在英语中怎么形容“都一样”或者“差不多”更地道呢?
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你有没有感觉市场上的很多新生产品有时候其实都差不多呢?或者某些你很爱吃的甜点你朋友觉得其实味道都差不多?这个习语其实和土豆有点关系,我们来看看为什么吧! C: Hi guys. I’m Chris. J: And I’m Joy. Our idiom for today is: potato potato and tomato tomato. It means that some things may seem different but they are actually the same thing. You can use it to express when you think the differences about something don’t matter. C: This is a pretty interesting idiom. So potato(potayto) and tomato(tomayto) is how Americans pronounce it. While potato(potahto) and tomato(tomahto) is usually how British people would say it. The two kinds of pronunciations sound different but it’s still the same word with the same meaning. So you can use this to talk about two newly released phones. Your friend may think that these two phones are different. But you think they might look different but the functions are the same. So you can say: potayto potahto or tomayto tomahto. OK, now we are gonna us...
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Published 07/21/20