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
abdominal lymph node
alveolar artery
amphoterotoky
angiospastic constitution
arithmetical mean temperature difference
ashab
Bellarena
biometal
bloomier
carbon content of weld materials
checking credit limits
cinemagraphs
commercial centre
common spraying
communication zone indicator
complementation of a fuzzy set
completable topological group
computed mode
conjunctive transformation
continuous paper
cooling card
Corylopsis
cratoneuron filicinum
dead animal processing plant
denary system
doubly stochastic Poisson process
dunaliella
dutchers
electric riveting machine
european association for dance movement therapy
ex dist.
fabric ribbon
formonitrolic acid
formylmethanofuran
Fuentidueňa
gelatum alumini phosphatis
genus podarguss
Grand Beach
haulm shredder
hazes
hepthylene
hubeite
i-stured
ice-ship
indizating agent
inosanto
interscribed
inward extension
ion
jeopardized
Kafinsa R.
kolenangs
Kumbhalgarh
Kuturiko
launch load
manual starting crank
masamichi
metallurgical survey
mismatched
moon tracking
Neyriz
nonsteroidals
noodged
noyade
one-dimensional character
oopses
order mysidaceas
oriented edge weighted network
ostensive definitions
oxyanthrarufin
paperbased
Paulownioside
pentrazol
phoestine (ph?stine)
photo pyramid
plastic though theory
post-kyoto
power take off pulley
pyrocatechols
raw meat
relatches
sea ivories
Sedum luchuanicum
seed hopper
self-consistent electric field
showbox
slag tuyere
spaewife
Sre Thom
stock removal rate
suetlike
synthetic maps
Taratine, Tizi n'
throat thick
triazepine
two tears in a bucket
undesired carry
Vertebrae lumbares
victoriuss
vinyl-siding
winter cold and winter dry climate