时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 He is on his uppers: 山穷水尽!


来!先来看一句话——Mr Green had been out of work for several months and was on his uppers. 由前半句的“失业好几个月”,我们可以推出短语on one's uppers表示“潦倒、山穷水尽”。只是,意思虽然知道了,但没有原因的结果总不能尽兴。所以嘛,还得翻翻辞源解析。 在短语on one's uppers中,uppers指“鞋面”。难道“穿着鞋面就表示山穷水尽”?那当然!世界上没有只穿“鞋面”的鞋,若到了只能穿鞋面的份儿,那一定是您鞋跟给磨破了又没钱买新鞋,只能光脚走路。若真穷到这般窘境,怎能不是“山穷水尽”! 顺便的,再来回想其它几个“山穷水尽,智穷力竭”的表达——at one's wits 1 end, at the end of one's rope, at the end of one's tether。看个例句: I' m at my wits ' end worrying about how to pay the bill.(我真没了主意,不知如何才能付清这些帐。)

n.风趣( wit的名词复数 );善于说俏皮话的能力;心智;才智v.风趣( wit的第三人称单数 );善于说俏皮话的能力;心智;才智
  • The authorities are at their wits' end about juvenile delinquency. 当局对青少年犯罪束手无策。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • You have to have your wits about you in a dangerous situation. 在危急的情况下,你得随机应变。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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ABC party
accepted accounting principle
All Whites
analytic variety
ante-dated
anthrafuran
arcus haemalis
assieging
atom population
autosizing device
bigod
boggy tundra
boiler head
breakthrough sweep efficiency
brominated pyranthrone
bucket array
case pack
chronic sources of infection
chuk
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displacement camera
double takes
downcomer filling
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flash forwarding
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fuel oil additives
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general linear regression model
genus Circus
gouty urine
hall gauss meter
hypostatic gene
Idylls of the King
induced angle of attack
Interval operation
ionic interchange
irac (international radio advisory committee)
iron(iii) amidosulfonate
isotope labeling reagent
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large-type sinterer
Legend in your own lunchtime
level crosscut
lift lever
maximum country amount limitation
microprogrammed diagnostics
mitre dovetail
molecular electronics
mopiperone
Morgagni's crypt
mucronated
nayla
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non-documentary
one and a half
Pacchionian granulations
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proletarization
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punt
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register description
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return of assets
Rhododendron octandrum
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sand iron
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semi-closed feed system
senter
sexual acts
spider frame
standard for capital increase
stanyear
stenothyra glabra
stratigraphic subdivision
sublevel-long-hole benching
swan reef
Thrift plan
time-ordering product
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unsays
upkeeps
Wutong Formation
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