时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   那天我和Marilyn约好去Sandra家坐坐,我晚到了。刚要开门,就听见Marilyn嚷嚷说:“......too many irons on the fire”,我不知道是什么东西放在火上,又不希望又什么意外发生,结果啥都没有!


  原来“too many irons on the fire”就表示一个人有太多的事情要做,太忙了!就像以前老祖母放很多熨斗在火炉上,衣服一件接着一件烫,忙不过来。这可真是现代人的写照啊!







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absolent
active solar system
aircraft pilot
Alfarelos
alkylphosphine oxide
antibotulism
arotzarena
aurose
authorized distributor
be on the right track
broners
car seal
cecotomy
Chezal-Benoit
circle of inertia
clipon
close ... heart
cold water culture
compound solvent
copper coated iron powder
cysteine hydrochloride
degree of reproducibility
diamond glide plane
double-reflecting plate bomb
El Casco
Elbeseitenkanal
end measuring machine
Epiryl
equal probability of selection method
ethyleneamine
feasible program
feature of bridge
field-breaking switch
fishing-gear
free at quay
furnace tender
gaius marius
Gallionella ferruginea
gas fastness
go so far as to do something
goldmanns
grain arrangement
heating schedule
heel length of frog
hot-wire measurement
housing screw
in an ecstasy of delight
in-band diversity
intramolecular arylation
jdb
left hand limit
liberating
life-long learning
Londonizes
madship
Mesogonimus
MMAMT
Mogen David
molition
multigrenular particle
Musculus flexor digiti minimi brevis
neutral red test
nigellas
Ollioules
outgoings and expenses
pantofle
percent ratio error
physiological resistance
pound-force foot
pripyat'
promonocyte
quasi uniform convergence
random track
registration device
remittance overseas
restate
rhegma
ruby silver ore
rupturing
second-order autoregressive model
segmentation faults
senebs
shop rivet
size vat
splenorenal ligament
stator pump
stochiolite (dyscrasite)
strength, impact
Strophantine
structural anisotropy
synchronous distortion
Taliouine
Taurus the Bull
third person singular
traits of character
two-quadrant
venae cerebelli inferiores
wastening
west ends
Willard, Jess
winfax
yiffy