用法学习： 1. work out I. To calculate. Can you work out 250 × 12 in your head for me? Can you work out how to get to the university by car? II. (transitive) To make sense of. 理解, 明白.搞清楚. I can't work these instructions out. III. (transitive) To smooth. This is a beta version; we're still working out the kinks. IV. (intransitive) To conclude with the correct solution. to find a solution to something The committee met today and worked out a statement that everyone liked. You can use a calculator to work out the problem, or you can work it out on paper. These figures just don't work out(对不上, 对得上. ). V. (intransitive) To succeed. to develop in a satisfactory way. to result in a good conclusion; to finish positively. 结果不令人满意. (有时后边加at表示场所) Are you still seeing John? - No, it didn't work out. It was too bad that my plan didn't work out. Is your new job working out well? Don't worry. I am sure that everything will work out all right. Things always work out in the end. I hope I work out at my new job. I hope I work out at the factory. turn/work out (all right), pan out to end satisfactorily. I hope everything turns out all right. Oh, yes. It'll all pan out. Things usually work out, no matter how bad they seem.VI. (intransitive) To habitually exercise rigorously, especially by lifting weights, in order to increase strength or muscle mass or maintain fitness. Wow, you're looking good! Do you work out? VII. (transitive, intransitive) Used other than as an idiom: Using some tweezers, he worked the bee sting out of his hand. He works out of a small office shared with with three others. VIII. From what I heard, the new budget works out better for low income family. Long-Term it Worked Out Better for the Industry That the At&T/T-Mobile Merger Fell-Through. fall through I. [for something, such as plans] to fail. Our party for next Saturday fell through. I hope our plans don't fall through. II. to not happen Our plans for the weekend fell through. 2. 关于英文的撒娇. Girls or kids normally do this when they try do get something from you. They change their tones in asking. play cute是最接近的说法. play coy with sb. 是装无辜, 装可爱, 装笨, 装小孩好像不会做某事似的, 假模假样, 装模作样. to tease, to lead someone on. Don't play coy with me, pick that up, boy. lead on I. (transitive, idiomatic) to mislead, to try to make someone believe a lie. to deceive someone in order to get what you want from them She led him on for five months while she was going out with another guy. II. (transitive, idiomatic) 误导 to encourage with the illusion of a romantic relationship. You are just leading me on! It's not fair to continue leading him on. It's easy to lead on teenage boys. coy I. Reluctant to give details about something sensitive; notably prudish. II. Pretending shyness or modesty, especially in an insincere or flirtatious way. showing reluctance, especially when insincere or affected, to reveal
one's plans or opinions, make a commitment, or take a stand: The mayor
was coy about his future political aspirations. III. Soft, gentle, hesitating. babyish/childish petulance toward sb. 耍小孩脾气. petulant childishly irritable Lack of sleep is causing Dave's recent petulant behavior. 3. placid 波澜不惊的. 不易动怒的. calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil. a placid disposition. a placid lake. ''Some parents find that their family time is compromised牺牲 somewhat by work but work does have positive flow on effects to children and families,'' Dr Baxter said. agitate I. To cause to move with violence or sudden force. II. To upset; disturb: was agitated by the alarming news. I am so agitated today. III. To arouse interest in (a cause, for example) by use of the written or spoken word; debate. 4. 小夫妻私奔: Police said the parents of the two adolescents are incredibly worried about their children's welfare( 境遇, 情况, 现状. health, happiness, prosperity, and well-being in general. Carrera's body was discovered after her sister became alarmed when she could not contact her and asked police to conduct a wellbeing check at the home, officials said. ). A relative of Lucas told The Daily Telegraph his family was distraught by his running away跑路. "They are sick with worry, they're in a state, just devastated," the relative said. Police and family of the missing couple hold concern for their welfare due to their young age. 5. riffraff 不可数名词. scum人渣. The rabble; crowds; the common people. Riffraff is a term for the common people or hoi polloi, but with negative connotations. They started charging a modest fee in an effort to keep the riffraff out. Hoi polloi an expression meaning "the many", or in the strictest sense, "the majority" in Greek, is used in English to denote "the masses" or "the people", usually in a derogatory sense.
Outrage after drivers forced to form roadblock: 相关词汇和说法: They apprehended (=arrest) this fellow. Not told specifically, was hand gestured打手势. I don't believe, in my opinion, it was necessarily correct course of action正确的行为. The road was backed up by human roadblock.
Obviously know there was a high speed chase on, so I had a good feeling 很知道, 确切知道 what's going on. feeling (that something is the case) and a feeling about something 有一种感觉 a premonition that [something might happen or be the case]; an intuition about something. (get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) I had a feeling that you might be dropping by this afternoon. I didn't have any facts to support it. I just had a feeling就只是感觉. I just have this feeling直觉觉得 that she is not telling us the truth. hard feelings (cause ~ have ~ give someone ∼.) Fig. feelings of resentment or anger. The argument caused a lot of hard feelings, but finally we got over it. I hope you don't have any hard feelings. bad blood (between people) unpleasant feelings or animosity between people. feelings of hate between people because of arguments in the past There is bad blood between Fred and Jim. They cannot be civil (I. Of or in accordance with organized society; civilized. II. Sufficiently observing or befitting accepted social usages; not rude: a civil reply.) to one another. There is no bad blood between us. I don't know why we should quarrel. mixed feelings 捉摸不定, 摸不准. 吃不准 (about someone or something) uncertainty about someone or something. I have mixed feelings about Bob. Sometimes I think he likes me; other times I don't. I have mixed feelings about my trip to England. I love the people, but the climate upsets me. sinking feeling the feeling that everything is going wrong; a bad feeling in the base of one's stomach. I get a sinking feeling whenever I think of the night of the accident. gut feeling/reaction/response a personal, intuitive feeling or response. I have a gut feeling that something bad is going to happen. My gut reaction is that we should hire Susan for the job. have feelings about someone or something 还有感觉, 还有爱意. to have preferences or notions about someone or something. (Usually in the negative.) I don't have any feelings about Jeff. You can choose him if you want. I have no feelings about this matter. Do what you want. 事件报道: A police pursuit had initially started at Benalla, about 200 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, but was terminated after three minutes because of the driver's erratic behaviour and high speeds. "I pretty much knew I was a sitting duck (Fig. someone or something vulnerable to attack, physical or verbal. (Alludes to a duck floating on the water, not suspecting that it is the object of a hunter or predator. *Typically: be ~; like ~; looking like~.) You look like a sitting duck out there. Get in here where the enemy cannot fire at you. The senator was a sitting duck because of his unpopular position on school reform.)." Mr Rendina said he did not believe it was worth putting the lives of his children at risk to stop a stolen car. "The air wing (The Air Wing provides helicopter support to routine ambulance operations, as well as providing cost-effective air transport for police personnel in operational duties. Twin and single-engine helicopters are involved in observation work, with their roles including traffic surveillance, location of stolen cars and detection of drug crops. ) were extremely concerned about his driving. They said 'If we don't stop this bloke, he's going to kill someone and himself," he said.
火车裁员: Hundreds of RailCorp jobs are being slashed as the NSW government moves to split the operation in two, a move they say will be better for commuters and frontline staff. The shake-up means 750 people in middle management中层管理层 will be offered voluntary redundancies, with cleaning services under new management. "I'm actually expecting support from many sections of the workforce in RailCorp, who want to have the layers of bureaucracy unpicked, who actually want to have the freedom to do their jobs properly," Ms Berejiklian said. "They're all about supporting our customers and they're all about people being asked in middle management voluntarily to put their hands up for redundancy. We're not forcing anybody to leave the organisation." She also denied that this was the first step in a move to privatise私有化 train services.
动物园长颈鹿死亡: Two giraffes ([dʒi'rɑ:f]) at a zoo are dead after unidentified vandals went on a night-time rampage, the zoo's management says. The vandals broke in overnight Saturday to Sunday, destroying benches, signs and sculptures and hurling pieces of the debris at the animals. "The autopsy of the first giraffe found a ruptured heart valve and bruising, a sign of a severe stress reaction," the zoo's deputy director said. "The second was slightly ill before the incident. The stress likely aggravated恶化, 加重 the illness and finished her off. "Giraffes are extremely timid胆小的. Stress causes a flight response (The fight-or-flight response 打不过就跑, 或打或跑或吓傻的反应 (also called the fight-or-flight-or-freeze response, hyperarousal, or the acute stress response) was first described by Walter Bradford Cannon. His theory states that animals react to threats with a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system, priming the animal for fighting or fleeing. More specifically, the adrenal medulla produces a hormonal (hormone [ˈhɔ:məun]) cascade ( cascade [kæsˈkeid] I. A waterfall or a series of small waterfalls over steep rocks. II. Something, such as lace, thought to resemble a waterfall or series of small waterfalls, especially an arrangement or fall of material. III. A succession of stages, processes, operations, or units. IV. A chemical or physiological process that occurs in successive stages, each of which is dependent on the preceding one, and often producing a cumulative effect: an enzymatic cascade.) that results in the secretion 分泌 of catecholamines, especially. This response was later recognized as the first stage of a general adaptation syndrome that regulates stress responses among vertebrates and other organisms. A typical example of the stress response is a grazing zebra. If the zebra sees a lion closing in for the kill, the stress response is activated. The escape requires intense muscular effort, supported by all of the body's systems. The sympathetic nervous system's activation rarely provides for these needs. A similar example involving fight is of a cat about to be attacked by a dog. The cat shows accelerated heartbeat心跳加速, piloerection鬃毛倒竖 (hair standing on end, normally for conservation of heat), and pupil dilation, all signs of sympathetic arousal. Note that the zebra and cat still maintain homeostasis in all states. The stress response temporarily suppresses various biological processes such as sexual responses and digestive mechanisms. This is in an effort to focus on the stressor situation. While the fight or flight response is an adaptive reaction, prolonged increases in stress can cause a variety of negative physiological and psychological effects. sympathetic I. Of, expressing, feeling, or resulting from sympathy: a sympathetic glance 同情的一瞥. II. 倾向的. 赞同的, 支持的. Favorably inclined. (when: postpositive, often foll by to or towards) showing agreement (with) or favour (towards): not at all sympathetic to her proposal. She is sympathetic to the project. III. 宜人的. 和谐的. Agreeably suited to one's disposition or mood; congenial. in accord with the subject's personality or mood; congenial: a sympathetic atmosphere. sympathetic surroundings. a sympathetic companion. IV. 交感神经系统的 Of, relating to, or acting on the sympathetic nervous system: a sympathetic neuron; sympathetic stimulation. V. a. Relating to or being vibrations, especially musical tones, produced in one body by energy from a nearby vibrating body and having the same frequency as the vibration of the nearby body. b. Emitting such vibrations: sympathetic strings.) in them. They react the same way to every unusual noise," said Stanislawski. The zoo is not equipped with surveillance cameras and night security guards did not notice anything unusual.
Fits of rage: How Steve Jobs' temper tantrums勃然大怒(chuck a tanty以为发怒, 大发脾气) landed him on the night shift: STEVE Jobs may have been the lauded(To give praise to; glorify) visionary behind some of the world’s best-loved tech devices, but Apple's other Steve has confirmed he wasn't exactly a team player. Instead, Jobs' infamous "temperamental ( temperament 脾气, 品性. I. a. The manner of thinking, behaving, or reacting characteristic of a specific person: a nervous temperament. b. The distinguishing mental and physical characteristics of a human according to medieval physiology, resulting from dominance of one of the four humors. II. Excessive irritability or sensitiveness: an actor with too much temperament. disposition, temperament, character, personality, nature同义词: These nouns refer to the combination of qualities that identify a person. Disposition 品性. 品质性格 is approximately equivalent to prevailing frame of mind or spirit: "A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side" (George Eliot). Temperament 外在的, 精神的, 智力的综合. applies broadly to the sum of physical, emotional, and intellectual components that affect or determine a person's actions and reactions: "She is . . . of a serene and proud and dignified temperament" (H.G. Wells). Character 强调道德方面的性格. 人品. especially emphasizes moral and ethical qualities: "Education has for its object the formation of character" (Herbert Spencer). Personality 个性. is the sum of distinctive traits that give a person individuality: possessed a truly unique personality. Nature本性, 天性. denotes native or inherent qualities: "It is my habit,I hope I may say, my nature, to believe the best of people" (George W. Curtis). ) nature" even put him on the night shift during the late pioneer's early days with game company Atari. "He didn't get along with people in Atari," Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak told a packed conference in Sydney this morning. "So they moved him to the nightshift where he was all alone. "He was very hard, pushing on engineers. But not at me. When he would fly off the chain at people大为光火, 大光其火 and have yelling fits, I never personally witnessed them." Wozniak, who is in Australia for a speaking tour, did recall a time when Jobs became unduly ( 过分的, 过于的. [ʌn'dju:li] adv I. immoderately; excessively. II. in contradiction of moral or legal standards. ) upset about the escalating cost of his early "Lisa" computer – about $US20,000 in today's money - the Mac team kicked him out of the building. But despite these "quirks", Wozniak – who built the first Apple computers - said Jobs was the overseer who could manage across the disciplines and make the products a reality. He acknowledged it would be "very bad" if engineers – such as himself - made the big decisions at the company because: "You would wind up with something so overgrown and complex, it never would have had any user impact." And despite any differences, the pair remained "good friends" until the end, Wozniak said. "Right up to his death he was thinking of his early days too," he said. "We never had a split, but it seemed like some writers really wanted us to, how they wrote it." In a wide-ranging talk at the Sydney Convention Centre in Darling Harbour this morning, Wozniak also predicted we could see "conscious computers" with feelings within the next four decades – something he hoped would revolutionise education worldwide. Such technology could lead to one-on-one "caring" tutors to help in a world of overstretched teachers trying to fit one lesson to bigger and bigger classes, he said.
