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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active control system
aerodrome light beacon
alkyl ketene dimer
alkyl phosphates
allowable bearing capacity
anginophobia
apologeticss
atresia and stenosis
axis of level
back out of
barium naphthanate
bicycle rifle
biggesee l.
boneman
boron reactivity worth
carthamin(e)
cataldo
chain relative index
Chebakovo
creer
cup-contact anemometer
cutting grass
data utility complex
Dehkuyeh
demand level
dichromophilism
digital highway
direction valve
election-day
electronic horizontal situation indicator
elegize upon
Eustigma lenticellatum
excurrent pore
floundered
fraudulence
Gampang
general symptom
genus bombuss
golden hellos
highly-stressed
index pulse
integrated anemograph
jonadabs
kendal greens
kickshoes
Kjelland's forceps
lace-leaf
larmor procession
leasing company
LF loran
life lore
logical run-time error
Maignelay-Montigny
mark chromosome
matured solid teratoma of ovary
micropreneurs
monetary union
music-listening
National Motto
no-call-no-shows
non-cyclotron-resonance
nonredeemed
octyl gallate
old memories
open-heartednesses
orificemeter
parachute skirt
partial repair method
phase of the planets
photo claisen rearrangement
Phyllobius brevitarsis
power-dived
preceding event
preselection switch
pretriggers
problem-solutions
rectifier meter
rotary type
seaborne machinery
sealed composite
sectiones pontis
series pipe
Seseli aemulans
Setagine
snow-flower
soul-connection
Spelle
staffgetting
superconducting magnetohydrodynamics
supratympanal organ
tangential wall
tapeto-retinal
theory of polarity
tifluadom
timeshared basis
upcyclin
vadm
voltage ramp
waste evaporator package
wave group
wiping effect
Wootton Glanville