用法学习: 1. I need to set the bench up把实验桌子准备好, 搭起来环境 for testing now. bob v.tr. I. To hit lightly and quickly; tap. II. To cause to move up and down: bobbed my head in response to the question. It's so funny, those Asian kids are always bobbing their heads from side to side. v.intr. I. To move up and down: a cork bobbing on the water. II. To grab at floating or hanging objects with the teeth: bobbed for apples. III. To curtsy or bow. pudgy cheek or chubby cheek 的咨询(chubby指身体的一部分, 肥嘟嘟的, 胖乎乎的, 是complimentary. 而pudgy指身体形状矮胖的, 指unattractive fat): I am wondering if "chubby cheek" and "pudgy cheek" can be
interchangeable. I searched the archive and I saw some said they are
synonym but some have different opinions. Also, I looked it up in a
dictionary and it says: If you describe someone as pudgy, you mean that
they are rather fat in an unattractive way. It seems has derogatory connotation. So I am not very clear about the usage. 回答1： I would definitely use 'chubby'. As you've noted, 'pudgy' is not necessarily a compliment. However, people talk about a baby's chubby cheeks all the time! Being overweight is a significant problem in America, so I would definitely not consider them complimentary,
when referring to an adult. I would be a bit surprised, but perhaps
they can be complimentary in other English-speaking countries. 回答2:
"Chubby" is a friendlier word than "pudgy." Both terms are generally
used as descriptions of body types. "Chubby"只用做定语不用做表语 has limited use as a modifier for certain parts of the body (as in "chubby cheeks"), "pudgy"矮胖的 does not -- it refers to overall body type only (being both overweight and of short stature ). 2. on the ball 知道, 知悉, 了解情况, 熟悉情况. 明白人. Inf. knowledgeable; competent; attentive. active and aware of things. Their staff seems to be really on the ball, able to get projects done on time. If you were on the ball, this wouldn't have happened. have something on the ball 有两把刷子, 有点本事, 有点能耐 to have a particular amount of smartness or cleverness. Both John and Mary have a lot on the ball. They should go far. I think I'd do better in school if I had more on the ball. I learn slowly. True, Susan hasn't published a book for ten years.
But I believe she still has a lot on the ball as a writer. And I'm sure
the critics will see that when her new book comes out this winter. keep your eye on the ball 专心致志, 精神集中 (spoken)
to give your complete attention to what you are doing or want to
achieve. Fig. to remain alert to the events occurring around oneself. If you want to get along in this office, you're going to have to keep your eye on the ball. Bill would do better in his classes if he would just keep his eye on the ball. We need to keep our eye on the ball and continue to encourage our students. keep the ball rolling I. Lit. to keep a rolling ball moving. You have to throw hard enough to keep the ball rolling all the way to the bowling pins. II. Fig. to cause something that is in progress to continue. Tom started the project, and we kept the ball rolling. Who will keep the ball rolling now that she is gone? set/start the ball rolling 开始某事, 开始做某事 to do something which starts an activity, or to start doing something in order to encourage other people to do the same I've started the ball rolling by setting up a series of meetings. The hospital appeal received a gift for $1 million to set the ball rolling. Mr.
Smith starts the ball rolling by telling the group about his own
painful experience with drugs. This loosens people up and they tell
their own stories and keep the ball rolling. 3. Down syndrome, or Down's syndrome
唐氏综合症, 先天愚症 (primarily in the United Kingdom), trisomy 21, is a
chromosomal condition caused by the presence of all or part of an extra
21st chromosome. Downy 先天痴呆的(a person has down syndrome是一种很粗鲁的骂人话 ) referring to someone with Downs Syndrome - so really should be "downsie" It is a genetic condition
that is increasingly common the older the mother of a child is when she
falls pregnant. Downs Sydrome is caused by non disjunction of the 21st
chromosome染色体 (humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes - each parent supplies
23 chromosomes to the child getting a total of 46) which means
chromosome 21 in the mother has not split like it should when making sex
cells (gametes) and the child ends up with 3 copies of chromosome 21
compared to the usual 2. Some characteristics of downs syndrome include:
Poor muscle tone, Slanting eyes with folds of skin at the inner corners
(called epicanthal folds). Hyperflexibility (excessive ability to
extend the joints). Short, broad hands with a single crease across the
palm ( crease I. 褶皱. 折皱. 折纹. 掌纹. a line or mark produced by folding, pressing, or wrinkling. II. 皱纹. a wrinkle or furrow, esp on the face. III. Cricket any three lines near each wicket marking positions for the bowler or batsman See also bowling crease, popping crease, return crease. crease something up 弄皱 to get creases or folds into something that is supposed to be flat; to wrinkle one's clothing. You will crease your jacket up if you don't sit up straight. I was sitting so long that I creased up my pants. mess something up to make something disorderly; to create disorder in something; to throw someone's plans awry. You really messed this place up! Who messed up my bed? mess someone up 欺负 Sl. to rough someone up; to beat someone up. The robbers threatened to mess Bob up if he didn't cooperate. John messed up Bill a little, but no real harm was done. mess up to make an error; to do something wrong; to flub up. I hope I don't mess up on the quiz. You really messed up and now you're in big trouble! ) on one or both hands. Broad feet 宽手, 宽脚 with short toes. Flat bridge of
the nose. Short, low-set ears. Short neck. Small head. Small oral
cavity. Short, high-pitched cries in infancy. Sufferers of Downs
Syndrome are usually smaller than their normal peers and their physical
and intellectual development is usually slower. "He looks like a downy." "Her brother is a downy.". 4. cramp 抽筋,绞痛,痉挛. spasmodic muscular contraction. Cramp is a sudden strong
pain caused by a muscle suddenly contracting. You sometimes get cramp
in a muscle after you have been making a physical effort over a long
period of time. Hillsden was complaining of cramp in his calf小腿 muscles.
...muscle cramp... She started getting stomach cramps this morning. The
swimmer got cramp in his legs and had to be helped out of the
water. Most infected
people suffer fever, diarrhea痢疾腹泻 and abdominal
cramps starting 12 to 72 hours after infection. The illness tends to last four to seven days. tic抽搐 痉挛, 局部的抽筋. A habitual spasmodic
muscular movement or contraction, usually of the face or extremities. have a nervous tic 患神经性面肌抽搐. cramp(抽搐, 抽筋) convulse [kən'vʌls] convulsion [kənˈvʌlʃən] 抽搐, 一般指整个身体的抽搐, 多半是因病的, 比如癫痫病(seizure, having a fit癫痫病发作.)
I. a violent involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles. II. a
violent upheaval, disturbance, or agitation, esp a social one. III.
(usually plural) Informal uncontrollable laughter. I was in convulsions. spasm ['spæzəm] (和cramp类似, 多指身体局部的抽搐, 比如眼皮啦, 脸颊啦, 背部啦某块肌肉的跳动, back spasm.) I. A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle or group of muscles. II. A sudden burst of energy, activity, or emotion. charley horse, charley-horse 指抽筋(A stiff and painful cramp in a muscle.)(cramp指"抽筋"; corked thigh or "corky, dead leg这几个词指你用尖锐的东西打某个人的腿或者胳膊, 造成对方很疼的感觉.) - a muscular cramp (especially in the thigh or calf) following vigorous exercise. 5. You could say either两个你都可以说, 哪个都可以. Contortion 扭曲的艺术 (sometimes contortionism) is an unusual form of physical display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body. dexterous, deft, adroit, handy, nimble: These adjectives refer to skill and ease in performance. Dexterous implies physical or mental agility. 身手灵巧的, 敏捷的, 熟练的 a dexterous mechanic. dexterous fingers. Deft 手灵敏的, 熟练的, 特指机敏的 suggests quickness, sureness, neatness, and lightness of touch: deft strokes; a deft turn of phrase. a turn of phrase I. 说法. a way of saying something. 'Significant other', meaning 'partner', now that's an interesting turn of phrase. II. the ability to express yourself well. She has a nice turn of phrase which should serve her well in journalism. turn a phrase (idiomatic) To create a particular linguistic expression which is strikingly clear, appropriate, and memorable. Adroit implies ease and natural skill, especially in challenging situations. 不但熟巧還機智: 聪明的. 有脑子的. an adroit skier; an adroit negotiator. an adroit tennis player. Handy suggests a more modest aptitude, principally in manual work: handy with tools. Nimble stresses quickness and lightness in physical or mental performance: nimble feet; nimble wits. 6. A pincushion 针包, 针线包(sowing kit) (or pin cushion) is a small cushion, typically 3–5 cm across, which is used in sewing to store pins or needles with their heads protruding so as to take hold of them easily, collect them, and keep them organized. Pincushions are typically filled tightly with stuffing, so as to hold pins rigidly once placed. Magnetic pin cushions are also used, though technically they are not "cushions" they serve the same basic function of holding pins neatly. The most popular design, a tomato with a strawberry attached(西红柿形状的cushion甩出一个strawberry形状的东西来) was most likely introduced during the Victorian Era. According to folklore, placing a tomato on the mantle of a new home guaranteed prosperity 保证富裕荣耀 and repelled evil spirits辟邪, 驱鬼. If tomatoes were out of season, families improvised临时凑成, 临时制作, 即兴创作, 随手创作. ( ['imprə,vaiz] The church organist may improvise 即兴 on a ground bass. He improvised a song about the football team's victory. He was a composer of songs and a wonderful conductor, a man who could improvise lines on the moment. We improvised a tent 临时搭出 out of two blankets and some long poles. If an actor forgets his words, he sometimes improvises. There isn't much equipment. We're going to have to improvise. ) by using a round ball of red fabric filled with sand or sawdust. The good-luck symbol also served a practical purpose—a place to store pins. Typically, the tomato is filled with wool roving to prevent rust, and the strawberry is filled with an abrasive to clean and sharpen the pins. 7. Last month, Jolie left Werris Creek residents a little starstruck after making a surprise visit to the town, near Tamworth, to scout locations for 选景, 查看外景 her new film. Unbroken, based on the best-selling book by Laura Hillenbrand, is Jolie's second directorial foray after the critically acclaimed and Golden Globe-nominated In The Land of Blood And Honey.
恋爱中?: Union J thought they had received the best news of their lives when they were personally invited by Selena Gomez to support her on tour. But George Shelley from the band might have more reasons to celebrate amid reports that he and Gomez got extra personal in Portugal last week. The jury is out as to(jury is still out (on someone or something) 尚无定论 Fig. a decision has not been reached on someone or something; the people making the decision on someone or something have not yet decided. The jury is still out on Jane. We don't know what we are going to do about her. The jury is still out on the question of building a new parking lot. The jury's still out on whether animal experiments are really necessary. We asked people to comment on the latest male fashions, but it seems the jury's out. ) whether or not the two really did enjoy a night alone together, but could the 21-year-old American babe and the 20-year-old Briton make things work? We find out in the latest Hitch or Ditch. Hitch: George could practically be singing about Selena when he says 'She sees her life through TV screens, all her friends in magazines' in Union J's new song Beautiful Life. And we think these two really could have a beautiful life together! They both have deep, brown eyes, bouncing brown hair and dreamy smiles – together they would be almost too cute to handle可爱的让人受不了. With both having strong musical talent, they could write and record together – if they could keep their hands off each other. Ditch: Of course, successful types would struggle to find time for each other. Selena has a hugely successful music and film career under her belt and it sounds like she's only going to be more and more busy as she retires from music early to focus on her acting. Meanwhile, George and the Union J boys are just at the beginning of their careers with their debut single dropping next month ahead of their first tour of Britain. Would they have time to see each other with their careers heading in different directions? There is also the issue that Selena's ex is Justin Bieber – meaning this pair would find themselves on TV screens and in a lot of magazines if they did want to make a go of things( make a go of it (idiomatic) To attempt to make a success of it; especially, to attempt to make a living. He quit his regular job and tried to make a go of it as an artist. ). The media and fans would be keen to see how things go… These two are almost too doe eyed and cute to look at(doe-eyed I. 无辜的眼神, 大睁着无辜的眼. Having wide-open, innocent-appearing eyes: doe-eyed children gazing at the shelves of candy. II. 天真的. Credulous and unsophisticated; naive: "Many doe-eyed investors go bankrupt within a year, sometimes by expanding too fast, sometimes because of pure ignorance" (Scott Baldauf).). Seriously. It would be like looking into the sun if they were to head out together. We'd love it if they could work around their hectic schedules to start something special together. Selena needs a good guy to go out with and sweet George seems to fill that requirement.
RBA贿赂丑闻: The man who exposed alleged bribery in two Reserve Bank subsidiaries was told "you don't fit in, f--- off" at the height of 正值, 高峰时 his whistle-blowing. Former company secretary of reserve company Note Printing Australia (NPA), Brian Hood, alerted various directors of NPA and its sister RBA polymer bank-note company Securency in 2007 that the two companies were using overseas agents whom he suspected of paying bribes to win note-printing contracts. In a joint Fairfax Media and Four Corners investigation Mr Hood gives his first public interview to reveal the pressure he faced attempting to expose the suspected corruption. The Reserve Bank, NPA and Securency kept Mr Hood's repeated whistleblowing hidden from police until 2009 - seven months after he'd been made redundant - when the media reported on the company's corrupt business activities. The RBA was then forced to call in the Australian Federal Police, which charged Securency and NPA with bribery in 2011. But Mr Hood and a second RBA banknote company whistleblower, James Shelton have revealed that several former directors of the two companies - including former long-time chairman of both companies, Graeme Thompson - have never been investigated over allegations they breached the Corporations Act by allowing extremely high-risk business practices. Today, Fairfax Media has also exposed confidential RBA files that reveal that NPA used a "frontman中间人( I. A man who serves as a nominal leader but who lacks real authority. II. a performer, as a singer, who leads a musical group. )" to secretly liaise with Saddam Hussein's brother-in-law and bodyguard in an illegal effort to sell plastic banknotes to the dictator at the height of UN sanctions in 1998. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has also never investigated whether any senior RBA company officers breached whistleblower protection laws in the manner they treated Mr Hood. Mr Hood said he was "gobsmacked" by Mr Thompson's conduct because it clearly exposed the RBA company to possible bribery. Even after the arms dealer was sacked, Mr Thompson and other directors approved further payments to him in return for his lobbying of Malaysian officials. In 2011, Malaysian authorities charged the arms dealer with using NPA money to pay bribes. Confidential bank documents reveal that in May 1998 NPA launched a secret project codenamed "Delta" to secure $80 million that Saddam Hussein had "already allocated" to buy Australian plastic note technology. RBA officials working for NPA said this money could potentially be accessed by funnelling 打个洞 them through ( funnel I. To move through or as if through a funnel: tourists funneling slowly through customs. II. to concentrate or focus or be concentrated or focused in a particular direction. they funnelled their attention on the problem.) a Jordanian bank "with the green light of SH [Saddam Hussein]". The RBA officials used a frontman to cover up NPA's use of the notoriously corrupt Arshad Yassin - Saddam's brother-in-law and bodyguard - as a "facilitator(A facilitator is someone who helps a group of people understand their common objectives and assists them to plan to achieve them without taking a particular position in the discussion. Some facilitator tools will try to assist the group in achieving a consensus on any disagreements that preexist or emerge in the meeting so that it has a strong basis for future action. Business facilitators work in business, and other formal organisations but facilitators may also work with a variety of other groups and communities. It is a tenet of facilitation that the facilitator will not lead the group towards the answer that he/she thinks is best even if they possess an opinion on the subject matter. The facilitator's role is to make it easier for the group to arrive at its own answer, decision, or deliverable. This can and does give rise to organisational conflict between hierarchical management and theories and practice of empowerment. Facilitators often have to navigate between the two, especially where overt statements about empowerment are not being borne out by organisational behaviours.)". Legal expert and Sydney University associate professor David Chaikin, who reviewed the Project Delta files for Fairfax Media, said they showed a "very strong prima-facie case" that the RBA officials involved in the Iraq trip had breached UN sanction 661. The sanction banned countries from engaging in any business dealings "which promote or are calculated to promote等同于推销" the sale or supply of any goods to Iraq. Project Delta was stopped in September 1998 after John Hines, an Australian diplomat in the Department of Foreign Affairs' Middle East branch, learnt of it知悉, 知晓 and wrote a furious letter to NPA warning that its "informal meeting with Saddam Hussein's brother-in-law may have already breached Australia's obligations in international law". Rather than stopping all high-risk business practices when Delta was wound down in 1998, NPA and Securency directors embraced bribery-prone activities, including paying foreign agents huge sums in return for them convincing overseas officials to award contracts to the RBA's banknote companies. But the Australian Federal Police and ASIC have never investigated the former directors of the two companies for overseeing these high-risk practices. Under Australian corporate law, directors must act with care and diligence to ensure their companies do not engage in corruption. One example cited by Mr Hood involved Mr Thompson in 2007 ordering NPA to wire $400,000 in taxpayer money to a Malaysian arms dealer who was helping the company to win banknote contracts and who had already been paid more than $2.5 million. The money was sent despite Mr Hood's pleas not to pay the dealer because he was suspected of being corrupt. "The inaction 不作为, 渎职 by ASIC has been astounding. The parent organisation [the Reserve Bank] and the boards of directors have all got their responsibilities. Clearly there has been failings ... and they should be investigated," said Mr Hood, who was the NPA's company secretary between 2004 and 2008. Greens deputy leader Adam Bandt this morning said most Australians would be shocked by the revelation the Reserve Bank "was using their money to line up dirty deals with Saddam Hussein". Mr Bandt, who has used his position on the Parlialment's economics committee to question the RBA's handling of alleged corruption within its banknote firms, said corporate regulator ASIC had to explain why it had not investigated the scandal. "ASIC throws the book at ( throw the book at someone Fig. to charge or convict someone with as many crimes as is possible. to punish or criticize someone as severely as possible. It was the fifth time Frank had been arrested for drink-driving, so the judge threw the book at him. I made the police officer angry, so he took me to the station and threw the book at me. The judge threatened to throw the book at me if I didn't stop insulting the police officer.) a lone global-warming activist who sends out a press release, yet turns a blind eye to repeated claims of sustained corporate corruption in the Reserve Bank," he said. "No banknotes were ultimately supplied to Iraq. On the records available to the Bank, the project went into abeyance( abeyance [ə'beiəns] I. (usually preceded by in or into) 搁置. 束之高阁. 暂停. a state of being suspended or put aside temporarily. The condition of being temporarily set aside; suspension: held the plan in abeyance. to hold a question in abeyance. II. Law A condition of undetermined ownership, as of an estate that has not yet been assigned. hold something in abeyance to stall or postpone something. in reserve. Until the judge determined that the evidence could be used in the trial, it was held in abeyance. I kept my opinion in abeyance. This is a good plan but not at this time. Let's just hold it in abeyance until things get better. We will hold the matter in abeyance until we hear from you. ) after concerns were raised by DFAT with the then CEO of NPA," a bank spokeswoman said.
