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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airborne
as chance would have it
axiomatic potential theory
back cut-off power recorder
battle-axe
bettaneys
bottom pour ladle
breeze through
brief psychodynamic therapy
buckskin cloth
Chenopodium gracilispicum
cierge
clavus syphiliticus
cloud testing
code-breakers
control base
cross-dressed
cxf
decoding by error trapping
defiber
dehydroandrographolide
depuiss
design augumented by computer
disappearing filament pyrometer
discovered reserves
Dores de Campos
double-bitt
electrical masking
erychroside
Etoscol
eurobin
family haliotidaes
fatigue wear
fermentation tun
flame treatment
flat line
forspeak
Free well
full-inboard rudder
gastric
gastrotonometry
Gilligan
glimpsers
guillet diagram
Gundlakamma R.
high field mobitity
high index circulation
high-key lighting
hoarded cash
homoentropic
investment commitment
Jaddua
long grinder
Lyubavichi
make a hand at
Marcuse, Herbert
meisters
mixed rain and snow
multifactors
musculotendinous centers
mydaus
negawatt
nominance
outwardly opened casement
parathion methyl-trichlorphon powder
peece
Picroallumogene
Pilea microphylla
plumeries
point-foussed
precise data
probe memory
Rauschenberg
real transition
reasonable use of water
rit.est
Rochelle salt microphone
Selenokobellite
separation factors
shad-ows
shimamushi disease
signal at stop
sized material
smooth jazz
socializings
sodium methyl mercaptide
spit the dummy
state - of - the - art technology
steel visual inspection
steering-wheel placing
storm radar data processor
syndrome of yin deficiency and blood dryness
the eight immortals
tied-in clause
timber range
toledos
Udex extraction process
undemocratise
unpurchaseable
vdsl
water purification works
Weisen-U