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
acetic thiokinase
agreed upon remedies
animal products
antirust lacquer
armstands
attended with
balloon knots
Baraawe
Bet your bottom dollar
binding on all parties
bizzounces
brocken-joint tile
broken windows
buttered someone up
buyer and supplyer contract
calfam
callo
cargo oil tank gas pressure indicator
caryophyllenes
CD tray
chemical sedimentology
chimney attenuator
circleville
clapier
commd.
credit points
dikoes
Doppler-free spectroscopy
DQCM
eigenmodal
Elatostema omeiense
emergency measures
Engler distillation flask
executive agreement
fair uses
fenestral recess
flow characteristic
frack
g.r.m.
ghesses
gowra
groma
harbour service
hargraves
He laughs best who laughs last
hospitalize
humping movement
industries process control system
infelicity
inter macro instruction
intercepted length
Khenifra
kilo ampere
labachevsky space
land-surfaces
Leersia
lemelson
liverwarst
loan value
logarithmic phase
man-years
mill glazed paper
Mini-pe
nabeel
nano-satellite
natural numerical order
Novyy Belyy Yar
oesophagofiberoscopy
pan-Indian
Paraquilegia
pickup electrode
Piperaverm
pitch angle redistribution
posterior gray commissure
principle of flexibility
rapid departure
rebraiding
recording counter
reduction sensitization
scyllite
sesquicentenarians
sharewares
shipping shock
Sinia
spanning tree algorithm
surface map
target-sighting apparatus
therfore
topgrowth
toto
transperson
up-draught drying fan
urea-treated silage
vane shear test
wall radial drill
waylay
well-defined bubble
what's your game
wrochtin
x ray diffraction microscopy
xuyen
zeichner