be born yesterday

英语

动词

be born yesterday (無第三人稱單數簡單現在時，無現在分詞，過去式 was born yesterday，無過去分詞)

1. (非正式，状态动词，否定极项) 无知，天真，好骗

   近義詞：(US) fall off the turnip truck

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

   这还用你说。我之前做过！

   • 1840, Henry Cockton, 章號 60, 出自 The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist，第 508 頁:

     "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."

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   • 1915, William MacLeod Raine, 章號 6, 出自 Steve Yeager:

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

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 1998, Gwyn Hyman Rubio, Icy Sparks，第 155 頁:

     "Compared to me, you were born yesterday."

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   • 2005, Howard Zinn, Donaldo Pereira Macedo, Howard Zinn on Democratic Education，第 69 頁:

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

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

用法说明

• 几乎仅用于否定，来表示自己不无知，不天真等。

近义词

• come down in the last shower (NZ、Australian)
• born at night but not last night
• 见Thesaurus:naive