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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-sexual
a perfect ten
antibutyrylcholinestrasic
autonomic ganglionic drug
bottleneck
bust-this
cable loss
Castroverde de Campos
catatonic dementia
charvette
chlormethine series pharmaceuticals
citadelle
civil support
combo card
copy that
curets
curved crystal
cyanotrophic
damage payments
dessertless
durfee
earthquake axis
El Ojito
end-point error
ethnization
external interrupt line
faint from
fallback position
fantasizer
fogeydom
fossa paralumbar
Fotomatic
foundation of geometry
functional elements
genus petterias
geognostic
gland-type joint
goverdhan
gravitational encounter
growth order
hop flea beetle
hot-blast system
ice shelves
in dubio
in-core neutron flux instrumentation
in-stat
indecomposability
inspiromete
intervisitation
joint process
kiestein
king ferdinands
leutheusser-schnarrenbergers
liaison circuit with block signaling
life-position
ligameata pisohamatum
linear control processes
loave
lock knit
loss of volume
low assay
manamba
maxing
mean time between maintenance action
meliacinolin
mini detectable range
named user license
natural fat
night-blooming jasmine
non geared drive
nonmaterial culture
oiver filter
oral medication
oxynervonic acid
paid up insurance premium
petreity
phasefocusing
pleadings
Potier reactance
pre-pen
preliminary hearing
preparatory stage
radial-inward turbine
radiographed
re-lines
reaction rotating sprinkler
rumblefish
sequential probability-ratio test
shovelloader
side entry nozzle
stack pointer
strychnos alkaloids
superior letters
Tarros
task-oriented
Toline
triboelectric separator
uk stan
uncontinent
unitized design
venerability
veronica longifolia l.