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
A4/A6 ratio of humic acid
acoustic music
acquired jejunoileum diverticulum
Alangium
allowable fishing season
Ambohibe
antecessour
antennarius
Artacaminae
autocue
bait formulation
basic military route network
be going places
Beccari's membrane
Bochaine
campuses
cataplasmic
Chlorotile
Class Days
class of waterway
complex body
computer integrated
core drying stove (core oven)
cryptic
davydov
DDSA
deerburger
dipole momentum
directed reading activity
dividing plate
East African Harbours Corporation
electroactivities
epeirophoresis
facility work order
forging tools
fork
gain programmed amplifier
Gaultheria trichophylla
GI bride
go counter to
gunter wilhelm grasses
heilbrunn
hemiprism
high-pressure purge
high-pressure tester
highway unit
Horse Heaven Hills
Hudsonian life zone
idf (international distress frequency)
increately
isogametion
item mark
lack of refrigerant
latched in contact
load condenser
mass-coloured dying
Mendoza, Prov.de
network initial condition
nutation disc flowmeter
old campaigner
opiase
ornamentations
orthopantomographic
paellas
parfait glass
Photinia chihsiniana
pirate broadcasting
pneumatic electric relay
pneumonic device
polyether sulphone (PES)
Prinos
propulsion shaft seal
propyla
quasi-distance
remote(-controlled) valve
Rigamycin
safe custody business
safranal
salt screen
San Vito sullo Ionio
sanqul
say ladle
seperate teacher
shearing bushing
sleeve resection of bronchus
southwestern toad
spiderly
stomatocyte
suppl.
tantaluslike
theme-park
to be named later
transferability of cheque
triple valve bracket filler
unbewildered
verligte
wafer-cake
wall jib crane
water softened in boiler
wedding dinner
wheel animacules
yellowish-gray