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
acceleration center
acknowledgment lever
alveolar saccules
Amalaric
anophelicide
antrosinusitis
balshem
Banair
Bazet
biaxial orientation
biovars
Borovlyanka
bromodeoxycytidine
camera blur
canute the greats
Capital Controls
catnache
cell for infrared absorption
chickcharnee
Chimaltenango, Dep.de
colter dip
depauoerate fauna
dinodon rufozonatum var formosana
Dolno Kamartsi
elm sawfly
ergotoxin
event-related potential
fine space
fish buying boat
fixed disk command
florican
footie, footy
geometric grade scale
gonadotrophin releasing hormone
Google URL shortener
grandinettis
heavy gas
hidden periodic components
holiday villages
impasting
internal standard ratio
isonicotinic anhydride
jamie
jorissens
Keen's sign
laissez
legally filing the award
liguorrhea
line frequency generator
list editor program
long_as
macwilliam
maximum likelihood principle
meedles
moob
movie-goer
multiple hole core
neocapitalism
nitrate of soda
nonattendant
octagon ingot area
oilfield chemistry
on-line remote microfiche reader
order loricatas
overflow land
overhead volume variance
patch management
percussion area
periodic operating
pin forceps
Platypodidae
prontour chart
propulsion branch
protohemin
pullis
Racine County
regime of matrimonial property by agreement
Reichert's substance
roaring on
roman ocher
rubber sheet lining
sharp cash
shooting ratio
skyed
staurikosaurus
strata cylindricum epidermidis
sub task
subtractive color printer
sun-glasses
t'iao sh?n wu
tasting menus
tear-duct
Thomas phosphate
three florets per spike
twin-plane boundary
unbound task set
uranium niobate
Vurnarskiy Rayon
waberi
with a stroke of the brush
xylols
zipf's rank-size rule