And idiom Number three for this category, two heads are better than one. As you may guess, this is a shorthand way of saying that it's often more effective to work together with others as opposed to working alone.
这一类的第三个习语,two heads are better than one。正如你可能猜到的,这是一种简写的方式,示与他人一通常比单独更有效。
She was apparently not too hurt to remember that old scriptural admonition which goes “Vengeance is mine, saith the shorthand teacher, ” however; Mr. Higgins said she wanted me suspended from school.
" It's a convenient shorthand to say we're all time-starved, but we have to remember that it only applies to, say, half the population, " says Michael Willmott, director of the Future Foundation, a London research company.
But there's hope for this much-maligned creature. A red dragon is shorthand for all things Welsh. It even features on its main emblem, the flag of Wales.
The first structured distance learning or correspondence courses were probably the shorthand courses offered by the Pitman organization at the end of the 19th century.
Iraq has, to many, become shorthand for the unintended consequences of U.S. intervention, and has put American foreign policy on a more isolationist path.
The phrase, coined by Milton Friedman, a Nobel-prizewinning economist, is sophisticated shorthand for the delayed and uncertain effects of monetary policy.