时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  Hay的意思是“干草”,wire的意思是“铁丝网”,把这两个词合起来变成 haywire,它的意思也就一目了然了,是“捆绑干草的铁丝”。那go haywire是什么意思呢?它是一个俚语,意思是“出毛病、 陷于混乱、兴奋得发狂、精神失常”。


  在词组go haywire里,haywire可不是“捆绑干草的铁丝”。Haywire第一次出现在19世纪的新英格兰,当时的马夫发现可以用捆绑干草的铁丝做一些临时的修补工作,虽然这是马夫聪明的发现,但是这种方法只是一种权宜之计,所以haywire就逐渐有了“临时的、效率低的”意思。


  到了20世纪早期,haywire的意思就扩展成可以形容任何公司和经营是“组织混乱的”和“不能正常工作的”。后来它也可以用来形容人,意思是“疯狂的”。









学英语单词
active use
ademption
alcohol-in-glass thermometer
altitude decay
anoxic water
as the proverb is
atomic number 47
autolytic peritonitis
available land
bacteria mesophilic
bennassar
bigmanism
body fluids poisoning
booty bumps
butt hinges
caveator
communal aerial
community respiration
copper - clad steel
cremationism
debug item
define tape file command
denouncer
Desmoscolecida
desoldering
despawn
dishonourable
distribution voltage
enclosed stair well
entitlement table
exchange fluctuation fund
Exclusion of Arrest and Detainment
executive storage area
fling the cap over the windmill
flood current
garbage patch
Gavialis gangeticus
Great Recession
gridler
half-days
hardening of loan terms
harmonic drive
high-yields
hot background
Hydrangea mollis
inguinal ligament (or poupart's ligament)
joad
joint industrial council
komitadji
list of chronological order
local post offices
low voltage insulation
manual grease station
maternal changes in pregnancy
mechanical tapping machine
mental analysis
military radio station
misinclined
montar
needle-shape pulse
norgren
oil saver
omnipresency
optical card
oseberg
outer chiasma
personal consumer
philip warren andersons
photograph axes
portlights
prepared piano
pretextual
pulse-forming amplifier
red balmoral
redifferentiating
RERF
rhacophorids
rollagas
Samnū
sea demaged
sectionmark
sloped beam
small-budget
SONOAM (system on-line network for information control)
spiritualisers
split winding rotor
sublingual ptyalocele
tempering quality
teters
to give birth to...
total power inhomogeneous coefficient
treasure-huntings
tributyrinase
tripping bolster
Vichada
Victan
visual sensation
vived
wainger
waxing gibbous
wind power generation
yokoscensis