时间:2019-02-16 作者:英语课 分类:学个词


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...

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all-metal prevailing torque type nuts
antrum (pl. antra)
atrial lymph gland
attitude parameter
automotive industry
begs
believest
bosonizes
bowerbow frame
Bowron L.
Bozhuritsa
branchiogenic
brittle-bones
bubba
bundling
bylaucte
cascara cordial
catalytic igniter assembly
cellularizations
charginos
cherubimical
chip modem
combination passenger and freight
complementary bistable multivibrator
concurrent operation
contortuplicate
Crucianella
Dalny
decomplement
depletion factor
disseminule type
effective number of turns per phase
Eisenkobalterz
endomose
euthatal
fiber glass laminates
fibroxanthomata
field programmable gate array
glass water gauge
gonytrichum macrocladum
gunracks
haemosaccharometer
hellova
Hypsizigus
keen to purchase
key harbour
krickett
labyrinth cave
lamp characteristics
landowner and despotic gentry
lending and borrowing business
low-noise cathode
LP
margiela
merikanto
milling machine speed dial
moorcraft
motm
Mumsnetter
naval attaches
nil growth economy
pendular robot
pitchboard
plushers
precision lead screw
principal cells
progressive facial atrophy
pseudo-hyperbolic distance
purp
racial death
reduction half-reaction
Retrone
rotatores
rtog
sambars
shawwals
show your ass
slender configuration
spiritual development
stick test
structions
sugar manufacturing
sumbuls
tetraborates
text preparation and processing
thermal flowmeter
track standard
tranh
transaction data set record block
tri-active amylamine
Trinamool
turned up
upsend
vane test
virgin's bower
visible-vertical filing system
voice-ear test
water-gas tar emulsion
yuglon
zero-energy mode