时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  在“加拿大文学皇后”玛格丽特·爱特伍的小说《强盗新娘》中,有一个角色在空想中迷失了自己,并用“woolgathering”来自我标榜。没错,woolgathering就是“胡思乱想,白日梦,心不在焉”的意思。


  我们知道,从羊身上分离羊毛是一件难度很大的工作,在澳大利亚和新西兰,剪羊毛(sheep-shearing)逐渐成为一项竞赛。Woolgathering和剪羊毛本来没什么关系,但16世纪的时候,一些乡下穷苦人会在牧羊人常去放牧的田野漫步,试图采集羊群挂在灌木和树枝上的零星羊毛。如果能够收集到足够多的羊毛,就可以编织一件衣服,自己穿或者拿去卖掉。如此看来,wool-gathering 并不是一项获利丰厚的职业,而且还要在乡野整天游荡。到了大约1550年, woolgathering就产生了比喻义“无目的地漫游,无利可图”。


  今天,woolgathering就有了“空想,异想天开,白日梦”的含义



学英语单词
account executive
adbot
Aesch
airest
airframe icing
anti-nuclear factor
aryl hydrogen sulfate
automethylate
banking network
bathythermograph
bead tool
Benzchlorpropamide
Biscayne Park
black pitch
broad-row cultivator
bromine pentafluoride
carettas
cellopentose
chlorocinnamaldehyde
clay plate
close relative plant
coefficient of excess
contact tension fitting
core bit
cremometer
darielis kheoba (darial gorge)
desitometric titration
desulphurization during combustion
dilemmist
disc brake
dole queue
driving gear shaft
dynameters
earth tilt
economical-load
electric current of atmosphere
float on,float upon
formattable
fortheir
free-versest
freely-supported
fructophilic
gaseous electric discharge
glibenclamides
gruenerite
hash over
hepatopancreatic duct
horizontal-scanning frequency
http cookie
hub brake
humbly
inbreathings
installed life
INTT
investigation of family budget
ja'far
jet coal
jiaogulanoside
lifting angle
liquid rouge
logical complexity
manufacturing area for export commodities
microwave signal standard
MMDA
Morisot
Mursley
mycalesis suavolens kagina
natural measure
nmnh
oculopathies
packcloth
palpitation due to alarm
passenger service unit
phenyl fluoride
phototunable
premilk
procedure design
profounded
purse crab
Qiaotou Township
quasi-ususfructus
radio distress signal
ram speed
regenerative-furnace
relative age
Sanīyah
sawce
search fee
seating chart
secondary sexual characters
sex deviation
silicon oil
sorbus torminaliss
suckley
swath-band
terminal control equipment
thio-acid compound
throe
uricases
Vashtëmi
Wārām, Kowtal-e
zoophytoid