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
absis
AEBSF
against stop
air refrigeration machine
American smooth dogfish
Anoectochilus
aspergillar arthritis
author mark
bacterial discoloration
band massager
beam noise
bryum capillare l.
caprocks
chloride exclusion trait
chloropleth
chronic urethritis
coefficient of variability
conductive measurement
Conley
correal
crime of blackmail in general
crystal-ball
dephysicalizing
diauxie growth curve
Dogs Of The Dow
double-thong
electroless
envolve
equation of barotropy
fabric air permeability test
factual mistake
ferroferrite
flachet
fouracres
free discharge valve
gathering chain
geared feed pump
grid leak and condenser detection
high impedance cable
HPOM
hybrid fiber-coaxial cable
hypothalamia nucleus
information card
inkpen
insect bionomics
international organization
irrisions
Jenssen cooler
K shell
kuenlun mountainss
Lindenbergia grandiflora
loppy
low-energy
Madhva
mangia cake
mastoid notch
mercuric diiodosalicylate
milk-based
mood stabilizer
mulion
multiple echo
multiple spot beam antenna
naca standard atmosphere
neuroadaptations
neuron computer
Nicamindon
NZSO
operation dispatching
own ship side travel
Ozgur
Pantayivka
particular territory
personal accomplishment
plutonium inventory determination
pomiform
prelaminated
preverts
pulsed amplitude modulated carrier
put sb out of the way
R-factor
receive dividends
relative hearing
returned purchases invoice
scalariform thickening
sodium hydro-fluoride
spring cleans
stints
subcutaneous bursa of laryngeal prominence
subthreshold stimulus
technomyrmex albipes
tetra (thiazyl fluoride)
traction rope
tuxedni
vanadic oxide
Videocart
water-gangs
welles
work notice
xanthomonas vasculorum(cobb.)dowson
yamia watasei
Yellāreddi
zero sum two-person game