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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abacinating
air-crash
Alcampel
allergologist
altronic acid
antecedent theorem
as sure as I'm standing here
assassinating
astronomical shape theory
auto-acceleration
Barbfish
blade-lift coefficient
Blumea linearis
bromoprotein
buhagiars
buy for ready money
camel's foots
catch at shadows
centrally-controlleds
change file access
change of denomination
clammy chickweeds
concrete vibrating stand
conhydrin
conquinine
data control clerk
dechy
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enstrophies
external photoeffect detector
fabricating dispatch
fast-recovery diode
FBHH
final sedimentation
Foum el Kheneg
freshwoman
Garadag
gauffer machine
geography of railroad transport
glandular pubescent
glycosyl ceramide
greater yang2 point
gregory pincuss
hackbutter
hagenauers
halfinch
hammer welding
harmful drinker
have sb. over a barrel
HNI
industrial environment health
K-T boundary
lancea
language acquisition device
liese
like a headless chicken
log phase
long-term potentiation (ltp)
maintops
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method of constant stimuli
microspectroscopes
muttoniness
Myastigmine
narrow-bore coiumn
no-names
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Nochka
normally on device
not really?
NSAID
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perdit
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pocket battleship
podocytic process
polyfunctional alcohol
program switch word
psycho-acoustics
puffs-puffs
queueeing
radon (rn)
reluctance microphone
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rootin' tootin'
scatter(ing)
scot
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similitude
speed flash
spiderwood
stereographic horizon projection
subscleral
surface sheath
synthetic fibre rope splice
triremes
unrestrained
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waiter-service
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