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In Larry's English class, we started a brand new content, every students should prepare a short lesson just for 5 minutes. i had given the lesson at first on the last class. Now the literal material is being given, if you did understand my lesson completely, you can refer to it.
There’s a classical song from a Japanese movie, “song of straw hat”,
“Ma ma, do you remember,
the old straw hat you gave to me” it’s a very moving song.Today, I’d like to talk about a very intersting word----
“staw”
You know, “straw” is that kind of grass of rice.
There are lots of phrases and idioms about the word “straw”.the most popular one is a slang----
“the last straw”
it is from another longer slang “the straw that broke the camel's back”. It’s said a owner of a camel wanted the camal to carry straws as much as possible, so he added straw continually, at last , when he added the last straw on the back, camel couldn't bear anymore and died.
So the phrase means “a small little thing that make you finally decide to do something very big.”
Let’s see an example,
“I hated the boss for a long time, he criticized me again yesterday, it’s the last straw, I couldn't bear and made up my mind to quit.”
Maybe the critcizing yesterday was not the real reason of quiting, but it seems to be the direct reason. It's the last straw.
Aother example,“You've lied many times. I forgave you before but not any more, it's the last straw. We're over.” It seemed to be happened between a boy and a girl.
Have you grasped the meaning of “the last straw”? Is it interesting? There’s another phase about it.
“Draw the straw”
This idiom means, everybody wants to do something or nobody wants to do something but there must be somebody to do it, so they must be chosen by chance. 抽签
“Draw the short straw”
Means somebody is unluck, has drawn a bad straw.
Let’s see an example：China national football team always drew the last straw, whoever they were together with.
“A jack of straw”
has two meanings. One is a person model made of straw, it often used to keep watch in the field, to make the birds scard, for the purpose of protecting the corn、rice or some other plants. the other meaning is a man who has no capital, has no productive material.
“无资产者”.
“A straw boss”
means a grass-root leader.
Also means
a boss who has no management authority or method.草包司令、草莽领导
There’s a proverb－－
“A straw shows which way the wind blows.”
Means to judge a big problem by a slim thing, We can also say “straw in the wind”, means a small thing shows a general evolution direction or tell a large principle.
“Straw color”
and
“straw yellow”
have the same meaning, that is light yellow colour.
There’s a classical song from a Japanese movie, “song of straw hat”,
“Ma ma, do you remember,
the old straw hat you gave to me” it’s a very moving song.Today, I’d like to talk about a very intersting word----
“staw”
You know, “straw” is that kind of grass of rice.
There are lots of phrases and idioms about the word “straw”.the most popular one is a slang----
“the last straw”
it is from another longer slang “the straw that broke the camel's back”. It’s said a owner of a camel wanted the camal to carry straws as much as possible, so he added straw continually, at last , when he added the last straw on the back, camel couldn't bear anymore and died.
So the phrase means “a small little thing that make you finally decide to do something very big.”
Let’s see an example,
“I hated the boss for a long time, he criticized me again yesterday, it’s the last straw, I couldn't bear and made up my mind to quit.”
Maybe the critcizing yesterday was not the real reason of quiting, but it seems to be the direct reason. It's the last straw.
Aother example,“You've lied many times. I forgave you before but not any more, it's the last straw. We're over.” It seemed to be happened between a boy and a girl.
Have you grasped the meaning of “the last straw”? Is it interesting? There’s another phase about it.
“Draw the straw”
This idiom means, everybody wants to do something or nobody wants to do something but there must be somebody to do it, so they must be chosen by chance. 抽签
“Draw the short straw”
Means somebody is unluck, has drawn a bad straw.
Let’s see an example：China national football team always drew the last straw, whoever they were together with.
“A jack of straw”
has two meanings. One is a person model made of straw, it often used to keep watch in the field, to make the birds scard, for the purpose of protecting the corn、rice or some other plants. the other meaning is a man who has no capital, has no productive material.
“无资产者”.
“A straw boss”
means a grass-root leader.
Also means
a boss who has no management authority or method.草包司令、草莽领导
There’s a proverb－－
“A straw shows which way the wind blows.”
Means to judge a big problem by a slim thing, We can also say “straw in the wind”, means a small thing shows a general evolution direction or tell a large principle.
“Straw color”
and
“straw yellow”
have the same meaning, that is light yellow colour.
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flowing.years发布于2008-05-09 14:51:30
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