relate to sb.; swat/swab; polygamy; back to the drawing board; two peas in a pod; drift apart; shit-stirer; improbable/impossible; dragon lady; bigoted/bigotry;closed-off; not my concern;

口语说法: 1. "It's not my concern跟我没有关系, 不关我的事, 不是我该关心的事" is probably more common than "It's none of my concern." And "It's none of my business" is the most common. nobody's business do not interest yourself in matters that do not involve you "Those children should never be left alone." "Don't tell me what to do - it's none of your business." "not my concern[含有不是你的工作, 不是你的分内事之意]" 和 "I don't care" 不一样 I couldn't care less. concern作为"担心"相关的例句 I. If you have any concerns任何关心的问题, 有任何事情让你担心, just call me. II. Do you have any concerns about the swine flu vaccine? III. If you have any further questions or concerns, please contact the Attorney General's Bureau. IV. Now that we have talked about my qualifications, do you have any concerns担心 about me fulfilling the responsibilities of this position? V. So after three years my motherboard (Asus M2N-0MX) has died off寿终正寝. As I go shopping for its replacement tomorrow I have a concern about the data that I currently have on the drives wtihin. I'm currently running BSD 6.2, and am wondering if there would be any concern with installing a new OS on that system, would it be better to just install the latest BSD version, and are there any pitfalls陷阱, 一易犯的错误, 需要注意的地方 that I should watch for to make sure I don't end up losing 750gb's of data. 2. 纠正发音: severe /si'viE/ 严重的;  vinegar /'vinigE/醋; gillette /d3i'let/ (g在i前和y前读/d3/, 如giant, gigantic, gym, 在a, u前读/g/ ); five 中的/v/音牙齿要碰下嘴唇, 但不要咬, 即所谓的soft and subtle. weight 和 wit 就是/ei/ 和 /i/ 的区别, /i/发的很随意, 很小口, /ei/要把嘴唇抿起来并撇开. intermediate 发音是/,intE'mi:djEt/. quality quantity quantum quell等词中的其实部分发音类似"kuao". superior 的发音是 /sju'piEriE/ inferior /in'fiEriE/ acids的发音, 由于前边c的影响, /dz/的发音变成. cushion /'kuFEn/垫子 swat, swab 中的a均发/o/的音. mass质量 3. quality time Time during which one focuses on or dedicates oneself to a person or activity: "When you decide to turn on the TV, you decide ... not to spend quality time with your family". He was able to spend a few minutes of quality time with his son, Buxton, at least once every two weeks. 4. close something off =shut off 关闭, 关掉, 禁止通行 to prevent entrance into something; to block something off. Please don't close this passageway off. They closed off the passageway anyway. closed-off不平易近人的, 拒人于千里之外的 people with their heads too far up their ass to notice people who they dont know. That was like the 876th time she has been introduced to me and she is so closed off that she still doesn't know who I am. 5. biggit a racist, old person with little or no teeth. "The biggit across the street needs to keep her mouth shut." bigot One who is strongly partial偏向的, 偏心的 to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ. bigoted adj 固执; 偏执的 bigotry The attitude, state of mind, or behavior characteristic of a bigot; intolerance 6. bummer 1). A word describing the misfortune of something or someone. Friend 1: My wife left me last night. Friend 2: Bummer for you. 2). A situation in which no desireable result can occur Man 1: We're surrounded by venomous snakes! Man 2: Wow, this is quite the bummer. 3). A negative form of agreement. Girl: Do you find me attractive? Guy: Bummer.  4). A response used when the respondee couldn't care less about the topic at hand. Friend 1: It appears that tomorrow is my last day to live. Friend 2: Bummer. 7. dragon lady(bitch是用来形容女人的一个常用词) 1). A powerful or domineering woman. 2). A dangerous and seductive woman; a femme fatale. WIKI: (stereotype), a stereotype of either a seductive and treacherous woman, especially an Asian one, or a domineering or tyrannical one. A Dragon Lady is a stereotype of East Asian women as strong, deceitful, domineering, or mysterious. 8. improbable(很不可能, 但是还是有一点点可能的, 而impossible是完全不可能的, 一点可能都没有的) Highly unlikely to take place or be true. Not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred Having a probability too low to inspire belief. 9. SHIT的相关用法. I am just shit stirring没事找事 = annoying people. to cause commotion骚动混乱 by poking fun or revealing information to get a reaction (also see trolling) 两个孩子吵架时劝架用语: You're just shit stirring - stop it or someone could lose an eye! Stop it now or turn this car around. shit stirrer one who manipulates events to cause trouble for other people for their own amusement. She told me my missus was baggin off on me, but I reckon she's just a skanky shit stirrer, so I didnt bother doing anything about it. 解释二: a person who tries to make situations in which people disagree even worse. What a shit stirrer! She's gone and told my trouble and strife that I was with another chick at the party. I. "You shit me to tears, give me a break, for fuck sake" were the first words we managed to gather from The Tenants(a band's name). Despite people primarily knowing them as 'that' band The Tenants slightly go beyond a one hit wonder仅有一首歌的奇迹, after all Triple J don't go around unearthing挖掘 bands for nothing do they! II. shit my pants气死我了, 气疯我了 a term used when overly exasperated about a certin situation. Another term used to sustitute "I'm freaking out" Dude I almost shit my pants when Ryan Zimmerman was talking about his dragon drawing to me, what a fuckin crackasuckamuthafucka. shit pants One who is farting and doing a great job of stinking out the entire area he occupies. Hey, Shit Pants, go take a crap before your kill us all. III. go to the pack: To go to shit, to deteriorate, degenerate, cease to function, go to ruin, get really bad, to become really shabby(rubbish, ugly and generally not good). EXAMPLE 1 (Present noun) After he left, the team started going to the pack. EXAMPLE 2 (Present verb) Since she turned 50, she's really let herself go to the pack. EXAMPLE 3 (Past tense) The company has gone to the pack since they stopped selling ice cream. Why does everything go to shit? Why is everything shit? 对一切都不顺, 一切都搞砸的抱怨, 发泄  10. How now, Brown cow. Whenever you make an advance towards the opposite sex and are blatantly turned down without any notification. Can happen through any median of communication ( i.e. in person at a bar, myspace/facebook/other social networking websites.) "Yea, dude! I was talkin to this hot ass bitch on myspace for like three days straight...non-stop! She was diggin my shit! Then she like stopped talkin to me outta no where! I think she moved to like Dutch Pennsylvania...." "Naw nigga! She just how now, brown cowed the shit outta you!" 解释二: Those four words roll off the tongue as a lighthearted way of asking "What's up? What's next?" And that tripping lightly stuff makes sense, since "How now, brown cow" has its origin in elocution, where the phrase was used to demonstrate properly rounded vowels. Ron: How now, brown cow? Paul: Not much. Just on my way to catch a movie with my girl. 11. be on the case 在处理, 在解决(on sb's case = on sb's back 一直责怪批评某人) to be doing what needs to be done in a particular situation 'We need to book a flight before it's too late.' 'Don't worry, I'm on the case, just leave it to me.' There is definitely a problem, and we are on the case - that's all I can say for now. 12. parrot鹦鹉 carrot胡萝卜 cuckoo /'ku:ku:/ 布谷鸟, 杜鹃 a cuckoo in the nest 另类, 特立独行的人 someone who is part of a group of people but different from them and not liked by them For Peter, his new father was a cuckoo in the nest. parrot-fashion if you learn something parrot-fashion, you are able to repeat the words, but you do not understand their meaning Usage notes: A parrot is a bird that can repeat words and noises it has just heard. When I went to Sunday school, we had to recite passages from the Bible parrot-fashion. cockatoo澳洲鹦鹉 They have an erectile crest(white plumes with yellow crest) and most of them are light-coloured. 澳洲俚语里意思是a lookout during some illegal activity望风的人. A Lyrebird琴鸟/laiE/ is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds, most notable for their superb ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment. Lyrebirds have unique plumes of neutral coloured tailfeathers. The male of this bird has a long lyre-shaped(lyre一种古希腊的乐器) tail and is noted for his remarkable song and display. 13. drift apart 渐行渐远, 断了联系 (from each other ) 1). . Lit. [for floating things] to separate as they drift. The boats drifted apart from one another. The boats drifted apart in the waves. 2). Fig. [for people] to lead their lives without contact with each other having been together or friendly. lose personal contact over time; "The two women, who had been roommates in college, drifted apart after they got married". He drifted apart from his friends. As the years went by, they drifted apart. 14. How are you traveling?  What's cracking? A greeting, synonymous with greetings such as "What's going on?" Hey man, what's crackin'? 15. (like) two peas in a pod 一丘之貉 very similar =two of a kind We were two peas in a pod – we liked all the same things, and we did everything together. alike as (two) peas in a pod very similar. (Compare this with like (two) peas in a pod意为[very close or intimate]. *Also: as ~.) These two books are as alike as peas in a pod. 16. Polygamy /pE'ligEmi:/一夫多妻或一妻多夫制 is a heterosexual marriage which includes more than two partners, which is a monogamous marriage. 17. scrap I. 废料, 废物 II. 废掉, 废除, 报废, 废弃 A bold decision was taken to scrap existing plant. III. 取消, 废除(计划, 政策, 法律等), 放弃 The chairmen scrapped plans to buy the stadium himself. (关于Bankstown Airport 引入乘客航班的纷争)Mr. Clare urged the airport to scrap future plans for passenger aircraft services at Bankstown before resubmitting a new plan. submission是建议书, 提议书, 提交物等. ex: "It's clear our local community don't want large passenger aircraft services in Bankstown - 98 percent of the submissions I received from local residents were opposed to the introduction of large passenger aricraft." Mr. Clare said. Plans to introduce ... have been grounded with the Federal Government rejecting Sydney Metro Airport's draft 2010 master plan. They were told to go back to the drawboard, labelling its plan a failure in community consultation. back to the drawing board(back to square one) if you go back to the drawing board, you have to start planning a piece of work again because the previous plan failed If the education reform is too expensive to implement, it's back to the drawing board for the committee. Our proposal might not be accepted, in which case we'll have to go back to the drawing board. 18. in the zone乐在其中, 沉浸其中 If you are in the zone, you are happy or excited because you are doing something easily and with skill. My legs are feeling strong and my breathing's good - I'm in the zone! 19. shoe away=boot away 赶走, 踢走 flick 拂走, 挥赶走 swatter /swotE/苍蝇拍 swat重拍, 猛击 swab /swob/ 擦拭, 药签 set rules一定的规则 20. Dream interpretation梦的解析, 释梦 is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. 21. If you want a job done properly, do it yourself自己动手丰衣足食. How about you get better? Beggars can't be choosers不要白吃包子嫌陷酸. 22. relate to someone (relate不及物) 和某人投缘, 和某人合得来 Kids related to him because he was so anti-establisment反传统. be related to someone 有血亲关系 He was related to my mother.