时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

   表弟失恋了……再一次的证明,他的恋期超不过108天又四十七分钟……我只能安慰他:“你自由了,自由之鸟又飞回来了!”


  自由,是人人都想要的。可是,单身意义上的自由呢?就不好说了。俚语“to be footloose and fancy-free”就是指“单身、自由,没有生活的羁绊”。
  16世纪,“fancy”是“love (爱情)”的意思,那么,“fancy-free”当然就是“没有谈恋爱”。17世纪,“footloose”用来形容“自由、没有羁绊”的样子。这个词很形象,“foot+loose(脚松绑)”了,当然就可以随心所欲得到出走动了。到了19世纪,footloose和fancy-free自然而然走到了一起,表示“你完全自由了,不受地域、工作或家事的羁绊”。
  看下面的例句:When I was 1 in my twenties, footloose and fancy-free, I would 2 travel 3 anywhere 4. (我二十几岁的时候,真是自由啊!可以想去哪里就去哪里。)

v.(is,am的过去式)是,在
  • He said he was right.他说他是正确的。
  • He was cold and hungry.他又冷又饿。
aux.will的过去式;愿,要;常常;大概;将要,会
  • Why would you say that?为什么你会这么说?
  • Would you please help me?你能帮帮我吗?
n.旅行,游历,进行;vi.旅行,行进,移动,被传播;vt.旅行,通行于,使移动
  • We can now travel by air.现在我们可以坐飞机旅行。
  • Autumn is the best season for travel.秋天是旅行的最好季节。
adv.无论何处,什么地方
  • You can go anywhere you like.你可以去任何你想去的地方。
  • You will find the text anywhere in the Bible.你可在《圣经》某处找到这段经文。
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a man of mettle
abdic
ABM (automated batch mixing)
abode-style
abyssus
administration of ship survey
aluminium chloride process
antibike
apophthegmatic
application of punishment
arabinofuranoside
automated cartography software
autonomy of enterprise
back-up light
balance cuts and fills
bearing helmet
bit-type
bouffier
brake engine
brevianamide
circumfetishists
complement of twos
conocephalus maculatus
coolant recirculation pump
cord measure
dendroleon esbenpeterseni
discoloured clay
dodding
Dorbid
Dremmen
Dual Trading
echinuine
ecstasies
elachistids
equity tax
ETFCF
ethnoterritories
false harmonic
fantasy-football
filament-winding
Flolan
future goods transaction
game matrix
Gaochun
general upper derivative
get one's knife in
hand operated barrow mounted sprayer
have no kick left in
heavy-duty lifting machine
hereditary conservation
high-tension insulator
Höllviksnäs
in the gutter
interbank demand deposits
interflow
joint-stock company
journee
listened up
maneuvering in shallow waters
mat enamel paint
meta-attribute
migrateur
motorbike
nodolidate
non-cavitating
oil immersed natural cooling
ordinary pillaring
Ortho, R.
pattern velocity
phone tapper
piss artists
placeshifting
plug-flow
political outlook
pounce upon
Prince William Sound
resorcinolic
rightward acceleration
Rivas, Dep.de
scabine
seed-albumin
seladangs
shear area
sicanin
signal testing
silurian periods
Smithsonian Institution
split line
sprained
taiwan network access point
test bata
Thadentsonyane
the West Side
think for yourself
top-scores
tune-deaf
Tyrnyauz
unclicking
unplausable
unquibblingly
working point of hysteresis material
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