| 单词 | 令人吃惊 |
| 释义 | 〔today〕"Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions"(Carolyn Heilbrun)“今天令人吃惊的事物到了明天就成了可以平常的事情”(卡罗琳·海尔布伦)〔boy〕Oh boy—what a surprise!哦…真令人吃惊〔stunning〕The President's final decision came with stunning suddenness.总统之最后决定的突然性令人吃惊〔butterfly〕Is a butterfly named for the color of its excrement or because it was really a thieving witch?The first suggestion rests on the fact that an early Dutch name for the butterfly wasboterschijte. This name is as astonishing a phenomenon as the fact that anyone ever noticed the color of butterfly excrement.Apparently, however, when the butterfly was not busy leaving colorful traces of itself, it was stealing milk and butter.This was not because of its thievish nature but because it was really a mischievous witch in the form of a winged insect.So the second suggestion is that this predilection for butter larceny gave rise to the colorful insect's name.蝴蝶是以其排泄物的颜色命名的，还是因为它的确是个正在偷东西的精灵呢?第一个假设基于蝴蝶在古代荷兰语中的名称为boterschijte 这个事实。 这个名称同任何人都曾注意到蝴蝶的排泄物的颜色这个事实一样是个令人吃惊的现象。然而，很显然蝴蝶不是在忙于留下它们彩色的行迹就是忙于偷牛奶或奶油。这不是因为它有偷窃的天性而是因为它确实是一只作为有翅昆虫形体的淘气的精灵。所以第二个假设就是这种奶油盗窃的嗜好引出了彩色昆虫的命名〔shocker〕One that startles, shocks, or horrifies, as a sensational story or novel.令人吃惊的东西：令人吃惊，震惊或恐惧的东西，比如耸人听闻的小说或故事〔lethargy〕A surprise military attack roused the nation from its lethargy.一次令人吃惊的军事进攻把全国人民从昏昏噩噩中惊醒。〔inconceivable〕So unlikely or surprising as to have been thought impossible; unbelievable:不可思议的; 难以置信的：如此难以置信或令人吃惊以致已经认为不可能的；难以相信的：〔Bunyanesque〕Of astonishingly large size:巨大的：令人吃惊的大的：〔kicker〕A sudden, surprising turn of events or ending; a twist.意外转折：突然的、令人吃惊的转折或结局；突然的变化〔inconsequent〕displayed stunningly inconsequent reasoning.显示出令人吃惊的不合逻辑的推理〔roster〕To be told that the wordroster is related to a gridiron upon which one roasts meat might not come as a surprise, depending on what sort of rosters one's name has graced.The connection between the roster as we know it and a gridiron was made in Dutch,where the wordrooster, meaning "gridiron" (from the verb roosten, "to roast"), was extended in sense to mean "a table, list.”This extension was made because of the resemblance of a gridiron to a piece of paper divided by parallel lines that contains a list or table.The earliest use in English (first recorded in 1727) for the wordroster borrowed from Dutch was military, referring to a list or plan that outlined when officers, men, and bodies of troops should perform their turn of duty. Roster is no longer exclusively military in usage,nor does it mean simply a list of rotating turns of duty;one could perhaps even have a roster of meats to be roasted at a barbecue.如果说roster 一词与供烤肉用的烧烤架有关也许不会令人吃惊， 这就要看名字上了什么样的花名册。荷兰语把我们所知道的roster（花名册）与gridiron（烤架）联系了起来，rooster 意为“烤架”（源于动词 roosten ，意思是“烤”）， 词义延伸后意为“表格，名单”。该词之所以有这样的延伸义是因为烤架与被平行线分成表格的纸张有相似之处。roster 一词从荷兰语中借用后，在英语中（第一次记载于1727年）最早运用于军事， 指粗略记录军官、士兵和部队轮流执行任务的名单或计划。 Roster 不再为军队专用，也不仅仅表示“轮班的名单”的意思，烧烤时我们甚至可以用“烤肉的肉单”〔stunner〕An astounding, unexpected event.令人吃惊的意外事件〔stunner〕One that stuns, as:令人吃惊或昏厥之物〔abrupt〕Surprisingly and unceremoniously curt; brusque.无理的，唐突的：令人吃惊且无理地唐突的；粗鲁的 |
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