时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:英语俚语天天说


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   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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