(doornail 的第三人称 -s形式) n. 门钉
-s form of doornail
n. a nail with a large head; formerly used to decorate doors

nails是钉子,不难想象躺在一床尖锐的钉子上面是什么滋味,那真是苦不堪言。 这个习惯用语还比较新,出现在三十来年前。我们仍然看个例子来确切领会它的意思吧。这一回说话的人要说的

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Nails are funny things. Why do we have them? I actually find them quite annoying. We have to keep cutting them, they get dirty, and sometimes they break and become painful. Id rather we didnt have nails. Im sure it wouldnt change our lives. I guess w

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Believe it or not, the English language has about 25,000 idiomatic expressions. And some of the oldest ones have very interesting histories. Today our question involves an expression from early English literature. It comes from Dimitrije in Serbia. H

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There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day he had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next

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Nails are funny things. Why do we have them? I actually find them quite annoying. We have to keep cutting them, they get dirty, and sometimes they break and become painful. Id rather we didnt have nails. Im sure it wouldnt change our lives. I guess w

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Nails in the Fence篱笆上的钉子There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. 从前有一个小男孩脾气很

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