a pinch of salt

基本解釋

I hate measuring, and I say things like: a pinch of salt, a handful of flour, some of this and a splosh of that.
我討厭測(cè)量食物，而且我常常這樣說：一小撮鹽，一把麪粉，一些這個(gè)和一些那個(gè)。
(Actually the stereotype of really dire poverty is that meal, minus even the onions—“two dry rotis with a pinch of salt” is the North Indian shorthand for being in really dire straits).
（其實(shí)，人們對(duì)真正可怕的貧窮的刻板印象是沒有洋蔥的飯菜——“衹有放少許鹽的乾麪包”是北印度真正窘迫生活的寫照）。
Estimates by IDC, a market-research firm, need to be taken with a pinch of salt, because they are sponsored by EMC, a maker of storage systems.
在接受由市場(chǎng)研究公司IDC作出的評(píng)估時(shí)，人們需畱有懷疑，因爲(wèi)這家公司是由存儲(chǔ)系統(tǒng)制造商EMC提供贊助的。

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