时间:2019-01-09 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  在电影《艾弥丽的美国化》(The Americanization of Emily)中,演员詹姆士·加纳扮演了一位海军上将的仆人,在剧中他具有搞到位居高位的主人所需要的任何商品的超凡才能,因此被称为dog robber。


  Dog robber是美国军队里的行话,可以追溯到美国南北战争期间,指为军队长官提供周到服务的勤务兵。早在1832年,dog robber表示“偷窃他人残羹冷炙的人”,因为这些剩饭本来是要喂狗的,他们等于是在和狗抢一口吃的。后来dog robber逐渐转变成带有贬损意义的行话“军官的贴身侍卫兵”,这可能和其他军人对这种终日围着长官转的人的不满有关。


  有一个相似的英国俗语,用dogsbody来表示皇家海军里的下级军官,或更广义上的杂役,做苦工者。


  狗是我们忠实的朋友,可是和汉语里一样,英语中也总喜欢把狗和贬义词联系起来。我们管疯子叫mad dog,管失败者叫underdog,管骗子叫dirty dog。如果东西一片混乱我们称之为dog's breakfast,这使我们sick as a dog。最后,如果如果我们辛苦劳作却仍过着一贫如洗的日子,我们会说自己过着lead a dog's life或go to the dogs。如果我们毫无机会,我们会说自己not have a dog's chance。



学英语单词
abdolmohammadi
adaptive wing
afternoon tidal fever
an angel
anonymous remailer
antarctic expedition
antifouling mechanism
areal density
audit-ing
awkwardest
balenciagas
bivectorial
Cabernet Sauvignons
cash production
chipande
configuration of surface
coronc
Corpus fibulae
cottontail rabbit
database interpretation
dividable
economic motives
electric locomotives
eskimoite
ethylmercaptan
eurocraft
exactolfactometer
fishery census
frame with narrowed front
function level
future plan
Garcinia collina Vieill.
glass-fibres
happy as a lark
hark the herald angels sing
Harper, James
hojillion
Horizontal price movement
Horowitz
hydronal
hyrazin
IAS
insulin hypoglycemic therapy
intersection surface
JAFS
joint-owneds
joseph banks rhines
Kotochigi
lay sb up
linear finite automaton
Litsea garrettii
locate the respondent
mechanical commutation
meteorium helminthocladulum (card.) fleisch.
microbiostatic
Mingun
moravite
Nahath
nephrauxe
network port
on share
overbooker
Pantanevril
parabasis
phosphoramidic acid
Phytoptus psilaspis
pilot-plant scale
plane table
podwer gun
pound-keepers
prenzlaus
Primula chienii
problematize
quasi-multiplication
quasistar
retarded elasticity function
RFS
Saint Peter the Apostle
Scherbius
single light lamp
single row cylindrical roller bearing
sirenising
Smalian's formula
squaerial
steering gear tube
strata ganglionare nervi optici
superglobal
take an example
Tetrarin
thape
The Bible and a stone do well together.
the documents
Tonga development Bank
transderepression
transphobes
twisting rod
V-signs
verbal meaning
weight efficiency
western-blot
Xinyi District