用法学习: 1. tip n. I. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration. a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc. II. Rubbish thrown from a quarry(ˈkworɪ) . rubbish tip. III. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Chiefly British An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine. An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap; a dump. IV. A recycling centre. v. Brit to dump (rubbish, etc). waste depot. waste disposal. tip-and-run designed for or consisting of a brief attack followed by a quick escape; "hit-and-run units"; "tip-and-run assaults". depot (ˈdɛpəu; US Canadian ˈdi:pəu) I. A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse. II. (US) A bus or railway station. III. A place where military recruits are assembled before being sent to active units. 2. An acquaintance picked up bedbugs on holiday o/s and has had her flat fumigated ( fumigate (ˈfju:miˌɡeɪt) 熏蒸消毒. To subject to smoke or fumes, usually in order to exterminate pests or disinfect. To employ smoke or fumes in order to exterminate or disinfect. ) three times. Now seems to be bedbug-free, but you can see the frantic look in her eyes when she talks about what it was like. It seems fumigation is pointless, and that hiring a pest controller with a trained sniffer dog ( A detection dog or sniffer dog is a dog that is trained to and works at using its senses (almost always the sense of smell) to detect substances such as explosives, illegal drugs, wildlife scat, or blood. Hunting dogs that search for game and search dogs that search for missing humans are generally not considered detection dogs. There is some overlap, as in the case of human remains detection dogs (sometimes called cadaver dogs), trained to detect human remains. They are also used for drug raids to locate the drugs in question. Some prisons have dogs trained to detect illicit mobile phones in prison cells.) is the only real way to control them? What about sniffer dogs? I read they can be quite effective. mite1 n. I. a. A very small contribution or amount of money. b. A widow's mite. II. A very small object, creature, or particle. III. A coin of very small value, especially an obsolete British coin worth half a farthing. Idiom: a mite To a small degree; somewhat: That remark was a mite unfair. mite2 螨虫 n. Any of various small or minute arachnids of the order Acarina that are often parasitic on animals and plants, infest stored food products, and in some species transmit disease.
Ratings are king收视率是王道 in X-rated radio:
IMAGINE being called to see the boss and offered $25,000 to have a
baby. That's exactly what happened to one former Austereo host but this
was no joke. The radio network meant business. A baby would mean ratings - and therefore ad revenue. So when her then-boss took out a calendar and began speculating when the optimum time 最佳时机 would be for her to conceive so that she could give birth between ratings survey five and six ("when it would get the best ratings") she didn't feel violated or surprised. Just sadly resigned to the fact that屈从于事实, 屈服于事实 being asked to have a child (and give birth on air wearing a T-shirt bearing the station slogan) was considered a reasonable request合理的要求. Welcome to Austereo - a world where King Kyle reigns supreme, where penis enlargement surgeries are offered as giveaways, and "guess who?" games involving women's genitalia are brainstormed in staff meetings. The ratings-at-any-cost culture existed long before Mel Greig and Michael Christian made their call to Kate Middleton's London hospital. Once the media storm passes一旦媒体风暴过去, 媒体消停了, all this will flourish again because Austereo's schadenfreude philosophy ( 快乐建立在别人的痛苦之上. delight in another's misfortune. take pleasure in other's suffering. Schadenfreude (['ʃɑ:dənfrɔidə]) is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. This German word is used as a loanword外来语, 舶来品 in English and some other languages. Schadenfreude ([ˈʃɑːdənfrɔɪdə]), also known as epicaricacy [ɛpɪˈkærɪkəsi] is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. This word is taken from German and literally means "harm-joy". It is the feeling of joy or pleasure when one sees another fail or suffer misfortune. It is also borrowed by some other languages. An English term of similar meaning (but with no noun equivalent) is "to gloat 幸灾乐祸"; which means to feel, or express, great, often malicious, pleasure, or self-satisfaction, at one's own success, or at another's failure. Often used in English as a synonym for comeuppance. comeuppance [,kʌm'ʌpəns] 报应, 罪有应得, 活该 A negative outcome which is justly deserved. A punishment or retribution that one deserves; one's just deserts: "It's a chance to strike back at the critical brotherhood and give each his comeuppance for evaluative sins of the past" (Judith Crist). get one's comeuppance 遭报应, 遭天谴
to get a deserved punishment. if you get your comeuppance, something
bad happens to you as a result of something bad that you have done to
someone else. He'll get his comeuppance, you'll see. You can't treat people the way he does and not go unpunished in this world. I can't wait till that snobbish girl gets her comeuppance. Joe got his comeuppance when the teacher caught him making fun of her. usage notes: A comeuppance is invariably a bad experience. Even so, some dictionaries leave open the possibility of a positive outcome, either explicitly in the definition or by using synonyms such as just deserts, which can be positive. just deserts [di'zɜ:rt] (idiomatic) A punishment or reward that is considered to be what the recipient deserved. It may appear that they're getting ahead by cheating, but they'll get their just deserts in the end.
Usage notes: Deserts here is the plural of desert, meaning "that which
one deserves". "Desert" is now archaic and rarely used outside this
phrase. The spelling just desserts is non-standard. It is sometimes used as a pun in, for example, restaurant names. poetic justice 恶有恶报, 善有善报.
The rewarding of virtue, and the punishment of vice, especially in an
ironic manner. appropriate, ideal, or ironic punishment. if something
that happens is poetic justice, someone who has done something bad is
made to suffer in a way that seems fair. There is a kind of poetic justice in the fact that the country responsible for the worst ecological disaster this century is the one suffering most from its effects. It was poetic justice
that Jane won the race after Mary tried to get her banned from the
race. The car thieves tried to steal a car with no gas. That's poetic
justice. sweet justice 得到好报 It's what you say when something makes you happy or goes your way or you just like what someone is saying. Betty: I just scored free tickets to Aerosmith!! Veronica: Sweet Justice!!! poetic license 艺术自由
liberties or license of the type taken by artists, especially poets, to
violate patterns of rhyme, harmony, structure, etc. the way in which
writers and other artists are allowed to ignore rules or change facts in
their work. It's obvious the writer was using a certain amount of poetic licence 艺术加工, 艺术再创造 because the route she mentions has been closed for 50 years. I couldn't tell whether he kept making spelling mistakes or if it was just poetic license. wiki: Artistic license 处于艺术原因的破格 (also known as dramatic license, historical license, poetic license, narrative license, licentia poetica, or simply license) is a colloquial term, sometimes euphemism, used to denote the distortion of fact, alteration of the conventions of grammar or language,
or rewording of pre-existing text made by an artist to improve a piece
of art. The artistic license may also refer to the ability of an artist
to apply smaller distortions, such as a poet ignoring some of the minor requirements of grammar for poetic effect. payback(karma) I. (uncountable) An act of revenge. They beat us last year, so this year's win was payback. II. (countable) A form of recompense. have it coming (idiomatic) 报应, 自找的. 罪有应得的, 活该的. To deserve or merit, as the consequences of one's actions. reap what one sows 自作自受, 种瓜得瓜种豆得豆. (get out what one puts in) To receive as a reward or harvest in the same measure as one's exertions, in a good or a bad sense. To receive justice. For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap. sow the wind, reap the whirlwind Every decision has consequences; a person's actions will come back to him. what goes around comes around
I. The status eventually returns to its original value after completing
some sort of cycle. II. A person's actions, whether good or bad, will
often have consequences for that person. come/go/turn full circle 天道轮回
I. To make a complete change or reform. II. To complete a cycle of
transition, returning to where one started after gaining experience or
exploring other things. return to a past position or situation, especially in a way considered to be inevitable. Things have come full circle now that long skirts are back in fashion. "the region is being forced to come full circle and repeat the errors of its tragic past". Note: People also say the wheel has come full circle or the wheel has turned full circle. The wheel has turned full circle and we are back where we began. Note: This may refer to the medieval idea of the wheel of fortune which is constantly turning, so that people who have good luck at one time in their lives will have bad luck at another time. In English expression with a similar meaning is 'Roman holiday 以别人的痛苦为乐, 快乐建立在别人的痛苦身上',
a metaphor taken from the poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" by George
Gordon, Lord Byron, where a gladiator in Ancient Rome expects to be
"butcher'd to make a Roman holiday" while the audience would take pleasure from watching his suffering. The term suggests debauchery and disorder in addition to sadistic enjoyment. urbandict: An instance in which someone experiences enjoyment on account of someone else's suffering.
The expression, first used in this sense in Byron's "Childe Harold,"
derives from the fact that the Roman Empire frequently proclaimed
work-free days on which to hold gladiatorial games. "Roman holiday" can
function as a loose equivalent of the German term Schadenfreude, which
also means pleasure derived from another person's misfortune. When he had to enter rehab himself, he realized that his mockery of Rush Limbaugh's painkiller addiction ultimately amounted to nothing more than a petty Roman holiday. Another phrase with a meaning similar to Schadenfreude is "morose delectation"
("delectatio morosa" in Latin), meaning "the habit of dwelling with
enjoyment on evil thoughts". The medieval church taught morose
delectation as a sin.French writer Pierre Klossowski maintained that the
appeal of sadism is morose delectation. In The Simpsons's episode
"When Flanders Failed", Lisa explains to Homer what schadenfreude
means, using the word to describe Homer's gloating 得意 over Ned's failing business. Homer essentially admits to this, and eventually asks Lisa what the opposite of schadenfreude would be; she replies with "sour grapes", to which he exclaims "Those Germans have a word for everything!". nemesis I. source of harm or ruin: Uncritical trust不加分别的相信, 盲从, 盲信, 盲目相信 is my nemesis. II. 报应, 天谴. Retributive justice in its execution or outcome: To follow the proposed course of action is to invite nemesis 自找事, 找麻烦, 找死. III. 天地. An opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome. IV. One that inflicts retribution or vengeance. be just what the doctor ordered 要什么有什么, 正式所需要的 (humorous) to be exactly what is wanted or needed 'Andy's making us some lunch.' 'Great, just what the doctor ordered.' A night out on their own was just what the doctor ordered. just gay enough (informal) A
man who is just gay enough is not gay but has some of the qualities
typical of gay men that many women like, such as an interest in clothes
or being able to talk about emotions. Her new husband is wonderful - tall and handsome, and just gay enough. Just my luck! (humorous) something that you say when something bad happens to you. So he left five minutes before I got here, did he? Just my luck. ) has won it as many listeners as it has critics, helping to make it one of Australia's media powerhouses. Hoaxes are common but what has set Austereo, and in particular Sydney's 2DayFM network, apart (even before Saldanha's death) is the extremes it goes 无所不用其极 to promote and encourage humiliation. Former Triple M presenter Peter Berner doubts there would have been much thought behind the royal prank call充分考虑过的, 深思熟虑的. "FM radio people sit around, they spitball ideas( spitball I.
(baseball) A pitch of a baseball that has been partly covered with
saliva, illegal at most levels. A spitball is an illegal baseball pitch
in which the ball has been altered by the application of saliva,
petroleum jelly, or some other foreign substance. Such a pitch presents
an additional challenge to the hitter because it causes the ball to move
atypically during its approach due to the altered wind-resistance and
weight on one side of the ball. II. A piece of paper chewed and shaped
into a lump for use as a projectile. A balled up弄成球状的 piece of paper, moistened with saliva (by chewing) and shot through a drinking straw. Verb. 头脑风暴. To brainstorm ideas. ball pit/pond/pool A play area for children consisting of a pit filled with colourful plastic balls. ), and somebody has said 'Hey, let's try to ring the hospital and pretend to be Prince Charles and the Queen'. That would have been the level of consideration given to it, I guarantee it," he said. Another former Austereo star, Amber Petty, butted heads with management over ( 意见不一, 冲突 headbutt 撞头 butt with the head; "The soccer player headbutted his oponent and was sent off the field". kick (some) ass/butt (and take names) to threaten someone with physical violence Detectives
had to kick some ass and take some names in order to get information
from their sources on the street. Saying that our country is going to go
in and kick ass and take names is the easy part - doing it could turn
out to be a nightmare. kick ass/butt (spoken) to be very exciting or effective The DVD of that war movie truly kicks ass. The new system really kicked butt, catching several cheaters the first day it was used. butt in to interrupt Sorry to butt in on you like this, but there's an important call. butt out Informal chiefly US and Canadian to stop interfering or meddling. to not get involved in something Teens usually think their parents should just butt out of their lives. Usage notes: often used as an order: This is none of your business, so just butt out! ) the persistent push for stunts in poor taste. The tipping point came when they secretly got Petty's father to record a "joke" obituary for her, which was then broadcast in the station's news. Petty said she was appalled when people began ringing the radio station, crying over the news. Judith Lucy has made plenty of comedic [kə'mi:dik] mileage out of her failed stint ( get a lot of mileage out of something ['mailidʒ] 用到了机制, 榨干, 挤干. 用得很, 物尽其用. Fig. to get a lot of use from something, as if it were a car. Bob always got a lot of mileage out of one joke. I got a lot of mileage out of my TV before it broke down. get some kind of mileage out of something I. Lit. to achieve some level of efficiency with a vehicle. (Some kind of typically includes more, better, good, etc.) Do you get good mileage out of a vehicle like this. II. Fig. to get [sufficient] use or service from something. I wish I could get better mileage out of this car. He knows how to get a lot of mileage out of a pair of shoes.) on breakfast radio where, she said, she was presented with an idea for a "celebrity sperm" competition. The idea was to get Guy Sebastian to donate his sperm for one lucky listener to win and impregnate herself with it. Melbourne University pop culture expert Dr Lauren Rosewarne said pranks calls would always have a place on radio as long as people continued to find humour in the humiliation of others. "The radio stations aren't going to keep making prank calls if people switch off."
Hit-run driver Puneet Puneet has bail application rejected: Puneet's defence lawyers labelled 称, 声称 the verdict "biased" and his tearful family pledged to appeal the decision in the High Court. "This is a biased decision, this is against one's personal liberty," said Harinath Ram, Puneet's defence counsel. Judge Priya Mahindra did not reveal the grounds of rejection during the hearing on Wednesday, but will do so on February 28. Puneet is fighting his extradition in an Indian court through a team of seven lawyers after fleeing Australia in 2009 following a drunken, high-speed car crash in which he killed student Dean Hofstee in Melbourne a year earlier. During an hour-long argument, Puneet's defence counsel challenged all the charges levelled against him(level sth against/at sb 针对...的指控 to accuse someone in public of doing something wrong: Criticism has been levelled at senior figures in the industry. Charges of corruption have been levelled against him. level something at someone 对准 to point a weapon at someone. Andy levelled the revolver at me menacingly. level at or level against / level something at/against someone to criticize or accuse someone. Several criticisms have been levelled at the company's board of directors. Some serious allegations have been levelled against the chairman. level a charge against someone Fig. to place a charge against someone; to accuse someone of something. The neighbors leveled a disturbance of the peace charge against us. The cops leveled an assault charge against Max.) in Australia. "Puneet was not drunk, he didn't slam the pedestrian, but the victims were walking in the middle of road" Mr Ram told the court. "He fled Australia to save his life, as he was attacked twice in Australia and Australian police didn't helped him." Citing various cases in India, one of his other lawyers Mahesh Prasad argued that keeping Puneet behind bars was against his "personal liberty". The defence lawyer representing Australia argued that Puneet had already jumped bail in Australia and went underground( go under I. to sink below the surface of the water The crowd watched as the ship went slowly under. The ship went under just minutes after the last passenger had been rescued. II. if something such as a business goes under, it fails completely and stops operating. Is the British film industry going under? III. to become unconscious when a doctor gives you an anaesthetic before an operation. go under the knife 做手术 to have a medical operation: More and more women are choosing to go under the knife to improve their appearance. go begging 寻找下家 UK informal If something is going begging, it is available to be taken because no one else wants it: If that bottle of wine is going begging, I'll have it. go-between 中间人 someone who takes messages between people who are unable or unwilling to meet: The ambassador has offered to act as a go-between for the two countries involved in the conflict. going underground I. To be so overloaded with study that one will temporarily discontinue any relationships and/or one's social life in order to find more time. Friend One: "damned yearlies comin' up, im going underground for a bit". Friend Two: "lemme know when u get back". II. To be so fed up with maintaining relationships that one will stop answering one's phone, email etc and will seem to disappear off the face of the earth. "fuck the world. i'm going underground for a bit". go/be run to ground 遁地 to hide in order to escape someone or something following you. To hide from public view or sequester oneself, especially when authorities, members of the news media, or others are looking for one: He found the media attention intolerable and went to ground for several months. Kerviel's identity was revealed on the Financial Times and Daily Telegraph websites, but was not confirmed by bank officials, who admitted on Thursday that the rogue trader appeared to have gone to ground and that they had no idea where he was. run yourself into the ground 累个半死 informal to make yourself very tired by working too much: We ran ourselves into the ground to meet the July deadline. run somebody to ground (British & Australian) to find someone after searching for a long time. If you run someone or something to ground, you pursue until you capture or find them or it. Chinese detectives ran him to ground in a Shanghai night club. incommunicado 联系不到的, 无法沟通的, 和外界失联的 In a state or condition in which one is unable or unwilling to communicate. In a manner in which communication with outsiders is not possible, for either voluntary or involuntary reasons, especially due to confinement or reclusiveness. The father of a woman living in the incommunicado world of the Big Brother house in Australia has died but his daughter has not been told. The Starz seem most comfortable when they're in the studio, where they can work incommunicado. off the grid I. Not connected to a publicly available communication system, such as the world-wide web or a mobile telephone network. He has no desire to be found. His place was off the grid. The cabin had no television, phone, or computer. II. (idiomatic) Isolated; in a remote location; in seclusion; not participating in some official process or system. III. In or into a clandestine or isolated situation or place, especially one in which public communication is curtailed. They were off the grid—no IDs, no homes, no names, nothing. ). "He absconded( abscond (æbˈskond) (əbˈskond) I. To leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution. to escape from a place where you are being kept as a punishment. to run away secretly, esp from an open institution or to avoid prosecution or punishment. He was put into jail but absconded within a few days. II. 逃遁. to suddenly leave a place and take something with you that does not belong to you. abscond with to steal or run away with someone or something; to make off with someone or something in secret. The boys absconded with all the dessert. One of the bank's employees had absconded with the cash. make away/off with someone or something 偷走, 带走, 顺走 to take someone or something away; to make someone or something disappear. The robber made away with the jewelry. The maid quickly made off with the children. We only saw them for a moment.) for four years, granting him bail means he can again go absconding," Mr Hitesh argued, adding that Puneet was drunk during the accident. The Ministry of External Affairs official who attended court told the Herald Sun that India was bound to honour the "treaty of extradition". Richard Moses, senior liaison officer with the Australian Federal Police in New Delhi's Australian High Commission declined to comment other than to say "this is a matter for the court to decide". Soon after the verdict宣判, Puneet's parents, who were present in court, broke down. "This is not end, we will move to high court against the verdict," said Puneet's father Naresh Kumar. Puneet was drunk and driving at almost 150km/h when he crashed into Mr Hofstee and his friend, Clancy Coker on City Rd, Southbank, on October 1, 2008. He pleaded guilty to culpable ( (ˈkʌlpəbəl) adj. Deserving of blame or censure as being wrong, evil, improper, or injurious. deserving censure; blameworthy. ) driving in 2009 and was arrested in India in November last year.
苹果IPhone6传言: The company appears ready to mass produce QD display panels that can be used on televisions and mobile devices. Nanosys is highly confident that QD panels for smartphones are all prepped for volume distribution批量发货 in the second half of 2014, which is a schedule that is fully aligned with 一致 ( align something with something = in alignment with to adjust, straighten, or arrange something in reference to something else. Try to align this piece with the one next to it.) the projected预测的 iPhone 6 release date - likely in September of the year, at the earliest. Forbes also believes that Apple engineers are hard at work on developing QD-laced screens for the iPhone 5S replacement since last year as implied in the number of related patents that was leaked out at around the same time. The publication also noted that by December 2014, stories of QD display becoming part of the iPhone supply chain started swirling, giving more credence ( credence (ˈkri:dəns) I. acceptance or belief, esp with regard to the truth of the evidence of others: I cannot give credence to his account. to give credence to a claim.. II. something supporting a claim to belief; recommendation; credential (esp in the phrase letters of credence). give credence to someone or something to consider someone or something as believable or trustworthy. How can you give credence to a person like Henry? I can't give any credence to Donald. He tells lies. Don't give credence to what he says. Please don't give credence to that newspaper article. A letter of credence 国书 is a formal letter, usually sent by one head of state to another, that formally grants diplomatic accreditation to a named individual to be the sending country's ambassador in the receiving country. A letter of recall is the opposite, recalling an ambassador, either as a means of diplomatic protest (see letter of protest) or because the diplomat is being replaced by another envoy. Diplomatic letters are generally written in French (the lingua franca of diplomacy), unless the countries share the same official language.) to the speculations. But what really is so exciting about an iPhone 6 that beams out ( bear something out 支持, 支撑 [for facts or evidence] to support or confirm a story or explanation. The facts don't bear this out. Her story bears out exactly what you said. Every opinion poll taken bears out our belief that a different jury would have reached a different verdict. Usage notes: often used in the form borne out by: Her theories were not borne out by the research I did. ) screen rendering in QD tech? Apple is set to differentiate its take on QD technology from the one used in Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX, said the same report. The end-goal 终极目标 ( A common goal-setting mistake (in my opinion) is to confuse end goals with means goals. End goals define outcomes where you're unwilling to compromise — they describe exactly what you want. Means goals, on the other hand, define one of many paths to reach your end goals. Let's say you want to see your favorite music group perform live in concert. That's an end goal — it defines your outcome. You want to be there in person and enjoy that particular experience. It's not a stepping stone to anything greater, and no substitute experience would produce the same result. Now suppose a radio station is having a contest where the prize is two tickets to that concert, and you decide you want to win that contest. That's a means goal. Winning the contest is not the final outcome you're after. It's only one of many ways that could lead to you sitting at that concert. But if you don't win those tickets and fail at your means goal, you may still be able to achieve your end goal. You just need to find another way to get to that concert. ) is to eliminate all the compromises that came with the Amazon tablet, which suits well with Apple CEO Tim Cook's emphasis on near-perfect technology. BGR spelled out the following general benefits that end-users will get when buying the iPhone 6 with QD screen in tow: More efficient battery use, Device longevity, And the likely pairing of QD display with a bendable or flexible screen. Plus one thing is definitely sure, QD display will be the banner killer feature that the Retina panel was a few years ago with the iPhone 4 and this offering is likely to grace the iPhone 6 release date, which should come in the latter part of Q3 2014. As wild rumours continue to swirl around the iPhone 6 release date this 2014, separating the credible stories from the downright speculative纯粹的猜测 seems a difficult task. And most of his forecasts were based on gathered intelligence from the Asian supply chain - in Taiwan and mainland China specifically, where Apple's iOS devices are manufactured. Because Apple sells more than 150 million iPhones a year with a
sprawling( sprawl I. 四脚八叉的. To sit or lie with the body and limbs spread out awkwardly. II. To spread out in a straggling or disordered fashion: untidy tenements sprawling toward the river. Several tired-looking people were sprawling in armchairs. He was lying in a careless sprawl on the sofa. She lost her way in the grimy sprawl of the big city. the huge, sprawling city of Los Angeles. ) network of suppliers making components, its ability to
maintain such a wide cone of silence has become near-impossible几乎不可能, 几近不可能, 近乎不可能(near impossible and nearly impossible both are correct. but one may be more appropriate than the other depending on the message you want to convey and the emphasis you want to make. It is near impossible to determine the correct level of executive pay强调做这件事几乎是不可能的, 几乎是办不到的. The emphasis here is on the pay. It is nearly impossible to determine the correct level of executive pay强调的是对我来说几乎是不可能的. The emphasis here is on you. This should read "it is nearly impossible for me to determine the correct level of executive pay.). Apple
has been mum but it appears that the upcoming iPhone will switch to
sapphire screen coating instead of the thin Corning Gorilla glass that
has been there since 2007.
US女人街上生女: A US woman has been filmed giving birth at a busy intersection in the middle of New York City after being unable to hail a taxi. Polly McCourt was already having contractions 宫缩 when she went out onto the Manhattan footpath to hail a cab yesterday, AFP reports. But the baby was in such a hurry that Ms McCourt had no other option but to give birth in the street surrounded by dozens of curious New Yorkers. "As soon as the head came out, by the time we laid her down on the street the baby was out." She called her obstetrician(obstetrician (ˌobstɪˈtrɪʃən) 产科医生 A physician who specializes in obstetrics. obstetrics (obˈstɛtriks) 产科 n. (functioning as singular) the branch of medicine concerned with childbirth and the treatment of women before and after childbirth. gynaecology (ˌɡaɪnɪˈkolədʒɪ) or gynecology 妇科 the branch of medicine concerned with diseases in women, esp those of the genitourinary tract.), who told her to get to hospital immediately. "I went downstairs to get a taxi and my water broke, right in the front foyer of the building." The baby was swaddled ( swaddle (ˈswodəl) vb (tr) I. to wind a bandage round. II. to wrap (a baby) in swaddling clothes. III. to restrain as if by wrapping with bandages; smother. ) in the scarves of generous passersby on the cold winter's day.
