高一英語拓展:“星期”名稱有關(guān)的習(xí)語
2011-08-15 09:26:47搜狐教育社區(qū)
1、與Sunday有關(guān)的:
Sunday best,Sunday clothes,Sunday togs,Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes——高檔、漂亮的衣裳;盛裝。
Sunday run——長距離。
Sunday painter——業(yè)余畫家。
Sunday punch——(拳擊中)最厲害的一擊;(對(duì)付對(duì)手的)殺手锏。
Sunday saint——偽善者。
Sunday saint and Monday sinner——假道學(xué),偽君子。
Sunday letter——(歷書上為表示一年之星期日所用的)主日字母。
Sunday school——(教堂中所設(shè)的)主日學(xué)校。(美)撲克牌戲。
Sunday school truth——眾所周知的道理或事實(shí)。
Month of Sundays——很久。
Mid-Lent Sunday,Mothering / Refreshment Sunday——(牛津大學(xué))校慶日前的星期日。
Low Sunday——業(yè)余的;復(fù)活節(jié)后的星期日。
To look two ways to find Sundays——斜著眼看。
2、與Monday有關(guān)的:
black Monday——(學(xué)俚)放假后的開學(xué)第一天;執(zhí)行死刑之星期一;黑色禮拜一(即復(fù)活節(jié)之后一日,因1360年的當(dāng)天,天氣嚴(yán)寒,愛德華三世之士兵都凍死于巴黎附近)。
Blue Monday——沮喪,悶煩(相對(duì)于歡樂的周末而言)。
Saint Monday——(特指交易所)懶散,工作很少的星期一。
Mad Monday ——忙亂的星期一。
Monday morning feeling,Monday feeling——美國人在周末休假后星期一不想工作的那樣一種心情。
Monday morning quarterback——放馬后炮的人。
Monday morning quarterbacking——放馬后炮。
3、與Friday有關(guān)的:
Friday——忠仆,隨從(源自魯濱遜漂流記)。
Man Friday——男忠仆。
Girl Friday——得力助手(尤指女秘書)。
Pal Friday——極受信賴的女秘書。
Friday face——神色不佳之人。
Black Friday——不幸的禮拜五,即有任何災(zāi)難發(fā)生的禮拜五;復(fù)活節(jié)前之禮拜五(神職人員于此日著黑裝)。
Good Friday——耶酥受難節(jié);
T.G.I.F ( Thank God it's Friday )——報(bào)紙上刊出招聘一名能干的女職員的廣告。
4、與Saturday有關(guān)的:
Saturday-to-Monday——周末休假;周末的。
Black Saturday——黑色星期六(指工人已預(yù)借工資無錢可領(lǐng)的星期六)。
Saturday night special——便于周末作案的小手槍。
Saturday night massacre——星期六夜晚大屠殺(指尼克松任總統(tǒng)期間白宮在1973年10月20日,周六晚上宣布解除水門時(shí)間特別檢查官考克斯的職務(wù),并解除拒絕把考克斯解職的司法部長理查森和副部長拉克爾職務(wù))。
5、與“星期”名稱有關(guān)的幾個(gè)名諺:
He that sings on Friday,shall weep on Sunday;He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.
樂極生悲。
Choose a wife on a Saturday rather than a Sunday.
節(jié)日假期,不宜選妻。(意指平時(shí)女子穿便服,故能更好地對(duì)之進(jìn)行觀察)。
Come day,go day,God send Sunday.
過了一天又一天,上帝快給個(gè)星期天。(此乃懶惰者的愿望,亦指懶惰的傭人盼望工作時(shí)間快快過去,休息和發(fā)工錢的日子快快到來)。
附幾個(gè)句子:
1、Mary,a well-known Sunday painter's girl Friday,went to the art exhibition in her Sunday best yesterday and made a hit with all the gentlemen there who seemed to have Sunday-go-to-meeting manners.
2、Joe slumped into his chair at the breakfast table,“monday morning feeling again,dear?”asked his wife.
3、——I know it must be the battery.
——yeah,why didn't you tell me earlier?Monday morning quarterback.
4、Friday,September 24,the day the financial panic of 1869 began,has since been known as black Friday.
5、he bought a Saturday night special from a Sunday driver.
6、on the average they receive about five or six hundred calls a day,but this rises to close to a thousand calls after occasions like Richard Nixon's “saturday night massacre ”.