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
a tea fight
abdominal amniocentesis
acera
air-orifice
Alongside port!
alphabetic sorter
ampullae ossea lateralis
Annamitella
as expiry
atoll texture
aviolite
believism
belly button
bindable
cardholder certificate
caricature
charitablenesses
chlorine damage
chondriome
coding monochrome image
collective theft
common accumulation fund
compsognathids
concave volume
contour line map
contract of hire of labour and services
corrugated steel
Coussac
creases
cuscuss
darer
dei stock
directed cloning
Dom. Rep.
drakhtik (tokhludzha)
drawing induced losses
dynamic infrared spectrometry
economic benefit cost ratio
electrothermal recorder
ether acid
exclusivity windows
exfuse
extrusion container
fadeproof
femur fracture
field of coefficients
flush hydrant
flush weld
forebodement
Friedrichroda
ghostship
gingivites
God bless your heart !
Griessen
Hamming weight
hayleys
Horezmian
Indonesia
jet engine thrust
knock sb.'s head off
Larix gmelinii Rupr. ex Kuzen.
logolepsy
Lyndon Johnson
maximum firing pressure
Nakshatra
neutron backscatter
nolanda
non-contractual claims
one-bits
part family
peacemin
pericarpium zanthoxyli schinifolii
petty expenses analysis book
polyundecamethylene alcohol
process load change
put someone to the blush
racing homer
radio autopilot coupler
rear-wheel-drives
relief drinking
resistance test in waves
rpsl
saddle backed girder
sari
Serica
shielded cave facility
Sloan letter
spunnest
squeeze pack
steelmakings
stinking smut
Strücklingen
targeting sequence
to wet
tropical air (mass)
Warner Robins
wattanas
Way Archipelago
wna
wound from chisel
wrongful-death
zipped it