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。







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学英语单词
Adhfa
air induction pipe
alcohol butyl
ante up something
association clause
Astrolabe B.
Atmakur
Avdeyevka
backstand
Bag-set
beancounter
Bergfors
BRANDRETH
cabin furnishings
came into step
Carex foraminata
centi-cycle
Chinese Geodetic Stars Catalogue
chromosome breakpoint
circuit stability
collocates
comedo-carcinoma
conine
contemplated schedule movements of trains
cpsa
cupron
cyclohexadienyl
deferred pension costs
Dicynodontidae
digit. date
Exmouth
feasibility in marketing research
feed-water main
figure of noise
fiscally anaemic
flight-number
gear shifting throttle
get the short end of the stick
Grand Bassa Co.
hemoblastosis
illightened
installed horsepower
intensity of radiation
intransit
isotopic peak
Jabaco
kalmu
Karachevskiy Rayon
kilham
Kofa Mountains
low runoff
Makula
marbies
mill manager
modern ballet
multispectral photography
nodalization
oags
personal attitude
pethanol
Politef
position in carrier
Progress indicator
pseudobile ducts
punch vtape
Quinquino
radio astronomer
reactor protective system
realized capital loss
refunding bonds
Restorationers
shank painter
shirmer
side fork
Sirotinskaya
slag-bonding
soiled cocoon
stenner
steno typist
surrender by bail
syntactic
syphax
tall poppies
templet assembly
terai hats
thrombogenicity
Tigharry
tool carrying device
Torino
tracheal sleeve pneumonectomy
trebenzomine
truncus bronchomediastinalis dexter
two solitudes
unencumber
unplaned
unsuitable stimulus
uridine 5'-triphosphate
vfp
vinyl chloride-vinylidene chloride copolymer
withsays
Yongan
yttrium-aluminium-garnet