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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2-furanacrylic acid butyl ester
a-shoe
agelas robusta
aluminium soldering
arcanest
Aristotelian logic
arsindolizine
Artedius
ass bags
barces
be defined as
bifilar electrom agnetic oscillograph
birthsite
boron cast-iron
Brandos
businesswomen
carpel
castor axle
centrifuge microscopy
channel marketing
Chellean industry
chloropals
clear paint
cochlear fenestra
commissura colliculorum cranialium
constant quality
Daehwa
easa
electric colorimeter
emportment
ends of the earth
epidermal cysts of nail bed
erbium ion
fanasil
Francois
gastrointestinal syndrome
generoso
Gilgit R.
going alongside
Goyrand's hernia
gym-horse
half-men
Hawthorne research
honeybadgers
immediate dominator
industrial railway
Kurume
ladybowers
Lesnoye Matyunino
made an experiment in
Militine
miniard
morrone
movement of thorax
muck-rolling mill
mujaddara
multiple burst per transponder (mbpt)
mumpy
nagor
Naugets
newspapers and periodicals
non-dimensional
noob faces
O.K.
oil measure
over current protect device
palankas
pen pushers
piezoelectric inverse effect
Porpites
posterior pereion
postischiorectal abscess
pour point improver
principal derivative
provincias
pumped level
pumped-storage
quiesce-at-end-of-chain indicator
Radix Aucklandiae
rainy green forest
reloadable card
resident flora
Sacae
salt linkage
sawtooth-wave generator
Seekay wax
six to five suspension
sofa banker
spic-o-rama
stethopolyscope
strike benefit
strong adhesive
sulocarbilate
tallac
thermostability
thousand delivered source instructions
tributoxyethylphosphate
tubovaginal
under-covert
vapour proof machine
vitrinitization
worm wheel shaving cutter