短语 | tilt at windmills |
释义 | tilt at windmills to waste time and energy attacking an enemy that is not real攻击假想敌,庸人自扰 tilt at windmills attack imaginary enemies or evils 同假想的敌人(或坏事)作斗争。 [ORIGIN: with allusion to the story of Don Quixote tilting at windmills, believing they were giants.] tilt at windmills 见TILT. tilt at ˈwindmillsto waste your energy attacking imaginary enemies攻击假想敌;庸人自扰From Cervantes' novelDon Quixote,in which the hero thought that the windmills he saw were giants and tried to fight them.源自塞万提斯的长篇小说《堂吉诃德》,书中的主人公认为他看到的风车是巨人,于是与之展开搏斗。 |
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