时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   今天要学的俚语是七十年代开始出现的说法:fat farm。farm原意是“农场或者牧场”,可是fat farm绝对不是牛肥马壮的牧场;正相反,fat farm是减肥兼度假的地方。


  人们去fat farm住上一些日子,是为了寻求专家帮助减轻体重,办法通常是每餐节制饮食,天天作大量运动,并配合种种办法去除身上的赘肉和脂肪,使人更健美。当然这得花好多钱。人们会在他认为最有必要改善自己形象的时候去fat farm。比方说,夏初去海滨浴场之前的一些日子,或者要去参加什么重大的社交活动之前。
  我们听个例子。说话的人在路上巧遇老朋友Jenny,他要告诉我们自己的感想。
  例句:I bumped 1 into Jenny Blank in the street yesterday. And she looks at least ten years younger. She's been to a fat farm and lost twenty pounds. And she says she's feeling great!
  他说:我昨天在街上碰巧遇到Jenny Blank,她看来至少年轻了十岁,她去了减肥中心,体重减了二十磅。她说自己感觉好极了!
  这里的习惯说法fat farm是度假兼减肥的地方,不同于每天去的健身房。

凸起的,凸状的
  • In the dark I bumped into a chair. 我在黑暗中撞上了一把椅子。
  • I bumped against an old friend in town today. 我今天在城里偶然碰见了一个老朋友。
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aburachan seeds
amplitude contraction
arbouring tool
Baianism
ball warping
biomass-based
bore measuring instrument
bottom setting
breaking ground
Brook Park
carboloy forming property
chapel of rest
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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climate change conference
computerised editing and laser typesetting
confen
Connell, Loch
corneile
court manager
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direct data capture
east-west asymmetry
employee's saving funds
entry inhibited
equal settlement
equivalence element
eternal glory to
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expelling intestinal parasites
faunivory
federated university
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fluorspar deposit
genus marasmiuss
Hafnerbach
hair lanugo
heterotypic (flemming 1887)
high court of impeachment
home in
kahans
latitude nut
leg(-)h(a)emoglobin
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linemen's tool belt
M-estimator
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oxyhydrogen torch
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source grid electrode
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tangential tractive force
ten tenth
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throgmortons
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transition flow
traylles
tumor of round ligament
tyxt
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variable precision coding compaction
vibration indicator
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