时间:2019-01-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语单词荟萃


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
5-methyl-5-trimethylstannylpyridine
acetylomes
afms
agent-based software engineering
al ashmunayn
Alprazolan
ambler super draft unit
antiscarlet fever globuling
apple pomace
Argasoid
aural detector
ballwin
basic amino acid
bassia butyracea
bear away the bell
bottlehead
Bou Ali
bundle of fuel elements
cackerel
camgasite
circle l
cold reserving
consortium
continuous clasp
crup butt
crystal-plane slip
de-materialisation
dinucleophile
Domdaniel
economy - class syndrome
endopterygotes
european standard
extreme case sampling
family Staphylinidae
flowability of concrete
forward stroke of the piston
front bumper arm
genus Muscivora
geotropically
gosle
graffitied
green fringed orchiss
gunnel share
heater exchange
heavy wall drill pipe
heptene
HMASE
hooked
iliopubic tract
inductance transducer
investigatory witness
Kija
Kompong Krassang, Stung
lamination corrosion
level one variable
livingnesses
livingstone daisies
loses touch with
Malarone
Malva sylvestris L.
micro-to-mainframe
misjoin
monochrome voltage
Montfortians
net excitation
nival surface
noncompetent
numerical values stability
offer to sell
oil loading by pumping
one bath dyeing
Pabx, private automatic branch exchange.
perpendicular pronoun
plug type connector
production language symbols
pseudocercospora blumeae
radiomutant
replay program
RESTful service
rip-reyue
scamming
set coal
silver rule
singis
single-phase critical flow
soma
stationary open-hearth furnace
steam proof
structural reforms
three-axis simulator
to continue
Torodal
transfer-roller
translational displacement
trepan borer
tuggage
turn sth out
unsulfated
valve stem clearance
Viburnum foetidum
went to excess
yamum