时间:2019-02-04 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  A hog 1 on ice,站在冰面上的一头大肉猪?哈哈,外国人可真够幽默的。


  语源学家查尔斯·芬克的第一本语源学专著的书名就叫做《A Hog on Ice》。在这本书的序言中,查尔斯用整整七页的篇幅来描述自己是如何寻求这个习语的起源的。


  今天,俚语as independent as a hog on ice风行美国东北部和中西部,但该俚语最早出现在19世纪中期的新英格兰,表示“独立自主的,不受约束的,难以统治的”。原来,如果一头大肥猪从猪栏里跳出来,跑到结了冰的湖面上去,要想再抓住它可就难了!当然,也可能这头大肥猪一个不留神跑到了滑溜溜的冰面上,结果四蹄打滑,进退两难。所以也有as helpless as a hog on ice这样的说法。


  关于这个俚语的起源,还有其他的猜测。比如有人把它和苏格兰的一种冰上掷石游戏(curling)联系起来。这种游戏类似于在冰面上打保龄球。


  A hog on ice 的含义比较含糊微妙,多表示“无拘无束”或“孤立无助”,不过有时它的含义却饱含讽刺,比如“任人宰割”。



n.猪;馋嘴贪吃的人;vt.把…占为己有,独占
  • He is greedy like a hog.他像猪一样贪婪。
  • Drivers who hog the road leave no room for other cars.那些占着路面的驾驶员一点余地都不留给其他车辆。
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allantoxanic acid
allayer
anaerobic and aerobic cultivating apparatus
analytical computer
anticorrosive agent for synthetic fibres
antimonarchic, antimonarchical
apollodoruss
as mild as a as a lamb
astrophel
automatic pressing
bag job
bempa
benzalkonium chloride solution
bisulphurets
boiling-off liquor
bonsai tree
Buffalo Indian
Busch
centerfielders
chernetids
chickenpest
contour of heights
Crocq's serum
curvularia tuberculata
cyclers
daughter isotopes
dionic tester
diploplacula
dishearted
dollarship
domestic investor
Dresser coupling
dynamic statistics
Elaphostrongylus
extreme minimum relative humidity
father-gods
fine-crystal superplastic forming
fish cultur by feeding
fornley
gestes
giant hogweed
give expression to
Great North Road
ground current
guard frame asist handle
handy tool
heel lift
heilong jiangs
Hermannsburg
Hohental
hood pressure test
Huicholes, Sa.de los
hydrothermal filling
Itapicuru, Sa.de
JFSOCC
langnage
linkage between coroutines
Littlewood
Loviisa
malfunction control
mastabahs
mickiewiczs
minimum Hamilton method
mollicutes
Mu Gia, Deo(Mu Gia Pass)
no orders
no-risk
ohnosecond
other deductions
petrochemicals
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platinum-iridium weight
pouder
pregenicular annulus
Preparedness Movement
productivity index
propyl sulfhydrate
protected offendress
Rasca, R.
real-time streaming
retard
retrieval of scattered data item
rhydectomy
scandium (sc)
second city
sector colorimeter
silicated limestone
spillover loss
statement of tally account
subsequence counter
sum-peak counting
sweep rake
teasehole
teres muscles
thermochemical calorie
true bills doctrine
ts'ui
unfitty
variabler
wajed
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