时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


英语课

今天要学的一个词是:sideline。按字面理解,sideline就是旁边的线。这么说也没错,因为sideline实际上就是指靠边。报导说:"President Bush... must...sideline his domestic agenda to focus on world events." 也就是:布什总统必须集中注意力在世界事务上,把国内问题搁置一边。


Sideline也可以指副业。要是我们说: John is a teacher but sidelines as a pianist in a band。意思就是:John 是一个老师,但是在一个乐队里弹钢琴作为副业。很多美国人除了正式工作外还有一个,甚至两个副业。Many Americans have one or even two sideline occupations.今天的每天一词是sideline...



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Abkhazia
actual mechanism
alkanolamide
anteroposterior position
asa thread symbol
Automatic extension
Bakanae
Barwa
base-boards
build-up of statics
carpometacarpal joint of thumb
case-mounted controller
checkin'
chian
Cipollina's butter
clearance level
coax sb away
cock rocket
common object file format
confusine
consolidated structure
controversial
conveyor guide means
defer to
dilution shock
Dodworth
Doruokha
dynamic function survey meter
electronic blackboard
Elymus junceus
equal altitude circle
extraneous water
Fada, Loch
falsificationist
family Carchariidae
field-meeting
first mile
flavonoid compound
flocculating setting
flying press
Fort Recovery
forward-transfer element
glandulae urethrales urethrae masculinae
globularity
green-ware
happold
histogram flattering
hot chocolates
hydrophyllaceaes
hyperfictional
intuitionalist
Jiamusi
laminar film condensation
lemon-wood tree
lily-fingered
Malvan
master password
mechanical raster scanning type system
melospiza melodias
municipal security
Naeser process
Naranjos
neochondocurarine
nervi trochlearis
non-urgent
Off-axis illumination
olefin fiber
oxidation bleaching
paraaminohippuric acid
paunch (or rumen)
physical liberation
Picea likiangensis
plasmodiums
pollution of sea by oil
pore-space pressure
PROC
pulmonary candidiasis
Q-switching
Quercus sessiliflora
reacting matter
reactive-power loss
ruby alumina
Scherofluron
schnittkes
souche
stallenger
synthetic speech
terminate resistance
the departure of aeneas
this coming
triunsaturated glyceride
tropical freeboard mark
uniformity of hardness test block for vickers
unjammed
ureteris
urolabida sinensis
USB switch
virazene
vital component
waterhole
White Pt.
young Turk