迷你对话学地道口语第472期:非常健康

　　Subject：fit as a fiddle¹
迷你对话
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 as a 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 is second 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 a fiddle.
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 spite² 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 contrary³, I'm as fit as a fiddle.
我没有病；恰恰相反，我的身体棒极了。

1 fiddle   

n.小提琴；vi.拉提琴；不停拨弄，乱动

参考例句：

• She plays the fiddle well.她小提琴拉得好。
• Don't fiddle with the typewriter.不要摆弄那架打字机了。

2 spite   

n.（用于短语）虽然，不顾，尽管

参考例句：

• He has modern ideas in spite of his great age.尽管他年事很高，但思想观念却很入时。
• In spite of his anger,his remarks were restrained.他尽管生气，说的话还是有节制的。

3 contrary   

adj.相反的；adv.相反的(地)；n.反面，相反

参考例句：

• My sister's taste in dresses is contrary to my own.在服装方面，我妹妹的爱好和我完全不同。
• The result is contrary to expectation.结果跟预料恰好相反。