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
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Abietinella
actious
aitana
al Itihaad al Islamiya
all of sth
allopeas clavulinum
alumodeveillite (alumodeweylite)
am out of action
anner dite
aquatic biota
arteriae testiculars
bad debt recovered account
bas -offs
benefit tax
beryllium powder
bored out of her skull
Broxburn
CFXCA
clear ceramic glazed tile
coherent analytic sheaf
combustion spiral
compressive nappe
cordage fiber
CPAV
current consuming
decelerating economy
Delimbe
diode-pumped laser
DP, D.P.
Dysolobium grande
emergences
eqirectangular projection
etheria
excystment
face-centered orthorhombic lattice
febuxostat
fixed-block
flexture test
Fluorineed
Four Thirds system
free skin transplantation
galactosyls
garbage collection bit
goal directed behavior
grena
harring
heteropolar alternator
historiographic
homo sociologicus
hotlines
hysil
Hārbu
intrain
Jongno
Kadsura Kaempf. ex Juss.
ksabis
L. D. P.
leading circuit
legislative thinking
libatory
lipidel
locating valve seat assembly
Locust Grove
longebeff
LT-SRH
macro reference
mariposans
modular masonry unit
monoboard microcomputer
n/p solar cell
non-voice output printer
notophthalmus viridescenss
Ormosia taiana
outmarching
phantom bills
phlegmasia myoica
pilomatricxoma
positive angle of elevation
prototype situation
ptychosperma macarthurii
pulsed
Q-terminals
radium-F
railway division communication system
random amplitude distribution
re-gifts
rotary-screen feed cleaner
Santa Barbara
self-injection
SH-wave
shove off
single-phase region
solution-treated alloy
sucrose gradient centrifugation
superficies-interior points association
temporalis muscles
throatlatches
titupped
trial vehicle
twin double
universal schilling rudder
Ya'ara