单词学习: 1. form 本身就有竞技状态的意思(the state of a sports player or team with regard to their current standard of play. They are one of the best teams around on current form) good/poor run of form, 也可以说modest from状态平庸, 状态一般. good/poor run of form状态好或者坏 He is having good run of form, every thing he do is gold. have a good run also have a great run to experience success Our industry is probably going to have a good run for the next several years. Gumbel had a great run as host of that morning talk show. purple prose晦涩难懂 writing that is more complicated and formal than necessary Despite occasional passages of purple prose, her latest novel is still very readable. purple patch I. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms文学或文学批评用语) Also called purple passage a section in a piece of writing characterized by rich, fanciful, or ornate language II. Slang a period of success, good fortune, etc. The way he is playing football at the moment is in a real purple patch. rich vein of form好状态(vine藤) Allenby continues rich vein of form despite twisting an ankle. Owen plays down rich vein of form. Is Wayne Rooney in a rich vein of goal scoring form? Michael Owen played down the significance of his fourth goal in four games, and admitted that Real Madrid are still performing below the standards of which they are capable. 2. What time you guys out of here? 你们什么时候走, 你们什么时候离开这里. in the zone沉浸其中 lob/lob in drop in to see someone "the rellies have lobbed". That's your call anyway还是你说了算, 还是看你的意思, 看你怎么想. drop the ball I. Lit. [in a ball game of some type] to let the ball get away or fall out of one's grasp. Good grief! Bill dropped the ball, just as he was about to score! II. Fig. to make a blunder[bungle], stuff up, mess up; to fail in some way, to make a mistake, especially by doing something in a stupid or careless way For god's sake don't drop the ball - we're relying on you. Everything was going fine in the election until my campaign manager dropped the ball. You can't trust John to do the job right. He's always dropping the ball. 3. to a tee 恰如其分, 完全按照 Perfectly; exactly: a plan that suits me to a tee. Did you follow the instructions to a tee? tamer with 破坏, 乱动, 动手脚(tamper也是打夯机 tamp 打夯, 夯实; 破坏公物是vandal n. vandalise ) Someone tampered with the brakes of my car. a pack of lies also a tissue of lies 一派胡言 (formal) a story that someone has invented in order to deceive people He dismissed recent rumours that he'd had affairs with a number of women as 'a pack of lies'. The entire account of where she'd been and who she'd been with that night was a tissue of lies. full of shit: 1) 胡说八道, 一派胡言 Totally unfounded, not credible, or ridiculous...usually refers to something somebody just said. 2) Having a large amount of fecal matter in your body, usually necessitating a dump. Eric: "...so I told the Olsen twins I wasn't in the mood, because you know, I can do better. Then a couple minutes later I ran into the Hilton sisters and scored a threesome. It was just like in the video, dude, I swear." Stan: "Man you're so full of shit, your eyes are brown(满屎了)." Eric: "Yeah, I guess you're right, I really need to drop a massive deuce(骰子, 平局) in the john指厕所." I do share close mind with her I won't deny that我不否认. take a stroll/trip down memory lane 追忆 to remember some of the happy things that you did in the past We were just taking a stroll down memory lane and recalling the days of our youth.
dungeon (storage room) [ˈdʌndʒən] n I. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a close prison cell, often underground 地牢, 地库 II. (Military / Fortifications) a variant of donjon III. In BDSM (bondage/discipline, Dominance/submission, sadism/masochism) sexual play, a dungeon is any space set aside for "scene" activities. schizophrenia [ˌskɪtsəʊˈfri:nɪə] I. 精神分裂 Any of a group of psychotic disorders usually characterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations, and accompanied in varying degrees by other emotional, behavioral, or intellectual disturbances. Schizophrenia is associated with dopamine imbalances in the brain and may have an underlying genetic cause. II. 性格分裂, 人格分裂 A situation or condition that results from the coexistence of disparate or antagonistic qualities, identities, or activities: the national schizophrenia that results from carrying out an unpopular war.
paedophile ring集团, 团伙 smashed: Child abuse investigators infiltrated渗入, 渗透, 混入 the network and posed as paedophiles装作 to gather intelligence. He revealed this was achieved by AFP undercover operatives便衣人员 infiltrating the senior hierarchy of the group by assuming the identities冒充...身份 of arrested offenders. Only after the offender agreed for his ''persona'' to be assumed would police, after intense debriefing(突击盘问 debrief v. 盘问, 审问[士兵, 间谍等] Together they debriefed their two colleagues. During his debriefing he exposed暴露, 透露 two Russian spies. ), enter the network, sometimes posing as five different paedophiles at a time.
小男孩出走: Her only son went missing from their Cairns home in what is every parent's worst nightmare. "We all love him very much," a bewildered(heart-torn心撕裂的) Ms Crouch said. She said there had been no sign没有任何迹象显示, 没有任何征兆 he was unhappy. He was well-liked, had a tight-knit circle of friends, loves reading adventure and fantasy books, listens to music on his iPod touch and burns off energy by jogging in nearby bushland, she said. Police including 10 detectives have launched a three-day ground and aerial search地面和空中搜索 of the canefields甘蔗园 and croc-infested(鳄鱼猖獗的 infest vt. 出没, 猖獗 Crime infests that poor neighbourhood. The back yard was infested by rats. ) waterways around his Machans Beach home including the flood-engorged(engorge v. 充血, 充满水 The river was engorged by a day-long deluge. ) Barron River. "We don't know if there was a trigger for him to disappear," said Detective Senior-Sergeant Glenn Horan. "We are in the dark(in the dark (about someone or something) 不清楚, 不知情 Fig. uninformed about someone or something; ignorant about someone or something. (*Typically: be ~; keep someone ~; stay ~.) I'm in the dark about who is in charge around here. I can't imagine why they are keeping me in the dark. She's in the dark about how this machine works.) as to what made him leave."
Ricky Ponting's tantrum发火: Australia captain Ricky Ponting has apologised after an on-field dummy spit (Spit the Dummy Australian Term: To indulge in a sudden display of anger or frustration; to lose one's temper. The phrase is usually used of an adult, and the implication is that the outburst is childish, like a baby spitting out its dummy in a tantrum and refusing to be pacified. (Dummy is a pacifier) 'There's no reason for me to spit the dummy,' he said. 'Why do I have to be a rude cunt out of the car when I've demonstrated what I can do inside of it?') during Australia's seven-wicket win over Canada at the World Cup in India. He has told reporters his reaction was just something that happened in the heat of the moment一怒之下, 冲动之下. "It wasn't a great reaction I guess, but it certainly wasn't designed to try and inspire the team or anything like that, or make Steven look in any way in the wrong place (in the wrong place (at the wrong time) unlucky to be somewhere Cops say the kid who got shot was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was, simply, the wrong man in the wrong place and was very unhappy. ) or make him look silly," he said in a post-match news conference.
Japan's earthquake: Winter blast compounds使恶化, 使更糟糕 crisis for half a million homeless: JAPAN'S tsunami-ravaged肆虐, 摧残 coast has now been hit by an unseasonally不合季节的 late snow dump降雪, compounding the deprivations剥夺 for 550,000 homeless survivors and millions more who are living without adequate supplies and services. Only odd零星的, 偶尔的 corner stores have opened their doors in Miyagi prefecture辖区 since Friday's earthquake and tsunami cut power and supply channels. Yet residents continued to cue排队 patiently yesterday despite the snow and the fact that most food and water has been stripped from the shelves already. A boy waits for boiled water to make instant noodles outside a shelter for the homeless in Sendai. There are no obvious signs of looting or even competition for resources, even though millions have not eaten a proper meal for six days. Yesterday morning, a line outside a central Sendai supermarket stretched for 700 metres绵延, 伸出去, three people wide, in freezing temperatures and bucketing snow大雪, waiting for the doors to open. Soldiers, teachers and other makeshift临时的, 替代的 welfare workers are caring for the more than half a million homeless in army barracks, schools and other public spaces. People gather around power points in public spaces, waiting for a chance to charge their phones. Roads remain largely empty because fuel is almost impossible to come by. Hundreds of residents wait at each long distance bus stop, although services are irregular. Planes out of Yamagata - up in the highlands and well beyond the tsunami's reach - had been booked out for two weeks ahead before new services were added last night. Food stores and restaurants have only a fraction of their usual offerings because supply lines have been cut.
