时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Jessica 在北京学汉语,她的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教她。今天是Jimmy要问的:爆冷门

Jimmy: Jessica, 昨天看学校的足球比赛了吗?爆了个大冷门儿,法学院居然输给了商学院,哎,这大冷门怎么说啊?

Jessica:冷门?

Jimmy:哦,对啊,就是铁定会输的队,最后居然打赢了。

Jessica: Oh, in English we call that an upset.

Jimmy: Upset? 那不是不高兴的意思吗?

Jessica: That's true. 做形容词的时候,重音在后面,是 upset (emphasis on the second syllable), 指不高兴,但是做名词,重音在前面,upset (emphasis on the first syllable), it means 1 an unexpected 2 win.

Jimmy: 哦,我明白了,中文里的爆冷门,在英文里就是 upset. 那原来大家都以为法学院会赢,这种赛前被看好的球队美语里叫什么?

Jessica: Easy. That team's called the favorite.

Jimmy: 这么说,The law school team was the favorite to win the game. 法学院足球队本来是被看好的热门球队。

Jessica: That's right. You can also refer to the team that was expected to lose as the underdog.

Jimmy: Underdog. under后面加上dog, underdog 就是在比赛里实力比较差的一方。这么说,我们中文系的排球队,不论跟谁比赛,都是 underdog.

Jessica: Jimmy!Isn't your girlfriend Rachel the team captain?

Jimmy: 唉,别提了...That's why I always cheer for the underdog...

Jessica: hehe.....言归正传,What did you learn today?

Jimmy: 第一,爆冷门叫 upset,重音在前面; 第二,赛前被看好的一方叫 favorite,第三,赛前不被看好的一方叫 underdog.

Jessica: 不错,我也学了个词儿--upset 叫作“冷门”。



1 means
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
2 unexpected
adj.想不到的,意外的
  • I always keep some good wine in for unexpected guests.我总保存些好酒,用来招待不速之客。
  • His promotion was unexpected.他的升迁出人意料。
学英语单词
.ffo
acceleration amplitude
ankle breadth
anytus
Aragón y Cataluňa, Can.de
arsenomethane
ataxic aphasias
attributable
automatic sequential control of wa- ter treatment equipment
barlaches
bayes estimation
be careless about
belisand
belur
betamipron
bliabergite
blood pudding
bughouse
buoyant jet
busy-bodies
caeruleofibrite (ceruleofibrite)
Calvörde
comprehensive equipment
compulsory both way
confirmatory sequencing
consigning to
direct attention to
drived number
E10
electromechanical relay
equivalent-bending-moment
error of magnetic compass
excludees
faculty of advocate
financial system
financing considerations
Fire Protection Association
flogger
free-water elevation
Galinstan
gear shifting box
geodetic dome
getting on my nerves
Grote
Guamecyline
gummed labels
gymnals
HHRT
high centres
hogs having less fat
instrument-makings
international geosphere biosphere program
intraclast
inversion of chromosomes
Irish Travellers
it is noted that
jelly juice
Kjeldahl flask
Klimovo
larossa
let's go home
liability and compensation system
locomotive-kilometer
lower range value
make on
manufactured goods
market liquidity
meprodine
metal mineral
Monarda fistulosa
Newtonically
non-heat-dissipating specimen
nuclear jaundice
oil-gas spring
out of rule
parakrithella laoma
Parasificin
pending job
poly-A
polyp of colon
pood
prostaglandin reductase
raman-rayleigh ratio
recessus membranae tympani aboralis
reenactment
reinforcing
rotor yoke
sheet pile cofferdam
Shetianqiaoan Stage
shine-dalgarno
shrinking mapping
sympathico-
technical background
teratogenous
time-consolidation curve
two cycle principle
uremic neuropathy
verrucosoides
whopp
whw
Younger Edda
zeroeth