时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:英语俚语天天说


英语课

   再不懂棒球的人也听说过“base”(垒)—— 棒球内场四个角中的一个,通常用帆布袋或橡胶板作为标记。击球手在跑垒过程中,必须触到“垒”才有望得分。由此,在种类繁多的棒球用语中,怎能少得了与“base(垒)”相关的短语?


  谈“off base”和“touch base”之前,先简单介绍一下棒球规则 —— 在一局比赛中,如果击球手击中球后沿逆时针方向顺利到达一垒,然后跑完所有的三垒,最后跑回本垒,就能得一分。显然,在棒球比赛中,“off base”指击球手未跑完全垒就被淘汰出局,而“touch base”则指击球手跑到某一垒成功触垒。
  由此,运用到日常生活中,“off base”常喻指“荒谬的,错的太离谱(尤指基于错误前提之上的错误言行)”,如:The stories are off base(报道完全失实);His description of the accounting 1 system was totally off base(他所描述的会计体制实在荒诞的离谱)。
  相应的,“touch base”在美国口语中指“短暂的逗留”。
  或者,“touch every base”常用来形容“面面俱到”;
  “touch some of the bases”则喻指“谈某一问题的某些方面”。
  看例句:
  He came to the US without touching 2 base in England(他没在英国逗留就到了美国);
  The reporter has touched every base(记者中谈到了该问题的各个方面)。

n.会计,会计学,借贷对照表
  • A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
  • There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
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学英语单词
.ba
accessory DNA
adust
al-qods
albino pigmentation
barbuto
barlane picture transmission
blaer
Byttneria integrifolia
caffeine borocitrate
calcium compound
Campanumoea lancifolia
carry through something
centesimally
chalk whiting
chloramphenalan
choregraphing
cinema
close coating
comb pitot
corallines
danicas
decorated
drive someone mad
duikers
dynamical elevation
ethmoid, ethmoidal
Euanthe
exhaust connector
experimentalist methodology
explosion proof electric machine
failure to safety principle
family attitudes
fire resistant
first impressions are most lasting
gas turbine exhaust
gas-tight sleeve
generalized nodal displacement
generation of internal heat
goliath crane
gudahl
gunfiring rates
Haileyville
hashami
Houtaing
inclusion body protein
interrupt request block
irreversible state
karstologist
kwashiorkors
leaf shapes
letchi
Li Rui
lifetime reserve days
long walk bridge
magnetostriction oscillation
manifest stimulus
mcentee
mesosilexite
middle heater
neapness
near threshold fatigue crack growth
obtain an accommodation of
odd color
optant
organizational consumer
originating traffic
Ostodes paniculata
pen rack
penetrant technique (pt)
phase-shifting modulation
plating bar
procurement specification
product differetiation
provenience
ramekin case
rate of contributing person
record format
regenerative thermal oxidizer
relativistic effects
report of invisible trade payments
restr.
reversible magnetic process
rosp
scholzs
sector-field accelerator
self-restoring insulation
ship cable
single-drum steam generator
skokie
slae
slip through one's fingers
state-related
third party in litigation
timing device
ultranationalists
unlycanthropize
vestibular blind sac
water backs
Wichart truss
wood-house
ybathed