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
activity - based costing
alto cumulus opacus
Andranovory
anode power input
astrogeodetic theodolite
be fitted for
bikenibeu
black bottle
bulbo-
caleduct
class of permutations
construction trade
Cornu spiral
Cred'es antiseptic
Cuao, R.
culvert propulsion
death rigor
designed value
dhmt
differential survival
dispersion of random variable
districate
double ionization
earth moving machinery
emollitions
emulsion stabilizers
encephalo-myo-synangiosis
ensituximab
europass
face fall
file film
foolocracy
friction feeder
gate bias
give a crap
GOSUB statement
hanania
hydrodynamic machine
in amount
individualized learning
industrial credit
IREP (interim reliability evaluation program)
job description card
juran
Kronprinzenkoog
lasercomps
lesser galangals
lumiflavin fluorescence method
mannoia
manufacturer lot number
melitite-basalt
minimalizations
morph (huxley 1955)
multi-touch
natural-circulation reactor
nettle cloth
nouse
opaque fused silica
operating movement
orthopoda
page option
panoistic ovary
pickle barrel bombing
polar squall
POTOROIDAE
precinematic
precious metal refiner
predecrease
prepay
profusions
purging vaporizer
radix ipecacuanhae
rather good
reboil ratio
recomforture
reconveyance
rented out
resin loading
riftsawn
sarracine-N-oxide
Savings element
sleih
snake feeders
snazox
SSMI
survivor's insurance
teniafuges
thatha
think good to do sth
thrmerol
traumatic aneurysm
traveling light
twitchiest
under-sort
unenjoyability
unpaidness
vat sulfur dye
waiver of conditions
weissensees
Windmill Hill
wire grid
Yucatan