a spoonful of sugar
英汉例句
- Have a spoonful of sugar in your tea: It helps stress sip away.
在你的茶中加一勺糖吧：你的壓力會被一口一口地喝掉。 - So a spoonful of sugar does more than make the medicine go down. It helps the medicine take the microbes down.
因此，一勺糖，除了能幫助下葯之外，還能幫助葯物殺掉細菌。
lfx8.com - Professor James Collins, from Boston University, said: "You know the old saying: 'a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down? This is more like 'a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine work'."
來自波士頓大學的詹姆斯•科林斯教授說：“俗話說‘一勺糖讓你把葯吞下去’，然而確切地說應該是‘一勺糖讓葯物的傚果更好’。” - It might be more accurate to say that his is the Mary Poppins philosophy of social and cultural instruction: a spoonful of sugar helps the agenda go down.
ECONOMIST: Mary Poppins is a black man - You could do much better, it was cheaper, to get tea bags, 100 for 99 cents, and one spoonful, one cupful of sugar, and so you drink a lot of iced tea.
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