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
air bubble curtain
anthracite coal
Arixtra
Assonet
auxiliary note
aviation medical examiners (ames)
bell hanger's gimlet
Bhabhan
branching switch board
Bufonidae
CDings
Cenepa, R.
central refrigerating
ceratoid
cerian
Chamaecytisus
chasmanthinine
city sanitation measures
combination entropy
computer operation package
cross and resident assembler
Crown Agents
disillude
distrustiness
dokdas
down-strokes
drill lathe
EDTW
emergency dewatering system
family tytonidaes
floatation analysis
giant coccid
glass house
hallerman
HawkDoveBourgeois model
heart-headed tapeworm
hemicellulase
hemophillin
hepatic segments
Holectypus
hugemongous
human resources model
illegally cross the national border
interconnected stabilizer/elevator (ise)
LGK.
low pressure filter
lower main shield(ing)
Mabein
machine diagram
marine mussels
material price for estimation
muis
neutral gene
off hook
one-fortieth
peak hold amplifier
peak let-through characteristic curve
peritectic reaction
Piazofolina
poetdom
pre-mixing combustion
pressure ice foot
pseudochancre
quaternate
RBC autohemolysis test
real topological linear space
receiver-scanner
residual emission
ripple laminae inphase
romita
sampling techniques
Scottish Lallans
second conjugate space
self surrender
self-potential difference
Serocillin
sign converter
slipcover
sluggish turnover
small claims
static barrier
succinanilide
t-b
tetartohedral pentagonal dodecahedron
Tetrahydroaminoacridine
tfiiias
tfimyristin
tics
transmittals
trash separator
trick out
twithought
two-sided effect
ulath
vinyl n-butyl ether
war cries
water-soluble fluid
weighing belt
Wharton reaction
wheel lock gun
white cement powder
yanking