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
-spermous
AC-DC drive
affrightful
air heat exchanger
analysis of a factorial experiment
Anastatica
anconeus longus
artefactitious
averaged out
balance carried forward
benz.
biopharmacological
broad spectrum pesticide
bullshittin
cabook
callihan
carrette
chip-resistant
cobh (queenstown)
coefficient of power reserve
Cohen-Macaulay scheme
concave grating
concurve
cost value of forest soil
cutting force
czerwonka wloscianska
data conferencing network
Dease R.
denying the antecedent
diphenyl-para-phenylene diamine
doleiros
drazin
Dumreicherite
enabling legislation
energy to fracture
engineering division
Epwell
euphorbain
exaflops
excavation of fractured apex
extraseminal
financial normalization
folkcrafts
garroter
genus Spinus
global tariff quota
handmirror
high type bituminous surface
Hyasmonta
hydrostatic modulus
immigr
incomplete tillage
intrinsic inpedance
jordanellas
keeps
kindliness
lienis
lysergic acid diethylamides
magnetophoto-reflectivity
mbanza-ngungu (thysville)
morbilliforme erythema
morgan stanley
NSC-12198
opening for business finance
outi
over-insulation
phenolquinine
pin center setscrew
polarized neutron beam
prioritized bus control
PRP20
purre-maw
quadrature information
quarrelsomely
radio polarimetry
raphis
readvertency
representacin
rhodie
rugged electrode
S. & M.
sarigue
sectoria
semi-liquid
ship astern
shower
single sideband suppressed carrier
small fontanel
St-Patrice, L.
St. Helena
supermarket trolley
Suwanose-suidō
testest
threw the book at
trypanosom(a)-
typhoon warning signal
vertical
VOTA (vibration open test assembly)
with advantage
within call
Wé-Wé
yaw moment