时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:Modern English 洋话连篇


英语课

  With a grain of salt

  一天吃饭的时候,好友Allen和他的中国籍太太坐在餐桌旁大谈最近流行的一种草药,说它能包治百病。Allen说了一句:“I'd like to take it with a grain of salt”。他太太笑道:“你以为它是蔬菜啊,还要加点盐再吃。健康专家可没有说过要加盐。”

  Allen愣了一下,然后大笑不已,解释道“Take something with a grain of salt”是“对某事有保留、持怀疑态度”的意思。

  原来刚才Allen是说他对这种草药的神奇疗效表示怀疑,而不是说要“放些盐再吃”。







学英语单词
Actaea odorata
anti-roman
apologians
at the heels of
Ave.,ave.
below-center offset
bisheteroarylpiperazine
book condenser
catch end
ceaselessnesses
chart matching device
cochlearias
common-battery semiautomatic system
compound fractures
condylocardiid
contact substance
cucujus nigripennis
dead-point
demi-lustre
differential angle
discases
disposable pipette
dolloped
dradge
Elaeocarpineae
elliptic trochoid
Eptachori
fail box
fat lot
floodlight (flo)
foaming oil
folding leg
foreconsciousness
gallium arsenide field-effect transistor
grasper
gunner's daughter
haddonfield
halomorphic
Hard-To-Borrow List
high-and-low-energy wet scrubber
hot runner
Hyacinth Dolichos Seed
in-phase component
inhabited area
interrogation board
jci
kinder-care
Lake Parlin
Lecithochirium
make your compliment to
master's cabin
maume
mycoamoeba
nestons
NG-L-imido-ehtyl-ornithine
non-coking thermal cracking
nonmaterial input
nuclear fallout
opinionatre
Pankakoski
parafrons
passenger compartment
pentels
pitino
polymerizable
pore over sth
prereform
pretty please with sugar on top
principal axis of strain
pulp washer
pyrodin
quadrangle roof
quarter
radix ipecacuanhae
rated steam flow
rest in bed
rstrategist
scope of patent protection
semi moon hoe
separation net
sheaths of optic nerve
shite
short-range investment
single frequency laser diode
skoke berries
sociologized-gizing
specific heat capacity
Spergula
stinky squids
stock market computer answering network
streck
supermartingales
TCS (thermal control system)
thousandth mass unit
time-multiplexing
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri (Marie Raymond) de
trapping instability
Valley Stream
viscoelastic law
wheelbacks
working season of sowing
wypt