时间:2018-12-12 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   drop,它作动词的时候最常有的意思是“抛下”或者“掉下。”例如在今天要学的习惯用语里drop就是动词: drop a bombshell。 bombshell是炸弹或者炮弹,那么从字面来看drop a bombshell可不就是扔个炸弹吗?


  对,这个习惯用语出现在1914 年到1918年的第一次世界大战期间。当时史无前例地大规模使用飞机来轰炸地面,多少人都亲眼目睹了飞机扔炸弹的惊天动地场面,而且地上的人往往对飞机轰炸猝不及防,直到飞机上扔下的炸弹在身旁炸开,才明白原来自己是飞机攻击的目标,所以飞机扔炸弹轰炸常常是出人意料、令人震惊的沉重打击。于是人们就用drop a bombshell来作比喻了。
  我们来看个例子来领会drop a bombshell这个习惯用语的比喻意义吧。让我们回到上个世纪六十年代末的美国。当时的美国总统是Lyndon Johnson。1968年是大选年,多数美国人都预计Lyndon Johnson会竞选连任,但是Lyndon Johnson年初却在广播电视上发表了令人震惊的宣告。我们听听是怎么回事儿:
  例句:That was a time when Americans were sharply divided on the Vietnam war. Then the president dropped a bombshell on voters: he announced in very clear words that he'd made up his mind he would not be a candidate in the fall election.
  他说:当时美国公众对越战有巨大的意见分歧。而总统却在这当口上引起轰动:他明确宣布自己已经决定不再作为候选人参加秋季大选了。
  大多数人都以为现任总统一定会出马竞选连任,所以总统决定退出竞选的宣告必然轰动视听、 令人震惊,所以习惯用语drop a bombshell所表示的比喻意义就是出人意料、轰动视听。

标签: 俚语
学英语单词
AA1
air-cooling apparatus
arabian nightss
art fairs
AT-5
atomic electricity
aughts
base earth
Baturaja
block curve
bocking
boom telescoping device
Boreham
brain corals
Cabudare
Campanula colorata
cargo in bales
Cassiope nana
chippily
coast memory
common blues
cryption
Ctrl M
customer equity
cylinder type wheel
DCEE
departmental plan
despinas
dielectric-waveguide mode
disk catalog monitor
divine services
draw-top table
earth boring auger
effective approach
excess of heat
expectancy-value theory of motivation
external commercial relations
flexible use of tracks
gas carbusintering
Goodbye Mr Chips
govenment
hard biscuit
hinged precentring fitting
hold the position of
horizontal generator
in a fume
incremental displacement
irradiated unit
journal box spring
kamiahs
Kath
kinocillium
kolumbit (columbite)
leucophanes albescens
liquid filled thermometer
machine glazing
matz
memory integrated circuit
molecular sieve trap
mourning-ring
nobleye
Nonoai
octofollin
oil of palmarosa
orgasm balls
overlap telling
parastochastic function
phenylsepharose
pnuma
quasi-independent
qurayyat (el qarye)
random velocity
rear wave guide feed
receptor lymphocyte
resistive diffusion
retter
rudder port
schinkel
shack-up
sheet press
should i
single action trunk
social protection
soede
specially advised credit
SSFP
standard production
stronghand
stunna
submaxillary triangle
summary form
that day
to trash
tower superstructure
tremor linguae
trombay
unsonorous
usually
waftings
wahabis
waxworms
Weierstrass p-function