时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 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。
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abdumalik
alalic
altheas
amandla
ambassadeur
annunciator window
be low in one's pocket
biological fathers
Bis-2-Ethyl-Hexyl-Phthalate
bolshakov
bottle thermometre
burst-energy-recovery efficiency
capulins
carpet wire
cementation belt joint (glued belt joint)
centre of friction
changseung
clay blocking
college role
commercial-bank
complex normed space
control computer subsystem
dark orange
Davis, Jefferson
diadromy
dipropyl barbituric acid
dream-stick
driven shaft bearing cup
effervescence, effervescency
elevater bucket
enolate ion
ensmall
epigrammatised
evidence generator
extromit
family Rhizopogonaceae
ferrite core
fiddled around
Fimbristylis nanningensis
first palatalization
fluminose
fluorescence quartz glass
FOA
forward-reverses
fourfold axis of symmetry
Fuso Black Body
hafod
high resolution detector
high-velocity forming die
horizontal linearity
Imbros
indicated pressure altitude
initial volcanic stage
Jill
jumboising
landscaped
lean finely textured beef
light beats
liko
maca root
make-hawk
MAR (minimum acceptability requirement)
measurable transformation group
molossuses
monostromatic
Mysore(Maisur)
orangites
osmoregulated
overtold
papilla nervi optici
parently
pealius rhododendri
piezoelectric composite
pleural nerve cord
post cover
provisional pharter
radio ID
rape suspects
raw rubber
red green blue
reteplase
Rs.
salified
seeing the light
Sialor
side gate holder
silk mercer
St-Martin-du-Mont
steel pick head
take a bow
talinum katens willd
tetraacetylglucose
thas
the millennium bug
therapeutic index
thymelike
transportable missile-tracking radar
unbounded spectral operators
universes
valuenow
young and innocent