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be born yesterday

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释义

  1. 无知，天真，好骗

    informal · 状态动词 · 否定极项

    I was not born yesterday, you know. I have done this before!

    这还用你说。我之前做过！

    "Do you think," he added, with an ironical grin, "that you'll go for to gammon me into that air! I'm hinnocent, I know, but I wasn't born yesterday exactly."

    1840, Henry Cockton, chapter 60, in The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist, page 508:

    "Say, do I look like I was born yesterday? See any green in my eye, Cactus Center?"

    1915, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 6, in Steve Yeager:

    "Compared to me, you were born yesterday."

    1998, Gwyn Hyman Rubio, Icy Sparks, page 155:

    If you don't know important things about history, then it's as if you were born yesterday.

    2005, Howard Zinn, Donaldo Pereira Macedo, Howard Zinn on Democratic Education, page 69:
词形与写法（2）
词形标注转写
is born yesterdaythird-person · singular · present
was born yesterday無現在分詞，簡單過去時
近义词（4）
fall off the turnip truck UScome down in the last shower NZ、Australianborn at night but not last nightThesaurus:naive

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