时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


英语课

今天学的词组是talk turkey。 Turkey是火鸡,作为习惯用语,talk turkey的意思是谈正经事,坦率、直截了当地说。火鸡是美国人感恩节大餐的传统佳肴。美国农业部因此每年感恩节都有专家值班,回答民众有关火鸡烹饪和食品安全的问题,"The experts from the Agriculture Department are talking turkey all day long." -- 农业部的专家们一整天都在坦率地和民众交谈。


这里, talk turkey一语双关,人们在感恩节时提出的问题大都跟烤火鸡有关。不过talk turkey平时也常用,你可以跟你的朋友说,"talk turkey or I'll go," -- 说正事吧,不然我就走了。今天学的词组是talk turkey...



学英语单词
a walk over
a-trembling
acclime
armored cow
atlernate
authorized institution
barrier sheath
bombeck
Bronchostrongylus
btp (bromo-trifu-loride process)
can-tho
canceleer
candona shitsyi
casualists
Chiconamel
ciamarra
comparative educational economics
cooling pond cleanup plant
Crouchy
cum dividend and ex dividend
curtain of terylene fiber
Cyathopsidae
death-masks
delete a directory
density flotation
destinyless
dombra
double petticoat insulator
drastic setback
economic value
eisegesis
electrolytic honing
eluant gas
flinty crush rock
floral stimulant
flyrodder
fore stand-hanging hook
Forsmo
fullyelectrified
ganca (kirovabad)
General cash offer
girl Friday
ham trimming
heterotherm
hudson seals
hydroxy acid
immunosmoelectrophoresis
industry tax
inhalation apparatus
ksat
Laguarres
last cost method
Latin5
latitude by dead reckoning
loading charge
Macedonists
Macrodilution
male accessory gland
methylstreptimidone
minera
mitral valve orifice area
motor on-off switch
muczyk
Niphymycin
off-spins
okome
olfactory cortex
on approbation
PA-SRBC
pipe analysis log
plexus coronarius cordis posterior
powdered anion exchange resin
protactinides
protein-calorie
purves
push shots
quadroxalates
regional jet
Roegneria nutans
roller wheel
rolling hitches
rowels
selective automonitoring tracing
sequestrate
shifting oscillator
slag temperature
snow storm
sodium oleate soap
stereochromy
stop segment
subfractional horsepower motor
three-eyed
Timadit
to chill out
tone vibrator
tooth roots
trauma(tism)
unchambering
vox populi, vox Dei
water-cannon rock-breaker
weight discharge
welded bonnet