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。
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学英语单词
0592
47th
a pad in the straw
abdominal configuration
abrasive belt grinding
activate request
additional discount
afford employment to
annular drainage (pattern)
balanced pathogenicity
Barker's operation
be key to
Bhirkot
bicollinear
Blackfan
Bursa subfascialis
Castanopsis boisii
certainer
checking upon
chemical clock
circarama
collateral branch
company conventions and dealer meeting
comparative parasitology
D3nfreceptor
dalnesses
danol
diamond bit
DIC Color Guide
differential lubricant
diriment
distributing device
dock cenlerline
dreaper
dry vacuum airpump
Eleanor Gwynne
esophageal acid perfusion test
exgirlfriend
fifth lateran councils
freshwater clam
gastrodialysis
gavison
grieger
Guldborg
Hall's method
heat transport
homoeoxipha lycoides
honyudisin
huachoes
hydronautics of sailing
inditure
industrial production index
karnaugh
keatite
Khobdinskiy Rayon
kick-off switching
Kurla
lentis axis
life cytobiophysics
list process
main condensate water system
massines
method of homologous line pair
mixed-flow water turbine pump
multi-jet
once-mighty
operations analyst
p-adically equivalent
packet level protocol
photoelectron emission
plastic rainwater outlet
prefessor
pussums
Quesenberry
rearmounted field sprayer
recklesshead
reinforcing relay
resistance transducer
resistance-type temperature detector
returning home
runaway robin
secondary end of a session
shove-net
single vibration tandem roller
Sligh number
sojournings
St-Méen-le-Grand
styli
synthesis filter
thersitical
Tonsina
unplanned unavailability time
ustilago virens cooke
variation of shots
Vatican Council, First
vectorially
veetol
Water Based
wet dust collector
Wi-do
wissche
XL (extra large)