關(guān)于Holiday的一些表達(dá)

1、busmans holiday有名無實的假日有名無實的假日 A holiday in which you spend most of your time doing the same or something very similar to your normal work. I will spend a busmans holiday during the National Day. Degifting 免禮免禮 Degifting is a mutual agreement to suspend holiday gifts, usually within a single family o

2、r circle of friends. Due to the recession, weve decided that degifting is the best plan for Christmas this year. Instead, were all getting together to serve food at the homeless Regifting 禮物轉(zhuǎn)送禮物轉(zhuǎn)送 Call it tacky, rude, maybe even thoughtless, but regifting is about as ritualistic as giving away that

3、lump of jellied fruit every year. A two-year study has found that most Americans have done it. According to the study, 54 percent of Americans rewrap, rebox and resend unwanted presents. Now, you know regifting means to give as a gift something that one received as a gift. Angela thinks some of her

4、wedding gifts may have been regifted once or twice on-calliday 待命假日待命假日 On-calliday is the special, and personal, time of year that you take time off from your work duties to spend with families, aka holiday, but are required by your company to be accessible (as by mobile phone, pda or laptop) to ad

5、dress urgent issues. Thats why it is called on-call holiday (on-calliday). Have a safe on-calliday and a happy new year, dont forget to login while you enjoy your eggnog. 祝你待命假日相安無事，同祝新年快樂。品嘗蛋酒的時候別忘了登錄網(wǎng)絡(luò)保持在線啊。party promise聚會上的約定聚會上的約定 Party promises are those plans you make at the end of social gath

6、erings where one, if not both, promiser never actually intends on following through. Dude, we should totally grab coffee sometime soon! -Yea, totally! (one or both thinking: this coffee date will never happen, but I can stop talking to them now)Leisure quotient（LQ）玩商）玩商 Leisure quotient（LQ）is an ind

7、ex used to describe the ability to relax and play, which psychologists say is important to contentment and future achievement. A high LQ usually means that the person has a good command on his life, knows how to explore his potential and make his life healthier and happier with a well-balanced life

8、weekend lag 周末時差周末時差 Weekend lag is a condition affecting the bodys circadian clock, similar to jet lag, but instead stemming from altering ones sleep hours over a weekend of hard partying and drinking rather than from a long flight. Monday morning classes are so rough. Its only 8 in the morning but

9、 I feel like it is 7 PM. Thats a serious case of weekend Vacation amnesia假期失憶癥假期失憶癥 Vacation amnesia refers to this situation: when you come back to school or work from your vacation, you cant remember what you did before the vacation. Things you cant remember may include: what project you were work

10、ing on, any paper needed to be finished, or even who was taking care of your business when you were on vacation. Andy suffered from a bad case of vacation amnesia when he went back to school and couldnt remember what he had been learning stoplight party信號燈派對信號燈派對 A stoplight party is a party at whic

11、h guests wear different colors indicating their relationship-seeking A party where guests wear the colors of the traffic signal to denote their relationship status: green means theyre single, red means theyre taken, and yellow means their relationship status is Staycation 家中度假家中度假 A staycation (or s

12、tay-cation, or stacation) is a neologism for a period of time in which an individual or family stays at home and relaxes at home or takes day trips from their home to area attractions. Staycations have achieved high popularity in the financial crisis of 20072009 in which unemployment levels and gas

13、prices are agritainment農(nóng)家樂農(nóng)家樂 Agritainment is farm-based tourism, includes family style activities, such as corn mazes, haunted hay rides, pick-your-own pumpkins, etc. This year Pennsylvania created a $150 million fund to provide low-interest loans and grants to farmers hoping to go into slow travel

14、er 慢旅族慢旅族 Slow travelers eschew(習(xí)慣性避開), plane travel and especially short breaks in distant places. They prefer to travel more gently, by train, bus, cargo ship, even bicycle. They want to luxuriate in the experience of a stress-free journey, not rush to a Transumer 旅游購物狂旅游購物狂 TRANSUMERS(blend of tr

15、ansient and consumer) are big-spending travelers. They are consumers who increasingly live a transient lifestyle, freeing themselves from the hassles of permanent ownership and possessions. The fixed is replaced by an obsession with the current, an ever-shorter satisfaction span, and a lust to collect as many experiences and stories as virtual Friday 小長假的前一天小長假的前一天 Virtual Friday is the last day before an extended weekend, if that day is not a “real” Friday. For example, the US holiday Thanksgiving is always on