扇贝网近期发布了《单词故事汇》系列泛读书，原汁原味阅读，了解单词背后的故事；趣味故事将单词记忆与文章阅读同步进行，提高学习效率。
Some expressions describe people who are important, or who at least think they are. One such expression is . In the seventeenth century, important men in Europe began to wear false hair, called wigs. As years passed, wigs began to get bigger. The size of a mans wig depended on how important he was. The more important he was or thought he was the bigger the wig he wore. Some wigs were so large they covered a mans shoulders or back...
bigwig：在英文中不是指大假发，而是自以为重要的人物。17世纪欧洲上流社会流行戴假发wig，一个人的地位越重要，他就会戴更大的假发。今天这个词基本上用来讽刺自以为重要的人物。人们从不当面称呼bigwig，这个词只能背后用。关于大人物，还有各种有趣的说法：big wheel, top banana, kingpin...他们有什么区别？
By eighteen forty nine, the great gold rush was on....The only way to find this gold was by panning. First a gold miner put dirt in a metal pan and added water. Then he shook the pan so that the water would wash the dirt.Slowly, he poured the water out of the pan.If he was a lucky miner, pieces of gold would remain....For many, gold mining did not pan out.For a few, it panned out well...
pan: 平底锅大家都用过，但是pan out 却表示成功？这个说法源于加州淘金热，淘金工在山脚的河流边淘金，把泥土放在平底锅里然后摇着锅，用水洗掉泥土，锅底会有黄金。现在人们用It panned out well. 表示“结果很好”。
The housewives of New England cut their apples in even slices. Then they filled pie pans with them in an organized way, row upon row. As one writer said, the women of New England loved to have everything in its place. This perhaps explains why it generally is believed that the expression apple pie order began in New England.
apple pie:苹果派相信大家一定吃过，但是Everything is in apple pie order. 是什么意思？“一切井井有条”。这个说法源于美国独立前，当时的主妇们在做苹果派时会把苹果切成均匀的薄片，整齐的摆在平底锅中，看来井井有条...苹果在英语中还有很多万能用法，知道One rotten apple spoils the barrel.是什么意思吗？
来看
"in the red. " It is another way of saying that a business is losing money. In the past, numbers in the financial records of a company were written in red ink to show a loss...
in the red 过去许多公司的报表都用红色笔写明“负债”，久而久之，在经济指标上in the red就表示负债，亏空，赤字，这也是为什么世界各大股指指数都是用红色表示下跌（中国则相反）；对于盈利则用黑笔记录，"in the black"的说法不言而喻...
更多单词故事，请猛击：
看到此处说明本文对你还是有帮助的，关于“单词故事汇精选”留言是大家的经验之谈相信也会对你有益，推荐继续阅读下面的相关内容，与本文相关度极高！
