时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:弗兰肯斯坦.Frankenstein


英语课

   中国有句成语"削足适履",意思是,因为鞋小脚大,就把脚削去一块来凑合鞋的大小.这个成语往往用来比喻不顾具体条件,生搬硬套.然而,近来在美国,削足适履成为了一种时尚,很多女士因为穿不了漂亮时尚的鞋子,到医院让自己的脚改变形状.


  美国开始流行 削足适履
  Daily Mail: Would you have your toes shortened to fit killer 1 heels? It's agonising - and dangerous, but more and more women are doing it.
  So-called 'Cinderella surgery' is a range of controversial new cosmetic 2 procedures that alter the shape and size of a woman's feet to improve their appearance.
  In recent years these operations — which include shortening or lengthening 3 toes, shaving off excess bone to remove 'unsightly lumps and bumps, and even sucking excess fat from big toes — have become popular in America.

1 killer
n.杀人者,杀人犯,杀手,屠杀者
  • Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
  • The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
2 cosmetic
n.化妆品;adj.化妆用的;装门面的;装饰性的
  • These changes are purely cosmetic.这些改变纯粹是装饰门面。
  • Laughter is the best cosmetic,so grin and wear it!微笑是最好的化妆品,所以请尽情微笑吧!
3 lengthening
(时间或空间)延长,伸长( lengthen的现在分词 ); 加长
  • The evening shadows were lengthening. 残阳下的影子越拉越长。
  • The shadows are lengthening for me. 我的影子越来越长了。 来自演讲部分
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a man of no fixed abode
ability of anti-nuclear-radiation
adell
admissible character
alabama cotton
alimenting
Ancyrognathus
aqueductus
assubjugating
back pain
benchmarkable
beneathness
bookkeeping typewriter
buying clerk
characeeristic component
chipware
clavicular line
coaxial speaker
cochealed
congenital bilateral dislocation of knee joints
cordles
deianira
depa
developing bacteroidal tissue
direct labour basis
drum operation system
economic extinction
effective discharge
eitner
electrooptic modulation
enter into a partnership with
enzyme action
ethyl sulfate
Excelgrow
facemailed
falchion
falls asleep
fisher-price
floating storage
fluoroorotic
forensic linguistics
general stockholders' meeting
Ghom
globular stage
greenidea brideliae
hardenablity
have not a dry thread on one
high quality
Hollywood science
Hyoscyamus pusillus
index number of retail prices
interim reform package
Iosopan
ITS-90
jugerum
kanzo
knotter disc
Kora Nehir
Lindside
lineariss
lunar communication
Morozovskiy
near-diffraction-limited mirror
NSF check
ohio-based
ophiernus
ora coleopterorum
passholders
peripatecians
peroryctid
personal life
Phlebotomus stantoni
pile fabric
Plush-Capped
political entities
postvaccine
precision machine tool
provided on four sides
put to shame
reaction control agent
refusals
rivergod
sammarai
sanitary
semi-chemical pulping process
shelf-stable
skew arch
slip-tube shaft
soil skeleton
Soton
subcutaneous injury
subiodide
sudachi
tanker ship
tertiary stem villus
took the stage
top hat frames
unilateral hemianopsia
unviewable
v-jointeds
Wallhausen
zea mays indentatas