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
Academian
acaustophytolith
accessible promoter
acin'
Aegerita
alfaprostol
alloying ingredient
armisonous
arteriae hyaloidea
azonal peat
backup men
bacteria utilize the tryptophan
Ban Ngao
basisternum
be in town
bihorium
busy hour crosstalk noise
cashus
Centropus phasianinus
chemical barge
chemical stratification
circumplasm
colour reproduction
crystallization kinetics
Danyang-gun
delayed repetition
departing
display conservatory area
domestic animal trade tax
Dosing Pumps
electronic discrete sequential automatic computer
enervis
enterprise standard
evaluation research
face-centered cubic unit cell
fishmarket
gambias
Grewia permagna
Güsten
Hanmer R.
highly-centralized
Hodgsonia
hold down something
impart depth
juvenilized
kamehameha the greats
kelber
Kerria DC.
laws of motion
Many Island L.
micrococcus uberis
microdytes uenoi
misprisions
monobasic ester
munitor
murexes
naardens
newz
nitro dyestuff
nowlt
operation cycle
optical spectrum analyzers
ordinary course
oscillatory shear flow
outer casing housing
Panurin
pitched into
psilogramma increta
raynaud's(phenomenon)
rengue
reoccurring
right of withdrawal from a partnership
risperidone (risperdal)
sambus quinquefasciatus
sang
shavante
SLIFA
Spironema nicollei
spray bottle nozzle
standard machine time
stave off defeat
stillhunting
stockingmakers
strome
tavelling crane
TGSE
the more
to break bulk
toolchain
travelling wheelheed roll grinder
troisi?me en haut
twist into
tybalt
underoils
unemployment trap
uterine cough
Vancouver, Mt.
vandalism
Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis
wavoids
wax bougie