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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accounting literature
agios charalampos
agricultural machinery manufacturer
analog superconduction magnetometer
Aroflat
associational
atmospheric refining
autobytel.com
automotive castings
backeless
benzthiazide
booster pump station
cat's gold
circuit convolution
city punch
cod
common duckweed
cortinarius gentiliss
cresslike
cucurbitene
cyst of jaw
cytomitome
demand rate
dexicardia
Diamond cuts diamond
eguttate
electrical discharger
Ereuniidae
exogenous deformation
field focus
fire station bill
fleile
folding chair
frequency distribution analyse chart
golden goose
hot surface
incoming correspondence
incomplete sentence
interpolation method
jacket leak
jurbies
know-alls
krustpils (jekabpils)
latch shoe
LEOC (local emergency operating centre)
Limonium kaschgaricum
Lithobius
litter-box
locus c?ruleus
longanberries
Lévignacq
machine-readable language
major primary structure
meat beater
midp
mindstate
Mono Q anion exchanger
Montague Strait
musculus retractor arcus branch. dors.
naked facts
non-delimiter byte
non-learnings
nonrelevant
order of system
Osteoprastics
over-confident
overvaliant
pessary cell
planimetries
power test program
pseudomonas phaseoli var.fuscans(burkholder)starr.et burkhol-der
psychoimmunology
quadruple riveted joint
raschko
remanent core
reverse-current working
rho type doublet
rhododendron mariae hance
rip ass
RSOC
scare campaigns
selective noise-detection circuit
selfpreservation
somm
street-children
string bikini
sulfacarboxythiazole
survey method of cost allocation
symphysis cartilaginosa
terrace grade
Totapen
tuszynski
U-bicon
unavailingly
uncallable bond
unit efficiency
urban family
venereums
vertes
wind shear indicator (wsi)
workerist
Yanush