be born yesterday

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英語[編輯]

動詞[編輯]

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)

  1. (非正式, 狀態動詞, 否定極項) 無知，天真，好騙
    近義詞： (US) fall off the turnip truck
    I was not born yesterday, you know. I have done this before!
    這還用你說。我之前做過！
    • 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."
      （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
    • 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?"
      （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
    • 1998, Gwyn Hyman Rubio, Icy Sparks，頁號 155:
      "Compared to me, you were born yesterday."
      （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
    • 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.
      （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

用法說明[編輯]

  • 幾乎僅用於否定，來表示自己不無知，不天真等。

近義詞[編輯]

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