趣味英语：“国家”名称的特殊用法.doc

趣味英语：“国家”名称的特殊用法 浏览量：63　回复数：1 只看楼主 复制链接0 1. Pardon/Excuse my French 原谅我说话粗鲁 　　例句：Who the fxxk do you think you are...excuse my French。 　　你以为你是什么东西……不好意思我骂人了。 　　2. Indian giver 送东西给人日后又讨回的人 　　例句：Toby may have given you these books, but dont start celebrating yet. Hes famous for being an Indian giver。 　　托比可能送给你这几本书了，但是不要高兴得太早。他送东西又往回要，是出了名的。 　　3. Spanish castle 空中楼阁；不切实际 　　例句：The life science is not a Spanish Castle. Its courses are quite popular with non- science majors。 　　生命科学并不是不切实际的空谈，这门课程在非理工科的大学生中很受欢迎。 　　4. Spanish athlete 爱吹牛的人 　　例句：He is a Spanish athlete。 　　他是个好吹牛的人。 　　5. Italian hand 幕后操纵；暗中干预 　　例句：I sensed that fellows Italian hand in this matter。 　　我感觉到那家伙在幕后操纵这件事。 　　6. Irish bull 自相矛盾，荒唐可笑的说法 　　例句：It was hereditary in his family to have no children is a well known Irish bull。 　　“没有后嗣是他家族的遗传”这句话是众所周知的自相矛盾的笑话。 　　7. Dutch courage 酒后之勇 　　例句：The poor man beat his boss by means of Dutch courage。 　　那个可怜的人借酒劲打了他的老板。 　　8. French window 落地窗 　　例句：Hook the French window when you come in。 　　你进来的时候把落地窗关好。 There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins werent invented in England nor French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweet-breads, which arent sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers dont fing, grocers dont groce and hammers dont ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isnt the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesnt it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you can comb through the annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didnt preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitari