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 b c-army-std
ageniocephalia
allocation of expenses
Américo Alves
Baeyer-Villiger reaction
bluish-red
board card
bow thrust propeller
business forms
collectability
combinatorial library
connector relay
cowedness
crank boss
culture and education expenses
deep cervical vein
defences
demand regulator
dirty wash
disentrance
disposited
dracaena elliptica thbg et dallm
drill peripheral speed
drop radius
endometrial cyst of ovary
energetic particle burst
epinephrine
exponent number
Ferrari's formula
fixup
fungosa arthritis
gamma survey in borehole
garbred
gueneveres
hemiparesthesia
heterotopic epithelium
high back pressure
high temperature reheat pipe
hilldale
hot-chip coating
hyper square
hyporelief
imperfect tuning
impose restriction
improvisatized
indigo carmine aluminum lake
injection grid
Job's pound
keep one's head above water
kirjath-arba
lamp-black
laser data transmission
ligamenta subflavum
linge
Luxey
mascarpone
microclimatologist
misbefalls
momchaunce
muddle on
multifunction product
mykylmes
narrative format
Nyangus'yakha
oart
octochords
one or more
phalanges tungual
photoconductive mixing
pichiciegoes
pilot bit
pitto
press-wood
radiation leakage
Renjith
resanded
rice processing plant
rofecoxib
rotation bending
rur-
salak
senggigi
serpentuate
side-lever underpick motion
SKM
solubilizing power
stasis-field
strapdrive
subcostal muscles
swept-frequency interferometer
symbiotic interdependence
Syzygium impressum
theotaurine
thining tank
time to leave
two-rate system
underwater maintenance
urban-rural
vitis quinqueang-ularis rehd.
voltine
welding-heat
withdrawable