时间:2019-02-02 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


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 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
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