用法学习: 1. Oscar pizza Moment: Thoughtful son: Jared grabbed a slice for his mother.
Oscar Awards: After being stiffed on his tip 小气地没支付小费 ( stiff adv. completely, intensely, or extremely: scared stiff. bored stiff. n. I. A person: a lucky stiff; just an ordinary working stiff. II. 吝啬鬼, 小气鬼. A person who tips poorly. III. A person regarded as constrained, priggish, or overly formal. v. I. To tip (someone) inadequately or not at all, as for a service rendered: paid the dinner check but stiffed the waiter. II. a. To cheat (someone) of something owed: My roommate stiffed me out of last month's rent. b. to fail to tip or pay (a waiter, worker, etc.). To fail to give or supply (something expected or promised). bore someone stiff/to death/to tears Fig. to be exceedingly dull and uninteresting. (Stiff means "dead.") The play bored me stiff. The lecture bored everyone to death. bored silly/distraction/stiff/to tears/to death very bored; extremely dull and uninteresting (Usually an exaggeration.) I was bored silly at the lecture. The dull speaker left me bored to distraction. I am bored to tears. Let's go home. scare someone stiff Fig. to frighten someone severely. (Stiff = dead.) That loud noise scared me stiff. The robber jumped out and scared us stiff. scared stiff 吓僵直了, 吓僵硬了 Fig. badly frightened. We were scared stiff by the robber. I was scared stiff when the dog growled at me. Etymology: from the idea that you are stiff (unable to bend or change your position) because you are too frightened to move. working stiff Fig. someone who works, especially in a nonmanagement position. (Originally and typically referring to males.) But does the working stiff really care about all this economic stuff? All the working stiffs want is a raise. Keep a stiff upper lip 强忍着, 不表露表情, 不动声色. Prov. Act as though you are not upset.; Do not let unpleasant things upset you. (English people are stereotypically supposed to be very good at keeping a stiff upper lip.) Even though he was only three years old, Jonathan kept a stiff upper lip the whole time he was in the hospital recovering from his surgery. Jill: Sometimes this job frustrates me so much I could just break down in tears. Jane: Keep a stiff upper lip. Things are bound to improve. One who has a stiff upper lip displays fortitude in the face of adversity, or exercises great self-restraint in the expression of emotion. The phrase is most commonly heard as part of the idiom "keep a stiff upper lip", and has traditionally been used to describe an attribute of British people (particularly upper-middle and upper class), who are sometimes perceived by other cultures as being unemotional没有感情的. A sign of weakness is trembling of the upper lip, hence the saying keep a stiff upper lip. When a person's upper lip begins to tremble, it is one of the first signs that the person is scared or shaken by experiencing deep emotion. Hard/Tough cheese! (British & Australian informal) also Stiff cheese! (Australian informal) something that you say to or about someone to whom something bad has happened in order to show that you have no sympathy for them. So he's fed up because he's got to get up early one morning in seven, is he? Well hard cheese! ) from Hollywood's finest, the pizza delivery man has been paid by host Ellen DeGeneres for his cameo appearance at the Academy Awards. Appearing on post-Oscars wrap of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the Oscars host invited Edgar Martiroysan to come on and receive his dues( due I. 欠款. 欠的. Something owed or deserved: You finally received your due. II. dues A charge or fee for membership, as in a club or organization. adj. I. 足够的. 正当的. Meeting special requirements; sufficient: We have due cause to honor them. II. 应该的, 应得的. In accord with right, convention, or courtesy; appropriate: due esteem; all due respect. III. a. Anticipated; looked for: a long due promotion. b. Expecting or ready for something as part of a normal course or sequence: We're due for some rain. This batter is due for another hit. III. Owed as a debt; owing: the amount still due.), plus a little extra. "I ended up getting about $600," said Ellen as she handed over the cash to the pizza man. "And here's a $1000," she said. Edgar the deliveryman, co-owner of Big Mama & Papa's Pizzeria in Hollywood, had appeared bemused( preoccupied; lost in thought. ) as he stood on the stage at the Dolby Theatre beside Academy Awards. As the talks show queen distributed the cheesy treat Edgar followed her, handing out slices to a who's who of Hollywood ( Who's Who (or "Who is Who") is the title of a number of reference publications, generally containing concise biographical information on a particular group of people. The title is also used as an expression meaning a collection or group of noted persons; as in the sentence, "The actors in the film were a Who's Who of the great American comedians of the time". ) including actor Brad Pitt and Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese. Ellen passed around Pharrel's iconic hat and collected around $600 for a tip from stars including John Travolta, Kevin Spacey and influential producer Harvey Weinstein. On top of the tip, the publicity the pizza shop has attracted is estimated to be worth millions of dollars, even if the vast majority of Oscar viewers are unable to ever visit the pizzeria. 布里斯班两女孩公车行凶案: Mr Watmough also claimed the 13-year-old girl who recorded the incident had cropped the video(crop I. To cut or bite off the tops or ends of: crop a hedge; sheep cropping grass. II. To cut (hair, for example) very short. III. To clip (an animal's ears, for example). IV. 掐头去尾. 裁剪. 剪裁. to cut off or mask unwanted edges or areas of (a negative or print). To trim (a photograph or picture, for example). v. To appear unexpectedly or occasionally: "one of the many theories that keep cropping up in his story". ), turning the women into "terrible villains(ˈvɪlən) ", and compared the public backlash against the accused as being on par with the attacks levelled against the late Charlotte Dawson. "My first sight of the video第一眼看到, I was also disgusted and embarrassed, but after learning the video has been edited to make only the girls look like terrible villains, I now see what the media has done to create a massive story. "I have watched as cyber bullying has been taken to a whole new level towards my sister and my family after the loss of the late Charlotte Dawson committing suicide over cyber bullying and everyone declaring we should lock up cyber bullies," he wrote on Facebook. The Courier Mail reports these allegations will be used as part of the defences' legal strategy to fight the charges of serious assault and public nuisance. 加拿大人恶作剧穿yoga裤: Ladies: are you tired of men leering at your rear end when you wear yoga pants out in public? Well, take heart ( take heart (from something) 感到宽慰 to receive courage or comfort from some fact. to start to feel more hopeful and more confident (often + from ) House owners can take heart from the news that property prices are starting to rise again. I hope that you will take heart from what we told you today. Even though you did not win the race, take heart from the fact that you did your best. I told her to take heart and try again next time. ) — it's not you the men are staring at, it's what you've got on. YouTube comedian Yousef Saleh Erakat, aka Fousey, slipped on a tight pair of yoga pants to prove that they attract pervy stares no matter which gender is wearing them.
The Biggest Regret of All: Life begets (I. To father; sire. II. To cause to exist or occur; to produce as an effect: a belief that power begets power. Violence begets more violence. Love begets love. Prov. If you behave lovingly to other people, they will behave lovingly to you. Child: I hate Tammy! She's always mean to me. Father: If you're nicer to her, maybe she'll change her ways. Love begets love. ) regrets, but one looms larger than the others. By the time most people reach middle age, they could probably name a long list of things they regret from their past—the job opening(职位空缺. According to the BLS, a "job opening" is a specific position that needs to be filled at an establishment, and this position needs to meet the following criteria: there is work available for that position; the job could start within the next 30 days; the employer is actively recruiting for the position. Job openings will increase when the economy is doing well and decrease when the economy is doing poorly. The logic behind this trend is simple - more qualified applicants results in less open positions, and less qualified applicants results in more open positions. opening I. An act or instance of making or becoming open. The daily openings 开放, 开花 of the day lily bloom gives it its name. He remembered fondly the Christmas morning opening打开 of presents. II. 开口, 缺口. Something that is open. A salamander darted out of an opening in the rocks. He slipped through an opening in the crowd. III. 开门营业. An act or instance of beginning. There have been few factory and store openings in the US lately. Their opening 开场 of the concert with Brass in Pocket always fires up the crowd. IV. Something that is a beginning. The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe. They were disappointed at the turnout for their opening, but hoped that word would spread. turnout I. 出席量. 人群. 出席人数. The number of people gathered for a particular event or purpose; attendance: The peace march attracted a large turnout. II. A number of things produced; output. V. The initial period a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening. VI. 开局. The first few measures of a musical composition. VII. (chess) The first few moves in a game of chess. John spends two hours a day studying openings, and another two hours studying endgames. VIII. A vacant position, especially in an array. Are there likely to be any openings on the Supreme Court in the next four years? i. A time available in a schedule. If you'd like to make a booking with us, we have an opening at twelve o'clock. The only two-hour openings for the hockey rink are between 1AM and 5AM. ii. 空缺. An unoccupied employment position. We have an opening in our marketing department. IX. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity. The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.) they ignored, the disastrous vacation, the stock 股票 they did not buy, or even worse the one they did. But the most frequent regrets involve romance, according to a new study by Neal J. Roese, a professor of marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, and Mike Morrison, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This and other findings contradict 相异 some of the results of previous, smaller studies, which had ranked education-related regrets in first place. Whatever the cause of the regret, Roese says that people should not see it as a negative. "Regret is an essential part of the human experience—something everybody has as long as they have life goals,"he says. "Rather than avoid it, it's better to try to take some insights out of the regret experience." Roese and Morrison undertook the new study in order to analyze a more broad-based population更广泛的人群 than in prior research, which mainly used college students. The two authors arranged telephone surveys of 207 women and 163 men across the United States, selected by standard random-sampling methods. The respondents were asked to describe, in detail, one significant incident of regret. In addition, the survey group provided information about their gender, age, education, and relationship status. Then their answers were analyzed according to predetermined criteria to gauge 衡量 the severity of the regret—mild, moderate, severe—and to assign 归类 the regret to one of twelve categories—career, community, education, family, finances, friends, health, leisure, parenting, romance, self-improvement, or spirituality. Relationship Regrets: "The key finding," Roese says, "was that romance was the number one regret," cited by 18.1 percent of the respondents. The second choice—family, at 15.9 percent—was also related to personal relationships. "People crave strong, stable social relationships and are unhappy when they lack them," the authors write. Next came education (13.1 percent), career (12.2 percent), finance (9.9 percent), and parenting (9 percent). This general pattern was observed across all demographic boundaries—race, age, relationship status, education—except one: gender. Women were more likely to cite romance-related regrets, whereas men's regrets usually centered on work集中于. (The fact that there were more responses from women than men—coupled with ( couple someone with someone to join one person with another to make a pair. I coupled Todd with Amy for the dinner party. We coupled the budget issue with the staffing issue for our agenda. couple with someone Euph. to have sexual intercourse with someone. They coupled with each other in a night of passion. ) this gender tilt—did not affect the overall totals in the survey, because the calculation was weighted for such demographic imbalances, Roese says.) This male-female dichotomy (dichotomy (daiˈkotəmi) 两极分化 I. division into two parts or classifications, esp when they are sharply distinguished or opposed: the dichotomy between eastern and western cultures. II. (Logic) the division of a class into two mutually exclusive subclasses: the dichotomy of married and single people. polarize 两极化的 I. (transitive, US) To cause to have a polarization. II. (transitive, US) To cause a group to be divided into extremes.) seems to support clichés such as the assumption that men are the breadwinners养家糊口的人, or that women want to get married, but that should not be surprising, Roese says. "Sometimes clichés speak to a truth about ( speak truth to power 武力维护真理 A phrase coined by the Quakers during in the mid-1950s. It was a call for the United States to stand firm against fascism and other forms of totalitarianism; it is a phrase that seems to unnerve political right, with reason. The founders of United States risked their lives in order to speak truth to power, that of King George. It was and is considered courageous, although is more commonly scorned today. totalitarianism 极权主义( totalitarian (təuˌtæliˈtɛərɪən) 极权主义的 ) Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed: "A totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul". ) our nature or society," he points out, but he adds that traditional gender roles seem to be changing. Regrets of Omission: Another key finding had to do with关于 whether people felt more regret about actions they did or did not take. Research by Victoria Medvec, a professor of management and organizations at the Kellogg School, had previously established a connection between time and regret: The more time that has passed since an event, the more likely people are to focus on what they failed to do, rather than what they actually did. "Lost opportunities linger in our memory longer," Roese puts it. That is because people can quickly rationalize their actual actions(rationalize I. 合理化. 找理由. 找借口. to justify (one's actions, esp discreditable actions, or beliefs) with plausible reasons, esp after the event. To devise self-satisfying but incorrect reasons for (one's behavior): "Many shoppers still rationalize luxury purchases as investments" (Janice Castro). II. Chiefly British To bring modern, efficient methods to (an industry, for example). III. to apply logic or reason to (something). ), even when they went wrong. But for a possible action that was never taken, "there are so many ways in which you can see different things you could have done," he explains. He illustrates the concept with a romantic example— asking someone for a date. In remembering an unsuccessful attempt, an unlucky suitor might think, "I asked this person out on a date, she shot me down, it's done." But if he never even tried, the suitor might ponder all sorts of scenarios各种可能的情形: "What if I had asked her when I saw her in the hallway? What if I had phoned right after we first met? What if I had sent flowers?" Roese and Morrison's new study analyzed people's feelings about unrealized actions by asking respondents questions such as, "Does the regret focus on something you should have done, or something you should not have done?"and "When did the event happen that made you feel regret?" Through their broad sampling, Roese and Morrison found that the time disparity, too, applies to a wide cross-section ( I. 横断面, 横切面. A section formed by a plane cutting through an object, usually at right angles to an axis. something that has been cut in half so that you can see the inside, or a model or picture of this: a cross-section of the human heart. II. a small group that represents all of the different types within the total group: The demonstrators seemed to be from a wide cross-section of society. ) regardless of race, education level, marital status, and age. Learning from Regrets: At its best, regret can "direct behavior toward fixing what evoked the regret," Roese and Morrison write. In fact, they continue, "regret is more intense" precisely when there is a chance to reverse an unhappy decision, which then "serves to motivate the individual toward new corrective 纠正性的 behavior." However, the possibility of a do-over shrinks with age(do something over I. make something over to rebuild, redesign, or redecorate something. to decorate a place in a new way. We plan to do the kitchen over next year. We did our living room over for the holidays. We made over the family room because it was looking shabby. II. do something over (again) 重来, 重做 to repeat something; to do something again. I am afraid that you are going to have to do over the complete series again. Would you do this one over, please? do/make someone over to buy a new wardrobe for someone; to redo someone's hairstyle, makeup, etc. Sally's mother did Sally over for the play tryouts. The designer made over Sally completely. tryout I. 测试. A test to ascertain the qualifications of applicants, as for an athletic team or theatrical role. II. 试演. An experimental performance of a play before its official opening.). Younger respondents like college students obviously have more hope of a second chance. For the broader cross-section in the new study, more people may feel that time is running out. While that sounds dour ( 类似于tour或者sour都行, 前者更普遍. I. Marked by sternness or harshness; forbidding: a dour, self-sacrificing life. II. Silently ill-humored; gloomy: the proverbially dour New England Puritan. III. Sternly obstinate; unyielding: a dour determination. Usage Note: The word dour, which is etymologically related to duress and endure, traditionally rhymes with tour. The variant pronunciation that rhymes with sour is, however, widely used and must be considered acceptable.), there may be a silver lining[ˈlaɪnɪŋ] to looking back on wistful 渴望的, 惆怅的, 怅惘的 memories(wistful sadly, pensive沉思的, 深思的, esp about something yearned for. Pensively sad; melancholy.). "At the end of the day, regrets are highly useful emotions that signal to us where in life we need to improve, and motivate us to actually make those improvements," Roese points out. "We should listen to our regrets rather than pretend that we do not have them." No regrets? It's a story as old as time 与生俱来的 — having to make a decision about work or love, and being terrified to make the wrong choice. A new study by Marketing Professor Neal Roese and his colleagues may offer some guidance to those facing such decisions. They found that regrets related to love are more intense 更强烈 than those involving work. In a previous study, Roese found that romantic regrets are among the most common type of regret among Americans. His new study goes one step further更进一步 and underscores the impact of social relationships. "Social relationships, we suggest, are the most pivotal component of life regrets. Failed marriages, turbulent romances, and lost time with family may elicit regrets that last a lifetime," Roese and his colleagues write. Romantic regrets are intense because regrets of a social nature pose a threat to a person's need to belong归属感(feelings of belonging). "Belonging, as a core human motive, powerfully connects to well-being and mental health心理健康," the authors write. People rated their love and work regrets to be almost identical in terms of self-blame 自责 and importance. However, romantic regrets rated much higher when it came to social impact and threats to feelings of belonging. "What our research makes clear is that, while regrets are multifaceted with diverse consequences, their social impact looms especially large," the authors wrote. "Regrets can stem from love or work, but those stemming from the former seem to be the toughest to overcome. The need to belong is not just a fundamental human motive but a fundamental component of regret."
Blanchett has now revealed she lost track of time while chatting to Roberts at the bar: She tells E! News: "The blessing and the curse 既有好处又有坏处 (Your great attention to detail is both a blessing and a curse.) of this is it happens at the arse end of the evening( arse end of nowhere (idiomatic, derogatory) A very remote place. arse end Anything which is positioned at the back of something. The boot is at the arse end of the car.) and so you watch so many other extraordinary people get up there and you lose track of the fact that you're even nominated. And then you get taken by surprise, 'It's my turn', and I was with Julia Roberts in the bar for rather too long and just got back to my seat in time." Blanchett's win etched her name into the Australian record books名字载入史册 by becoming the only actor to have won two Oscar awards. Australia's golden girl Cate Blanchett, pictured with husband Andrew Upton, let slip说溜嘴 an f-bomb(let something slip (out) 溜嘴, 说漏嘴 Fig. to reveal a secret carelessly or by accident. to say something that you did not intend to say because you wanted to keep it secret. Pam let slip an interesting bit of gossip yesterday. (often + that ) Stupidly, I let it slip that they'd decided not to give him the job. I didn't let it slip out on purpose. It was an accident. John let the plans slip when he was talking to Bill. Usage notes: also used in the form let it slip: Pam let it slip that I'm not going to be promoted. dogs of war: In English, the dogs of war is a phrase from Act 3, Scene 1, line 273 of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war". Dog has its ordinary meaning; havoc is a military order permitting the seizure of spoil after a victory抢战利品 and let slip is to release from the leash. Shakespeare's source for Julius Caesar was The Life of Marcus Brutus from Plutarch's Lives and the concept of the war dog appears in that work, in the section devoted to the Greek warrior Aratus. Apart from the literal meaning, parallels have been drawn with the prologue to Henry V, where the warlike king is described as having at his heels, awaiting employment, the hounds "famine, sword and fire"( warlike 好战的, 爱打仗的 often involved in and eager to start wars: It has often been said, perhaps unfairly, that they are a warlike nation/people. belligerent (bɪˈlɪdʒərənt) 爱吵架的, 爱斗嘴的 marked by readiness to fight or argue; aggressive: a belligerent tone. to kick up one's heels I. Used other than as an idiom: see kick, up, one's, heels. If a swimmer kicks up his heels and splashes the water, the judge will take points off accordingly. II. (figuratively) To dance. III. (idiomatic) To relax; to enjoy oneself; to do as one pleases. dig one's heels in 死心塌地, 心意已决 Fig. to refuse to alter one's course of action or opinions; to be obstinate or determined. The student dug her heels in and refused to obey the instructions. I'm digging in my heels. I'm not going back.). An alternate interpretation may be the simpler declarative (dependent on the preceding phrase 'let slip'- referring to the act of releasing) a 'dog' (in its mechanical sense) thereby leading to a state of war through issuing the figurative cry of "Havoc". Among scholars of English literature, however, the consensus is that Mark Antony's "the dogs of war" does not literally refer to dogs, but figuratively to the wild pack of soldiers "unleashed" by the commander's order to wreak "general havoc", i.e., rape, pillage, and plunder. The phrase has now so far entered into general usage, in books, music, film and television, that it is now regarded as a cliché. wreak I. To inflict (vengeance or punishment) upon a person. II. 泄愤, 发泄怒气. To express or gratify (anger, malevolence, or resentment); vent. to carry out the promptings of (one's rage, ill humor, etc.), as on a victim or object: to wreak one's anger on subordinates. III. To bring about; cause: wreak havoc. Usage Note: Wreak is sometimes confused with wreck, perhaps because the wreaking of damage may leave a wreck: The storm wreaked (not wrecked ) havoc along the coast. The past tense and past participle of wreak is wreaked, not wrought, which is an alternative past tense and past participle of work. wreak havoc [ri:kˈhævək] (with/on something) to cause a lot of trouble with something; to ruin or damage something. Your bad attitude will wreak havoc with my project. The rainy weather wreaked havoc with our picnic plans. Storms wreaked havoc on both coasts of the United States. Strikes have wreaked havoc on businesses here. ). When asked about the feat backstage by Fairfax Radio reporter Richard Arnold at the Academy Awards, Blanchett replied jokingly: "And don't you f---ing forget it!" Arnold said Blanchett's f-bomb on live TV garnered huge laughs in the room. ''It was a great little joke," said Arnold. "Here was Cate at a moment in history, [referencing] Geoffrey Rush and the others who have won one Oscar, Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, the late Heath Ledger and Peter Finch. It was ribbing ( I. Ribs considered as a group. II. An arrangement of ribs, as in a boat. III. Informal The act or an instance of joking or teasing. ), a bit of elbowing( "It is not such that as it may appear to the outside world. It is a new kid on the block called the Parliament in Pakistan. People are still to get used to this fact," Khar said when asked if the Pakistani judiciary was going a bit too far. She added, "A little bit of elbowing小冲撞, 小冲突 is happening but it is not so bad back in Pakistan. Things would very soon fall in place.". new kid on the block 新来者, 新鲜事物 I. Lit. a child who has just moved to a certain neighborhood. The new kid on the block turned out to be a really good baseball player. II. Fig. the newest person in a group. I'm just the new kid on the block. I've only been working here for a month. some elbow room Fig. room to move about in; extra space to move about in. (allow ~; get ~; have ~; give someone ~; need ~.) This table is too crowded. We all need some elbow room. elbow grease 用点劲 Fig. igorous physical labour, esp hard rubbing. hard scrubbing. Tom: What did you use to get your car so shiny? Mary: Just regular wax and some elbow grease. Joe put a lot of elbow grease into cleaning the kitchen. Elbow grease is an idiom for working hard at manual labour, as in "You need to use some elbow grease." It is a humorous reflection of the fact that some tasks can only be achieved by hard effort and human energy, contrasting with the idea that there should be some special oil, tool or chemical product to make the job easier.).'' He added that Blanchett said as an Oscar frontrunner the pressure had been unbearable难以承受的 for months. ''It is a campaign,'' says Arnold. ''Even before the nominations, you're under the microscope在显微镜下 for this entire period(put something under the microscope to examine or think about a situation very carefully. Usage notes: A microscope is a piece of scientific equipment that allows you to see small things very clearly. Because they're both public figures, their relationship has been put under the microscope. A monocular is a modified refracting telescope 望远镜 used to magnify the images of distant objects by passing light through a series of lenses and sometimes prisms; the use of prisms results in a lightweight telescope. Volume and weight are less than half those of binoculars of similar optical properties, making it easy to carry. Monoculars produce 2-dimensional images, while binoculars add perception of depth (3 dimensions).). There is a lot of pressure involved.'' As Arnold went on to question Blanchett about what challenges she now expected to face in acting, to which she replied: "Maybe it's time to stop." The next day on The Ellen Degeneres Show, Blanchett confessed 坦承 ( confess to something 坦白交代 to admit having done something. He will not confess to the crime. In the end, Max confessed to it. confess [sth] to someone to admit something to someone; to admit having done something to someone. Tom confessed his involvement to the boss. Max confessed to the police. admit something to someone 交代罪行, 承认错误 to confess something to someone. Harry admitted his error to his uncle. admit to something 认罪 to acknowledge or confess something; to acknowledge or confess to having done something. Max would not admit to anything. admit something into something to allow something to be introduced into something else. You cannot admit this document into the body of evidence! They refused to admit us into the theater.) she slept with her Oscar statue. ''It's the closest my husband and I have ever come to a threesome.'' Blanchett was full of jokes as she appeared on DeGeneres' post-Oscars special show, wandering onto the stage wearily 疲惫的 dragging the award in mock-hungover mode(hungover is an adjective and hangover is a noun. I have a hangover, I am hungover. ). The pair joked about how they had managed to get home at about 3.30am, with Blanchett saying that she needed food after missing out at the awards. "I went in the bar to try and get something to eat and then you were handing out pizza and they wouldn't let me back in," the actress said. She also let audience members hold her gong, warning that it was heavy. ''Actresses don't work out. You want to win awards so your arms get really ripped,'' she said. Blanchett admitted that she couldn't remember her touching acceptance speech in which she tipped her hat to the talent around her, especially the "extraordinary performances by women". "I have no idea what I said ... as long as it made sense, did I dribble流口水? ... I'm in the middle of hormone replacement therapy( Hormone (ˈhɔ:məun) replacement therapy refers to any form of hormone therapy wherein the patient, in the course of medical treatment, receives hormones, either to supplement a lack of naturally occurring hormones, or to substitute other hormones for naturally occurring hormones. Hormone replacement therapy for menopause is based on the idea that the treatment may prevent discomfort caused by diminished circulating estrogen and progesterone hormones, or in the case of the surgically or prematurely menopausal, that it may prolong life and may reduce incidence of dementia. Hormone replacement therapy for transgender people introduces hormones associated with the gender that the patient identifies with (notably testosterone for trans men and estrogen for trans women).)," she confessed to the talk-show host. Ellen assured her she did a great job, telling her: "Your speech was great and you're right and people do want to see films with women and they do make money. "... I just love that you speak your mind and you're so real and honest." At 44, Blanchett's two Oscars and three other nominations in 15 years reflects both a searing talent(sear I. To char, scorch, or burn the surface of with or as if with a hot instrument. Sear the red pepper strips until they start to blacken. II. To cause to dry up and wither. Grass fires have seared the land. searing I. very hot; blistering or boiling. II. 嘶嘶发烫的. 热嘶嘶的. (of a pain) having a sensation of intense sudden heat. She woke to a searing pain in her feet. They have long been subject to searing criticism. searing iron: a hot iron used to destroy tissue.) and a boldness 大胆无畏 in choosing challenging roles. Blanchett has shone in everything from the period films of Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age to the fantasy of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, a bold take on Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the ambitious romance of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the popcorn fun of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and now the post-global financial crisis drama Blue Jasmine. Now Blanchett has matched some true acting greats with two Oscars.
