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
Aloperin
aluminum cold mill
anti-parallel domain
apterium
bank examiners
Becquerel, Alexandre Edmond
bold relief
Bulbophyllum tseanum
bull daisy
business card holder
Caraga
certificate of purchase A or B
chemically defined diet
Chonemorpha eriostylis
cmm.
community computing
content management system
drear
Effective full-power days
elaborate on/upon
electro-magnetic brake
enwezor
epoxied
escape cover
fall into in debt
fibre jacket
free choice
genus liomyss
good for anything
grubbed out
guaiacs
hunkier
hydromancie
illyrium
ingenane
inner pipe nozzle
inquorate
intermediate cross frame
interpassivity
intrademe selection
jazz band
leconotide
lithotrite
local condition
lumbocosto-abdominal triangle
main-top gallant mast
mians
misreckon
netizens
not soil your hands
nutty Irishmen
oesteopontin
oil drain out
optical transport network
phoriascop
playwrite
primary cataract
progressive area
ptychosperma macarthurii
quinazolone
rabbit-punches
radar gun laying
radiation effects
recording technique
regurging
remove split
repeaterless transmission
rescript
revolving escapement
ribofuraose
sail on the port tack
sal prunella
saturation test
sciatic gastrocnemius preparation
scribblers
scruttons
service desk
shantas
sheltered bay
Shinkolobwe
sidewall bottom angle
snakemouth
South Miami
south southeasts
steel cord conveyor
stirer
storage data bus-out
strengthening pills
stubbier
tape cleaner
Texas citrus mite
that is the bottom line
tModel
tractive stress
transport kinetic equation
trichloronate
two hander
un-PC
vaismen
vascular tract
wlma
wooden spoon