【词汇大师】大海(2/2)

英语自学网

48775603-7a29-428f-98bc-d0d01a2f4dc118.jpg

        亲临大海，从大海中了解关于航海的词汇!
         
        TIPS
只需要听写嘉宾的话，主持人的话不需要听写。不需要听写的句子如下：
主持人的话① Nowadays, don't look to the sea for many new expressions. Alan Hartley points out that we're still using mostly terms from the days of sailing ships.
         
        HINTS
phrase
derive
         
The one that's maybe most striking to me is that phrase we use nowadays, the phrase to be taken aback. A person is taken aback if he is surprised in a negative way, and that derives from an old sailing term in which if the ship were headed too close to the direction of the wind, the wind would strike the sails on the forward surface instead of the after or rear surface.
So if the wind got around too much toward the bow, toward the front of the ship, it could stop you in your tracks. But also, if you were taken aback hard enough, you could break the entire mast that the sail was suspended from. So it was a very dangerous and startling situation.
A lot of the vocabulary that's developed since then is very technical, very specific to modern ships. It has very little application in everyday life.