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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AFSMI
anticholera vaccination
apeiro-
automative
axis of cone
barens
bartenstein
be poles asunder as wide as the poles apart
bilinear programming problem
black burst generator
botryommycoma
bullid
caloing
carbon group element
cat's
change frame
churn something out
clot-busting
composital
contact plunger
creation of bank deposit
curvilinead
depinge
digitizing board
Dolichandrone stipulata
drawing sheet size
early blight of potato
endometriosis of abdominal wall
Epako
EPX
extra budgetary funds
family Epacridaceae
field-effect device
fighting force
fillet brazing
flame-retardant fiber
Flickingeria tairukounia
fluorescent antibody
flush trim die
foreign body in esophagus
full-width erase head
furze-pig
Gabromtcin
genus Astacus
genus strekelias
give way together
Grudusk
hair thermohygrograph
honey oils
hydraena porcula
Incarvillea Juss.
inner counter
jonkers
knock someone off his feet
lasso
latitude of exposure
locheil
made allowance for
Magnavox Odyssey
Makunza
MELLOPHAGA
mercury subchloride
Merti
moderate loop optimization
mongering
Nangola
nickering
oil slop barge
optoelectronic matrix memory
oxbirds
perforating fibers
potentiometer, wire-wound
precosmic
preprinted grid sheet
rearing stage
rice oil
satterfield
service department allocated cost variance
shame on him
silicon probe
sorting by screens
St-Martin (Sint Maarten)
store instruction
submerged wreck
swanland
Syringa obtata Lindl.
tangental angle
tank oil
touch-panel switch
turbulent circuit
ulmaceaes
umbratious
unbalanced development
unibus system
unprovided
unwicked
urease-alumina
visualization in scientific computing
Vitorchiano
watans
wide-band link
wiod erosion