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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acerbi
adrenoxidase
afore-
all-victorious
amphidiploidies
amynthas meishanensis
antimonous
articulus incudostapedius
Asian Industrial Development Council
askarels
attacked by pestilent factors
bathymetric line
be taken back
Better late than never
bivalent heat pump heating system
bradydiastolia
cacheline
capacititor vane
carlis
chondrodysplasia fetalis
comma bacillus
coordinates method
cora pavonia e. fries
Coulomb law of friction
cryogenic film
deck plan
delay mechanisms
dh-
dog-fancier
East Orchard
ensina sonchi
excess stabilizer reflux
executive statement
fair weathers
firing brick
germyls
ground to air radio station
Gujarati-language
gynacantha hyalina
halovic
horizion
in everyone's mouth
incapablenesses
interzoecial
invest with
Johniinae
joseph conrads
junior bond
lath and plaster partition
leant
Liprevil
marchfield
marless
Masteril
maximum limit of speed dsetting
micromechanics
mitsukurina owstoni
mompe
multi-male troop
nervi cutancus surae lateralis
normal network traffic
ones-of-a-kind
open breakwater
open mould
out of someone's hands
pars propria (fasc. dors. medull. spin.)
pbenethium
plain paper
pointing accuracy
pollitz
post-ferment safe pressure stabilization valve
potassium xanthogenate
psi
Puglia
quinuclidinyls
rectifier feed electric drive
rhythmica
rock falling
sequence of time
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slag build up
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stamelman
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structure of industry
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temperature changes
thermal chemical gas analyzer
thousand-fold
tibial flexor muscle
tonation
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urgers
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yellow banded water snake