时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:Modern English 洋话连篇


英语课

  Turn the table

  一位亲戚和妻子失和到了要离婚的地步。几天前接到亲戚电话,说他们在走进律师楼之前,先去求助于心理和婚姻问题专家。夫妇俩心平气和地坐下来谈了好多次,互相之间多了一份理解,少了一份猜疑、埋怨,结果化干戈为玉帛。说简单也简单,就这么拯救了这场婚姻。

  我打心眼里为他们高兴,把这一消息告诉了同样也认识他们的一位美国朋友。这位朋友挺激动的,连连说着"感谢上帝,感谢上帝",她还补充了一句"He turned the table"。

  这话让我心里很不舒服,她是指我亲戚动粗吗?我打抱不平说:"不会,不会,他很斯文,很有绅士风度,不会以粗鲁的举动压制对方,不会以高压让对方屈从。"

  结果,越说谁也听不懂谁。看着我那一脸不快的表情,朋友突然茅塞頓开了,以另一种方法向我解释。终于让我明白,她是说我亲戚"扭转了局面",那"table"和我想到的"桌子"根本无关。

  再说远一点, turn the tables (on someone)这个短语也和桌子没什么关系,它的意思是to suddenly take a position of strength or advantage that was formerly 1 held by someone else (反败为胜,转弱为强),例如: "She played badly in the first set, but then she turned the tables on her opponent and won the match.


1 formerly
adv.从前,以前
  • We now enjoy these comforts of which formerly we had only heard.我们现在享受到了过去只是听说过的那些舒适条件。
  • This boat was formerly used on the rivers of China.这船从前航行在中国内河里。
学英语单词
3H-dihydroalprenolol
advanced signal-processing system
Alto Lucero
anazotic
anter
bare coupling
bashert
bask in reflected glory(birg)
Biot respiration
Bogoroditskoye
branchiogenetic cyst
carevisions
commercial station
consociated organizational model
cooptation
Corvet.
culture jamming
currency deflation
cut a feather
declining distinctiveness
despotic leader
electromagnetic jamming
elwyn brooks whites
episiotomies
Experience is the father of wisdom
Forest-range
fumerells
fust
Henley Harb.
holding screw
hydropower project planning
indexed array
insphering
intercarrier sound reception
isopachy map of coal seam
lactosyl ceramidosis
lead-colored
liquor trinitrini
local public treasury
located leak
Loronyo
loss of parental authority
maintanence interval
mascary
minimum cut-out
mouth guard
mowingmachine
multilevel sales
neglecters
niobian
non-return tilt trap
ocular paralyses
one's thoughts
optical plastics
pallidoansection
panorpa pallidimaculata
Paoting
phase coherence
polyglycerols
primary color for pigments
printed integration circuit
Pryor Glacier
Punaluu
RACWA
ramp characteristic
range of balanced error
Rikavarin
rotating loop antenna
senter
showstopping
sialodochium
sickle lucernes
sodium meate
solid arch
solid state sweeper
splatball
spoonshaped speculum
stab-clipped wound
stake ... out
Ste-Marie, C.
structure member
subtractive type interlacing
superaudio
surbedded
termination load type power meter
tetrazoic
thallium poisoning
theosophised
therapy of cutting with thread ligation
Tircidazole
to come out of dock
to say the least of it
tophaceous
Trimeresurus
ultraelegant
unconditional election
vehicle lay-off
vesical dysfunction
vocabulary of motives
voicejail
wing of nose
yamanaka shigure (japan)