非常健康
Subject:fit as a fiddle
情景对话:
A:Hi, Clive. Nice to meet you. How is your mother now?
你好,Clive。很高兴见到你,你妈妈最近怎样?
B:Thank you. She is fit as a fiddle.
谢谢。她身体非常健康。
地道表达
fit as a fiddle
1. 解词释义
Fit as a fiddle的意思是 in very good health,译为:非常健康。这种说法大约出现在1616年,有一种猜想认为这和年迈的街头fiddler即“提琴手”有关。他们日复一日地在街头演奏,非常消耗体力,为确保演奏总是连绵不断并且充满激情,他们必须具备充沛的体力和旺盛的精力。按照这种说法,fit as a fiddle应该改为fit asa fiddler才合适,但是至今还未见过这个用法。有趣的是,用fiddle代替fiddler的说法还不少,如:He issecond fiddle. 它是二提琴手。
2 典型例句
e.g. You may feel sick now, but after a few days of rest and plenty of liquids, you'll be fit as afiddle.
你现在可能生病了,但是休息几天,吃些流体饮食,你就会精神好起来的。
e.g. Grandfather: Are you sure you'll be able to climb all these stairs?
你真的可以爬楼梯吗?
Grandmother: Of course! I feel fit as a fiddle today.
当然了,我现在身体非常健康。
e.g. In spite of the long trip, Alice arrived looking fit as a fiddle.
虽然经过长途旅行,爱丽斯到达的时候还是显得神采奕奕。
e.g. He was fit as a fiddle when he came back from abroad.
他从国外回来时身体很好。
3 视野拓展
词语也可以用作as fit as a fiddle。
e.g. He is as fit as a fiddle though he is already seventy.
尽管已经七十岁了,他还是非常健康。
e.g. I'm not sick; on the contrary, I'm as fit as a fiddle.
我没有病;恰恰相反,我的身体棒极了。