时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


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   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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adeline virginia stephen woolves
adiabatic ignition time
aducational online source site
ahidjoes
anemoclastic rocks
anti-ferromagnetic
antiorganic
automatic film advance
balladist
barnlike
beet strips
Bellvale
benzodiphenylene oxide
blog software
blue print approach
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Cestos Pt.
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claim representative
consistency effect
contractant
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defect map
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desolation
emulsion cutting oil
equipotential metallization
exponential time base
fan ring
fluorescent-green
fortress-monasteries
free in and out of trucks
generalized circuit constants
get one's knife into
golpol
hopeis
horse-shoeings
immigration and naturalization services
indexed file access
inflated prices
J Paul Getty
Joué-lès-Tours
kons
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letter of testamentary
lip curb
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magirology
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non permanent residents
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omphalus
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ratchet-handle
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Standards Code
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thyroid growth antibody
Tinga, Jab.(Tinga)
Tucavaca
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wheezingly
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