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Armed to the teeth
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Armed to the teeth,按字面意思翻译就是:“武装到牙齿”,可以引申为“全副武装,装备齐全”。这个短语是怎么来的呢?
1849年,armed to the teeth第一次出现。英国实业家和政治家理查德·科布登在演讲中谈到英国的国防预算问题时说"Is there any reason why we should be armed to the teeth?",从此,armed to the teeth就被广泛使用。
例如:
Hitler was armed to the teeth when he launched the Second World War, but in a few years, he was completely defeated.
希特勒在发动第二次世界大战时全副武装,可是不过几年,就被彻底打败了。
The students went into the examination room, armed to the teeth with pens, pencils, erasers, calculators and so on.
同学们带着钢笔、铅笔、橡皮、计算器等走进了考场。他们个个准备齐全。
其实,to the teeth本身也是一个短语,意思是“完全地,充分地”。例如:Daddy and Mummy fought a war to the teeth. (爸爸和妈妈大吵了一场。)还有一些相关短语:be dressed to the teeth(浓妆艳抹),be fed up to the teeth with sth.(对某事及其厌倦)。
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