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
actinocarp
aerodrome beacon
aerodynamic rocket
airdashes
amphigen
antiglycolytic
anula
arriviste
asdic control room
baldassares
bilimbi
billygoats
bodily secretion
bonus scheme
borten abtanz (rumania)
broad band light source
center distance of riser
chromodoris odhneri
Comessatti test
cornsmut
Cotoneaster gracilis
curtain neat
cybervulnerability
Darién, Sa.del
day before day before yesterday
derbends
direct effects assumption
duplex chilled
electrotechnics
emergency category
English strong ale
entropion forceps
fagus lucida rehd. & wils
feather-cone fir
fermentation inhibitor
flick through sth
fluke worm
fund-raise
genus bruckenthalias
geomicrobiologist
glauming
Green Mountain State
growth-blocking peptide
guide-shoe
i-wone
iccu
inotropism
inscribed polygons
iron pail
iwill
Kalābishah
kazembe
Lauth's ligaments
lipsha
make a present of something to someone
marine microbial morphology
mass merchandiser
mesarch xylem
miskatonic
mittelstadt
mobile-unit truck
moving-coil type relay
Namukumbo
nevills
niggets
nonsmiles
oberlin
oops
pentaamine
pepperoni roll
petiolus epiglottidis
phloxin
picked her up
pilot frame
plottered
postmodern
puroclast
Rajasa
recovering expansion energy
red sorghum
reed tachometer
refractory-lined ovens
right opposite
Rodferon-A
row scanning
school counselor
semicarotenone
social objectives
spare attachment
standing wave voltage ratio (swvr)
streambuf
suchlikest
suffocate
sunitizing
t-i
tartaric acid solution
The Party Claiming in General Average
tombestere
two-dimensional state of stress
ultravisuscope
Xiphydria
zoomancy