be born yesterday
英语[编辑]
动词[编辑]
be born yesterday (無第三人稱單數簡單現在時,無現在分詞,過去式 was born yesterday,無過去分詞)
- (非正式, 状态动词, 否定极项) 无知,天真,好骗
- 近義詞: (US) fall off the turnip truck
- I was not born yesterday, you know. I have done this before!
- 这还用你说。我之前做过!
- 1840, Henry Cockton, 章號 60, 出自 The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist,頁號 508:
- "Do you think," he added, with an ironical grin, "that you'll go for to gammon me into that air! I'm hinnocent, I know, but I wasn't born yesterday exactly."
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- 1915, William MacLeod Raine, 章號 6, 出自 Steve Yeager:
- "Say, do I look like I was born yesterday? See any green in my eye, Cactus Center?"
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- 1998, Gwyn Hyman Rubio, Icy Sparks,頁號 155:
- "Compared to me, you were born yesterday."
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- 2005, Howard Zinn, Donaldo Pereira Macedo, Howard Zinn on Democratic Education,頁號 69:
- If you don't know important things about history, then it's as if you were born yesterday.
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用法说明[编辑]
- 几乎仅用于否定,来表示自己不无知,不天真等。
近义词[编辑]
- come down in the last shower (NZ, Australian)
- born at night but not last night
- 见Thesaurus:naive