用法学习: 1. 汤姆克鲁斯前妻尴尬: "Katie Holmes was like the unpopular kid at a prom," said our source. "She shuffled around awkwardly and she tried to interject herself into people's conversations." In fact, TheFIX can reveal that former friend Victoria Beckham offered a "weak smile" before distancing herself from the actress-turned-fashion designer. It's fair to say Katie's fame factor has flunked(To fail, especially in a course or an examination. flunk out 劝退, 开除 To expel or be expelled from a school or course because of work that does not meet required standards. to dismiss or be dismissed from a school because of failing grades: to flunk out of college.) since she left Tom in November 2013, blindsiding ( blindside I. 暗处攻击, 偷袭, 暗袭. To hit or attack on or from the blind side. II. To catch or take unawares, especially with harmful or detrimental results: "The recent recession, with its wave of corporate cost-cutting, blind-sided many lawyers" (Aric Press). unaware adj I. (postpositive) not aware or conscious (of): unaware of the danger, he ran across the road. II. 状况外的, 出离世界的. not fully cognizant of what is going on in the world: he's the most unaware person I've ever met. adv a variant of unawares. unawares adv. I. without prior warning or plan; unexpectedly. By surprise; unexpectedly: "Sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares" (Abraham Lincoln). II. 没意识到的. without being aware of or knowing. Without forethought or plan. he lost it unawares. caught unaware(s) 出其不意的, 冷不防地 surprised and unprepared. Sorry. You startled me when you came up behind me. I was caught unaware. The clerk was caught unawares, and the robber emptied out the cash register before the clerk could sound the alarm.) him with a divorce before getting full custody of daughter Suri. And it's no secret her former famous friends are very much on the side of Tom...or should we say Hollywood's leading power player. The reason? Plainly很简单, 很单纯, no one wanted to hang out with the former Mrs Curise. And last night's Met celebrations proved just how far Katie's popularity stakes have fallen. She said: "Katie and Victoria Beckham barely smiled at each other. And Anna Wintour even blew her off. Katie looked a bit lost and sad." 2. An ice addict threatened two women with meeting the same fate as murder victim Jill Meagher after abducting them in Melbourne. He threatened to slit their throats and told them: "If there is any funny business不老实的话, 不听话的话(funny business (informal) dishonest or unpleasant actions. If you try any funny business you'll be sorry. ), you know what happened to Jill Meagher." Victorian County Court Judge Mark Taft said Schrempf had made reference to Ms Meagher to cause terror 心生恐怖 to his two victims. During the attack, Schrempf made the women drive to an ATM and withdraw cash and then sexually assaulted both of them. In a statement tendered to the court, one of the women said she feared she was going to be killed. "I just can't comprehend how someone could do such a thing to innocent young women," she said. Schrempf was caught by police five months after the abduction and pleaded guilty to six charges of armed robbery, false imprisonment 非法拘禁 and indecent assault. He told a psychologist that he was an ice addict and was struggling with drug debts at the time. "I've gone out, saw a car and thought I'll make money, asked them for money to pay the rent," he said. Schrempf wept as his sentence was handed down宣判. 3. Screed is a flat board, or a purpose-made特制的 aluminium tool, used to smooth concrete after it has been placed on a surface. Also used to assist in leveling the application of plaster. In the UK, screed has also come to describe a thin, top layer of material (traditionally sand and cement), poured in site on top of the structural concrete or insulation, on top of which other finishing materials can be applied, or it can be left bare to achieve an effect similar to that in buildings by Tadao Ando. It is becoming more common to use "self leveling" poured screeds which use materials other than cement as their binder. A recent development in the UK is the delivery, mixing, and pumping of screed from a single vehicle. Where previously screed jobs required a separate pump to administer the screed, these new machines can now administer the screed directly from the mixing pan to the floor at a range of up to 60 meters. In the US screeding is the process of cutting off excess wet concrete to bring the top surface of a slab to the proper grade and smoothness. 4. by/in leaps and bounds 飞快的, 迅速的 if progress or growth happens in leaps and bounds, it happens very quickly. Ashley's reading has come on in leaps and bounds since she's been at her new school. Leaders of the organization say their membership is growing by leaps and bounds. Sheldon: I read his research and ... it's leaps and bounds ahead of mine. Which means the mommy of the smartest physicist at the university is not my mommy as I thought. It's his mommy. Amy: Sheldon, I wish there was something I could do to make you feel better. May I offer you a consoling hug? Sheldon: What do we have to lose? Amy: How's that? Sheldon: I feel like I'm being strangled by a boa constrictor. Why did you stop?. 5. dog eat dog残酷的狗咬狗的世界 可以做名词或者形容词. adj. if a situation is dog eat dog, people will do anything to be successful, even if what they do harms other people. marked by destructive or ruthless competition; without self-restraint, ethics, etc.: In showbusiness it's dog eat dog - one day you're a star, the next you've been replaced by younger talent. It's a dog-eat-dog world locking down a home in today's rental market. Single parents, lower income earners, pet owners and even young families are among those hardest hit. A Current Affair goes undercover to expose the discrimination creating a new class of homeless. It's a dog-eat-dog industry. n. complete egotism; action based on utter cynicism: The only rule of the marketplace was dog-eat-dog. lockdown n. US a security measure in which those inside a building such as a prison, school, or hospital are required to remain confined in it for a time: many schools remained under lockdown yesterday. 6. 新闻摘要: They're the cold callers trying to trick everyday Aussies. One savvy 精明的 customer cottoned on to their rouse ( cotton (on)to someone or something to like someone or something. to begin to like or agree to someone or something quickly. The public did not cotton to her new CD. She began to cotton to Fred, despite his country ways. She cottoned onto Jane's way of thinking. cotton up to someone 取悦 Rur. to try to make friends with someone; to flatter or fawn on someone in hopes of favorable treatment. James set out to cotton up to the parents of his friends. Just watch her cotton up to the teacher! in high/tall cotton Rur. to be doing very well; successful. Jim's in high cotton ever since he got that raise.Tom: How's your sister? Mary: She's in high cotton. Just bought a nice new house. We were in tall cotton until the IRS caught up with us. in low cotton Rur. depressed. She was in low cotton because her dress got torn. Jed is in low cotton because his favorite hound is dead. Bless her/his cotton socks. (British & Australian humorous) something that you say when you want to express affection for someone My little niece - bless her cotton socks - won the school poetry prize this year. cotton-picking (American & Australian informal) something that you say before a noun to express anger. Get your cotton-picking feet off my chair! wrap somebody up in cotton wool (British & Australian) to protect someone too much without allowing them to be independent enough She wraps that child up in cotton wool as if he's some precious jewel. rouse (rauz) vb I. to bring (oneself or another person) out of sleep, unconsciousness, etc, or (of a person) to come to consciousness in this way. II. (tr) to provoke, stir, or excite. to produce an emotion or feeling in someone. Passions were roused and threatened to boil over into violence. to rouse someone's anger. III. to become active or energetic. He roused the crowd to stand up and fight back. rouse yourself: After a few more minutes in the sun, she roused herself and went in. IV. hunting to start or cause to start from cover: to rouse game birds. V. falconry (intr) (of hawks) to ruffle the feathers and cause them to stand briefly on end (a sign of contentment). VI.(foll by: on) Austral to speak scoldingly or rebukingly (to). rouse someone from something to awaken someone from something; to cause someone to come out of something. I roused Tom from his nap and sent him on his way. We could not rouse her from her deep sleep. rouse someone out of something to awaken someone out of a state, such as sleep. It was almost impossible to rouse George out of his sleep. They could not rouse us out of our drowsy state. rouse someone to something to stir someone to something. I will rouse the workers to action. They will work or have to find other jobs. The speech by the president roused the citizens to action. ) and refused to be sucked in. But not even this mother-of-two could imagine what this fraudster was about to serve up. 7. bottom out I. 触底. 到底儿了, 跌入谷底. to reach a level that is as low as it will be. to have reached the lowest point in a continuously changing situation and to be about to improve: All my problems seem to be bottoming out. They can't get much worse. Interest rates bottomed out last February. The government claims that the recession is bottoming out. Temperatures will bottom out in the teens tonight and reach the mid-20s by noon tomorrow. II. also hit bottom to become as bad as it will be Has the economy bottomed out, and how fast will it recover? III. 底破了. I had a bag of pop corns when I was watching the movie, which bottomed out and, the whole thing just gave way and spilled pop corns everywhere. 电影Bad Neighbors: As the family feuds with the frat brothers, things get hilariously dangerous and the fraternity end ups on thin ice (on thin ice I. Lit. on ice that is too thin to support one. (skate/walk on thin ice如履薄冰) Billy is on thin ice and is in great danger. II. Fig. in a risky situation. If you try that you'll really be on thin ice. That's too risky. If you don't want to find yourself on thin ice, you must be sure of your facts. on ice I. 冷冻, 冰冻. 冰镇. Lit. stored or preserved on ice or under refrigeration. I have a lot of root beer on ice for the picnic. All the soft drinks are on ice. II. to put a body part or corpse on ice or under refrigeration to preserve it; to put a foodstuff on ice or under refrigeration to cool it. The surgeon transplanted a heart that had been put on ice for two hours. Please put the soda pop on ice. II. Fig. [action on someone or something] suspended or left hanging. to postpone acting on someone or something. I know he keeps pestering you for an answer, but we'll just have to put him on ice until we have more facts to go on. Let's put this project on ice till we find out how well it's financed. I was on ice for over a month while the matter was being debated. This matter should be on ice for a while.) with their college. After receiving their final warning and being placed on probation, Mac and Kelly pull a prank so ingenious ( ingenious [ɪnˈdʒi:niəs] I. an ingenious plan天才的计划, 天才的想法, 天才的注意, piece of equipment etc uses new and clever ideas. an ingenious device for opening bottles. II. someone who is ingenious is good at inventing things and solving problems in new ways. genius [ˈdʒi:niəs] I. [countable] someone who is much more intelligent or skilful than other people. Bach's Magnificat is clearly the work of a genius. She was a mathematical genius. II. [uncountable] a very high level of skill or ability. Dante, Leonardo, and Milton were men of genius. Baking allows you to show your creative genius. a stroke of genius (=a very intelligent act or idea): At the time, his appointment seemed like a stroke of genius. have a genius 有天分, 天赋 for (doing) something to be very good at something. He has a genius for convincing you that he is sincere. You don't have to be a genius or it doesn't take a genius spoken used for saying that something is obvious. You don't have to be a genius to see that it's not going to work. you're a genius spoken used for telling someone that you are very impressed with something that they have just done or said. ) that Teddy and Mac are forced to respond. All hell breaks loose(all hell breaks loose 乱作一团, 全乱了套 (informal) if all hell breaks loose, a situation suddenly becomes noisy and violent, usually with a lot of people arguing or fighting. This big guy walked up to the bar and hit Freddie and suddenly all hell broke loose. One policeman drew his gun and then suddenly all hell broke loose.), from Robert DeNiro parties to Christopher Mintz-Plasse having sex in the bushes, this comedy shows how.
新闻: 1. A young chef found bludgeoned(bludgeon [ˈblʌdʒ(ə)n] I. to hit someone hard with a heavy object. bludgeon someone to death: Atkinson had been bludgeoned to death in his flat. II. to force someone to do something by repeated arguments or threats. bludgeon someone into doing something: We were bludgeoned into accepting their offer.) to death in his home had links to 有勾连 Brisbane's underworld drug scene, it has been alleged. Peter Milos, 26, was found murdered in the garage of his Morningside home on Tuesday. Just three months ago he was evicted from an apartment in Fortitude Valley after it was raided by drug squad detectives who suspected he was dealing ecstasy at a music festival, the Courier-Mail reports. That incident followed his alleged beating of another man with a metal bar in the basement of his apartment building. His eldest brother, Allen Milos, is also serving 13 years in prison after being caught in a drug sting. A stream of people used to visit Peter at his Fortitude Valley apartment and yesterday homicide detectives were quizzing 盘问, 询问 residents for further information. "He was just a decent bloke who got caught up with the wrong people," friend Ryan Grossberg told the Courier-Mail. He added that he noticed a change in the chef about a week ago when he became depressed and moody. Peter reportedly was seen by former neighbours driving luxury cars, including a black Mercedes, but recently he had downgraded to a hatchback. It was also reported Peter had battled 抗争 a heroin addiction, although his brother Daniel Milos said he had no knowledge of his brother using drugs and would be shocked if police investigations focused on it. "He is no big drug kingpin. Everything he owns is in a tiny little bedroom," Daniel was quoted as saying. No drugs were found in the Morningside home. Peter and Daniel were once co-owners of a fine-dining restaurant at Toowong. Daniel yesterday said his brother had taken time off from the restaurant to write a cookbook and had a ticket to fly to London to meet his girlfriend in a few weeks. Police still have no suspects in the murder. It is understood the weapon凶器 may have been a household tool. 2. This father was arrested because he spoke out of turn during a school board meeting in the US. William Baer, whose 14-year-old daughter attends Gilford High School in New Hampshire, was sitting with other parents in a row of small classroom chairs, surrounded by stacks of children's books, when a police officer walked over, grabbed him by the wrist and led him out of the classroom. Mr Baer was upset the school had assigned a book with graphic sex scenes between two teenagers without notifying parents first. When he asked to read aloud a passage, the school board refused and reprimanded ( to tell someone officially and in a serious way that something they have done is wrong. reprimand someone for something 谴责, 指责: He was severely reprimanded for his unsuitable behaviour. ) him for speaking for longer than the allotted 分配的 time. "You are going to arrest me because I violated the two-minute rule?" Mr Baer asked as the officer approached. "I guess you are going to have to arrest me." Mr Baer was put in handcuffs and charged with disorderly conduct. The father said the arrest infringed on his free speech rights and plans to contest the charge. The book, Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, is about a community reacting to a school shooting. 3. A teenage girl has been sexually assaulted on a Gold Coast bus in broad daylight – and no one went to her aid, her mother claims. The alleged 18-year-old victim, who is described as slightly built, was pinned against a window and attacked for several minutes by a middle-aged male passenger in Surfside last Friday afternoon. Other passengers, including school children, watched in horror but none of them intervened, including the driver. The teen eventually fled when the alleged assailant (someone who violently attacks another person. ) got off at the same stop in Southport. Local police are now working to locate CCTV footage of the man. The teen's mother, who cannot be named to protect the identity of her daughter, has called for an overhaul of on-board security. "Bus drivers are not allowed to interfere, which is fair enough, but someone has to," she was quoted as saying. She suggested on-board emergency distress buttons and procedures that empower bus drivers to head straight to the nearest police station when there are signs of trouble. Buses are already fitted with 安装有 CCTV and two-way radio communication between drivers and their operation centre for security purposes, a TransLink spokesman said.
