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
-stock
19-noretiocholanolone
a smoking bed
affect display
Akāshah
as balls
automatic track initiation
aviara
bear hug
bellybands
billboardlike
blocking electrode
bromoacenaphthene
caffeoylquinic
calcium creosotate
cercospora papaveri nakata
cereal starch
ceruminous gland
charge cooling
chinense
Christmas seal
civicl service reform act (csra)
cloud computing security
cnt
colloidoclasis
concrete mixers
contre-coups
coracoacromial
dual curvature contact lens
effect microphone
electric platen
elevator algorithm
end - stage renal disease
enterprise unionism
entrapment burrow
eufunctional
exencephalous
fault tolerant distributed processing
fiber artificial leather
fission product chemistry
flooring plate
food prohibition
fruit thinning
fuel pit cooling system
glycidamide
Great Artesian Basin
half-caring
halliyard
handpumps
headswoman
heliotropically
horizontal cones
intersilite
Iva xanthifolia
kolmogorov's inequality
Kunsan
laser velocimeter
leathermen
leg assembly
library control
lymph-thrombus
malignant catarrhal fever
marcelles
micheli
milw
model catalyst
mofegiline
Molina, Cerro
non-universities
oil resisting rubber hose
on line analyzer
opinionatists
Oworonsoki
Parvularculaceae
PBPND
pherogram
quasi-dual
reestablishing
return cylinder
revolving plate feeder
scimitarbills
set of shears
Smith drum type machine
subroutine return
syndrome of coagulation cold due to blood deficiency
syngenetic hydrothermal process
talk through one's neck
thermoinducible lysogen
time-cue
tomaymycin
tracheostomise
triple point of equilibrium hydrogen
trophogenic
tunnel ling effect
turbine floatation
turbulent Peclet number
unsees
Venzonate
W/Cdr
wourne
yzrs