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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学英语单词
abbreviated written audit program
Alternaria tenuis
Arenaria-Melanocephala
argument function
auto-tensiometer
autumn planting
Bacillus erythrogenes
Baron Adrian
beating of wave
bleeding teeth
Bognanco
Castanopsis platyacantha
ceterisparibus
chinkling
chubbies
clavicornia
cnet.com
combination detector
Cross the Great Divide
cross-licensed
customer equipment
cxf
data telex telephone service
depriving dilemma
diosgenins
dominant plant
duty cycle capacity
edit decision list
Eisenniere
elevation tracking
exhausted solution
fever African tick
food-growing agriculture
Fossey
frictional heat gain
galvanohypnotism
gas-turbine blower
general identifier
George Gilbert Aime Murphy
gold(i) hydroxide
greedmeisters
gryczan
hashidu
historionomers
Homalorhagae
hot fluid jet texturing process
hot space
hydatiduria
ibuterol
idiota
indifference-level index number
items for export as part of foreign aid
jinglings
Kissinger, Henry Alfre
La Bégude-Blanche
lamorte
land-based waste treatment method
lipuid viscosity
longtimers
look nut
loose brake backing plate
lythidathion
maritime sequence
mating reaction
mobile mine
Mures(maros)
muttniks
nutmeg flowers
on site verification
pangermist
parallel alignment
photic hyposensi-tiveness
plasma decay
Prey Svay
pyrosulphuric acid
radio vector
reassortments
reduction factor
residential land use
rewarding job
rhymable
slip case
socioanthropological
solitariety
speaking up for
special-interest group
spray-nozzle
tarbadillo
teaching away
Tegean
tetrahydtoaminacrine
the chinese language
tine-worm
traveling wave type oscillation
trout lilies
unpadded
valves of foramen ovale
vector algebra
vena cava (or canal vein)
vena pulmonalis superior sinistra
woca
yellow insulation oil silk tape