用法学习： 1. 夫妻游船上消失: It says they believe "she lost her grip and slipped backwards". They believe Mr Rossington "jumped in to save her without having a chance to think clearly". Carnival chief executive Ann Sherry has defended the ship's safety and security measures and says the gap in time时间间隔 from when the couple went overboard to when crew realised is because no-one saw the incident. "The issue of the gap in the timing, it partly goes to a man overboard( Man overboard 有人落水 is a situation in which a person has fallen from a boat or ship into the water and is in need of rescue. Whoever sees the person's fall should shout "man overboard" ("man" here meaning "person") to alert other crew members and attempt to maintain visual contact with the person in the water. Pointing continuously at the victim can aid the helmsman in approaching the victim. ) protocol," she said. "We didn't realise the couple were missing until the disembarkation." 2. As is typical for ABC on the Friday evening before the official 2013-2014 schedule is announced, the network has announced renewals for several of its existing series and has picked up two new pilots to series. "Nashville" was ABC's one solid new series in the fall of 2012, while "Revenge" and "Suburgatory" have stayed steady enough through their second seasons. The new comedy, "Super Fun Night," is a female buddy comedy about a group of long-time adult friends who gather weekly for their "Friday Night Fun Night." 13 years into the tradition, the group decides to branch out into ( branch out (into something) Fig. to diversify and go into new areas. to expand away from something; to diversify away from narrower interests. The speaker branched out from her prepared remarks脱离讲稿. The topic was very broad, and she was free to branch out. Business was very good, so I decided to branch out. I have decided to branch out into some new projects. ) the world with their tame partying. 3. celibacy: the state of being single or unmarried, especially in the case of one bound by vows not to marry. Abstinence from sexual intercourse, especially by reason of religious vows. plute (colloquial, Australia, US) A plutocrat, especially a rich industrialist. plutocrat ['plu:tə,kræt] 仗势欺人, 财大气粗的人, 富人统治, 钱说话, 有钱有势的人掌权的社会, 富豪, 财阀 someone who rules by virtue of his or her wealth. A wealthy class that controls a government. A government or state in which the wealthy rule. plutocracy [plu:'tokrəsi] I. the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy. II. a government or state in which the wealthy class rules. III. a class or group exercising power by virtue of its wealth. 4. look out 当心, 留意, 小心, 注意看 I. To look from within to the outside. Look out, and you will see the rain has stopped. Look out of the window and see if it is raining. I looked out of the door to see what the weather was like. II. to watch what is happening and be careful. Be vigilant and aware. While you're in the city center, look out for the dodgy street vendors街头小贩. But when the ice suddenly breaks, look out. Usage notes: often used as an instruction: Someone shouted, "Look out, he's got a gun!" watch out 当心 (spoken) be aware They say a storm is coming, so watch out and don't take any chances. Usage notes: sometimes used as an order: Andy saw the car coming toward them, and yelled, "Watch out!". look out for somebody/something I. 照顾. 关心. to feel responsibility for someone or something watch out for somebody/something. I have a network of neighbors who look out for each other and support each other. II. to be aware of the existence of someone or something. Harrison Craig is my favorite, look out for留意, 小心 him. Everybody thought I'd win, but I kept telling them to look out for Walter, too. Look out for a small amount of extremely vulgar language in the middle of the movie. watch out for somebody/something I. to feel responsibility for someone or something. Carol's father made me promise I'd watch out for her and make sure she had whatever she needed. II. 当心, 小心. to be careful in order to avoid a problem. Watch out! That car nearly hit you! Look out for John. He's looking for you, and he's really mad. Thanks. I'd better look out 最好注意点, 最好小心点. You've got to watch out for viruses when downloading files to your computer. Watch out for that dog - he's not very friendly. III. 注意看吧. 你看吧. to be aware of someone or something. I used to tell everyone, "Watch out for this girl. She's going to be a great tennis player one day." IV. 注意看. 留心看. 注意着点. to be on guard for someone or something; to be on watch for the arrival or approach of someone or something. Watch out for someone wearing a white carnation. Look out for John and his friends. They'll be coming this way very soon. look after number one and look out for number one 为自己打算, 为自己利益 (这里的number one: oneself, being considered foremost, as by an egoist.) to take care of oneself first. To act in one's own interests; to act in a manner advantageous primarily to oneself. You gotta look after number one, right? It's a good idea to look out for number one. Who else will? look out on/over 可以看得到, 俯瞰得见, 看得见 be oriented in a certain direction; "The house looks out on a tennis court"; "The apartment overlooks the Hudson". on the lookout (for someone or something) 留心看, 注意找, 寻找 on the lookout for talented people. watchful for someone or something. Constantly alert, intent on finding something or someone. I'm on the lookout for a good example of a Roman dinar from the 1st century. Let me know if you hear of one anywhere. Be on the lookout for signs of a storm. I'm on the lookout for John, who is due here any minute. 5. precarious [pri'kɛəriəs] adj 可能出问题的, 可能失败的. 可能惨败的. 危险的. 局势未稳的. 不安稳的. 不安定的. liable to failure or catastrophe; insecure; perilous. Subject to chance or unknown conditions. a precarious posture; precarious footing on the ladder. "His kingdom was still precarious; the Danes far from subdued驯服的, 未被制服的, 服气的". backdown: An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal. Wayne Swan says he'll wear the pain 承受痛苦 for surplus backdown. WAYNE Swan says he will "take his medicine" ( take one's medicine Fig. to accept the consequences or the bad fortune that one deserves. (Alludes to having to take unpleasant-tasting medicine. ) I know I did wrong, and I know I have to take my medicine. Billy knew he was going to get spanked, and he didn't want to take his medicine. ) and wear the political pain for abandoning Labor's much touted surplus in Tuesday's budget. The Treasurer today argued that successful governments adapted to changed circumstances and that the write-down ( A reduction of the entered value of an asset.reduction in the book value of an asset. write-off`n. I. a cancellation from the accounts as a loss. II. a reduction in book value; depreciation. III. a person or thing that is given up as hopeless or pointless. ) in commonwealth tax revenues since last May's budget had been unprecedented. 6. glare I. (uncountable) An intense, blinding light. II. Showy brilliance; gaudiness. III. 怒目而视. 瞪视. An angry or fierce stare. A fierce or angry stare. She's faced the glare of public life since she was a girl, but Chelsea Clinton must contend with对付 renewed press scrutiny as she increasingly assumes a role in her mother's campaign for president. The two-kanal house of railway minister and local member of Parliament, Pawan Kumar Bansal, in Sector 28 wore a deserted look on Monday as the family shifted its base to New Delhi, apparently to avoid media glare and to be with the minister in the hour of crisis. IV. (telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call. rivet one's glare/gaze on someone or something 盯死, 死盯着 Fig. to fasten one's gaze onto someone or something. (As if it were attached by rivets.) He riveted his gaze on the surly young man. Walter riveted his hateful glare on the last page of the contract and sneered. surly adj. I. sullenly ill-tempered or rude. Sullenly ill-humored; gruff. II. Threatening, as of weather conditions; ominous: surly clouds filled the sky. rivet ['rivit] n. 一种一头是长型的钉子, 可以锤扁. A metal bolt or pin having a head on one end, inserted through aligned holes in the pieces to be joined and then hammered on the plain end so as to form a second head. v. I. To fasten or secure with or as if with a rivet. II. To hammer the headless end of so as to form a head and fasten something. III. To fasten or secure firmly; fix. IV. To engross or hold (the attention, for example). to cause to be fixed or held firmly, as in fascinated attention, horror, etc. to be riveted to the spot僵立当场. 7. C# Exception: It can be desirable for an operation to be atomic, where it either successfully completes or fails without affecting state. An object becomes unusable when it enters an indeterminate不确定状态 state that is the result of a half-finished operation. finally blocks(exception中的finally) facilitate 提供便利条件 writing atomic operations. As with int.TryParse, a function can communicate failure by sending an error code back to the calling function via a return type or parameter. Although this can work with simple and predictable failures, it becomes clumsy when extended to all errors, polluting method signatures and creating unnecessary complexity and clutter ( n. I. 混乱状态. a confused disordered jumble of things. A confused or disordered state or collection; a jumble: sorted through the clutter in the attic. II. background echos, from clouds etc, on a radar screen. v. 堆满, 搞的乱糟糟的. To fill or spread over in a disorderly manner. To make disorderly or hard to use by filling or covering with objects: Boxes cluttered the garage. I cluttered up my desk with old memos. Newspapers cluttered the living room. clutter something up to mess something up; to fill something or some place up with too many things. Heaps of newspapers cluttered the room up and made it a fire hazard. Who cluttered up this house? ). It also cannot generalize to 通用到 functions that are not methods, such as operators (e.g., the division operator) or properties. An alternative is to place the error in a common place where all functions in the call stack can see it (e.g., a static method that stores the current error per thread). This, though, requires 需要 each function to participate in an error-propagation pattern that is cumbersome 讨厌的 and, ironically, itself error-prone本身易出错的. 8. tell me about it 我太知道了 (spoken) I have had the same experience. Used to express agreement and sympathy with previous speaker's statement. "I love my sister, but she can be a real bother sometimes." "Oh, tell me about it." Usage notes: said in reaction to someone else's statement, as in the example. join the club (idiomatic) An expression of sympathy for a shared experience. You're getting poor response times? Join the club!
The Voice: Shawne Kirke is defying the odds one day at a time ( take each day as it comes also take it one day at a time 兵来将挡水来土掩, 过一天算一天 to deal with things as they happen, and not to make plans or to worry about the future. When you get to my age, you just take one day at a time. I've lived through a lot of changes recently, but I've learnt to take each day as it comes. one day at a time 表明一种人生态度: Today is all I have. We can do nothing to change what has gone before. We can only decide, every day, the kind of person we choose to be for that one day. or Do not take concern over yesterday, or tomorrow, but only of today for nothing can be retrieved from yesterday, and tomorrow has not yet come. ). The Perth-based singer, who appeared on The Voice last night, almost died at the age of 12 after suffering a severe asthma attack, which left him with a physical disability requiring him to use permanent crutches拐杖. "I was in intensive care for a few weeks and wasn't actually breathing," Kirke said. "There was an incubator ( incubator I. (chemistry) Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction. II. (medicine) 婴儿恒温箱. An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby. An apparatus for maintaining an infant,
especially a premature infant, in an environment of controlled
temperature, humidity, and oxygen concentration. III. 孵化器. An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs. IV. A place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature. incubate I. (transitive) To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions. II. (transitive) To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it. When you've got your theme–let the concept incubate. Walk around with it, sleep on it. A medical ventilator 呼吸机 (or simply ventilator in context) is a machine designed to mechanically move breatheable air into and out of the lungs, to provide the mechanism of breathing for a patient who is physically unable to breathe, or breathing insufficiently. While modern ventilators are computerized machines, patients can be ventilated with a bag valve mask, a simple hand-operated machine. A respirator 呼吸面罩, 过滤面罩([ˈrɛspəˌreitə]) is a device designed to protect the wearer from inhaling harmful dusts, fumes, vapors, or gases. Respirators come in a wide range of types and sizes used by the military, private industry, and the public. Respirators range from cheaper, single-use, disposable masks to reusable models with replaceable cartridges. There are two main categories: the air-purifying空气净化 respirator, which forces contaminated air through a filtering element, and the air-supplied respirator氧气面罩, in which an alternate supply of fresh air is delivered. Within each category, different techniques are employed to reduce or eliminate noxious airborne contents. ) breathing for me. "I got to a stage where the doctors said to my parents 'It is time to say goodbye to your son', because they were not sure whether I was going to survive. "They said 'If he does make it through the night, he is most likely going to have severe brain damage', because I wasn't getting any oxygen to my brain. Kirke used to fret about what people thought of his appearance because of the disability. Kirke said he decided to go on Seal's team after he was impressed with how he coached his contestants on last year's series. "I think he (Seal) is very cutthroat ( n. An unscrupulous, ruthless or unethical person. adj. I. 竞争激烈的. 竞争残酷的. Ruthlessly competitive, dog-eat-dog. Law is a cutthroat business, you always have to look out to see who is trying to outdo you. II. Of or relating to a card game where everyone plays for him or herself rather than playing with a partner. He found that playing cutthroat Spades was much more difficult than playing with a partner. dog-eat-dog 狗咬狗的 characterizes a person or situation in which people will do anything to be successful, even if what they do harms other people; ruthlessly acquisitive or competitive. It's a dog-eat-dog world in the movie business: everyone in the movie business is trying to get one up over everyone else. ) and a bit more in your face( in one's face rudely annoying you. in a provocative attitude, as if ready to fight or argue. Ted's a real pain. He likes to get in your face. He'll argue about anything. I know you are angry, hut don't get in my face. I had. The reporter was in her face day after day, asking personal questions.) than the other judges," he said. "I particularly wanted to be on his team. I am just up for a challenge and to better myself as an artist. I thought he would definitely be the right pick."
herpes(['hɜ:piz]): Countless pop songs have been called infectious or contagious. Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong went one step further and called Korean superstar PSY an actual disease. "The dude is the herpes of music. Once you think it's gone, it comes back." His international hit "Gangnam Style" remains an epidemic. When Asked to reply to Armstrong's dig挖苦 during an interview with Fuse News, PSY, whose command of English is limited and who didn't seem to understand the insult replied, "Oh, hmm. I kinda like it. It's cool." "It's interesting how GreenDay fans validate BJ's vulgar comments and justify them with stats" commented uAfooLOL. "'Greenday accomplished this...and that.' Who cares? The point is that BJ intended to demean another man who is simply on a ride that he himself never intended to be on. This MAN handled it with class( class I. Best of its kind. It is the class of Italian bottled waters. II. Informal 优雅. 大方. 有风度. Elegance of style, taste, and manner. That girl's got class. a class act. an actor with class.). Good job PSY.". 关于herpes: Herpes simplex is most easily transmitted by direct contact with a lesion or the body fluid体液 of an infected individual. Transmission may also occur through skin-to-skin contact during periods of asymptomatic无临床症状的 shedding. Barrier protection methods are the most reliable method of preventing transmission of herpes, but they merely reduce rather than eliminate risk. Oral herpes口腔疱疹 is easily diagnosed if the patient presents with visible sores or ulcers. Early stages of orofacial herpes and genital herpes生殖器疱疹 are harder to diagnose; laboratory testing is usually required. A cure for herpes has not yet been developed. Once infected, the virus remains in the body for life. Recurrent infections反复感染 (outbreaks) may occur from time to time, especially in times of immune impairment such as HIV and cancer-related immune suppression. However, after several years, outbreaks become less severe and more sporadic零星的, and some people will become perpetually asymptomatic and will no longer experience outbreaks, though they may still be contagious to others. Treatments with antivirals can reduce viral shedding and alleviate the severity of symptomatic episodes. After 2–3 weeks, existing lesions progress into ulcers and then crust结痂 and heal, although lesions on mucosal surfaces may never form crusts. Viral shedding 脱落, 蜕落(process that occurs when a virus is present in bodily fluids or open wounds and can thereby be transmitted to another person, as with herpetic lesions. Presence of virus in body secretions, in excretions, or in body surface lesions with potential for disease transmission and infection.) refers to the successful reproduction, expulsion, and host-cell infection caused by virus progeny子孙后代. Once replication has been completed and the host cell is exhausted of all resources in making viral progeny, the viruses may begin to leave the cell by several methods. The term is used to refer
to shedding from a single cell, shedding from one part of the body into
another part of the body, and shedding from bodies into the environment where the viruses may infect other bodies.
