用法学习: 1. Heat stroke is a heat illness defined as a body temperature of greater than 40.6 °C (105.1 °F) due to environmental heat exposure with lack of thermoregulation. This is distinct from a fever, where there is a physiological increase in the temperature set point of the body. Treatment involves rapid physical cooling. Heat stroke presents with a hyperthermia of greater than 40.6 °C (105.1 °F) in combination with confusion and a lack of sweating. Hyperthermia is elevated body temperature due to failed thermoregulation that occurs when a body produces or absorbs more heat than it dissipates. Extreme temperature elevation then becomes a medical emergency requiring immediate treatment to prevent disability or death. The most common causes include heat stroke and adverse reactions to drugs. The former is an acute temperature elevation caused by exposure to excessive heat, or combination of heat and humidity, that overwhelms the heat-regulating mechanisms. The latter is a relatively rare side effect of many drugs, particularly those that affect the central nervous system. 2. be off the (starting) blocks also be out of the (starting) blocks 占得首发位置, 抢到头发, 抢到领先 to have started an activity. at or from the very beginning out of the (starting) gate. Rival telephone companies were quick off the blocks with their reduced price offers. The project for rebuilding the theatre is now off the starting blocks. The company wanted to be first out of the blocks with the newest video game format. I am the first off the blocks我排在首位(比如等红灯的第一个车). Etymology: based on the literal meaning of starting blocks (blocks a runner's shoes are placed against at the beginning of a race). storm out of the blocks 冲出来 (idiomatic) To begin rapidly. A goalless draw seemed an unlikely outcome不可能的结果 when the game started at a stunning pace as Arsenal, keen to establish themselves as United's principal challengers this season, stormed out of the blocks in thrilling fashion. fly/race out of the traps (idiomatic) to start quickly. The hosts flew out of the traps and with Scott Parker and Mark Noble working beautifully together in tandem in the centre of their midfield they began to exert serious pressure on Foster's goal. As if spurred on by the recent barbs and an increasingly perilous league position, Hughes's side raced out of the traps, starting the game as though Premier League survival depended on the result of this encounter. do one's block(slang for head) (Australia, idiomatic) To become enraged. I did my block and told him that he was there because I had consented to him being there, he wasn′t part of the interviewing team, and that if he was a smart-arse one more time, there would probably be a fight in the interview room. He looked so sympathetic that I felt sorry about doing my block and asked him to have a whisky. do one's head in To frustrate, irritate or disturb someone. Please stop reading the name of every sign we came across, it's doing my head in! Getting up at 4 o'clock every morning is doing my head in. I've been trying to make sense of all these figures and it's doing my head in. block out I. (transitive) to prevent from entering or penetrating. High-factor suncream blocks out the sun's rays. II. (idiomatic, transitive) to prevent (a thought) from entering one's mind. After finding out she had terminal cancer, she tried to block out any thoughts of her own mortality. III. (transitive) to cover something, so as to make it impossible to see. IV. (transitive) to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out. to block out a plan. chip off the old block Fig. a person (usually a male) who behaves in the same way as his father or resembles his father. John looks like his father—a real chip off the old block. Bill Jones, Jr., is a chip off the old block. He's a banker just like his father. 3. lived-in 有人住的, 长期使用的 adj having a comfortable, natural, or homely appearance, as if subject to regular use or habitation. having a comfortable and appealing appearance or quality that comes from being used for a long time. Give your home the 'Lived in' look. 关于在电影片场工作的叙述: When we walked behind the set we could see it was nothing but plasterboard and 2x4s and rough carpentry粗糙的木工, but some wooden steps led up to one room and when you entered you were transported to what looked like a real apartment interior, fully furnished and made to look lived in弄得像是有人住一样 -- dirty dishes in the sink, overflowing waste can, post-it notes on the refrigerator. There were even dirty fingerprints on the light switches simulating years of use. It was amazing. But the truly amazing part was that the ceilings were on a wire and on command 一声令下, 需要的话 could be lifted off so cameras on cranes could be lowered into the room. I never saw anything like it. And the thing was that after the movie was done, bulldozers pushed the entire massive set outside into a pile and into dumpsters. What a waste. Then I was brought to the place where the trucks were to be built. I met the foreman工头 who said to me the pay was $35 dollars an hour, cash, and he said, "There's no breaks, lunch is a half hour, we work 24 hours a day til the job is done." And then he said, "There's no Union here... you get hurt, we never heard of you. So don't get hurt." He took me to the work area where five or six men were feverishly working to turn a semi-trailer into a mobile theater and office. It was a long, hard 14 hour day but at lunch my friend came over and took me to the set where an enormous buffet was set out for the actors and crew making the movie. While standing in line for chow, my friend bumped into me and whispered, "Be cool," and when I looked up, I was standing next to Clint Eastwood and Kevin Bacon who were talking about the movie and paying no attention to anything else. The second thing was that Clint Eastwood is extremely old and frail-looking while Kevin Bacon is built like a linebacker(Any of the defensive players forming a second line of defense behind the ends and tackles.). My friend introduced me to them and they graciously shook my hand, but I could tell that I wasn't even registering with them都没有过脑子. In five minutes they would have completely forgotten even being in the line with me. After eating I went back to work on the set and when we were done it was an amazing transformation. From the outside the semi looked like any non-descript trailer you would see on the highway, but stepping inside was like walking into a movie theater with carpeting and velvet seats and sconces on the wall. In the back was a little office with pocket doors(A pocket door is a sliding door that disappears, when fully open, into a compartment in the adjacent wall. Pocket doors are used for architectural effect, or when there is no room for the swing of a hinged door. They usually travel on rollers suspended from an overhead track, although some also feature tracks or guides along the floor. Both single- and double-door versions are used, depending on how wide an entry is desired.) and fully outfit to act as a projection booth探出的, 凸出的 and office with a desk and chairs and all kinds of tools and equipment. The movie industry is amazing. I have been lucky enough to work on a number of Boston-based movies in this way and as a result have met many celebrities, most of whom are kind and decent people who put up with the constant hand-shaking that comes along with the job since every stranger wants to be able to say they rubbed elbows with擦肩 Danny DeVito or Susan Sarandon or William H. Macy or whomever else is in town making a movie. It's better if you can actually say you contributed to the work, even if you don't even get a credit on the screen. 4. lock (someone or an animal) (up) in (something) and lock (someone or an animal) up 锁住, 锁起来 to fasten the opening to something so someone, a group, or an animal cannot get out. Take Chuck and lock him up in the cell. Lock up the killer and throw away the key! lock something in 固定住, 固定 to make something, such as a rate of interest, permanent over a period of time. You should try to lock in a high percentage rate on your bonds. We locked in a very low rate on our mortgage. lock in on someone or sth and lock on(to) someone or something 锁定 Fig. to fix some kind of electronic sensing device on someone or something. The enemy pilot was flying just ahead of us. Aiming the laser, we locked in on him and shot him down. We locked onto the satellite and got an excellent TV picture. zero in (on someone or something) 集中在 to aim directly at someone or something. to direct your attention to one particular thing. The television camera zeroed in on the little boy scratching his head. The commercial zeroed in on the glass of cola. Mary is very good about zeroing in on the most important and helpful ideas. My son's teacher was able to zero in and deal with his problems. She needs to really zero in on what's important instead of going off on a lot of tangents.
liqueur or liquor: A liqueur 甜酒 (US [lɪ'kɜr] or UK[li'kjuər], 主要是甜酒, 酒精度不会高) is an alcoholic beverage made from a distilled spirit that has been flavored with fruit, cream, herbs, spices, flowers or nuts and bottled with added sugar or other sweetener (such as high-fructose corn syrup). Liqueurs are typically quite sweet; they are usually not aged for long after the ingredients are mixed, but may have resting periods during their production to allow flavors to marry味道互相融合. In the United States and Canada, where spirits are often called "liquor酒(有可能有甜味或者其他口味, 但还是酒)" (pronounced [ˈlikɜr], with stress on the first rather than the second syllable), there is often confusion over liqueurs and liquors, especially as many spirits today are available in flavored form (e.g. flavored vodka). The most reliable rule of thumb is that liqueurs are quite sweet and often syrupy in consistency, while liquors are not. Most liqueurs have a lower alcohol content (15–30% ABV) than spirits, but some contain as much as 55% ABV. In parts of the United States, liqueurs may also be called cordials or schnapps, while in large parts of the British Commonwealth, cordial means a concentrated non-alcoholic fruit syrup that is diluted to taste and consumed as a non-carbonated soft drink, and in Germany and Scandinavia, schnapps means a form of brandy or aquavit.
印度又一起强奸案: at knifepoint 刀威胁着, 在刀的威胁下 Under threat of being stabbed or cut with a knife: was mugged at knifepoint. hostages held at knifepoint. at gunpoint 被枪指着 being threatened with shooting; under coercion. At gunpoint I was told to hand over my money. Delhi: 51-year-old Danish tourist gang-raped, looted; police nab six suspects: A 51-year-old Danish tourist was allegedly gang-raped by more than half-a-dozen men at knife point near New Delhi Railway Station last night, police said today. Police said they have nabbed six suspects in connection with the case. A television channel, however, quoted police sources, as saying that at least 15 suspects are being interrogated. Police said the victim had refused to undergo a medical examination before flying off to Denmark. Although senior police official remained tight lipped 嘴紧 about the case, police sources said that the incident took place when the victim, who was returning to her hotel in Paharganj from Connaught Place, lost her way迷路. The men also took her money and valuables which she was carrying. She narrated the incident to the manager, who in turn called the police at around 8:30 pm. The Danish Embassy was also informed通知. The woman has been taken to the Embassy after recording her statement with the police. The victim flew to Copenhagen early this morning, she has alleged that she was attacked as she was seeking directions to her hotel. The suspects are said to have then taken her to an undisclosed location and raped her. According to sources, the victim has refused to undergo a medical examination and has expressed her desire to return home.
悉尼火车被逼停: Safety experts are working to find out how a length of steel track speared up through the floor of a Sydney commuter train during yesterday's peak hour. Seven hundred passengers had to be taken off the train after its third carriage came off the tracks near Edgecliff just before 6.00pm yesterday. The incident caused disruptions 混乱局面, 混乱场面 to the line between Bondi Junction and Martin Place. Crews worked through the night to clear the track in time for this morning's peak hour commute. Sydney Trains chief executive Howard Collins said the metal which pierced 刺穿 the floor was a piece of "channelling" from the track itself. "I've been down on site. We've been carrying out a thorough investigation and obviously when we get to the root cause,
we'll let people know. "We will get to the bottom of this, it is very
important to understand what caused this incident and so we can understand how we can eliminate it in the future."
"I got on the train at Bondi Junction. There was a weird smell, like a
tyre burning or rubber burning," he said. "There was a weird sound, like something was hammering.
It was really loud all the way to Edgecliff. "After Edgecliff, between
there and Kings Cross, the feeling was like some of the wheels were not
moving. "That was my own perception. I felt like we were not on the track and then the train stopped. "I was in the carriage where the steel rod came through. There was a lady and two girls, it came really close to them.
