英语用法: 1. The word
grog
refers to a variety of alcoholic beverages. The word originally
referred to a drink made with water or "small beer" (a weak beer) and
rum. Modern versions of the drink are often made with hot or boiling
water, and sometimes include lemon juice, lime juice, cinnamon or sugar
to improve the taste.
By contrast, in Australia and New Zealand the word has come to mean any alcoholic drink.
2. pick on somebody 挑剔, 挑刺 to treat someone unfairly by criticizing or punishing them
What could have caused so many people to pick on him? My sister was always picked on at school. I shouldn't have picked on him for cracking his jaw.
wasp黄蜂: The term wasp is typically defined as any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that
is neither a bee nor an ant. Almost every
pest insect species has at least one wasp species that
preys upon it or parasitizes ['pærəsi,taiz] it, making wasps critically important in
natural control of their numbers, or natural biocontrol.
bull ant大蚂蚁: Myrmecia, often called bulldog ants, bull ants, inch ants, sergeant ants, jumper ants or jack-jumpers (although jack jumper only applies to members of the M. pilosula species group), is a genus of ants.
modem ['məudem] 3. Justin Bieber
is a man of his word信守承诺, 说到做到, 说话算话. After promising he would take a DNA test when
a paternity suit was brought against him, the pop star took one Friday night at a lab in New Jersey. Bieber and his team
have maintained坚持认为(=insist) that the 17-year-old is not the father of 3-month-old Trystan. E! News reports that
there is no timeframe for when the little boy's father must provide a DNA sample. "And as far as
the whole baby situation, it's unfortunate that it had to happen like that. People
make false accusations, but things happen in this industry and you have
to keep your head high ( Keep your head down. Fig. Lie low, try not to be noticed. My advice to you is to keep your head down for the moment. Keep your head down. It'll blow over. hold your head high 昂首挺胸 to show that you are not ashamed of your efforts. As long you play the best tennis you're capable of, you can hold your head high. ) and be positive." Those words
mirror the advice Bieber's mentor, Usher, shared with him: "Stay strong. And know that all of this
comes with the territory ( come/go with the territory Fig. to be expected under circumstances like this. (Alludes to the details and difficulties attendant to something like the assignment of a specific sales territory to a salesperson. When one accepts the assignment, one accepts the problems.) There is a lot of paperwork in this job. Oh, well, I guess it comes with the territory. There are problems, but they go with the territory. )." 4.
Australia's youth 'moving away from tan' : "The
tanning thing was a fashion that was started by Coco Chanel, But as we get role models like Cate Blanchett and Gwyneth Paltrow who
are paler people, we
are seeing a shift. "The Twilight thing
may well have been important." But he said the shift
might be less to do with the popular vampire series than health messages finally getting through, with just 12 per cent of youths reporting that a sun-tanned person was healthier then one with
a fair complexion. 5.
湿巾 A
wet wipe, also known as a
wet nap, wet towel, or a moist towelette, is a small moistened piece of paper or cloth that often comes folded and individually wrapped for convenience. Such towelettes are for cleansing or disinfecting.
Baby wipes are wet wipes used to cleanse the sensitive skin of infants. These
are saturated with solutions anywhere from gentle cleansing ingredients to alcohol based 'cleaners'. Baby wipes are typically
sold in plastic tubs that keep the cloths moist and allow for easy dispensing. 6.
如果一个人下班该离开了而没有离开, 你可以说: 英国人一般说: You're staying back today, are you? 澳洲人会说: You are here late today, what's going on? stay back = stay behind多待了会儿, 多待会儿 to remain somewhere after everyone else has left. I stayed back and let the others go home. Tony stayed behind and helped John clean up the kitchen. Retention Revisited: Can Staying Back Move Students Forward? stick around 多待会儿, 多留会儿, 现不走 [for a person] to remain in a place.
The
kids stuck around for a time after the party was over. Oh, Ann. Please
stick around for a while. I want to talk to you later. Are you sticking around, I am off now. hang around I. to stay in a place I don't like to hang around here after dark. He had stupidly hung around - just to see what the cops were doing - and ended up being arrested! Are you guys hanging around a little bit or leaving soon? II. to be with another person I hate hanging around with her in the mall. It's so boring! III. to not go away The flu can hang around for almost a month. Usage notes: usually said about a medical condition, as in the example. 7. (right) on the money(right on, on the nose) exactly right or correct
You were right on the money when you said that I would really like that book. That's a good answer, Bob. You're right on the money. This project is going to be finished right on the nose. play both ends (against the middle) 两面三刀, 两边耍, 挑拨离间 Fig. [for one] to scheme in a way that
pits two sides against each other for one's own gain(pit sb/sth against sb/sth使对敌, 使敌对, 站在对立面 to set someone or something in opposition to someone or something. The rules of the tournament pit their team against ours. John pitted Mary against Sally in the tennis match. pit of one's stomach心窝 Fig. the middle of one's stomach; the location of a "visceral/`visErEl/内脏的, 发自内心的 response." I got a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach when they told me the bad news.). to try to make two people or groups compete with each other in order to get an advantage for yourself
I
told my brother that Mary doesn't like him. Then I told Mary that my
brother doesn't like her. They broke up, so now I can have the car this
weekend. I succeeded in playing both ends against the middle. If you try to play both ends, you're likely to get in trouble with both sides. drive a wedge between 造成不和, 敌对状态; 有隔阂; 离间; 挑拨关系 Fig. to cause people to oppose one another or turn against one another. if you drive a wedge between two people or two groups of people, you do something which spoils their relationship.
The argument drove a wedge between Mike and his father. She thinks Samantha's jealous and is trying to drive a wedge between her and her boyfriend. This is a clear attempt to drive a wedge between the USA and its western allies. 口语的说法是:
plant ideas between two persons. get in between each other.
connive /kə'naiv/ I. To cooperate secretly in an illegal or wrongful action; collude:
The dealers connived with customs officials to bring in narcotics. II.
To scheme; plot.密谋, 搞阴谋 III. 默许, 纵容, 视而不见 ( connive at/in ) To feign ignorance of or fail to take measures against a wrong, thus implying tacit encouragement or consent: The guards were suspected of conniving at the prisoner's escape. The general is accused of conniving in a plot to topple the government. Her brother is believed to have connived at her murder.
小男孩被射杀: Judge Jennifer Coate, however,
rejected arguments put to her by their barrister that the teenager had been engaged in an act of "suicide by cop" when he
confronted police armed with two stolen knives. She said. "He
was overwhelmed by his emotions that it was not appropriate to conclude that he was acting voluntarily." Judge Coate said Tyler's death should forever be a "clarion call (
clarion ['klæriən] clear and ringing; inspiring, Loud and clear: a clarion call to resistance. a clarion call to action. a clarion call a strong and clear request for people to do something (often + for ) The charity commission's clarion call for more donations has produced an immediate response. (often + to ) Her unification speech was seen as a clarion call to party members. ) " to Victoria Police and ruled there was an urgent need for training to focus on how to deal with vulnerable young people like Tyler. She concluded that on the night the four officers confronted the emotionally distressed Tyler, who had been drinking alcohol, they
acted within the limits of their training. "What caused this poor boy to be in the state he was in on this night? We are not going to find that without him here to answer those questions." The most likely reason was
a combination of factors, including
unresolved grief at the loss of his father from cancer and his drinking in the context of "prior erratic, irrational and
risk-taking behaviour when affected by alcohol". Judge Coate also cited the "
impulsivity of adolescence年轻人的冲动 generally" and Tyler's particular history
of lack of impulse control. In her finding, Judge Coate also
accepted the testimony of the four officers who
took the stand 站在证人席上 (
to go to and sit in the witness chair in a courtroom. I was in court all day, waiting to take the stand. The lawyer asked the witness to take the stand.) and said each had
been palpably affected by Tyler's death. She said she was
not able to ascertain确定 who of three officers who fired a total of 10 shots - five hit Tyler's body - had fired the shot that killed him, as it would be "too
speculative". Tyler died when he
advanced on the police waving two knives during a standoff at a skate park in 2008. "Tyler had
formed a plan. It was a self-destructive plan," One of the officers told the inquest. "We say he wants police there to
act out a homicide-suicide 杀人而后自杀 ( A murder–suicide is an act in which an individual kills one or more other persons before or at the same time as killing himself or herself. The combination of murder and suicide can take various forms, including: ) fantasy." Mr Freckelton had acknowledged a "suicide by cop" finding would be a distressing and confronting verdict for the coroner
to hand down, but said a
fair-minded大脑正常的, 大脑清楚的, 头脑清醒的 person could not come to any other conclusion. In his closing submission for the family, Chris Dane QC said the way the officers approached Tyler
was disproportionate to the threat he posed and their behaviour showed not only a breach of training and command, but "
clearly a breach of good sense". "It's either homicide,
justifiable homicide(
A homicide can only be justified if there is evidence to suggest that it
was reasonable to believe that the offending party posed an imminent
threat to the life or wellbeing of another.), but it's not suicide."
Q&A: Kyle Sandilands: I've
been banging on ( bang on adj & adv Brit informal I. with absolute accuracy. II. excellent or excellently Also (US) bang up. bang on someone or something to strike someone or something repeatedly. (Especially to beat on a person or a drum.) Please stop banging on that drum! Max was banging on Lefty when the cops arrived. ) for years
about doing my own show and I've always looked at late-night talk shows
that's where you go to retire. It's a week from being taped; what's the
mood in the production office? Very calm. Everything I want to ask
those stars they would answer
in some manufactured, pre-rehearsed 设定好了的 way. I'd rather have
outspoken说话直爽的
guests we can have fun with. There was talk this could become a series.
I wouldn't mind doing a couple of specials but if they wanted me to do
one every week I
wouldn't be able to do it. I've
got too many other commitments. Why does your partnership with Jackie O work? It's
a genuine respect for each other's work. I know she's always got my back, we
push each other into uncomfortable areas, we know
where the boundaries are, we genuinely enjoy chatting to each other for three hours each day. I know all her secrets and she knows mine. We
used to socialize for the first few years - go camping and all that shit, which I hated but you do because you're a friend. But then I separated from Tamara and she had the baby and our lives
went in different directions.
