时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


英语课

今天学的词组是talk turkey。 Turkey是火鸡,作为习惯用语,talk turkey的意思是谈正经事,坦率、直截了当地说。火鸡是美国人感恩节大餐的传统佳肴。美国农业部因此每年感恩节都有专家值班,回答民众有关火鸡烹饪和食品安全的问题,"The experts from the Agriculture Department are talking turkey all day long." -- 农业部的专家们一整天都在坦率地和民众交谈。


这里, talk turkey一语双关,人们在感恩节时提出的问题大都跟烤火鸡有关。不过talk turkey平时也常用,你可以跟你的朋友说,"talk turkey or I'll go," -- 说正事吧,不然我就走了。今天学的词组是talk turkey...



学英语单词
air rifle
antennular somite
ATP (authorization to proceed)
auto-indexing
average power range monitor
baresarks
be on the same side of the fence
bleeding wound
bn object bn
cackhandedness
calibration component
Carlyle circles
chiropracted
choupette
cochleatus
conchal cartilage
cootches
coriarious
counter-weight
covarimin
crazy weed
cultivating machinery and implement
Davcra cell
DD-PCR
decal process printing ink
denims
Dominus.
doug
dryer inclined degree
ELPC
employ oneself in
endolymphytic duct
enroute area
epinosic
ethenoid resins
expressive form
faiman
fall in with
fine pressure
fluorescent spectrometry
froben tablet
genus Chloris
graptolitic
ground proximity warning systems
Hagner's operation
higher commutator
hijas
hollow grinding
homo-hydroquinone
hyperchimaera(hyperchimera)
icky
institutionality
instrumento
ion product
Juyn
leafing agent
metal exchange
milligausses
Nabberu, L.
nanocable
negative emotionality (ne)
nonkillings
nouvelle
ocellar plate
offsets against assets
onset of monsoon
paleness
pitch of waves
POCUL
portable slewing crane
possess
pressure cone apex
pressure-ulcer
price discriminated
primary pilot valve
put money in
radio post
resurgences
rhombic tetrahedron
Rhynchotechum discolor
saliva ejector
salt of Saturn
Saxonizes
shielding factor of track
shortest path problem
similigley
size of crank
specific variety
Stnnuant
strontium nitrite
supersellers
swarthish
Thoralby
three-hole aperture
toshack
tracking beam
trichuriases
trocho
tropical finish
twist of the jet
under the belief that
vars