时间:2019-03-11 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

 俚语:形势严峻


不知您是否认识我那个开律所的朋友阿P?今天,借“词海拾贝”栏目给大家介绍一下。阿P,女,年龄不详,长相一般,身材略瘦,爱好读书,性格嘛……有点愤青。每天醒来,她的第一句话不是“伊拉克战争形势严峻”就是“环境污染事态严重”,相当地忧国忧民忧天下啊! 俚语“chips are down”就是“事态紧急、形势严峻”的意思。呵呵,是不是有点儿摸不着头脑?Chips are down:薯条生意不景,所以事态严重?别!千万别这样信马由缰瞎猜!这里,chips可不是英国人口中的“炸薯条”。 “Chips are down”起源于19世纪,是一句赌博用语。Chips代表“赌注”(由塑料制成的薄片,赌桌上所谓的“虚拟钱币”,一般都是整齐地摞在赌桌上)。试想,如果一个赌徒面前的“chips”少了,那一定表明他下的“赌注”石沉大海。当赌徒身边的“赌注越来越少(chips are down)”,他输掉的钱就越来越多,也就意味着他的形式越来越糟糕。当他只剩下一点点“chips”的时候,那真是“事态紧急、形势严峻”。 现在,“chips are down”不仅指赌博中“事态紧急、形势严峻”,生活中一切“紧急、严峻”的情况,尤其是要经历很长一段时间才能转危为安的,都可以用“chips are down”来形容。 来看下面的例句:Unfortunately 1, the chips seem to be rather down at the moment. I hope things change soon. (真糟糕!现在形势越来越严峻了。真希望事态能尽快好转起来。)

adv.不幸地,可惜的是
  • I called on you yesterday,but unfortunately you were out.昨天我来看你,但是不幸的是你不在。
  • She had gone home,unfortunately.遗憾的是她已回家了。
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a QT
acetimidoyl
aerodrome meteorological minimum
Albon
all-balanced cover
aminotoluene
approach gate
Asaletten
at the first jet
aulacofusus insulapratasensis
Baptist
base-load powerstation
be incapacitated for
beauty shop
bed-mould
bespicing
Big Bend
bit-map image
bottom steam
bow-engined ship
bulck
Cahuilla Indian Reservation
canvas hose nozzle
cease to be available
celestial-inertial navigation system
champlever
Code Noir
Coldonyl
comether
counterweight balance
cyophoria
dartmouth
decury
deekor
Deensen
defective verb
downplayer
Eagle Point
Edmond Rostand
electrically latched
erupt in laughter
evidence of crime
food and beverage expenses
friction disc saw
global network
glyphinaphis bambusae
graaff
haphemetric
harmful refuse
hermetically-sealed pulse transformer
hop-seed oil
inter marker group sender
interference pattern
interior and exterior finishes
isocrystal
less-serious
leukoderivative
libethenite
livelihood education
local trip
look out for opening
Los Angeles-type smog
Malaya Biryusa
meekhead
misallocation
motion sensing
mountain clematis
multinervis
multipowered
non-conforming unit
nonsegregative
nonviolent offenders
nuts chocolate
oblinger
octopian
on-line voting
onslaughts
ordovician periods
palud
piston rotary pump
Pomarkku
postswim
preferred long name for the observation
presser cut
rotor end ring
s.s.i
seam slack
semi automatic submerged arc welding
Semoy (Semois)
short-time load
sky-rockets
sun oneself
supervital gene
to fool around
to stress
transverse valley
tubo train a tres grand vitess
unit count
vastus externus
venectasia
vinton
vociferant