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
accursednesses
analytical methodology
arthritis sicca
ash fusion characteristics
Asset Coverage Ratio
barometer
blind-eye disease of prawn
bulb blowing machine
Bulbophyllum sphaericum
buoyant load
caesarean delivery
carameline
catalogue memory
claims on account of defects
corona printer
credit bill
demonstration by example
Dilabron
diplosegments
disassortative matings
ebland
electronic spin resonance magnetometer
Eproms
excitating voltage
external leakage
fermented milk drink
ferrous metals
fissocantharis ssulingensis
fused silica filter
gas measuring flowmeter
GC-rich nucleus
genus Syzygium
griquaite
grych
gunk
Hebbel
heerden
held their breath
heterosteric
high quality and quick turnaround time
high-temperature resistant glass
histodifferentiation
hobnail livers
Honggun-ri
illumination sign
in respect of
internal oxidation
inverse transitive closure
kemp dances (n. ireland)
Khonkholoy
languorous
latron
man bag
mass spectrum analysis
mode designation
moisture test
monokinis
mortarboard
multi level cell
nail-biting
natural zone
non reversing tap
nunsense
nzema
old lace
particolored
phosphonitrilic polymer
pine looper moth
pingree
pulmonary embolisms
pulse atomic beam
radial immunodiffusion
rebounded upon
reserve parachute
Ruppia
sanguinolaria chinensis
separately compute and pay tax on each category
smiths cold set
soil heat conduction
special dumping duty
special school
spectropolariscope
ST_objects_groups-and-collections-of-things
subfeldspathic lithic arenite
swept into
tannin cell
tape loading
the unities
thermosettable
trail along behind
transphosphoribosylase
twin ebulliometer
uncook
vapour substrate interface
var control
vasovagal attack
weidong
yarn linear density
zagarola
zephyranthes tsouii hu
zuppa