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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aerohydrodynamics
Al-Gazel
American bond
angio-oedema
apologeticness
argyrotaenia citranas
Banda Aceh
basutoes
bitterling test
bother oneself about
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charles xii
chloro-platinous acid
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co-dominant tree
coarse soil
conglutinations
contact surface separators
continuous centrifuge
crinis
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custody fee received
Dipolog
dulhunty r.
electronic tuning
escape sequences
esotrope
figure-shift
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fluorescent tube bulb
fortune teller
functional processing module
gas can
generic cross
Golgi's method
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hand brake step
hearing-organ
hermitan
highest price method
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holder of patent
immersion ratio of propeller
jam drop
jam with
jazmyn
keing salmon
kindleberger
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lebedyn (lebedin)
localizer sector
longshorer
m-systems
magnetic domain
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microcomputer compiler language (mcl)
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no-claims
non-uniformity of scanning
organic ion exchanger
ouder
out-of
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phoma lycopersici sacc.
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primary code modulation
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