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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1/2 standard turn
agua retorta
anaxagorea luzonensis gray
anchor work
assembly language programming
audit with scope limitation
Bellini's ligament
benewrous
boomeranging
buy code
cardialgic
cargada
celestial equators
Chakmaktin L.
chief mate
closed anesthesia
competition in department
constant-volume scale
control cam
current mark
cuttanee
database time out
degenerate eigenvalue
demand rate of exchange
descending node
digital follower
division ring
duplex diode pentode
early history of domestication of animals
electro-acoustic
extra-spring-hard cold work
eye chart
facsimile converter
featherfoil
fire season
flexible gangway bellow
Fossa coronoidea
geek
goatweeds
griddles
haemal process
heat function
heeps
home market price
hydraulic type
hygienism
Imidazolylthioguanine
Impatiens sulcata
increment routine
ingot casting
juris prudentia
jxc
Krauchmar
least-squares technique
MCS-10
military explosive
minimum inventory investment
moffitt
monodichlamydeous
narry
neuroomatidia
neurorthids
nine - eyes
NMR technique
novacikite (novacekite)
Oakshade
Pararuellia delavayana
ploughhorses
post-Christian
pre-oil economy
predelinquents
Prepapillar
proceed to select
push the boat out
reactivity worths
reddish black
Rhiannon
Scattery I.
send control procedure
shape of response spectrum
short pitch coil
Spithead mutiny
squattish
Stokes's expectorant
Strangford Lough
structural deterioration
tagatose
takes a look
thalibrunimine
Thomas' knee splint
tilting bar
trigone of trachea
Turbo Boost
unpolled
vessel's speed and fuel consumption clause
Wanamingo
water proof hanging bulb socket
wedu
weight by volume
wraker
xyridaceous
zoom lens optical system