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
actuating drive
aggregate excavation equipment
airshot
Ammannia baccifera L.
amsichthys knighti
application for drawback
background mass spectrum
backward-curved-blade fan
bilabially
blethery
boiling like water
bonded-whiskey
bottom-emptying skip
brute force focussing
bumper jar
cancer immunology
cheiropodist
Chinese cypress
constitutionalized
correction overlay
crystals
deep yellow
dialectologies
differential manifold
dipolar interaction
disaffirmed
double wheel
Dryopithecus
Einhaus
energy of pile driving
fashion out
fiducial inference
first sacker
Fort Yuma Indian Reservation
freight and insurance paid
G.A.&S.
Galenicals
goryn (horyn)
gynecologic
have a discussion
ice-isle
Illinois and Michigan Canal
indirect sale
ion species
isochromatic color band
ISSNHL
king pin bush
kjeld
Lapford
Loewenthal's reaction
loss carry back carry forward credits
make decision
Mandrosonoro
manufacturing overhead cost
markovich
mask (african styles)
matrix row spacing
mirasol resin
mold feeding
Mongolien
Mortgage Life Insurance
Muraenasaurus
Murrisk
night-line
non-representation
OPEG
pathfinder drop-zone control
Pentonville prison
Phong model
pilotlamp
polyacetaldehyde polyethylene
polygon ization boundaries
power dispatching communication system
precision bearing
Priphema
pyocyanic septicemia
quasi-expectation
racephenicol
radially adjustable electrolytic honing tool
refiltrations
Rice neutralizing circuit
risinghills
Satillieu
sell plus
semilogarithmic model
sense of the meeting
single valve knapsack pump
sonic location method
stamp ink
standing fast
starting inertia
sublingual fold
template action
timbered tunnel
to make things worse
total evaporator
unfaithfully
variance law
voice channel multiplex
volkan
where-got where-gone statement
wiltshire (wilts)