时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 习语:风水轮流转


参加过同学聚会的人最深的感受是什么?变化!当年默默无闻、闷头看书的人现在侃侃而谈;当年天天挨批、站墙角的人现在事业如日中天……感叹世事变化,真个是“风水轮流转,三十年河东三十年河西呀!” 习语“shoe is on the other foot”暗含有“风水轮流转”之意,在不同语境下可译为“现在情形与以前不同啦”,“今非昔比”,“三十年河东,三十年河西”。 据说,19世纪以前,鞋和靴子是不分左右脚的,两只鞋随便换着穿。但是如果你的脚一直穿同一只鞋子,久而久之,鞋子的形状就会与穿鞋的脚一模一样。到了这时,如果左脚再穿右脚鞋——不好意思——今非昔比,你很难再像从前那样不分左右脚来穿鞋。 随着时间的推移,现代意义上的“shoe is on the other foot”有了其比喻义:双方地位发生了变化(风水轮流转;三十年河东,三十年河西);今非昔比(形势与以前不同了)。
看例句:For the last ten years the Tigers have been the worst team in the league 1: we've finished down at the bottom 2. But now the shoe is on the other foot: we have all these good young players and we're beating everybody else in the whole league.在过去的十年里,我们“老虎队”一直是参加联赛的所有球队中最差的一个,比赛总是最后一名。现在不同啦,我们的队员都很年轻,球技也好,“老虎队”目前所向披靡。

n.同盟,联盟,社团,联合会
  • I'll never forget the day when I joined the Youth League.我永远不会忘记我入团的那一天。
  • Half of the students in our class are League members.我们班有一半学生是团员。
n.底部;屁股,臀部;adj.底部的
  • The bottom of the cup is broken.这杯子的底破了。
  • The channel must have a flat bottom.沟道的底要平。
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acoustical characteristic impedance
Acylanid
adenylosuccinase
adjutators
adsorption of liquids
al-kubra
Aminocotin
anamorphic map
aposteme
ATRN
balderdashing
bargain on
basic convertor connection
bob a curtsey
bruit de claquement
catched
center of bundle
circulating load of impurities
clearface
clip it
clowned around
composition of final state accounts
contact-making clock
coox
cosponsorship
crandalled
cycloversion
disclames
draftsmanships
edaphogenic succession
electrogas dynamics
electrostatic spray
envelope demodulation
Eprofil
equity to debt ratio
equity-related
espaol
fetterlock
fiber glass thermoplastics
firing characteristic
flutter valve
flywheel pit
focus group discussion
grain EMC curves
have a quick ear
have snakes in one's boots
heartwhole
high speed test
high stand
Hodgkins'Disease
idolatress
Ilbert
in-house calibration
infrared line scanner
intergalactic flight
l antigen
lens scanning disc
life boat davit
line sphere transformation
look about one
lose one's bearings
magnetic head materials
marlborough
meteorotropic effect
Mira Loma
municipalizations
musk-ball
Napekur
nihat
nonterminal expression
out-pensioner
philhellene
PPCC
pre-training
pretinha
prismoidal
quadrature-axis subtransient voltage
qualified teachers
radio frequency choke coil (rfc)
reconfig
reversal of the arm race
right of solidarity
rubber spring
seawater drilling fluid
seeds of the tuscan race
septicemias
seren
ship alterations
skatable
small-kernel variety
soan
sodium enanthate
Tacub jig
tensile break
thermoelastic inversion point
tuaminsulfate
ultrafasts
unavailable energy
vacuum bag
volcanic mound seismic facies
weight item