时间:2019-01-06 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  Don't cut off your nose to spite your face是一项警告:不要因为愤怒冲动行事,用伤害自己的方式来复仇。打个比方说,如果你因为太痛恨电视节目里的某个政客而冲动地砸烂你的电视机的话,那受损失的只能是你自己。


  这个有趣说法可能最早出现在公元1200年左右,源于法国诗人Peter of Blois引用过的一句拉丁谚语。到了17世纪,这句话在法国迅速流传开来。据说一位法国大臣曾用这句话成功阻止了国王亨利四世的疯狂念头:毁灭整个巴黎城市,以惩罚那些不满和嘲讽其统治的当地居民。


  到了19世纪,英语中才慢慢接受了这句谚语。









学英语单词
aboad
ACANTHOCLINIDAE
actino-uranium
advertising effect
agromyza penniseti
aiceona osugii
aknot
alvar
antoselection
arteria basilaris
average arc life
b.l.t
bathing unit
battles of monmouth
be honored with
bloodthirsty
brady plan
brickbats
budget to be carried over to the next year
Bukit Betong
Center International Radio Medical
Ceratopteris thalictroides
chronic respiratory disease (crd)
clapper-type relay
climatogenic
cockadoodledoo
code item
cofinite subset
cole-goose
common trust fund
cone-cylinder combination configuration
controlling officer's report
coronary endarterectomy
deep sixing
dejures
double scale voltmeter
drift-netter
effectively computable function
extended x-ray absorption fine structure (exafs)
factor of evaporation
family rheidaes
flat-gasket
free of capture and seizure
fruit pathology
funa
giustiniana (italy)
glacial valley
gruling
guard rail
hafjell
Hot Beef
hymexazol
integration by successive reductions
kinskis
kretschmers
Laid-offworkers
laparohepatotomy
li ling ch'i wu
lip syncs
macroscopic fractography
mameny
manganese excess
Mastophorus
material with memory
neothunnus macropterus
OSCA
pederosis
pictorial writing
pigstys
polycondensations
polypile
projection cular
retorsions
rolling of earthwork
safety key
segres
serial sectioning
Setin
sharp-sightedness
side-fly
slat packed column
soil pollution
Spock, Benjamin Mc Lane
spooling operator privilege class
staggered tube arrangement
starboard sidelight
strontium thiocarbonate
sulfuriferous
technological neutrality
test dark period
thermal light
thumri
Tibrikot
transverse tear
two-stroker
unpropped
utica-rome
Vena precentralis cerebelli
wall-plaque
weisu granules
well-bought
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