Carry coals to newcastle
做徒劳多余的事
🧩 词语组成解析
carry
['kæri]
vt. 支撑;携带;输送;运载;
vt.& vi. 运送;搬运;具有;
vi. （文学、戏剧等）对读者;扔（或踢）到…距离;（马等）具有某种姿势;传得很远;
n. （枪炮、火箭等的）射程;运输，运送;
car, char 车, 跑
n. 煤炭( coal的名词复数 ); 煤块
to
[tu,tə]
prep. 向，朝着;到;关于;属于;
adv. 朝一个方向的;到某种状态;关闭;
n. 纽卡斯尔（英国港市）
🗣️ 情景例句
I think I'm going to vomit.
我觉得我要吐了。
Wow, what a stink!
哗，好臭！
The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.
当读者到小说最后几页了解到书中女主人公，那位一向待大家很好的可爱的老妇人年轻时一连毒死了她的5个丈夫时，不禁会毛骨悚然。