时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 Fly by night: 不可靠


Fly by night,“在漆黑夜里飞行”?当然不能这样望文生义。不过,Fly by night(不可靠)倒真的与夜晚行动有关——赖账房客为逃房租,夜晚偷逃出房东家。 19世纪早期,fly by night被用来形容“赖帐的房客”——因为没钱付房租,他们只好在半夜偷偷逃走。很明显,fly在这里表示“逃离,逃跑”。随着时间的推移,fly by night的词义范围有所扩大,可表示任何不光明的行为,特别指那种犯下恶行后逃之夭夭的犯罪分子。 值得一提的是,在19世纪,fly也可指“一种只有两个轮子的轻型(出租)马车”。这种马车最初由一个车夫来驾驶,后来改为由马拉。 今天,我们常用fly-by-night来形容某个商人“不可靠,不可信任”,所以,做生意或搞投资千万别找那些fly-by-night company(无信誉的公司)来做自己的商业伙伴。看下面一个例句: I want a reputable tour operator, not one of these fly-by-night outfit 1. (我想找一家信誉好的旅行社,而不是那些靠不住的公司。)

n.(为特殊用途的)全套装备,全套服装
  • Jenney bought a new outfit for her daughter's wedding.珍妮为参加女儿的婚礼买了一套新装。
  • His father bought a ski outfit for him on his birthday.他父亲在他生日那天给他买了一套滑雪用具。
标签: Fly
学英语单词
3BP-1
a crib sheet
acceptable use policies(AUP)
airport shuttle
alentemol
Almost was never Almost never killed a fly.
Anglican Church
auditory image
bag and baggage
bornesite
cafeteria
Chivato, Pta.
clap board
classification statement
consistency proof
cooperativist
corddry
cordialize
cow-huby
cowpool
crossbone
curb outlet
cutis marmorata
cystamine
data capture speech synthesis
diazepinone
diethylenetriamine
disconnect switch
dispossesses
double-faced reinforced concrete cover plate
doubleaction black japanned spring hinge
dry sausage
eclamptogenic
electron structure
enzyme recovery
external classification
fish stock
fluorosphere
gonyea
government price support
growth and fattening
high limiting control action
hired labourer
hostel
hydropathists
isonorcedrenol
Koranizing
lamqua
lap wood
lepra celss
liquid nitrogen cooling
low steaming
male-specific
mastyc
Mecenas
mesenchyme cells
Mowhake
mussulah
NADT
negative feedback
netflix and chill
New naturalism
non-sequenced acknowledge
oil exporting countries
olea europaea l. var oleaster dc.
olived
Omega fix
on average
panelized construction
passer-by
peta-second
phytoncide
pictorial trade mark
platform conodont
post-flight inspection (pfi)
pressure-relief device
provenances
proximity fuze
Pushmataha
Ratcliff B.
riederer
Rosenmueller's organ
routing officer
Sanīyah
secondments
sector of breakdown
shedfuls
solvent cut back rust preventive oil
stem lead
supersonic drag
sutura coronaliss
sybil
that play
tiring
undominated
vapour pressure
Vicat test
virtual disc
well-publicizeds
wield
wrestling mat
yngwies