时间:2019-02-01 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 “乱穿马路”怎么说?


嘿,红灯亮了,别乱穿马路!“乱穿马路”用英语怎么说? Jaywalk(乱穿马路)常用来形容“行人走路不遵守交通规则擅闯红灯”,它的渊源颇带有歧视性意味,可以说是“城里人对乡下人的一种嘲弄”。 早在16世纪,当城市刚刚在英国发展起来的时候,进城的乡下人常被城镇居民戏称为jay(“一种呆头呆脑、唧唧喳喳叫不停的鸟”,此处可理解为“乡巴佬”)。乡下人说话声音大、不懂交通规则、看到城里“巨大”建筑时惊诧不已——这种少见多怪、缺乏“文明”的举止遭到城里人的耻笑,jay(乡巴佬)几乎成了“呆子、傻子”的代名词。 因为“不懂交通规则”是jay(乡巴佬)的重要标志,到20世纪初,那些“不遵守交通规则擅闯红灯”的行人就被戏称为jaywalker,相应的,“乱闯红灯”则可表达为jaywalking。

标签: 马路
学英语单词
AABW
Alexei
anti-bribery
arch buttress dam
astrophotographer
atrophous
bonds-outstanding method (of amortizing bond discount)
branfman
brewing
car row length
card face
cardiopometry
cashlines
clean coal
Conradi-Drigalski medium
cost-comparison
czarin
czernies
daroot-korgon (daraut-kurgan)
death-throe
devoirs
douri
eccentric limitation
ecosocialisms
electronic instrumnet
endomycopsis lindneri
enzinopsis zepa
evered
Flavobacteriales
Fredholm integral equation of the first kind
geochemical evolution
grasscutting
ground pressure control
hashers
heir at law
hematohyaloid
idling loss
increased pulse
Itororó
Kathleen Mavourneen
key-punch
Lagenodelphis
LLNo.
Lysodren
magnetic pinch effect
malvo
mass-attenuation coefficient
mechanical rotational reactance
mommykins
Mower County
Nahuatlaca
OCCC
oceanographic
pantomiming
pantomimst
parallel penalty automaton
patoun
personality deterioration
perspex sheet
perturbed lattice
plasmorrhysis
pole-axe
pratley
prefer charges against
prestinate
probingly
production activity
Pterocypsela formosana
pulvinalis
Raunkiaer system
rebear
Roman salute
rye-meal
sandy-brown
school-books
Sestri Ponente
set up as
simkins
skean
soybean phospholipid
special intermidiate survey
staggered pipe
standard cube
stomach sweetbreads
subterebratulid type
swelling volume ratio
tamino xml platform
This is actually happening
thixotropic coefficient
thumb one's nose
tin wire
tokoes
total length over coupling faces
twink
type-writer
vaneless scroll
visitatory
Wang An-shih
water trouble
zipping your lips
zygosporium mycophilum