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”。









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acrylic-primed
aerial sprayer
alfresco
Arzgirskiy Rayon
automobile-carrier
background discrimination
barless
bartleby
bean drill
Bernsteinian
Betistin
body wheel
bozzies
carry logic
cascaiss
chemistry of gum formation
chinese herbs
chubbed
cleggan
commercializing human relations
concentricity strategy
cubing rolls
curative effect
Cónico, I.
decapitate
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dighter
electricity expenses
electrolytics
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full stock
gangrene of digit
gentlebeing
gironniera yunanensis hu
helm bar
heteroskedastic
Hollywoodize
hussain
hydroride
image coordinates
inactive insect
incompounded
indanones
inducibilities
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job design
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learner's dictionary
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longest-lasting
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multiphase charge-coupled device
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muslem
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open free
oral whiff
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potamologist
potential vortex field
quadrefoil
quick make-and-break contact
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random-access
re-trained
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resistance breaker
rhyodiabasic texture
road finisher
scale breaking rolls
Scrutonian
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stable resonator
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typhoeuss
underlapped
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