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
activity save area
adjustment test of water treatment equipment
after bitt
alkali metal grease
applied epistemology
arsenic stain
attainably
automatic chute feeding system
baptismal font
Bateemeucica, Gunung
beakhead ornament
beater drag
birthmarks
Bordj de Chegga
buccal flange
coconut oil products
cognitive-affective influence
Conduct of Vessels in Restricted Visibility
Copec
copper stencil printing
criminal compensation
crystal mic
cytidine
Derryerglinna
double flashing light
draw a line in the sand
easy to look at
economic horizon
extended plays
flammigerous
fools around with
gniditrin
good weather
head marker
Helbing's sign
helicopter rigid frame system
hennen
heterophyllidine
hutchesons
inductive filter
instantaneous deviation control
inter-disciplinarities
intraoral incision and reduction
jamin interferometer
knitting together
leg node
LNI
load-line draft
low speed logic
m.i.a
manure of nitrogen
masonry shaft
Melūr
metal pipe
misrecords
motor case
multiple contingency
navarea warning bulletin
Nidzica
normal to curve
omniscients
oral-questioning
organizing and systems design
pakehas
partial amphidiploid
phase-change material
plumotsumite (plumborsumite)
Poisson false-target model
quasi-reversible
reinforced concrete sector gate
reprographer
rhinestone cowboy
RM
rotosifter
s-t-e-i-n
safe separation criterion
sawtothgenerator
sheep track
Sherborne
SID - security identifier
sill bolt
slide link
squames
strengthen discipline
strychnine iodate
subsystem analysis
supertrace
symmetrix
take the edge off
Tay-Sachs
that's an idea!
thaye
tie and dye leather
two point arbitrage
undersaturations
unit motor
unpopularities
Uthmanic
valve gain
viscous-elastic behaviour
water-tube boiler with bent tubes
Wolfit