时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 生活中难免有不如意的事情发生。就算你再愤怒,再无奈,有些事也是无法改变的。这个时候,只有安慰一下自己,接受现实,说一声:“That's the way the ball bounces”(这就是生活)。


这个习语源自20世纪50年代。从字面意思看,球就是这么弹起来的,也就是自然规律,于是引申为“这就是生活”。还有一个类似的说法叫“That's the way the cookie crumbles”,饼干就是这么碎的。不管是弹起的球,还是碎了的饼干,这些说法能够流传至今,应该归功于它们念起来朗朗上口——“ball”和“bounce”都是“b”开头,而“cookie”和“crumbles”都是“c”开头。
另外,还有一种说法是“That's the way it goes”。不管是哪种说法,都流露着人们的无奈。
看下面例句:
--You promised to baby-sit on the night of Jean's party?
你答应在珍妮开派对那天晚上看孩子?
--Oh, well, that's the way the ball bounces.
哎,没有办法呀。

标签: 生活
学英语单词
act of dominion
adighting
algo
anastopoulos
aphasias
arccosines
asa-foetida
aurinol
basic meaning
bill of lading act
blows off steam
burtonports
butterfly throttle
California coffee
choice of importing equipment
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
classical topology
clothes designer
cold-trap
communication link controller
compassionate-use
composite credit appraisal
concertized
creditrice
crocose
decomposition texture
default assumption
drilled valve head
ethylene-vinylacetate copolymer
farmacie
fibrillogenic
fictionize
FRACP
Fraxinus nigra
gayful
genus erithacuss
geological prospecting
gilled cooler
graphite-uranium ratio
greyhound racing
handbook of inspection requirements
inaction
index of refraction of light
infrared spectrograph
irany
isetan
joculator (england)
k-cup
koharski
literal translation
loop row
mandylors
mechanical-loss
middle man
morning-noon-and-night
necked part
neodymium magnet
nitrobacterias
Nocardia somaliensis
nonagreements
nozzle jet dryer
operation controlled by extraction
out of order
overruning brake
parlkaline
peacham
pickup mark
pitch shots
polar fox
polytrophic egg tube
prototypically
puberty
request queue
rounded sand
scoop neck
shuttering mark
snowdogs
spreadometer
spring loaded valve
stable platform
step expression
streetfight
subsistence levels
super-high frequency
supercede
the flap of an envelope
tibetan sheep
tornado warning
unintermittedly
unworthness
urocaudal
vacuum pressure valves
Vida Guerra
vietnameses
wave momentum density
waved spring
weathering deposit
weisl
wire plotting
Xizangia
yen-bay
zinc-base bearing alloy