Here, dyed-in-the-wool means that John has always kept listening to vinyl records, those large flat discs that are rarely found in the market place today. Vinyl is short for polyvinyl, as vinyl discs ...

Dyed in the wool在这里相当于thoroughgoing/complete（彻头彻尾的，十足的）。 这个词组最早出现于16世纪，dyed来源于动词dye（染色），最初，人们用dyed in the wool来形容"生染毛织品的一种方法"，即the process of dying sheep wool before it was woven into ...

请先看个句子，"A dyed-in-the-wool Li Yuchun's fan would not dream of changing his allegiance to another team." 你若是地地道道的"玉米"，一定能猜出句中dyed in the wool的涵 ...