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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4-diazo-5-ketononane
abstract method error
Aldenhoven
alkaline electrode
all-digital simulation
allrighty
Aquanil
arres muscle
beam element
biocharacter
bipolar electric motor
bushop
capital expenditure volume effects
cargo sliding
Carswell Air Force Base
chia ts'o
Chloradorm
circular array
clevel
commencement of business
computer documents
costume party
Cotronei
critical-damping
cupressus govenianas
dance of the masai (tanzania)
Darbyshire spectrum
deagglomerations
dicacious
dorseter
emanometry
emberiza bruniceps
ennahdha
eurotium amstelodami
Even Homer sometimes nods.
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fielden
fire hat
free sampling method
give her juice
glimchers
globaline
go-astern
height diameter ratio of a vawt
hemispherical radiation
hotski
hum adjustment
Huong Khe
hybrid variety
icteric necrosis
inferior basal vein
inside dimension
intangible item
janusz
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kerosene blast burner
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lateral inhomogeneity
making a dent in
menocelis
mesoblastic nephroma
micropipe
molybdenum disulfide lubricant
mulberry cutting sickle
native defect
out-tell
overeating disease
paraphillias
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platinogold
PPG Industries, Inc.
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quinonoid formula
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surgelimit
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thethe
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valeraldehyde oxime
vivda
wasbunds
yellowish-red
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