时间:2019-02-02 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 大难临头的时候,如果你没有诸葛亮的气定神闲,就赶快去着手解决问题吧!千万不敢“to fiddle 1 while Rome burns”(事情都火烧眉头了,还抓些无关痛痒的细枝末节)。 “To fiddle while Rome burns”最早可追溯到古罗马时代。那时罗马暴君尼罗曾经纵火焚城,并且一边观火一边拉小提琴,所以这个片语后常用来形容某些官员不体恤百姓疾苦、对大事(棘手事)漠不关心,看例句:


The local government fiddled 2 while Rome burned, doing nothing about crime, poverty and pollution. (地方政府不解决犯罪、贫困和污染这等大事,却在无关痛痒的细节上瞎忙。)
日常生活中,你也可用“to fiddle while Rome burns”来形容伙伴对火烧眉头的大事置之不理,却在小节上费时费工,再看个例句:
The account was falling through, but he was more worried about missing his golf game--talk about fiddling 3 while Rome burns! (他真是不分轻重!眼看要破产了,他还在瞎谈着为输高尔夫球而难过。)

n.小提琴;vi.拉提琴;不停拨弄,乱动
  • She plays the fiddle well.她小提琴拉得好。
  • Don't fiddle with the typewriter.不要摆弄那架打字机了。
v.伪造( fiddle的过去式和过去分词 );篡改;骗取;修理或稍作改动
  • He fiddled the company's accounts. 他篡改了公司的账目。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He began with Palestrina, and fiddled all the way through Bartok. 他从帕勒斯春纳的作品一直演奏到巴塔克的作品。 来自辞典例句
微小的
  • He was fiddling with his keys while he talked to me. 和我谈话时他不停地摆弄钥匙。
  • All you're going to see is a lot of fiddling around. 你今天要看到的只是大量的胡摆乱弄。 来自英汉文学 - 廊桥遗梦
标签: 火烧眉头
学英语单词
a travelling companion
afrayed
aluminium sheathed cable
amyrenonol
anastomasis
arsenpolybasite
atricholaelaps glasgowi
banana note
banjo mandolin
benzpiperylon
black forest (schwarzwald)
bolshoy kavkaz (great caucasus)
breast-height form-factor
carbonizaion
carded yarns
coggon
compensation wire
congenital brain edema
copper grid
corporate profits
cosmopolitan plant
Costanoan
creedence
cycle button
cyrtoclytus kusamai
deterministic input signal
eidographs
Elie Metchnikov
epiploischiocele
examination fee
external coil
extinction species
film-boiling
forfeiture fund
gambiense
gas distribution station
gas grill
gas-turbine electric power plant
Gorgadji
graphic designer
group-word
HAES
heirs by operation of law
high-strength organic waste
homologic mapping
housing starts
hyperaphia
indical
ion selective membrane
isletas
jump bail
Karay
keeper of the privy seal
keepsafe
Kroderen
Laza
linguoplate
made my bread
malt brewing
Mansilla
marine botany
maritime provincess
mercerizing finish
micro-lightning
minellis
mosnier
natural impoundment
negative acoustical reactance
night-wake
Nor-Menisarine
nummulitic facies
olympic-quality
on the up grade
osteoarcheological
Otoshibe
pack sb in
period of redemption
photochemistry
play favorites
plum pit
prime null divisor
provincial map
question-answering
Rached
risk capital
sestriere
sibcest
spin-flop transition
stolae
stretch one's wings
symmetry elements
tank engine oil
trunk tone
tzaddikim
unkiss
untwist
uphs
uponland
win glory for our motherland
wodrofe
woolners
x.28