- flecked or speckled with intermingled dark and light shades; pepper-and-salt."his salt-and-pepper hair"
灰白相間的
/sɔːlt(ə)n(d)ˈpɛpə/
形容詞
斑點狀，深淺交錯；灰白相間的。
“他灰白相間的頭髮”
salt. salt sth away .Cellini's Salt Cellar, Cellini's Saliera, 本韋努托‧切利尼自傳 美。原創性與個性。帶來愉悅的事物。簡單的結構骨架。
worth your salt
good at your job:
Any accountant worth their salt should be aware of the latest changes in taxation.
Meaning
To be effective and efficient; deserving of one's pay.
值得付出
工作出色：
任何值得付出的會計師都應該了解最新的稅收變化。
意義
高效且有效率；物有所值。
起源
值得付出的鹽 氯化鈉，又稱鹽，是人類生存的必需品，在罐頭和冷藏技術發明之前，一直是保存食物的主要方法。因此，它長期以來一直被認為很有價值。
「值得付出的鹽」指的是物有所值。我們的「薪水」一詞源自於拉丁文「salarium」（sal 是拉丁文中「鹽」的意思）。關於「salarium」一詞的起源存在一些爭議，但大多數學者認為它是羅馬士兵購買鹽的錢。羅馬士兵的薪水實際上並非像一些人認為的那樣以鹽的形式發放。他們必須自行購買食物、武器等，這些費用會預先從工資中扣除…
Origin
Sodium chloride, a.k.a. salt, is essential for human life and, until the invention of canning and refrigeration, was the primary method of preservation of food. Not surprisingly, it has long been considered valuable.
To be 'worth one's salt' is to be worth one's pay. Our word salary derives from the Latin salarium, (sal is the Latin word for salt). There is some debate over the origin of the word salarium, but most scholars accept that it was the money allowed to Roman soldiers for the purchase of salt. Roman soldiers weren't actually paid in salt, as some suggest. They were obliged to buy their own food, weapons etc. and had the cost of these deducted from their wages in advance....
心情：
But the pandemic has made me realize that I’m not sure how much I’ll really need to have salted away to protect my family and to keep our solidly middle-class standard of living intact, both now and into the future.
但這場疫情讓我意識到，我不確定我到底需要存多少錢才能保護我的家人，並維持我們穩固的中產階級生活水平，無論是現在還是將來。
salt sth away
informal
simple structural skeleton.
Cellini's Salt Cellar, made for Francis I of France, 1540–1543. Gold, partly enameled, with an ebony base. Depicts Earth and Sea personified.Cellini's Saliera, made in Paris, 1540–1543; Gold, partly covered in enamel, with an ebony base.
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