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
aerophytobioint
air breathing organs
Andersen disease
annual rent
autopneumatic
autopolyploidy
baddeleyite
bear the odium of
Bendioxide
bimetallic monetary system
biodiagnostic
blaming
boil-off liquor
Broussonetia kurzii
byzantine generals
calcium bromiodide
chartbooks
circuitions
coastguard station
cold-eeze
concurrent program
conservation of angular momentum
cotton gum tree
curved breakwater
decalcified-bone plate
dumb chalder
dyingness
dynegy
enneaeteric
epigenetic washout
evalinas
fasciculuss
favic chandelier mycelium
first-language
five pillars
forced suspending
freij
frequency behaviour
giga-radian
greengart
Grubbs' test method
Guy of Burgundy
heart rate monitor
high pressure relief valve
hydroclathrus clathratus
isobutylene-isoprene copolymer
jackling
jejunoplasties
latching beam
Lucas' spring rheotome
Ludlul bel nemeqi
lundgrens
mail message
medicinal wine
mentawis
micro-meshes
mock angina
modified tooth profile
multiple-effect refrigerator
NSC-109229
oddnesses
oxygen insufflation
pastoring
pendulum distributor
pioepithelium
platinum-wound furnace
poopoo
preferentially
protospondylous
pulsed-infusion shot-firing
ram wing
reboyo
Rubus L.
run-length encodings
skirton
slamming load
solid state power supply
spatulate leaves
stasigenesis(huxley 1957)
steadfastly
stellung
string-of-beads
subitoes
sundragons
supracrustal rocks
taro plant
Tebāria
threaded flameproof joint
to be in the first year
transversus abdominus
user models and question answering
vacuum arc furnace melting
voice logger
weak acid type ion exchanger
westword
wet masonry
whitesplained
win one's wager
wire-wools
Wittlingen
yiet
zoome