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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2-methylbenzothiazole
acre feet
arch bar
armington model
avocado extract
barteriocin
Beurville
broadside reflection spread
calciferous sandstone
carry something into effect
case-
CEGEP
coming to life
companies
conessine
Corydalis dubia
cultural approach
deaden to
delightable
disintergration
double aorta
ear canal type earphone
energy derived
evolutionarily stable strategy
Fattha
feedwater line startup sludging
Festuca altaica
fluroxene
four-forty
fusate
gas declination curve
genus Aureolaria
gipsydom
hard bean curd
heavyweight shirt
hemorrhaphilia
hydrofluoric acid alkylation process
i didn't think
inflow current
intrarenal reflux
isomerase phosphotriose
kities
kwark
larabee
lateral sacral arteries
longitudinal river
lower control limit (lcl)
m-dichlorobenzene
magnetic tell tale
messengers
metamathematicss
Moscavide
nattrasses
neurotransmit
no
oecoeclades falcata
Ops. operations
overreacts
oxidation-reduction pair
Padstow
passive thermal control
perrunoes
perun
Pieve del Cairo
plumless
polythioester
pseudoallergic reaction
Rachel, Mlle
radioastive phosphorus
red ink clause
reduction crucible
repeating part
rice king
rosilly
safety arrestment
safina
schooner stay
scour sth out
scoutmaster
Serial Communications Controller
shattered glass
sideropenic dysphagia syndrome
spray needle
Stimson, Henry Lewis
straight chrome tanning
straight-run fuel
subway systems
tentorial plane
thumb-index finger pressing method
torsion of artery
transition kernel
unextenuated
untributary
upper-bracket
utcs
variable step
verbal model
vinethene
voluntary sale
wilce
zaitzevia formosana