英語(yǔ)習(xí)語(yǔ)諺語(yǔ)成語(yǔ)用法精粹 文學(xué)名著類(lèi)2-1 a dog in the manger

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【字面理解】馬廄里的狗

【英文解析】a person who prevents others from enjoying something that is useless to himself; a churlish fellow who will neither use a thing himself nor let others use it

【中文解析】占著茅坑不拉屎的人;自私自利的人;一毛不 拔的人

【典型例句】① He borrowed a lot of books from the library but he didn’t read any of them. He was really a dog in the manger.他從圖書(shū)館借了很多書(shū)，但一本也沒(méi)有看 過(guò)，真是損人不利己。

② Don’t be such a dog in the manger. Lend your bicycle to him since you will not go out this afternoon.別這么不夠 朋友，既然你今天下午不出去，就把自行車(chē)借給他用一用。

【注釋】出自《伊索寓言狗占馬廄》Aesop’s Fables: A Dog in the Manger)。這則故事說(shuō)的是一只狗躺在堆 滿稻草的馬廄里，狗是不吃草的動(dòng)物，而當(dāng)馬或牛一 走近稻草時(shí)，這只狗卻朝著馬、?？裣粶?zhǔn)它們享 用。因此，“狗占馬廄”就成了一個(gè)家喻戶曉的習(xí)語(yǔ)， 用來(lái)諷剌那些占據(jù)職位或某些物品卻不做事的人。變 體：dog-in-the-manger (作為復(fù)合形容詞)，如a dog-in-the-manger attitude(占著茅坑不拉屎的態(tài)度)。