英語習語諺語成語用法精粹 文學名著類2-1 a dog in the manger
a dog in the manger
【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.他從圖書館借了很多書，但一本也沒有看 過，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)。這則故事說的是一只狗躺在堆 滿稻草的馬廄里，狗是不吃草的動物，而當馬或牛一 走近稻草時，這只狗卻朝著馬、牛狂哮，不準它們享 用。因此，“狗占馬廄”就成了一個家喻戶曉的習語， 用來諷剌那些占據職位或某些物品卻不做事的人。變 體：dog-in-the-manger (作為復合形容詞)，如a dog-in-the-manger attitude(占著茅坑不拉屎的態(tài)度)。
