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 fine day for the young ducks
a priori assumption
acetoacetyl-CoA
active-adult
Ambahita
anode circuit
Antiaris toxicaria Lesch.
approach trestle
as safe as houses
Aubiet
babelizes
bank of tail
be under treatment
biennial programming
blendstocks
bonderite
boyi
bulldoze one's way
calling name
capacitive n-terminal element
China-root
circoceles
climacters
coequalizer
coinboxes
combination scale
complementizers
cuyamite
Dagami
dandis
deviation to left
disputator
douf
draw screw
Eckart-Young factor analysis
facial nerve repair
family Diaspididae
findeth
Ghent University
griffith-joyner
hatch grating
haulmy
heptyl amine
histioblast
Houghton Lake
hydraulic generator
hyperrecombination
impact (and) extruded can
intensive therapy
japanese gray shark
KLOFFE
Konakri, Konakry
Laguneta, R.
lancet plate
Late Sinian epoch
microcystic adnexal carcinoma
monocrats
neronis
nichola
nonconvertible bonds
nonsessile
not simply connected
oath-helpers
odalisks
parametric command
Pedicularis humilis
phyllanthoside
plain shed
pore pressure
pressure balance workover rig
privileged data communication region
QRH
quarter-pipes
radial milling machines
ranges of motion
rechipped
reedified
regnancy
river buoy
RMA (random multiple access)
selfgoverning
semi-rigid board
siderophils
solution polymerization
somatodendritic synapse
space port
spheric connection
submersible motor pump
synapsing
telescopic drill rod
the senior
thermoelectromagnet
trads
trivirostra hordacea
tumble-dryers
two-tube electronic lens
vegetable market
victoria lawn
Windmill Hill
Yanjing
ypsilon
zoaria