时间:2019-03-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

 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
acupoints on stomach channel of foot-Yangming
AF acid-fast
american society for public administration (aspa)
AND NOT-tage
audit opinion
autoimmune diabetes
automated reasoning
automatic livestock waterer
autonomous institution
beele
black-lead spar
Bolton, Mount
bring sb to task
calculus of fractions
calendar day and date watch
catfucker
cebuella pygmaeas
central power plant
checkrow bunch planter
choliglobin
conjugate approximation theory
cooling material
debittering
desiccated coconut
di-n-butyl adipate
Dingxi
do things without calculation
Doce, R.
Domenico Veneziano
dyspragia
Ephestia kuehniella
epiploitis
eye-speculun
face-normal
family oleaceaes
final accounts of state revenue and expenditure
fixed installation
flatbows
forage grasses
fossa capitelli
framed dome
frequencymodulation
frivoling
fucktoy
full bore safety valve
full water
fundamental theorem of expectation
Gershonite
greenifying
grunfeld
heat-treatable alloy
heteracanth
high energy water temperature
histologist
hobnob
holothurins
I-1
illnesses
incidental-music
infants
iso standard
Janbon
Kamehameha Day
lycoperdons
Macusi
manure receiver
mariska
Merada
Metasasa carinata
midlife activity
Musken
Neisseria wechselbaumi
obstruction of justice
oligoria
platelet adhesiveness
Plaumotol
Poecilocapsus lineatus
pseudolikelihood
pulse-controlled generator
quick-action triple valve
range relation
re-acquainting
renouncers
scope response
significacio
solar interval
solkan
sosfs-s
spindle band
suborder ornithopodas
sustained acceleration
sustituted urea herbicide
tooth tip
transmitted-carrier system
Tylophora
underwater audition
Västerbotten Län
water-pistols
weazand
well refined
xli
yheme