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：你的压力会被一口一口地喝掉。 - 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，除了能帮助下药之外，还能帮助药物杀掉细菌。
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'."
来自波士顿大学的詹姆斯•科林斯教授说：“俗话说‘一勺糖让你把药吞下去’，然而确切地说应该是‘一勺糖让药物的效果更好’。” - 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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