关于“hat”的几个习惯用语
hat
英 [hæt] 美 [hæt]
n. (常指带檐的)帽子;(双重的)职位,角色
v. 给……戴上帽子;供应帽子,制造帽子
[ 复数 hats 第三人称单数 hats 现在分词 hatting 过去式 hatted 过去分词 hatted ]
1、wear two hats
身兼两职
戴两顶帽子身兼两职
双语例句
I'm wearing two hats tonight—parent and teacher.
我今晚身兼两职—既是家长又是老师。
I can't fault him for the idea. But he is wearing two hats.
我不能说他的提案是错的,但是他戴了两顶帽子。
He's wearing two hats: the doctor in charge of the state hospital and the head of his own clinic.
他一人身兼两职:既是州立医院的主治医生,还自己开了个诊所。
2、keep under hat
保守秘密
PHRASE If you tell someone to keep a piece of information under their hat, you are asking them not to tell anyone else about it. 保守秘密
例:
Look, if I tell you something, will you promise to keep it under your hat?
喂,如果我告诉你什么事情,你能答应保守秘密吗?
3、 take your hat off to
向......表示敬意
PHRASE If you say that you take your hat off to someone, you mean that you admire them for something that they have done. 赞赏 [表赞许]
例:
I take my hat off to Mr. Clarke for taking this action.
我很赞赏克拉克先生采取了这样的行动。
4、 pull something out of the hat
意外地获取
PHRASE To pull something out of the hat means to do something unexpected which helps you to succeed, often when you are failing. 出乎意料地获取
例:
There are expectations that he'll pull a cease-fire out of a hat.
人们期望他会意外地消弭战火。
5、be drawn or picked out of the hat
任意抽取
PHRASE In competitions, if you say that the winners will be drawn or picked out of the hat, you mean that they will be chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance of winning. 任意抽取
例:
The first 10 correct entries drawn out of the hat will win a pair of tickets, worth $30 each.
任意抽取的前10名符合要求的入围者将赢得两张入场券,每张价值$30。
6、white hat
正面角(jue2)色
A black hat is the villain or bad guy, especially in a western movie in which such a character would wear a black hat in contrast to the hero's white hat.
“黑帽”指恶棍或坏蛋,尤其在西部片里,他们一般都戴着一顶黑帽子,而跟他们对手的正面角色多戴白帽子。
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