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。
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a bunny
accompt
acute enteritis
aim at
air cell
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alice's
arrhenogenic
articles of faith
autogenous grinding
autonomy-togetherness dialectic
averse
backbone cabal
Ban Teung
bitumen-impregnated insulating board
bladder ferns
Book of Judith
clat-fart
claying of soil
coal bed pitch
combined curve-and-side planing machine
continuous-time-rated motor
degranulating
derrik
DeSauty
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Deuteromycota
direct impact modulator
Dogmast
doppel
duellation
ecological fallacy
erinacines
European Computer Network
experimental section
fanship
food storage compartment
fourfold bodies
free flowing
funicular diagram
general suffrage bill
groupmates
Haverford College
heterotopically
high voltage rectifier stack
ideal curve
idrialine (idrialite)
index warrant
inductive pressure transducer
internal mixing gun
Jablonski, Daniel Ernst
karyotypic analysis
Khilim
Kubokawa
lambda-calculus
land-based reactor
lanterning
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lobster moth
Longmaxi Formation
macrophage activating fsctors
marrowbone
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memory barrier
northern corn-leaf blight
occipital lymph node
onomasiologies
orthophosphoric acid
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over-refine
overfondly
pataka
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plastic metamorphism
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prolixes
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pylorus
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rotor flexural principal mode
Sally Army
saltou
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send something flying
septer
shirred eggs
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steel plate door
supersexes
tanalises
thoracic tracheal comb
toolbuss
ultrasound injury
visuognosis
volcano lesion
Walin
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word-slinger