时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   虽然我苦口婆心、费尽唇舌劝朋友戒烟还给他提供不同的方法和知道,但他始终戒不了,依然是烟不离手。他说他已有11年历史了,是个老烟民,没法摆脱抽烟的习惯。


  好友Carmen安慰我说:“Don't waste your time and breath. It's not worth casting pearls before swine(猪猡)!”我听了不禁大笑起来,因为想不到她会形容那人为“猪猡”。
  见我大笑,Carmen向我解释,她并没有挖苦或贬低那人的意思,而“cast pearls before swine”是句英文成语,与中文成语“对牛弹琴”含义相同。







标签: 俚语
学英语单词
Aebeltoft
aguiled
amalgam retort
amfetamine
Arvieux
asymptotically equivalent
authorization table
balance calibration
bar of statute of limitation
bicharacteristic curve
birth-order
Borsodbota
businessman
card row punch
Cassegrain,cassegrain
cataphoreses
cauliculus
citrine Ointment
clearance car
coal-burner
cohesional entanglement
coming unglued
congenital pericardial defect
Connemara heath
consumer brand
cruciate ligaments of toes
czarevnas
dating from
dentyuous
design event
doctor zhivago
Dow industrials, the
earthen pipe
endocrinological system physiology
erwein
exhorbitant
extending oil
feducial interval
floribundas
futoamide
genetic difference
hand mechanic
Harlan man
humid farming
hungry-looking
invirility
iron body valve
Ixeris dentata
Jesuitocracy
kinskis
kuiperoidal
LERG
live programme
maiman
malis
mandarins
marias pass
messageing
microzoa
mixed aggregation
Mount Penglai
natural theologian
no-go area
nuclear radiation source
optical carrier
orbiculation
overpull jack
parallel wharf,quay
partition runing
piatakov
planetary tuning gear
polyalphabetic substitution
principle of legality
protoconidia
recurrent pterygium
reserves proven
rice gall midge
RO (receive only)
Rocourt
scophony light valve
semi-automatic trunk board
sensitivity adjustment of gravimeter
shaft brake horsepower
shortening of muscle
side notching
sling off
stretch it a bit
stumbler
survey of present state at industrial site
tabular value
Terra Boa
three-tracks
tiits
tlalocite
Torres Martinez Indian Reservation
total plutonium
tracas
wandering pneumonia
ward-room
well travelled
Wenchang chicken
working instructions