时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  我们知道eyetooth指人的“犬齿,上颚尖牙”。可是英国首相布莱尔在被问及如何看待英国对美国政府的大力支持时,却说过这样一句话:“I think most countries around the world would give their eyeteeth to have that relationship.”这是什么意思呢?


  词组to give one's eyeteeth for sth.在演讲中比较常见,表示“愿意用重大的牺牲或代价来换取……”。早在20世纪30年代,eyeteeth就出现在英国作家威廉·萨姆塞特·毛姆的小说《寻欢作乐》(Cakes and Ale)中,表示“犬齿”。Eyeteeth的这一含义可以追溯到1580年,起因是犬齿离眼睛比较近,而且位于两眼的正下方。由于犬齿的神经系统离眼睛比较近,所以任何对犬齿的损伤都会造成强烈的痛楚。因此,自愿遭受失去犬齿的痛苦当然是一种“巨大的牺牲”,这就是to give one's eyeteeth for sth. 的来历了。


  英语中还有类似的说法:to give one's eyes for sth。



学英语单词
abditories
absidal
active defence against locusts
all-action
amblyseius pascalis
antiordinance
apitoxin
articulus tarsometatarseus i
biotic district
Cabrerets
calusari (rumania)
card read punch unit
chrome mineral
chromyl sulfate
chupe
Clythiidae
colliery consumption
conversion stage
converted dwelling
cost polls
credit amounts
cross-compuund steam turbine
decolouration
dedication of way
disenvelop
display typewriter
Dizan
downish
Dry Prong
dubinin
electronic pump
emetines
employees' pension fund
featural
fenugreek seeds
fibre staining
free reserve method
frozen metaphors
geisha ball
genus Catalpa
Grassmanian variety
handing of door
heppest
high frequency furnace
high writingspeed socilloscope tube
Histimin
hochschules
horizontal retraction
hotels.com
in one's shirt
inclination survey
inner common tangent
Kano-san
ladder type decoupling filter
lag gravel
laserpuncture
leaping weir
liver palm
Loir-et-Cher
maximum credible accident
military institute
molecular taxonomy
naramycin A
noiseless pulse
orthonitrate
ousting
pathogenic psychical factor
peckers
philomenes
Photo Stream
pinchuk
power house within the dam,inside dam power house
premortal
queene
radioactive families
re-ran
redockings
remote transfer point
rotation camera
rueful
Scyliorhinidae
seasonal retriction
sequence estimation
spiral disk
stmicroelectronic
streptcoccus epidemicus
supercomputer center
Terrasson-la-Villedieu
thermocouple-type gauge
train consist list
Twin Peaksiest
ultrasoundcardiogram
under storey
unitizers
upclimbing
valerienol
vaultage
vesanic type
virtual communities
watch-buoy
welfare princess
Wireless Gigabit Alliance