时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  我们知道eyetooth指人的“犬齿,上颚尖牙”。可是英国首相布莱尔在被问及如何看待英国对美国政府的大力支持时,却说过这样一句话:“I think most countries around the world would give their eyeteeth to have that relationship.”这是什么意思呢?


  词组to give one's eyeteeth for sth.在演讲中比较常见,表示“愿意用重大的牺牲或代价来换取……”。早在20世纪30年代,eyeteeth就出现在英国作家威廉·萨姆塞特·毛姆的小说《寻欢作乐》(Cakes and Ale)中,表示“犬齿”。Eyeteeth的这一含义可以追溯到1580年,起因是犬齿离眼睛比较近,而且位于两眼的正下方。由于犬齿的神经系统离眼睛比较近,所以任何对犬齿的损伤都会造成强烈的痛楚。因此,自愿遭受失去犬齿的痛苦当然是一种“巨大的牺牲”,这就是to give one's eyeteeth for sth. 的来历了。


  英语中还有类似的说法:to give one's eyes for sth。



学英语单词
1gl (abbreviation)
alfa-romeo
alpha helical conformation
always supposing
amenity
application for retirement of bill
area of piston
Asnaid
autocoupling hapten
battery boost charge
black discolouration
bound script
breaking plant
cacotopias
Calodendrum
camphene
ceteras
chargehands
choa chu kang hill
chrome-Phengite
civil legal relationship
credit right
Csanadapaca
deez nutz
direct firing furnace
drumstick lobe (sex bud) (in neutrophil)
dry-process rotary kilns
Egglham
elastic-plastic flow
electron-bombarded amorphous silicon
exact divisor
fama
field moisture deficiency
fixed number testing
flow counter
fructopyranoside
fulson
genus Tetrapturus
glassed steel equipment
graveyard test
harpiosquilla melanoura
heterogeneous distortion
homotene
hydrocortisones
hypsometric tint diagram
imbricatings
inclined pea sorter
intercessionary
intra-day
ionogemi
jumbo sausage items
lateral refraction
mean effective stress
motor side
mucus plug
NMSQT
noise level indicator
nonchondrite
nontranssexual
NTC (network and trunk control)
nuclear bomb
nutsiness
o-phenanthroline
occupancy solution
overwriting
patent registration
phosphoric fluoride
piro
pitchcocking
plastic target drone
polysaccharide chemistry
pre-service teacher program
preapproves
prepreg tack
printed wiring
quarter-hard annealing
quiet radio sun
rawky
recurrent abortion
seedling sorting
selen-tellurium
semimodals
shop-talk
shozo
silk tree
soft still
spalisal
spin bundle
standing on one's head
superficial folding
theatrical troupe
things that go bump in the night
traction speed control lever
traffic model choice
transphenoidal
twist variation
unvacillating
us-occupied
vested annuity
virtual channel memory
zygomatico-auricularis