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
a pot
accretion column
alloimperatorine
Amerindianize
assignment model
ATC
barefooting
be eligible for
be lost without something
bebathing
bipolar mask bus
break-thrust
bucher
central controlled
change-maker
cleirach
clypeomorus brevis
connecting membrane
copper zinc accumulator
Dawes, Charles Gates
demixing effect
dielectric dissipation fraction
dirt-proof boot
disprivacied
economy quotient
electron-positron interaction
euphorbia pepluss
family Ostreidae
Fatundu
ferrous metaphosphate
fifteenths
folferain
free traffic flow
gaseous radwaste system
genestatic
geochemical enrichment
going plant
goulds
gyra
harans
haulm shredder
heliotrope B
hem wave
horizontal stadia
ice fogs
implicit representation
internal thermometer
Kramer's rule
last-mill juice
Lengfeld
lienunculus
Loss or Damage Caused by Wave
low assay
M.S.Geol.E.
magnetaq colour
male sex characteristics
megalophobia
milli-ampere
multi-business
MULTICS
naskhi
non-commercial foreign exchange division
non-healings
olindo
oxonium form
paddle balance
phase-locked system
pivottable starting cell
pocket bikes
poked borack
Porson
product licence
production process control
proehl
purulently
rake over
Rhinolar-EX
salping-
saltproof
Santa Catalina, Ensenada de
Sardica
sea-routine
secondary focussing
single-leg propeller strut
sour odour
stand on one's right
star roller
tachylyte basalt
Tczew
Tmt
tonal pattern
uncurably
vincadiffine
Wedekindellina
winsomest
world modeling
world-shaker
WWSD
xanthogenation
yaw rate
youngies
Z propeller