时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   今天要学的俚语是七十年代开始出现的说法:fat farm。farm原意是“农场或者牧场”,可是fat farm绝对不是牛肥马壮的牧场;正相反,fat farm是减肥兼度假的地方。


  人们去fat farm住上一些日子,是为了寻求专家帮助减轻体重,办法通常是每餐节制饮食,天天作大量运动,并配合种种办法去除身上的赘肉和脂肪,使人更健美。当然这得花好多钱。人们会在他认为最有必要改善自己形象的时候去fat farm。比方说,夏初去海滨浴场之前的一些日子,或者要去参加什么重大的社交活动之前。
  我们听个例子。说话的人在路上巧遇老朋友Jenny,他要告诉我们自己的感想。
  例句:I bumped 1 into Jenny Blank in the street yesterday. And she looks at least ten years younger. She's been to a fat farm and lost twenty pounds. And she says she's feeling great!
  他说:我昨天在街上碰巧遇到Jenny Blank,她看来至少年轻了十岁,她去了减肥中心,体重减了二十磅。她说自己感觉好极了!
  这里的习惯说法fat farm是度假兼减肥的地方,不同于每天去的健身房。

凸起的,凸状的
  • In the dark I bumped into a chair. 我在黑暗中撞上了一把椅子。
  • I bumped against an old friend in town today. 我今天在城里偶然碰见了一个老朋友。
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acetic-alkali equilibrium
air waves
airworthiness requirements
alhpa olefin
almazy
appress
association rule
atomic domain
averaging of stock
baronne
boot floor
bridge dynamic loading test
Bristol Zoo
Broadback R.
business competition
calendar progress chart
cancelled ballot ticket
conclusive of evidence
coordinate-transformation matrix
crew's book
cryoproteins
dead-reckoning sailing
Deeping Gate
degree of a central simple algebra
detail operating schedule
dissolvent(solvent)
doofi
e-topia
epileptogenic foci
euv
exponential waveform
fetch a high price
Ficulle
fieldworking
Gant'iadi
garlic-herb
Gasthaus, gasthauser
great bur(dock)
greedy
guest-chef
haematite (hematite)
heavier-than-air aircraft
hours underway
human-caused
hyperuricacidemia
initialisation
instr
international practial tempernature scale
latrappite
lattix
life boatman
LSHI
luc besson
macroevolution (goldschmidt 1940)
main angle
moment at support
mroe
natural language understanding
nerra
novality
outbound ship
outcrossings
overseme
paragrph
Parker's method
password changed service
photoelectric regulator
pitchshifters
poor crop
production control record
radial-cooling
remote handling gear
removal of tibial graft
repomen
roller chain with attachments
sacramentized
Sandinist, Sandinista
sezary
shatter test
single - parent family
sinkful
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source positioning
standardization sample
staple pit
statistical power
supplemental appropriation
supratemporolateral
sweet vetches
technivorm
teleprocessing system
themto
thermo-mechanical magnetic treatment
thomaite
Tobol River
two way make before break contact
varnishing machine
weisberger
wing college
xylylmethylhydantoin
yellow Sallys
zoophilism