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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accrued cost
airless hot spraying
angle lighting fitting
application for shares
arabisant
as I think
as nutty as fruitcake
ballista
barbable
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bifocal glass
biometricss
borax bath
buick
bustard head
call sb for short
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celadon with flyspots
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continuous items
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dark-field
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earth pressure gauge
electrochemical desulfuration
electron beam prober
epilobe
equiformities
extended sense
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false mitreworts
fascine trestle
flame spectroscopy
fleshy bud
Freudian slip
gambusia affiniss
general bottom
Genesis Apocryphon
ghost marriage
golden bell
high strength weldable aluminium alloy
hole-pull strength
human resources information
hyperalaninaemia
hyperbolic chamber
hystr-
infrared remote sounding
instance handle
interference field strength measuring instrument
intermittent operation
Japan Iacquer
joining with peg-shoulder
Kandar
karpovtsev
legal debt margin
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