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
access facility
acoustic model
adjustment by method of polygon
alpingi
arana
articulationes sellaris
axiomaticity
baserunner
beer money
before the event
bell tent
books of hosea
bracketing of eigenvalue
Bramletteius
break up of catalyst
Bro. & F.
bugger me
camel toe
cannon cracker
ceraks
certificate of tax deposit
chemical dose
coimmunostaining
collimators
comes unglued
credit sale agreement
detergent/dispersant additive
dietary factor
digital phase-locked loop
edaphonekton
Enkianthus deflexus
equivalence partitioning
Fair Dealer
Fox's impetigo
free weapon
gelante
gross' test
hakone
Haldagerlille
heptoximate
huckaback weave
hybrid diagnostic program
igw
indirect radiogram
investigation and survey
isothecium myosuroides
kapakahi
knockmealdown mts.
legations
luggage and parcel traffic accident
manchets
Manolete
maximum a posteriori (map) criterion
mild steel checkered plate
Mini DisplayPort
Mokshan
monitoring antenna
monopotassium glutamate
no throughfare
p-wave velocity
pa t'ang hsieh
PACO2
Pandora's box
Paragraph formatting
pattern drum
peace be upon him
pinguite
pink-and-white
pivotal fault
pole type transformer
postheroic
production study
project scheme of account
prostatic suturing instruments set
psychotoxics
quensyl
regular pitch roller chain
relative order
saddle shaped tower packing
series axis
sextant angle
sheaf of multiplicative group
skill inventory
slab hatches
squamiferous
stoker grate
subaqueous levee
superregenerator
supply bunker
suspension insulator
talks big
tectaria dissecta
thermopneumatic control system
transcolating
tyre applying press
ukely
unruffled
van devanter
What has gone of someone?
Wiamuasi
work-in-process total sheet and cost total list
zero base budget