时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

   我和哥哥是双胞胎,很多人都会问,你们俩儿是不是从言谈举止,到性格情趣,处处都一样呢?错了!我上周末到他家去,他正在自己动手,安装厨房的柜子。如果要是我的话,肯定得按照说明书,一步一步来。他可不一样,说明书碰都没有碰一下。在英语里,有一个习惯用语可以专门描述这种情况,那就是:fly blind.


  大家都知道,fly是飞翔的意思。Blind有看不见和盲目的意思。说某人做一件事是fLy blind, 闭着眼睛飞,多可怕。其实,就是说在没有外界帮助或者指点的情况下,自己试着去做。所以说,我哥哥不看说明说,自己安装厨房的橱柜,那就是fly blind. 下面例子里的这个人打算在没有食谱的情况下,试着做一道祖辈传下来的菜肴,让我们听听他是怎么说的。
  例句-1:My great-grandmother used to serve the most delicious meatloaf. Unfortunately, I never got the recipe from her before she passed away. If I want to make it, I'll have to fly blind. Perhaps I can figure out the ingredients 1 and the steps involved.
  他说:我曾祖母生前做的肉糕好吃极了。遗憾的是,她去世前,我没有机会把这道菜的烹调食谱要过来。如果现在要做的话,我只能凭着自己的感觉,或许能摸索出这道菜的配料和步骤。
  这可不是件容易的事,有时少了一种材料,味道就会相去甚远。我们小的时候,祖母每年都要做月饼。今年我姐姐试着自己做,结果大家尝过一口,就敬而远之了。
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  下面这个例子里的两个人信心十足地准备自己创业。他们有成功的把握吗?让我们听听看。
  例句-2:When we told our friends we were starting a dog hotel, they thought  it would never work. But both us of have considerable 2 experience running businesses. It's not like we're going to be flying blind.
  其中一个人说:我们把开办一间狗旅店的主意告诉朋友 们后,他们都觉得肯定不会成功。其实我们两人都有经营企业的丰富经验,并不是两眼一摸黑,单凭直觉去干的。
  你可能会说,什么什么,狗旅馆?真奇怪!但是你可能不知道,美国人去年花在宠物身上的钱,多达410亿美元,  美国人不仅给自己的宠物买玩具,买衣服,雇人带它们出去散步,还要定期带它们去整理毛发,修剪指甲。而且,如今,宠物接受的手术也越来越多了。
  我这个人在其他事情上都很循规蹈矩,比如说,我绝对不会放弃稳定的工作,自己去创业。不过,在旅行的时候,我却往往会有一些大胆的举动。我去年跟一个朋友去中欧旅游,其实,我们在那里根本没有熟人,也没带任何旅行指南。We were flying blind. 我们走到哪儿算哪儿,没有任何计划和目的地,结果倒是玩得特别开心。
  大家知fly blind这个习惯用语的出处吗?告诉你,fly blind是从第二次世界大战的时候来的。当时,飞行员因为看不清地平线,只能依靠飞机上的仪表飞行,所以叫fly blind.

1 ingredients
n.(混合物的)组成部分( ingredient的名词复数 );(烹调的)原料;(构成)要素;因素
  • All ingredients are readily available from your local store. 所有的原料都可以方便地从你当地的商店买到。
  • We never use second quality ingredients to build building. 我们决不使用次等材料用于建筑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 considerable
a.相当多的,相当大的,相当重要的
  • He saved the child at considerable risk to himself. 他冒着极大的生命危险救了那个孩子。
  • The flood resulted in a considerable reduction in production. 这次水灾造成相当大的减产。
标签: 美国习惯用语
学英语单词
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absitively posolutely
all goes down gutter-lane
all published
assimilatory quotient
authentic cadence
be enthroned in the hearts
benzyl acrylate
biogenic graded bedding
brogue
buying group
career pathing(CP)
cartelisation
Castejon
cellular organelle
chemigroundwood
Cheyenne River Indian Reservation
close epiphytotic disease
close inbreeding
Colima
Cornell-Coxe test
cross-blocking thinning
crosscurrent extraction
cultural resource management
curtilage
eccentric band
electrically actuated convertible top
electrolytic recording paper
Eurofascism
export commission
extraductal
family-owned company
filling block
fixed sole oven
Flensborg
forevermores
frettage
from the housetops
frontier traffic
further standard function
general chamber of commerce
get the drop on sb.
globall
help file name
hydrosoluble
illuminor
in spite of someone's nose
Inf.
inspection and acceptance
Jadelot's signs
kayans
left-hand helical gear
light button
ling hsing wu
low life
mailing address
make-up water pump
mandler
master-screw
mirandina corticola
modern game
MODSS
oil transformer
Ophiorrhiziphyllon macrobotryum
Oued Tinn
pattern plate bolster
perforation density
phonon-terminated laser
pre-digested
process queue
pulverizer
push poll
re-enabling
recanter
refresher driving
retaining possession
safety platform
saltern
savings certificate
sea crawfish
self tipping skip
semeterrie
Seminole Wars
settling
sheva
side-by-side reactions
sponge-iron
substitute t-ratio
substratum for waterproofing
symbol concatenation
Synotis longipes
time-switches
trait by treatment interaction
transfer data record
treble
true yellow
Tyrian purple
underdrain of filter
unfrilly
untuckered
W star
warlessness