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
-fired
-panax
acquisition time
affective neutrality
aggrading stream
Al2O3-SiC-C brick
Alcotor
along insulator working
Ancash, Dep.de
Ancylistaceae
anticolonialism
blink at
body politics
bonded material
bubbleless
Canavalia lineata
card wire raising
characteristic polynomials
Chinese wheel
cholates
compass box
Constance, Lake (of)
copper quinolinate
dash valve
dehumidifying effect
diazanyl
dissentious
endogenous protein
estimated flow
ethnolinguistics
etiology
expirationnotice
fight for
forbidden charater
fork lift truck
fuel atomizing
grettes
heat dissipation
hereticating
highest-density
hob-arbor
iraqite
Kendall's consistency coefficient
Kvashninskoye
leaky mutant
locomotive weight
longspurs
lower topgallant sail
mathesius
maximum depth of frozen ground
meadow hay
medial / lateral
membrane separation plant
miniature bearing race
motor image
MROC
muscular sense
non-damping oscillation
nose and tail
occupational adaptability
ovification
palium
pastry cutter
phosphate ester starch
Placyl
pre agricultural
press through pack
pressure grease system
product register
radio-active isotope
rated making current
requirement engineering and validation
return-to-zero recording
scan range
sediment-delivery ratio
selection approach
space division system
spoonflower
springs from
St Martin, C.
star-tracking guidance
Streptococcus cadaveris
sugillation
superaudio telegraph
suppliment
survey by driver
sutura lambdoides
system of closed sets
tag hag
test-skeins
Thomas phosphate
thumbmarks
triple probe
Tuberculum intercondylare mediale
undestroyed
unmanned machinery space
urethropexy
vertical-wall breakwater
water parsley
weir loading
working angle (operating angle)
Zangla