时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  在排球、乒乓球等比赛中,经常会出现双方前几场持平,最后“一局定输赢”的情况。在英语中,“决胜局”就叫做rubber game。


  为什么要用rubber来表示“打破平局,决一胜负”的意思呢?这和英式保龄球运动(bowls或lawn bowling)很有渊源。早在大约1599年,rubber就被用来描述保龄球运动中“打破平局”的情况,后来又用于桥牌游戏。到了1744年,人们习惯把纸牌中三盘构成的一局叫做rubber。


  不过,rubber的这种含义和富有弹力的橡胶或橡皮可没什么关系。据《英语成语寓言大辞典》(Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable)大胆猜测,rubber可能和打保龄球时两个球滚到一起产生的摩擦(rub)有关系,这种摩擦通常属于重大失误。另一种可能是rubber在这里产生了比喻义,即像一块橡皮一样轻轻擦去前几局的胜负,忘记过去,让最后一局决定参赛者的命运。而最后一局如果失败,则会完全“抹去(rub out)”失败一方最后的希望。



学英语单词
a has-been
aircraft maintenance
anode pinhole
attend school
automatic throttle
bast fiber(fibre)
battle effectiveness
bigae
breaking of carbon skeleton
bsc(basic size)
cable length switch
calc-alkali gabbro
camisoles
carrot snappers
cauterise
charmonium
cheek line
chilling action
chromophobiccells
CLIP-170
CNC Laser Cutting
computer family
corpectomy
Danfa
data entity
daylight-saving times
DCONFIG
detailed work factor
dictyla sauteri
dupee
electrophonic layer
empirical distribution function
felihoes
fiberarthroscopy
field mower
floister
fluid geometry
go wild
gracin
great crested grebes
hailstorm insurance
hanger box
heavy duty tire
HFEC
high density economy and society
hypocrea lenta
immuno-therapy
imprudency
industrial residue
isocyanurate
ivoroids
kingwood trees
lanmuchangite
Left May
lincoln-way
load-limit changer
luminous emission
Mangalpur
meliorators
multilist chain
naxty
nizatidine
non-tonal
optical microscope
organothallium
outdrank
perthitic
phakopsora ziziphi-vulgaris
phenyloxydisulfide
piophila (piophila) casei
pluricontinentalism
positive factor
pot-roast
prosoponeuralgia
psychobiologist
radar detection and tracking ability
real-time data base
reconstitution capacity
rere-cord
riseform
Russian sturgeon
Russian vine
safety evaluation report
sandy waste
Santals
Scrophularia urticifolia
shoogles
stars in one's eyes
stellate ganglion
stratagem
subgleba
tabernanthine
tableman
take off post
themisto gracilipes
Tilemsi, Vallée du
underplotted
unvariegated
variable free-stream velocity
veneer flake
vibropendulous error
wavelength modulation spectroscopy