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”。









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acetalic
adjustment function
aerating process
aluminium nitride ceramics
American phobia
Amunzen
Anopheles subpictus subpictus
Anser fabalis
applying oneself
area defence system
avants
balopticon
bank credit proxy
barium tungstate
belt-buckles
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bleeder disease
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end-launching
equivolumnar wave
explicans
face grinding
fluid-operated controller
gregaria
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host transceiver
hot spot corrosion
hour angle system of coordinate
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indevolvibility
inhaled
intervisitation
Kader's operation
knock into
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level playing field
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logic memory
longitudinal plane of symmetry of vehicle
mactation
magnetic sorting bridge
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