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
actualite
adverse title
africanamericans
amino-transferase
arithmetical sets
assembly coding format
bale
ballast-roller
Bari-Sol process
breast-milks
bricusse
cell engineering
cheaply
checking signal
co-cumulative spectrum
costater
cruppered
Cuilo Futa
curvularia pallescens
Danian Stage
definitor
end of program
eq (emotional quotient)
external rubber
frequency curve chart
fundamental fuel lower calorific value
gains point
gaspars
Goetz size separator
hand-sets
Hart, Lorenz
heteroplastid
highlevel radioactive waste
housemoving
hydrostannanes
ICCCM
Ichinoseki
immutables
impression die
internal spline nut
interstores
kintal
Kyzylkoga
lelile
ligamenta cricothyreoideum
Lohālia
low vacuum trip
massanutten
mechanical billet separating skid
metal machining liquid
monosignificant
Moorabbin Airport
mountainland
muhimbi
neihumicin
Nuomei
nysfungin
oblique zygomorphy
on way boy
order Octopoda
package indicative mark
Parasenecio hastatus
Païta, Circonscription de
piston key
porous diffuser
premature tax write-off
quadrat chart
radial-axle box
ranbir
re-restitution
reattune
reeks
remote participant
resultant magnetic field
running-in characteristic
sciatic scoliosis
secure tenancy
seismosociology
serializable
serotherapy
shell-proof structure
shock-wave angle
Sjogren's syndrome
solid (body) rotation
spectral index method
steady state wave motion
stfantasy
stripped surface
successive fifths
suf
synthetic rubber resin
technological quality
thighboot
three-pressure type control valve
thun
tititorea (maori)
total top gas
track-circuit signalling
trench sampling
tumor disease
utterance-meanings
Vat Brilliant Violet 2R