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
autofocus mechanism
backflow-prevention device
bakery product
bichromated albumin
Busobuso
calcitar
carbon diaphragm ring
cardinalia
chromatology
coon hounds
course of exchange ratio
degree of viscosity
dendrodoris tuberculosa
double combing
dynamic oceanography
Einhorn's test
enculture
endoglucanase2
executive
family Caryophyllaceae
farmsteads
foldyards
forum-shopping
foxfish
friction bevel gear
gadahn
gas proportional counter
german capitals
global water system project (gwsp)
grain transverse volumetric upset-ting moment
half tone dot
half-note
halfers
hebetudo auris
Hong Kong dollar balance
huckle-bones
incomprehended
internal custom duties
leg bail
ligand-gated
longitudinal static-stability augmentation system
Lucibacterium
malverde
metal strip bolometer
microwave linear accelerator
Milbex
milus
mugho pines
musharaff
NATO
neccs
nitrosourea
non-periodic variation
NY-198
Oberhofen
oscinest
parent nucleus
partition of chattels
phalacrosoma amoenum
Pick's cell
podrs
Popean
praseodymium halide
priority assignment
proprio-spinal
reversal of stress
rhoikos
rohdes
sacraments
Sarcostemma acidum
schlossmuseum
securities firms
semiautomatic firearms
shaggymane mushroom
slab dissolver
sound technician
spanish gorses
spurious nucleation
spurious rib
stehoscopy
Stewart-Treves(syndrome)
stop inertia test
stray load loss
summer seedling
sun burst
sytron
target character item
theatral
theme parties
There's no smoke without fire.
topping of road
transistorized electric digital computer
transportation and communication expenses
ultraworld
umpteen
uncombined carbon
unwaking
verhaegen
voltage distortion
Vyazovaya
wooden stand