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
abnormal patency of eustachian tube
acid spoil
Adamatic
Aegopodium henryi
anatis
asrv
auxiliary flight control
bandolierwise
beldongrite
Biett's disease
bleed the monkey
bridge safety system
butterfly-shell clam
canne
casting lug
cawthornes
cervicolumbar phenomenon
clearers solvent
colletotrichum higginsianum sacc.
conducting coating
cooperative learning
cottown
current production rate
Didolodontidae
Dimphenol
diurgin
druckers
dual layer
dumb craft
employment application
error detection-correction capability
euborellia plebeja
evernimicin
family-level
FIFO storage
filamentous actin
Firewall.
fluid rotor gyroscope
forthlooks
Francis Bacon
galinasso
gastrostomy
grating diaphragm
heart is in your mouth
helgafells
hignett
hilus pulmonic beat
horizontal differentiation
host connection facility
hyperbaric oxygen ation
international discord
isochronal error
Kashifuji
kila drosh (drosh)
Kiruna
labor worker
lagginghalf axle
langerin
light rails
localities
m-aminophenol
make ourselves cheap
market reform
meet the challenges
Mildenhall
miniaturized completion
modified milk
MONODACTYLIDAE
needn't do
non-monopolies
orthorexic
pajor
pilot jack
porwiggle
Post machine
protective package
Pternopetalum caespitosum
purple-hooded orchis
reguerdon
retaping
Riyām
serial number code
share load
silent miscarriage
single sideband transmitter
single-row spherical roller
smoothshell
space writing
spooling operator privilege class
Stenoseris leptantha
stylets
subtheme
subtropical forest
sundew plant
the open
trachelocyrtosis
unmeritedness
Va (vacuum)
velocity sieving
weight bulk ratio
whigged
yee ha