时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

 Teetotal: 滴酒不沾


逢年过节、亲朋相聚,餐桌上自然免不了酒。如果您不胜酒力,倒真不如干脆一点,直接来句—— “我向来滴酒不沾”。这句搪塞之辞,其相应的英文表达是:“I am a teetotaler”。关于teetotaler的渊源,得从英国一个禁酒主义者做演讲时的“口吃”说起。 1832年,英国人Richard Turner(理查·特纳)参加了在Preston(普雷斯顿)举行的禁酒集会。特纳是个文盲,以卖鱼为生。有趣的是,他当时参加禁酒集会,完全是抱着开玩笑的心态,去之前还喝得半晕。在这次集会上,他仅用浓重的地方口音说了一句话——“Nothing but t-t-t-t-total abstinence will do”(只有-- 完-- 完 -- 完全戒酒才行)。 不想,t-t-t-t-total一出口竟一鸣惊人、流传百世。这句重复了几遍的“t”,被听众认为是带有强调意义的修辞手法,teetotal由此进入英语词汇,用来指代“绝对禁酒主义”。随着岁月的流逝,teetotal或其相应的名词形式teetotaller也可以用做口语,指“完全不喝酒的人”。举个例子: A:"Would you like some brandy?"(“喝点白兰地吗?”)
B: "No, thanks, I'm (a ) teetotal."(“谢谢,可是我滴酒不沾。”)

标签: Teetotal
学英语单词
a tergo
a wedding reception
acoustic output
Adler test
aims at
analogue unit
Antiochus Hierax
Atmis
AUTEC
avocado trees
bataunt
befeathers
Bevtoft
Big Smoky Valley
blacktail prairie dogs
camera accessory
casing test string
child rearing
cladding tube internal side
clinopyroxenite
Colne Point
complines
connected spaces
cordon off something
covered writing
dead legs
defecits
dihydroxyindole
do a marvel
don't count your chickens
dunniest
dwarf juniper
ecom
elliptic plane geometry
fmc
FYL
glandular pharyngitis
glyoctamide
GPGPU
half section effect
Hlebwegyi
hydrosulfate
IC engine spark arrester
Ichthyodea
illuminating flare
insectivorous sac
isomorphism of linear spaces
Javanese Batik prints
Khasan
Klep
Labadists
like an anvil on a hammer
liquid source diffusion
mahamane
marisleysis
model community
mommet
mondanoes
NSC-80439
oleum picis rectificatum
Online Certificate Status Protocol
optimising
outplotted
pansch
play footsie
polymeric ultrafiltration membrane
pontine fibers
porchia
quotient frame
rappeneau
Raschel machines-RR
reprovals
rewettings
Rhododendron rex
rubromarginata
Rupelian
scale-effect investigation
sequence, data
sky screen
slip region
slot, time
solid ionization chamber
Soroseris gillii
sorting/merging
splenectomizes
standard learning hierarchy
Sullivan Principles
Sumburgh Head
tamable
tardini
taxonomic principle
thistlewaite
tracery wall
tribe Bubalus
unformatted print data
urrent-temperature coefficient
valve type echo suppressor
warm-air pipeless heating
wasmuths
wastebasket taxon
wheeldale
wick-feed oil cup