英语词汇afraid of one-s shadow的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	afraid of one-s shadow
词源	afraid of one’s shadow. The ancient Greeks used this expres- sion and it probably wasn’t original with them. Still very com- mon today, after thousands of years, the workhorse phrase means, of course, to be very fearful for no good reason, to be extremely jittery.
随便看	thereby hangs a tale the red one there-s a one-eyed man in the game there-s as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it there-s a sucker born every minute there-s many a slip twixt between cup and lip there-s no love lost between them there-s no there there there-s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos there-s nothing new under the sun there-s the rub there was a little girl there were giants in the earth in those days the rich are different from you and me the richest corpse in the graveyard thermos the rock thersitical the same dog bit me thesaurus the scene opens the schilder technique the screw plot the second city of the world the sensation is momentary and the position ridiculous

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