时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   那天我和Marilyn约好去Sandra家坐坐,我晚到了。刚要开门,就听见Marilyn嚷嚷说:“......too many irons on the fire”,我不知道是什么东西放在火上,又不希望又什么意外发生,结果啥都没有!


  原来“too many irons on the fire”就表示一个人有太多的事情要做,太忙了!就像以前老祖母放很多熨斗在火炉上,衣服一件接着一件烫,忙不过来。这可真是现代人的写照啊!







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a.cabrera
absolent
acclimatising
active only
adhesive for corrugated fibreboard
admoving
all-or-none learning
aluminum-magnesium alloy powder
amillennialistic
anchorage-dependent growth
ankle strap
artery needle
at remainder of the reproductive stage
atresia uteri
being sb under subjection
binary switch
bluish-red
centre-runner
combatant commander
corona discharges
crowbars
Dalton's atomic theory
daucine
deep weathering
deintegrate
delayed instinct
Densborn
departmental estimate
dilated
end-of-data marker
enthronisation
euonymous alatuss
Eustrongylus visceralis
exgenito-viviparity
filicaulis
Fish and Chip
forwarding receipt
fourth-centuries
gamaliel
globefish
go overboard about
group transmission
harbaughs
have a dash at
heavy-duty thread
heavy-grade territory
home ports
horse-way
hot rinsing cell
hyperaemia
immurings
index dispersion
indirect moxibustion
inductive heating
inverted flare joint
Kaegudeck L.
Kilgour R.
Laverne
lead perchlorate
lecturer
Lithocarpus paniculatus
loosen your grip
metazoons
microgrids
monzogabbro
multisection
needle indicator
neural sheath
nicetal
nunsting
pallet shipment
Parson's steam turbine
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poly(propylene glycol)
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quiescent layer
Rabi
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repolymerized
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train destination indicator
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Tuao
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vulcanization accelerator DOTG
weight-balanced abutment
wimpishnesses