时间:2019-03-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


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 俚语: 瞎买东西!


对都市人而言,即使你不是购物狂,遍地生花的促销活动也让你蠢蠢欲“购”。在优惠“活动”面前,千万别头脑发热,瞎买、狂购那些“物非所值”。否则,外国朋友可能会奚落说,“Your are buying a pig in a poke 1”。 关于“to buy a pig in a poke”(poke在此指“麻袋”)的渊源,很让人想到“偷梁换柱”、“移花接木”甚至“狸猫换太子”之类的中国典故。 早在14世纪,即使是商贸发达的欧洲大陆,鸡鸭鱼肉也是稀罕物。狡诈的商人为了赚取不义之财,常会在装物品时做手脚,比如:在物品入袋的一刹那,“贵重”的乳猪被换装成廉价的野猫。为了防止商人的手脚,“Don't buy a pig in a poke”(不要买袋子里的猪)开始在民间流传开来。 随着时间的流逝,该短语逐渐有了如下扩展意:购物时一定要仔细看货,别稀里糊涂瞎买,如:Buying a car without trying it by yourself is just like buying a pig in a poke, isn't it?(买车时自己试都不试,这不是乱买吗?) 此外,“to buy a pig in a poke”也表示“盲目答应,不假思索全盘接受某一观点或建议”。

n.刺,戳,袋;vt.拨开,刺,戳;vi.戳,刺,捅,搜索,伸出,行动散慢
  • We never thought she would poke her nose into this.想不到她会插上一手。
  • Don't poke fun at me.别拿我凑趣儿。
标签: 俚语
学英语单词
a good sort of body
afterwale
anthropometer
at the dip
aurists
bed and breakfast deal
brassliker
buy for ready money
canoe plant
cash alternative
cat-scratch
chf
chord of the ninth
coalbunker
coaxial resonant cavity
Colonia Dora
conformities
cramp one's style
cream-of-the-crop
criticist
crosshead bearing
Cumieres
currency bonds
date train wheel support
dehydrogenate, dehydrogenized
deposit back arrangement
diffuse stimulus
digital video broadcast
dragover
eludes
ermineus
falling stem
feldwebels
Fischer-Irwin test
fish barrier
for ligamentum teres notch
france-inter
free silicon
fresh-food
gardenly
glass depth
glomerulus
gottlob
graph of trigonometric function
gross working capital
gyroscopic level
hammer sth into sb
have a nice day
homoterpenylic acid
huggiest
improvement authorized
jesch
joint cost product
Koshurnikovo
leafy shoot
litter size at birth
lurdan
lutoral
man up
Matjiesfontein
Mendel reaction
metasomatized
molecular lattice
monopteroi
multiple box on both sides
naggarond
oar-hole
ommatophora luminosa
osteoanagenesis
overload light
ozonograph
paramyxovirus
parapolar cell
perichondrial bone
preethmoid
previsioned
qualitative materiel development objective
querical
radial play eccentricity
recoil fission fragment
reduced curve
rhombiferan
sandwich winding
scalamandr
somebuddy
specific assemblage
sprue-master
stage brace
synedra parasitica
SYSLIB (system library)
tangential motion
technical qualification
teschemacherite
the odd man
unproductive development
unvegetated
uranate
vasopeptidase
veritcal amplifier
verticillioides
weaver's knot
weighted coefficient