时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


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
a-going
amidships engined ship
Amundsen Abyssal Plain
ballcarrier
basic drawing logic
bean-capers
bell toad
Bestcall
binomial index of dispersion
bisecting
bismarks
brass collar
bus duct
capillary-shear-induced orientation
causley
cavern(a)
claviger
close-minded
coal-gas poisoning
coffs
coller for motor
consolidation by merger
controller parameter modification
digging depth
distant grafting
distributed stress
dry film lubricant
em-erged
Ericht, River
exceptionalist
fat coals
feedees
float landing gear
fore-while
freshwaters
fructus citri wilsonii immaturi
globular bulb
Haemodorum
hate-speech
helicosporium nymphaearum rand.
induced draught system
jackfruit
key note speaker
lasiocampid moth
Lefkosia
lighted wind cone
LVCF
lyophilic polymer
mascalls
maximum depth
maximum possible flood
mica insert
Micah
moonballed
natalie
native ability
Oksbφl
one-piece-forged
option attribute
package investment
perhyaline rock (c.i.p.w)
PHFG
philemons
pig liver fat
Pirgos(Pyrgos)
polony (sausage)
preened
program structure in fund accounting
putatively
QCC
quiescent flow
ravined
rhinoptera bonasuss
rockwell hardness test rod and drop-pull system
samoilova
sample applicator
satellite radioline
scribing iron
sheet pack
single-needle cylinder-bed machine
sinker bar
SL-SD
soft-lefts
solanine bases
spheric polar
standard pulse
stylisticss
superchain
support functions
syndetic index
syngenetic hydrocarbon
tan pickle
teleprocessing exchange service
Tobias Smollett
tutuala
unmetalled road
upchange
vapour recirculating still
Vogts
water-cooled brass collar
wood trowel
zahniser