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
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absence of commutator
agamies
Amer, Pta.de
amoebocyte
arak
astigmope
bienvenidos
bitumen mastic
black card
boogymen
car deck space
Chinosulfan
codies
complementary commodities
confirmed date
consensed
consolidated profit
contact recording
court closed
deceleration limit
decimal-binary switch
decodified
dog tooth course
drilling fluid column pressure
dullened
e-form
equal section charge
extra rasier
fluvial
glugea infection
growth cycle of hair
grunter
Herz's tests
high-intensity atomizer
horehound extract
ideal type
injurier
inotropic effect
jaruls
joint managing director
Karkkila
Katowickie, Województwo
kinawa
lochleven
magnetohydrodynamic arcjet
make a request for
megamasers
monetary fund
negative exponential decay
Nehemias
nicotinoylisoramanon
one-plus-one address
operation route
Outat Oulad el Haj
phylacterical
physarum tessellatum
pintglass
pityrogramma calomelanoss
plastic-coated cotton glove
premitosis
pressure welding
production division
psychrosensitivity
puccinia variiformis
pulsed wave Doppler ultrasonic flowmeter
put stuffing into
quarer
raschel knitting
really
reflex motion
repititional regeneration
rest camp
rhombohedral subsystem
sawds
Sc.D.
scar-tissue
schizophrenosis
schwenn
self-collapsing levee
shodan
simultaneous talking
singsongingly
small model
Taebaek-san
take a nest
taoyuan international airport
tenebrosity
thermoelectric generator
tilting-pad bearing
tinfoil hat
tracheal tuberculosis
trows
unit control
up stick
upjetting
vaccinium ovatums
Villa Alta
william sydney porters
work-cards
young'uns
zillerite