用法学习： 1. get over yourself 省省吧, 行了吧, 别顾影自怜了, 别就得自己受了多大委屈似的! something you say to tell someone to stop thinking that they are more important than other people, especially when they are complaining about something. urbandict: Patronising phrase used to tell someone that you believe they hold too high an opinion of themselves, or are behaving in a conceited or pompous manner. what is said to someone who takes themselves a bit too seriously and is one snotty way to tell someone "chill out already". Get over yourself, yer not the great and that's why she left you for your neighbors' dog. You wouldn't be seen dead in shorts? Please! Get over yourself! 2. stop and smell the roses (idiomatic) To relax; to take time out of one's busy schedule to enjoy or appreciate the beauty of life. Slow down. Stop and smell the roses now and then. 3. An odometer or odograph is an instrument that indicates distance traveled by a vehicle, such as a bicycle or automobile. The device may be electronic, mechanical, or a combination of the two. In countries where Imperial units or US customary units are used, it is sometimes called a mileometer or milometer, or, colloquially, a tripometer. An odometer is a continual counter of distance and a trip odometer measures from point A to B and can be reset.
各种床和throw pillow: 1. A throw pillow, or toss pillow 装饰枕头, is a small, decorative type of pillow. Throw pillows are usually placed on sofas or armchairs but are also frequently used on beds, day beds and floors. Throw pillows serve both an aesthetic and a functional purpose. Decorative pillows are commonly used to tie in color accents within a room, often drawing on the colors in drapes, walls or area rugs. From a functional perspective, throw pillows may provide back, neck and head support, although some throw pillows are very uncomfortable. Throw pillows typically feature a removable cover with a feather pillow form stuffed inside and come in various sizes and shapes. The most common size throw pillow is 16 to 18 inch square. However, rectangular, circular and cylindrical throw pillows, called bolsters, are also popular. Outside the United States, throw pillows are more commonly referred to as cushions. Throw pillow and decorative cushions are made from a wide range of textiles including silk, leather, microfibre or faux suede, cotton, linen and hemp. In recent years, decorative pillows have been revived as an artistic medium. Fashion designers have become increasingly attracted to the lucrative home textiles or furnishings market and this has led to a wide range of more embellished looks and styles. Company logos and photos are placed on pillows as well to give a personalized look. 2. Daybeds(介于床和沙发之间的) are used as beds as well as for lounging, reclining and seating in common rooms. Their frames can be made out of wood, metal or a combination of wood and metal. They are a cross between chaise longue可当床的长椅子, couch and a bed. Daybeds typically feature a back and sides and come in Twin Size (39 in × 75 in = 99 cm × 191 cm). Often daybeds will also feature a trundle抽屉似的, 拉出来可以拓展成床的 to expand sleeping capacity. Many of today's daybeds employ a linkspring as the support system for the mattress. The linkspring is a rectangular metal frame (roughly the footprint of the mattress) with cross supports. A wire or polyester / nylon mesh held in place by a network of springs lays across the top of the linkspring. The linkspring design provides support and creates clearance underneath a daybed for storage. A recent development in infant beds is a bed that converts into a daybed by the removal of one side, ensuring the furniture is useful for more than a couple of years. 3. Trundle beds (两层床平常一个以抽屉的形式放在另一个下边, 拉出来后可以升平成为一个大床) (or truckle beds, trumple beds or hurly-beds) are usually considered a pair of beds, one a twin bed, and the other slightly smaller on rollers or casters so that it may be put beneath the upper twin bed for storage. Trundle beds are a space-saving idea and allow for an extra separate bed to be available when necessary, but do not require the second space constantly. The lower bed on some trundles can "pop-up" to be the same height as the twin it is stored beneath, creating a regular-height bed. Often used as daybeds, trundle beds are less common than bunkbeds for children. Due to storing one bed beneath the other, neither bed usually has a box-spring. When not used for sleeping, the lower bed, with mattress removed, may be used as a general storage drawer. 4. A Murphy bed(白天可以折叠起来成为墙的床) (in North America), also called a wall bed, pull down bed or fold-down bed is a bed that is hinged at one end to store vertically against the wall, or inside of a closet or cabinet. 5. A chaise longue ([,ʃeiz'lo:ŋ], "long chair") is an upholstered(装上垫子, 套子等的) sofa in the shape of a chair that is long enough to support the legs. It is sometimes incorrectly written as "chaise lounge". In modern French the term chaise longue can refer to any long reclining chair such as a deckchair. A literal translation in English is "long chair". In the United States the term lounge chair is also used to refer to any long reclining chair. 6. A sofa bed or sofa-bed, (in the US often sofabed, hide-a-bed, couch bed or sleeper-sofa or futon), typically is a sofa or couch which has underneath its seating cushions a metal frame and thin mattress that can be unfolded or opened up to make a bed. A futon differs from a sofabed, although sofa beds using futon mattresses are common. Sofa beds can be found not just in many styles, but many sizes as well. They are categorized accordingly, from Chair Sleepers (cot size bed) to Queen Sleepers. Almost all sofa beds contain the standard bar and canvas mechanism seen for years, however a few new lines can be found with alternative mechanisms. Sofa beds are usually three-person couches. However sofa beds that are two-person couches are also available. These types of sofa beds are known as loveseat sleepers. They are known as loveseats since the smaller size means one needs to be comfortable with how close they will be to the person next to them.
情绪无常: 1. It was X-rated限制级的, isn't it? 2. When Paul, a PE teacher, suddenly lost interest in having sex, Susan feared he was having an affair. "If I made an advance采取主动, 主动(make advances at/to someone to flirt with someone; to begin to seduce someone. She began making advances to me, and I left the room. Mary made advances at every male she encountered.), Paul would say things like 'I'm not in the mood'," says Susan "I'd think: 'Is there something wrong with me? Is he going off with somebody else?'. "We'd always said if we met someone else we'd be upfront直说, 不隐瞒. I was preparing myself for him telling me he'd met another woman认识了别人." It was only when Susan, a site manager for a school, found Paul in their bedroom in floods of tears that she realised something altogether different was going on. He said he couldn't understand what was wrong with him. Not only had he lost his sex drive, but he was exhausted all the time, had put on a lot of weight and was suffering from extreme mood swings(见下边解释). GP ordered a blood test to check Paul's testosterone levels. My testosterone levels were almost non-existent, which the doctors think was a result of a bad bout of flu I'd had that had knocked out my ability to produce it. He was prescribed three-monthly testosterone injections开了三个月的注射, which he now has to have for life. It was after the second jab that Paul noticed his sex drive returning and his other symptoms disappearing. "It was an amazing feeling when my libido came back," he says. 3. My partner of four years often asks me to lie still in bed, as if I'm asleep, while he makes love to me. He is particularly turned on if I'm lying on my tummy. I find this impersonal ( I. 与个人无关的. 非针对个人的. without reference to any individual person; objective. an impersonal assessment. II. 冷淡的》 没有人情味的. 冷漠的. devoid of human warmth or sympathy; cold. an impersonal manner. III. 与人力五无关的, 非个人的. 不具人格的. not having human characteristics. an impersonal God. ) and slightly creepy, although outside the bedroom he's as straightforward and kind as they come( as something as they come as much of a particular characteristic as is possible. Eric is as competitive as they come and always trying to win. come one, come all (formal) something that you say which means that everyone or everything can join or be included. We can't just invite some people and not others, so I guess it's a case of come one, come all. ). Many, if not most, sexual scenarios have equal power to charm or repel. If you style your boyfriend's preference as a "sleeping beauty睡美人" fantasy, then it suddenly doesn't seem quite so perturbing变态的. Many women report a seductive tension between their partner trying to work them into a lather of ecstasy( lather ['lɑ:ðə 'læ-] n. I. A foam formed by soap or detergent agitated in water, as in washing or shaving. II. Froth formed by profuse sweating, as on a horse. III. Informal A condition of anxious or heated discomposure; agitation: The students were in a lather over the proposed restrictions. v. I. 起泡沫. 起沫沫. To spread with or as if with lather. To produce lather; foam. II. Informal To give a beating to; whip. in a lather 急切盼望的. 激动不已的 Fig. flustered; excited and agitated. (be ~; get [into] ~.) to be very anxious about something. She was in a real lather when I left this morning because she couldn't find the tickets. Now, calm down. Don't be in a lather. I always get in a lather when I'm late. I get into a lather easily. work oneself (up) into a lather/sweat I. = work up a sweat Lit. 下死力气, 费死了劲. 费尽心机. 不辞辛苦. to work very hard and sweat very much. (In the way that a horse works up a lather.) Don't work yourself up into a lather. We don't need to finish this today. I worked myself into a sweat getting this stuff ready. II. Fig. to get excited or angry. (An elaboration of work oneself up to something.) Now, now, don't work yourself up into a lather. He had worked himself into such a sweat, I was afraid he would have a stroke. lather up I. [for a horse] to develop a foam of sweat from working very hard. The horses lathered up heavily during the race. Don't let your horse lather up! II. [for soap] to develop thick suds when rubbed in water. This soap won't lather up, even when I rub it hard. When the soap lathers up, spread the lather on your face and rub. III. and lather oneself up [for one] to apply soap lather to one's body. He will spend a few minutes lathering himself up before he rinses. He lathered up and then shaved.) and their own pretense of being asleep and unaroused. If the same fantasy were enacted by a man who was manipulative or domineering 统治欲的, 强势的, 好指使人的, you might start asking uncomfortable questions about why a partner seemed most aroused when you were helpless and unresponsive. 关于mood swing(=emotional swing): 网友: I prefer not to be around people who have emotional swings. Moody people. People who have the tendency to switch emotions quickly and without much of an apparent reason. So, they could be happy one moment and then really cranky the next, for whatever reason. Women are particularly prone to emotional or "mood swings". They occur during the menstrual cycle, during pregnancy and at the time of the menopause. They are due to hormonal ( ['hɔ:məun] ) changes in the body. Other people are just "moody" by nature 天性喜怒无常 - cheerful one minute, miserable the next, but I believe there is also a medical reason for this. wiki: A mood swing 情绪多变, 情绪化, 情绪不稳定, 阴晴不定, 喜怒无常, 情绪无常. is an extreme or rapid change in mood. Such mood swings can play a positive part in promoting problem solving and in producing flexible forward planning. However, when mood swings are so strong that they are disruptive, mood swings are universal, varying from the microscopic to the wild oscillations ( oscillation [,osi'leiʃən] I. 振荡. 摆动, 波动. II. 彷徨, 犹豫. 动摇. ) of manic depression, so that a continuum(continuum [kən'tinjuəm] 连续统一体 A continuous series or whole, no part of which is perceptibly different from the adjacent parts. A continuous extent, succession, or whole, no part of which can be distinguished from neighboring parts except by arbitrary division. ) can be traced from normal struggles around self-esteem, through cyclothymia, up to a depressive disease. However most people's mood swings remain in the mild to moderate range of emotional ups and downs情绪起伏. The duration of mood swings also varies. They may last a few hours - ultradian - or extend over days - Changes in a person's energy level, sex drive, sleep patterns, self-esteem, concentration, drug or alcohol use can be signs of an oncoming mood disorder. Many different things might trigger mood swings, from unhealthy diet or life style to drug abuse or hormonal imbalance.
