be born yesterday

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be born yesterday (无第三人称单数简单现在时,无现在分词,过去式 was born yesterday,无过去分词)

  1. (非正式, 状态动词, 否定极项) 无知天真好骗
    近义词: (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, 章号 60, 出自 The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist,页号 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, 章号 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,页号 155:
      "Compared to me, you were born yesterday."
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    • 2005, Howard Zinn, Donaldo Pereira Macedo, Howard Zinn on Democratic Education,页号 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。

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