Humans prefer jam today to jam tomorrow.
比起明天的空头支票，人类更喜欢今天的真金白银。
| 单词 | Jam tomorrow |
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Jam tomorrow
原声例句
经济学人-文艺 Humans prefer jam today to jam tomorrow. 比起明天的空头支票，人类更喜欢今天的真金白银。 爱丽丝镜中奇遇记（精简版） 'It's jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today.' 只是明天或昨天有果酱--今天决没有果酱。”
英语百科
Jam tomorrowJam tomorrow or (older spelling) jam to-morrow is an expression for a never-fulfilled promise. It originates from Lewis Carroll's 1871 book Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. In the book the White Queen offers Alice "jam every other day" as an inducement to work for her: |
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