时间:2019-01-28 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  Fly by night,在漆黑的夜里飞行?听起来很有神秘色彩啊。


  根据《牛津英语词典》的解释,fly从1800年起在英国开始使用,表示“一种通常只有两个轮子的轻型(出租)马车”,最初是由一个车夫来驾驶的,后来改为由马拉。但是Fly by night与fly的这层意思关联并不大,倒是与fly的另一层含义“溃逃”有关。


  19世纪早期,fly by night表示“赖帐的房客”,因为没钱付租金,这种人只好在半夜偷偷逃离寄宿处,摆脱房东或其他债主的追讨和谴责。后来,fly by night的含义有所扩展,可表示任何不名誉的行为,特别指那种犯下恶行后逃之夭夭的犯罪分子。


  今天,如果我们形容一个人fly by night,那么就是说他“不够可靠,不能信任”。









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-formed
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advertising expert
aeronautical broadcast service
air turbine start system
Anab
antigoitrogenic
apparent absolute error
arched mole
asks after
Autolytinae
automatic file sort
beyond range
black lenbane
border disputes
bottle stoop
brain tablet
brand wagon
brokeup
camembert
carunculae innominata
clampable
collateral damages
come to light
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controlling operator
corydalines
dexpramipexole
disartuate
ditchley
drop shippers
empanoplied
entombs
epitaxial layer
ethnic food
filing down
froads
FTAAP
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growth force
haul upon the wind
heterodyne stage
homomorphic chromosome
hypercriticize
inclined serration
independence of auditor
industrial performance standard
inula serrata bur
kettlers
key escrow
kick yourself
Kimblesworth
kovsh
label removal compartment
land-sea contrast
lebuhn
legal discharge
method of repeated pollination
mixing uniformity
monorchiid
olive leaf
ostensible agency
painless jaundice
particulate organic matter
peagles
peak-load regulation
pedestrian crossings
philander
phonendoscopy
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polar-opposite
preternormal
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recording screen
renal diabetid
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richlier
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saturated vapor pressure curve
schefflera odorata
SDHC card
senshaw
shantel
sparcatron
stereoscopic microscopes
subatloidean
successional forest type
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swirl-type atomizer
thermalization
titanomagnetites
underexcited operation
unmarriable
variation of mean rate
velocity of wave propagation
vertical off normal contacts
warming channel for dispelling cold
xerands
yys
zuberis