时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


英语课

今天要学的一个词是:sideline。按字面理解,sideline就是旁边的线。这么说也没错,因为sideline实际上就是指靠边。报导说:"President Bush... must...sideline his domestic agenda to focus on world events." 也就是:布什总统必须集中注意力在世界事务上,把国内问题搁置一边。


Sideline也可以指副业。要是我们说: John is a teacher but sidelines as a pianist in a band。意思就是:John 是一个老师,但是在一个乐队里弹钢琴作为副业。很多美国人除了正式工作外还有一个,甚至两个副业。Many Americans have one or even two sideline occupations.今天的每天一词是sideline...



学英语单词
acetobutylicum
adverse drug events
after - sale service department
akasic
angelism
anorchus
answering machine
antipodists
antipyrino-caffeinum citricum
auto-Transfusion
Axenfeld's test
Bashir
black-on-black
bolometric method
Bolshevize, bolshevized
Burry Inlet
chopper spectrophotometer
clotbusters
combination carrier
complementary MOS integrated circuit
consolatory
critical magnetic flux density
Current Coupon
decline of water table
detonation wave
diareses
direct coupling system
direito
Doppler navigation system
dot speed
eacc
ECE
Edwin Drood
efficiency expert
electron-pair production
ever-handy
fancy for
feigned issue
fjord oceanography
flax dodder
fordist model
full-louvered door
functional assembly
further development
genus batrachosepss
genus Helipterum
group incentive plan
haulered
home-repair
icteric phthisis
indexlink
infidels
international liquidity units
Isocainide
isogredient
Jewified
longitude difference
major conjugate arc
man made satellite
means of fastening
megahenry
Middendorfa, Mys
minister of economic affairs
Morro, R.
NEC necessary
nonvascular organisms
nuculana husamaru
overlay contact
parameter model
pop-up missile
Pulindas
pump surging
relative degree of development
Republic of Finland
Richard Haldane
running set
Rupert
Ruppia maritima
sack trucks
safety colour
sanitoriums
satellite position
seven-card stud
shaped joist
shoot-em-up
singularity line
splittail
step up n.
superintending
supersalts
swine rearing
talipes planus
Tintigny
transprosed
uncollegiate
ungroup
value broker
waive sb off
X-Machine
You never know your luck.
zinc dichromate