用法学习: 1. in line with something 基本差不多, 大差不差, 大致不差 similar to something The company's profits were in line with what was expected. tuberculosis [tju,bɜ:kju'ləusis] 肺结核 common denominator n. I. Mathematics 公分母. A quantity into which all the denominators of a set of fractions may be divided without a remainder. II. 共有特征. 共有特点. 公共特点. A commonly shared theme or trait. a belief, attribute, etc., held in common by members of a class or group. 2. Snorkelling excursion turns deadly in Western Australia: A woman has died and a man is missing after what police believe to be a snorkelling excursion gone wrong in the idyllic ( idyllic 田园的 [i'dilik or 美国ai-] I. Of or having the nature of an idyll. II. Simple and carefree: an idyllic vacation in a seashore cottage. idyll sometimes US, idyl ['idil] I. a. A short poem or prose piece depicting a rural or pastoral scene, usually in idealized terms. b. A narrative poem treating an epic or romantic theme. II. A scene or event of a simple and tranquil nature. III. a. A carefree episode or experience: a summer idyll on the coast of France. b. A romantic interlude. ) West Australian resort of Coral Bay. An emergency beacon ( ['bi:kən] ) was activated just after 4pm yesterday local time south of the coastal hamlet near Ningaloo Reef, which led to the woman's body that had washed up onto the beach. Two children aged 10 and 13, believed to be those of the man and woman, were on the beach at the time. 3. US man dribbling soccer ball to Brazil dies after being hit by car: Richard Swanson, 42, was struck 被撞, 车撞 as he walked on the shoulder of a road on the outskirts of Lincoln City just east of the Oregon coast on Tuesday. Swanson's death was mourned in a post on the Facebook page titled "Breakaway Brazil," which he had used to document his planned journey. It was supposed to culminate with his arrival in Brazil in time for the World Cup, which begins in June 2014. "It is with a heavy heart 待着沉重的心情 to notify you that Richard Swanson passed on this morning," said the post, signed "Team Richard." After losing his job, Swanson said he became "a little bummed out( bummed out 心情抑郁. 不快乐. 心情压抑. Depressed, disappointed, in a gloomy mood. When you are absolutely positive that you are right, but then end up being proved wrong. Feeling really depressed and sad about an issue. gloomy; morose. Affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful; mournful. To be in such a saddened state such as when you miss someone or something that you can't stop thinking about that person or something. Dude... my girlfriend couldn't come over today. I REALLY miss her a lot. I feel really bummed out. bum someone out 让人失望 Sl. to disappoint someone. This menial job really bums me out. The bad movie bummed out the entire audience. bum out Sl. to have a bad experience (Originally referred to a bad experience with drugs.) Are you going to bum out again tonight? Man, is he bummed out! )" and started thinking about what he wanted from life, leading him to the realisation that he had always dreamed of attending the World Cup. Because his children were grown长大, he had no mortgage payments and no job to protect, Swanson said in the video, "all the pieces seemed to fit 一切都很合适, 一切条件都具备( fit something together to put the parts of something together. First you have to fit the pieces together to see if they are all there. I think I can fit the parts of the model airplane together. Do you think you can fit together all the parts of the puzzle? fit together [for things] to conform in shape to one another. All the pieces of the puzzle fit together. They really do. This nut and bolt just don't fit together. ) and it felt right that I should be planning this trip." He set out出发 from Seattle on May 1 carrying a sleeping bag in his backpack and sought out people to put him up along the way. He was scheduled to stop next at the coastal Oregon town of Newport, just over eight kms west of the city where he died. 4. rip into someone or something I. Lit. to attack someone or something by ripping. The raccoons ripped into the trash bags, scattering papers and stuff all over the street. The horrid murderer ripped into the helpless victim. II. Fig. to criticize or censure someone or something severely. The drama critic ripped into Larry. The critics really ripped into Larry's poor performance. rip something in half and rip something in two to tear something into two parts. Did you know that Ed can rip a telephone book in half? I can rip a newspaper in two. Psychic Edward on wiki: Although Edward later stopped practicing that faith, he has said he never stopped feeling connected to God and is still closely connected to his Catholic roots. After watching the broadcast version of the show he had attended and recorded, Underdown attributed a great deal of Edward's accuracy on television to editing and wrote, "Edward's editor fine-tuned many of the dead-ends out of a reading读(读一个人的心灵) riddled with misses充满错误." Shortly after the September 11 attacks, Edward began filming at least one special in which he met with some relatives of the victims, with the intention of communicating with those who were killed. According to Edward's autobiography, he did not know that the producers had chosen the victims' families to appear on the show. Steve Rosenberg, president of domestic television at Studios USA, the company that distributes 发行 Edward's program, had tentatively scheduled the program(s) to be broadcast during the November sweeps period(Electronic metering technology is the heart of the Nielsen ratings process. Two types of meters are used: set meters capture what channel is being tuned, while People Meters go a step further and gather information about who is watching in addition to the channel tuned. Diaries are also used to collect viewing information from sample homes in many television markets in the United States, and smaller markets are measured by paper diaries only. Each year Nielsen processes approximately two million paper diaries from households across the country, for the months of November, February, May, and July—also known as the "sweeps" rating periods. ), but news of the taping sparked a national outcry. Both the Sci Fi Channel and the Crossing Over with John Edward production office were flooded with phone calls and e-mails, some expressing outrage愤怒 at the exploitation of the national tragedy, others at what they perceived as extreme tastelessness in search of ratings. Rosenberg initially ignored the criticism, insisting the programming would go on as scheduled, but within hours he terminated his plans. 5. heavy lifting 重体力活, 重要工作 n. Slang Serious or difficult activities or work. difficult work; The most demanding part of an endeavour; work requiring the most effort, resources, or consideration. "The boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn't willing to do the heavy lifting". "Attention is shifting to the fall Presidential race, and with only seven months left in office, Reagan won't be doing any heavy lifting". slammer n. I. One that slams: a slammer of doors. II. Slang A jail. 6. dipstick n. I. 测试棒. A stick or rod used to measure the depth of a liquid. Often used to
check the level at which a liquid in an opaque or inaccessible tank or
reservoir stands; gauge. A graduated rod for measuring the depth or amount of liquid in a container, as of oil in a crankcase. A graduated rod or strip dipped into a container to indicate the fluid level. A rod for measuring the depth of a liquid, esp. the level of crankcase oil in an automotive engine. I haven't checked the oil level of my car's motor since I lost the dipstick three months ago. II. Slang A useless person. III. (slang) A penis. IV. (slang, euphemistic) A dipshit( dipshit I. (vulgar) A stupid or undesirable person. That guy at work is such a dipshit! II. (vulgar) Something unwanted or undesirable. I don't have time for all this dipshit. ). V. 智力欠缺的人. (slang, UK) A person regarded as foolish or contemptible. A person of inferior intellect or, more accurately, someone who makes an action that would imply this. That referee is a right dipstick. wiki: A dipstick is one of several measurement devices. Some dipsticks are dipped into a liquid to perform a chemical test or to provide a measure of quantity of the liquid. Since the late 20th century, a flatness/levelness measuring device trademarked "Dipstick" has been used to produce concrete and pavement surface profiles and to help establish profile measurement standards in the concrete floor and paving industries. A testing dipstick is usually made of paper or cardboard and is impregnated with reagents that indicate some feature of the liquid by changing color. In medicine, dipsticks can be used to test for a variety of liquids for the presence of a given substance, known as an analyte. Dipsticks can also be used to measure the quantity of liquid in an otherwise inaccessible space, by inserting and removing the stick and then checking the extent of it covered by the liquid. The most familiar example is the oil level dipstick found on most internal combustion engines. The word "dipstick" is also sometimes used as a slang term to refer to either the penis or, more commonly, a stupid person. 7. Chinese water torture is a process in which water is slowly dripped onto a person's forehead, allegedly driving the restrained victim insane. The Discovery Channel series MythBusters investigated Chinese water torture in the season 3 episode "Brown Note, Water Torture", and found that dripping water on the forehead, by itself, was not particularly stressful. Immobilizing the subject and varying the water drop schedule proved the most stressful of the methods they tried, and cold water intensified the effect. 8. 颜色相关的词组: The brown note(National Geographic频道有一个栏目叫这名字) is a hypothetical infrasonic frequency that would cause humans to lose control of their bowels due to resonance ( ['rɛzənəns] )回音回响. A brown note is a hypothetical sound wave that would cause involuntary defecation. Attempts to demonstrate the existence of a "brown note" using sound waves transmitted through air have failed. The name is metonym for the color of human feces. Frequencies supposedly involved are between 5 and 9 Hz, which is below 20 Hz, the lower frequency limit of human hearing. High power sound waves below 20 Hz are felt in the body, not heard by the ear as sound. The only other vibrations titled with colors are the colors of noise and blue notes. In science, Brownian noise, also known as Brown noise or red noise, is the kind of signal noise produced by Brownian motion布朗运动, hence its alternative name of random walk noise. The term "Brown noise" comes not from the color, but after Robert Brown, the discoverer of Brownian motion. In jazz and blues, a blue note (also "worried" note) is a note sung or played at a slightly lower pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes. Typically the alteration is a semitone or less, but this varies among performers and genres. 9. eligible ['ɛlidʒəbəl] adj I. 够资格的, 够格的. 符合规定的, 满足要求的, 有资格的, 够得上的. Qualified or entitled to be chosen: eligible to run for office; eligible for retirement. Are you eligible to get baby bonus? II. Desirable and worthy of choice, especially for marriage: an eligible bachelor. III. Football Allowed under the rules to catch a forward pass: an eligible receiver. clue someone in (on something) 给信息, 告诉, 提供信息, 透漏信息 to inform someone of something. to give someone information they need or want. I asked David to clue us in on what needed to be done first. He hung the painting to clue in visitors that this was a different kind of place. Please clue me in on what's been going on. Clue in those guys before it's too late. No one was clued in on what really happened in the boardroom. 10. precedence ['prɛsidəns], precedency I. 优先权. The fact, state, or right of preceding; priority: Applications arriving first will receive precedence. c#: Any compatible instance method will always take precedence over 享有优先权 an extension method. II. Priority claimed or received because of preeminence or superiority: The company asserted its precedence as the leading manufacturer of microchips. III. A ceremonial order of rank or preference, especially as observed on formal occasions: Recipients of military honors were called in order of precedence highest ranking officers first. precedence over someone or something the right to come before someone or something else; greater importance than someone or something else. (take ~; have ~; be given ~.) Ambulances have precedence over regular cars at intersections. My manager's concerns take precedence over mine. "precedence" means "ordering", whereas "precedent先例" means "a prior established case", usually legal. So you can set a precedent by doing something first, but when you mean that one thing comes before another, you say it "takes precedence".
head和idea相关的词组: get it/something into your head 相信 to begin to think that something is true. Charles somehow got it into his head that I was an athlete. She got the notion into her head that we should buy the place. go to somebody's head I. if an alcoholic drink goes to someone's head, it makes them feel drunk very quickly. That glass of wine I had before supper went straight to my head. II. 冲昏头脑. if success goes to someone's head, it makes them believe they are more important than they are. for something, such as fame or success] to make someone conceited. Just because you won the poetry prize, you won't let it go to your head now, will you? Don't let all this praise go to your head. Too much success will go to her head. put ideas into somebody's head 谁告诉你的. 给建议, 让...觉得, 给你...错觉 to suggest something-usually something bad-to someone (who would not have thought of it otherwise). to make someone want to do something they had not thought about doing before, especially something stupid (often in continuous tenses) Don't go putting ideas into his head. We haven't got the money for a car. Who put all these ideas into her head about becoming an actress? take something into one's head 错误的相信, 迷上, 错误的以为, 脑残了, 脑子出毛病了, 会有这种想法 Fig. to get an obsession or overpowering idea into one's thinking. George took this strange idea into his head about fixing the car himself. take it into your head to do something to decide to do something. Uncle Julian might take it into his head to say almost anything. Usage notes: usually said about doing something silly or surprising. get your head around something (informal) to be able to understand something (usually negative). He's tried to explain the rules of the game dozens of times but I just can't get my head around them. Don't get any ideas别动歪主意, 别做任何打算, 别想会怎样. perish the thought 想都别想, 门都没有, 死心吧, 不可能的 do not even think about it, Do not even consider thinking of such a (negative) thing I don't think either parent would ever, perish the thought, tell that kid. If his father came to live with us, perish the thought, I can't imagine what strain that would put on our relationship. get ideas I. to start to believe things that are not true错误以为. He started to get ideas about his importance to the organization. II. 想都别想 to plan something that someone will not like or allow. Don’t get any ideas about moving in with me. get the idea 知道了, 明白了, 了解了 to understand something, often something that is not expressed directly. Okay, I get the idea: you two want to be alone. get the idea (that) 开始觉得, 有点觉得: I got the idea that he didn’t want to answer the question. get the wrong idea to believe something that is not true. I'll explain everything to George. I wouldn't want him to get the wrong idea. have the right idea 是对的 if you say that someone has the right idea, you think that what they are doing is right or good. The Spanish have the right idea, they have a siesta午睡, 午休 after lunch. That's an idea used for saying that you think what someone has suggested is good. 'I'm going to have some breakfast, aren't you?' 'That's an idea.' that's the idea 就是这样, 就这么办 used for telling someone that they are doing something correctly or well. You use the white ball to hit the red ball into the pocket. That’s the idea! Where did you get that idea? 从哪里听说, 谁让你这么觉得, 谁让你这么认为. used for telling someone that what they think is definitely not true. Where did he ever get the idea that I was in love with him?
cock相关说法: cock v. I. To set the hammer of (a firearm) in a position ready for firing. II. To set (a device, such as a camera shutter) in a position ready for use. III. To tilt or turn up or to one side, usually in a jaunty or alert manner: cocked an eyebrow in response to a silly question. IV. To raise in preparation to throw or hit: cocked the bat before swinging at the pitch. cock of the walk An overbearing or domineering person. someone who acts more important than others in a group. The deputy manager was cock of the walk until the new manager arrived. He loved acting cock of the walk and ordering everyone about. cock a snook/snoot at someone 蔑视的看了一眼 to show or express defiance or scorn at someone. He cocked a snook at the traffic cop and tore up the ticket. The boy cocked a snook at the park attendant and walked on the grass. cock-and-bull story a hard-to-believe, made-up story; a story that is a lie. Don't give me that cock-and-bull story. I asked for an explanation, and all I got was your ridiculous cock-and-bull story! go off [at] half-cock 张口就来, 随口就说, 不假思索 to suddenly give your opinion without preparing what you are saying or understanding the subject you are talking about, often because you are angry. to go into action too early or without thinking. (Originally refers to a
flintlock or matchlock gun firing prematurely, before the trigger was
pulled.) You don't listen. You just go off at half-cock without even hearing the end of my sentence. A cock ring is a ring that can be placed around a man's penis, usually at the base, primarily to slow the flow of blood from the erect penile tissue, thus maintaining an erection for a much longer period of time. Cock rings can be worn around just the penis or both the penis and scrotum, or just the scrotum alone, though this is usually called a testicle cuff. Rings can be made of a variety of different materials, most commonly leather, rubber, or silicone, though nylon and metal are also used either as the main component or part of the closure. The term cock ring is sometimes used as a synonym for a Prince Albert piercing, a piercing of the penis that is usually, though not always, a metal ring. When used in cases of erectile dysfunction they are known by various names such as "erection ring" and "tension ring". The Prince Albert (PA) is one of the more common male genital piercings. The PA is "a ring-style piercing that extends along the underside of the glans 龟头 from the urethral opening( 尿道口. urethra [ju'ri:θrə] 尿道. The canal through which urine is discharged from the bladder in most mammals and through which semen is discharged in the male. ) to where the glans meets the shaft of the penis." The related "reverse Prince Albert piercing" enters through the urethra and exits through a hole pierced in the top of the glans. While some piercers may choose to avoid the nerve bundle神经束 that runs along the center of the frenulum altogether, others will choose otherwise. The piercing can be centered if the bearer is circumcised. Otherwise, the piercing must be done off-center because the surrounding skin needs to be able to reposition itself dynamically.
说话管用, 说话顶事, 说话算话, 掌柜的, 掌管家事, 说话有用, 说了算, 听你的: 1. come home (to roost) I.
回巢栖息. Lit. [for a fowl or other bird] to return to its home, as for a
night's rest. The chickens come home to roost in the evening. II. Fig.
[for a problem] to return to cause trouble [for someone]. As I feared, all my problems came home to roost. come home (to somebody) I. to become completely clear to someone. [for a fact] to be recognized suddenly by someone. Suddenly, it came home to me that you thought I was Ronald. The importance of the events of the day finally came home to me. The reality of his loss finally came home to him. Usage notes: usually said about something that is difficult or unpleasant. II. to arrive home and find someone or something there. I like to come home to a happy house. I look forward to coming home to you. roost 栖息 To rest or sleep on or as if on a perch or roost. chickens come home to roost 遭报应
Prov. You have to face the consequences of your mistakes or bad deeds.
if you say that chickens are coming home to roost, you mean that bad or
silly things done in the past are beginning to cause problems. There
was too much greed in the past, and now the chickens are coming home to
roost with crime and corruption soaring. Jill: Emily found out that I
said she was incompetent, and now she won't recommend me for that job.
Jane: The chickens have come home to roost, I see. rule the roost 掌管家事, 说话算话(to be in charge). Fig. to be the boss or manager, especially at home. Who rules the roost at your house? Our new office manager really rules the roost. 2. call [all] the shots/tune 做决定, 决定怎么做, 决定做什么, 发号施令 Fig. to make the decisions; to decide what is to be done. to be in charge; to give orders. Sally always wants to call the shots, and Mary doesn't like to be bossed around. They don't get along well. Sally always wants to call the tune. Why do you have to call all the shots? Do what you're told. I'll call the shots. You may know all about glassblowing, but here in the gym I call the shots. Glassblowing 玻璃成型, 玻璃塑型(比如生产灯泡, 实验室玻璃器皿.) is a glassforming technique that involves inflating molten glass into a bubble (or parison), with the aid of a blowpipe (or blow tube). A person who blows glass is called a glassblower, glassmith, or gaffer( gaffer ['gæfə] I. An electrician in charge of lighting on a movie or television set. II. Chiefly British An old man or a rustic. III. Chiefly British A boss or foreman.). A lampworker灯具工人 manipulates glass on a smaller scale, such as in producing precision laboratory glassware玻璃器皿. call/cash in your chips I. (humorous) to die He cashed in his chips shortly before his ninetieth birthday. II. 卖掉筹码. to sell things that you own, especially shares (= parts of a business), because you need some money. Usage notes: Chips are the round pieces of plastic that are used in some games played for money. I think it's time to cash in our chips. It's the only way we can pay the bill. bring/call somebody to heel 逼人屈服, 屈服于淫威, 让人听话 to force someone to obey you He decided that threatening to sue the publishers was the easiest way of bringing them to heel. 3. pay the piper(a person who plays a pipe or bagpipes. bagpipe风笛: Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds簧片 fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.) I. (idiomatic) 谁买单谁有发言权. who pays the piper calls the tune. To pay expenses for something, and thus be in a position to be in control (i.e. to be able to call the tune). II. (idiomatic) pay the/a price付出代价(He achieved great fame in his later years, but he certainly paid the price. Professional athletes often pay a price for the beating their bodies have taken. pay the cost/bill = bear the expense 买单. ) To pay a monetary debt or experience unfavorable consequences, especially when the payment or consequences are inevitable in spite of attempts to avoid them. to face the results of one's actions; to receive punishment for something. You
can put off paying your debts only so long. Eventually you'll have to
pay the piper. You can't get away with that forever. You'll have to pay
the piper someday. Roosevelt never fully recovered his health, but he refused any regret. "I am always willing to pay the piper," he once wrote, "when I have had a good dance.".
奥运赛场妈妈罚儿子: New Zealand kayaker皮划艇激流回旋比赛选手 Mike Dawson made the semifinals of the kayak slalom( ['slɑ:ləm] The act or sport of skiing in a zigzag course. ) at the Olympics despite being given a two-second penalty. The judge responsible for doling out the penalty? None other than Dawson's mother Kay. And from what I hear, she didn't hesitate for a second in penalizing her son. It was one of two two-second penalties Dawson received, but he still advanced to the semifinals. Dawson joked that he was tempted to get his coach to put in a protest. That would have made dinner time at the Dawsons even more awkward. Oh yeah, Dawson's coach is also his father, Les Dawson. So I'm pretty sure that a protest would have been shot down immediately by Kay, because I'm going to go ahead and assume she rules the roost in the Dawson household( chickens come home to roost Prov. You have to face the consequences of your mistakes or bad deeds. to cause problems for you He said some stupid things and now those remarks were coming home to roost. Usage notes: said of problems that result from your own mistakes, and sometimes used with chickens: Nobody felt sorry for him because it was a case of the chickens coming home to roost. Etymology: based on the habit of chickens and other birds that return to their nesting places. rule the roost 掌管家事 ( call the tune/shots. He who pays the piper calls the tune. ) Fig. to be the boss or manager, especially at home. Who rules the roost at your house? Our new office manager really rules the roost. ). Dawson says his mother's penalty "definitely dispels any hint of bias and I wouldn't have it any other way." "That would've had all sorts of ramifications after the Olympics, and besides, I like mum's cooking too much!" Dawson wrote Monday in his email to the AP. "Fortunately it was definitely a genuine touch, and of course she called it right判的对, as I'd expect her to ... though I'll be trying my hardest to keep mum unoccupied in my semifinal run," he said. Props to mom for not playing favorites. Tough love and all that. 激流回旋项目: Whitewater slalom (canoe/kayak slalom since November 2008)( whitewater: frothy泡沫的 water as in rapids or waterfalls. Whitewater is formed in a rapid, when a river's gradient increases enough to disturb its laminar flow and create turbulence, i.e. form a bubbly, or aerated and unstable current; the frothy water appears white. The term is also used loosely to refer to less-turbulent but still agitated flows. The term "whitewater" also has a broader meaning, applying to any river or creek itself that has a significant number of rapids. The term is also used as an adjective describing boating on such rivers, such as whitewater canoeing or whitewater kayaking. slalom ['slɑ:ləm] 在障碍间来回穿梭, 回旋 To slalom is to zigzag between obstacles.
vi. I. To race in or as if in a slalom. II. To waterski using a single
ski designed so the feet are secured one behind the other. n. I. The act
or sport of skiing in a zigzag course. II. A race on skis or in
vehicles along such a course, laid out with markers such as flags.) is a competitive sport where the aim is to navigate a decked canoe or kayak through a course of hanging gates on river rapids激流 in the fastest time possible. It is one of the two kayak and canoeing disciplines at the Summer Olympics, and is referred to by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as Canoe/Kayak slalom. The other Olympic canoeing discipline is canoe sprint. There is also wildwater, a non-Olympic paddlesport. canoe sprint 皮划艇(赛艇是rowing): The oldest discipline of ICF canoeing, sometimes referred to as "Flatwater Racing", races are typically held for single, double and four-person sprint canoes and kayaks. Canoe sprint takes place on a straight course divided in lanes, on calm water.
The distances recognised by the ICF for international races are 200 m,
500 m, and 1000 m. Each boat has its own designated lane, except for
races over more than 1000 m, where there also may be turning points. Men
race in canoes and in kayaks独木舟( kayak[kayak], kaiak ['kaiæk] ),
women in kayaks except in Canada and the United States where women's
canoe is an event raced at both Canada Games and National Championships.