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
abrade wear
Acridotheres tristis
ADDR
appetency
astronometrical
azolidine
backlifts
bed covers
bennzobutamine
betjemen
chlorotrifluorogermane
chord width of barrel vault
clytius
cmitosis
continum mechanics
continuous current at locked rotor
dance theatre workshop
davil
deviation frequency
direct applicability
Disappointment, L.
discharge rated
disparator
Donatists
economic sciences
elisir
encipherment
enrichments
ethnica
excitotoxity
forge test
gas-masked
gauge pin
generation of random number
glad to see you
Grand Cul de Sac Marin
grenet cell
Guafo Fracture Zone
import freight and insurance a/c
in ... degree
ingrassia
integrated management function
interarch distance
ionizing collision
jolled
kappanensis
killer game
kurf
lazy loading
leopard-print
loopholing
makavitza (ukraine)
marine incinerator-boiler composite plant
Mauretania Caesariensis
medicated pencil
microbeats
microcentrifuging
minimum fatal low temperature
mixed melting
moderately skew distribution
National Steel Corporation
nudge
occupancy distribution
octoestrol
of grace
open list approach
over-budget
partial retirements
phenolic alcohols
philanthrocapitalism
polystichalbin
privately owned vessel
Productella
Pteridinae
quickeyed
received for shipment b/l
Remolinos
ripple-carry adder
sea-sickness
Serazide
Sligh number
spumification
standard labour rate
sterile chamber
sulfur fungus
telecommunication engineering
telecommunication terminal
to-and-fro method
tool post wrench
total solution time
tryptazan
tycoons
Unipyranamide
vitelline duct cyst
wage-determination
water-tight riveting
weak identifiability
web farms
wiping off
with intent to defraud
write enable driver
ycs