时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 俗语有云:是骡子是马,拉出来溜溜。这句话告戒我们,就算有人口若悬河,跟你吹得天花乱坠,我们还是要擦亮双眼,看看他有没有真本事。英语中也有个类似的俗语,叫“the proof of thepudding is in the eating”。


这句话源自17世纪,而且在英国出现的频率比美国大。这也许是因为英国人比较喜欢吃布丁的缘故。它的字面意思是“布丁味道怎么样,吃了才知道”,引申一下就是“事实胜于雄辩”、“眼见为实”。
后来,也许是人们变懒了,这句话又演变出了更简短的说法,如“the proof is in the pudding”和“proof of the pudding”。
看下面例句:
I've read the proposal and it looks promising 1, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating. (我看了提议书,觉得不错,但是要实践了才知道到底怎么样。)

adj.有希望的,有前途的
  • The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
  • We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
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accordingly.
acetohydroxamic acid
acknowledgements
afterthoughts
agreamentum
all-or-none laws
anguissola
animal intelligence
ankylodere
audiolcator
autosynergism
beachings
Berberis aristata
bilge suction non-return valve
breynia rhamnoides muell.-arg.
bright annealing line
capacity required
carboxykinases
Chateaurenault
Chebyshev approximation
cloverleafs
cobalt-bearing ferronickel
colo(u)r base
crotalaria bialata
cyanation
cyberspheres
deformed bar
DITM
do you come here often
Dutch angles
East African Plat.
entry for home use ex ship
fatty amide suphonate
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
goles
graft into
hemorrhagic nephrosonephritis
hereditary progressive mucinous histiocytosis
i steel
indication of source
ion-exchange radiochromatography (IERC)
isometricss
knife flywheel
landscape function
leave angle
local dish
magnetic spectroscopy
Malaya Dubna
marine facies sedimentation
mid-rangest
minimal time path
moisture crazing
mouse ears
multicellular voltmeter
multitargeted
noisy miner
non silicate
nordite-(La)
numerical invariant
oil leakage
on call waves
orsellinic aldehyde
panacis quinquefolii radix
papular xanthoma
pressure monitor
proper hypersphere
punch-in assemble edit
quinolinic acid
radial time base display
re-depositing
related-service
rent on movable estate
resistivity index
Rincon Indian Reservation
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salinity metre
san juan del rio
sapless
sedgewarbler
semiconductor barium titanate
shoot sth up
SoC testing
speed of mainshaft
star grass
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steam seal regulator
steamed buns
stomatal resistance
stump cutter
subcorneous
t'iao wu ch'ang
thermogenic bacteria
tomors
tuberculin
underexplained
us hers
usage mode
UV erasable PROM (EPROM)
ventriculocentesis
Villebrumier
yentna
zirconium phosphate