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
accumulative timing
active processor module
active tectonic zone
all-weather equipment
analysis on substances and energy flow
animalcula
armhole girth
aspired to
bang sb's heads together
barlbies
be out of one's powers
beer bong
boughless
bysale
C-day
carcinoma of diaphragm
cardiac electric pacemaker
casting layout machine
celadons
chairborne
come from Missouri
composite Simpson formula
conventional interest
cyclopentadecanone
data monitoring processing equipment
design for making
DL-473
drain tube
envyful
farquhar is.
fish out
furniture plush
gallisize
genus egrettas
gjetost
glue injecting and dowel driving machine
grandmommy
hepato-enteric
hierarchical direct
high sensitive seismometer
hydraulic-brake operating valve
hygrometric tables
hygroscopic particle
I mean
ice palace
idioblasts
individual vent
inflation breccia
initial recoil
intermesoblastic
king's bench division
landscape gardeners
lobban
lose confidence in
m.j
maclow
mastectomized
mastigophorans
Matanal Pt.
mecrillate
methyllanthionine
metric butt-load
midfibre
Milola
mixtapes
moldy feed
morphism of finite type
muzzleloader
mycobiota
N-trifluoroacetyl
Nohup
oligoclase andesite
one-use
panentheist
Phai, Ko
profit and loss on securities and investment
reception distributor
repeatings
road race
rod movement control switch
similized
single-shell cylinder
sodium nitrates
Solasonin
stamped velvet
sustainable rate
temporary repair siding
tera-cycles
tetranitrodiphenyl disulfide
that's a boy
Titan's aerosol layer
tropeolin D
tue-sun
turnover of total assets
two-screed finishing machine
unsanctuary
untense
vibratory driver
visibility chart
vocitate
volcanic hair
williams of occam