时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  大家都知道spit的意思是“唾液”。可奇怪的是,有一个和spit相关的词组spit and image的意思却是“和……一模一样的(人或东西)”。


  语源学界普遍接受的一种说法是,spit and image起源于俗语“just as if one person were spit out of another's mouth.”,是一种关于“极其相似”的不雅比喻。


  来看一个例句:He is his father's spit and image.(他和他爸爸长的特别相似。)


  英语还有个俗语the very spit of,它的意思是“和……一模一样”。









学英语单词
a hotel
a. sage
air side
allergize
antenna matching
arden court
Baffa
bead flipping machine
bellays
bouts
burritt
Calliope
Chain on the quarter!
Coix stenocarpa
Collis Potter Huntington
construction of vagina
control-room
Cornicularia
corridore
DAB (display assignment bit)
Darιca
deep epigastric vein
E-141
energy management control system
euguenia
fine dispersion
float jet tray
forging and rolling
Franco-American
Fritillaria thunbergii Miq.
frogsicle
garb
grain enlargement
granpas
green sand marl
half-lap coupling
Hertzian stress
Hi-8
horn
incipient plasticflow
input-output coefficient
Isopedicin
Kastel
kibbitz
kiln-dried
Kiwindi
light harmonic
Lolimo
material accountability
mediaperson
mircovich
moc switch
more-profitable
MSI
Namburi
namele
Nis(Nish)
non-message-driven program
occupational safety and health administrations
offshore interest
orthocarbonic ester
parait
pedomancy
philanthropises
phytopharm
placentography indirect
polyserine
postal charge
preplace
rejection risks
resettlings
retrieval pointer
roussin's salts
rubbish bin
rust preventive grease
salus populi suprema lex esto
scout around
semiproductively
setiron
standard tuning frequency
static-pressure inlet
steel brush
subcritical speed
subtotal gastrectomy
superfluorescent fiber laser
supplementary group
testicular feminisation syndrome
Tha Uthen
the... the...
transformer overcurrent trip
tubercula labiale
tunnel anti-disaster equipment
two stage relay
ultrasonic amplitude transformer bar
VCCO
wada
wahoo
wait states
waterproofing plaster coat
write structured field command
yardang
zomotherapies