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。









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Actinidia liangguangensis
actual key
allotment ticket
anasarca
Baikanthpur
beam rug
bearing seating
benylins
Big Eight CPA Firms
blow low
brush war
Buzachi, Poluostrov
chandos l.
chilver
chromatic coherent
cipher meassage
clemenciae
close-quarter fightings
co-linearity
co-saviour
collidines
congregative
congruence lattice
deeryard
diantha
discriminator transformator
distributed denial of service
dust sth off
emetology
enamel dye
erythrosis pigmentata faciei
essikert
fetal mesoderm
feute
financial management workstation
firm foundation
frederick douglasses
friction key
fuck-ese
full-clad
green light relay
hayford
Heimsheim
hertzman
horizontalize
ingot saw
interstitial radiocolloid therapy
kalvarija (kalvariya)
Kangnamsanmaek
lankavacidin
loser sign
magnetic multi-shot survey instru ment
market disruption
melem
mesothorium i
misassembly
Mondragón-Arrasate
Myriopteron extensum
nanny state
neuroid
neurotropy
nighthawking
non-wandering set
nonnomadic
over-lap section
pneumatic deicer
potassium thiocarbonat
power ballads
precision forging,net shape forging
primary trainer
punctuationless
queefin'
R-43512
ravenhills
rhodomycinon
Riegel's test-meal
RMS roughness
science in retailing
scumfuck
segregation of posterity
service communication system
sitrep
Smiths Ferry
spivakov
subject of the right
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synchronism-check relay
tax exempt bond
text on nine keys
The noes had it
thing
tone sandhi
tucekite
unhive
ways-and-means advances
weighted diffusion constant
well pump
wetproofed
wood boring machine
woodrue
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