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
.ae
Adler test
airtight steel shell
alkali resisting cellulose
assay bar
astronomic parallel
atake
Bagridae
bald wheat
bioreduce
black-eyed bean
blc.
bonferronis
bromochloroethane
ceasars
Cheju-haehyop
cod line
coercive remoulding
collecting company
communication terminal module controller
complement on ten
crater-face
customs union
d'aquila
data independence access model
defrost pan
Dithane M45
Eriocranioidea
ethluke
european championship
fixing bolt
fly-wheel diode
fringed fibril
get over
giveoff
Ha Giao, Song
hazes over
hearing loop
heterocyclic radical
Hollywoodite
hysteresis heat
immediate-action fuze
immunoluminometric
in closure
indriya
integration unit
intermediate angle
Keemun
kikuchi envelope
Kuurne
leefe
libbert
line sweep circuit
Marshall facies
melanosity
methyl isobutyrate
moreau rivers
muckerish
multiple-feed network
national standard reference data system (nsrds)
nil dicit
nitrogenous hormones
nonobsessive
nuclear magnetic alignment
oil products
operations function
panisidine
Petern's diet
phase preequalization
play-
preferential trading agreement
pteropodids
puccinelli
radiometric reflectance
reconjoined
reconnoiterers
reproachingly
reticulaphis fici
rheophytes
rivkind
Saraktashskiy Rayon
scroll painting
scum blow-off cock
self verification
sensation of tone
shin-kicking
skokholm
slot opening
spearshafts
standard 2
straight hair
syntacticising
thorium decay series
trafficability map
transcuprein
transparent liquid level gauge
verb group structure
VOLMET broadcast
wailzeant
well-executed
winings
zettaampere