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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ACMI lease
ahrendt
airborne armature
aluminothermic
amyloid deposition
arapaima gigas
Bacillus spongiosus
bending tool
bouquet garni
breakdown switch
card image record
cardiac cirrhosis
cherry blossoms
confidential message read-out
control application
coprocessor arithmetic processor
defenselessly
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dry carbonizing
ear candy
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emberizine
entuning
espedaily
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fast stroke
father of the House
ferrocolumbium tantalum
filtons
fold-top car
four-two-one syndrome
full balanced tree
get one's innings
graphicalities
halles
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hydrostatic(al)
hydroxonium
IFFN
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indirect radiator
industrial dispersal
inferred consent
internally-specified index
inverted amplifier
iodophenylundecylate
key-boards
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linear recurrence sequence
loose head
magnetic fabric
makairas
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methoestrol
national income and product account
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party ticket
paving machine
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plain cast iron share
positive spit
protonix
real essence
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removal of fractured root by flap operation
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