时间:2019-01-07 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  Eating a crow,难道有人喜欢吃乌鸦肉?据说乌鸦肉是很难吃的,因为乌鸦是饮食不清爽的食肉动物,可是照这个逻辑,素食主义者的肉应该很鲜美了?


  其实,eat crow是一个美国俚语,表示“被迫收回自己说的话,被迫认错”,是一件“屈辱、丢脸”的事。比如说,你确信你的邻居在地下室里违规饲养眼镜蛇,于是叫来警察对邻居家里进行突击搜查,结果警察把屋子翻了个底朝天,只找到两只长尾小鹦鹉和一只硕鼠。想必那时颜面扫地的你只能哑巴吃黄连,乖乖地赔礼道歉——have some serious crow to eat。


  19世纪中期,俚语eat crow首次以“to eat boiled crow”的形式出现。关于这个俚语的起源,有许多妙趣横生的故事版本。通常,这些故事总会提到一位猎人在别人的属地上偷猎,结果被逮了个正着。


  其实eat crow和中国成语里的“自食其果”有点相象。至于为什么要选择“乌鸦”作为“自食其果”的对象,也许是因为乌鸦肉的味道确实难以恭维,即使煮熟了还是无法下咽,就像“被迫认错道歉”的滋味一样令人难受。


  还有一个俚语eat humble 1 pie也有类似的含义,只是语气稍微缓和一些。Humble pie指(狩猎后)用动物内脏(umbles)做的煎馅饼,一般是供仆人吃的,因此eat humble pie就有了“低声下气地道歉,在屈辱的事件中认错”的喻义。



adj.谦卑的,恭顺的;地位低下的;v.降低,贬低
  • In my humble opinion,he will win the election.依我拙见,他将在选举中获胜。
  • Defeat and failure make people humble.挫折与失败会使人谦卑。
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2-thiophenylboric acid
academic award of ministry of education
adopted child
adult t-cell leukemia
all-cargo aircraft
ammonium gallium sulfate
anacamptic sound
back taper
bend knot
Bothriocephalus linguloides
brachyform
cabotegravir
career counselor
chain polycondensation
change event
chronic pancreatitis
coal train
cocktion
colo(u)r coding
constant comparison
crankshaft balance weight
deceleration parameter
deck stores
deep log lead
Diospyros morrisiana Hce.
Dulecha
economization of power series
encampment
end of pulsing
endurance crack
enforceably
engine quality review team
fibrational
fibrous pericardium
firing weapon
followerss of the phrophet
foundation cleaning
frequency shift keyed
fresh-air class
frevo
fritillariae cirrhosae bulbus
fuel subassembly transport flask
gerres limbatus
glycylglycylalanine
God's algorithm
H-p extr (high pressure extraction)
home nursing
honky-tonks
information processing power
introducido
ipropyl-para-toluidine
ironworker's shop
leukopoietin
loose-side
merville
mesocolon (or colic mesentery)
mixing batter
Muarapangean
name calling
newly increased consumption funds
ocular volume
over-command
Pander's nucleus
photophoresis
pile driving helmet
polyphyll
polysulfuration
possessive nouns
prehardening reaction
production wellhead
punch card file
pyloric antrum
quadrupole momentum
Rassenkreis
recess of tympanic cvity
right - to - work laws
ringbearers
rotating liner hanger
second call
self-dual
semilocular
settlement by force
side ramp
solo homer
spatules
spoke head
stoker drive mechanism
stratigraphic unit
survivorship annuities
tailrope
tesoro
took precedence of
Tripogon
undergraduateship
unnilpentium
valid memory access
variable gain method
wire-stitched
woman's reason
y-e-s
zondas
Zuozhen Township