时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 阿P的女朋友漂亮、贤惠、体贴、温柔……几乎集所有女性优点于一身,就是有一点不好——老爱小题大做。有一次,阿P看路上一美女时间长了点,她就火了,先说他色狼,再说他花心,最后差点闹分手。


“小题大做”英文中叫“make a mountain out of a molehill”,把小土堆说成大山,确实够夸张的。
古希腊语里有个类似的谚语叫“make an elephant out of a fly”,后来在法语和德语中被引用。Make a mountain out of a molehill于16世纪中期出现。将“elephant”和“fly”改成“mountain”和“molehill”,或许是因为“make”、“mountain”和“molehill”都以“m”开头,形成头韵,读起来朗朗上口,记起来也比较容易吧。
例句:
Your “broken arm” was only a sprained 1 wrist. Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
你只是扭了一下手腕,哪有摔断胳膊。别小题大做了。

1 sprained
v.&n. 扭伤
  • I stumbled and sprained my ankle. 我摔了一跤,把脚脖子扭了。
  • When Mary sprained her ankles, John carried her piggyback to the doctors. 玛丽扭伤了足踝,约翰驮她去看医生。
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acrosomal granule
alumel alloy
asbury
automatic slow-down device
axelrod
bend before
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bimetal timedelay relay
biuret crosslink
blocking efficiency
bottle lift platform
cationic layer (colloid particle)
cheiloplasty
class information
clock it
collecting pipe
column end conditions
Commodity Exchange of New York
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deprez
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electric resistance strain gage
embezzlement of estates
Eria robusta
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gelatinization point
go running
gradient sedimentation
hard-packed
heat-clearing and detoxifying drug
heavy passing shower
hemiplegia abducento-facialis alternans
homothetic solutions
huntingtons
indissolubilities
Ithaca College
joggling
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one's bread and butter
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White Squadron
wrist-rest
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