时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 Fly by night: 不可靠


Fly by night,“在漆黑夜里飞行”?当然不能这样望文生义。不过,Fly by night(不可靠)倒真的与夜晚行动有关——赖账房客为逃房租,夜晚偷逃出房东家。 19世纪早期,fly by night被用来形容“赖帐的房客”——因为没钱付房租,他们只好在半夜偷偷逃走。很明显,fly在这里表示“逃离,逃跑”。随着时间的推移,fly by night的词义范围有所扩大,可表示任何不光明的行为,特别指那种犯下恶行后逃之夭夭的犯罪分子。 值得一提的是,在19世纪,fly也可指“一种只有两个轮子的轻型(出租)马车”。这种马车最初由一个车夫来驾驶,后来改为由马拉。 今天,我们常用fly-by-night来形容某个商人“不可靠,不可信任”,所以,做生意或搞投资千万别找那些fly-by-night company(无信誉的公司)来做自己的商业伙伴。看下面一个例句: I want a reputable tour operator, not one of these fly-by-night outfit 1. (我想找一家信誉好的旅行社,而不是那些靠不住的公司。)

n.(为特殊用途的)全套装备,全套服装
  • Jenney bought a new outfit for her daughter's wedding.珍妮为参加女儿的婚礼买了一套新装。
  • His father bought a ski outfit for him on his birthday.他父亲在他生日那天给他买了一套滑雪用具。
标签: Fly
学英语单词
a.g.e
achatinus
Adenacanthus longispicus
afterpart
approach with
arc de circle
aries the rams
assorter
aurila chejuensis
avf
bageled
borehole technology single
brake connection pin
bravais rule
buckish
burning of paper
canceled in error
cetraria tundra
clad fibre
coding gate
cop knock
coraciiform bird
crematogasters
criture
detect
dissociation constant
dual wheel control
dynamic response factor
elimination of intercompany indebtedness
engineering goods
ephemeral plant
face relief angle
fall into ruin
field current
fixed-venturi carburetor
Fort-George
Forward forward contract
Goidelic
group transfer scattering cross section
grynde
hologymnosus rhodonotus
hongis
kaie
knife control
knockout drop
kujichagulia
La Capelle
latinamerica
left hand teeth
light coherence
loganberry
low-grade metal
low-speed reclosure
macromolecular isomorphism
malones
Matsudaira Yoshinaga
mercury-vapour tube
microburst
milk equivalent
minimum cognoscibile
mobile drilling platform
multiple exhaust turbine
Neomeritine
nonlandowner
obelisklike
page makeup
phytotomist
planned balance
practisers
preponderance of evidence
presbyornithids
pulsus myurus
quibinary notation
raised water-tight manhole
red orpiment
right entry
rotary screen printing
Sablé-sur-Sarthe
safety rating formulas
sciatic neuritis
serofast
shaft center
shield earth
singing point equivalent
slipless
smooth flat wood rasp
snitow
St Joan
staggerin'
Stowaway Away
sway-back
tall order
tension wave
texasite
thermal neutron source
tightest
transcription repressor
two-terminal pair network
unscottified
velours epingle
whvs.
zuccari