时间:2019-01-04 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  当你费劲地啃一块硬梆梆的奶酪的时候,你在想什么?太难吃?太糟糕?不错,hard cheese 就是一件不幸的“倒霉事”。


  Hard cheese是一个典型的英国俚语,表示“厄运,不幸,太糟糕”。Hard cheese梢宰匪莸街辽?876年,其变体hard cheddar大约1931年出现在书本上。著名语源学家埃里克·帕特里奇认为,美食家们通常偏爱那种不易保存的软软的乳酪。所以如果餐厅的侍者为远道而来的“吃家”们报上一句“对不起,先生,今天只有硬干酪了”,相信那些遗憾的人们会从牙缝里挤出这样的话来:“Tough luck!”,“Too bad!”,“Disaster!”,“Hard cheese!”


  不过埃里克的著作《英语谚语词典》的编订和更新者保罗·贝尔认为,这里的cheese也许不是指我们吃的那种真正的干酪。他认为,cheese是19世纪的英语俚语,表示“正确的事情,合适的东西,头等的人或事物”(在波斯语中,chiz=thing),例如the big cheese表示“具有影响力的重要人物”。因此hard cheese就有“坏事情”的意思了。


  在英国,hard cheese经常被人们用来表达对他人的同情,或轻蔑地反驳他人。例如:I heard that you lost you beloved little grandson. It's really hard cheese.(我听说你失去了心爱的小孙子,真是太不幸了。)Don't like your gruel 1, boy? Well, hard cheese.(不喜欢你的稀粥吗,小子?真可怜。)后来hard cheese逐渐流传到澳大利亚和加拿大,但美式英语始终没有“接纳”这个俚语。



n.稀饭,粥
  • We had gruel for the breakfast.我们早餐吃的是粥。
  • He sat down before the fireplace to eat his gruel.他坐到壁炉前吃稀饭。
学英语单词
A.E.
accession country
additional discount
Alocinma longicornis
alum stone
am wave
anaclases
Anangus
angiospermous forest
antadril
audick
Balikpapan, Tk.
bayesian analytical approach
bench mark survey
Besredka's reaction
blast furnace brick
camfield r.
capture radiation
chain-scraper conveyor
committee members
completeness of model
cosmic unit
cosmogenic radioisotopes
cubbridge-head
cutting tool lubricant
dependent repeater
directive beacon
dissynchronization
disyntheme
drive speed
ebonite tube
electric-hydraulic control center
equimolecular
Eyburie
familiarized
framepack
frizure
gas welding torch nozzle
guarantor charge adjustment code
hanging bridge
honrs
hydroxynorephedrine
imbezzles
imbowed
injected
inorganic chromatography
instantaneous impact fuze
jai
Johann Ludwig Uhland
Las Omaňas
liquamatic
Maskawa Toshihide
Mathews County
matronism
MCW (modulated continuous wave)
merging of events
milpa
mixed ratio
multi-axle tipper
multiple record processing
national spirit
noncranial
onthophagus (onthophagus) rugulosus
perignathic girdle
permeabilise
poison-anise
printing station
Pseudouralinia
purchase/mfg order detail chain validation
radioactive fission gas
radioluminescences
raffia palm
rag-out
redneckism
return date
Rospigliosi
Rottenacker
sand lugs
Scottish play
sequential count test
siliculae
skip-a-day feeding
solar radiation curve
solidity loss
sparks
splined feed shaft
spontaneous reaction
stud-mare
submarine's proceeding state with snorkel
symbolatries
system identification theory
tectaria fuscipes
terminal portability
thigmotactic
thymelike
transistor voltmeter
trigarian
two-stage compression pump
unfalsified
wehmeier
who-ors
zonotomography