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
absolute stratigraphic unit
access deactivated
alipogenetic
annuity savings deposits
aperture tube
arsenoxide
Artaxerxeses
Bare your heart
barosauruss
bch coset code
besour
bioconformatics
bottle oven
branch office general account
cadneys
capacity record
carotel
charge site stabilization
chromis alleni
contract to sell
critical height
cued panic attack
deposit by foreign correspondent
dermophylaxis
downdraught
edgewise needle
Edward Henry Harriman
electric shoe
empresarial
estuarine fauna
exterior content
factor Xll
ferally
flounder around
FOB (free on board)
free coupling space
funkia
gallature
gasification zone
gassed and gaiters
glass tongue depressor
goes for
goods accepted
harlo
harmful gas poisoning
head end dead center
hemsworth
hyperrealism
IL-12
infeebled
JBIG
journey to the west
Larrión
left-hooks
lindstromite
lose control
magnetically focused cascade image intensifier
manfredo
master sergeants
modified version of fixed model
mudda
non-template
nuncupate
orgie
orifice coefficient
partes superficialis
Pedy, Gora
petroleum excise tax
phosphor-decay time
plaster cast
pneumatic ballast
power system oscillation
pride of ownership
pseudodiphtberic
psychomotor epilepsy
recolonizations
renamoes
river runoff
Sangkarang, Kep.
silicon cycle
silicon-chromium
spectrobolometrically
split in
spring festival dances
Standard and Poor's
subhost
takeos
tatians
teleprocessing terminal
temperature-frictional stress
to bend
toxoids
tribality
trokings
trollists
Tunis-Nord, Gouvernorat de
ultrasonic linear image diagnosis device
universal-life
VGA port
wire-wound resistivity
with shoulders thrown back
yellow-wood