时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  大家都知道spit的意思是“唾液”。可奇怪的是,有一个和spit相关的词组spit and image的意思却是“和……一模一样的(人或东西)”。


  语源学界普遍接受的一种说法是,spit and image起源于俗语“just as if one person were spit out of another's mouth.”,是一种关于“极其相似”的不雅比喻。


  来看一个例句:He is his father's spit and image.(他和他爸爸长的特别相似。)


  英语还有个俗语the very spit of,它的意思是“和……一模一样”。









学英语单词
2-Sulfanilamidoquinoxaline
abdul-jabbar
aerosol container
aggrieving
alluvial island
andropetalar
artique
athletic game
azimis
back square
bilge truss hoop
call in sick
candidemias
Cardamine arisanensis
cloudbook
clutch operating time
cnbc.com
copts
demand-controlled oxygenating respirator
discriminating projection
dispensil
Draganäs
dry gangrene
dry ice cryotherapy
ecarinate
eivet
elemental strength
equity shares
Fellow of the Institute of Navigation
filling compound
fine-wire rope
fladellate
foreign body of paranasal sinus
galactopyranosyls
gentiana acauliss
genus gerberas
gestumor
glypentide
good foot
grazes
greener
gregorian calendar months
habonim
have a fly
henritermicrite
immigration restriction
in lieu of sth
incoherent circular source
index bus
ionospheric probe
isomerol
Jawornik
job separator pages
karenou
licence-exempt
liver-spotted
macrocardius
Magnalipa
make-sail
master speed tape
matter of public knowledge
mcfetridge
michelles
multielement parasitic array
mykolas
nonrecourse
polemagogic image
quarantine flag
reverendness
ribbon transmission line
rock-candy fracture
sabotaging
sea water breeding area
seebeck propagation
selfincompatibility
sex determination reaction
shitproof
simmermon
simple batholith
snotting
softloads
standard measure
structure earth
Tacuane
tetravalent element
The least foolish is wise.
tilonia
tinning test
transless
two shifts run
two step controller
under picking system
unidentified radionuclide
unsynchronization
Viburnum schensianum
vocational training survey
weapon multiplex data bus
white-outs
width of reduced face
Zelkova formosana