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
all in a charm
anterior cervical triangle
aquifer storage
bearing with cylindrical bore
buddy seat
capacitance modeling
carinulae
chin line
chuck-will's-widows
clearface
closed escort
closure discrepancy
cod fish
coliform mastitis
comin' at you
consentless
conserveth
coringa islets
cupola coke
cylindroid helical-coil torsion spring
czaritza
Danshui Township
dealer program
deviation of power-frequency component protection
douckers
earth phantom circuit
empathetically
enlive
epiaquerts
equipment flowsheet
exhaustions
flatbelt
fluency in english
foilborne seakeeping
follicule
forced gear engagement
four member ring heterocyclic compound
fuel pit heat exchanger
girdle ring
ground contacting area of track
haskwort
hooked arm spine
induss
infra-ray diameter gauge
instrumentation errors
interaction of dislocation
inwardmost
ionosphere wave
kombolcha
Labastide-d'Anjou
land diving
Lapin Lääni
letter articulation
linguoincisal
long auger
LSSN
Ma Wan
macrencephalia
magnetes
maraichine (france)
maravillosa
mezlocillin
monoethyl malonate
mulus
must-run unit
neve basin
no gas welding
non-return to zero mark recording
nuclear blast injury
outgrowth of connective tissue
pipeline inspection pig
polygonizations
ribbon zone selector
Selenjoseite
shape type
shorting bank contact
siliquiform
squareness
star apples
station clock
steel plate die
strobic
subappendixes
taper sleeve
teleprocessing exchange service
teper
thiazyne
thinophyta
threesies
Thudichum's test
tnrcc
topload
transportable standard cell
unloaded mechanism
ustnya
volleying
watt-hour meters
Whakapunaki
Wilkes Land
wind evil
WWJT
xylography