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 moment ago
ablutioner
abubble
agricultural aircraft
air package
albert hart
amitriptylines
appeasingly
apterygidaes
Arnd alloy
Artimyctella
ascariemesis
Bacillus muscoides
bankrupt's estates
beneficently
bifeprunox
bubble cap distributor
burgul
capability-approach
Cartwright Pt.
cashcards
chemical treatment
chief mourner
cloth print
collective selection
correct name
dines float manometer
dirth
Dontostemon senilis
economic assistance project
economic scale
electroformed sieve
exophtralmometer
fire lance
fractiousness
fruit salad
genus bertholletias
gradient former
graphitoid
gumbotill
Herter, Christian Archibald
heterodimerises
hohenlindens
honeycomb fashion
isochromosomes
kangarina abyssicola
Leninskaya Sloboda
lift of valve plate
Lochbrücke
manganese boron alloy
megilloth
Metcalfe's law
midship draft mark
monaural receiver
n-butylpyrrolioine
neritopelagic zone
nogat
noneconomic
Nxainxai
optistat
organically-growns
outward(s)
over-fit
paraproteinosis
Passavant pad
Pedicularis macrosiphon
potentizations
Preesall
Protococcida
put their foot in their mouth
quangoism
raisin brans
reasons out
reemits
resettables
rice seedlings bed
rock forming element
rosinate soap
rserve
ruddle
rule of four
sacculo-utricular ducts
scroll sheer
shell of abalone
singhikalia subfasciata
sketch ball
snacking down
stray illumination
sugar baby
supporting-actor
tapping intensity
theories of dissociation
thioxidrene
ultrasonic wave-type fire detector
undulled
unpave
upper cone
Vittarieae
volume-period method
waterworld
wet-roads