时间:2019-01-18 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  Keeping 2 up with the Joneses是一个典型的美式习语,表示“和你的富裕邻居保持同等的生活方式或质量”,这其实是一句讽刺的话,指“和左邻右舍比排场比阔气”。


  Joneses表示“与自己社会地位相等的人,邻居”,因为Jones是英语中一个很常见的姓,所以它的复数形式就被用来指代那些生活在你周围、也许只有一墙之隔的人们。如果你去他那里串门,你也许会发现他们家的彩电比你家的大,他们家的地毯踩上去更柔软,甚至他们家阳台上的花草都比你家的茂盛。好吧,你微笑着和他握手告别,回到自己的小家,握紧双拳大喊一声吧:“I must keep 1 up with the Joneses!”。


  语源学家Barry Popik发现,类似的说法keeping up with the Smiths and the Joneses 早在1894年就出现在书本中,到了19世纪晚期简化为keeping up with the Joneses,成为一个固定习语。1913年,专栏画家亚瑟·莫曼德在《纽约世界》(The New York Globe)上开辟了一个连载漫画专栏,标题就是Keeping up with the Joneses。这个专栏在美国报纸上连载了32年,广受欢迎,keep up with the Joneses也顺理成章地成了美国人的日常用语。


  多年后,那位专栏画家撰文解释当年给专栏取这个名字的动机。原来亚瑟23岁时就有了一份周薪125美元的工作,在20世纪初期,这笔收入已经相当可观。亚瑟结婚后搬到纽约城外的“富人区”长岛(Long Island)居住,他见邻居都是乡村俱乐部成员,自己也加入。见人家骑马,他也去买马。见邻居雇用仆人,他还照做。由于他喜欢和左邻右舍攀比斗富,生活越来越铺张浪费,结果落得债台高筑,债主临门,只得搬出长岛富豪区,远离浮华世界。



vt.保存,保留
  • We must keep the classroom clean.我们必须保持教室清洁。
  • This fruit will keep till spring.这水果可以保存到春天。
n.遵守;一致;(与…)协调;保管v.(使)保持, (使)继续( keep的现在分词 );(食品)保持新鲜;保有;保存
  • It was a challenge, keeping ten boisterous seven-year-olds amused. 要逗着十个好动的七岁孩子玩真是一种挑战。
  • She became neurotic about keeping the house clean. 她对保持房屋清洁有点神经质。
学英语单词
about page
adjacent formation
akouphone
Albergen
alkaline additive
anemic heart disease
apepsinia
asynchronous replication
biological optics
bulk movement
bunyip aristocracy
campaign speech
car top protection balustrade
cart balance
cesium ferric selenate
chip-select generator
chlamydomonas
clean seas guide for oil tankers
common alarm
cutting-off machines
D'Ansite
defination
demand publishing
dicranota (amalopina) gibbera
doofus
double spar wing
dumbnut
economical principle
elasto-plastic range
electrical control actuator
emperatrice
feeding mark
flamephotometric titration
flue gas analyser
formula master file
genus pinicolas
giantized
glossiphoniids
glutting
haulage contractor
haws
hbmc
hindu-arabic numerals
holing up
individual health plan
kashmere
Kola, Pulau
land for building
lauby
mass flow rate sensitive detector
methyl-malonic ester
micronarratives
multitimbral
Mān Na
n-y-u
nicoles
not feel
oil-ring retainer
on ... conscience
out gassing rate
pancreas island cells
para amino salicylic acid
part throttle shift
permeability increasing factor
Pernyi moths
persistent induction
phalangial
phone link
puas
recommodifications
reduced function
semiprimitive
sew sth up
sexual arousal
shaktisms
short flexor muscle of great toe
slorach
snowglobes
sonic recorder
stamfords
STF (self-test factor)
strategic bargaining models with incomplete information
streamline government
structural mechanics of thin wall
subglossa
subsidiary note
such-and-such-a-things
supercyclicity
surmountable fatigue
three-pair
to get off the ground
topmost priority
tribunal of economic adjudication
trichadenotecnum obsitum
truck car
useful idiots
vittaria zoster-ifolia bory.
Volkach
wood carbonization
xeromorphic vegetation
yurka
Zhongliao Township