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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
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
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。
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, h8 r2 h& ?" ~! ~- Jand 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.
; P0 l1 U2 P" ^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
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swine fever  
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$ i% R8 v5 L7 L1 p2 : 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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9 H! a4 V0 @& Y. d% P- g4 j; ?The reason to use swine may be that it is more formal a word than pig.
鲜花(25) 鸡蛋(7)
 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。
( U9 S; |1 L) g6 Z0 w# }pig 是常用词, 指“猪”、“小猪”、“猪肉”, 如: roast pig 烤猪肉。0 K" ]* q) O. Q: j5 ]3 l
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。
5 \7 C: L; X0 zswine 是文学用语, 指“猪”, 有时借喻“讨厌的人”, 如: You swine! 你这个猪猡!4 N9 M  o" a& r6 `

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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
% H. C* C* k& C  r% AWith 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。
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and from the above sentence, it even doesn't mean  ...
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2 ~) w# ~, f& |" _# t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。
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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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to play the lute to a cow :  offering a treat to a unappreciative audience
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( p$ q, k1 v+ H( R, Pto cast pearls before swine5 X. p# H! X/ J$ Q4 O

" X5 U; t7 A- Z  u& ucaviar to the general
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to preach to deaf ears
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to talk over sb's head
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With this customer, he felt himself, as it were, casting pearls before swine.
- |5 O, N: ?* g; Q; ]面对这个客商,他感到好像是在对牛弹琴。
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  y  Y4 P8 I' J/ {+ DShe read them Shakespeare, but it was casting pearls before swine.
8 }, v1 D6 n4 C她为他们朗诵莎士比亚著作,但那等于对牛弹琴。
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An nod is as good as a wink to a Blind horse: R/ P' A8 z! |" R  D" a
对牛弹琴
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playing a harp before a Buffalo1 M* r& |; {" c- N# B
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play the lute to a cow; preach to deaf ears8 Y6 L. ^; s1 h
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talk to a Brick wall7 g( e+ H; k* w/ b% t
对牛弹琴
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Their hints about his behaviour were water off a duck's back.- M0 P- G- v& y
他们示意他举止不当, 如同对牛弹琴.
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6 d. N5 |- f, K, q% l  _[ 本帖最后由 billzhao 于 2009-4-30 10:49 编辑 ]
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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
/ x5 g3 d+ y" o5 O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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5 M- B( H' I! d  g/ H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
) q% E5 f2 q& ?) w可能这种说法太书面语了,也可能out of date了。5 A; [7 p) X- w3 i
也有可能外国人不爱学习,学问高的不多。
- A1 f8 C2 a: k! X  w2 P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。
) Z% Y& n, e- I/ ^3 W: R% |# I% W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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