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
acid fracturing pump
alias
aqua mirabilis
autonomic neuropathy
avahana (india)
bask in reflected glory(birg)
bid for peace
billhead
boegner
bottom hole separator
brilliant green lactose bile broth
chilled bottom
chondro-epiphysal
Chrysochori
cocommutative coalgebra
delivery van
Dolgovka
double exemption
dropping of interval
dysodiles
essential raw cooling water
extracardial
family income insurance
feisal
ferrihydrites
film machine
from each one
garboard plate
great-power politics
grid current detection
gummous reaction
herennia multipuncta
Heriot Bay
hog-frame
hold no brief for
hypo-adrenalemia
implausibleness
intercomparable
intestinal volvulus
jacobies
Kihoku
kurbashes
lamp pole
laser-driven
lifetime of steam piping
liquid film separation
long-leggedness
Mac-
make a blunder
manahan
meringuey
metallic-covalent mixed bonding
misspeaker
motor support bearing
myoseism
N-m
Nerolysin
oktok
op-
overrepresentations
Parus atricapillus
path scrubber tool
Pearl of Great Price
perforatory
pick off unit
plain barreled roll
planned income
plaquet
polychromatic optical transfer function
polysiloxane aluminium soap grease
Prectisone
preliminary fractionator
Quanil
real time streaming protocol
recessus cochlearis vestibuli
replacement titration
rice green leafhopper
safety chassis
sailing raft
Salix iliensis
Sartang
schematic capture
self-discoveries
semihourly
semijoin
signing bonus
sour and sweet cabbage
split transmission
Standard Western Automatic computer B
Stangeria
stretch-limousines
surcloying
tabuing
thiobenzyl alcohol
troweller
Turn.
uelcosis
UNE-P
verification scale
wapello
yellow maize