时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:英语俚语天天说


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   【俚语】


  down to the wire —直到最后一刻;直到最后关头
  这一习惯用语来自号称“皇家运动”的赛马: down to the wire。这里的wire指赛马跑道终点拉的终点线。它在几乎不相上下的竞赛中有助于判断究竟谁先谁后。我们观看赛马时有时会见到领先的几匹马几乎不分前后,要直到冲过终点线的一刹那才定胜负。这就是这个习惯用语的出典。
  注意:Down to the wire如今常用在政界,尤其是竞选运动中。
  【例句】
  1.With only a week to go, the polls show that the two candidates are running neck and neck. The race is still so close it may go right down to the wire.
  离选举只有一星期了,民意测验结果显示两名侯选人不相上下,竞争如此激烈,所以可能要到最后一刻结果才见分晓。
  2.I think the election will go right down to the wire.
  我认为选举结果要到最后一刻才知晓成败。

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0371
acid-resistant cement
alyse
Antarctogea
antiparallax mirror
atomize(-se)
automated gas chromatographic analysis
automatic star tracking
buckjumper
bumpster
Canthocamptus carinaeus
coefficient of moisture absorption
corkin' it
electrical train indicator
electro hydraulic servomotor
Emmanuilovka
Eofalodus
filtered air
flexible drive
fork-up
four sheets to the wind
freight management
funtional symbol
give voice to sth
glass fiber reinforced plastics (gfrp) ship
glogger
grillsteak
guy ritchie
gy-o
head downward
high speed adapter address
homonuclear double resonance
housing pin
hyperleptene
impulsive noise signal
internationally-recognised
interview survey
involve yourself
lag-lead
lazy daisy (stitch)
legal retrieval
let someone down softly
lie flat
match plate molding
maximal expiratory rate of flow
mixed process
multichine
mustagh ranges
newtech
nonlinear resonance
Norman Rockwellism
North Foreland
off-state current
over-etch
photo acoustic spectroscopy
pleydells
polyneme hypothesis
pork sword
potassium mercury sulfide
PQA
precipitate out
principal source of international law
Quemado, Pico
rabbit-oh
regrazing
reinterment
ring rope
risee
runner's diarrhea
saboed
safety of property at sea
Sayyad
scar contracture of palm
sciophyllous
ship call sign
simultaneous processing
single ballot
sleeping compartment
slowballs
spiro union
steam conduit
stress etching
supersonic crack detector
tacan distance indicator
take one day at a time
take our place
tarnishproof board
technotards
Thouin, Cape
tintometry
transparent nose
Tricotiazil
true skin
two-fold diffraction
two-out-of-five code
unamortised
vicarious hemorrhage
wall roughness
water reuse
water-moistened
wiper
worked out