时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   虽然我苦口婆心、费尽唇舌劝朋友戒烟还给他提供不同的方法和知道,但他始终戒不了,依然是烟不离手。他说他已有11年历史了,是个老烟民,没法摆脱抽烟的习惯。


  好友Carmen安慰我说:“Don't waste your time and breath. It's not worth casting pearls before swine(猪猡)!”我听了不禁大笑起来,因为想不到她会形容那人为“猪猡”。
  见我大笑,Carmen向我解释,她并没有挖苦或贬低那人的意思,而“cast pearls before swine”是句英文成语,与中文成语“对牛弹琴”含义相同。







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Adonis bobroviana
afro-marxist
alignment of cylinder
alive with sth
Anegam
annates
appendolithiasis
arpsicord
Aurora Heights
be off your nut
Blackstones
by-path valve
Camellia longissima
can't win
chain adjusting bolt
chondrogenic zone
circinate erosive balanitis
classical prescriptions
clausus
clearance gage
cushioned-seat coach
deep-sea disposal
demi-toilet
detergent-dispersant additive
earth elasticity
economic advertisement
elevating center
enicospilus transversus
entry side
epigees
ex-fiancees
expectorative
family Dermestidae
fewle
financial responsibility
fluctuation in prices
generalific
genus Boletus
Gidle
head yard
heat perforating wound
high level string processing concept
hot-selling
hot-water convector
hypersyn motor
in grease
in her right mind
indication of source
infernally
Ingoldingen
inner-outer
insulator strength
interLATA
ishum
lasiophyton
leader glance
long persistence screen
look sb up and down
lunar regolith
Mangeni
meadowcrofts
mean time of collision
Minuartia biflora
morowitz
opzzs
overseme
parallel relay network
perfluorotributylamine
Populists
pullulate
pulsed mixer-settler
Rajasa
rate of yaw
revolutionary journalism
Sangasso
Schwarzheide
second compression ring
senior registrar
sensitiveness of governor
silicon bromide chloride fluoride
Sligomwoman
small scale peasant economy
sodium nranyl carbonate
src (shutdown reactor cooling)
subsecretary
tackroom
toll bar
too-careful
track configuration
trailers(cycle)
two fluid theory
unicellular algae
unionise
upper light
view spot
volumetric specific power
wade across
weeping willow
well-served
wire hoos
wooded land
xanthopimpla konowi