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why it's swine, why not pig?

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鲜花(25) 鸡蛋(7)
发表于 2009-4-29 11:56 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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With this customer, he felt himself, as it were, casting pearls before swine. 面对这个客商,他感到好像是在对牛弹琴。* a) C+ Q( P% q0 G5 e9 j
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and from the above sentence, it even doesn't mean pig.
鲜花(152) 鸡蛋(1)
发表于 2009-4-29 13:16 | 显示全部楼层
swine    n." [5 K9 G" ]. B
1 : any of various stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous artiodactyl mammals (family Suidae) with a thick bristly skin and a long flexible snout especially : a domesticated one descended from the wild boar " ?, Q- {; x6 u7 J" N
2 : a contemptible person
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* {: ^, N+ x" K. n3 k! Q2 : an acute highly contagious usually fatal disease of swine that is caused by a double-stranded DNA virus (species African swine fever virus of the genus Asfivirus, family Asfarviridae), that resembles but is more severe than hog cholera, and that is indigenous to Africa
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/ M; X: D: y" }6 E5 v9 a' eThe reason to use swine may be that it is more formal a word than pig.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-4-29 15:23 | 显示全部楼层
got u, tks a lot.
鲜花(77) 鸡蛋(0)
发表于 2009-4-29 17:56 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队 追求完美
Swine Flu but not Pig Flu.
鲜花(5) 鸡蛋(0)
发表于 2009-4-29 21:41 | 显示全部楼层
pig, hog, swine 都含“猪”的意思。7 N' p! a/ d3 M6 a
pig 是常用词, 指“猪”、“小猪”、“猪肉”, 如: roast pig 烤猪肉。* F4 K: Q* v# O, ~6 M$ {
hog 指“阉过供食用的公猪”, 尤指“重量超过一百二十磅的阉过的供食用的公猪”, 如: raise hogs 养猪。( Y. Q9 ~( a. i  O
swine 是文学用语, 指“猪”, 有时借喻“讨厌的人”, 如: You swine! 你这个猪猡!
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鲜花(20) 鸡蛋(0)
发表于 2009-4-30 08:29 | 显示全部楼层
Great! Thank you !
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发表于 2009-4-30 09:51 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
原帖由 兰颜知己 于 2009-4-29 12:56 发表 6 R: ^- U( M3 J6 L9 ~; V; Z- _
With this customer, he felt himself, as it were, casting pearls before swine. 面对这个客商,他感到好像是在对牛弹琴。' X* a* Y2 W9 w2 [% _5 Z( ?
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and from the above sentence, it even doesn't mean  ...
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顺带说一句啊,要想说对牛谈琴的意思不要用这个casting pearls before swine,至少我知在加拿大他们一般不这么说。有时候这些词典真是害人。
鲜花(152) 鸡蛋(1)
发表于 2009-4-30 10:41 | 显示全部楼层
估计casting pearls before swine是个比较书面话的成语吧,大家都认识,但说话一般不那么说,否则被人说使用 big words.
鲜花(152) 鸡蛋(1)
发表于 2009-4-30 10:48 | 显示全部楼层
对牛弹琴  
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5 W( e  ~. [' oto play the lute to a cow :  offering a treat to a unappreciative audience
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to cast pearls before swine
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caviar to the general
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to talk over sb's head
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The whistle jigs to a milestone.
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With this customer, he felt himself, as it were, casting pearls before swine.$ n5 `  q( f- D6 c- I& a* p
面对这个客商,他感到好像是在对牛弹琴。* C/ b. o5 \3 c6 |  Q8 {( E
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She read them Shakespeare, but it was casting pearls before swine.5 @  _1 x' A; R
她为他们朗诵莎士比亚著作,但那等于对牛弹琴。7 w" ?& u8 a  t& q& H0 b4 V
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An nod is as good as a wink to a Blind horse
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对牛弹琴; k& q8 [" H  s: _9 W4 g4 p

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他们示意他举止不当, 如同对牛弹琴.
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[ 本帖最后由 billzhao 于 2009-4-30 10:49 编辑 ]
鲜花(0) 鸡蛋(0)
发表于 2009-4-30 10:59 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
原帖由 billzhao 于 2009-4-30 11:41 发表
: k" q: Z- j. S, X; o+ e) q: U估计casting pearls before swine是个比较书面话的成语吧,大家都认识,但说话一般不那么说,否则被人说使用 big words.
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我找了个老外确认了一下,他们好像完全不知有这个说法。
鲜花(152) 鸡蛋(1)
发表于 2009-4-30 12:56 | 显示全部楼层
可能3 m5 X- x; Q( Q/ g. O
可能这种说法太书面语了,也可能out of date了。2 W& e7 h9 t, A9 a" R
也有可能外国人不爱学习,学问高的不多。
  v, _" y+ t) _3 m' b/ u还有可能是人们的知识水平参差不齐,你问的那几个人在正态分布的尾端。
# B$ Y) ^5 |2 v3 L/ x/ N/ ~不管怎么说,既然字典上有了,就是有这种说法,而且是相当的人知道这种说法,否则就不会遍到字典上去了
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