时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 Sleep tight:(晚上) 睡个好觉!


不知从何时起,“Good night”(晚安)竟成了情侣们晚睡前开心入眠的“安心丸”。不过,也有朋友说,“睡个好觉”更中国化、更比“晚安”来得亲切。呵!有点较真儿抠字眼了吧?你知道吗,“睡个好觉”也有相应的英文表达——Sleep tight! Sleep tight源于美国版的“宝贝,晚安”——“Sleep tight and don't let the bedbugs bite”(睡个好觉,别让臭虫咬),19世纪时,美国孩子临睡前最喜欢听父母说这句话。tight在这里可解释为“soundly,well”,意思是“(睡得)很香,很甜”。 也有说法认为,“Sleep tight”的来历和海军有直接关系,因为海军用的吊床只有把绳子勒紧时才会睡得舒服。当然,这种解释参照了tight的另一层含义“stretched or drawn 1 out fully”(拉紧的,绷紧的)。 不过,对于情侣来说,典故、来历似乎都不重要了,最关键的是临睡前别忘向爱人道声:Good night, sleep tight!(晚安,睡个好觉!)或着,趣填首儿歌也不错: Good night, sleep tight/ Wake up bright/ In the morning light…(晚安,睡个好觉!清晨起得早,醒来精神好……)

v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
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acceleration characteristic
Actinodaphne kweichowensis
activated-charcoal iodine filter
aflaunt
alpha-ketoglutarate
ascoli lemma
Bacillus dentalis viridans
balloon whisk
bearing bronze
blister box
body self
bulbus opticus
cavitation wear
centum
ceus
chinese scholartrees
chromyl
coello
coeloplanula
coffearine
contemporaneous fault
cribraria piriformis
demolition belt
diahann
dispersement of aid
dough-banger
economical
edge-trimming machine
elastic fibrous tissue
electron probe X-ray microanalysis
envelope to cycle difference
eunice
fan-driven generator
fault signature
felis concolors
filament winding process
fish catches
follow someone's lead
full-scales
GHz
GWMS (gaseous waste management system)
harmoniphon
home currency bills bought
hybrid anion
incapability of work
incompatibility reaction
interior transportation
ipsf
JLCC
Kasinka
ladled out
latch handle
latent reserve
lifto
locusta migratoria manilensis
meat and fish room
metal coat
Mexican marigolds
miasms
microdisk resonator
minshuku
N.N.N. medium
natural-ingredient
noncognitivist
one way traffic
oppicate
overload stop
Panningen
parenteral administration
patchwise
pay to bearer
Pedicularis szetschuanica
phase reversal transformer
play dikkop
play it straight
player-manager
port level attribute
price escalator clause
proliferation inhibition factor
R.V.to cavity seal ring
realism rendering
Remirea
resistance to shrinkage
retip
rezifilm
Sagatal
Sal'sko-Manychskaya Gryada
semivitrinite
sheaf-binder
single-stranded RNA
statement of revenue estimated and actual
Stewart's Purple
stopping dead
surresponses
tax-funded
time slip
tissue parasite
to have the gift of gab
Universal Naming Convention
vertical directivity
VGCC
white-anting