- 看过 with a grain of salt 的人也看了 :
- askance
- doubtfully
- doubtingly
- dubiously
- suspiciously
with a grain of salt 的定义
- Also, with a pinch of salt. Skeptically, with reservations. For example, I always take Sandy's stories about illnesses with a grain of salt—she tends to exaggerate. This expression is a translation of the Latin cum grano salis, which Pliny used in describing Pompey's discovery of an antidote for poison. It was soon adopted by English writers.
with a grain of salt 近义词
等同于 questioningly
with a grain of salt 的近义词 5 个
更多with a grain of salt例句
- ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
- Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
- By the time it concluded with a sing-a-long of “XO,” Beyoncé had done the rare thing.
- The Dallas Cowboys sell out their state-of-the art football stadium.
- In another year, stories about the strange new face of an A-list actress might draw chortles and cackles.
- And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.
- Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
- The Afghan was true to his salt, and their own retainers, who had come with them from Lucknow, remained steadfast at this crisis.
- He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
- Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.