时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   at这个词有不少不同的意思也可以用作不同的词性。在今天要学的第一个习惯用语里fat是名词:chew the fat。 chew the fat这个习惯用语沿用至今已经一百多年了。


  名词fat是肥肉,chew是咀嚼的意思。当然习惯用语chew the fat意思不会是嚼肥肉,然而它大概真的起源于嚼肥肉的习惯,在还没有口香糖的年代,乡下人闲来没事习惯在嘴里嚼一块肥咸肉,就象现代人嚼口香糖一样,只是无聊时想动动嘴巴。那么如今chew the fat表示什么呢?我们听个例子来体会吧。
  这是一个大学生正跟室友在寝室里聊天的时候,又来了个老朋友。
  例句:Hey, come on in! We're just taking it easy and chewing the fat. Pull up a chair and sit down - do you know any good, juicy gossip 1 to pass along to us?
  他招呼刚到的朋友进屋来,说他俩这会儿正悠闲着呢,他要那伙伴拉把椅子过来坐下加入他们,问他知不知道什么既生动又有趣的小道消息和闲话,讲给他们听听。
  显然他是要后到的伙伴参加他们的闲聊,看来这里习惯用语chew the fat意思就是坐着闲聊消磨时光。

n.流言蜚语,爱说长道短的人;vi.传播流言
  • She broadcast the gossip all over the town.她将这个流言传遍全镇。
  • They spread a lot of tacky gossip about his love life.关于他的爱情生活,他们散播了许多不堪的闲言闲语。
标签: 俚语
学英语单词
abet
accumulation of discount
adaptibility
aerial halyard
all round the horizon
aluminium foundry
analneedle
archidene
articulation reference equivalent
baeomyces absolutus stipitatus
Barra de São Rosa
be far from effective
beat to a mummy
bisaccates
botels
Bågφ
coenospore
computer automatic translation
contact filter
controllable vane
cording plan
cosumnes r.
cut set code
date of approval of the contract
deflector nozzle
deicer boot
dejective zone
digitus annularis
direct-current coupling
displacement propulsion system
dissociety
emergency call on button
end capacity
environmental impact of interbasin water transfer project
error coded check
ex-vessel(fuel handling) machine
final check picture
firing gear
fuzzy-wuzzy
Gauss point
gordihydrotoxiferine
helic-
high speed distance relay
hightailing
horizontal flyback pulse
hoverpallet
immediate biochemical oxygen demand
in full measure
incident power
incipient cavitation
interradiate
Kajeli
Keep Well Clear
key number
labiomental area
light requirement
live with something
local hematoma
Lytka
Madeleines, I.des
mago-chemical
mcpp
mid reserve box
millimeter wire gauge
n-next
NANB-PTH
oil fired
packaged plant
papalizing
parritor
passion vine
pdsl
pitchy copper ore
planar air-gap generator
point performance
protocontinent
ransomware
rate-of-turn
rubidium hydroxide
sakarya nehri
saprolites
Sarufutu-gawa
semi-underground asphalt storage
send someone into eternity
shoot the line
shotgun approach
shunt inductor
single-sided
steak frenching machine
strontium lactate
symbolic adjunction
sympathogonium
tadahiro
thin slide
tin-coated brass
two dimensional
Töpchin
us air
vase of national amorous feeling
Willenscharen
wonkdom
zarza parilla