用法学习: 1. up-front Informal adj. I. Straightforward; frank. She is very upfront about all of this, she is not hiding this at all, she showed me all of the ex's photos. I don't feel the need for it不觉得有必要. Don't be naive, people still can pull your emotional chord引起回忆. That's mind cheating心理出轨, you need to put an end to it. II. Paid or due in advance: up-front cash. adv. In advance; beforehand: demanded to be paid up front for the photographs. emotional chord: No, there is no such thing as an emotional cord. The phrase is "emotional chord": a "chord" is something that is struck, for instance on a piano, and the expression is typically "to strike an emotional chord". It is something that resonates, like a chord. A cord is like a piece of string. I just can't see what meaning you would impute to it. strike a chord (with someone) 让人想起某事, 引起某人回忆 Fig. to cause someone to remember something; to remind someone of something; to be familiar. The woman in the portrait struck a chord with me, and I realized that it was my grandmother. His name strikes a chord, but I don't know why. Hardselling UPA's 'game changer' Food Security Act, Rahul Gandhi on Thursday sought to strike an emotional chord with 'aam aadmi' and tribals, recalling how Sonia Gandhi was in tears at not being able to cast her vote when the measure was passed in Lok Sabha. 2. A pullstring (pull string, pull-string) or pullcord (pull cord, pull-cord) or pullchain (pull-chain, pull chain) is a string, cord, or chain wound on a spring-loaded spindle that engages a mechanism when it is pulled. It is most commonly used in toys and motorized equipment. More generally and commonly, a pullstring can be any type of string, cord, rope, chain, or cable attached to an object in some way used to pull or mechanically manipulate part of it. 3. click I. (intransitive) To make sense suddenly. Then it clicked - I had been going the wrong way all that time. II. (intransitive) To get on well. When we met at the party, we just clicked and we've been best friends ever since. III. (intransitive) To emit a click. He bent his fingers back until the joints clicked. can't hold a candle to someone = not even a patch 不能比肩, 差远了, 差多了 Fig. not [to be] equal to someone; unable to measure up to someone. (Also with cannot.) if someone or something cannot hold a candle to someone or something else, they are not as good as that other person or thing. These pop bands that you hear nowadays can't hold a candle to the groups we used to listen to in the sixties. Mary can't hold a candle to Ann when it comes to athletics. As for singing, John can't hold a candle to Jane. not a patch on to be much less good than something: This new washing machine isn't a patch on our old one. 4. loony (ˈluːnɪ) , looney or luny adj I. lunatic; insane. II. foolish or ridiculous. n. I. a foolish or insane person.
malt (mɔ:lt) 麦芽: Don't want to be a snob, but can't justify spending $100+ on a blended scotch. If you're spending that much get a decent single malt. There's not much different between Johnnie Black and Johnnie Blue. But each to their own. Not downvoting ( downrate 贬低, 贬斥. To give something a lower rating. downvote To vote against, reducing a cumulative tally of popularity. vote down To defeat (some measure or candidate) by a majority vote. His wife voted down the project the moment he suggested it. ) the OP's post. This is still a very good price for JW Blue!!!. 另一个用例: The 1-100 scores that I've assigned to the more than 3,000 whiskies I've tasted so far are indispensable 不可或缺的 in my ongoing quest to find the perfect single malt whisky. Because I give my score or rating for almost every single malt whisky that I nose闻过 and taste, I'm able to rank them from 'best' to 'worst'. Well, only from my own, purely personal perspective, of course. Obviously, the phrases 'good ' & 'bad' are not scientific; I use them to express my personal preferences when it comes to malt whisky. Some people within the the whisky industry would like us to believe that 'professionals' or 'experts' 专业人士, 专家 are perfectly suited to determine the 'quality' of a whisky. But even if that would be true, the harsh realities残酷现实 of today's business world would make it difficult for the producer to share their honest opinion about all their whisky expressions all of the time. Besides, I quite strongly feel that 'quality' is in the eye of the beholder( Beauty is in the eye of the beholder情人眼里出西施, 孩子是自己的好. Prov. Different people have different ideas about what is beautiful. Bob: I can't believe Ted bought that ugly old car. Fred: He loves it. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Jill: Have you seen Mary's pictures of her new baby? He looks pretty ugly, to my eyes. Jane: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ). So, in 1995 I decided to rank all the recommendable malt whiskies I had sampled up to that point and publish it on Malt Madness. That way, others could find out if they agreed. 关于malt: Malt is germinated cereal grains that have been dried in a process known as "malting". The grains are made to germinate发芽 by soaking in water, and are then halted from germinating further by drying with hot air. Malting grains develop the enzymes required to modify the grain's starches into sugars, including the monosaccharide glucose, the disaccharide maltose麦芽糖, the trisaccharide maltotriose, and higher sugars called maltodextrines. It also develops other enzymes, such as proteases, which break down the proteins 分解蛋白质 in the grain into forms that can be used by yeast. Malt also contains small amounts of other sugars, such as sucrose and fructose, which are not products of starch modification but were already in the grain. Malted grain is used to make beer, whisky, malted shakes, malt vinegar, confections such as Maltesers and Whoppers, flavored drinks such as Horlicks, Ovaltine and Milo, and some baked goods, such as malt loaf, bagels and rich tea biscuits. Malted grain that has been ground into a coarse meal is known as "sweet meal". Various cereals are malted, though barley is the most common. A high-protein form of malted barley is often a label-listed ingredient in blended flours typically used in the manufacture of yeast breads and other baked goods.
Michael Hutchence's final hours revealed: Scrounging ( scrounge I. To obtain (something) by begging or borrowing with no intention of reparation: scrounged a few dollars off my brother. scrounge for a cigarette. II. To obtain by salvaging or foraging; round up. To forage about in an effort to acquire something at no cost: scrounging around the kitchen for a late-night snack. reparation (ˌrɛpəˈreɪʃən) n I. the act or process of making amends: an injury admitting of no reparation. II. (usually plural) 割地赔款, 赔偿, 战争赔款. reparations compensation exacted as an indemnity from a defeated nation by the victors:
esp the compensation demanded of Germany by the Treaty of Versailles
after World War I. compensation payable by a defeated nation to the
victor for damages or loss suffered during war. III. the act or process
of repairing or state of having been repaired. ) in bins for drugs with dark nicotine stains on his fingers and a months-old cigarette burn烟烫伤 that went down to the bone ( pare sth (down) to the bone to reduce something to a level at which only what is absolutely necessary is left. cut something to the bone I. Lit. to slice deep to a bone. The knife cut John to the bone. He had to be sewed up. Cut each slice of ham to the bone. Then each slice will be as big as possible. II. Fig. to cut down severely (on something). (To the bone emphasizes the severity of the cutting.) We
cut our expenses to the bone and are still losing money. Congress had
to cut expenditures to the bone in order to balance the budget. bone-down
To fuck or to get down in a sexual way. A term coined by Nick Mathers.
To engage in intense sexual activity, which includes, but its not
limited to getting "fucked" in every position possible multiple times in
one sitting. Usually includes lots of titties, short skirts and love
making on leather coaches. I really want to bone down tonight, do you think mike would be keen? I
found this Q on Y!A: "Should I tell her that I like her or not?". But I
don't get what this answer mean: "Just tell her u are down to bone and
she will jump on it....literally." What does "down to bone" mean?
Answer: haha it means wanting to have sex. it can also be another way to
say you're interested in a girl. something like that. FYI, its also
known as D to B. ). The final, desperate hours of INXS front man主场 Michael Hutchence before he took his own life have been revealed by detectives. More than 16 years after the singer was found hanging in his Sydney Ritz Carlton hotel room by a chambermaid,
detectives Mark Smith and Michael Gerondis have told the Daily
Telegraph they have "no doubt" Hutchence wanted to die. Smith and
Gerondis also revealed that a scrunched-up ( scrunch I. To crush or crunch. II. To crumple or squeeze; hunch: scrunched up their shoulders; scrunch one's nose against a window. scrunch something up 揉成一团 to crush or crunch up. I pounded the biscuits and scrunched them up into crumbs. He scrunched up the note and threw it upon the fire. I scrunched my shoulders耸起肩膀, 缩起肩膀. crunch someone or something up to break someone or something up into pieces. That
machine will crunch you up. Stay away from it! A number of blows with
the hammer crunched up the rocks into pebbles. Try to crunch the larger
chunks up. ) piece of paper, containing what is believed to be the scrawlings of Hutchence's last song, were found in a hotel bin. The detectives said there was evidence Hutchence had searched that same bin in a final, desperate attempt to score drugs. "He was trying to get some cocaine but he did not get it so he was going through the remnants of the bin(remnant
I. Something left over; a remainder. II. A piece of fabric remaining
after the rest has been used or sold. III. A surviving trace or vestige:
a remnant of his past glory.)," Mr Gerondis was quoted as saying. The hotel room's bath was also filled with water as if the rock-star had been preparing to have a soak before he hanged himself with a belt. It was the hotel maid
who found Hutchence at 11.50am on Saturday, November 22, 1997. "The
maid could not get in because he was behind the door and as she pushed the door the belt snapped 皮带断裂, 断开 and he fell down," Mr Gerondis said. The pair determined that a depressed and desperate Hutchence took his own life, upset over a custody battle between girlfriend Paula Yates and her former husband, Bob Geldof. But Yates never accepted the coroner's suicide finding, instead insisting that Hutchence died after an auto-erotic sex game went wrong. The detectives recounted how, at a Sydney restaurant packed with diners, Yates spoke to them about the sex games involving asphyxiation that she would play with Hutchence. "She was shouting at us, everyone was listening in, and I thought 'how embarrassing is this'," Mr Gerondis said. Mr Smith said nothing would convince her that he had taken his own life. "She was just adamant that she wanted her child growing up believing that it was an accidental death
by auto-eroticism, instead of the fact he killed himself because he
wanted to see his child," he said. The detectives said they believe it
was a fight with Geldof on the phone which tipped Hutchence over the edge(tip the balance). "The argument with Geldof, the bit of drugs, nothing worked for him that night. And he rang (his agent) and said, 'I have had enough'," Mr Gerondis said. Yates died of a heroin overdose in 2000, leaving Geldof custody of Tiger Lily.
Quizzed to tears 被问哭了 - Olympian asked repeatedly about dead brother: A TV reporter who appeared to push an Olympic medallist to tears with repeated questions about his dead brother has been heavily criticised. NBC angered viewers when it kept rolling摄像机还在拍 as the medal-winner broke down. US skier Bode Miller was clearly emotional after winning bronze in the Super G at Sochi yesterday. NBC correspondent Christin Cooper then peppered the 36-year-old athlete with repeated questions about his dead brother until he was so overcome he collapsed over his ski poles in tears. NBC's edit then showed Miller for a full minute after the post-race 赛后采访 interview ended, sobbing as he squatted in the snow. Ms Cooper has drawn heavy criticism from viewers who felt she pushed too hard in her questioning. Even as Miller began to cry, Cooper asked if his performance was for Chilly. She then asked Miller whether he had been talking to his brother when he looked up at the sky望向天空 before the start of the race. Viewers expressed their distaste via Twitter. "Wow, the thing that interviewer just did to Bode Miller was SUPER disgusting," tweeted one. "Sad that the reporter kept asking Bode Miller q's after he was emotionally distraught. I know that's her job, but have some respect…" another wrote. But Miller, whose bronze yesterday made him the most medalled skier得奖牌最多的 in history and the oldest person to win an alpine medal at Sochi, said on Twitter he did not blame Cooper for his teary reaction. "I appreciate everyone sticking up for me(为...说话. 支持. = stand up for to support someone or something; to speak in favor of someone or something. Everyone was making unpleasant remarks about John, but I stuck up for him. Our team was losing, but I stuck up for it anyway. stand up to somebody/something 站起来反抗
to defend yourself against a powerful person or organization when they
treat you unfairly. to oppose someone or something without fear I know.
to take a stand against someone or something; to hold one's ground or
principles in the face of a challenge by someone or something. He wasn't afraid to stand up to bullies. He is a tough customer, and you have to learn to stand up to him. Can the witness stand up to questioning by the prosecution? Jim would stand up to absolutely anyone, even his boss, if he believed he was right about something. stand up against someone or something 抗争 to withstand or hold one's own against someone or something. He's good, but he can't stand up against Jill. Can this tent stand up against the wind? stand (up) and be counted 强出头的, 勇敢表达自己意见的, 不畏权势的 to make your opinions known even if doing so might cause you harm or difficulty: Those who did have the courage to stand up and be counted were arrested and imprisoned.). Please be gentle w christin cooper, it was crazy emotional and not all her fault," he wrote. He later told US morning show TODAY: "I have known Christin a long time, and she's a sweetheart of a person. "I know she didn't mean to push. I don't think she really anticipated what my reaction was going to be, and I think by the time she realised it, it was too late.".
