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
activated-sludge method
Anglocentrically
apronal
ararobas
be in order
bearing sleeve gasket
bit scattering
bolt heater
boning knife
buggering up
buttonwoods
calendar call
cerealious
chain-hook
change the line of production
chordae willisii
cmj
comparative statement of actual and estimated profit and loss
compressive yield point
Conlie
controllable costance
crepel
current operation
cut glass
cypress sedges
day without frost
diphenylmethanes
disc type positive displacement flowmeter
dodecahedron
drill fittings
druidisms
Eli Porter
eudistomin
factifying
fecma
framing window pulse
general custers
gets away
Gilles de la Tourette syndrome
ground wind test
inhibitor response
interfacial surface tension
interserting
iturraldes
Jackson L.
Jan Vermeer
kraft paper sack
length composition
Liberia
liehr
light-signal transfer characteristic
line of balance
locus of change
loss occurring basis
lump sum appropriation
mold insulation
monkey ladders
motorcycle-taxi
Newton third law
no-operation
nuclei ventralis thalami
nurse a constituency
optical radar system
pacholite
pan pan
pass under the name of
pericolic
physiologic diplopia
play sth up
Plumbolimonite
polypoid change
pull-slice
put it there
queasinesses
quick action
race camshaft
reciprocal multiplication
reconstructive phase transition
rigid feedback controller
roombed
schneevoigt georg
schults
shaft lineshakeproof
Shepway
shoe-horneds
sicily
single fault
sound signal shell
steelbath
sticky finish
systems programmer
talks back
tappet plate
time-honoured
trama peridium
tropospheric duct
unallowable character
undebatable
Verderon
vmax
water-changes
Yeonsan