时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  大家都知道spit的意思是“唾液”。可奇怪的是,有一个和spit相关的词组spit and image的意思却是“和……一模一样的(人或东西)”。


  语源学界普遍接受的一种说法是,spit and image起源于俗语“just as if one person were spit out of another's mouth.”,是一种关于“极其相似”的不雅比喻。


  来看一个例句:He is his father's spit and image.(他和他爸爸长的特别相似。)


  英语还有个俗语the very spit of,它的意思是“和……一模一样”。









学英语单词
A.Ed.
act of supremacy
Adsorbotear
alemans
Allanmyo
aluminium coil
analytical simulation
antimuslimism
antitoll
arithmetic oriented programming
armorsmithing
binding of duty treatment
blast stower
c-ra
calamusenone
calcipriva
censorship power
central rays
chemical binding effect
clear output
cnms
coast plain
collocynth
colonialism
coloured shadow
computer voice
craves
crude still
cyclic carbonate ester
dominant gene
double layer winding
Duddington
educands
embrigade
emergency signal
extra thick steel wire
flax-like fiber
fog spray
Galium sungpanense
gerrs
gravitational tectonics
gwp
handholdable
hard-gloss paint
ills
IVVH
Karlsfeld
keep one's end up
knock somebody into a cocked hat
Kopylovo
krebs pest
laboratory and greenhouse
lazyweb
lever fork notch
light colo(u)r reclaim
maximum tensional stress
maximum term
metallized mica condenser
money-brokers
nonenveloped viurs
nonpoint source
OA (operation analysis)
octels
pay-through securities
pennywhistle
perform ... ablutions
peritectic
phenomenological transport equation
phthalic nitrile
plant design
polylogarithmic
preanal sucker
Procasil
pronunciable
psychoanalgesia
ragged break line
rakes over
real time coordination
reassault
rolls-out
sand sintering
semi-membrane tank
shoalss
single thread sewing machine
skeet her
ski-joring
SMAO
soft-lead
Soueix
Tahuata
technical fountain pen
teeny-weenies
the decimal system
the mile
thimphu (thimbu)
too right
uncliched
virtual scheduling alogrithm
volt circuit
welding heating
westend
wind papules