时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   某天晚上,我约了好友Carmen一起去看电影。我在电影院入口处等了她一个小时却依然看不到她的踪影。正当我等得心急如焚之际,她面带恐惧、气喘吁吁地跑过来对我说在一家便利店目击了一宗抢劫案。她说哪个劫匪携有手枪并命令店内的人跪下来,否则就开枪。


  我听罢不禁担心起来,连忙问她最后怎么样,她叹了一声说:“After struggling with the police for half an hour, the robber was caught redhanded at last.”我一听到“redhanded”这个词,心里便发抖,脑中不禁联想到一名“满手鲜血”的凶徒来,于是胆战心惊地问她有多少人被劫匪杀害了。
  Carmen不明所以地回答我说,没有人在劫案中丧生。我忽然困惑起来,反问她如果那劫匪没有杀人,他的双手怎么会红?Carmen恍然大悟地向我解释:“Caught red-handed ”是“当场被捕”的意思,并非你所想的“满手鲜血”那么可怕!

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A7S
acotyledonous
amusement expenses
Aso-wan
asset stripper
azimuth orientation unit
biochemistry laboratory
biotite mangerite
blacktipshark
body building exercise
bysitter
castile(soap)
Chinesize
chlorquinox
clifdens
cluster concept program
coefficient of transformationn
cold climate with moist winter
continuum emission
controlled Petri net
crotonis fructus
D-8
debt serving
denumber
diffusings
digital polse
Dracena
ectopic gestations
electrostatic-focus gun
engobe decorating
esculamine
federated architecture
ferry range
fidicinales
fishing tackle gear
fixed cumulative dividend
floating point compaction
forced O-ring seal
fowl growth factor
free-space wave
full and continuous release
galazyme
gaseous coolant
gibbe
gournia
hall-of-famer
haptoreaction
heeks
hopfnerite
in bad nick
indian-file cell pattern
intrique
iso-alleles
jactitations
Klingerite
kosgei
magnesia limestone
magnetotactic bacteria
manganberzelite
marginal history
membranae intercostales posteriores
metalscope
miscellaneous load
misremembers
mother liquid
movement notation
much-coveted
nurmi
Orthopristis chrysopterus
Owanka
Oyo, Jab.
pce
production mask
pull out test
regulatory opportunism
reversed current relay
risk manager
rollerblader
ruddinesses
sanddrift
senatoresses
sensitivity amplifier
sopless
spherical condenser
squirearch
stratospheric pollutant
Sulzberger-Garb syndrome
symphoniously
taken a shit
Takhār, Velāyat-e
teeth bar
think little of
thyroidism
to stand at attention
touch threshold
trade and economic agreement
traveling cableway
trimethylglyine
underdraw
water utilization tax
winding skip
wine-grape