时间:2019-02-02 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  如果有人叫你jackanapes,你可得好好分辨一下,他是拿你的顽皮可爱开玩笑呢,还是看不惯你的行事作风?


  据说,jackanapes源自中古英语 Jack 1 Napis,是15世纪英国东部萨福克郡的一等公爵威廉·德拉波罗(William de la Pole)的绰号。尽管威廉公爵是一个很有权势和地位的人,但人们对他的调侃和奚落从来没有中止过。这主要是因为他的家族是英国最早从商人阶层晋升到贵族阶层的一批人,所以被当时很看重出身血统的英国人讽刺为“暴发户新贵”。显然,威廉家族选择接受勋爵在当时是不合时宜的,就像被绳子拴着的猴子一样招人耻笑。


  当时,宠物猴或猿有一个别名叫Jack Napes,Jack是英语中一个的常用名,对人和动物同样适用,比如公驴(jackass)和水手(Jack Tar)。Nape可能是对ape的戏称,也可能是因为当时很多宠物猿都是从那不勒斯(Naples)运到英国的。


  既然当时大家都不喜欢威廉公爵,那给他取Jack Napes的绰号也就不足为奇了。Jack Napes后来逐渐发展为jackanapes,表示“自大而鲁莽的人,傲慢的家伙,顽皮的孩子或猿猴”。


  最后,倒楣的威廉公爵被国王亨利六世砍掉了脑袋,当然了,国王总有比“起绰号”直接有力的方法来表达自己的不满。



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。
学英语单词
abberation
aldehyde fuchsin staining
aluminum chloride alkylation process
argument transmission
astoundedly
auctioned
aureolaria pedicularias
automatic fiscal stabilization
benefit-received principle of taxation
Benzoazurine G
breech lock bonnet
canonical-distribution
carduel
celery blights
chindonya
circular cone
cladosiphon decipiens okarn.
clathrate separation
company branch (telephone) exchange
compromise with sb. on sth.
counterstamp
data quality moniter
declarers
delectable
derivate
digital china
directional property
disaggregation of audience
dreamed
ds activated
dust protection mask
earphone input
emotional disturbances
enrollment form
ethylicin
excurrent siphon
face-time
fanfests
geras
glasgay
goal poacher
good night
grate layer material
gusmao
high attitude
high frequency AC generator
high-ratio transformer
hot-compacting
ichthyosis thysanotrichica
imaginaires
kill the messenger
Kolyvanskiy Uval
konked out
La Moure County
lacquered plate
legal welfare expense
life prediction
low voltage immersion heater
maximum instantaneous windspeed
microwave radiometric measurement
motor lifting rig
mystifying
ninja star
nogiphonia
non finite
non-consumption item
nonwaiver
normal barometric pressure
packet handle function
pentastoma moniliformis
piston gauge with equilibrium liquid
prezzies
profit-making year
prostatites
Proterostomia
put asunder
qj
quantity of metal deposited
Queensland camphor
range of partial ordering
reflected plan
sanctes
section view
single acting radical-plunger type oil motor
somethingdifferent
Sophora tomentosa
sorefalcon
spun-yarn
steady rotation
storage parity
subscriber
synthetic starch
syntibiofibularis
temperature sensing
tranquilities
tropp
turn meter
ultra-product
value of series
virtual console spooling
vulvoperineal repture
wedging mill