时间:2019-01-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语单词荟萃


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
7-Methylcoumarin
algebraist
all gear drive
antixi particle
apricot tree
association of hooligans
atb
atrial reciprocal rhythm
audit trial
bacteroid cell
banded tubes
bivicon
bombasines
buttress brace
capillary percolation
chain transfer agent
condensate receiver
confirming margin
congrument
controllable variance
craboid
crack cocaine
ctenoid
dactylitis tuberculosa
deep water berths
descriptive pedagogy
ding into
directly reduce
emergency shutdown of wind turbine
energy security
eupatorium aya-panas
fault processing module
fixigena
fool's
foul foot
Freienohl
galvanized steel plain sheet
gammaglobulins
GET1/2
globular pearbite
grasping reflex
hausikus
hearing loss
hemorrhagio peritonitis
high-pressure assembly
housebuilders
hydrolytic tank
hyperlymphocytosis
international quotation of price
joint adventure
kidoodle
Knott's equation
kurma
library of subroutine
lillo
linear pulse filter
Logiparin
MacDonald Downs
macro substitution
medium pressure servo-motor
memory manager
merchant of the steelyard
minge
mnemonic address
moist gangrene
monobrachial
Mārāmura
newslike
noncircular head
orgya
pacta vestita
peak sound power
photoetch(ing)
Phyllagathis calisaurea
plasma-torrhexis
rastadada
reheating turbine
rock sequence
rocksavage
sack packer
schuerholz
secondary finder
Septicol
shop for something
shoulder-holsters
sonarlike
sporterizing
standard rated output
sternomastoid line
strictness
stridency
terpinum
the deer hunter
tougor pressure
tube shield
useful water capacity
Venula macularis inferior
view-finder
waterless moulding sand
wind crack
ytmnd