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用法学习: 1. take something to heart 当真, 往心里去, 认真, 放在心上, 记在心上, 认真对待, 当回事 if you take criticism or advice to heart, you think about it seriously, often because it upsets you. to consider something very seriously. Everything he said is true, and I hope people will take it to heart. Don't take it to heart - he was only joking about your hair. Mary listened to Bob's advice and took it all to heart. All Sue's advice was taken to heart by the show committee. 2. A ratchet(棘轮, 一种只可单向转动的齿轮, 反向转的时候会被支住. )(ratchet ['rætʃit] v. To cause to increase or decrease by increments: "Some companies . . . may make things worse if they seek to ratchet down their medical expenses by limiting benefits for psychological or psychiatric care" (Newsweek). n. I. A mechanism consisting of a pawl that engages the sloping teeth of a wheel or bar, permitting motion in one direction only. II. The pawl, wheel, or bar of this mechanism. ) is a mechanical device that allows continuous linear or rotary motion in only one direction while preventing motion in the opposite direction. Ratchets are widely used in machinery and tools. Though something of a misnomer, "ratchet" is also often used to refer to ratcheting socket wrenches, a common tool with a ratcheting handle. Socket wrenches(比如汽车轮胎中的螺丝就是用这种扳手, 里边是六边形的或者更多边的) are wrenches which have a "socket" attached at one end which are usually used to turn a fastener and can be divided into two main categories: ratcheting and non-ratcheting. The ratcheting type socket wrench (often called a ratchet) most commonly refers to a hand tool in which a metal handle is attached to a ratcheting mechanism which attaches to a socket, which in turn fits on a type of bolt螺栓 or nut螺帽. Pulled or pushed in one direction, the ratchet loosens or tightens the bolt or nut attached to the socket. Turned the other direction, the ratchet does not turn the socket but allows the ratchet handle to be re-positioned for another turn while staying attached to the bolt or nut. This ratcheting action allows the fastener to be rapidly tightened or loosened in small increments without disconnecting the socket plus socket wrench from the fastener. A switch is built into the ratchet head that allows the user to apply the ratcheting action in either direction, as needed, to tighten or loosen a fastener. The sockets are attached to the ratchet through a square fitting (called the "drive") that contains a spring-loaded ball detent mechanism to keep the sockets or extensions in place. The drive on the ratchet, which comes in standard sizes of 1/4",/ 3/8", 1/2", 3/4", and 1" (a de facto international standard with "no" metric equivalents), allows a wide variety of socket types and sizes to attach to a given ratchet. Some ratchets have quick release buttons on their top for quick socket release. The ratchet handle supplies the mechanical advantage needed by the user to provide the torque needed to loosen or tighten the fastener. Torque wrenches are made to tighten a fasten to a given torque. "Click" setting torque wrenches are normally built in ratcheting types and "click" when a preset torque is reached. Some more expensive torque wrenches have digital readouts of torque. Other types of torque wrenches exist such as 'torque limiting that only allow a preset torque to be reached before they "slip". For some applications torque multiplying devices are used with a torque wrench. 3. wouldn't know something if it hit you in the face  also wouldn't know something if you fell over one 傻傻分不清 to not notice something although it is very obvious. Julie wouldn't know a good deal if it hit her in the face! can't tell your arse from your elbow (very informal!) also not know your arse from your elbow (very informal!) if you can't tell your arse from your elbow, you are stupid and become confused about simple things. It's no good asking him to organize anything - he can't tell his arse from his elbow. not know the half of it (informal) also Have not heard the half of it知其一不知其二! (informal) if someone does not know the half of it, they know that a situation is bad but they do not know how bad it is. Tom's not happy with the situation and he doesn't even know the half of it! 'I hear you're having a few problems with the new guy'. 'A few problems? You haven't heard the half of it!' know/learn something (off) by heart if you know or learn something, especially a piece of writing, by heart, you know or learn it so that you can remember it perfectly. to know something perfectly; to have memorized something perfectly. I know my speech by heart. I went over and over it until I knew it by heart. He's my favourite poet. I know several of his poems by heart. the ropes Fig. knowledge of how to do something; how to work something. (know ~; learn ~; show someone ~; teach someone ~.) I'll be able to do my job very well when I know the ropes. John is very slow to learn the ropes. where/when the rubber meets the road Fig. at the point in a process where there are challenges, issues, or problems. A place or circumstance at which the implementation of a plan or intent is to be achieved. Now we have spelled out the main area of dissent. This is where the rubber meets the road. It is in the interview that the rubber meets the road. It can only be judged "when the rubber meets the road"; when its implementation does or does not produce results. Now we're getting down to where the rubber meets the road. rough-and-tumble and rough-and-ready 粗犷, 豪放, 不细腻, 粗拉, 粗糙, 糙了点 disorderly; aggressive. That was a rough-and-tumble football game. George is too rough-and-ready for me. He doesn't know how to act around civilized people. 4. platonic [plə'tonik] adj (often not capital) free from physical desire. Platonic love. platonical I. Of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his philosophy: Platonic dialogues; Platonic ontology. II. often platonic Transcending physical desire and tending toward the purely spiritual or ideal: platonic love. She likes me platonically不是那种爱, as a friend. III. often platonic Speculative or theoretical. Usage Notes: Plato did not invent the term or the concept that bears his name, but he did see sexual desire as the germ for higher loves ( germ I. 萌芽. The origin of an idea or project. the germ of civil liberty. II. The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. v. I. 发芽. To germinate. II. (slang) to grow, as if parasitic. "I'm addicted, want to germ inside your love" - Just Can't Get Enough by the Black Eyed Peas. ). Platonic came to be used for a spiritual love between persons of opposite sexes. In our own century Platonic has been used of relationships between members of the same sex. Though the concept is an elevated one, the term has perhaps more often been applied in ways that led Samuel Richardson to have one of his characters in Pamela say, "I am convinced, and always was, that Platonic love is Platonic nonsense.".

 'Distraught' girl, 17, faces humiliation on the web after explicit pictures of her performing sex acts at Eminem gig go viral on Twitter and Instagram: A 17-year-old girl has found herself at the centre of an internet storm after web users shared explicit photographs of her giving oral sex to two men at an Eminem concert in Ireland. Police are investigating the disturbing incident amid concerns that the images - apparently taken in a public area of the concert site and now widely circulating on the internet - amount to child pornography because she is under 18. And dozens of internet commenters have been accused of sexism for mocking the girl and seeking to reveal her identity - while praising her sexual partner as a 'hero' and a 'legend'. Campaigners have warned that the sharing of explicit pictures is a 'growing problem' which it is almost impossible to prevent due to the fast-moving nature of social networking. The photograph of the schoolgirl performing oral sex on a grinning man wearing a green hat was taken in the grounds of Slane Castle on Saturday evening. She was also pictured kissing the same man while he sexually touched her, and giving oral sex to a different man on the same night. American rapper Eminem was performing to a crowd of 80,000, with police making 63 arrests during the event. Many of the Twitter and Instagram accounts which shared the pictures of the girl have been shut down, as has a 'slut-shaming' Facebook page which made fun of the incident. But the concert achieved web notoriety the next day when the explicit pictures were widely circulated. Many internet users were quick to condemn her behaviour - Bridget Moynihan tweeted that the girl 'has only herself to blame只能怪自己, out in the open 大庭广众之下 surrounded by people with camera phones. What did she expect.' Users of web forums revealed the identity of the teenager, a secondary school student from the west of Ireland. Others shared images mocking the girl and implying that she was overly sexually promiscuous. After the girl's rise to fame, she was apparently left extremely distressed and embarrassed. She is currently in hospital, and is believed to have been sedated服用镇静剂. 'This is a very sensitive matter and the girl's family are distraught,' a source told the Irish Sun. 'This is so out of character for her. She's currently very emotional and confused about the whole thing.' Police are currently investigating the matter, and are looking into who shared the original photos and whether they constitute 构成 ( I. To cause to stand; to establish; to enact. II. To make up; to compose; to form. III. To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower. ) child pornography. A police spokesman said: 'Gardai are aware of the incident and are inquiring into the matter. Gardai have spoken to the female involved and it would be inappropriate for us to comment any further再多说.' Social networks have asked users to report the images as quickly as possible so that they can be spotted and removed by site moderators, who have been instructed to remain extra-vigilant特别警惕的, 特别留意的 in looking out for the images from Slane Castle. A Twitter spokesman said: 'Protecting people's experience on Twitter is very important and we have a clear set of rules that outline what is and isn't acceptable behaviour on the platform. 'If people come across content that may violate our policies, we encourage them to report it so we can quickly follow up, rather than tweet or retweet images and links.' A spokesman for Facebook said: 'At Facebook we take safety incredibly seriously, and have worked hard for years to develop clear rules and powerful reporting tools that enable people to easily report things that make them uncomfortable. We have built a large and highly trained team of safety experts who review these reports and take action, including escalating serious cases to the police. 'Unfortunately, there will always be a tiny number of malicious people 一小撮恶人 who are intent on harming others, online and offline. It is difficult to prevent this minority from behaving in this way – but once they do we will work hard to remove them from Facebook and make sure they are brought to justice.' Cyber-bullying campaigners warned that this type of incident is increasingly common, especially as web users aim to damage the reputation of 破坏声誉 people they know by spreading photographs of them in compromising positions. 'This particular problem is a big one, and it is growing,' said Scott Freeman, founder of charity Cybersmile. 'With the power of the internet, this is one example of how its immediate reach can cause huge destruction. 'It's almost impossible to protect against it, because anyone can take a picture of anyone and share it.' He said that websites and internet service providers have a duty to crack down on this type of harmful content, adding: 'If anyone finds themselves in this situation, they need to contact ISPs and website moderators to get the content removed.' 'Everyone has made mistakes in their lives, but not everyone has had it so horrifically documented in such a mortifying ( mortify I. To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on. Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body. I wonder if such ascetics are masochists? II.(usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. I was so mortified I could have died right there, instead I fainted, but I swore I'd never let that happen to me again. ) way. The conversation online has been overwhelming misogynistic also. Some people seem to be regarding this as funny, or banter, when it is not.' Journalist Sarah Ditum wrote on the New Statesman website that the man was considered just 'a bystander' while 'people tried to use the pictures to shame, trash and demolish a young woman'. The alleged misogyny comes in the wake of complaints from prominent women, including MPs, that they have been the subject of vile threats delivered via Twitter by anonymous trolls. A British teenager, Hannah Smith, killed herself earlier this month after being mercilessly bullied by trolls on social network Ask.fm, leading to calls for greater action over online abuse. Meanwhile, the girl and her family have been left devastated. "It is actually an offence to view a lewd picture involving an underage child – it is a paedophilic offence," he said. Mr Burns urged people to take down the images. The incident took place in full view (easily visible) of gig-goers at Slane on Saturday. A spokesperson for Twitter said it did not tolerate "child sexual exploitation". "When we are made aware of links to images of or content promoting child sexual exploitation they will be removed from the site without further notice and reported to the National Centre for Missing & Exploited Children," he said.

 关于电影Stoker: 剧情: She is a girl with a strong acuteness of the senses(Acute senses 感觉敏锐 apply mainly to the heightened perception and receptivity of the five senses. A person who is acute in senses at strongest point also may experience extra sensory perception phenomenom. The senses are hyperactive resulting from arguable causes. One is the effects of chronic stress, and post traumatic stress which can create a loop of fight/flight survival response relating to many different scenarios and thus the human has senses of an animal in the wild relying on what most humans do not need to survive. Unfortunately for the most part it is intolerable for a human to develop acute senses as their systems are not used to it and the smell of solvents or even the chemicals found in perfumes and laundry products can trigger off a whole myriad of physical and neurological symptoms earning todays becoming popular label of MCS - Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. ). She has her life turned upside down人生巨变, 人生大转变 after her loving father Richard dies in a horrific car accident. At Richard's funeral, Evelyn and India are introduced to Richard's charming and charismatic brother Charlie, who then announces that he is staying indefinitely to help support India and Evelyn, much to Evelyn's delight and India's chagrin(chagrin ['ʃægrin] 心里不安 n. a feeling of annoyance or mortification. A keen feeling of mental unease, as of annoyance or embarrassment, caused by failure, disappointment, or a disconcerting event: To her chagrin, the party ended just as she arrived.). Charlie and Evelyn grow closer and intimate while India continues to rebuff Charlie's attempts to befriend her. Later, India's great aunt Gwendolyn arrives to visit the family, much to Evelyn and Charlie's dismay. At dinner, Gwendolyn grows suspicious of Charlie's claims of traveling the world and tells Evelyn that she needs to talk to her about Charlie. Later that night, Gwendolyn changes hotels due to an unexplained 莫可名状的, 难以言说的 fear and suspicion of Charlie. However, she loses her cell phone and tries to call the Stoker home from her hotel payphone. While making her call, Charlie tracks her down and corners her in the phone booth电话亭, seeming to be upset. He hands Gwendolyn her phone and then strangles her to death with his belt after explaining that he found her through the cab company. Meanwhile, India goes into the basement to eat ice cream and discovers Mrs. McGarrick's body in the freezer, realizing that Charlie murdered her, as well. After India discovers that Charlie is a killer, she unleashes her inner aggression侵略性得意释放 at school and stabs a bully, Chris Pitts, in the hand with a pencil after he makes sexually derogatory remarks at her about Evelyn. India goes home and later witnesses Evelyn and Charlie growing intimate and wanders off to a local diner where she runs into Whip. She and Whip go into the woods where they proceed to make out until India aggressively bites Whip. Whip then attempts to rape India until Charlie intervenes介入, 干涉, and breaks Whip's neck with his belt. India takes a shower and experiences a sexual awakening性觉醒, masturbating to the memory of the murder, climaxing as she remembers Charlie breaking Whip's neck. Later, India goes through Richard's office to gather things of his she wants to keep. She discovers that a key she received as a birthday present belongs to a locked drawer to Richard's desk. Inside, she finds several letters from Charlie, which detail his travels. However, India discovers that the sending address寄信地址 on the back of the envelopes are from a mental institution精神病院. India then confronts Charlie, who explains the truth: Charlie murdered his and Richard's younger brother Jonathan as a child because he was jealous that Richard paid more attention to him. Charlie was then put in a mental institution for several years. When released on India's 18th birthday, Richard gave Charlie a car, a generous amount of money, and an apartment in New York on the condition that he stay away from Richard's family. Feeling hurt and betrayed, Charlie beat Richard to death with a rock and staged 导演了, 设计了 the car accident. They grow close to intimate before Evelyn witnesses them. Later that evening, Evelyn coldly expresses her desire to watch India suffer before confronting Charlie, implying that she knows the truth about Richard's death. Charlie seduces Evelyn and then attempts to strangle her before India appears and fatally shoots Charlie in the neck with a rifle. She then buries Charlie's body in the backyard and proceeds to leave for New York in his car. She is shortly pulled over for speeding by Sheriff Howard, who then asks her why she's in a hurry. India replies that she wanted to catch his attention, then plunges a pair of garden shears剪刀 into his neck. India pursues the wounded sheriff into a field to dispatch him with her rifle. 评论: Literary references and symbolism abound in Stoker. You can get tied up trying to figure out ( get tied up with I. 忙于. 专注于. To "get tied up with" something means to become really busy with something that you aren't able to stop doing. People usually "get tied up" at work. They get a lot of work that needs to be done quickly. II. People can also "get tied up" with their kids, doing home repairs, or other things: Oh, is it eleven o'clock already? I got so tied up with sending out these invitations that I didn't even notice. If you tell people that you're "tied up", they'll understand that you're too busy to do anything else. For example, if you call someone and they say: Sorry, I'm kind of tied up at the moment. Can I call you back? ) who is what. That is the idea. All the clues are there. You just have to look closely. Brian Moylan of Hollywood.com praised the performances of Nicole Kidman and Matthew Goode saying "Kidman is at her finest as a disinterested ( adj I. 客观的. 无偏见的. free from bias or partiality; objective. II. not interested. ) mother. She shows fear and disdain in the most subtle ways, never overplaying a character that could turn into a campy ( I. effeminate; affected in mannerisms, dress, etc. II. relating to or considered characteristic of homosexuals. ) arch villain 劲敌 ( A supreme villain; the most evil or powerful villain. An archenemy, archfoe, archvillain or archnemesis (sometimes spelled arch-enemy, arch-foe, arch-villain or arch-nemesis is the principal enemy of someone or something. In fiction, it is a character who is the hero's worst enemy.) with just the tiniest bit of scene-chewing用力过度, 表演太过(A common term for a scene where an actor is acting so damn hard that they're picking bits of scenery out of their teeth for days. Actors who really go "all out" are said to chew the scenery. Sometimes scenes can actually require this, but more often the actor and/or director just has the character go over the top. It's well worth noting that this trope is one of the biggest causes of memes. While this can often be a bad thing and ruin a scene, just as often it can add to the fun. Overacting (also referred to as hamming or mugging) is the exaggeration of gestures and speech when acting. It may be unintentional, particularly in the case of a bad actor, or be required for the role. For the latter, it is commonly used in comical situations or to stress the evil characteristics of a villain. Since the perception of acting quality differs between people the extent of overacting can be subjective. Overacting can be excessively dramatic to the point where the performance becomes awkward or unintentionally amusing to the audience. Overacting is sometimes known as "chewing the scenery". While this approach has garnered Oldman much acclaim during his career, it has on occasion led critics to dismiss his performances 斥为 as overacting of a superfluous nature.). And Goode is the most menacing of all, the malevolent force that hides behind the facade not only of normalcy but of something attractive that you know is incredibly dangerous." Not all criticism was positive, one said that "Stoker trembles between the portentous ( portentous [pɔ:'tɛntəs] adj I. of momentous or ominous significance. a portentous defeat. II. miraculous, amazing, or awe-inspiring; prodigious. III. self-important or pompous. ) and the ridiculous, and I think you know which one is going to win."