trip free release
UNCOR
unfestively
uninformedly
Unixisms
urningism
vendress
waste liquor
West Brits
WRAC, W.R.A.C
YMHA, Y.M.H.A.