时间:2019-01-09 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

to kick up one's heels


to kick off


人们大概都看到过一匹年轻的俊马在宽阔的草原上兴高彩烈地奔跑的情景吧!这是一幅很美丽的图象。马的前腿往前伸展,后腿很有节奏地往上踢。美国有一个俗语就是建筑在这一形像之上的。这个俗语就是:to kick up one's heels。To kick up one's heels,从字面上来解释就是:把后脚往上踢。但是,实际上to kick up one's heels是用来形容人们到外面去寻欢作乐,就像马在草原上奔跑一样。比如说,有两个人在办公室里说话:


例句-1: How about coming out with us Wednesday night? We're all going to take Bill Glover out to dinner. Then later we'll drop into a few night spots. It's Bill's last chance to kick up his heels, you know--he's getting married the next morning.


这人说:"星期三晚上跟我们一起出去玩,怎么样?我们大家一起请比尔格洛弗出去吃晚饭。然后,我们再到几个像夜总会那样的地方去玩。这是比尔到外面去寻欢作乐的最后一次机会了,你知道,他第二天上午就要结婚了。"


To kick up one's heels并不一定是年轻人的事,上了年纪的人有时也想到外面去轻松轻松。下面的例子就很能说明问题:


例句-2: My mother and dad are over sixty, but they still like to go out once in a while to have dinner and do a little dancing and kick up their heels. Of course, they go home a lot earlier than they used to.


这个人说:"我的爸爸和妈妈已经六十多了,但是他们有时还是喜欢到外面去吃晚饭、跳跳舞,高兴高兴。当然罗,他们现在回家的时间要比以前早多了。"


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下面我们还要给大家介绍一个和kick这个字有关的美国俗语。这个俗语是:to kick off。To kick off的意思是一项活动,或一个计划的开始。To kick off原来是用在足球比赛的。每次比赛开始都是由一个球队把球踢到对方球队去。可是现在这个俗语几乎可以用在任何方面,表示:开始。美国人经常用to kick off来表示竞选活动的开始。有的时候,你可以从电台上听到这样的报道:


例句-3: Last night Michael Smith kicked off his campaign for the U.S. Senate 1 with a speech here promising 2 lower taxes and a bigger budget for schools and more help to the farmers.


这则消息说:"昨晚,迈克尔斯密斯在这儿发表讲话,作为他竞选美国参议员竞选活动的开始。他在讲话中向选民们保证降低税收,增加学校经费,并给予农民更多的帮助。"


下面这个例子是一个学生在准备他的暑期活动。他说:


例句-4: Now that my exams are all finished, I'm going to kick off the summer vacation by going down to Ocean City for a week to get some sun, some surf and a chance to look at the girls.


这个学生说:"现在考试已经全部结束,我要先到欧欣城去玩一个星期,去晒晒太阳,在海上玩冲浪,还可以看看那里的姑娘们。这就作为我暑假的开始。"



n.参议院,上院
  • They feel deeply the honour of belonging to the Senate.他们为作为参议院的成员而深感荣幸。
  • His unsuccessful senate run was his last hurrah.这次失败的参议员竞选是他最后的尝试。
adj.有希望的,有前途的
  • The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
  • We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
学英语单词
air lift machine
alpe-adria
amplification of risk
antilithemic
artificial hole set
barophilic baceria
batch-cart
bluffers
brassers
business drivers
cambrovician period
cerebral gyrus
coarse mix
cohort mortality
compendiate
complementary circuits/devices
concomitant variation
conemaugh r.
coralliophaga coralliophaga
cost of shifting
DC motor
deck passengers
differential pressure flow sensor
district dip
double grid tube
ear region
explorer
fetisso
foli
forged
gravity dropper
heat stroke
Herzsprung
hydroorotic acid
hyoscyamus
interstage transformator
intraorbital exostosis
invariant strangeness
iodocholesterol scan
ISonicotan
Johnny Trots
joinings
La2Zr2O7
liability for loss
lunar flight
magnetostatic surface wave
market scale
medicalizing
metal base indicated electrode
metallochrome
mystery-shopping
nemo potest esse simul actor et judex
network boot
non-commercial well
omphaloskeptic
operating characteristic curves
optical warning sign
orbispace
outtoout
over weight vehicle
pasta magnesii sulphatis
pennaite
peptide neurotransmitter
perceptual speed test
plantation rubber
post-lateral fissure (or medilateral fissure)
postretinal
pot-bellied
pre-crucial
protorosaurian
querl
quinolinemethanol
Ramat Gan
Rhizoma seu Herba Bergeniae
rivose
rocker frame
Roegneria geminata
sanghs
screwer
self-actuated controlled
shimmer-aggregate
shoshoneans
Smith's cloth abrasion tester
source subschema
stryffe
supporting construction
survival situation
take me out
Target Leverage Ratio
the Episcopal Church
thimble tube composite type
time point
trace metals in sea water
trainel
transcendental unity
transfer gearshift level
turning bay
undoctorly
used leather
wfdd
write away for
X-ray inspector X