时间:2019-01-26 作者:英语课 分类:英语单词荟萃


英语课

今天学的词组是brace 1。作为动词,brace有做好准备应对压力或危险的意思。 比如美国国会中期选举之前, 共和党人意识到可能会失去七到三十个众议院席位, "They braced 2 for the loss of seven to 30 seats in the House of Representatives."


感恩节前夕,美国人纷纷乘飞机回家团聚,就跟中国人回家过年一样。美国各大机场因此增加了服务人员。 "They braced for the crush of holiday flying," -- 准备对付空运高潮的压力。当然,旅客们也要准备排长队通过安全检查, "Passengers will have to brace themselves for longer lines." 今天学的词组是brace....


 



n. 支柱,曲柄,大括号; v. 绷紧,顶住,(为困难或坏事)做准备
  • My daughter has to wear a brace on her teeth. 我的女儿得戴牙套以矫正牙齿。
  • You had better brace yourself for some bad news. 有些坏消息,你最好做好准备。
adj.拉牢的v.支住( brace的过去式和过去分词 );撑牢;使自己站稳;振作起来
  • They braced up the old house with balks of timber. 他们用梁木加固旧房子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The house has a wooden frame which is braced with brick. 这幢房子是木结构的砖瓦房。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
activeduty
antireflection film
apportionment of revenues
Atkalization
BCU
beam distance
beit jala
blow-in
bounded closed set
brake linings
broken home
byrd
chassin
circuit close
cognitive model
coherency function
concurrent input/output
conscienceless
consumer advocate body
contemporization
copper bush
crack path
crispins
damaging range
desired signal
diaphragm barometer
directors and officers liability insurance
Eastern Bengali
extended characters
finite splitting gield
flounce out
flour ageing
for decision
giant crab
give a good fit to
Glover's tower
haemangiopericytoma
heavy-duty vehicle
hinge theorem
invest in an enterprise
jet spread
khaha
klephts
La Yesca
lace suture
Lajosmizse
larval plague
lay perception
longterm credit market
luminescent emission spectrum
LZM(lysozyme)
marketing materials
micrometer instrument
millia
non-attainments
nonnumeric
office action
old englishes
opening shop
ouargla
panamanian monetary units
parametric converter
parryings
pellequers
pinch back
presigmoid approach
prime line
program interruption element
promenade deck
qiu chuji
quadrible
razoxane
renal excretion of drug
rohlfing
rotary spreader
seal with
segment support
serpent-charmer
short-term memory
species composition
stamp
surse
symmetric eyepiece
T-engine
tail-pole
tamquam
Timbalier Bay
took pains
trangrams
tropicalize
turn Queen's evidence
uk band
Ukolka
undersea light cable
unrecoverable transaction
unsharp image
urorosein test
variable-speed pump
vomiters
wash an a blackamoor white
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