时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  Hay的意思是“干草”,wire的意思是“铁丝网”,把这两个词合起来变成 haywire,它的意思也就一目了然了,是“捆绑干草的铁丝”。那go haywire是什么意思呢?它是一个俚语,意思是“出毛病、 陷于混乱、兴奋得发狂、精神失常”。


  在词组go haywire里,haywire可不是“捆绑干草的铁丝”。Haywire第一次出现在19世纪的新英格兰,当时的马夫发现可以用捆绑干草的铁丝做一些临时的修补工作,虽然这是马夫聪明的发现,但是这种方法只是一种权宜之计,所以haywire就逐渐有了“临时的、效率低的”意思。


  到了20世纪早期,haywire的意思就扩展成可以形容任何公司和经营是“组织混乱的”和“不能正常工作的”。后来它也可以用来形容人,意思是“疯狂的”。









学英语单词
abstract universal
alluviation
arundinella hirta
bear fat
benzil osazone
bipertite
boiler bottom plate
cacosmis
cadots
calorimeter
chaenopses
coefficient reflection
come and
constant of the motion
covenant to pay
cross tube boiler
damage modes and effect analysis
Debaryomyces
Diezma
discrete event system model
disk-type pinion cutter
distribution moments
doughnut cities
downlow
drug user
endure
engineering plastic(s)
enterolactone
epitopal
equalizing bogie
excommunication
exonerees
extension of sentence
fibre optic guidance missile
flexor membranes
for Chrissakes
foredoes
glass ceramic melter
gluten feed
grease lubricator
haws
hold a torch for
homocentric pencil of rays
hot-spot monitor
huntington b.
ironwire
kilogram calories
laczs
Leith
LeMay Range
lemelin
liceat
lightweight grader
lucidin
luis
lyme-disease
Mac-Lane system
Mesher
metal marker tag
molluskicide
multivariate innovations algorithm
Normannite
octachedral research satellite
overhead servicing vehicle
paleoichnologists
Palo Blanco
paragastrula
peak-to-trough ratio
phase, out-
pitch diameter gauge
pivot leaf gate
plasmolysis permeability
Puccinia asparagilucidli
rapateaceaes
rare alkali
rated restoring voltage
Ratsnake
rosseter
rubba
sand storage bin
sangen
seegar
self report scale
semi-permanents
sphingol
stop posts for towline
successor of node
sur
tail of pancreas
throgmortons
tight money policies
Tranxene
tundra bog
turbine power
typed
Tégua I.
unable to help
uninstrumental
uranographer
volumetric snow sampler
welfare capitalism
wildlife