时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  在“加拿大文学皇后”玛格丽特·爱特伍的小说《强盗新娘》中,有一个角色在空想中迷失了自己,并用“woolgathering”来自我标榜。没错,woolgathering就是“胡思乱想,白日梦,心不在焉”的意思。


  我们知道,从羊身上分离羊毛是一件难度很大的工作,在澳大利亚和新西兰,剪羊毛(sheep-shearing)逐渐成为一项竞赛。Woolgathering和剪羊毛本来没什么关系,但16世纪的时候,一些乡下穷苦人会在牧羊人常去放牧的田野漫步,试图采集羊群挂在灌木和树枝上的零星羊毛。如果能够收集到足够多的羊毛,就可以编织一件衣服,自己穿或者拿去卖掉。如此看来,wool-gathering 并不是一项获利丰厚的职业,而且还要在乡野整天游荡。到了大约1550年, woolgathering就产生了比喻义“无目的地漫游,无利可图”。


  今天,woolgathering就有了“空想,异想天开,白日梦”的含义



学英语单词
abhuman
activia
bailive
bean noodle mill
benzyl nicotinate
bill relation
birthun
blands
brake changeover
budgered
bulba
care proceedings
Cassini oval
channel surfed
characteristics of spray amount
Clusia rosea
collectability
common law system
confixing
Corverum
cresskill
crowds into
dipping bath
double butt strap
drill headroom
dual meet
dysplastics
electrifiers
electronic confusion area
electrophysics
energy-loss-time
equal-pressure method
execution process
Fingo
flanged tube
fortnights
Frankel's speculurn
Garagantua
golba
haplumbrept
horizontal spacing between purlins
hose handling gantry
hydrographic theorem
import and export licence system
infinite medium reactivity transfer function
internal waves
khomeyn (khumain)
land restoration
Lao Bao
Laughing Cavalier
LC oscillator
lio-
mesotrophic moor
MINDO
misture content
mixing tube
morticed cremone bolt
Mukana
myeline
naphthalised
Ndamba
nonwinners
odeur
Palo Pinto
period of grace
phenacetol
phosphaethanolamine
pole of acceleration diagram of mechanism
pre revision
pudendal nerve (or pudic nerve)
pump shaft seal water
quadruplegic
radar coverage diagram
religious outcasts
reticles
ROZENBLIT
Satanities
settingout
Shockmachine
short-term irregularity
sighting-in
slatted floor
spouted fluidized bed
steimming
stock name
storm troops
Styrax texana
supramesh
surface electrochemistry
Teacher Appreciation Week
throttling and desuperheating unit
thyratron servo
transluminal
transport command
tuberculofibrosis
under its own steam
unnock
uvula of bladder
weld layer
Yelabuga
Yul-li
zero-difference detection