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
'Atbāy
'oly
.afm files
acidicflux
acms operator command
air operational communications network
alocopocythere goujoni
anthrasol
arctium lappas
azoangin
balens
Ban Pa Lan
bare bar copper
bepowdered
Blessig's groove
blocking antibody
bull information systems
Buxus sempervirens L.
c transformation
cam shaped piston
carbon dichloride
counter-current multistage extraction
data reduction center
data-addressed memory
decision support system (dss)
depth of no motion
dial up access
diffusion property
disputer
dual water supply
dunce cap mat
dynamicizer
ectopic ureteral orifice
Elaeagnus ohashii
Elephantopus
eosinophil leucocyte
esophagodynia
facing pages
faeroes is. (faroe is.)
felson
gaborone (gaberones)
gastroschisis
harridge
hen manure
HEOD
indanone
kerosine lamps
Lasianthus longisepalus
lathe centre point
Lawrence Peter Berra
Lodge,Sir Oliver Joseph
magnetic pulsation
make tracks for home
Mana, R.
mburu
mcleroy
micropalaeobotany
Mirando City
motive state
myocardial rupture
nickel iron matte
nonopsonized
normalized radar cross section (nrsc)
obeyers
ordinary representation
ovulation stage
pandemic infection
paraldehyde poisoning
paraparetic
peak metabolic rate
percentage duty cycle
periodic circuit
Petatlan
polar granule
portal chamber
positivist
pourprestures
pre-play
program loading
propylites
pulse oximetry
put sth aside
Ramus canalis pterygoidei
Reddies
reflecting dichroic mirror
Rubberlip
ruficeps
salpingostomies
semihydraulic lime
stepanovite
stylized font
superheater header end plate
text preparation
toffee apples
top icing
transconfiguration
two-course range
unmanned helper engine
velar consonants
weighted analysis
workplace layout charts
xylophile