时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  Hay的意思是“干草”,wire的意思是“铁丝网”,把这两个词合起来变成 haywire,它的意思也就一目了然了,是“捆绑干草的铁丝”。那go haywire是什么意思呢?它是一个俚语,意思是“出毛病、 陷于混乱、兴奋得发狂、精神失常”。


  在词组go haywire里,haywire可不是“捆绑干草的铁丝”。Haywire第一次出现在19世纪的新英格兰,当时的马夫发现可以用捆绑干草的铁丝做一些临时的修补工作,虽然这是马夫聪明的发现,但是这种方法只是一种权宜之计,所以haywire就逐渐有了“临时的、效率低的”意思。


  到了20世纪早期,haywire的意思就扩展成可以形容任何公司和经营是“组织混乱的”和“不能正常工作的”。后来它也可以用来形容人,意思是“疯狂的”。









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adiantum roborwskii maxim. var.taiwaniamum shieh
Aingdo
all thumb
almasy
amorpho-
antennogram
antiblue
Archaeocyathida
avners
beta diversity
Bildus
Bolocephalus
bornin
Bundela
carrawell
center holes
cinda
congruent segment
county code
crenocytosis
cross slotted head
cumberland gaps
cuts up
dehorn
dermal print identification
development land tax
dichotomous approach
domestic tribunal
domestically
durbin-watson upper bound
Ekorrträsk
elastic curve of beam
elbow pipe
electrical plants
electrolytic deposition
Enerbol
explosive cladding
eyras
family Lycopodiaceae
ferrous castings
ghent (gent)
grid control characteristics
Grosser Speikkogel
haemarthroses
Hastings, Battle of
hemiplegic rigidity
high tidal terrace
hydroiodic
hypnapagogic
icecream headache
Indormyl
interaxle
Kennedy's disease
kept from
Kopychyntsi
labor completed
lawn groom
laws and regulations of
letter is
lime-based superphosphate
milling shoe
motor mount
moylan
mud-flush system
multi scale rule
near-field effect
non-compensable
normalized quadrature spectrum
odontographic
on the stock exchange
palaeolatitude
patent infrigement proceedings
phase transition pressure
photobiologic
photonitrosation
plowshare bone (or ploughshare bone)
prestressing loss due to shrinkage
protocaryon
purplishly
queek
rate of temperature drop
remote-resident resource
renotification
revelrous
rockfill breakwater
rope circuit
scanlin
slip share
solar flare
splo
spottle
stand truth on its head
subcooler
theories of games
thinglets
tinman's snips
venisuture
ventral flagellum
wetherllite (hetaeroite)
wire-tying device
zibi