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
accumulation accounts
activated macrophage
analconda
B.W.I.
bald tree
Bangiales
Battenberg
be not up to much
beryllium formate
body capacitance
bombarding energy
bow jet maneuvering system
brick rubble
CaM75
carburises
Cavle
center-punching
cervical shield
circuit audit
conisors
cordwainers
corer circuit
corpus (pl. corpora)
decocting the medicinal herbs
deuterosomatic rock
document handler
driver spring clip
early ejaculation
exabyte
false stricture
fast break offense
Frederick the Great
G-spin
genealogy of the rat
goose livers
Graham Sutherland
Grenora
Hamilton operator
high permeability zone
hypomineralocorticoidism
hypothetico-deductivism
icon activation item
impoliticly
infrared cowling
isoepoxydone
jump rope
knowledge based system
Kobresia laxa
l'idee
laterotergite
law of three stages
lipotropism
littoral deposits
liturgician
lower wing cover
m. extensor digitorum communis
machinery compartment
macroeconomic coefficient vector
map projections
mayville
mid coil iterative impedance
monostomatous
multiple spline shaft
neutral earthing reactor
nuclear site licence
oes'
one-dimensional two-phase flow
one-to-one function, one-to-one mapping
pandelis
Paramythia
parryi
pellour
phosphorosslerite
plumb line deflection
possessed of
post-showest
pre-biotic
pre-systematic
print document
radio-controlled
railway wagon detergent
rational crime
relative coarseness
scherospathite
secedings
Senecio palmatus
Severnyy, Zaliv
shaft hammer
silver wire suture
sliding drill arm
spring clamp
strike-separation fault
systematic unit
tendon of heel
the iberian peninsula
thermal sleeve installation tool
Tshofa
vertical (ground) acceleration
wangers
water-supply pump
wild rodent
Xiangphong