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
abirritant
activation fluence
aging population
alkanesulfonyl chloride
assistless
automatic punching machine
beater tub
bluth
bondmaid,bondmaiden
burst detector
case spring
catabolises
centrifugal emulsor
Chabda
clearing away the lung-heat
collutulate
concurrent output
continuidad
curti
cylinder excavation section
debole
differential thermal analysis thermogram
electric acoustic and telephone system
electromagnetic cutter
Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians
F.A.S,f.a.s
final delivery schedule
fire extinguishing bomb
firekeepers
flyfished
food and drug violations
Gentiana tetrasticha
gentle beating
geometry structure
gojon
grow together
heavy sleeper
import-substituting
initially coned disc spring
intermodillions
Jackfish R.
kinematic-link
kreisau
last-born
macanilla oil
mail chute
Man of Galilee
Mansonia uniformis
manufactured mineral
Micapal
microcomputer control system
microwave spectroscopy
mid-lothian
miliary sclerosis
monochordist
movable cell
n. dorsalis penis
Nervus fibularis profundus
opusculum
osteoodontoma
Papacen
park-n-ride
pediplain,pediplane
phtanite(phthanite)
Phyllostachys yunhoensis
plasma bottle
Poland syndrome
Pony League
processor leveler
promptly simple set
publicity artist
qualiftying category
quinicine oxalate
quisling
rachytomous lalyrinthodontia
re-enacting
self-adaptive-adjusting autopilot
skyward
Stevie Smith
stewed pork steak
stilt plovers
stressbusters
take sth lying down
telenomus rowani
Translucentipollis
transrenal
tremorgen
tunnel disease
twist
two-leafed window
two-stage ignitor
under the reign of
upcheck
uranium silicon alloy
usde
vapor compression
Verkhniy Landekh
Vintar
voltage controlled crystal oscillator
Wel.
wicking property
Zoophycos ichnofacies