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
achronism
after length
angustifolius
arched harps
Asan R.
batse
brain mucosa forceps
brake fade
bubble flow visual ization
cesium sesquioxide
chemosensitiver
chinny
climbing roll
CNBU
coarse balancing
coast redwood
con-agra
cow trainer
customer relationship management analytics
Dasein
deerfold
drag structure
electrical micrometer tube
electro-hydraulic servo valve
emanative
endepidermis
erosions-implantate
euzkadi
exotic mantle materials
FBPSS
felt-cloth
fermenting
filter paper holder
fluid catalytic cracking
FMEL
Foot Dragons
forging and pressing
fork-up
fourth trochanter
fragile cartridge case
full-time professor
German East Africa
Green Pt.
gully trap
hakodates
have a an accommodating memory
have a cylinder missing
hedge trees
high-frequency electrically heated mold
hind-quarters
homologically trivial
Iles Marquises
involuntary striated muscle
iridoprocne bicolors
Iwimbi
jetonised wood
kampschror
kicked arse
Komuniga
leakage magnetic flux
left-hand system
ligand field
Limoges painted enamel
liver extract concentrated capsule
lowland burrowing treefrog
methodology in computer graphics
minkies
multi-functional drilling and tap holder
netted chainfern
noise protection
oaktown
Panamanian flag
perspectivization
piston ring pin
poltrack
pond weed
power-house superstructure
quintessentiality
radar coverage indicator
random disturbance
Roslev
sampling distribution
sexdecillion
soil rent
South Slocan
spiculate spike
syntomycin palmitate
talking-drummers
Tan Binh
tapered feed wheel
taxonomies of educational objectives
Thubten
tuberculosis of knee joint
two-course range
wagon works
wave generating area
We don't kill a pig every day.
working majority
write sth into sth
yeltons
zacco platypus
zero phase current transformer