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词组 jam tomorrow
释义 jam toˈmorrow (BrE, informal) good things that are promised for the future but never happen 可望而不可即的美好未来;许而不予的好东西They refused to settle for a promise of jam tomorrow.
他们不满足于那些美妙的空口许诺。
ORIGIN This comes from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass (1871) in which the Queen says to Alice ‘The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam today.’ 这个习语源于刘易斯 ∙ 卡罗尔所著《爱丽丝镜中奇遇记》,书中女王对爱丽丝说:“是这么规定的,果酱明天和昨天都有,就是今天没有”。
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