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
acetylamino acid
Acolen
Add. T.
amplitude characteristic
Anthoratonite
apparent sun set
ARCMAIL
arteria arcuatas
baitboxes
Benacol
biting-sucking mouthparts
bundle homotopy
camera taking characteristic
cheiroschisis
collapsible pot
command structure
compound screw mechanism
cone-bottom condenser
connected complex
construers
continuous-time signal system
correlation of random noise
cost sb. dearly
crinite
cryogenic magnetic field
Deaflympics
degradation of polymer
diffusion limiting current
diopter dividing ring
discounted cost
Doxi-UM
edge gluer
Elkedra
Exceptional Item
feasts of lights
flooding tank
foredune community
frain
fredholm minor
gomphonema
greater thans
horizon slice
hyperalkaline rock
icelos
image section descriptor
inquisitor gracilispira
islot
jaccalin
Kujama
lemonary
light emitter
Limited Risk
Linotron
load responsible control
maximum breadth
movemetn
multi-trace analysis display
mundivagant
Ngat
nonappetitive
normal element
nozzle closure opening pressure
palace car
palatomaxillary canal
pea flour
period-end balance
peripteroi
phylogeographer
principle of software engineering
pump effective power,pump output power
pushbutton actuator
quantity supplied
railways
ray transformer
refresh graphics
relative-position heuristic
roller-gear cam mechanism
ruficaulis
Rugosofusulina
scabies Norwegian
sciomyzids
sehula bhanjyang
semi-automatic signal
sholoms
Sibbald's rorqual
sizes of it
sonic depth-finding instrument
station message detail recording
structural survey
temperature variation test
thenylpyramine
thraa
toilet soup
torso murder
transaction key
ultraviolet crossliking
underwater excavation
untaught
Ureshino
wandoes
zimler