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
acababa
administration bill
adulators
archy
atomic model
Awngi
bacillus meningitidis cerebrospinalis septicaemiae
Ban Houaynam
Bargah
batch measuring system
Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law
BHMRA
bovine ketosis
bramalea
cavity volume
chain data flag
character manipulation
chimney climb
classical nodal diffusion theory method
cleft soft and hard palate
climacterian
co-efficacy
coal lift
cohabiter
coherent holography
concreated
counterindoctrinate
criticism
crossing point of axes
current page
cyprodenate
data transmission efficiency
datastar
deficit units
distance-velocity lag
district station
dolich
downslur
Erigeron kamtschaticum
foot pedals
forage chopper
free swinging knife
gas-operated pump
gastrointestinal infection
general tariff
harmful gases
hewett
high calcium fly-ash cement
hillas
honeycomb toweling
hort-
koninck
Las Bonitas
like furry
Louis Quatorzian
Lyogen-Depot
melodinus fusiformis champ.
menzie
non-ironic
non-volatile matter content
nuclear transport receptor
nucleus dorsalis nervi vagi
paddy field cultivator
peninsulan
Pierre Abelard
plesiotype
positive system of roots
prajna
primary splenic myeloid metaplasia
process meter
proletarian revolution
proper complex orthogonal group
record-album
Rohrenfels
routine table
Ruellia neesiana
sadder
sender key
Sloatsburg
spectral yellow
sponge bath
star lattice
start up price
subfile system
subjournal
subsistential
Swargadwari
technopaganism
three phase wye load
three-wedge bearing
Tiepolo
Tingkawk Sakan
toe brake
topzawa
UNECLA
uredo clemensiae
valve-overlap
veena
washing oil
wave power generation
Wednesday
xanthias lamarcki