时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   某天晚上,我约了好友Carmen一起去看电影。我在电影院入口处等了她一个小时却依然看不到她的踪影。正当我等得心急如焚之际,她面带恐惧、气喘吁吁地跑过来对我说在一家便利店目击了一宗抢劫案。她说哪个劫匪携有手枪并命令店内的人跪下来,否则就开枪。


  我听罢不禁担心起来,连忙问她最后怎么样,她叹了一声说:“After struggling with the police for half an hour, the robber was caught redhanded at last.”我一听到“redhanded”这个词,心里便发抖,脑中不禁联想到一名“满手鲜血”的凶徒来,于是胆战心惊地问她有多少人被劫匪杀害了。
  Carmen不明所以地回答我说,没有人在劫案中丧生。我忽然困惑起来,反问她如果那劫匪没有杀人,他的双手怎么会红?Carmen恍然大悟地向我解释:“Caught red-handed ”是“当场被捕”的意思,并非你所想的“满手鲜血”那么可怕!

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学英语单词
accessory system
adderwort
ADSIA
Aguisan
alkaline storage cell
alternating stress machine
angle of interception
antergan
Apert syndrome
ascender height
asphalt paper
at-hold
besouls
blimies
box cable joint
cap phase
chip-breaker wedge angle
Ciucea
clathrates
coach bolt(carriage bolt)
commercial business tax
conductor pull-out force
critical state model
curettes
dealerresponse
defense support
degradation phenomenon of magnet
dezincifies
differential fare
egg product
electrolysis shop
embrangled
eo (end office)
faceit
fight a losing battle
flea-flicker
ford-kenya
fotedar
friction-wheel speed counter
from an early age
fruit nectar
GNP at market price
goosesteps
hard of heart
high-elastic state
huellas
immersions
insurances
intergrated emulation
Irish pennant
iron-mould
Kinnockian
kolanut
kung shih wu
latent tetanus
lie out
lintvis
loop admittance matri
low-angle boundary
LuuH-6
magnetocalorimetric
magno-therapy
maxillofacial appliance
measurement mode
mouthed off
multiple control lift
munder
Mussleman
Nueva Segovia, Dep.de
nyt
orthophyre
Palio di Siena
patteroller
pepperberg
pogosyans
prochiralities
Purkinje's shift
quasi-critical damping
reconvertibility
rectifier element
replica reproduction
sash-tool
screen structure
security appliance
self equalizing preamplifier
shop floor reporting
siganl averager
solar power satellites
sure up
tapping response
the last cast
things in themselves
tist
townline
transmodal carrier
trigger-fish
ultrapure
very strong
water injection string
water-skiings
wgpt
yasked