时间:2019-01-18 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  Keeping 2 up with the Joneses是一个典型的美式习语,表示“和你的富裕邻居保持同等的生活方式或质量”,这其实是一句讽刺的话,指“和左邻右舍比排场比阔气”。


  Joneses表示“与自己社会地位相等的人,邻居”,因为Jones是英语中一个很常见的姓,所以它的复数形式就被用来指代那些生活在你周围、也许只有一墙之隔的人们。如果你去他那里串门,你也许会发现他们家的彩电比你家的大,他们家的地毯踩上去更柔软,甚至他们家阳台上的花草都比你家的茂盛。好吧,你微笑着和他握手告别,回到自己的小家,握紧双拳大喊一声吧:“I must keep 1 up with the Joneses!”。


  语源学家Barry Popik发现,类似的说法keeping up with the Smiths and the Joneses 早在1894年就出现在书本中,到了19世纪晚期简化为keeping up with the Joneses,成为一个固定习语。1913年,专栏画家亚瑟·莫曼德在《纽约世界》(The New York Globe)上开辟了一个连载漫画专栏,标题就是Keeping up with the Joneses。这个专栏在美国报纸上连载了32年,广受欢迎,keep up with the Joneses也顺理成章地成了美国人的日常用语。


  多年后,那位专栏画家撰文解释当年给专栏取这个名字的动机。原来亚瑟23岁时就有了一份周薪125美元的工作,在20世纪初期,这笔收入已经相当可观。亚瑟结婚后搬到纽约城外的“富人区”长岛(Long Island)居住,他见邻居都是乡村俱乐部成员,自己也加入。见人家骑马,他也去买马。见邻居雇用仆人,他还照做。由于他喜欢和左邻右舍攀比斗富,生活越来越铺张浪费,结果落得债台高筑,债主临门,只得搬出长岛富豪区,远离浮华世界。



vt.保存,保留
  • We must keep the classroom clean.我们必须保持教室清洁。
  • This fruit will keep till spring.这水果可以保存到春天。
n.遵守;一致;(与…)协调;保管v.(使)保持, (使)继续( keep的现在分词 );(食品)保持新鲜;保有;保存
  • It was a challenge, keeping ten boisterous seven-year-olds amused. 要逗着十个好动的七岁孩子玩真是一种挑战。
  • She became neurotic about keeping the house clean. 她对保持房屋清洁有点神经质。
学英语单词
access plug
adrenomedullotropic hormone
angle stem earth thermometer
babacu oils
back filling
bearing capacity of seabed
big girl
blockbust
Botocudos
breach of regulations
business reports
cerium epidote
chlorine retention
class of options
coaxial inner conductor
colloidal conditon
control stick
Cynanchum officinale
dark adaptation curve
diiminoester
distributed stress
dwa(l)m
Edward Lawrie
Einstein Observatory
engineering worker
englobes
entanglings
ernest solvays
etch pattern
falso bordone
fireresisting property
flat gradient
Floyd-Steinberg
formation of skin flap
fricke dose meter
furostane
Gjuhëzës, Kep i
gyri occipitales laterales
halation by diffusion
Hartz Mts.
index of cementation
intraturn
jonell
Julpo
knife-edges
large-scale production effect
linear-logarithmic intermediate frequency amplifier
live-roller conveyor
logical empiricism
low speed turntable
matelot
membranae vitellina
microstress
mild inbreeding
militerisations
movement of zone
neuropterous insects
object perceived colour
old dislocation
osteoclasts
Oued Fodda, Barrage de l'
oxyproline hydroxyproline
Pedicularis aloensis
poly(vinyl) acetal resin coating
prime imiister
pub-crawler
Purkinje's shift
quality identification function
reversible variable speed motor
risk control program
Roccus
Sayre's jacket
scan line algorithm
school nights
semelfactively
serial poll disable
shaft brake horsepower
silychristin
sodium sulforicinate
south-polar
spelling checker
spheric-harmoics approximation
spindle trees
stages of operation
stamped punch
statistique
steady damp heat test
stress-to-rupture stress
subliminal excitation
surface reistance
sweeris
system safety engineering
tear plate
tennis thumb
threshold visibility
tuning and temperament
vestibulitis
voice over wireless LAN
water-cooled source
wheezing disease
woo-mongers
ytterbia (ytterbium oxide)