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高一英语拓展:“星期”名称有关的习语
1、与Sunday有关的:
Sunday best,Sunday clothes,Sunday togs,Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes——高档、漂亮的衣裳;盛装。
Sunday run——长距离。
Sunday painter——业余画家。
Sunday punch——(拳击中)最厉害的一击;(对付对手的)杀手锏。
Sunday saint——伪善者。
Sunday saint and Monday sinner——假道学,伪君子。
Sunday letter——(历书上为表示一年之星期日所用的)主日字母。
Sunday school——(教堂中所设的)主日学校。(美)扑克牌戏。
Sunday school truth——众所周知的道理或事实。
Month of Sundays——很久。
Mid-Lent Sunday,Mothering / Refreshment Sunday——(牛津大学)校庆日前的星期日。
Low Sunday——业余的;复活节后的星期日。
To look two ways to find Sundays——斜着眼看。
2、与Monday有关的:
black Monday——(学俚)放假后的开学第一天;执行死刑之星期一;黑色礼拜一(即复活节之后一日,因1360年的当天,天气严寒,爱德华三世之士兵都冻死于巴黎附近)。
Blue Monday——沮丧,闷烦(相对于欢乐的周末而言)。
Saint Monday——(特指交易所)懒散,工作很少的星期一。
Mad Monday ——忙乱的星期一。
Monday morning feeling,Monday feeling——美国人在周末休假后星期一不想工作的那样一种心情。
Monday morning quarterback——放马后炮的人。
Monday morning quarterbacking——放马后炮。
3、与Friday有关的:
Friday——忠仆,随从(源自鲁滨逊漂流记)。
Man Friday——男忠仆。
Girl Friday——得力助手(尤指女秘书)。
Pal Friday——极受信赖的女秘书。
Friday face——神色不佳之人。
Black Friday——不幸的礼拜五,即有任何灾难发生的礼拜五;复活节前之礼拜五(神职人员于此日着黑装)。
Good Friday——耶酥受难节;
T.G.I.F ( Thank God it's Friday )——报纸上刊出招聘一名能干的女职员的广告。
4、与Saturday有关的:
Saturday-to-Monday——周末休假;周末的。
Black Saturday——黑色星期六(指工人已预借工资无钱可领的星期六)。
Saturday night special——便于周末作案的小手枪。
Saturday night massacre——星期六夜晚大屠杀(指尼克松任总统期间白宫在1973年10月20日,周六晚上宣布解除水门时间特别检查官考克斯的职务,并解除拒绝把考克斯解职的司法部长理查森和副部长拉克尔职务)。
5、与“星期”名称有关的几个名谚:
He that sings on Friday,shall weep on Sunday;He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.
乐极生悲。
Choose a wife on a Saturday rather than a Sunday.
节日假期,不宜选妻。(意指平时女子穿便服,故能更好地对之进行观察)。
Come day,go day,God send Sunday.
过了一天又一天,上帝快给个星期天。(此乃懒惰者的愿望,亦指懒惰的佣人盼望工作时间快快过去,休息和发工钱的日子快快到来)。
附几个句子:
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 ”.