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
acid-free ink
agastache
alesana
anchoring construction
arenonium ion
asbestos washer
aseismic zone
balanced push-pull amplifier
begrime with
bimsons
bottom pouring ladle
Boveri
briber
Cape Sable I.
catastrophic failure
Cimmerian orogeny
Citrus grandis Osbeck
cold box core blower
collecting pipe
cut meshes
diastylids
dirtball
Djebel Hallouf
double float
drowned in
ear-pick
early-rising
electrochemical analyzer
epicylic reduction gear
Eurya lunglingensis
family acanthuridaes
finite point
forgans
Fort Assiniboine
front and back coupling
furnaceoperator
general run of the market
GFT (generalized fault table)
Gjógv
half-god
hash transformation
hawkstones
hclo
Hutterian
hydrodynamic impact
Impatiens odontophylla
Incarvillea forrestii
internally compensated inactive compound
isometric plane
isoschisomer, isoschisomere
karstifiable
laternulid
Louge
maran
minimum commitment time
nonspecific stomatitis
oblong photography
out-rush
pallet tier
perbunan
pieces o.k.
Pistacia vera L.
post-card
pre-observation
Pressler's indicating percent formula
rake gate
ratio governing
real no load direct voltage
receiver's and trustee's securities
reject reaction
relaytype
repair depot
rictures
rockelow
rosettling
scale-up rule
scholarship
second world bank
self-extinguish
seya-namioka mounting
shmeared
Smart Pen
sound proofing
spectrometries
spherical elbow union
steel profile
TC (thermal couple)
technical methylnaphthalene
telerecording equipment
Temiskaming Shores
three-point suspension
tsukite
tubing feeder
turbojet engine
Tvrtko
two plate press
unconjugated bilirubin
variation of speed
vran
webheads
wheelhouse inner
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