标题:美国习惯用语-第91讲 throw a curve; throw for a loop
音频地址:sound/lesson91.mp3
内容:
to throw a curve to throw for a loop 美国人在打棒球时经常喜欢发曲线球,使球的方向会发生突变,这样给对方造成错觉,不能回击那个球。
这和其他球类运动,如排球、乒乓球或网球,在发球时发转求的作用也很相似。
逐渐地,这种让对方产生错觉,因而无法应付的球艺变成了日常用语:to throw a curve。
curve就是曲线的意思。
to throw a curve就是在打棒球时发曲线球。
但是作为俗语,它的意思是给别人造成错觉,让他难以应付。
请听一个刚刚考完历史的学生在埋怨他的教授: "professor green certainly threw us a curve today. half the questions were from parts of the book he told us to read but he never covered them in class. of cours