时间:2019-03-05 作者:英语课 分类:迷你对话学地道口语


英语课

  迷你对话

A: When you went to the dormitory this morning, had your roommates came like a dose of salts?

你今早去宿舍的时候,你的室友已经来了吗?

B: Not yet. All my roommates came like a dose of salts.

还没有,但是我的室友们没过多久就会来的。

地道表达

like a dose of salts

1. 解词释义

Like a dose of salts表示“很迅速有效地”,但是从字面上来看“像盐一样”。“盐”跟“迅速有效”有什么关系呢?原来这一用语中涉及到的盐不是普通盐,而是泻盐或硫酸锰盐。这种泻盐18世纪以来被作为用药,用于治疗便秘。人服了泻盐,便秘就自然迅速有效地解决了,由此便引申出“处理事务的迅速有效”“一下子,很快地”。对话中“ All my roommates came loke a dose of salts. ”意思是“我的室友们没过多久就都到齐了。”

2 典型范例

e.g. He gets through his pay like a dose of salts, and by Monday he's broken.

一发工资, 他就很快花个精光, 到了星期一便身无分文了。

e.g. Good Lord! The children have gone through that packet of biscuits like a dose of salts.

老天爷!孩子们很快地吃完了那包饼干。



标签: 地道口语 对话
学英语单词
abstract illusionism
abuse in the granting of loans
allergy-producing compound
amidinosulfanilarmide
anti-infective agent
antileishmania
ballast mattress
bandsmen
bluff-headed
Buntline, Ned
cash with discount
Cephalonomia
chernobyl-styles
controversialists
critter sitters
crop evapotranspiration
crystallize out
cup viscometer
damper tile
denia
disk crusher
dlemblee syphilis
drunkenhead
e-benefits
Echinochloa frumentacea
enamelar
ethylacetphenarsine
footbrake
foregin news
furacilin solution
general-purpose analogue computer
general-utility
genus Pyrus
gold coin coupon
greenskin
grid declination diagram
grocers' itch
hatch control position
heavity
hemodynamic monitoring
hormone-replacement
Hypericum formosanum
hypocentral
incapsulations
industrial engineering manager
intimate with
itchy
junction spacing
kalongs
la fayettes
logical full-duplex flow
lung system (or pulmonary system)
m (million)
machine components
merons
mirpur khas
nicouic acid
nitzan
nondestructive readout optical memory
ocean vessel
order policy
papillary
peak identification
pedicle valve
Pedicularis kialensis
photogenerator
pigment fibre yarn
plough-back profit
Prince Edward Park
pristinamycin
proteinotherapy
protozo-agglutinin
pseudopolyploidy
quice
raking off the slag
renounce the cloth
reverse byte ordering
rotary head drum
rotative speed
salpingo-oophoritis
sandke
septimate
serum-rash
share split-up
Silence gives consent
special route
splitting field of algebra
stitch ... up
suborder Plesiosauria
substanced
Teoloyucan
the great and the mean
theory of algebraic numbers
timbered-horizontal cut and fill stoping
triad axis
triple cropping
unmanned landing
unmiters
virtual art
water-cask
yasukunis
yoak