时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   因工作关系,先生认识了不少在不同领域颇有建树的朋友,我也因此沾光参加他们的聚会。


  这类聚会对我有点压力,但逼著自己尽量去适应,不能每次都当一位听众。一位旁观者,多多少少都要开开"金口"吧!
  一次大家正好谈到其中一位朋友所从事的工作,一位男士说:" He has a ball at his feet。"我不等任何人回应,也没等被赞誉者发表任何谦虚之词,脱口而出:"我没看见他脚边有球。"
  这一出口非同小可,大家都我继续【语出惊人】地发表【高见】,我却没了下文,等我弄清楚那句话的【弦外之音】,可以想像那有多尴尬。
  原来,"have the ball at one's feet",是指对某人看好,深信某人有机会成功,而我却一口咬定那位朋友没有那样的本事。 还好,他们都理解了我这个外国人!

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学英语单词
Abrikosov model
acceptance proof test
Afro-Indian
alternation of destination fee
altschul
anchoring of stonework
anode stem
antiknock quality
attract current
azzoli
B.S.Ed.
beaded glass
bedazzlingly
bergapten
boiling tube
bornholmerstrasse
buffer vessel
Carex sclerocarpa
ceratosaurs
cholesterol lipoidosis
clicking die
color pattern
compasture
consequent
cosmodela batesi
count on the finger
dandy-cock
differentiation of labor
down-point
drosophila melanogasters
electromagent
elliptical horn
ephrins
facies antonina
fictitiousness
flight levels
Gaoqiao pastry
gauge interaction
genus weigelas
get outta
gold-
green soap
ground-launched cruise missile (glcm)
guerrillalike
high-gain imaging array
Hueter's maneuver
intransitivize
intransparency
invigorator
Kya Tan
leaf size class
leukorrheas
Li, Mae
load density of distribution system
long wave receiver
lopholatilus chamaeleonticepss
low-power measurement
lowest possible low water
make public
master control program
matooke
mean fictitious clock
Ocpan
orthotropia
outformations
ovulariopsis salicis-warburgii
paniscus
Parseval theorem
pexin
pie in the sky
plasticised fabric
proletarianizations
put someone to service
ramp down
ranciere
reception of impulse
receptoric atrophy
rejuvenated platform
road haulage undertaking
roseola infantums
scheuerman
semi automatic hose machine
seminal vesicle examination
signal threshold
skogb?lite (tapiolite)
sluice dam
Sparganium stenophyllum
spinal arachnoid mater
springcreekite
stone drain
supporting cost
swuling
telemetry beacon
the emperor has no clothes
traction and thermodynamic test
treacle sponge
undro
unguiltiness
urinary infection
vanguard container
venae pulmonales
walhallas