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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-tipped
active winding
aphorised
Bajitpur
belays
beslubbers
boastfulness
Buëch
calmative
car-shop
Cascade Range
coordinated test method
diaphragmata
dick-head
directed cycle
Dundoo
economy system
electrostatic potential
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feed blower
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fling to the winds
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giant bow compass
Gough Fracture Zone
group algebra
hob checking equipment
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inertial classifier
italian pen. (apennine pen.)
limber chain
m-cells
many a day
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memory control unit special register
moriyamas
moving winding
Myers-Fine tests
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necrosis virus
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nervi medianus
neutronic
nonstationary flow
orthic solonetz
osseointegrate
over head
overvote
Padoan
parabola mass spectrography
pasel
peed-a-boo system
physical libration of the moon
potential antinode
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Pradoluengo
prequench
projecting stud
PVT cell
Quashees
quattuor pills
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