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
androgen binding protein (abp)
antipyrine chloral
artery of the vestibule bulb
askelia
at the gate
Auchenorrhyncha
backsets
be a mess
bow charging cranee
bun tin
burn to a cinder
burnetizing
cargo tank location
central-meridian transit
centre of form
Chayatyn, Khrebet
chemical formation
chordotomies
completed cycle of erosion
cork pipe covering
criticality approach curve
cyberrelationship
cyclotide
data reduction and distribution
dumetella carolinenses
electroextraction
equalizing brake lever
excell tester
faanfiction
ferrous sulfocyanide
file extent
flow bean choke
For the love of Pete
freight allowance
frozen meat hasher
gerocomium
groove cam
haemocytometry
hand-held
heems
hemocytolysis
highpowered lidar
horatio walpoles
hyperthreaded
image roll
imaginary chorea
industrial complex
inside-coated can
internal coincidence
interosseous ligation
John-a-stiles
keng
koldflo
l-m
laterifolious
legal regularity audit
line coupling
lower echelon automatic switchboard
mapping IR-system
metathomsonite
miltonberger
mine-clearings
mycoparasitism
naths
no load fund
non-reusable routine
Northern Telecom
ornithopoda
orthoscopic
oyster
path velocity accuracy
phrase search
pine families
praecordia
resection in space
ruthenium(ii) chloride
Sanicula elongata
scarted
SCVC
seignioralties
self aligning porous bearing
separation of viscus
shankless die
shsesrs-s
siderograph
sodium olerate
spell-check
still batch
subcalibre
synthal
tatterss
thermocouple voltmeter
trops
unsub
unwearied
urano-organic ore
user's business
vinculum breve
volatile memory
womanist
worst hot case
Zhoushan Islands