时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


英语课

今天我们要学的词组是against the grain。 Grain是谷子,不过在这里,grain指的木材的纹理。木工都知道,刨木头一定要顺着木材的纹理;"You cannot polish wood against the grain." 作为习惯用语,against the grain有违背心愿、令人不满的意思。


美国共和党保守派一向反对堕胎和同性恋。可是有意参加2008年大选的纽约市前市长、共和党人Rudolph Giuliani既支持堕胎,也主张保障同性恋权利。媒体报道说,"Giuliani goes against the grain," 意思是说Giuliani的立场同保守派的观点格格不入 。不过Giuliani的支持率目前领先于其他共和党候选人。今天我们学习的词组是against the grain...



学英语单词
accretion learning
alternate overarm stroke
anisotropic viscosity
assembly production orders
Bagnoles-de-l'Orne
be on the outlook for
Benford's law
block parity
Bromus rigidus
close harbor
colias erate formosana
compositional maturity
cotvalue
currying work
Dayi kilns
Demodex bovis
Derrylea
destrain
discharge counduit
distance of take off run
echapp? sur les pointes
edo memory
efficient score test statistic
electronic chronometic techometer
eutrophic wastewater
flameproof enclosure motor
flavenol
froppish
gas-solid chromatograph
gausie
gavan
geophagias
grid-like
grievous crime
gross proceeds of sales
haulage by train
head-chief
hemarthros
high temperature shor-time pasteurization
high-level output voltage
hybridogenic
hymenocephalus lethonemus
i-sowe
ice-cream-cone
impleasing
infectious bulbar paralysis
internal segment
jet attachment
laser writer
Laukāhi
lienterics
liquid core optical fiber spectrophotometry
lone electron
long-playing
maneuvering acceleration
Mauth
Meneng Dist.
methylglucamine diatrizoate
minocycline(antibacterial)
miscellaneous fees
moco cotton
model based vision
naphthacridinedione
Niedersachswerfen
one-stars
pattern path
peschka
Pescombi
phaeophycean tannin
photometrists
pipe gauge
plazana
postpermenant teeth
pressure boundary
psyra cuneata matsumurai
pulvini
remitting bank
rolling ball
safe management of ship
sand drift observation
skipper butterfly
square-head nut
sub-greenschist
sugar melter
tape control system
tape select switch
template-switch
tetramerism
Thaddaeus
thermally-bonded nonwoven fabric
true anthrax
truss column
type of economic organization
ultrasonic linear image diagnosis device
undecillions
uranyl hydroxide
Villa Iris
waistbands
xylosazone
zander's cell