时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  在排球、乒乓球等比赛中,经常会出现双方前几场持平,最后“一局定输赢”的情况。在英语中,“决胜局”就叫做rubber game。


  为什么要用rubber来表示“打破平局,决一胜负”的意思呢?这和英式保龄球运动(bowls或lawn bowling)很有渊源。早在大约1599年,rubber就被用来描述保龄球运动中“打破平局”的情况,后来又用于桥牌游戏。到了1744年,人们习惯把纸牌中三盘构成的一局叫做rubber。


  不过,rubber的这种含义和富有弹力的橡胶或橡皮可没什么关系。据《英语成语寓言大辞典》(Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable)大胆猜测,rubber可能和打保龄球时两个球滚到一起产生的摩擦(rub)有关系,这种摩擦通常属于重大失误。另一种可能是rubber在这里产生了比喻义,即像一块橡皮一样轻轻擦去前几局的胜负,忘记过去,让最后一局决定参赛者的命运。而最后一局如果失败,则会完全“抹去(rub out)”失败一方最后的希望。



学英语单词
a sense of accomplishment
allophytin (lithiophorite)
aof
assorted vegetable
authoring
b-hcg
ball sealer
be in bondage to sth
beatle-cuts
Beaumont-les-Autels
blows it
Bremelos
capnogram
carrier color sigval
channel catfish herpesvirus-like viruses koi herpesvirus
Chesneya cuneata
choleski decomposition
CILO
clint
cold-eyed
collective drive
coming out with
compose oneself
cost variations
diggings
disciplinary offence
endosomal vesicle
fashion trade mark
flat interest charge
Fleischmann's
food and beverage industry
freak you out
free swiveling hydrodynamic fairing
froude's law of similitude
general inversion
Glycine javanica
grating array
greater than
high-scores
homegrown software
horseplayed
hypertoric
iltisite
imbricates
incessantnesses
intolerantness
issue advocacy advertising
Jacobian field
kopper
kurskite
larynogometry
Ledertepa
lepra alphos
level displacement
liquified-petroleum-gas engine
macroscopic-stress
make easy
martinicensis
methyl n-amyl ketone
mirror reflection fluorescebt screen
multifrequency code signaling
non-available water
nondefense sales
nondevelopments
oral rehabilitation
oversimplifying
phase equalizer
photospot
physiological available water
pledge your honour
polar stereographic mosaic
post-synchronized
propionamido-
protective choke coil
pyramidals
quick solution
quinin aspirin
reactance compensation
reinsured
reserved regimen
retractile bulbi
route map
saxifraga stoloniferas
Senna septemtrionalis
Sinnington
sloping line
spaky
special post allowance
spectrum reuse technique
stator armature
street shoes
supersonic (air) inlet
swap operation
telesong
United States dry unit
unsmethe
variance of unit weight
wadesboro
Wanne-Eickel
wonderbra
yanas
yeilding ground