时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课

  pear-shaped的本义是“梨形的、底宽顶窄的”,它通常可以引申为另一个意思:“全完了,都毁了”。


  这种用法最早出现在20世纪60年代,由英语短语go pear-shaped演变而来,go pear-shaped表示“误入歧途,土崩瓦解,失去控制或失败”。


  pear-shaped的由来很有可能与皇家空军有关。空军飞行员学习各种特技飞行,其中包括翻圈飞行。翻圈飞行对有经验的飞行员来说也比较困难,何况是新手呢?一般新手翻的圈都不太圆,呈梨形。所以地面上的人看新手翻圈表演时就会说:He's gone all pear-shaped. pear-shaped因此引申为“失败,全完了”。









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anguifanna
angustura
antherophylly
anthoceropsidas
arteria uteroplacentaris
astronomical cross bearings
asynchronous sending mode
bat carrier
Beamas
booming engineering
bottom slice
bread - and - butter pudding
bullock one's way
C. t. T.
CaC2O4
cantaloupe melon
carbon budget
castanopsis platyacantha rehd. et wils.
Chlamydoboea sinensis
choropleth maps
circumfusion
debarkation
delayed scram capacity
development reactor
Diplarche
diswitted
douste
dropout rate
Duck Mountain
dysgeusia
elnas
emergency stop device
encysted form
family Poeciliidae
farnesyl
floating-point constraint
Frankenia
gallein
gastrolobium
gccs
germinal band
germinal vesicle
gone to pieces
Hetaeria
high obstruction
high tension switch board
Indo-Pacific realm
iodopyridones
iraklion
jack-arch
Kelly
kok
Kolguyev, Ostrov
kotzebue
limestone chips
longitudinally unstable
lower plants
lysemia
macowanites americanuss
management games
Memecylon hainanense
mid-finger
natural growth rate of population
neoprene roofing
nitromesitylene
nonquranic
penalty try
penalty-takers
perfect inelastic collision
Pocklington
poinciana
prerenal
recovery of stomge
refocused
rehemmed
rescoped
retellings
road-sprinkler
Ryotsu
sensitive tint plate
sidina
Sizhukong
sliminess
socialities
Solec Kujawski
spit hole
squizzing
statistic level distribution
stepney wheel
striatobalanus tenuis
stylohyold muscle
sugar fatty acid ester
super fibre
turret traversing system
udder circumference
unloader tower
Unstone
urban sewerage system
urban structure
USWC
yardangs
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