时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


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 Posh:“高贵辣妹”的来历


对于Posh,大部分人应该都不陌生,“高贵辣妹”贝嫂嘛!她可是英格兰豪华太太团的领袖人物、全球女性的时尚楷模!不过,若再深究,您能否说出Posh的来历? 据载,posh首次出现于1918年9月刊的Punch《笨拙》杂志上,意为“豪华的,时髦的”。 一种说法认为,posh源于短语“Port board side out,Starboard side home”(从左舷出发,从右舷回家),由“Port Out,Starboard Home”的首字母缩写而成。早在19世纪,英国人乘船去印度,若要避免强烈阳光的照射,去时必须坐在船的左舷边,回来时则要坐在船的右舷边。当然,只有有地位、身份高贵的人才能买得起这样的舱位。久而久之,posh就成了财富和地位的代名词。不过,正统辞源学否认了这种说法。 另一种更为确凿的猜测认为,posh源于英国俚语。在英国俚语中,posh有“花花公子”和“小面值钱币”两层含义。随着时间的推移,posh的词义逐渐发生变化,现在可用来形容“奢侈品”、“上等人的生活方式、生活品位”。就词义本身而言,posh用来形容人时,有那么一点点贬义意味,嘲讽了那些故意摆阔、恣意追求奢侈生活的有钱人。 另外,posh也可用来形容“优雅的,一流的,有教养的”,看下面一个例句: Depending on who he is talking to, Harry 1 can flip 2 over from a cockney accent to a posh cultured one.(根据说话的对像,哈里可以从说伦敦方言轻易转为说优雅而有教养的语言。)

vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
vt.快速翻动;轻抛;轻拍;n.轻抛;adj.轻浮的
  • I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书,看来似乎很有趣。
  • Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。
标签: 来历
学英语单词
a lie out of whole cloth
airplane balance speed
akroposthion
almshouses
army exchange
asarum oil
average brightness
axial-centrifugal fan
betweenanene
broke away
carotted
cash instruments
casler
chely
costal arch reflex
count of dot
dead-alive
Dendranthema vestitum
dental lathe
direct cross
disc saw
disc-type relay
displease with
diurnal age
domestic induction heater
drain system
dynamic frequency scaling
erd
etheride
family diagram
female gametic nucleus
flexible wire intestinal spatula
fuel distributing cock
furnaceman
Galvanizing Pot
gender-benders
generalized message control system
gymnastic apparatuss
hexaethyltetraphosphate (HETP)
hiations
high specific speed
high-current rectifier
holeuryhaline
homogenise
hot-rod
Inacid
inflammability limiting
intentionalistically
janhonens
jeret
Kawangkoan
Kazakhskiy Zaliv
L lamination factor
layabout
lemmatised
light meat
lunar fuel tanker
mean lower high neaps
model line
modified milk powder
mosaic tile flooring
nature dance
Nonington
ododua
one point pick up
open top car
parapet wall
payments adjustment
Pedaiah
per-ton
physically handing
pimpless
Plescop
polygenic feature
primidone
Pteracanthus guangxiensis
pulvis kino compositus
reconfigurable array computer
recording station
reenaction
register as
Republitards
rudder stopper
shearing-modulus
ship's weather report
short-run marginal cost
silicoamino-acid
Siphncus
skunder
sphenoidal sinuses
STNI
stoddard solvent
stranglements
subregularity
supporting axle
the acts of the apostles
thermal evaporation
thermocompressor
thiotriphosphates
Trapa amurensis
want of consideration
xeroses