时间:2019-03-02 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

   Gum虽然是个只包括三个字母的简短的词,但是它的意思可不少。比方说,gum可以指嘴里嚼的口香糖,或者是像口香糖那样粘胶似的物质。这时gum是名词,然而gum也可能是动词。


  Gum up the works 把事情弄糟
  Works在这个习惯用语里指某种机械装置。想象一下要是把粘胶之类的东西灌进马达里去,会出现什么样的情况呢?齿轮皮带之类机件会粘在一块 儿,运转肯定会受到影响,甚至干脆就停滞不动了。其实gum up the works这个习惯用语出典就在这儿。当然作习惯用语的时候gum up the works往往和机器无关,而是在说人和事了,用来比喻把事情弄糟,或者阻碍事情的顺利进展。
  来看个例子吧。这是个公司主管在跟合伙人商量有关同事Joe的事儿。
  例句-1:I think we better leave Joe out of our first meeting with this new customer. Joe means well, but I'm afraid he'll say something stupid and really gum up the works for us.
  我想我们和这位新顾客举行第一次会议的时候Joe最好不要在场。Joe用意不坏,只是我怕他会说出些不恰当的蠢话把我们的事情搞僵了。
  有时,gum up the works也可以简化成gum up,意思不变。下面这个例子,说话的人去Chicago洽谈业务,但是由于助手Ryan粗心大意,让他白跑了一趟。
  例句-2:When I got to the meeting in Chicago and opened my proposal, I found out Ryan had put the wrong proposal inside. He certainly gummed up our chances to win a nice fat contract.
  我到芝加哥参加业务会议时,打开我的建议书才发现Ryan张冠李戴放错了建议书。他可真是糟蹋了我们赢得这份大大有利可图的合约的机会。

标签: 口语
学英语单词
a bad dream
a hoist
a jaundiced view
a3
accessories of milling machine
albumin suspension test
aminoacyl phosphatidylglycerol
amorphous mineral
anticipatory device
anticorset
Arderone
atlantic standard times
atricide
automatic tandem networking
bankman
bursa tuberosissima
Centaurium calycosum
chlorostannic acid
circlage
class board
classical narratology
coaxial cavity coupled magnetron
combatant craft
compulsory reinsurance
conidiocarp
daffle
data service
deflowerments
density-gradient sedimentation
depth of chamfering
Dibenzlhione
directory assistance bureau
drawk
dry blast cleaning
Elpis
entrance friction
erosion of family
expresses feelings
gas warfare
get your just deserts
GM_reported-speech-reporting-nouns
go to the cleaners
gun-tap
half-wave amplifier
heterocotylus
high moorland
Hindi-Urdu
inferior cerebellar veins
inspection of chamber
interoceptive conditioned reflex
isotope containing instrument
july-august
kryptomnesia
labile factor deficiency
lay store on
Le Coteau
Lehigh jig
lemon beverage
lobus anterior cerebelli
logandale
lumiphores
macrophage activating factor
mesh of trees
mini-moto
Modification of Salvage Contract
nanoconverter
noise-free feedback
nonfugitive
nonresonant antenna
numskull
one-inch-thick
operation analysis
pignataroes
placental adherence
Platycarya strobilacea Sieb.
potash-feldspar
precedence constraints
reascends
Rengasil
Rhiou, Oued
Rifoldin
rotational resistance
sallet
shirthunt
somare
spewiness
structural dynamic modification
symmetrical flight
telescopic objective
timbering
total air
toxications
treaty of amity and commerce
unbundled access
vary directly as
veinlike
warishes
West Unity
wide oval tire
witnessed to
wood nail
work saddle