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。
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学英语单词
active immunities
adaptivities
admissible wear
afunctional occlusion
agropyrene
almaties
andreetti
angelo
angularmount
antithrust
apex suprarenalis
aqueo-
bahrain dinars
barnlot
bassams
beat-up
borger
captain's sidewall
cellulipetal
Centropristis philadelphica
cerrigydrudion (cerrig-y-drudion)
copra-cake meal
corporate securities representative
correspondents
Cryptocarya amygdalina
cryptococcosis cutis
ctenoid
cytokinesis
deglutive
Drumlea
duplex steam piston pump
eight-beds
et brake
examinates
exscutellate
factoriality
flexible link
Fray Bentos
Geithain
Gomadingen
hyperacid-aminuria
in charge
induced magnetosphere
inspection on structural member development
Intel Mac
irregular corolla
Japanese night heron
kaolin mineral
knopperns
livid pind
lmwc
lympho-epithelial follicle
magnetic method
maximum structural payload
Mosla longispica
multimode fiber joint losses
multiply crisscross
new york state barge canals
nib forming die
non-destructive distillation
nonlinear networks
nonnegative combination
ocean-atmosphere interaction
old schools
Ophiorrhiza filibracteolata
outdoors-oriented
outermost electron
Paederia foetida
pairing variables
paraanalyticity
pay ... bills
peezee
permanent oils
provide insurance against
purchase money mortgage
recineration
red adder
reference fringe
round ligament of liver
self-perpetuating cycle
sidelight lens
spark technique
straight ladder
subvent
sulphur acid
teleoblema
torpedo-boat destroyers
towing paths
trapas
trentepholia (trentepohlia) albogeniculata
trigonitis
two cylinder compound locomotive
two-body force
Unga Strait
uniqueness of admissible estimator
unsaturated solution
unspam
vetitive
vibration load
woodily
worthy to be considered
yellow OB