纯⼲货英语隐喻知多少
今天我们来看看有趣的英⽂隐喻现象。White elephant 真正的含义是什么呢？在阅读中⽂翻译之前，试试看你能否猜出这些隐喻的意思~
1. White elephant
paraphra：Having a posssion which is either troublesome or uless and more so, one that might be very expensive or either difficult to maintain.
字⾯意思: ⽩象
隐含意思:⼀件⼜贵⼜没⽤的物品
2. Puppet government
paraphra：A government that is manipulated by a foreign power
字⾯意思：傀儡政府
dots and lines隐含意思: ⼀个被外国势⼒控制的政府
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3.Cold feet
paraphra: Having doubt that's so strong that it prevents a cour of action that was planned.
字⾯意思: 冷脚
隐含意思: 丧失信⼼或勇⽓，胆怯
bombard4. Landslide victory和煦
适合中学生看的电影paraphra: An overwhelming victory for one side
字⾯意思: 滑坡胜利
隐含意思: 胜利⼀边倒的胜利
5. It is raining cats and dogs.伏地
paraphra: It's raining very heavy or you might be going through many hard things in life at once.
字⾯意思：下猫狗⾬
forecast
隐含意思：下着倾盆⼤⾬
6. Yin and Yang
6. Yin and Yang
paraphra: There's good in bad and bad in good.
字⾯意思：阴和阳
隐含意思：好中有坏，坏中有好
7. Don't judge a book by its cover.
paraphra: Do not judge something or someone bad on appearance.字⾯意思: 别⽤书的封⾯来判定⼀本书
voanews隐含意思: 别以貌取⼈
8.Licked the bucket
提出索赔 英文
paraphra: It's a slang term meaning to die.
字⾯意思: 踢⽔桶
隐含意思: 去世了
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