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!

标签: 俚语
学英语单词
abnormality of teeth in number
adverb clause
age-peer
Alfuy
allowance for deferred maintenance
amortization of research cost
Anacoco
appellate division
archicoel
assets inventory surplus
auxiliary control panel
blater
brow ridge
camerata
certified copy of registry
chautauqua movement
Concord R.
contrast of brightness
cow shed
crude wood-spirit
cyberpioneers
cyclical index
Danemen
dealer price
debottlenecked
Dernau
directional island
dotations
double frequency vibration
engine braking
epithelioid angiomatosis
flannan isles
food hall
fruit bar
Gadafism
Galimyy
gila deserts
he-wolves
horizontal-vertical
how it feels
IBF
IHSI (induction heating stress improvement)
information system for plant level
insipitators
inverse telecine
island effect
kjellander
lakebed
leisure wear
liquid-state electronics
lone wolfer
lysosomal diseases
mamatili
mean fatigue cycle
minimum nozzle area
mint herb
miserablism
mod.praesc.
Moebius syndrome
mou
nati
night-sky
non reflecting coating
Official National de Ia Navigation
oil pollution residues
oist
oversew
partified
pasteurized soil
program evaluation and review technique (pert)
PSA (probabilistic safety analysis)
purchasing and stock budget
PWLV
rational fracetional function
remedium cardinale
retilting
rivelted casing
sensibility analysis
services sites
skew compensation
slow-worm
squarers
St Joseph Parish
ST_the-senses-and-sounds_describing-qualities-of-the-human-voice
staminated
strap bevelling machine
substratifications
swinninburg
thalassoma fuscum
trenchwork
triangular coordination
Trichodactylidae
typographic display
U-bent tube
uk f
umbrella core
unpinioned
vitamine G
WelshE
whole latex rubber
word structures
write checks