时间:2018-12-12 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   日前,大都市房价一再飙升,工薪阶层的买房负担加重。和房价相比,辛辛苦苦攒了多年的钱也成了“chicken feed”(小钱,数额甚微的款项)。


  俚语中,chicken feed常用来指a trifling 1 amount of money(小额钱币)。单看其字面意,想必您也猜到了其渊源 —— chicken feed源于农场,最初指“鸡食”。后来,人们开始用它来指代数额甚微的钱,或者微薄的收入,比如:For him, that's chicken feed--bare enough to cover travel and hotel expenses. (对他来说那笔钱太少了,只够付旅行和旅馆的费用而已。)
  另外,“chicken feed”也常用来指一些无足轻重、微不足道的小事,或者是毫无价值的东西,如:The affair looks like chicken feed.(这件绯闻看来无足轻重。)
  值得一提的是,俚语中,peanut的复数形式与chicken feed有许多相通处。前者也可以用来指代为数不多的钱和微薄的收入,如:This was peanuts compared to the wealth that my father amassed 2.(和我父亲积累的财富相比,这仅是区区小数。)

1 trifling
adj.微不足道的;没什么价值的
  • They quarreled over a trifling matter.他们为这种微不足道的事情争吵。
  • So far Europe has no doubt, gained a real conveniency,though surely a very trifling one.直到现在为止,欧洲无疑地已经获得了实在的便利,不过那确是一种微不足道的便利。
2 amassed
v.积累,积聚( amass的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He amassed a fortune from silver mining. 他靠开采银矿积累了一笔财富。
  • They have amassed a fortune in just a few years. 他们在几年的时间里就聚集了一笔财富。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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