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”。









学英语单词
-carpous
absence of heart
account opening control
acorn woodpeckers
acute neurogenic cardiovascular failure
advances received in indents
Ahualulco
alkalic-metasomatism type uranium deposit
amphiliids
and I don't mean maybe
army surplus store
bank-on
blackbeetles
Chinese gall nut
chromated
continuous stocktaking
cookeys
Corucia
crook (crooking)
cross-roll straightening machine
crust horizon with vesicles
cupulae pleurae
dhol
Djugu
Double Speed
Dupuytren's tourniquet
edgebrook
epoctin
european wolf spiders
family Sapotaceae
femmullet
fits right in with
fluorinates
foreshocks
gelover
goal commitment
highway intermediate maintenance
honey-mouthed
Horsfieldia hainanensis
humayn
illinoian glacial period
infencibility
Isthmian Games
kaggwa
Kamalarai
keeked
knock on the door
Kultuk
leglen
line regulating section
live blood
longhorn
lose concentration
luncheon meat
milov
minimum viable population (mvp)
moloha majora
muscle of treitz
Naqūb
neptunium family
neuro-pattern
neurocalyx
nonlinear renewal theory
Nyūkawa
ochlerotatus
paintjet printer
pars anterior hypophyseos
phase-modulated transmitter
platformcrane
portable field-strength meter
principle of flight
reaction type stage
refueling accident
rellas
rotational speed meters
salades
sandbreak
sarcina alba
sequential stroke character generator
shield-row tube
snow sampling equipment
special room
spokes-man
starch lump
sub routine
surplus generated power
sweet teeth
Symmers' disease
thermal hoop-stress
throw money away
thyroid dysfunction
trichlorophenyl-acetate
ultrasonic damping
valedictory address
variable-power
Vein L.
viljandi (vilyandi)
whip top
worm gear hob
Zeyskiy Rayon
zodiac light