时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语早间课堂


英语课

 各位亲爱的朋友们,学英语是一件很快乐的事情,不必畏惧,不必烦恼。其实学习英语完全可以轻松自在的学,没必要搞得像是在干苦力活。我们的生活五彩斑斓,不要让英语搞得我们大家都很憔悴。Juliet将带您走进英语的学习乐园,在趣味中探其本,究其源,探寻挖掘一些让人望文生义而产生对英语的误会的语言。不过,Juliet提醒各位朋友——学英语靠点滴积累和勤学好问,如果您积极按时参与到我们的课堂中来,然后消化琢磨Juliet精心整理出来赠送给您的拓展学习笔记,我想通过一段时间的学习,您的英语会在快乐中会有意想不到的收获。今天我们的话题是“你是黑色的羊吗?”


 
 
据记载,“black sheep of the family”(败家子)最早出现于19世纪早期。关于它的渊源,一种观点认为早起的牧羊人不喜欢混在白色羊群中的黑羊,认识是邪恶的象征。在英文中,黑色常常代表的是邪恶,而白色代表的是善良和纯洁。
 
黑色(black)在英语和汉语两种语言中的象征意义大致相同。例如,中西方人都认为黑色是悲哀的颜色,英美人在葬礼上穿黑色的衣服,中国在葬礼上戴黑纱等等。我们都说Black Monday(黑色周一),就是我们讨厌的日子,因为上班族们要上班了,孩子们要上学没有玩游戏了。而英文中的Black Friday(黑色周五)指耶稣在复活节前受难的星期五,是悲哀的日子。
 
那么,black这个词在英语中还象征着气愤和恼怒。有2个有代表性的习语:black in the face(脸色铁青),to look black at someone(对人怒目而视)。
 
下面我们就来看看这个2个习语。
 
1. black in the face 脸色发紫,脸色铁青
 
它是一个形容词性短语。一个人脸色发紫大都没好事,要不就是给人气的,要不就是身体不健康,要不就是被人打了等等因素。
 
我们来看2个例子:
 
Eg. He went black in the face when I told him I had crashed his car.
 
我告诉他我把他车子毁了他满脸怒气。
 
Eg. He swore himself, black in the face.
 
他气得脸色发青直咒骂自己。
 
2. to look black at someone 对人怒目而视
 
一定是因为一定的原因非常讨厌那个人,所以就没给他没好颜色看。我们来看下面的例子:
 
Eg. The people of that country looked black at the invaders 1 wherever they went.
 
不管侵略者到哪,那个国家的人民都对他们怒目而视。
 
Eg. He gave a black look at the impolite waiter in the restaurant.
 
他对不礼貌的餐厅服务员狠狠地看了一眼。
 
Eg. She gave her husband a black look and left home.
 
她怒气冲冲地瞪了丈夫一眼就离家走了。
 
Eg. When I dropped the teapot she gave me a black look.
 
我把茶壶摔到地上,她恶狠狠地瞪我一眼。
 
另外,黑色在汉语和英语中都有“阴险”“邪恶”的含义,不过翻译不一定用“黑”或“black”这个字眼。例如:evil mind (黑心),evil backstage(黑手),inside story(黑幕),a sinister 2 line(黑线)。
 
转自可可英语

1 invaders
入侵者,侵略者,侵入物( invader的名词复数 )
  • They prepared to repel the invaders. 他们准备赶走侵略军。
  • The family has traced its ancestry to the Norman invaders. 这个家族将自己的世系追溯到诺曼征服者。
2 sinister
adj.不吉利的,凶恶的,左边的
  • There is something sinister at the back of that series of crimes.在这一系列罪行背后有险恶的阴谋。
  • Their proposals are all worthless and designed out of sinister motives.他们的建议不仅一钱不值,而且包藏祸心。
学英语单词
3-carboxyantipyrine
accident costs
aetosaurs
analytically unramified semilocal ring
angstrom's scale
Ban Pa Daeng
batons sinister
beltway/ Beltway bandit
bilardoes
blind thrust fault
bloody vomit
Bolocephalus saussureoides
Bom Sucesso, Ribeirāo
boundary scan test
clastoderma debaryanum
claw foot
climbing maidenhair fern
color gradients
combat day of supply
consolidated income tax system
constructable
contrail formation
deseasonalizes
DIBOA
Didymocarpus stenocarpus
elephant-hide pahoehoe
emphasis
enterprise registration
entwicklung
epigrammatism
extraordinary disbursement
flopsand
franciso
Gamvik
gardyn
gas-solid reaction
generic flow control
guaiac
gut course
Habenaria humidicola
heavenware
hollow tube
hydrochemicogeography
ince burun
information bandwidth
injection-moulded
Innocent III
intercentral articulation
intermining
ion-exchange process
ionic valve
job classification analyst
Klamath R.
koseki
Kronotskiy Poluostrov
logicizes
lung tumor
machine reel
mathewsons
maximum-modulus theorem
misbefalls
montastrea curta
Naka-umi
on-line aerophotogrammetric triangulation
paraffin oils
phaeo-
plurivalent chromosome
porvoos
pregreasing pump
prewrap
pricing entire product package
pyrotechnic gas generator
radioisotope transmission gage
Rally for the Republic
rami utriculi
schlimazel
Selimiye
semi-strong linear element
sequelitis
sir john rosses
slag-hammer
sodium butylate
St-Jean-du-Gard
standing field
suiboku
temperature hyperbola
terminal switching
thawing water irrigation
theoretical geodesy
throws up
townleys
Tremelleae
trichloro-phenomalic acid
unexploded
United Nations Administrative Tribunal
upper breast
wheedles
with-it
wollard
yellow coneflower
zigzag chain
zoolater