时间:2019-01-23 作者:英语课 分类:英语早间课堂


英语课

 【课堂热身】


首先,let's warm up,我们还是先来热热身。在第17课中我们讲到了一个短语—— ace 1 in the hole. It means a secret advantage, for ready to use if you need to. 可以翻译为:杀手锏,必杀技,锦囊妙计,秘密王牌,最后王牌,看家本领,绝招,秘密武器,强大的备用手段(或方法)等等意思。
今天说一下这个短语的用法。因为ace in the hole是个idiom,即:习惯用语。有的习惯用语在一些名词前是不能加上任何修饰词的。但是这个短语名词ace前面可以加不定冠词an和物主代词one's,也可以加定冠词the。下面我们来看三个例句。
例句1:High technology remains 2 the ace in the hole for foreign companies.高科技仍然是外国公司的王牌。
例句2:That 100 dollars is my ace in the hole.那100美元是我应急备用的钱。
例句3:The prosecutor 3 had an ace in the hole: an eyewitness 4.检举人有秘密武器:目击者。
【今日主题】
Ace in the hole作为“杀手锏”“锦囊妙计”等意思多用语美国的北部。在英国有另外一个说法。So, what's it?我们来听下面的这个例句。
All my dear listeners, listen to my sentence——You surely have an ace up your sleeve! While we hope he can get through this crisis, this is the best we can do for now. 亲爱的听众,您觉得这句话中那里表述出了“杀手锏”“锦囊妙计”的意思呢?
这句话的意思是你还真是有留一手的锦囊妙计呢。我想,我们除了祝福他这次能度过难关,这也是我们目前能做的最好的事了。
在这句话中用了一个含有名词an ace和一个副词短语up one's sleeve来表述“杀手锏”“锦囊妙计”的意思。在这个短语中,an ace up your sleeve中的sleeve意思是袖子。副词短语up one's sleeve是秘密保留着,准备在适当时机或有需要的时候才拿出来或做出来。A-c-e,ace是纸牌中的最大的一张牌。在这个句子中,用an ace和up one's sleeve组合在一起来表述“杀手锏”“锦囊妙计”的意思。
我们知道ace是纸牌的意思,那么我们还有一个词是纸牌的意思,c-a-r-d,card。所以card up one's sleeve也是“杀手锏”“锦囊妙计”的意思。For example, Bill always has a card up his sleeve, so whenever faced up with a puzzle, he could find a way. Bill总有锦囊妙计,所以无论何时遇问题,他都能解决。
短语an ace up one's sleeve和card up one's sleeve为何它有“杀手锏”“锦囊妙计”的意思呢?这个还是起源于玩牌的个游戏。玩牌的人如果把一张好牌塞在袖管里,他的目的是拿这张牌来换牌从而取胜。
最新第7版牛津词典中是说an ace up one's sleeve is used in British English; ace in the hole is used in American English.但是这个短语在美国习语词典里说道an ace up one's sleeve和ace in the hole是不尽相同的。
不同在那里呢?玩牌的人如果把一张好牌塞在袖管里,他的目的是拿这张牌来换牌从而取胜,但是他的手段既不合游戏规则又不光明正大。这就是an ace up one's sleeve和ace in the hole不同的地方。ace in the hole 虽然是暗牌,但是合乎游戏规则,而an ace up one's sleeve却是暗中藏牌欺骗作弊了,可以翻译为:取胜的手段,花招,耍老千。接下来我们要听个例子。这是律师在跟当事人谈即将开庭的案子。
例句:I believe we'll win your case. Unless the lawyer on the other side has an ace up his sleeve and has bribed 5 a witness to give false testimony 6, or something like that: this man is known for his cheating. 我相信我们会打赢这场官司。除非对方的律师会不择手段,使出收买证人作伪证之类的花招来,而这人也确实有欺诈的名声的。
 
转自可可英语

n.A牌;发球得分;佼佼者;adj.杰出的
  • A good negotiator always has more than one ace in the hole.谈判高手总有数张王牌在手。
  • He is an ace mechanic.He can repair any cars.他是一流的机械师,什么车都会修。
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
n.起诉人;检察官,公诉人
  • The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
  • The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。
n.目击者,见证人
  • The police questioned several eyewitness to the murder.警察询问了谋杀案的几位目击者。
  • He was the only eyewitness of the robbery.他是那起抢劫案的唯一目击者。
v.贿赂( bribe的过去式和过去分词 );向(某人)行贿,贿赂
  • They bribed him with costly presents. 他们用贵重的礼物贿赂他。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • He bribed himself onto the committee. 他暗通关节,钻营投机挤进了委员会。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
n.证词;见证,证明
  • The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
  • He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。
学英语单词
2-propanone
all-trades
Amalphitan Code
arithmetic underflow
backsies
brises-soleil
broda
buttress-root
captive firing
cathode-biased flip-flop
change-manager
clinocephalism
Control character.
coupling knuckle pin
cutawi machine
d.v
dbrc data-sharing control
dentin matrix
devotional
distractingly
dual indicator
efficiency of feedlot gain
endorsors
Fastnachtsspiel
Fintona
fluorophytosterol
give something one's best shot
glass resistor
glossolysis
gorilla gorilla beringeis
herocane
high quality training
ICP (integrated circuit package)
in a string
ink surface tension
joint variation
K'elafo
kindredship
lace
lignum benedictum
made myself understood
mamma's
marchandise
Marmesine
mattlis
menemsha
minieres
minocycline
molecular radius
multiplicative variation
nazarbaev
o-aminophenol sulfate
oulette
perthiocyanogen
pettitts
Philos. Rev.
photoplastic recording
plain friction bearing
PNAB
polyamorist
polysaccharoses
population gradation
postburnout heat transfer
prefield
pseudohibernation
Pulvinaria camellicola
scenopinids
sectoral supporting services
self-convergent CRT
several-seeded
showing over
side reaction coefficient
silicon planet
smilesmirk
soft switching
solid rolled centre
spark plug pliers
spoon feed
St. Johns River
starus
stepped arch
stern tube packing gland
stoker coal
straight low
subsea template
subsequent settlement
Sulci cerebrales
systemic herbicide
tall drink of water
Tang ware
Tawfīqīyah
theorem of polyhedron
thethy
thousand-years
threatening question
tibetan terriers
tonalpohualli
transliterates
wakon
wave penetration
Weber-number
worthly