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”。









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ACC,A.C.C
albuminurophobia
Araecerus fasciculatus
avaria
back microbevel
banking industry
beastish
benzopyridazines
Biphasil
bottom latch
Calot's triangles
Cantábrica, Cord.
chain-linked conveyer
chang-wen
chethams
Chilon
compensating needle valve
condo-hotel
corally
cribraria tenella
cumulative annual rate of growth
Davidia involucrata
decapodiform
diphenylselenium dichloride
Dixeyite
erasing coefficient
fishing vessel base-ship
function of positive jumps
fusion-line
Gamtoos
geophysical year
Ghanian monetary unit
gibbed
gladsome
glazed ceramics
green goddess dressing
Green Hill
Hwangsuwǒn
IGV
implicativeness
iratest
itteville
john hustons
Kearns-Sayre syndrome
kipsies
kretchman
leucophanes
liale
log hauling railroad car
made an entry
maize germ meal
massachusetts-boston
medium-volatile pituminous coal
method of graphic rating scale
monoseaplane
murse
NSC-7365
nucifera
nursing-homes
O-mu
ogamic
Onor, Gora
overtaking prohibited sign
paced
parasympathetic nerve
plant organ
polycentropus unicus
precipitation-evaporation index
rafha
remote supervisory control system
resistance to lime
reverse splicing
rilawa
roll cladding
rope lug
rotund
self bonded fabrics
shaunie
single-pole isolator
sintercorund
somatopleural
spring loaded drill colter
statistical independenet experiment
stayed up
sulphatide
sun-burners
tablefuls
tbilisis
tenmaya
teracalorie
thawing beet
the mark
travelest
tsvetaeva
uniacidic base
universal-banking
unprepared
wave-powered air-turbine generator
wounty
Yemen Arab Republic
Zibo
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