时间:2019-02-13 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

 Pinkie: 小手指


在色彩王国里,所有关于粉红的想象似乎都离不开“娇小”——粉红让人想到刚出生的婴儿,粉红让人想到娇柔的少女,对哦,在花儿的海洋里,粉红色的月季还代表初恋。如果说,“粉红”与五指中的一个手指有关,那一定非“小手指”莫属了。 Pinkie意为“小手指”,美国常用语,其渊源颇费一番周折——经由苏格兰从荷兰传至美国。Pink在古荷兰语中指“小”,而在现代荷兰语中,“粉色”即为小手指。17世纪时,苏格兰人引用了pink(小)的含义,用pink eye来形容“半闭着的眼睛”。也有一种说法认为,苏格兰有一种粉红色的花,由于其“含苞待放”状即为花开,所以,pink被用来形容任何娇小的事物。 大约到19世纪,pinkie(小手指)正式进入英语词汇,如果下次有人向您抱怨:My little pinkie got 1 caught in the door(我的小指被门挤住了),您可千万别茫然不知所措。记着,“pinkie”即为“小手指”。

v.(get的过去式)得到,猜到,明白
  • I just got some bad news.我刚得到一些坏消息。
  • I have got far too much work to do.我要做的事太多了。
标签: 口语
学英语单词
(data) processing
adjugacy set
agaricomycetes
Agesta reactor
air-sick
anticlimatic
Ayeyarwady
banderole
blow your stack
Boot program
breedlove
building property title certificate
butt-type core
callus tumor
camellia
carotenoderma
cattle feed
chromocytometer
Cochran's rule
commotional
converter analog element
correction of leeway
crystallographic slip mechanism
cut off lid
deep-ultraviolet
dental school
depth line
derricking-motion
deturgylone
Dhulikhel
dictyodroma formosana
dipping resin
dormant time
drum soaker
ductuli transversi epoophori
earthquake dislocation
electric tensometer (tensimeter)
embossed effect
environmental hygiene of domestic animals
eudysmic ratios
extreme pressure grease
Ferribraunite
fiddle string
fungible freight
golden bell
govand
gungude
hoodedness
Hoppe-Seyletr tests
hot floor dryer
intervallo diminuito
jet fuel thermal oxidation stability tester
johnny cashes
liftingly
make a clean breast of sth
manufacturer brand
maxi single
minibubble
niffed
nitramidine
nonkeratinizing
Nu-shima
officiant
oil fuel atomizing steam
osmos tube
ourhele
overconcerned
palaeomicroides aritai
parasite aircraft
particle in suspension
peel-crow
phytohemagglutinin skin test
pickup lift shaft
Pongwe
primary detachment of retina
principle of public opening
PVP-I
realties
reflective-critical reason
roisterers
seen with half an eye
shielding counter
silence room
silicynes
smash down
sniglet
t flip-flop
tail-down
tom-rig
trade liberalization
trochoid pump
uanc
uff da
uncheatable
under-provision
underwater fill
ventricular Fluid
Visual Basic
water diffusion due to kidney deficiency
windrose
Yunnan honeysuckle
zine sulfide atmosphere tracer