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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acetate rayon staple
adventive flora
air bottle for salvage
alkali-resistant flask
Argonne three-roll tube reducer
as best one may
back wiring operation
backscatter cross section
bakelite cement
batonist
black canyon city
callablest
canistel
Cannon ring
canvaser
carstons
co-fired
cotton balls
courtiership
cut out accuracy
d.o
decoy transponder
denmarks
determining the identity of the inventor
Distobram
dragonetti
Dubynove
eastfacing
electron-bombarded amorphous silicon
electronic mail message transfer system
elementary wave
ferma
fine structural
flat arch floor tile
forage straw
formative photography
geofences
good nature
gynecological genetics
half rack
hand-delivered
heteromerization
Humphrey Bogart
hyre
if the worst comes to the worst
independent replicate series
inward and outward
irregular pillar
jannings
jar
k-e
Kamey
Karamyshka
lexicographic evaluation function
logic word
Masoreth
mayersohn
methoxyethane
microscopial
monolithic
multichannel data recorder
multielement seismoscope
mushmelon
non-sparking metal
nonlinear amplifying medium
NORA (Norwegian zero reactor assembly)
not-max
on display
pad colling system
pal(a)eobiopetrography
parasitic microbe
pentacotyl
periodontal therapeutics
piano wires
plunger cam
pole earthing
polymerisations
postmultiplication
principal agricultural meteorological station
pseudocinchonine
relay servomechanism
remiform
rest pin
romanova
root inflexion
sea-girts
sensitive clay
sextuple-effect evaporation
shadow-land
single-bond energy
single-figure
situation display console
sorodium
Sowau
sweat ducts
thrust-adjusting gear
tiere sind keine sachen
toluol
tooth
tramped
twinnie
Weil's stain