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...



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account items
action projects
aim
all-flying tail
antenna feed system
arms
automatic event
azithromycin
balls about
Balvano
Bay City
bergylts
Bermudian mainsail
bippie
bochy
by-passers
calimator
cathode loop
cerous metaphosphate
chreaster
Chuvashskiy Suskan
content sponsorship
continuous-beam linac
continuous-cooling transformation diagrams
control valve closure
counterdeception
cow-huby
csapo
delay Doppler mapping
disprins
docking accommodation
double liabilities
dynamometer cars
eggplant bush
facesheet
fiorinia japonica
for safety
foundherentism
free reel
frimkess
gill-net
gimson
glowing avalanche
gotten away with
gray earth
head drag coefficient
hecto-gram
holographic technology
hose bundle
Hwa-byung
hydro-peening
ill-proportioned
Isoroku Yamamoto
Keiem
Kojah
laser variables measurement
likemindedness
Mandeali
menuing software
non-contingent preference stock
Normanby I.
own-price elasticity
owyn
Pal(a)eobotany
paper-pencil
Piptadenieae
plaster casting
put one's feet down
quinoyl
radiochemical processing plant
rat out
rate of shorts
recursive procedure for generating binary tree
replicative symbol
round tuit
rubber pot head
Say, Thomas
seashore drilling
secpar
sheriffdoms
sodium copper(ii) sulfate
sometimes
stage-doors
static assignment
sumen
sunagrel
supersulphated cement
throw sb off the scent
Timbuktu
tongolense
tongue wedge
total nitrogen in seawater
trabecular vein
upsoaring
uterine orifice
vacation plan
weak as a cat
white heats
woodblock floor
zip-out
zoellick
zorillos