时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

Up in arms


At arm's length


在美国人讲话时,或从书刊报纸上,你经常可以听到或见到一些由手臂,就是英文里的arms这个字组成的成语或俗语。有些习惯用语从字面上就可以很明显地了解它的意思,不需要解释。With open arms 就是一个很好的例子。当你听到一个朋友说: "My family received me with open arms when I came back from my trip to California 1." 很明显,这是说当你的朋友去加利福尼亚州后回家的时候,他家里的人都非常欢迎他。可是,有些习惯用语就不像with open arms这样容易理解了。比如说,什么是:Up in arms?这儿的arms不是指手臂了,而是指武器,如枪、炮、箭等。Up in arms的意思是起来进行武装斗争,或者非常愤怒,准备打架。我们来举个例子:


例句-1: "All us students are up in arms at the news the school is raising our tuition 2 ten percent."


这句话的意思是:"当我们学生听到学校要提高百分之十的学费时,我们都火冒三丈。"


下面我们要举的例子是一个国会议员在和一个同事谈论新的税收提案:


例句-2: "No way am I going to vote for a bill to raise income tax again. The voters back home are already up in arms about how much the government takes out of their pay already and I have to run for re-election this fall."


这位议员说:"我绝不会投票支持再次增加所得税的提案。我们州的选民对政府现在从他们工资里扣除的税的数量已经非常恼火了。而我今年还要竞选连任。"


下面我们要讲的另一个由arms这个字组成的习惯用语是:At arm's length。Length在中文里的意思就是长短。At arm's length就是指和某人保持一定距离。下面这个例子是一个大学生在和他同宿舍的同学说话,请大家注意at arm's length 这个习惯用语在句子里是怎么用的:


例句-3: "I keep trying to get friendly with that lovely blonde who sits next to me in biology class. But she keeps me at arm's length."


他说:"我一直设法和那个生物课坐在我旁边的金发姑娘接近。可是,她老是和我保持一定距离。"


在用at arm's length作为和谁保持一定距离的时候,一般都是这么说的:to keep someone at arm's length。


下面我们再来举一个例子。这是一个人在警告一个朋友不要和某人接近:


例句-4: "Let me warn 3 you about this Smith fellow. He seems like a nice, friendly guy. But it's wise to keep him at arm's length. You get too friendly with him, and the first thing he'll do is ask to borrow money from you."


这个人说:"我要警告你关于那个叫Smith的家伙。他看起来似乎很友好。但是,你最好还是和他保持一定距离。一旦你和他过于接近,他马上就会问你借钱。"


今天我们介绍了两个和arms 有关的习惯用语。第一个是:Up in arms,这是指起来进行武装斗争,或者非常愤怒,准备打架。另一个是:At arm's length 或者To keep someone at arm's length,这是和某人保持一定距离的意思。「美国习惯用语」第二十讲就到里。欢迎下次再一起来学习美国习惯用语。再见。




n.加利福尼亚(美国)
  • He was elected governor of the state of California.他当选为加州州长。
  • We were driving on a California freeway.我们正沿着加利福尼亚的一条快车道驾车行驶。
n.(某一学科的)教学,讲授,指导,学费
  • Students can apply for individual tuition.学生可以申请个别指导。
  • Is this money enough for the tuition fee?这些钱交学费够吗?
vt.警告,注意,远离;vi.提醒
  • I must warn you that my patience is almost at an end.我必须警告你我已经没有耐心了。
  • If you warn me in advance,I will have your order ready for you.你若预先通知我,我就能给您准备好了。
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activatings
air transportation
Albalate
ammonium phosphate
bearing instability
beetves
bilagen
BrWg
card slot
carton staple
cephalosporin
channels
chrysomphalus bifasciculatus
chryst
clitting
cool-light lamp
core blower
Crippen
cryostate
Danilovskaya Vozvyshennost'
depreciable property
depreciation recapture
Dionda
disturbed read-out
dithiocarbamate collector
dnica
doublechecked
draft or note payable to bearer
equivalent structure transformation
flight monitor
Fludiazepamum
force of adhesion
forward maturities
frame work of fixed point
furosemide
Gagarawa
gemaras
green performance
growth hormone (GH)
Gualou Xiebai Baijiu Tang
half subtracter
hb
helicopterist
heptanoic anhydride
host country tax reimbursement
how the other half lives
in mint state
inflatable castle
infrared spectrograph
installment house
integrated program for rail transport
integrated retarder
j.m.
Kmart,K mart, K-mart
Larix sibirica
latina
Lukoma B.
Martin's operation
microfilters
mid-blues
military order
minimal network
minimum mean-squared error
motor driven seed cleaner
moving units
niemcewicz
non-disableds
nonspacesensitive
noseleaves
not know what hit one
official airline guide (oag)
one-step processing by combination of developing and fixing
opinion-shaping
order of reactor
owled
paraphyll
port fitting
primidone mysoline
put a premium on
reduced wavelength
relational storage
research-based
revised general estimate
risk management plan
rollocked
rotor rocket
sees over
semantic preference
statcoulombs
stitch-and-seam weld
strategy plan
Sure safe bind.
sympathin-E
tailpoxin
till plain
time reference
tutelaric
upcast header
vacuum electrodynamics
verrucosin
waterglass bonded sand
wireless protocol