时间:2019-01-09 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

我们在这次节目里要给大家介绍的两个习惯用语都有同一个关键的字。那就是fair。Fair这个字有很多解释。其中一个主要的意思是:公正或诚实。这也正是我们要讲的第一个习惯用语的意思。Fair and square. Square可以用做名词,也可以用做形容词。用做名词的时候,它的一般解释就是:四方块。用做形容词的时候可以解释为:正直的,或者是光明正大的。


我们来举一个例子。目前在体育比赛中存在的一个问题就是有的运动员为了取胜而在比赛前服用那些能增强体力的药。体育界有关方面也一直在设法阻止这种现象。下面是一个人在说他那参加赛跑比赛的朋友。


例句1: Jack 1 won the race last week with flying colors. But other athletes suspected he had taken drugs before the race. I know Jack well - he's a person with high moral standards. I'm sure he won the race fair and square without any cheating.


这是说:杰克上星期在赛跑中以优异成绩获胜。但是,其他运动员怀疑他在赛跑前服了药。我很了解杰克。他是一个道德标准很高的人。我肯定他是老老实实取胜的;没有任何欺骗行为。


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我们再来举一个例子说明fair and square的用法。这是一个很有钱的商人在说话。


例句2: I admit I've piled up a certain amount of money during the past ten years. But I made every penny fair and square. I've never cheated others and at the same time I don't let anybody else cheat me.


这个富商说:我承认我在过去十年内积累了一定数量的钱。但是,我的每一分钱都是老老实实地赚来的。我从来也没有欺骗过别人,同时也不允许别人欺骗我。


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我们现在来讲第二个以fair这个字为关键的习惯用语。Fair shake. Shake这个字一般用做动词的时候比较多,意思是:摇。大家都知道,to shake hands就是握手。但是在fair shake里,shake是一个名词。Fair shake是指和每个人进行同样诚实和公正的交易。也可以说是:一视同仁。


这个习惯用语可能是来自一种用骰子玩的赌博。参加赌博的人先要把两颗骰子放在两只手当中摇一摇,然后再往桌上一撒,看看点数加起来一共有多少,以定输赢。现在我们来举一个例子看看fair shake在日常生活中是怎么用的。这是一个人在说买汽车的事。


例句3: When I buy a new car I buy it from Bill Green. He's always very honest with customers so you can depend on him to give you a fair shake when it comes to getting a good price.


这个人说:当我要买新车的时候,我就到比尔那儿去买。他对顾客总是很诚实,所以你要是想要价钱好,他可以信得过他,他肯定会很公道地对待你的。


美国人普遍第对推销汽车的人印象很坏,认为他们专会欺骗顾客,从中渔利。但是,从这个例子来看,推销汽车的人当中还是有好的。


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下面是一个人在抱怨他的老板,因为他没有被提升。


例句4: My supervisor 2 always assigns me to tackle the tough jobs. But when there's a promotion 3, he tends to forget me. Several times, people less qualified 4 than I am got promoted. I don't think my supervisor has given me a fair shake.


这个人说:我的上司总是派我去处理难对付的工作。但是,一有提升的机会,他好像把我忘了。好几次了,那些水平不如我的倒被提升了。我认为我的上司对我不公平。


美国公司里的职工跟其他地方一样在争夺提升机会的时候也很激烈。水平高的没被提升,水平低的反而被提升的事不是罕见的现象。有的人甚至为此辞职,到别处再找工作。



n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
n.监督人,管理人,检查员,督学,主管,导师
  • Between you and me I think that new supervisor is a twit.我们私下说,我认为新来的主管人是一个傻瓜。
  • He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.他说我太轻浮不能成为一名好的管理员。
n.提升,晋级;促销,宣传
  • The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
  • The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级,加了薪。
adj.合格的,有资格的,胜任的,有限制的
  • He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
  • We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。
学英语单词
AECA
ailin'
air slide valve
alligations
anabaptizes
antilcer
antimonpearceite
assessment tool
balloon plate
before one can say knife
box-spring
Cantona
carris
cattle cakes
chemistry of sea water
chloracetyl
chronic granulocytopenia
clonmell
coefficient of personnel demand
commutator rectifier
condensate return piping
conversion privilege of preferred stock
corydalis curviflora maxim.
crematogaster treubi apilis
D-ELATERIN
danger mark
deafener
deafening silences
desmie region
Digenea
dispersonalize
dredgers
duplex copying
eppenstein
euphrasia iinumai takeda
EURYPHARYNGIDAE
federal officials
foreign partnership
foreshortening
forevacuum pressure
gas extraction
ground-contour-following device
horizontal deflection driver
hot crimping
hydrodynamic interaction
IAPD
indirectamente
isopentennyladenine
jamb
Kartikeya
Lao She
leechings
ligne ga(u)ge
local-deterministic axiom
magnetic separation cleaning
medium voltage winding
melilite olibine nephelinite
musulin
Nango
normal probability plot
normed space
orange-seed oil
Oriental button
ostium secundum defect
outer regulator corrector
photochemical dissociation
platinum(iv) chloride
platyfish
power-drives
principal metal
projection TV
ramsbothams
re-exhaust
redcued
repetitive peak inverse current
restricted cosmological principle
ridable
risk of rust
robemaking
rod journal
roll book
RSBS
salafs
sanguinarine nitrate
segmental orifice plate
semantic incommensurability
seventeenth parallel
sides
specimen requirements
split straws
spruced up
sulci palpebralis inferior
temperature warning sensor
territorialise
tidal current limit
towtruck
trespass to chattel
trezevant
triple deck
triturations
truely