The Nitty Gritty Dictionary

时间：2015-05-21 05:13:21

（单词翻译:单击）

ADULT:
 A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.
 
BEAUTY PARLOR1:
 A place where women curl up and dye.
 
CANNIBAL:
 Someone who is fed up with people.
 
CHICKENS:
 The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.
 
COMMITTEE:
 A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
 
DUST:
 Mud with the juice squeezed out.
 
EGOTIST:
 Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.
 
GOSSIP:
 A person who will never tell a lie if the truth will do more damage.
 
HANDKERCHIEF:
 Cold Storage.
 
INFLATION:
 Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.
 
MOSQUITO:
 An insect that makes you like flies better.
 
RAISIN2:
 Grape with a sunburn.
 
SECRET:
 Something you tell to one person at a time.
 
SKELETON:
 A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.
 
TOOTHACHE:
 The pain that drives you to extraction.
 
TOMORROW:
 One of the greatest labor3 saving devices of today.
 
YAWN:
 An honest opinion openly expressed.
 
WRINKLES:
 Something other people have. You have character lines.

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1 parlor v4MzU     
n.店铺，营业室；会客室，客厅
参考例句：
  • She was lying on a small settee in the parlor.她躺在客厅的一张小长椅上。
  • Is there a pizza parlor in the neighborhood?附近有没有比萨店？
2 raisin EC8y7     
n.葡萄干
参考例句：
  • They baked us raisin bread.他们给我们烤葡萄干面包。
  • You can also make raisin scones.你也可以做葡萄干烤饼。
3 labor P9Tzs     
n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦
参考例句：
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

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