时间:2019-01-26 作者:英语课 分类:英语单词荟萃


英语课

今天学的词组是talk turkey。 Turkey是火鸡,作为习惯用语,talk turkey的意思是谈正经事,坦率、直截了当地说。火鸡是美国人感恩节大餐的传统佳肴。美国农业部因此每年感恩节都有专家值班,回答民众有关火鸡烹饪和食品安全的问题,"The experts from the Agriculture Department are talking turkey all day long." -- 农业部的专家们一整天都在坦率地和民众交谈。


这里, talk turkey一语双关,人们在感恩节时提出的问题大都跟烤火鸡有关。不过talk turkey平时也常用,你可以跟你的朋友说,"talk turkey or I'll go," -- 说正事吧,不然我就走了。今天学的词组是talk turkey...


 



学英语单词
alternating current network calculator
alumel-chromel
asymmetric step function
Ballincloher
bat-handle
black-legged ticks
bloglike
blow-back
bow and string girder
carbon burn-up cell
carbonyl value
chance machine
Chynow
circumstantiator
complaint department
concentration jump
contractual personnel
coppedges
dawley
decibel with reference to one kilowatt
decking
dication
disposal of donated share
effervescible
electron withdrawing group
endorsement without recourse
fastract
feel ashamed of
fibrinoscopy
fluorodopa
gatherer stitching machine
general prevention
genus amanitas
Ginkgoales
glazed iron
gold deposition
Golgi-Mazzoni corpuscles
Gönük
hard fact
high voltage cable
immunopolysaccharides
index of liquidity
indirect cost effectiveness
inertial missile
ingressor
inter-blocks
intercostal artery
Joint Meteorological Board
know ... inside out
Laird Hill
lazy-bones
limpo
Lorentz invariant electromagnetic mass
lusterless-glaze
maneuvering load factor
mansionettes
marbot
maximum digging radius at floor level
meteoriopsis reclinata
mosovich
multiple integration method
multiple transient system
noirish
nucleophosphatase
Old Scandinavian
omphalocentric
Ouddorp
participant-roles
period of cancellation
phosphosilicate
pineapple cake
poop shoot
probacy
pseudonymising
raster graphics processor
recursive program
rulli
satstream
scanning telemeter
self-correcting
serdeles (al uwaynat)
shake-and-bake (food)
shinless
sneeriest
Solu-Medrone
speeche
St-Benoît, Arrondissement
sugar-candian
supradialectal
tetrakishexahedra
tetramethyl-disilazane
theater area index
to feather one's nest
transmitting disturbances
tugendhats
universal service condition
variable pitch cylindrical helical spring
vitaminK3
wave forms
West Leichhardt
wheelbox
yauds