时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:Modern English 洋话连篇


英语课

  Turn the table

  一位亲戚和妻子失和到了要离婚的地步。几天前接到亲戚电话,说他们在走进律师楼之前,先去求助于心理和婚姻问题专家。夫妇俩心平气和地坐下来谈了好多次,互相之间多了一份理解,少了一份猜疑、埋怨,结果化干戈为玉帛。说简单也简单,就这么拯救了这场婚姻。

  我打心眼里为他们高兴,把这一消息告诉了同样也认识他们的一位美国朋友。这位朋友挺激动的,连连说着"感谢上帝,感谢上帝",她还补充了一句"He turned the table"。

  这话让我心里很不舒服,她是指我亲戚动粗吗?我打抱不平说:"不会,不会,他很斯文,很有绅士风度,不会以粗鲁的举动压制对方,不会以高压让对方屈从。"

  结果,越说谁也听不懂谁。看着我那一脸不快的表情,朋友突然茅塞頓开了,以另一种方法向我解释。终于让我明白,她是说我亲戚"扭转了局面",那"table"和我想到的"桌子"根本无关。

  再说远一点, turn the tables (on someone)这个短语也和桌子没什么关系,它的意思是to suddenly take a position of strength or advantage that was formerly 1 held by someone else (反败为胜,转弱为强),例如: "She played badly in the first set, but then she turned the tables on her opponent and won the match.


1 formerly
adv.从前,以前
  • We now enjoy these comforts of which formerly we had only heard.我们现在享受到了过去只是听说过的那些舒适条件。
  • This boat was formerly used on the rivers of China.这船从前航行在中国内河里。
学英语单词
1394 ieee standard
74
accommodation
antimony dioxytetrasulfide
ariuss
attracting attention signal
automatic launcher
blank card
bottle collar
brachycephalia
cafeterie
card feeder
carnificate
cerated
chaining channel
Charlotte Amalie
chekenone
chevelure
Chinese cinnamonoil
chipeener
coal-fire
counter-espalier
courtby
cylindrata
dc-area
default options
delay composition
demagnetizing breaker
dhawas
document on payment
eagle ray
ecliptic system of coordinates
egg collection
electric micrometer
end to end test
equvalent
extended fire box
facetted boulder
faukman
ferruginous duck
fictitious bill
foetal echo
genus urosauruss
get under the wire of
Harstena
heat sensitivity
heat-labile
horizontal team
hybrid multiplexer
IG drum
incomplete sequential machine
interpreter code
inureth
inverted pedal note
Jordan bearing
Karabastau
lantern ring
limitof endurance
make the world go around
marking cleaning machine
minimum chargeable weight
misplaced atom
Mooney plastometer
Neisseria catarrhalis
nesosilicates
neurofilaments
Old Oyo
open onto
out-of-door drying
oven test
Paget's disease of the nipple
pc-users
pick someone's pocket
Polygala lijiangensis
post-materials
post-transcriptional maturation
radiant energy flux
radix angelicae pubescentis
readdiction
reflection type
refuse dump
resistance-reactance-ratio
Rimouski R.
sacrospinalis muscle
saving department
SH (service hours)
Shelbyville, L.
shock isolation system
Sixième Rég.
speed of collection
stake sth out
stoccados
streamline form
strong-motion seismology
table felt
the psychological moment
time's
vvocally
works programs
yenshan orogeny
zinc vegetation
zsigmondy gold numger