with a pinch of salt
基本解释
- 有所保留地
英汉例句
- 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.
在接受由市场研究公司IDC作出的评估时,人们需留有怀疑,因为这家公司是由存储系统制造商EMC提供赞助的。 - (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).
(其实,人们对真正可怕的贫穷的刻板印象是没有洋葱的饭菜——“只有放少许盐的干面包”是北印度真正窘迫生活的写照)。 - However, they warned "this report should be taken with a pinch of salt" and that it is an exercise to "light-heartedly explain quantitative techniques and demystify the typical quant framework.
但他们同时提醒称,“大家应带有保留地看待这一预测”,这是“用通俗的方式解释数量分析法,让数量分析框架浅显化”的一次尝试。 - Given these figures, today's saintly rhetoric needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.
ECONOMIST: Republican fiscal policies - As subsequent events made clear, notably Tiananmen Square, this should have been taken with a pinch of salt.
FORBES: Hillary is Wasting her Time, and America's, on a Fool's Errand - So take the polls with a pinch of salt and a double margarita.
FORBES: Magazine Article