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
active optics
age pension
bank winding
beater-wheel pulverizer
bogie volute spring
Bordet's phenomenon
broadcast recognition access method
camphill
city loan company
cochl. parv.
colo(u)r chemistry
colour airway
Commiphora abyssinica
compound catenary equipment
consumer credit counselling
cupredoxin
cut ... dead
D.W.T.
district telephone system
domestic signalling installation
douzieme gauge
Dry Cargo Packing
engineering test procedure
equilibrium boundary layer
external trimmer
fashion grey
ferforth
fishing tap
franticly
fuck toys
Glacier Bight
grecized
gummate
high load turbine
homocellular
hydrogen-cooled turbine-generator
hyperparasitism
I-shaped beam
infeable
interactive video disk
interleaving equipment
iron(iii) methylarsonate
isonicotinic acid hydrazide methane sulfonic acid
Ixonanthes cochinchinensis
jin-seng
Joint North Sea Wave Project
Kings have long arms.
lacunous
laurel camphor
lensia fowleri
light-sensitive detector
local call
location model
losophan
mantle of glacial drift
Masoretic text
mauthe
medium method
megister kouros (greece)
meimuna gakokizana
mifsuds
monk bond
monoalphabetic substitution
morella hortensia
Morgan's Bay
Neolitsea aurata var. undulatula
never-weres
non-linear transformer
Norway lemmings
oceanographic instrumentation
one-pan asymmetrical beam
our mission
post apostolic
post-marked
postcesarean
prepnant
pulmonary tuberculosis diagnostics
Pyridamole
quire of paper
reawaken
remote entry unit
ring thread gage
RNNF
rotaty piston engine
schottenol
simple astigmatism
soybean varieties grown on a calcareous soil
squiredoms
standing lock
staurovsky
sulfarsenobenzol
Sumitomo Group
swirl control valve
tapping of molten steel
tendovaginitis
time-current zone limits
unplug
unsyndicated
west germanies
XeF laser
xylophagan
ZSC capetown Radio