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
Abishai
aceria eriobotrya
adjustable bearing split bearing
agency bill
anglesey islands
Anopheles tessellatus
aqueous extraction method
areflexia
Aridaia
auto-fractionator
ban bua yai
Bill Brandt
biomedcentral
by the skin of her teeth
Caillaud
caught in the crossfire
chorioangioma
cittotaema variabilis
codepoints
converter protection
damping magnet
darkroom lamp
deserve the bauble
dorsalis
duplex printing
engendrures
enrich yin
enterprisingly
eutomous
excretory cystography
five star general
fuel sloshing
GHAWDWHMY
Ghostly presence
glass moulding machine
graphic information retrieval language
graphics primitive
green agave
gum rash
gumple-foisted
heat choke
hellzapoppins
high caloric diet
high state
high-molecular coagulant
induced draught fan
initial depression
intersection rate of return
intratemporal
isoeffect gravity anomaly
King Ernest Joseph
littorideserta
miniSD
mutant character
myesha
N-recognin
nayer
neglect of
non firm offer
numerical differentiation
obovoidal
occurence
Oluji
optical efficiency
overmatches
patternmaking material
phentolamine hydrochloride
piping guan
plastic shrinkage
pliers entry
pre-emergence sprayer
precurarine
programmed electronics pattern
Prussianising
radar instrumentation network
radiophotoluminescent
reawards and punishments
recluce
registered proprietor
reversed ratchet
riding rhyme
road train
roentgenographic cephalometry
sale break-even chart
Salford
slaughterpersons
Soyang-gang
stability arm
storage of analog signal
street dancer
terms of sale
text color
thioethanolamine
tiktaalik
training-camp
Tīnah, Jab.
unfigurative
vasoregulatory asthenia
veneer glue jointer
welding heating
xylene iodide
yardarm group