时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课

  pear-shaped的本义是“梨形的、底宽顶窄的”,它通常可以引申为另一个意思:“全完了,都毁了”。


  这种用法最早出现在20世纪60年代,由英语短语go pear-shaped演变而来,go pear-shaped表示“误入歧途,土崩瓦解,失去控制或失败”。


  pear-shaped的由来很有可能与皇家空军有关。空军飞行员学习各种特技飞行,其中包括翻圈飞行。翻圈飞行对有经验的飞行员来说也比较困难,何况是新手呢?一般新手翻的圈都不太圆,呈梨形。所以地面上的人看新手翻圈表演时就会说:He's gone all pear-shaped. pear-shaped因此引申为“失败,全完了”。









学英语单词
acinum
air slacking
angle ridge
appriou
be on automatic pilot
Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah
blowdown stack.
Boumango
ceramodontice
chevron stripe
classicizing
climaxed
cobalt-carrying solution
compression release cock
computer-aided phototypesetting
congele
conjunction transformation
Coptotermes curvignathus Holmgren
correspondence with
counterdemonstrate
cushion socket
dill hole
dinobryon sertularia
Elatostema yungshunense
encephaloventriculography
ethylhydrazine
flagsetter
flour sack towel
freezing by expansion
frequency prediction chart
Furemon
genetic checkerboard
Geumodo
hand-dryer
heterosquares
increase in price
instruction simulator
Kenzharyk
key-boss
Kolatsel'ga
Kuhnt-Szymanowski operation
left right indicator
load-bearing plate
longitudinal
lululemon
magazine safety
mailer-daemon
mal-ominous
mesomorphism
miraculizing
miraxanthin
mismeasuring
mizen boom
monophialidic
Moussorgsky
Muladu
Munteni Buzǎu
N-methylphenazonium methosulfate
naguib
nap-taking
normal impact
not the slightest
panegyrize
papilomavirus
paranitroaniline
ramus praetrematicus n. branch.
reads-out
resentfulness
rides up
sammartini
scatter effect
separated subgrade
serpentine wall
shiftful
signal enhancement shallowlayer seismograph
skylounge
Sledge-runner
sow-backed
soziodol
stage-discharge rating
sulfur black
synchronized
teixobactin
teledish
temperate zooplankton
ternary eutectic point
thermosetting resins
thrower
tip top
trigonum deltoideopectorale
Turkifying
U-type internal combustion engine
unruffled
unstocked forest land
vas aberrans
vlnas
voxelized
winchman
woodwasp
xhx
zool