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
amino acetic acid
Antithamnion
artslink
Attucks, Crispus
average excitation potential
back and edge
bicubic Bezier patch
blackboards
boomer
bridge arrester
brometone
bustleth
C Corporation
centimillionaires
clatters
coal dump
compensating finance
continuous branching
core resident routine
corpen
cyanoacrylates
decimal digits
delayed neutron
display rack
distributed application
double ended retractors
doughnutshaped
edge channel
exhaust gas recirculation
factory director
family gramineaes
fasciculi
fishing boat fuel grade a
fixed reactor vessel(closure)head insulation
fixing by landmark
forgivingnesses
fri-mon
gain access to
glitterati
hitching
Hoppe-Goldflam disease
iantosca
IDP (integrated data processing)
institutional stockholder
keratite
Kolbe-Schmitt reaction
lyophiliser
make a good fight
memory input bus
misspecification error
multicellular animals
multiple personality disorder (mpd)
muscular funnel
Naniéfongo
Nasdaq stock market
noxious substance
on status
output control lines
paller
paracaecilius japanus
paroophoritis
pirolazamide
pirozhok
previous screen
Précigné
PTBD
pyrometric scale
ragefully
relieve oneself
Rikantai
rootling
seismologic consideration
selleir
separating unit
silo-launched ballistic missile
single instrument
squamopetrosal
standard tails assay
stomachacho
stress yield
superhydrophilicity
supha-ocular
surface orientation effect
sutural ligaments
terrye
to steal someone's thunder
tobacco wax
tolkeins
tribromomesitylene
two-drum crab
ughts
Umm Qusayr
underground media
very low frequencies
waisters
wayang kulit (indonesia)
wheaters
Williamsoniaceae
yellow-stain
youth culture
zephyr wool
zigman