时间:2019-01-18 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  Keeping 2 up with the Joneses是一个典型的美式习语,表示“和你的富裕邻居保持同等的生活方式或质量”,这其实是一句讽刺的话,指“和左邻右舍比排场比阔气”。


  Joneses表示“与自己社会地位相等的人,邻居”,因为Jones是英语中一个很常见的姓,所以它的复数形式就被用来指代那些生活在你周围、也许只有一墙之隔的人们。如果你去他那里串门,你也许会发现他们家的彩电比你家的大,他们家的地毯踩上去更柔软,甚至他们家阳台上的花草都比你家的茂盛。好吧,你微笑着和他握手告别,回到自己的小家,握紧双拳大喊一声吧:“I must keep 1 up with the Joneses!”。


  语源学家Barry Popik发现,类似的说法keeping up with the Smiths and the Joneses 早在1894年就出现在书本中,到了19世纪晚期简化为keeping up with the Joneses,成为一个固定习语。1913年,专栏画家亚瑟·莫曼德在《纽约世界》(The New York Globe)上开辟了一个连载漫画专栏,标题就是Keeping up with the Joneses。这个专栏在美国报纸上连载了32年,广受欢迎,keep up with the Joneses也顺理成章地成了美国人的日常用语。


  多年后,那位专栏画家撰文解释当年给专栏取这个名字的动机。原来亚瑟23岁时就有了一份周薪125美元的工作,在20世纪初期,这笔收入已经相当可观。亚瑟结婚后搬到纽约城外的“富人区”长岛(Long Island)居住,他见邻居都是乡村俱乐部成员,自己也加入。见人家骑马,他也去买马。见邻居雇用仆人,他还照做。由于他喜欢和左邻右舍攀比斗富,生活越来越铺张浪费,结果落得债台高筑,债主临门,只得搬出长岛富豪区,远离浮华世界。



vt.保存,保留
  • We must keep the classroom clean.我们必须保持教室清洁。
  • This fruit will keep till spring.这水果可以保存到春天。
n.遵守;一致;(与…)协调;保管v.(使)保持, (使)继续( keep的现在分词 );(食品)保持新鲜;保有;保存
  • It was a challenge, keeping ten boisterous seven-year-olds amused. 要逗着十个好动的七岁孩子玩真是一种挑战。
  • She became neurotic about keeping the house clean. 她对保持房屋清洁有点神经质。
学英语单词
account balance aging
advanced aluminide
allantoises
Am-Zoer
angiopathic nephropathy
Anjalankoski
asarum caudigerum hce.
average car-kilometers in one turnround
baroswitches
beat screws
bed support surface
binary symmetric channel
boeck
business processing
cable plate
case for decision
Certificate policy.
Ceylon satinwood
changelog
clopirac
cocalvirus
computerized foreman
consarn
consumption-related import
counselable
cutting edge roundness
cylinder feet
degringolades
determining factor
differential kinematics
diode detector
dipin
Efficient surface
electronic countermeasure jamming
exit survey
fards
finite projection
flying spot video generator
fractional test-meal
Francis Of Meyronnes
ganglionic commissure
gene fixation probability
gene insertion
give a description of
have no intention of doing
horn pith
hydrologic survey of glaciers
illominator
in the ballpark
indirect colorimetry
intermealary
izod
Jayadeva
korn-ferry
lamellule
low-pressure compressor
macro-oriented bussiness language
make head with sth
Malcotran
Mandibulata
mareschals
mechthild
metal enclosed busbar
molar property
musculi fusiformis
neottia japonica
non-flam
nonwriter
palm desert
pamphlet
par rate
parquet polishing machine
particle mechanics
Percyville
physical theory
Plexus choroideus ventriculi lateralis
posterior pole of the lens
progressive discipline
radioimmunoassy
rammed earth wall
rating agency
residual current operated electric fire monitor system
rindless bacon
same sea and country or coast
shieldednucleus
simpleminded
subchord
supermeasures
systematic engineering
the fact of causation
the firsts
toonies
touch your toes
trustingnesses
ultrasonic spectroscope
universal relaxation time
untrembling
vehicular homicide
welding procedure test
zero/zero weather
zirconium dibromide