Crash可以用做名词,也可以用做动词,它还可以用做形容词。但是,crash最普通的意思是:猛烈的撞击,像汽车撞车,飞机失事等。在习惯用语当中,crash这个字还有其它意思,例如: to crash the gate。gate是大门的意思,但是,to crash the gate并不是用力撞大门,而是另外的意思。一个人想看电影或者看体育比赛,可是没有票,他想偷偷混进电影院或体育馆,这就是to crash the gate。我们来举一个例子:
例句-1: "When I was a kid, I'd crash the gate at baseball games. But I stopped for good when I got caught one day and the police called Dad, and he gave me the only whipping of my life."
没有票混进电影院或体育馆去看电影、看球赛叫做to crash the gate,那么,要是有一个地方举行聚会,但是你没有被邀请,而你又偷偷地混了进去,这种情况能不能用to crash the gate来形容呢? 不能,但是你只要换一个字就行了。你不要用to crash the gate,而用: to crash the party。
例句-2: "I have this friend who is an expert at crashing parties at foreign embassies. He wears his best clothes and walks in the door like he's somebody important. If they ask to see his invitation card, he feels around his pockets and says he must have left it at home."
例句-3: "I'm busy taking a crash course in German because my company is sending me to Berlin next month to open a branch office. It's hard work--four hours a day with my tutor and another four or five hours of study at home listening to tapes."
例句-4: "When that young man was elected to congress, he went to Washington a month early to get a crash course from a retiring congressman on the important issues he'd have to vote on."
今天我们给大家介绍了两个和crash这个含义很多的字有关的习惯用语。第一个是:to crash the gate,意思是没有门票偷偷溜进电影院或体育馆去看电影或看球赛;另外一个和to crash the gate只差一个字的说法是:to crash the party,意思是没有被邀请而混进去参加聚会。