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
.syw
Adiantum bellum
aix-en
aquopentaamminechromium(iii) chloride
arbitration proceedings
arteria hypogastrica
aspergillus carbonarius
Aubigny-en-Artois
averses
azocompound
be in credit
bulb angle-bar
callistocythere multirugosa
catalyzed oxidation
Chance's back splint
citrocoll
Control C
crompond
crystallization of sucrose
cyberbuddies
delustering agent
dingdong fight
directed family
discriminately
disilanylene-
distinguished polynomial
ditching attitude
djax
double-time Green function
doublet antenna
down-draw process
dual feeding
Dīmtu
educational efficiency
electron diffraction diagram
end group measurement
energy tax credit
equilibrium load
estoppel by matter of record
Europatent
extruded channel
false call
family of ellipses
fluoresceine dye
fourcylinder
galumin
gedge
geographical history
gray poplars
hand-prints
harmonic coal mining method
heavy assault weapon
hitting the fan
honour bright
hydroquinone diethyl ether
immune nucleic acid
institute cargo clauses-fpa
integrodifferential
internal liner
inward foreign manifest
Kilmacolm
laser gyroscope axis
law-worthy
linear electrical parameters
linear number
maltcrusher
maracaist
Marsa Ben Mehidi
Mastixia pentandra
meeaglossa
minimalist approach
multi-measure
n-connected space
PH-Gpx
phalluslike
Poisson function
precordial leads
primary infection
procedure of trial
prochlorperazines
Rabdosia medilungensis
radiation alarm
return game
rini
scandal shee
seriouser
show'd
spontaneous sound change
spotted wintergreen
Suchedniów
tabes infantum
technical water drainage system of hydropower plant
test-range tracking
tetanus and pertussis vaccine
TLVei
transistorized flip-flop
tulchin
two-phase printing process
walk in
wideband interpolation
Ziegler-Natta catalyst
zsigmondy gold numger