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
absolute head
aerated concrete glue-joint block partition
Alaraz
aldalcoketose
allistatin
ambien
amphibious dredger
amplitude uniformity
aseboquercitrin
aspergillus japonicus japonicus
be past praying for
behavio(u)ral physiology
beledweyne (belet uen)
bring up again
broken link
brokeness
bucket lanyard
cappae
charging capacitor
choice menus
Christmases present
claim-forms
code validity test
collector-distributor lane
color medium
conversion of chair forms
creamlike
crown-in
degree integral
Devonshire tea
Dow.
electrotherm
epibolic gastrula
false lily of the valley
fanapanel
feature story
financial surplus and deficit
first brood of larvae
free f1oat
gray podzolic (wooded) soil
guangdongensis
haploscopic
head sprouting season
hemi-protrusion
idiosomes
indicative(of)
inserted piece
institutions for academic research
integral rehabilitation
intergrated mission control center
interrogation board
Kantai
Kirchdorf an der Iller
Kyllakh
Lazarevskoye
liquid measure
long-set curd
loss of libido
luckhursts
machine for cleaning drain pipe
Mariological
mebane
methyldopa-hydrochlorothiazide
miyake
moonwatcher
neutron induced process
nonmuonic
normal withdrawal sequence
number of ampere turns
PC.
petajoules
phonotelemetry
political contributions
proprioceptive sense loss
pulp cavities
quantity of distillate
radar echo area
radiorelease determination
resources limitation model
Sabero
saligna
sdsisss-s
second-halves
second-order derivative action
self-report personality inventories
semangats
Sheer Thursday
Sittaung
SM2(sulfamethazine)
soli-
supershareholder
tangent planes
tangientially
the top enchilada
tooth crest
torquemeter
trading system
triple-silo complex
veprecula arethusa
youatts
zofia