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New Page 21、 与Sunday有关的： Sunday best , Sunday clothes , Sunday togs , Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes——高档、漂亮的衣裳；盛装。Sunday run——长距离。Sunday painter——业余画家。Sunday punch——（拳击中）最厉害的一击；（对付对手的）杀手锏。Sunday saint——伪善者。Sunday saint and Monday sinner——假道学，伪君子。Sunday letter——（历书上为表示一年之星期日所用的）主日字母。Sunday school——（教堂中所设的）主日学校。（美）扑克牌戏。Sunday school truth——众所周知的道理或事实。Month of Sundays——很久。Mid-Lent Sunday , Mothering / Refreshment Sunday——（牛津大学）校庆日前的星期日。Low Sunday——业余的；复活节后的星期日。To look two ways to find Sundays——斜着眼看。2、 与Monday有关的：black Monday——（学俚）放假后的开学第一天；执行死刑之星期一；黑色礼拜一（即复活节之后一日，因1360年的当天，天气严寒，爱德华三世之士兵都冻死于巴黎附近）。Blue Monday——沮丧，闷烦（相对于欢乐的周末而言）。Saint Monday——（特指交易所）懒散，工作很少的星期一。Mad Monday ——忙乱的星期一。Monday morning feeling , Monday feeling——美国人在周末休假后星期一不想工作的那样一种心情。Monday morning quarterback——放马后炮的人。Monday morning quarterbacking——放马后炮。3、 与Friday有关的：Friday——忠仆，随从（源自鲁滨逊漂流记）。Man Friday——男忠仆。Girl Friday——得力助手（尤指女秘书）。Pal Friday——极受信赖的女秘书。Friday face——神色不佳之人。Black Friday——不幸的礼拜五，即有任何灾难发生的礼拜五；复活节前之礼拜五（神职人员于此日着黑装）。Good Friday——耶酥受难节；T.G.I.F ( Thank God it’s Friday )——报纸上刊出招聘一名能干的女职员的广告。4、 与Saturday有关的：Saturday-to-Monday——周末休假；周末的。Black Saturday——黑色星期六（指工人已预借工资无钱可领的星期六）。Saturday night special——便于周末作案的小手枪。Saturday night massacre——星期六夜晚大屠杀（指尼克松任总统期间白宫在1973年10月20日，周六晚上宣布解除水门时间特别检查官考克斯的职务，并解除拒绝把考克斯解职的司法部长理查森和副部长拉克尔职务）。5、 与“星期”名称有关的几个名谚：He that sings on Friday , shall weep on Sunday ; He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday .乐极生悲。Choose a wife on a Saturday rather than a Sunday .节日假期，不宜选妻。（意指平时女子穿便服，故能更好地对之进行观察）。Come day , go day , God send Sunday .过了一天又一天，上帝快给个星期天。（此乃懒惰者的愿望，亦指懒惰的佣人盼望工作时间快快过去，休息和发工钱的日子快快到来）。附几个句子：1、 Mary , a well-known Sunday painters girl Friday , went to the art exhibition in her Sunday best yesterday and made a hit with all the gentlemen there who seemed to have Sunday-go-to-meeting manners .2、 Joe slumped into his chair at the breakfast table , “monday morning feeling again , dear ? ” asked his wife .3、 ——I know it must be the battery .——yeah , why didn’t you tell me earlier ? Monday morning quarterback .4、 Friday , September 24 , the day the financial panic of 1869 began , has since been known as black Friday .5、 He bought a Saturday night special from a Sunday driver .6、 On the average they receive about five or six hundred calls a day , but this rises to close to a thousand calls after occasions like Richard Nixons “saturday night massacre ”
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