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
Angry Young Men
asbestos packing sheet
attended frontier station
Aubonne
automatic vending
bahiana
bank exchange memo
bank martin
Bart.
beliefe
bend the rules
better-behaved
boyle-charlie's law
Braiqaa
branch store
burning of bit
cardguide
cellulous
census-taking registration
centre differential
cockle-burr crystals
combined protective and neutral conduct
commencement of fuel delivery
compact connected Lie group
components factory
compound option
cone-type pole face
Darrow, Clarence
doubly plunging fold
dual jobholder
energy yielding reaction
entrada
family xenopodidaes
fasko
FIFR
fluoro complex
glass lizards
guest workers
guide fin
half number
harikaris
have a child
hawtrey
high temperature strength test
high-centre
Hope, Anthony
individual design
industrial growth
inhibitory coating
intermediate charged vector boson
La Magdalena
local state-operated enterprises
macro-image
massing
measuring indication system
milling pit
moulded goods
Murraya
neuroethologist
non-recurring profit
nonegalitarians
nonspecific protein therapy
out of the common road of
outlook for
oxipurinol
parklike
particular of applicant
passenger car equivalent?
pension pot
petroleum product
pillow structure
pin-gout
podilfen
popova
precise forming
procision
Ramus sinus carotici
reactive current component
recursive procedure
rotary cutting assembly
sagoes
saic
sasabe
scatter rug
secousse
separatical
slapped cheek syndrome
solder short
spark plug pliers
spindle traverse
St-Martin-Boulogne
syc
symptomatic disease
systemic selection
tablespaces
Tendre, Mt.
Toll House cookie
tubercullnic acid
unicity
wide-field
wonderingly
xtc