时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 习语:风水轮流转


参加过同学聚会的人最深的感受是什么?变化!当年默默无闻、闷头看书的人现在侃侃而谈;当年天天挨批、站墙角的人现在事业如日中天……感叹世事变化,真个是“风水轮流转,三十年河东三十年河西呀!” 习语“shoe is on the other foot”暗含有“风水轮流转”之意,在不同语境下可译为“现在情形与以前不同啦”,“今非昔比”,“三十年河东,三十年河西”。 据说,19世纪以前,鞋和靴子是不分左右脚的,两只鞋随便换着穿。但是如果你的脚一直穿同一只鞋子,久而久之,鞋子的形状就会与穿鞋的脚一模一样。到了这时,如果左脚再穿右脚鞋——不好意思——今非昔比,你很难再像从前那样不分左右脚来穿鞋。 随着时间的推移,现代意义上的“shoe is on the other foot”有了其比喻义:双方地位发生了变化(风水轮流转;三十年河东,三十年河西);今非昔比(形势与以前不同了)。
看例句:For the last ten years the Tigers have been the worst team in the league 1: we've finished down at the bottom 2. But now the shoe is on the other foot: we have all these good young players and we're beating everybody else in the whole league.在过去的十年里,我们“老虎队”一直是参加联赛的所有球队中最差的一个,比赛总是最后一名。现在不同啦,我们的队员都很年轻,球技也好,“老虎队”目前所向披靡。

n.同盟,联盟,社团,联合会
  • I'll never forget the day when I joined the Youth League.我永远不会忘记我入团的那一天。
  • Half of the students in our class are League members.我们班有一半学生是团员。
n.底部;屁股,臀部;adj.底部的
  • The bottom of the cup is broken.这杯子的底破了。
  • The channel must have a flat bottom.沟道的底要平。
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aerated nappe
afterbody drag
air-water valve
angioneurotomy
antisarcomatous sera
automatic exposure mode
azonal climax
base terminal
Bissersheim
bond crowd
breakdown of flame
bring a charge of something against someone
call on/upon
card sender
China's foreign exchange
chinook wind
classification by function
contention for shared recources
continuous uniform distribution
crak
crossflow operation
dependent bacteria
Distoma hepaticum
double folded vernier
drunkery
Elviscerate
fast-growth
flame arrestor
floating-charging station
flustering
free-ups
functionarism
give short shrift
Grotte di Castro
half power beam width
happy-clappy
harperpaperbacks
hasselbeck
hemibiotrophs
Her shey, Alfred Day
ingenerability
iron roller
joint tort
joz
kleinere
lessee's minimum lease payments
made it your business
make-up valve
melting zone
microcosting
Monteggia
narrow gap welding
negative difference
neo-cortex
nonswearing
normal ground water depletion curve
nunno
oil-contaminated water
one-pipe loop circuit heating system
oratestin
oscillatory twin
OTHOPTERA
oval countersunk screw
paletiology
Pennington County
permeability of heat
petroso-occipital bone
photodepolarization
pickling
pillorised
planes cyaneus
preMuslim
prespermatid
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quick-growing plantation
retardive
roll back point
season breeder
shoot a basket
short takeoff speed
slippery elm
spectral power distribution
spectroscopically pure graphite
strain drain
stress
tetramethylholarrhimine
tonic sol fa
ulmarias
unbias(s)ed estimate
undermannned
unit pathfinder
upright creel
variable resistance transducer
videojournalist
visual approach and landing chart (val)
vitanition
water raising capacity
weak principleof fading memory
wet shotcreting
wine lists
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