每日一词学英语(112): rub hands in glee

在德国举行的世锦赛上，Usain Bolt以9.58秒的好成绩打破自己保持的男子百米跑世界纪录。据信，他出好成绩的势头远未结束，这可以让2012年伦敦奥组委兴奋不已，充满期待。

And the organisers of the London Olympics can rub their hands in gleeful expectation of 2012. (From Times Online, August 18, 2009: When Usain Bolt is finished, all sprinters in history will be humbled)

上面这句话中出现的实际上今天这个词组的变通用法。查Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary，在glee词条下找到例句：He rubbed his hands in glee as he thought of all the money he would make。该词典对glee的解释为：noun [U] a feeling of happiness, usually because sth good has happened to you, or sth bad has happened to sb else，同义词：delight。

98课（piggy bank，August 4, 2009）的例句中也用到这个词组，这里就不重复了。

可见今天这个词组是固定搭配用法，值得学习。