| 单词 | grain |
| 释义 | graingrain /greɪn/ ●●○ noun 1FOOD a)[uncountable] the seeds of crops such as corn, wheat, or rice that are gathered for use as food, or the crops themselves: fields of grain the grain harvest b)[countable] a single seed of wheat, rice, etc.2SMALL PIECE [countable] a single very small piece of a substance such as sand, salt, etc.3LINES IN WOOD/ROCK ETC. the grain the lines or patterns you can see in things such as wood, rock, or flesh, which are part of its structure: Split the wood along the grain.4against the grain if something goes against the grain, it is not what normally happens or what you would expect: go/run/cut against the grain She’s an honest person, and it went against the grain to lie.5a grain of something a very small amount of something: grain of truth/doubt etc. There’s more than a grain of truth in what Spencer said. Anyone with a grain of sense would have known it wasn’t true!6take something with a grain of salt to not completely believe what someone tells you because you know that he or she often lies or is wrong: Sometimes you have to take what Kevin says with a grain of salt.7MEASURE [countable] medicine the smallest measure of weight, used in weighing medicines, equal to 0.002285 ounces or 0.0648 grams[Origin: 1200–1300 Old French, Latin granum seed] |
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