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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al mudaibi
Android Beam
Anguillulina putrefaciens
anti-ice system
backward wave oscillator tube
Ban Xiangtha
bass part
beat-age
belted galloway
bistouries
branch of tonsil of cerebellum
burning sensation
Camellia grandibracteata
cauliflowerets
center-line camber
cherke
Cilostazole
cloth shoes
collector base junction
cometabolisms
Conflict of Domiciles
constrained parameter
costoxiphoid ligaments
creanga
damping-off
different proportional rates in different parts of the country
direct-exposure film
distiller's product
doggie bags
dual-SIM phone
ebauche
effective stress parameter
eupronoe armata
feedback path
ferility control program
fixed point arithemtic
flock finish
frenchism
fusarium toxin
galvanotherapy
geotectocline
gernel
golden duck
goods placed at the disposal og the buyer
Huddinge
i-hire
information word
invisible ray
isobavachalcone
Laperouse Bank
laryngosyrinx
leaseholding nation
lineola
liquefied gas
lithotriptors
live spindle
losings
low pressure safetycut-out
main blower
make a demonstration of
mcauley
millimeter wave oscillators
necking point
neutralized control
non-money
north forty
notamiss
numbering code
nyzhnohirskyy (seitler)
oblique equidistant cylindrieal projection
official holdings of documents
OPVs
osteomyelitis variolosa
ostra
pack decimal
pellets
phipard
pine cone
Pipel
polyether antibiotic
private company
prosperity in farming
protosilicates
Qingtongxia Key Water Control Project
relocatable form
rigout
rip entry
scalbard fish
secondary file key
semikilled steel
septavalent
spindle-shaped torus
starting control valve
steel sheet piling cofferdam
tap wrenches
The doctor is often more to be feared then the disease.
the growth
ultrasonic metal welding
wetched
wide-angle raster-video hud (warhud)
woman-haters
zamarons