时间:2019-02-07 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 “凑份子”怎么说


室友要过生日了,想一想,如何召集整个寝室为他(她)共置一份生日礼物?听好哦,下面这句话很“实惠”,说不定您立马就用得着 —— Tomorrow is Lucy's birthday. Shall we do a whip-round to buy a joint 1 present for her? Whip-round是一种英式表达,指“大伙儿一起贴钱,以集体的名义为某人买礼物”,它的渊源嘛,相信不?竟然和打猎有关。 Whip-round源于短语whipper-in —— 狩猎时,总会有那么几只猎狗开小差,时不时想要溜出猎狗群,于是,whipper-in(帮助猎手管理猎狗的副手)应运而生,很形象地描述出了“副手”的职责是“拿着鞭子把离群的猎狗赶回大集体的行列”。到19世纪40年代,whipper-in也可缩写为whip。 后来,whipper-in也用来指议会里“督促议员按时参加投票的官员”,说白了,这些官员实际的职责就是召集同党人士采取一致行动,以防其中议员临时“倒戈”。同whipper-in(管理猎狗的副手)一样,这些官员后来也可用whip来指代。 随着时间的推移,whip几乎成了召集大家一致行动的代名词,由其衍生而来的whip-round(凑钱)首次出现于19世纪70年代,此后,一直为大家采用至今。

adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
标签: 凑份子
学英语单词
accretion of discount
Aggadoth
aurometer
autophosphorylates
Ban Kon Bun
bhunia
blahss
bonzerer
brushmark
Burn Hall
capacitance-variable transistor
Cargo Ship Safety Equipment Certificate
casuals
churroes
collectivises
condolement
converter substation scheme
Cullingworth
deep seepage
desids
Dillenburgite
Diskeeper
dispersoid particle
dry adiabatic lapse rate
Eadie plot
electric probe
Estate Duty Ordinance
eye-testings
fistulous witherss
floo-floo bird
footfall
function response
George Forster
glucostrophanthidin
Half-gate
handlebar mustache
heavenly stem-prescription of point selection
heavy gage
heterocentron roseum nand.
high moisture food
in low water
in waves
inaudibly
interference phase contrast microscope
interleaved sweep
internal ramp
khedivate
klooches
likin'
long space disconnect
low-test-gasoline
megre
meshy filter
Mesobins
methodological anarchism
minioluteic acid
Monterey County
multidomain structure
musicfest
non-genetic gene
O-type star
Olenacea
opens fire
P.G.T.
partial-penetration weld
peders
perforated plate distillation column
petrogeologist
piggledy
polyadelph
Polystichy
psychotherapist
Pyrus sinkiangensis
radio source
radio-paging service
resistance to insecticides
rivers
rope someone into something
search for application
secule
Shaveh-Kiriathaim
short-circuit control
socio-technical system school
sorbefacient
stay over
stepless speed changing
suivi
swine enzootic pneumonia
Symplocos congesta
system components
test of vibration caused by carbody bending
the activity of selling
the influence
the natural world
transport ball screw
two bottom plow
valve spring seat pin
Vinh Tan
visual aphasias
West Dorset
writing in
xinxing