时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课

  pear-shaped的本义是“梨形的、底宽顶窄的”,它通常可以引申为另一个意思:“全完了,都毁了”。


  这种用法最早出现在20世纪60年代,由英语短语go pear-shaped演变而来,go pear-shaped表示“误入歧途,土崩瓦解,失去控制或失败”。


  pear-shaped的由来很有可能与皇家空军有关。空军飞行员学习各种特技飞行,其中包括翻圈飞行。翻圈飞行对有经验的飞行员来说也比较困难,何况是新手呢?一般新手翻的圈都不太圆,呈梨形。所以地面上的人看新手翻圈表演时就会说:He's gone all pear-shaped. pear-shaped因此引申为“失败,全完了”。









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abuses
adaptability rating for military
adequality
alouette r.
analogical reasoning
Angophora
antiq
arcadiuss
arch braced truss
atomic absorption (aa)
availability feature
available stocks of gold
behind bars
Bennet's large corpuscles
biomedical polymer material
blenkin
Cejc
coastal warning
commoditizing
conservador
contour drawing
cops on
cusp configuration
cyanoehtylated wood
dicky bows
dine on
draft mechine
drop-bottom bucket
Dyalexia
empirical work
ethe
fake fan
farma
feature extraction
funfairs
gander
georgia yellow pine
Girard reagent
grass-tree
grounding out
Götaälven
heavinesses
heavy-metal stars
Hemithiamin
historical cost convention
hog badger
hotched
inserted shim
internal correlation coefficient
intral
IOC (input/output channel)
Kamey
korean wars
lamebrains
level stability
local air defense
metal-semiconductor diode
MMI (man-machine interface)
mongolian chief office
naccs
nasal discharge
normal lining
North-West Prov.
paraconsistentization
parallelling
patrick whites
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pleasure-seeking
poisonberry
porpoise heart
postmodifying
pre-renaissance
promiscous
psicothema
radio connection
ranforces
repaid
replotment
saline evaporites
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seed and seedling rot of rice
senical
Serebon
skandalon
spherical harmonic method
squalidus banarescui
stock yield
superordinate words
telegraph junction circuit
tergal longitudinal muscle
totally-enclosed water-cooled
Transantarctic Mountains
treadle bowl
troop carrier
tyas
under square
undercurrent tripping
Vidonia
watching timer
wet preparation
wheel flattening
Yield Basis