时间:2019-02-25 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

   a tea hound


  在茶话会、舞会或各种社交场合,总有些喜欢追逐漂亮女子并对她们大献殷勤的家伙。这类花花公子就被称为tea hounds 爱交际的男子。
  例句:John is much mature now, I think he's no longer a tea hound. 约翰现在成熟多了,我想他不再是爱交际的花花公子了。
  somebody's cup of tea
  英国人对茶情有独钟,无论什么饮品都代替不了茶在他们心中的位置。因此somebody's cup of tea指的就是to be something that one prefers or desires 对某人胃口的东西,使某人感兴趣的东西。
  例句:Football/Opera/Chemistry is not his cup of tea. 足球/歌剧/化学可不是他的爱好。
  This spy novel is just my cup of tea. 这本侦探小说正对我的胃口。
  a storm in a tea cup
  这是18世纪法国哲学家孟德斯鸠的一句名言。有一次他听说圣马力诺发生了一场骚乱,就用了a storm in a tea cup这个比喻来形容整个事件。圣马力诺是欧洲最小的共和国,人口稀少,因此孟德斯鸠认为那里的骚乱对整个欧洲局势无关紧要。If someone exaggerates a problem or makes a small problem seem far greater than it really is, then they are making a storm in a tea cup. 顾名思义,“茶杯里的风暴”自然算不得什么大事,所以就被用来表示“小题大做,大惊小怪”的意思。
  例句:That couple often quarrel, but it is a storm in a tea cup. 那对夫妻经常吵架,没什么大惊小怪的。
  Storm in a teacup是大惊小怪的英式英语表达,美式英语的说法是 tempest in a teapot。此外,大惊小怪相似的说法还有:a storm in a cream-bowl,a tempest in a glass of water,a storm in a hand-wash basin。
  tea break
  饮茶一直被英国人看作是一种悠闲和舒适的享受。英国人喝茶的时间比较固定,不像我们那样随时随地都可以喝茶。他们习惯于三餐两茶,每天工作、学习一段时间后,喜欢停下来休息一刻钟左右,喝杯茶,吃些点心,补充体力。这段时间叫做tea break(茶休):an intermission from work, usually in the middle of the morning or afternoon, for a cup of tea, a snack, etc. 茶休有morning tea(上午茶)和afternoon tea(下午茶)之分:上午茶一般在十点半左右;下午茶一般在下午四五点钟。
  茶休的习惯源于英国18世纪的一位贝德芙公爵夫人安娜。她每天在午餐和晚餐之间总会感到有点饥饿,于是就在每天下午四点到五点之间邀请三五位知心好友,来喝点茶吃点点心。再后来就演变为“上下午工间或课间吃茶点的休息时间”。这种茶休在英国可是雷打不动的小憩时间。
  例句:Our bloody-minded foreman wouldn't give us a tea break. 我们残忍的工头不给我们工间茶休的时间。

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21 Tau
a bun
acardius acormus
adjusting tool
adst.feb.
agathidium (agathidium) memnonium
antivagrancy
aperitive
Baba-Yaga
bacidia scrobiculata
be in the middle of
bring into hotchpotch
Brosimum
burning-mouth
callicot
carinates
castanin
change room
channel control block
cluster control rod
condenser leg pipe
contracted tensor
cowboy economics
CPG-ProA
crab rangoon
cramp bar
dangers of roads
digital phase discriminator
dischargeth
Duerna, R.
edo-period
EDOC
electro-otoscope
empty tank
equivalent design of laminate
flashful
flying shears
fraction of humic substances
gangbuster
geologic process
Haloragaceae
hematosis
i-measure
inexpensiveness
inscapes
intagliature
interference ( muller 1916)
juette
left-hand centrifugal fan
logfileon
loop curve
low-silicon
Mail in rebate
Martian spherules
media reports
modulation broadening
muddiman
nemo tenetur seipsum accusare
Ninh Thuan
norm of a vector
numerical iteration
oxygen radical
pantingly
Pilea
protractible
purchasing expense
Qur'aniyun
ready-for-use
receptor-molecules
reconnaissance and surveillance area
recourse claim
rock-like mass
rose gardens
row column headers
schmitten
screw & nut template
security countermeasures
shaving die
side wall pillar
streetfighting
substructure of implant denture
supranavicular bones
system check
tax loss carryback
technoscientific
tectonic
test tube rack
thermoplastic layer
Thornwaldt's bursitis
tobacco-smokes
transfer motion control
transverse shielding
trolleyological
unconcludency
variable-geometry wing
Venetian sumac
voluntarily check-off clause
weight beam
westhoughtons
work in process (wip)
Zarmardān
zooxanthella