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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active structural network
adequate housing
adjustable gib
analetical
angle test piece
areographic
Arrente
arresting barrier
Asquithian
automatic bandwidth control
automatic phase control
Baxter Springs
be a copycat
be in luck
blood vessel transplantation
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brown-black
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chronic kidney failure
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collection plan
component of computer system
consumption increase rate
cryptotiss
debate
desperate measures
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excitation-contraction decoupling
expansion opening
fibrous ring of heart
flocculation-turbidity test
frascatore
fusariomycosis
geometrical staircase
Georgian Orthodox church
glossonyms
go and see
horizontal supply curve
immune defense
incaite
informatin
isotopic laboratory
juddes
law-and-social-science
left-half derivative
Lewis University
liquid plunger filler
locked-rotor
log manifold
LP(a)
master coordinates
matrocline
mesh procedure
microcontinental
MTC (memory timing chain)
noncompetitive ligand
optical dust instrument
oxidation-reduction cycle
oxysparteine
pinch back
plate mesh
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reaction arrester
reamer with spiral flutes
rehyphenated
replicated distributed database
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reznik
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see after
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serpent charmer
sets about
shooda
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skyjacking
standardista
stringing out
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system resident executive
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term for appeal
time division multiple access
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twinlab
unode
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