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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学英语单词
advisory committee of thermometry
agency liability
ajoite
AOCRM
astable circuit
Baal Shem-Tov
backreferenced
bedrock fact
beta version
biserial correlations
blackheart malleable cast iron
board landing light
box office value
caloneis consimilis
Carex heterolepis
chew over something
circumference of cannon bone
co-presence
cold flow pressing
colour-scheme
copper belt
culturebox
declarators
diaminobenzene
distributing screw conveyer
do your worst
dog-tooth spar
ecomaps
electronical
exceptionability
excitives
fall-rises
fog cabinet
funnel cap
glazing by splashing
glioblasts
gomutis
goods traffic accident
gross-pay
guisers
hayss
heat characteristic
hernia of bladder
hot-press
hyometer
Keewation
Khwarazm
lance armstrong
Lower Peninsula
lutjanus russellii
malignant reticulosarcoma
mceliece
melopiano
militialike
mycoban
Nea Epidavros
non-shrinking steel
nonresponses
oil-carrying vessel
open-mindedly
organ dysplasy
posterior oesophage ganglion
private office layout
process self-regulation
prog.
rageholic
rear-wheel hub
red salmon
reknowledge
rock glacier(rock stpeam)
rza
Salpix
scratch-pad memory
Shimoichi
shrink-ring
side-road
space disposal
sphaerozius nitidus
split beginning operation
state governments
Streptothenat
styrene acrylic exterior wall coating
subreniform
Surulangun
T-completion
task timer
the spark of life
three-motor tape-transport mechanism
Tisokinase
transplanckian
triethyl-ethoxy-silane
Tsiolkovskiy I.
under-level
unfrankness
vat washer
vlaming
went through the motions
whitebeam
winchlines
xylography
Yenchang
zern