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》
标签: 美国俚语
学英语单词
accelerated Liebmann method
activity concentration
addi.
airworthiness standard
Appietto
ash shinas
asplentum laciniatum don.var.planicule c.chr.
assembly twister
associates in applied science
bacterial slime
bareboned
bid beads
bordered pit
bough pot
brevitic
capillary cohesive force
Carex karlongensis
carrier sheet
cast
char yield
circulation supply system
croisant
cutting strength
delay-line PAL
dermabrasion
dier
district ventilation
dofetilide
dogside
energy output ratio
ethostasis
Euphorbia maculata
Fatako
Fife County
fifteen love
foreflap
funcinpecs
get it all together
girdle sensation
hoop of spring
inseparableness
Intumescentia lumbosacralis
laikin
lens power
leptophylla
Lobbygate
lymphatic capillary
make a choice
mazelyn
min min
minor-league teams
mountain azaleas
naked short position
non-balanced loading
Noojee
on-line databases
overdefined
Pavlovskaya
pep-talks
persulfate anhydride
phosphate bond energy
pilot test unit
plastiglomerates
portfolio selection
pyraliss
quininic
randomized fractional factorial design
ratchet handle
rattakul
Red Nose Day
revar
rocambolesque
scanning transmission ion microscopy
screw shaft tunnel
self-abuser
shaft seal leakage heater
snifting technique
sonogramme
springboards
sprouting test
stumbo
Suaqui
sub-family
subtags
sufisomezole
sum of products type
super-multi
svanekes
syringe pipette
taper sectioning
tear factor
three-timers
transpose of semilinear transformation
truss structure
Tucuti
twice-laid stuff
two-plate mould
ungratifying
upper-air route
volatility of spot rate movement
waterjugs
whole set of equipment