英語習(xí)語諺語成語用法精粹 文學(xué)名著類2-27 eat one’s hat

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【字面理解】吃帽子

【英文解析】It’s used to say that something is very likely to happen.

【中文解析】非常確定

【典型例句】① They’re always late—if they get here before eight o'cIock, I’ll eat my hat.他們老是遲到-如果他們8點之前能到這兒，我就不姓王。

② One thing I do know something about—playing the stock market. And I’ll eat my hat if it doesn’t go up another three hundred points by the end of the year.有一 樣?xùn)|西我還懂一點兒，那就是玩股票。要是到今年年 底股票價格不上升三百點的話，我就不姓李。

【注釋】通常跟if從句搭配使用。這種說法最早出現(xiàn)在查 爾斯?狄更斯(Charles Dickens)的《匹克威克外傳》 {The Pickwick Papers)里:“If I knew as little of life as that, I，d eat my hat and swallow the buckle whole,w (如 果我對生活了解得那么少的話，我就把帽子和帶扣吞 下去。)