英語習語諺語成語用法精粹 文學名著類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 樣東西我還懂一點兒，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。)