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
abutment splint
annular velocity
be past your sell-by date
benzene fulfonic amide
block encoder
Bol'shoy Tyuters, Ostrov
Bonefeld
car location information computer
circumscriptive
cortical field
Cotylurus
cypris
dark lanterns
emergency coolant injection
end-to-end scheduling
ethyl amyl ketone
ethyl butyl carbonate
fentems
flammability test
fluid ounce
freezing point
gating nozzle
Generation company
get it right
grandam
graphic and schematic analysis
group-specific
heterogenicity
Hilbert programme
hollow water line
hollow-cathode tube
honkey, honkies
hook bolt lock
horizontally
humbs
hypoesophoria
ice-creams
in an attempt to
Indo-Gangetic
iniopic monster
intergrowth
interval of orthogonality
jarmusz
jeszenszky
kaziss
King Charles's heads
lambda point transition
landing strake
law of inverse squares
leelo
lesene
luxury liners
mabila
make one's way to
Marsdenia stenantha
maryann
mathematic statistics
medical boat box
modualr microcomputer component
nanofiber
natrium glycocholicum
neck brace
nitramidin
nitropuine
paraphed
Phaenicia
photometric axis
Pong Rok, Stung
poopload
prehemiplegic chorea
PSMRD
Rainy River
rayne
reciprocal point
red-count pipette
relative regulation
retarded scalar potenital
Rosa, Salvator
runaway economy
Saussurea umbrosa
saynts-bell
simple buffering
simple plales
small signal transistor
spath (spar)
spells out
spot commodity
stand on points
stillwellite
straightlaced
tabuchis
tering
That cock won't fight.
thickness measurement with laser
towed-target flight
turn-to-turn insulation
two-pan asymmetrical beam
upbringer
vermicelloni
vertical check
volume rendering
web bar