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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abducting
accommodation parties
Achmetha
ambisporangiate
Asanho
assembly language support
atel
automatic steel
azepines
bar-type winding
central peak
chemical abstracts
chint
chiropodical
closed core type transformer
closeness of contours
copy command
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crankcase oil
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cuprous telluride
danish red cattle
devils pk.
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disproportionality theory of crises
divergenece of characters
driving rod
dynamic buckling
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ex plane
exogenous mental retardation
export prepayment
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exsolution structure
fabric lineation
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great trochanter of femur
high lateral wall myocardial infarction
hit someone when he is down
hot plate straightening machine
hot tube reactor
hotlists
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ideal solution
inner guiding post
inward cash flow
it is no concern of mine
karlotoxin
large-scale culture
Leavesden Airport
microphysical
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module preamble format
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morphological image processing
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nitenpyram
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sea slugs
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skyed
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sprockamp
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