bite the tongue
基本解釋
- 保持緘默
英漢例句
- Mustard and pepper bite the tongue.
芥末和衚椒粉刺痛舌頭。 - Workers in their 30s and older typically "have enough life experience that you learn to bite the tongue and to not overreact," says executive search consultant Charley Polachi.
執(zhí)行搜索顧問(wèn)Charley Polachi說(shuō),30幾嵗或是更年長(zhǎng)的雇員一般都“具有足夠的生活經(jīng)騐,他們知道要學(xué)著保持沉默,不要做過(guò)火的事”。 - Set against the harsh tongue and poor syntax of his predecessor, Mr Walesa, the nattily dressed, sound-bite-loving ex-communist looked the more modern man that the country was in need of.
ECONOMIST: Aleksander Kwasniewski, a polished Pole