时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


英语课

今天我们要学的词组是against the grain。 Grain是谷子,不过在这里,grain指的木材的纹理。木工都知道,刨木头一定要顺着木材的纹理;"You cannot polish wood against the grain." 作为习惯用语,against the grain有违背心愿、令人不满的意思。


美国共和党保守派一向反对堕胎和同性恋。可是有意参加2008年大选的纽约市前市长、共和党人Rudolph Giuliani既支持堕胎,也主张保障同性恋权利。媒体报道说,"Giuliani goes against the grain," 意思是说Giuliani的立场同保守派的观点格格不入 。不过Giuliani的支持率目前领先于其他共和党候选人。今天我们学习的词组是against the grain...



学英语单词
abnormal setting
Afsluitdijk
air supply hose
aircraft accessary
alighting area (ala)
anchor (type)agitator
atlit (athlit)
bake into
barite rose
bedhead
bench tunnel portal
brunell
by the run
canales nervi petrosi superficialis minoris
Cannonsburg
cavilon
charges paid
choice list
choice menus
chronicle play
cineangiographic
coathangers
coill
communication data processor
compressed solar wind
copolyoxymethylene
cortical center
crackproof
crawl tread tractor
current dollar estimates
drain cistern
drain steam trap
dystopia canthorum
El Caudillo
electrically controlled regulation
electronic display
error probability classification
ethoxybenzaldehyde
feeler arm
first species rule
fixed contact connection
fixed hair
flashing light alarm
floating construction
forward-propagation network
gelsons
Global Limitation
go somebody one better
gradation for surface pollution
heat barriers
heavy duty bearing
hogrel
horizontal shift control
hypergraph
Hāshemābād
index head slide
international classification of disease codes
kilomaser
lombards
marking percentage
medfly
metzel
mine static head
moving bed adsorber
musculi helicis major
mush-melon
natural inner product
non-interacting binary
nucleus ventralis thalami posterior
open to debate
operating characteristic (oc) curve
orbitonometr
paramyotonia congenita
Plymoute rock
pommel
prearranged
proceedings for revision
processor-sharing algorithm
radula japonica
retractable drive unit
Roblett
Saluki
sharkskin pahoehoe
sheer off
Sherwood,Robert (Emmet)
silver storm
single-station system
solution tree
squishers
stabilisings
stern-faced
Sunday Mirror
sympiezometer
the catherine wheel
trade bank
transposed conductor
uffdah
unculpable
unimix
Vanilon
visual astrophotometry
whipping top