“有史以来最好的”真的是翻译成”the best thing in history”??
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生活中的新事物越来越多,人们聪明的智商总能发明出一些好点子,这些发明都让我们的生活更加便捷,比如在1928年的美国,一个来自密歇根的人就发明了一个切面包片的机器,人们就被惊艳到,于是再也不用手切面包片了,那今天的习语跟面包片到底有啥关系?咱们听听Joy and Chris的对话吧! C: Hi guys. I’m Chris. J: And I’m Joy. Today we will be talking about the idiom: the best thing since sliced bread. It’s used when something is extremely good and interesting, usually describing a new product or a new invention. You can use it like this: It’s the best thing since sliced bread. / It will be the best thing since sliced bread. C: The literal meaning of this idiom is about the convenience of the invention of sliced bread. So a long time ago, people made bread by hand. Each time you wanted a sandwich or a piece of toast, you had to get out a knife and slice a piece of bread for yourself. And that all changed in 1928. Someone in America invented the world’s first bread-slicing machine. Then th...
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