用法学习: 1. Debugger Attributes: The DebuggerStepThrough and DebuggerHidden attributes provide suggestions to the debugger on how to handle single-stepping for a particular method, constructor, or class. DebuggerStepThrough requests that the debugger step through a function without any user interaction. This attribute is useful in automatically generated methods and in proxy methods that forward the real work to a method somewhere else. In the latter case, the debugger will still show the proxy method in the call stack if a breakpoint is set within the "real" method-unless you also add the DebuggerHidden attribute. These two attributes can be combined on proxies to help the user focus on debugging the application logic rather than the plumbing零碎工作. plumb n. I. A weight on the end of a line, used to determine water depth. 铅锤. II. A weight on the end of a line, used especially by masons and carpenters to establish a true vertical. adv. I. In a vertical or perpendicular line. II. Informal Directly; squarely. Squarely, directly; completely. It hit him plumb in the middle of his face. Years ago the well plumb dried out, not a drop of water in there since. fell plumb in the middle of the puddle. III. also plum Informal Utterly; completely: plumb worn out. adj. I. Exactly vertical. II. also plum Informal Utter; absolute; sheer: a plumb fool. a plumb nuisance. plumb stupid. v. I. To determine the depth of with a plumb; sound. To test the verticality or alignment of with a plumb. II. To straighten or make perpendicular: plumb up the wall. III. To examine closely or deeply; probe: "Shallow ideas are plumbed and discarded" (Gilbert Highet). VI. (tr) to undergo or experience (the worst extremes of misery, sadness, etc.) to plumb the depths of despair. V. (tr) to understand or master (something obscure). to plumb a mystery. out of/off plumb Not vertical. plumbing n. A system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system. My plumbing was playing up, so I had to see the doctor. genitourinary [,dʒɛnitəu'juərinəri] 泌尿生殖器的, 泌尿生殖系统的 (anatomy) Of or relating to the genital and urinary organs or their functions. of, or relating to the genital and urinary systems of the body together with their function, disease etc. plumb the depths [of sth] 沉了半截, 下沉了半截 I. to experience extreme sadness (usually + of ). His wife left him in May and during the following months he plumbed the depths of despair. II. to understand something in detail, especially something that is difficult to understand (usually + of ). to carefully examine something in order to understand or explain it. Who would want to plumb the depths of the criminal mind? Etymology:
based on plumb line (a cord with a heavy piece of metal attached to it,
used to measure the depth of water under a ship). In hypnosis we plumb the depths of the unconscious. III. if something that someone does or says plumbs the depths, it is very bad (often + of ). I read one review which said the show plumbed the depths of tastelessness. half a bubble off plumb Fig. giddy; crazy. She is acting about half a bubble off plumb. What is wrong with her? Tom is just half a bubble off plumb, but he is all heart. plumb loco Rur. completely crazy. (Loco is from a Spanish word meaning "mad.") You're plumb loco if you think I'll go along with that. All those people were running around like they were plumb loco. 2. see the light Fig. I. to understand something clearly at last. After
a lot of studying and asking many questions, I finally saw the light. I
know that geometry is difficult. Keep working at it. You'll see the
light pretty soon. Even the supposed pro-labor commentators begin to see the light now. II. 看见光明, 看明白, 醒悟过来. to start believing in a religion, often suddenly I hope my book will help others to see the light. see the light (at the end of the tunnel) Fig. to foresee an end to one's problems after a long period of time. I
had been horribly ill for two months before I began to see the light at
the end of the tunnel. I began to see the light one day in early
spring. At that moment, I knew I'd get well. begin to see the light 豁然开朗, 终于弄明白, 回过味来了, 开始明白, 开始理解一点点了 Fig. to begin to understand something. My
algebra class has been hard for me, but I'm beginning to see the light.
I was totally confused, but I began to see the light after your
explanation. see the light (of day) I. 重见天日. if an object sees the light of day, it is brought out so that people can see it. The archives contain vintage recordings, some of which have never seen the light of day. II. 公诸于世. 公之于世. if something, especially an idea or a plan, sees the light of day, it starts to exist. It was the year when the equal opportunities bill first saw the light of day. III. to come to the end of a very busy time. Finally,
when the holiday season was over, we could see the light of day. We had
been so busy! When business lets up for a while, we'll be able to see
the light. let up (let on 表现出来的, 让人知道的) (intransitive, of something intense) to lessen 缓和, 减轻. The rain let up about noon, and the sun came out. The rain shows no sign of letting up. The heat didn't let up until the weekend. It rained for a week with no let-up. let up (on someone or something) Fig. to reduce the pressure or demands on someone or something. You
had better let up on Tom. He can't handle any more work. Please let up
on the committee. It can only do so much. Do let up. You are getting too
upset.
松散, 懒散, 偷懒的人: slacker ['slækə] n I. a person who evades work or duty; shirker. One who shirks work or responsibility. He's not a slacker, he's the best worker they've got. II. Informal an educated young adult characterized by cynicism and apathy. slacker culture. III. 逃避兵役的人. One who tries to evade military service in wartime; a draft dodger. urbandict: Someone who puts off doing things 拖拖拉拉, 拖着 to the last minute, and when the last minutes comes, decides it wasn't all that important anyways and forgets about it. Man I wish I could be a slacker like that guy Angry Steve. slack-jawed I. (of a person) With the mouth in an open position and the jaw hanging loosely, especially as indicating bewilderment or astonishment. II. (idiomatic, of a person) Unsophisticated or unthinking; dimwitted in appearance. III. (idiomatic, dated, of a person) Overly talkative; indiscreet. wiki: A slacker is a person who habitually avoids work or lacks work ethic. In the United States during World War I, the word "slacker" was commonly used to describe someone who was not participating in the war effort, especially someone who avoided military service, an equivalent of the later term draft dodger. Attempts to track down such evaders were called slacker raids. During World War I, U.S. Senator Miles Poindexter discussed whether inquiries "to separate the cowards and the slackers from those who had not violated the draft" had been managed properly. In 1940, Time quoted the U.S. Army on managing the military draft efficiently: "War is not going to wait while every slacker resorts to endless appeals." Draft evasion is an intentional decision not to comply with the military conscription policies of one's nation. Such practices that do not involve law breaking or which are based on conscientious objection are sometimes referred to as "draft avoidance." Refusing to submit the draft is considered a criminal offense in most countries where conscription is in effect. Those who practice draft evasion are sometimes pejoratively referred to as "draft dodgers," a term which was made popular during the Vietnam War. Draft evasion is distinct from desertion临阵逃脱, 弃枪而逃 in that only an active member of a military service can become a deserter by absenting himself from military service without receiving a valid leave of absence or discharge and without any intention of returning to the service. slack I. Moving slowly; sluggish: a slack pace. II. 清闲的. Lacking in activity; not busy: a slack season for the travel business. III. Not tense or taut; loose: a slack rope; slack muscles. IV. Lacking firmness; flaccid: a slack grip. V. 不勤勉的. 不勤快的. 懒得, 懒散的. Lacking in diligence or due care or concern; negligent: a slack worker. VI. Flowing or blowing with little speed: a slack current; slack winds. VII. Linguistics Pronounced with the muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed; lax. slack off/up (on something) to release the pressure or tension on something. Slack up on the rope a bit, will you? Please slack off! take the slack up (pick up the slack) I. Lit. to tighten a rope that is holding something loosely. Take the slack up if you can. This clothesline is too loose. Do something to take up the slack. II. Fig. to do what needs to be done; to do what has been left undone. to do the work which someone else has stopped doing, but which still
needs to be done. When Sue starts going out to work each day, Bob and the
kids will have to take up the slack and help more at home. Do I have to take the slack up? Jill did her job poorly and I have to take up the slack. cut somebody some slack/a break (American & Australian informal) to allow someone to do something that is not usually allowed, or to treat someone less severely than is usual. to give someone a break; to allow someone a reprieve from the consequences of an action. Officials have asked the Environmental Protection Agency to cut Utah some slack in enforcing the Clean Air Act.
关于婊子的说法(总结: skank, slag(UK), slut, ho, bitch, cunt. slag是英国人的. bitch一般只是表示人品, 并无性方面的含义. cunt只是用来说男性, 不用来说女性. skank和ho在rap里用的很多. slutty, sluttish可以尽指一般意义上的比如穿着举止(demeanor)等, 或者表示一个女人很脏乱差. slag是明确无误的暗示性方面的. 说话的时候用到slag这个词一般没有问题. 但是称呼一个人slag会引起打架的. ): 美国人的问题: One more colorful slang term I gleaned from the British movie I recently watched is slag. In the movie, it was used in curses like, "Fuck-ing dogs! Slags." "Right slag, that one." Now I know via dictionaries that slag means "a loose, promiscuous woman." But there are multiple slang terms for such a woman in American English that have varying levels of vulgarity -- here's how I would rank a couple of them, from least to greatest in vulgarity: skank < slut (slag) < ho < bitch < cunt. So where does slag fit on this spectrum? Of course, I imagine you'd never hear it on proper television, but is slag barely elided over 不当回事, 充耳不闻 ( I. a. To omit or slur over (a syllable, for example) in pronunciation. b. To strike out (something written). II. a. To eliminate or leave out of consideration. b. To cut short; abridge. ) when someone goofs and says it, kind of how the word bitch is in American English? Or is it a word that a rough group of friends might use around each other casually, sort of how the word motherfucker is in American English, and apparently cunt is in British English? Or perhaps slag is a word that one should prepare for a fight over if one uses it, like cunt in American English? 英国人的回复: Before getting to the main answer, a few points that may be interesting to you (though I realise they're not actually part of your question!): In the UK - at least in some circles, the word cunt is an insulting word for a man, never a woman: neither I nor those that I've asked have ever heard it used that way, though as the comments below attest, this usage does exist. Of the others, the odd-one-out to me would seem to be bitch: I'm not sure about US usage of that word, but to me the others all have a connotation (to a greater or lesser extent) of sexual impropriety. In the UK at least, bitch doesn't have that association - it means something along the lines of woman with an unkind, evil or spiteful personality. The words skank and ho are recognised - especially from rap music - but are definitely felt to be American imports. All of the others are fully accepted as native. On to the main question: it's probably worth distinguishing between the degrees of offensiveness of (abusing terminology slightly) use and mention of the words: that is, some words can be happily used in polite society, but one would be highly offended to be called one - whereas with some words merely saying the word (regardless of who it is applied to) is offensive in of itself. Having drawn that distinction: mention of the word slag - while it's clearly to be avoided when on one's best behaviour - is unlikely to cause much offence; that would put it on a roughly similar level to slut or perhaps skank. However, using the word slag to describe someone would be a good way to start a fight. It is probably at a similar level to slut: perhaps slightly more offensive, if only because slutty/sluttish can refer to general demeanour (in dress, speech) - and indeed can occasionally merely mean "untidy, slovenly" with no sexual connotation - whereas slag is unambiguously 明确无误的, 毫无疑问的 referring to sexual behaviour. It's worth mentioning the word is used a lot in comedy - perhaps the earliest was in the comic Viz (decidedly not a comic for children, and never noted for its reverence); here's an example in Harry Enfield's sketch show; and more recently in Gavin and Stacey. (Using the word for men isn't common except in reference to this show!). You can probably see - especially from this last example - that this word can be thrown around among close friends in a humorous way - but I would strongly advise against doing so unless you're very sure of what you're doing, since the line between banter and offence is a very narrow one at times.
妓女遇害: White candles lit up照亮 St Kilda's red-light district on Thursday night as a community united in grief gathered to honour murdered street worker站街女 Tracy Connelly. They also came to denounce violence against women in an area frequented by some of Melbourne's most vulnerable. Grainy closed circuit television footage lead police to believe Tracy Connelly returned to her parked car on Greeves Street where she was murdered on Sunday July 21. Ms Tonkin said: "The underlying problem is an attitude towards women, that violence against women is OK or acceptable. I think these men have deep-seated ( deep-seated I. 深层的. Being so far below the surface as to be unsusceptible to superficial examination, study, or treatment: a deep-seated infection. II. 根深蒂固的, 不易清除的. Deeply rooted; ingrained. firmly implanted or established: a deep-seated loyalty. deep-seated ideological differences. deep-seeded 是不存在的, 除非你用来表示一个排名很低的种子选手. ) issues and they're taking it out against our women because they think they can get away it." Ms Tonkin said Ms Connelly had been "talking a lot about wanting to leave sex work, fantasising 幻想着, 梦想着 about setting up a home in the suburbs and working as a kitchen hand厨房帮手, 厨房打下手 and was fixating on finding her son(fixate ['fikseit] v. I. To make fixed, stable, or stationary. II. To focus one's eyes or attention on: fixate a faint object. III. To command the attention of exclusively or repeatedly; preoccupy obsessively. IV. Psychol to engage in fixation.)". "We always told her son the truth, but we never passed judgment against her说过不好, 说坏话 and we always held out hope that she would return and somehow she'd find a way back to us," Mr Toft said. 推拿师规范: Chiropractors pushing anti-vaccination line( push the bottom line: (strive, try to) improve one's performance. ) face crackdown, audits: Chiropractors will be forced to stop making anti-vaccination and other misleading claims in a crackdown on shonky operators(shonky I. 不靠谱的. 可疑的. of dubious integrity or legality. Of poor or dubious quality, shoddy, unreliable. II. unreliable; unsound. Marred by shonky direction and factual errors, the film did nothing to enhance Kathner's already poor reputation. That′s why it is infuriating令人生气的, 令人大怒的 that there are still so many sharks out there who are determined to rip men off with shonky treatments that simply don′t work. He might be a dole-bludger, a gambler and have the shonkiest tattoo in the world on his arm, but he'll agree to almost anything. ) from the profession's 行业, 职业 governing board管理机构. Earlier this year Fairfax revealed chiropractors were receiving government-mandated training by anti-vaccination clinicians who believe diet and "keeping the spine in line" will prevent deadly diseases such as polio( polio ['pəuliəu] =poliomyelitis 骨髓灰质炎, 小儿麻痹症. an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord. Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute viral infectious disease spread from person to person, primarily via the fecal-oral route. ). On Thursday the chairman of the Chiropractic Board of Australia said it had removed some courses from its approved training schedule and would be randomly auditing practitioners to ensure they were not making unsubstantiated 毫无根据的 claims about the benefits of chiropractic. It also announced all registered chiropractors would be required to remove anti-vaccination claims from their websites. "We will not tolerate registered chiropractors giving misleading or unbalanced advice to patients, or providing advice or care that is not in the patient's best interests," chairman Phillip Donato said. Chiropractic was originally based on the theory all medical conditions can be cured by adjusting misalignments in the spine that prevent the body healing itself. Some chiropractors follow that belief but others limit their practice to muscle and skeletal problems. Dr Donato said chiropractors should only provide evidence-based treatment and anyone with concerns should report them. Australian Medical Association head Steve Hambleton said the announcement was excellent. "We have called on 呼吁 the boards to step up to their responsibility to protect public health and patient safety," he said. "They have stepped up and we congratulate them." John Dwyer, president of the group Friends of Science in Medicine, which discovered the shonky courses, said the move would need careful monitoring. "The real issue, of course, is that these instructions aren't necessarily going to change the hearts and minds of 改变心意, 转变心意 the chiropractors who have been foisting ( foist I. (often foll by off or on) to sell or pass off (something, esp an inferior article) as genuine, valuable, etc. to foist inferior goods on a customer. No wonder she was so keen to foist him off on us. II. 强加于. To impose (something or someone unwanted) upon another by coercion or trickery: They had extra work foisted on them because they couldn't say no to the boss. I don't foist my beliefs on other people. III. To insert fraudulently or deceitfully: foisted unfair provisions into the contract. foist someone or something off (on someone or something) to cast someone or something unwanted off on someone or a group. Please don't try to foist cheap merchandise off on me. Don't foist off your brother on me! You can't foist that stuff off! It's worthless! People won't buy it! foist something upon somebody 强加于, 强迫接受. to force someone to accept or experience something. We even foist junk food on children in school cafeterias. Usage notes: sometimes in the form foist something off on someone: You cannot foist this ridiculous plan off on the public. ) on the public fraudulent models of care," he said. Ashley, who said she'd been raped about a dozen times in two years,
reeled off ( reel something off I. to say a list of things quickly and easily. He reeled off the names and ages of his seven grandchildren. II. to do something quickly and easily. In the American league, Boston has reeled off four straight victories. rattle something off 随口说出 to say something quickly. She rattled something off in French that I didn't understand. Usage notes: often used when someone gives a list of facts or other related information from memory: Walter could rattle off the statistics of players from the 1920s and 1930s. ) a checklist of danger signs危险信号. "It has really rattled a lot of
the girls because if it could happen to her, it could happen to any of
us so easily. It happened in this street, 5m from where we stand."
陆克文的刘海: Kevin Rudd tends to a deal of hair flicking拨头发, dipping his head and the right hand sweeping the silvery fringe back when he becomes a little agitated . . . and when the name Rupert Murdoch crosses his lips, the hair flicking becomes positively furious. Murdoch caused much flicking on Tuesday as Rudd reflected that the former Australian media baron clearly wanted Tony Abbott to take his place in The Lodge. We've got a free press新闻自由, said Mr Rudd, a trifle grimly, and Mr Murdoch was within his rights to have his view有权表达自己的观点, just as it was his right under Australian law to own about 70 per cent of the nation's newspapers. He'd made his view pretty clear with a headline this week, said Rudd. Murdoch's Sydney tabloid, the Daily Telegraph, had blared a front-page editorial( blare I. To cause to sound loudly and stridently: Don't blare the stereo. II. To proclaim loudly and flamboyantly: headlines blaring the scandal.) telling its readers they now had their chance to give Rudd's mob the boot. Flick. Perhaps it was the breeze slinking through Brisbane's botanic gardens where Rudd had chosen to speak with the local and travelling media, the Brisbane River at his back, but the prime ministerial hair was definitely disturbed打乱头发. More disturbing, it seemed, was Murdoch's less-than-charitable view about the National Broadband Network. Put simply, Murdoch and News Corporation have made it perfectly clear for months they hate the NBN, and Murdoch himself has taken to Twitter, pouring disdain on the $45 billion project. Rudd is pinning much of his election hopes on the NBN being a vote winner. "He (Murdoch) doesn't want it provided free to people's homes," said Mr Rudd, the hairflicking hand at the ready(at the ready 随时候命, 随时待命 ready for use. Military police leapt out of the car, their weapons at the ready.). "That's his view. It's not our view." Mr Rudd wanted anyone within earshot to know what he thought was Murdoch's motivation. He didn't quite say it并没有明确那么说, but he wondered aloud whether it could be because NBN posed a commercial threat to Murdoch's Foxtel. Flick. And there, you'd think, went any tiny shred of a chance that the Murdoch media empire would lay off Kevin Rudd, prime minister, clear to election day. 另一篇文章: IT'S starting. A groundswell of ( I. A sudden gathering of force, as of public opinion: 一股强烈的, 一波波的 a groundswell of antiwar sentiment. a strong public feeling or opinion that is detectable even though not openly expressed. a groundswell of discontent. II. A broad deep undulation of the ocean, often caused by a distant storm or an earthquake. ) discontent is building against the greatest of Kevin Rudd's sins - the hair flick. The Prime Minister has perplexed and irritated us for years with his trademark habit 标志性习惯 of running a hand through his fringe at least once a minute. The rate rises to one flick every ten seconds when the PM is outdoors. It isn't Kevin Rudd's only bad habit. We've previously documented the best of his unique gestures, including 'the back of the farm', 'the Specsaver' and a personal favourite, 'the shot put铅球'. The hair flick entered public life as a lovable quirk. Now thousands of Australians shudder when Mr Rudd reaches for his hair. Here's the worst part. His hair barely moves. When Mr Rudd flips his fringe, his hair just returns to its original position. There is no aesthetic dividend 分割, 分界, 头发分 to justify this exercise in male preening( preen I. a. 舔自己羽毛. To smooth or clean (feathers) with the beak or bill. b. To trim or clean (fur) with the tongue, as cats do. II. To dress or groom (oneself) with elaborate care; primp. III. To take pride or satisfaction in (oneself); gloat. wiki: Personal grooming (also called titivating and preening) is the art of cleaning, grooming, and maintaining parts of the body. It is a species-typical behavior.). This morning's press conference in Brisbane was surely the final straw for Australian voters. The wind billowed through Mr Rudd's hair, leading him to readjust it. Again. And again. And again. Sky News political reporter Kieran Gilbert said what we were all thinking. With that, the floodgates 闸门大开 opened( open the floodgates 大开方便之门, 一发不可收拾 to make it possible for something to happen. If an action or a decision opens the floodgates, it allows something to happen a lot or allows many people to do something that was not previously allowed (often + to ). If they win their case it could open the floodgates to others with similar compensation claims. The court's decision could open the floodgates for large numbers of other cases involving war crimes. Usage notes: usually used to describe activities that had been difficult or illegal but which are now easier or allowed and expected to be done by many. Etymology: based on the literal meaning of open the floodgates (to allow water that had been held back to flow freely). ). Kind of. Well, it's only a matter of time. Brihony Speed lived up to her surname, becoming the first person to coin the hashtag #stopthehairflicks. Another Twitter user, Terence Monro, suggested the Prime Minister's habit could become the premise for a drinking game. Bobby pins (最老式的黑色的那种发卡, 发夹) and hairspray were also mentioned as possible solutions. Finally, with the election campaign underway, we're beginning to talk about the big political issues. Refreshing, isn't it?
