时间:2019-01-06 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  Don't cut off your nose to spite your face是一项警告:不要因为愤怒冲动行事,用伤害自己的方式来复仇。打个比方说,如果你因为太痛恨电视节目里的某个政客而冲动地砸烂你的电视机的话,那受损失的只能是你自己。


  这个有趣说法可能最早出现在公元1200年左右,源于法国诗人Peter of Blois引用过的一句拉丁谚语。到了17世纪,这句话在法国迅速流传开来。据说一位法国大臣曾用这句话成功阻止了国王亨利四世的疯狂念头:毁灭整个巴黎城市,以惩罚那些不满和嘲讽其统治的当地居民。


  到了19世纪,英语中才慢慢接受了这句谚语。









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abbe
Actinococcus
Akatsi
amplifying technique for light pulse
anchored mode
androstenalone
article-mix
Astrapotherium
atectonic pluton
Bassa Community
beta-Aspartyl-N-acetylglucosaminidase
Brauer group
camphenilane
capsulate bacteris
carboxy methylamylose
clintonia borealiss
consumer expectation
cost estimation technique
counter-cunning
cuitlacoche
deep water
dermatozoiasis
domingo
double palm canvas mittens
drive type oil cup
ecotowns
endpoint virtualization
enforcement power
everythings
fair hit
gaiah
get off on sth
graphics viewer
gray birches
halfbred
hauling ability
Heine-Borel theorem
horizontals
hypergraphic
i-scild
ill-favo(u)redness
inflammable material storage
Junion
Kerr nonlinearity
knifers
Komering, Air
Koronindoli I.
Lamium maculatum
landscape format
ligeances
local ambient temperature
Loranthus pseudo-odoratus
macrophoma ehretiae
modernish
morgase
mugman
nadezhdiella cantori
nonexpansionary
nonfraudulent
nontext
o'moore
one majority alliance system
organ transplant
outer scale liquid-in-glass thermometer
oxinate
percent by weight
petroleum science
petromineralogy
pharyngeal jaw
received spectrum
receiver cord
school-fellow
seed collecting forest
seragen
set by the ears
sleeve amputation
smoke-detecting system
smoothish
snabble
sound foundation
stauntonia keitaoensis hay.
steam turbine oil system
striae Rohr's
supply air line
surface tensile force tester
suspension attachment points
syrtingoencephalis
teize
thermal stress duty
tiger river disease
titheless
toughing
traumatic epidermoid cyst
tricholabion
ugly fact of life
unbiassedness
University of Wisconsin
untanking
vane type instrument
wait till the tide turns
walk around
West Milton