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 sack of potatoes
Acetylformaldehyde
Aconitum brachypodum
acousmata
adjudication rule
alumina tool
arginine hydrochloride
be in eternity
bilateran
biosystematies
boiling section
bullater
calking irons
capitals of gabon
casady
clavus canicularis
communicating pore
competition problem
constraint-based
covered-up
cristae sacralis intermedia
cryptophthalmos
direct crossgraphy
even-line interlacing
exhausted air
exploring opening
fifth generation computer systems
fortran statement columns
fuel oil injection self-regulator
full authority digital electronic control (fadec)
go sailing
gossypium brasiliense macfadyen
GPHV
grizzlers
hand operated press
heavy-current cable
helix joint
heptonstall
humolith
Huto group
hybrid phase shifter
hypogeous
in the right place at the wrong time
judiciaire
karlawish
krupple gene
lactoria cornatus
lamp test
leakeite
limit of soveriegnty
loach
LOOGY
lucidioline
Macaca rhesus
male screw thread
maximum safe concentration
micro alloy technique
micromembrane
mill operator
moisture peretrability
mumbo-jum
natrolites
Newnhamite
nonmarginalized
oenologists
oliveiras
overdraftings
Palace of Westminster
partitioned project
pasos
perbromo-ethylene
pilot hand wheel
polarization ellipse
portionless
posted memory write
pulse code modulation digit
salomo
scoreth
selenomethionyl
silicon hydride iodide
single topping
sleepah
spectral response peak wavelength
suboccipitobregmatic
sulphuric acid degumming
suppletions
supranatus m.
syndactyle
T. J.
thermocompression evaporation
tidal reduction
turoks
twiddled
uranium borohydride
valgous
vitailer
vitellolutein
wet damage
wide flat base rim
workable seam sample
wrong-headed
Zorial