用法学习: 1. prim [prim] adj I. affectedly proper, precise, or formal. Precise or proper to the
point of affectation; excessively decorous. formal; precise; affectedly
neat or nice. prim regularity; a prim person. II. Strait-laced; prudish. not strong or definitevery careful about your behaviour and appearance, and easily shocked by what other people do or say. prim and proper. III. 古板的, 保守的. prim clothes are neat, sensible, and show very little of your body. wearing a prim Victorian dress. vb. I. (tr) To make prim, as in dress or appearance. II. to purse (the
mouth) primly or (of the mouth) to be so pursed. To fix (the face or
mouth) in a prim expression. prim and proper 大惊小怪的, 规规矩矩的, 中规中矩的( Strait-laced; prudish ) 循规蹈矩, 一本正经, 古板, 严肃的 someone who is prim and proper behaves in a very formal and correct way and is easily shocked by anything rude I can't quite imagine Ellen drinking pints of beer - she's very prim and proper. ship-shape
adj I. 秩序井然的. 井然有序的 Marked by meticulous order and neatness; tidy. trim
or tidy. II. Organized, serviceable, trained and ready for action. nitty-gritty ['niti'griti] (brass tacks, details, low-level, nuts and bolts) Informal
the basic facts of a matter, situation, etc.; the core. The specific or
practical details; the heart of a matter. The essence or core of
something; the details. He gave a short summary without getting into the nitty-gritty of the problem. Let's get down to nitty-gritty. get down to brass tacks (idiomatic) Deal with the important details. particulars [of sth] specific details about something. The details or specifics of something.
My boss stressed the important particulars of the project. What are the
particulars of your request? The overall plan is well understood, but
we still have to work out the particulars. in dribs and drabs in small portions; bit by bit. I'll have to pay you what I owe you in dribs and drabs. The whole story is being revealed in dribs and drabs. 3. lumpy 疙疙瘩瘩的, 不平整的 Full of lumps, not smooth. I don't know which was worse, the lumpy soup or the lumpy bed. bumpy 颠簸的 rough; jumpy; causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements. firecracker = pistol 暴脾气的人. 脾气不好的人. the terms are usually applied to women. someone who is bold, sassy, free spirited, and often has explosions of energy. It means they are full of life, spunk, force, energy, or fiestiness. It's usually a compliment. It is generally a positive thing to be called a firecrackjer. Implies you are a fiesty go-getter sort of person - bubbly, full of spark, that sort of thing. 5. shroud I. 裹尸布 a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial: he was buried in a linen shroud. technical a protective casing or cover: the trigger shroud prevents snagging on clothing. II. a thing that envelops or obscures something: a shroud of mist. they operate behind a shroud of secrecy. III. (shrouds) a set of ropes forming part of the standing rigging of a sailing boat and supporting the mast or topmast. (also shroud line) each of the lines joining the canopy of a parachute to the harness.
新闻节选: 1. Taxpayers lumped with 吞下 ( get one's lumps Inf. to get the result or punishment one deserves. If she keeps acting that way, she'll get her lumps. We will see that Dave gets his lumps. take one's lumps Inf. to accept the result or punishment one deserves. You've got to learn to take your lumps if you're going to be in politics. I hate taking my lumps. I'd rather pretend nothing had happened. If you don't like it, (you can) lump it. (put up or shut up) Prov. Things cannot be changed to suit your preferences. We're having fish for dinner tonight. And if you don't like it, you can lump it. We're going to go visit Aunt Sally this weekend. If you don't like it, lump it. Like it or lump it! Inf. There is no other choice. Take that or none. John: I don't like this room. It's too small. Bill: Like it or lump it. That's all we've got. Jane: I don't want to be talked to like that. Sue: Well, like it or lump it! That's the way we talk around here. bring a lump to your throat if something someone says or does brings a lump to your throat, it makes you feel such strong emotions that you want to cry. I thought it was a very moving speech. It almost brought a lump to my throat. ) $13m bill for Manus Island detention staff's floating hotel: Taxpayers are footing a bill of more than $73,400 a night for detention centre staff to stay in a floating hotel moored off Papua New Guinea's Manus Island. 2. Ty Burrell(Morden Family演员): 'I was the creepy guy in a van': Ty Burrell's grad school van apparently was no love shack( It's basically a place where people go to party and have sex. ). "When I was 28 to 29 or so I would stay with my mentors, husband-and-wife professors, and then sleep on their porch for a while, and then I'd live in the van. I may have had one date during that whole period, which was about a year on and off," he tells Playboy's March issue."Basically, when my date figured out I was living in my van, I didn't hear from her again. The funniest thing was I was confused about why. I was like. 'What's the problem?' I didn't realize I was the creepy guy in a van. What could possibly be holding up this relationship? The van pretty much eliminated my dating life completely." Nonetheless, the Modern Family star has fond recollections of living the simple life on four wheels. "Honestly, some of my best memories are of that period. I was busy with grad school (at Penn State), so I had real purpose. I had focus and a routine. I would get up, go shower in the gym, read scripts and memorize them in the van. You know the way people talk about prison as a meditative让人冥想的, transforming place? The van was like a little prison cell — only without all the other terrible prison stuff going on." No word on whether this van was parked down by the river. 3. You don't need to cast bones or read entrails ( entrails (ˈɛntreɪlz) 内脏 I. The internal organs, especially the intestines; viscera. II. Internal parts: "sidewalk repair shops, where the entrails of bicycles and cars and motorcycles are spread, mechanics poring over them" (Alan Cowell). In Etruscan and Roman religious practice, a haruspex (plural haruspices) is a person trained to practice a form of divination called haruspicy, hepatoscopy or hepatomancy. Haruspicy is the inspection of the entrails (exta) of sacrificed animals, especially the livers of sacrificed sheep and poultry. Haruspicy is one of the three branches of the "Etruscan discipline" (disciplina Etrusca) preserved in written texts that were known to the Romans, along with ritual practice and divination from lightning.) to know that smartphones arrive in predictable cycles. February, home of Mobile World Congress, is likely to see the launch of new handsets from heavy hitters 大牌 (a very important or influential person. One that is predominant, as in influence or power) like HTC, Samsung and LG. Those new flagships will rule the mobile hill 统治山头 until the fall, when Apple and Google are likely to wheel out ( I. 抬出, 搬出. 祭出. 使出. to mention or to use someone or something that has been mentioned or used many times before, often so many times that people are now bored with them. Every time we have this argument you wheel out the same old statistics, and I'm still not convinced! Year after year they wheel out the same third-rate celebrities to entertain us. They still wheel her out at every party conference. II. to show people something new, or to make something new available, for the first time. Unix is wheeling out its new system next week.) next-gen devices of their own. Sony, meanwhile, recently launched its latest handset, the Z1 Compact, which reverses the "bigger is better" trend to great effect. There may have only been one top-tier phone launching in January, but the phone industry has hardly been hibernating this winter. When Samsung presented the idea of a smartphone with a display larger than five inches, we were more than a little skeptical. The Galaxy Note's surprise success, however, has forged a trend where colossal devices are now the rule, not the exception(be the rule 正常现象, 常有的事 to be what usually happens or what is considered to be normal. Sunny skies are the rule at this time of year. make it a rule to do something 规定自己 to always try to do something. I make it a rule to be in bed by 10 pm. rule of law a situation in which everyone in a country is expected to obey the laws, including powerful people, military leaders etc. Our mission is to uphold the rule of law. rules are rules spoken used for telling someone that they have to obey a rule, even if they do not want to. work to rule 按规矩办事 British to do only what the rules at work say you must do and nothing more, as a form of protest. as a rule used for saying what usually happens. As a rule I stay in on Friday nights. against the rules: You can't do that, it's against the rules! rules and regulations: They complain that businesses are being hampered by too many rules and regulations. ). When Google picked LG to produce the Nexus 4, heads and eyebrows were raised, but when it launched, no one could doubt that the duo had pulled off something special. We've noted that a lot of Android device makers like to release a handset, like the Galaxy S 4, and then release a smaller, more pocket-friendly version shortly afterward. Unfortunately, cramming the same technology down into a tighter package causes a raft of compromises, sending prospective buyers scurrying back to ( scurry to move quickly, with small, short steps: The mouse scurried across the floor. The noise of the explosion sent the villagers scurrying back into their homes.) the full-size edition. The only differences of note are that the display now has 720p resolution, instead of 1080p, and the battery capacity has dropped by 700mAh due to the hardware's reduced dimensions. If you're interested in a top-tier waterproof smartphone, but don't fancy carrying around a device that can double as a table tennis bat, the Z1 Compact is absolutely worth investigating. 4. Man wanted for child porn arrested: An American sex offender wanted in Australia for child pornography offences has been arrested in Missouri on similar counts, US authorities say. Timothy R Powers, 57, was jailed in Australia more than a decade ago for child pornography offences and eight months ago, with NSW police issuing warrants for his arrest on new charges, he fled to the US. "He has outstanding 未解决的 charges in Australia for possession of child pornography," Lieutenant David Tiefenbrunn, of the St Charles County Sheriff's Department in Missouri, told AAP on Friday. "That was one of the reasons he fled Australia - to avoid prosecution 避免被起诉 on that case. "He's already been convicted in the past in Australia and has served time for possession of child pornography." St Charles sheriffs received an anonymous tip earlier this week that Powers was downloading child pornography at his home in Weldon Springs, near St Louis. An investigation was launched, his computers were seized and he was charged with possession of child pornography and failure to register as a sex offender.
两个游戏: 1. Hangman is a paper and pencil guessing game for two or more players. One player thinks of a word, phrase or sentence and the other tries to guess it by suggesting letters or numbers. The word to guess is represented 表示, 代表 by a row of dashes, giving the number of letters, numbers and category. If the guessing player suggests a letter or number which occurs in the word, the other player writes it in all its correct positions. If the suggested letter or number does not occur in the word, the other player draws one element of the hanged man stick figure 吊着的人的简笔画 (A stick figure简笔画 is a very simple drawing of a person or animal, composed of a few lines, curves, and dots. In a stick figure, the head is represented by a circle, sometimes embellished with details such as eyes, mouth or crudely scratched-out hair. The arms, legs and torso are all represented by straight lines. Details such as hands, feet and a neck may be present or absent, and the simpler stick figures display an ambiguous emotional expression. Graffiti of stick figures are found throughout history, often scratched with a sharp object on hard surfaces such as stone or concrete walls. Stick figures are often used in sketches for film storyboarding.) as a tally mark. The game is over when: The guessing player completes the word, or guesses the whole word correctly. The other player completes the diagram: This diagram is, in fact, designed to look like a hanging man. Although debates have arisen about the questionable taste of this picture, it is still in use today. A common alternative for teachers is to draw an apple tree with ten apples, erasing or crossing out the apples as the guesses are used up. 2. A scavenger hunt is a game in which the organizers prepare a list defining specific items, which the participants – individuals or teams – seek to gather all items on the list – usually without purchasing them – or perform tasks or take photographs of the items, as specified. The goal is usually to be the first to complete the list,
although in a variation on the game players can also be challenged to
complete the tasks on the list in the most creative manner. scavenger [ˈskævɪndʒə] I. One that scavenges, as a person who searches through refuse for food. A person who collects things discarded by others. II. 腐食性动物. An animal, such as a bird or insect, that feeds on dead or decaying matter腐化物质. Any animal that feeds on decaying organic matter, esp on refuse. wiki: Scavenging is both a carnivorous and a herbivorous feeding behavior in which the scavenger feeds on dead animal and plant material present in its habitat. The eating of carrion(腐肉, 尸体) from the same species is referred to as cannibalism(吃人类, 食人族, 同类相食). Scavengers play an important role in the ecosystem by consuming the dead animal and plant material. Decomposers and detritivores complete this process, by consuming the remains left by scavengers. scavenge I. To search through for salvageable material: scavenged the garbage cans for food scraps. II. 捡拾垃圾. 清理废物. To collect and remove refuse from: The streets are periodically scavenged.
几个单词的用法(unsightly, bauble, paragon, ring up at): 1. unsightly(indecent) 不雅观的. 有碍观瞻的: Locals have found the sculpture so unsightly(不雅观的) they have taken it upon themselves to 亲自动手, 自己动手 hang festive baubles on it(bauble 节日用的球形的装饰物
I. A cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw. II. A club or
sceptre carried by a jester. III. A small shiny spherical decoration,
commonly put on Christmas trees. make it one's business to (do something) and take it upon oneself to do something 自发的, 积极主动的做某事, 自觉自愿的
Fig. to do something on one's own even if it means interfering in
something that does not directly concern one. (As opposed to minding
one's own business.) I know it doesn't
concern me, but I made it my business to call city hall because someone
had to. Jane took it upon herself to find out exactly what had happened
to the old lady. take something (up)on oneself to accept the entire burden of something on oneself. (Upon is formal and less commonly used than on.) You didn't need to take it all upon yourself. There are others here who can help, you know. Jan takes too much on herself. ) to try and brighten it up. 2. paragon [ˈpærəɡon; -ən] 人生典范, 完美的人, 完人, 楷模, 模范(美语发音都是gon): A person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model of some given (especially positive) quality. Unfortunately we can't expect all policemen to be paragons of virtue. In the novel, Constanza is a paragon of virtue who would never compromise her reputation. She was a paragon of neatness and efficiency. He was not a paragon. He could never be perfect. We don't need Taylor Swift to tell us who she's voting for. She is a pop star, not an ideological paragon. Nothing about her — from her lyrics to her antics to her tendency to lie to make herself look better — lends itself to political credibility. Again, it doesn't even need to. Everything about her perfectly-cultivated 精心刻画的, 精心塑造的 image is designed to boost her profile as a popular singer. cultivated: I. 精心培育的, 有教养的. a cultivated person is well educated and knows how to behave politely. a cultivated man/voice/accent. II. cultivated land 耕地 is used for growing crops or plants. III. developed from wild crops or plants and grown on farms or in gardens. wild and cultivated 人工培育的 flowers. v. I. 备耕土地, 翻耕土地. to make land suitable for growing crops or plants. To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting. the peasants who cultivated the land became its owners. Most of the world's fertile land 肥沃土地 is already being cultivated. II. 精心培育. 大量培育. to grow crops or plants, especially in large quantities. They were encouraged to cultivate basic food crops. Walnuts were cultivated for salad oil. Farmers should cultivate their crops to get a good harvest. Rice is cultivated throughout the coastal regions. III. to develop something such as an attitude, ability, or skill. He cultivated an air of indifference. He's trying to cultivate a more caring image. IV. to develop a friendship or relationship with someone, usually in order to get an advantage from it. She cultivated an air of sophistication. He purposely tried to cultivate good relations 培养好关系 with the press. It helps if you go out of your way to cultivate the local people. V. To nurture; to foster; to tend. They tried to cultivate an interest in learning among their students.
笨蛋, 蠢驴, 蠢猪, 愚蠢: moron, dumbarse, knucklehead, douche, schmuck. retard: 1. retard n. I. (slang, offensive) A person with mental retardation. Do all retards have a low I.Q.? II. (slang, offensive) A stupid person, or one who is slow to learn. retarded adj. I. (chiefly North America) Underdeveloped (of a person's intelligence, abilities etc.). II. (colloquial, derogatory) Stupid, dumb. urbandict: A person born with a mental condition and therefore has to work a million times harder to be able to do simple things (such as learn and communicate) that we take for granted. On top of this, a retard will usually suffer a lot of ridicule from society because people fear what they do not understand. The people who choose to make fun of the mental retarded tend to be complete morons and cannot comprehend that these people have feelings and emotions just like anyone else. I find it amusing that saying somebody has cancer would not be taken as a joke and yet, using another disease such as mental retarded as an insult is common among society, and many do not realize that it is very offensive and that there is something seriously wrong about it. Who would have ever thought such a retard would win the election?!?!?! 2. Intellectual disability (ID) or general learning disability is a generalized disorder appearing before adulthood, characterized by significantly impaired cognitive functioning and deficits in two or more adaptive behaviors. Intellectual disability is also known as mental retardation (MR), although this older term is being used less frequently. It was historically defined as an intelligence quotient score under 70. 3. Schmuck or shmuck in American English is a pejorative meaning one who is stupid or foolish; or an obnoxious, contemptible or detestable person. The word entered English from Yiddish, where it has similar pejorative meanings, but its original meaning in Yiddish is penis. Because of its vulgarity, the word is euphemized as schmoe, which was the source of Al Capp's cartoon strip creature the shmoo. Variants include schmo and shmo.
魅惑的, 诱人的, 勾人的, 勾引人的, 吸引人的(seductive, enticing, sultry, flirtatious): 1. This preceded先于 his next big break as the petulantly(任性无理而狂妄的) seductive ( 魅惑的, 勾引人的. 勾人的. ending to seduce or capable of seducing; enticing; alluring) trust-fund brat(乳臭未干的小孩, 小子, 小开) Sebastian Valmont in 1999's Cruel Intentions, a film that was essentially a present-day当今的现代的, all-teen adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereuses. 2. 表示天气闷热, 潮湿用: muggy, steamy, humid, sticky 粘嗒嗒的, soggy湿漉漉的( Soaked with moisture or other liquid ), sultry, clammy. muggy: (of weather, air, etc) unpleasantly warm and humid. "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather". sultry I. a. Very humid and hot: sultry July weather. b. Extremely hot; torrid: the sultry sands of the desert. II. Expressing or arousing desire 勾人的. 魅惑的. displaying or suggesting passion; sensual: sultry eyes. a sultry look; a sultry dance. clammy I. Disagreeably moist, sticky, and cold to the touch: a clammy handshake. II. Damp and unpleasant: clammy weather. III. Uneasy; apprehensive: The ghost town gave us a clammy feeling. 3. flirtatious [flɜ:'teiʃəs] 挑逗的, 魅惑的 expressive of playful sexual invitation a flirtatious glance. 4. 板球新星 - Agar ducks the limelight 躲开聚光灯 as paparazzi hover: They say fame comes with a price and for Ashton Agar that struck home 说的太对了 when out for a stroll with his girlfriend in London before the Lord's Test. A couple of weeks earlier, he could have done the same thing without being looked at twice没人会多看一眼, short of maybe a whispered remark or two about the young man with the striking resemblance 惊人相似 to golfer Adam Scott. After the 19-year-old's remarkable debut at Trent Bridge, the scenario 情况就不一样了, 情境就大不一样了 outside the Australian team's Kensington hotel was very different, with Agar even pursued by paparazzi desperate to capture a shot of the sport's new star with his girlfriend, Madi Hay. "That was new," he said. "There was a camera lady … I think she was chasing a few of the boys around, and partners as well, in London … camping outside the hotel waiting to get a shot. But I guess that's what they have to do. "We just walked past her as quick as we could and tried to get away from her, to be honest … just paid her no attention, didn't look at the camera at all, and just walked on as if 当她不在那里 she wasn't there."
Had he expected that kind of attention? "Not this quickly, I guess.
Maybe if I was Shane Warne or something like that, but not this
quickly." The appetite for all things Agar in the aftermath of his stunning 98 batting at No.11 in Nottingham extended to the women's magazines, who were after a sit-down with the teenage couple. Those requests, and many others, were knocked back被拒绝, but Agar admits "I couldn't tell you" how many television, radio and newspaper interviews he did. Hailed as the new wonder boy of Australian cricket, he was the classic overnight sensation一夜成名. The reality, though, was always that once the hype died down, the adopted West Australian would have to return to simply being a cricketer. A giddy public 高兴不已, 兴奋不已的大众( giddy ['gidi] I. affected with a reeling sensation and feeling as if about to fall; dizzy. II. 令人眩晕的. causing or tending to cause vertigo. a giddy climb to the topmast. III. impulsive; scatterbrained. IV.
非常高兴的, 高兴异常的. Frivolous and lighthearted; flighty. Light hearted,
silly, joyful. Happy, humorous, in a good mood, overexcited, hyper. Too
happy, extremely giggly, excited. You look giddy today. my giddy aunt an exclamation of surprise. from giddy-up (Used to command a horse to go ahead or go at a faster pace.) to whoa[wəu] (An expression of surprise. Whoa, are you serious? ) Rur.
all the way from the beginning to the end. The road is paved from
giddy-up to whoa. The play stinks. It is dull from giddy-up to whoa. giddy, dizzy, vertiginous: These adjectives mean producing a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall: a giddy precipice; a dizzy pinnacle ['pinəkəl]; a vertiginous [vɜ:'tidʒinəs] height. ) might have been seduced 被魅惑, 迷住, 迷上 by that smile, the boyish indifference 漠然, 无所谓, 不关心. 不在乎 to getting out and the fairytale plot( to get out I. 成名. to make or become known; publish or be published. II. (tr) to gain or receive something, esp something of significance or value. You get out of life what you put into it. III. (foll by of) to avoid or cause to avoid. she always gets out of swimming.
IV. (tr) to solve (a puzzle or problem) successfully. V. (tr; often
foll by of) to extract (information or money) (from a person). to get a confession out of a criminal. V. (tr) to express with difficulty. Here's why being indifferent 爱理不理的, 爱答不理的, 不热情的 with women creates attraction: The difference that makes the difference with women… is indifference. What does that mean? It means that even though you find yourself attracted to a beautiful woman, you don't let her beauty affect you. You don't come unglued视线移不开的, un-centered ( come unglued
I. (American informal) 大哭. 崩溃. 再也忍不住. 再也崩不住, 再也憋不住. to lose control of your
emotions. to lose emotional control; to break out into tears or
laughter. When Sally heard the joke, she almost
came unglued. When the bank took away my car, I came unglued and cried
and cried. After Dan's death she just came unglued. II.
(American informal) if a person or something they are trying to achieve
comes unglued, they have problems which cause them to fail. The
negotiations are showing signs of coming unglued, with new questions
coming up every day. The team played well in the first half but came
unglued in the second. ) or become something you are not
when you are around beautiful women you are attracted to. In a old
movie, Dirty Harry, Clint's character was always indifferent to the advances of women who wanted him. They would show up at his door with a six pack of beer and maybe some take-out food, hoping he would let them in so they could seduce him. He always seemed to be slightly annoyed when they wanted his attention after he had a long day. However, the women were undeterred 吓不到的, 百折不挠的, 不灰心的. Of course he would relent and let them in.), but selectors do not care for that. Agar, displaying equanimity ( [,i:kwə'nimiti ˌɛkwə-] 冷静, 沉着. 处变不惊. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure. calmness of mind or temper; composure. ) and insight beyond his years超出年龄的, knew that well. "I tried to not pay a whole heap of attention to all the hype at the start so I could sort of stay even the whole way, so I feel … probably more comfortable now with Test cricket and everything that comes with it," he said. "I think that's done me a lot of good对我有很大好处, to be honest, because there was a lot going on and I guess it can go to your head. But I've got a good family to keep me grounded,
Justin Langer [his coach at Western Australia] is good, and obviously
Darren Lehmann and the boys here will always keep me grounded." 5. The Briton is in Sydney running boot camps in the art of seduction勾引人, and he reports his students from the first weekend session were "good looking, had good careers, really cool guys". But that enticing 迷人的, 魅惑的 combination can have a flip side( flip side I. Lit. the "other" side of a phonograph record. On the flip side, we have another version of "Love Me Tender" sung by Sandy Softly. You really should listen to the flip side sometime. II. Fig. another aspect of a situation 另一面, 反面, 对立面. On the flip side, if we lower the taxes it may stimulate consumer spending. ). Lyons said: "A lot of guys we look at and think 'they're confident', they're actually overconfident, which is a very unattractive quality.".
