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
agricultural improvement station
apotropous
baidu powder
ball-pen
barometrographs
barrow - in - furness
breakbone fevers
call them
chipstead
chloralammonia
chromatographic parameter
Circair
closing journal
Colourpoint
consignificate
coraciiformess
corkscrew dive
cut point
cut tide
cylindrical nose
dam-brod
differential protection valve
dihydrophenanthrenes
dipping line
direct(directed)pressure
Dubiyevka
Ecsegfalva
emulsified oil quenching
engagement clause
fertilized rate
force-feed lubrication
fourhour
frag-demolition shell
frictional overheadv
Friedrichswalde
gimp nails
grandrelle yarns
gweloes
Gèdre
Hadramaut
hand expansion valve
Helleborus orientalis
I-beam pointer
i-likeness
intra-axonally
invited
Joint Long-range strategic studies USA
kasserine
Kent Point
lava lamp
lay a bet
lays into
lowintensity
Maitenbeth
match type flat slide valve
maximal separable extension
meyerowitz
midlatitude atmosphere
mousambi
Natrii Sulfas
neoerioctrim
Olympic View
one-period
opening it up
order Gaviiformes
out-numbered
PA-VF
parameter representation
parka hood
peak working reverse voltage
phytoextractions
pinicortannic acid
post-typhoid fever
Prophila
quadrifocal
qualitative physical model
rapic acid
research laboratory
response time error
running shale
saccharated ferric phosphate
sandfrac
segarra
seleucuss
shake off
showed up
sohy
Spacelab
stamp batteries
syngonic
tabular value
term loan
the rocky road to
torrita
trail marking pheromone
tyre tube valve
unheroic
unsafe sex
vapourwares
water holes
weapon system trainer
wire splice detector