用法学习: 1. Claims that Jimmy Savile may have sexually interfered with ( interfere 干涉 to deliberately become involved in a situation and try to influence the way that it develops, although you have no right to do this. I don't want to interfere, but maybe you'd better listen to me. interfere in: I don't think your mother has the right to interfere in our affairs. interfere with something I. to prevent something from happening or developing in the correct way. Mum says I can get a job if it doesn't interfere with my homework. The defective gene interferes with normal body processes. Please do not interfere with us干涉我们. Are you interfering with my project? II. to use, handle, or change something, although you have no right to do this, especially so that you damage or spoil it. I saw him interfering with the smoke alarm. interfere with someone I. to persuade a witness to give false information in a court of law. II. 猥亵尸体. 奸尸 to attack a child by touching them sexually. ) dead bodies are some of the most shocking revelations yet about the disgraced broadcaster. Investigators at Leeds General Infirmary were told that Savile admitted performing sex acts on the dead in the hospital mortuary( [ˈmɔ:(r)tjuəri] I. British a morgue [mɔ:(r)ɡ] a building or room where dead bodies are kept temporarily. a. British a place where a dead body is kept. II. 停尸房. 太平间. 殓尸房. 殓房 American a place where a dead body is kept and prepared for a funeral.). like a morgue often humorous without much noise or activity. mosque [mosk] a building in which Muslims worship. 2. fluff/blow/muff one's lines to speak one's speech badly or forget one's lines when one is in a play. The actress fluffed her lines badly in the last act. I was in a play once, and I muffed my lines over and over. It's okay to blow your lines in rehearsal. a bit of fluff/skirt (British & Australian old-fashioned, very informal) a sexually attractive woman Who was that nice bit of skirt I saw you with last night? receding hairline脱发. Hair loss or baldness (technically known as alopecia) is a loss of hair from the head or body. Baldness can refer to general hair loss or male pattern baldness specifically. More than 95% of hair thinning in men is male pattern hair loss (also known as androgenic alopecia). Male pattern hair loss is characterized by hair receding from the lateral sides of the forehead (known as a "receding hairline") and/or a thinning crown 秃顶 (balding to the area known as the 'vertex'). Both become more pronounced until they eventually meet, leaving a horseshoe-shaped 马蹄铁 ring of hair around the back of the head. The incidence发生, 出现 of pattern baldness varies from population to population and is based on genetic background. Environmental factors do not seem to affect this type of baldness greatly. In time, hair becomes thinner, and its overall volume is reduced so that it resembles fragile vellus hair or "peach fuzz" until, finally, the follicle ([ˈfolɪk(ə)l]) 毛囊 goes dormant and ceases producing hair completely. 3. highly unlikely非常不可能, 可能性很小. Honey, you are making it really hard. He's not that sad可悲. We had a little fight last night, we still haven't made up [about]和好. Why can't you just say sorry like a nice woman, but with a poison tongue尖刻语气(Someone who spreads gossip (usually bad things and most of the time unfounded [untrue]) about others is said to have a poison tongue. It is someone who is straight forward on their words to the point of pride. poison someone's mind against someone to make someone dislike a particular person. poison pen letter a cruel or offensive letter that has not been signed. ). gale I. a very strong wind. a force nine gale 九级大风 (=a very strong gale). It's blowing a gale (=there is a strong wind). II. a sudden loud noise of people laughing. Gales of laughter floated up from the flat below. blow a gale British to be very windy (=with very strong winds). I'm not going out – it's blowing a gale out there. blow a hole in something I. to destroy part of something in an explosion. The bomb exploded, blowing a hole in the side of the plane. II. to damage a plan or idea so that it cannot succeed, or so that people no longer believe it. The new research blows a hole in theories about the evolution of birds. blow (it) British informal old-fashioned used when you are annoyed about something, or for saying in an annoyed way that you do not care about something. Oh blow it! Now I'll have to start all over again. 4. suburban warfare The act of maintaining your lawn and home in suburban sprawl. Making sure that your lawn looks better than your neighbors' lawn at all costs. Using a lawn service and chemical weapons to make sure you have the nicest lawn on the block. Describes the extent that people will go to have the nicest lawn on the block. This weekend suburban warfare was hot and heavy. Everyone was out working on their lawn and putting mulch down. Chemical warfare was at an all time high; those lawns are so toxic, only the grass can live. Did you see Jones working on his lawn all day putting those chemical down施肥? He fired the first shot; suburban warfare is on…. mulch 腐草, 烂草 decaying leaves or other plant material used for protecting the roots of plants and improving the soil. 5. ground I. subject for discussion; topic. an area of interest, knowledge or ideas. He managed to cover a lot of
ground in a short talk. We had to go over the same ground(= talk about
the same things again) in class the next day. You're on dangerous
ground(= talking about ideas that are likely to offend somebody or make
people angry) if you criticize his family. I thought I was on safe
ground(= talking about a suitable subject) discussing music with her. He
was back on familiar ground, dealing with the customers.They are
fighting the Conservatives on their own ground. to go repeatedly over the same ground. II. land having an indicated character: rising ground. III. ground for something/for doing something a good or true reason for saying, doing or believing something. You have no grounds for complaint. What were his grounds for wanting a divorce? The case was dismissed on the grounds that there was not enough evidence. He retired from the job on health grounds. Employers cannot discriminate on grounds of age. cut the ground from under somebody's feet釜底抽薪 to suddenly spoil somebody's idea or plan by doing something to stop them from continuing with it. gain/make up ground (on somebody/something) to gradually get closer to somebody/something that is moving or making progress in an activity. The police car was gaining ground on the suspects. They needed to make up ground on their competitors. get (something) off the ground to start happening successfully; to make something start happening successfully. Without more money, the movie is unlikely to get off the ground. to get a new company off the ground. give/lose ground (to somebody/something) to allow somebody to have an advantage; to lose an advantage for yourself. They are not prepared to give ground on tax cuts. The Conservatives lost a lot of ground to the Liberal Democrats at the election. hold/stand your ground 坚持立场 I. to continue with your opinions or intentions when somebody is opposing you and wants you to change. Don't let him persuade you—stand your ground. II. to face a situation and refuse to run away. It is not easy to hold your ground in front of someone with a gun. thick/thin on the ground (British English) if people or things are thick/thin on the ground, there are a lot/not many of them in a place. Customers are thin on the ground at this time of year. Security officers were thick on the ground during the King's visit. 6. Flights through Sydney airport's domestic terminal have been affected by a power outage, delaying thousands of travellers and creating a flow-on effect across the country. The outage caused delays to baggage handling, security and check-in facilities, and also affected the operation of aerobridge gangways廊桥. The South Sydney NRL team is caught up in the drama, with the Rabbitohs due to fly to Townsville for Saturday night's match against North Queensland. perspective [pə(r)ˈspektɪv] I. [countable] 想法. 看法. 怎么看. 视角. a way of thinking about something. You can call it brave or foolish, depending on your perspective. perspective on: The book deals with a woman's perspective on revolutionary change. from a historical/international/financial etc perspective: The problem needs to be looked at from a historical perspective. from the perspective of someone/something: From the perspective of anyone with children, it looks rather irrelevant. II. [uncountable] a sensible way of judging how good, bad, important etc something is in comparison with other things. I don't know who is in the wrong, who is in the right, I need some perspective. lose perspective: He has lost all perspective in the rush to get what he wants. get/keep something in perspective: It's important to keep things in perspective and not dwell on one incident. get something out of perspective: You've got the problem completely out of perspective. put something into perspective: This kind of tragedy puts a mere football match into perspective. a sense of perspective: Writing as a foreigner gives her a great sense of perspective. III. [uncountable] art 透视法. a method of showing distance in a picture by making far away objects smaller. in/out of perspective: The figures in the foreground are badly out of perspective. IV. [countable] a view of a large area. The pictures show two perspectives of the bay. go down a bomb (with someone) British informal to be very successful or popular. Anything to do with the Royal Family goes down a bomb with tourists. go like a bomb British informal I. to move very fast. a sporty little car that can go like a bomb. II. if an event goes like a bomb, it is very successful. The office party was going like a bomb when she walked in. go down with something to become ill with a particular illness. Three people in my office have gone down with the flu. go down well with someone To be received or accepted. The news didn't go down well with her parents. 7. catfish照骗, 照片欺骗, 假照片 (Internet, slang) To create a fake online profile to seduce someone. [to Abed] You made a profile for a fake dude and lured her into an online relationship. [to Annie] He's catfishing you. Getting catfished is when someone falls for a person online who is not necessarily real. It can involve pictures, phone calls, social media profiles, text messages, e-mails and even phony friends or family members. People use deceiving photo骗人的, with good angle. reek I. to have a strong unpleasant smell. reek of: The boat reeked of fish. II. literary to make you think that something unpleasant is involved in a particular situation. reek of: The whole place reeked of desolation and neglect.
电话通话说话断断续续的(You're cutting out (cutting in and out), or You are breaking up. cut someone off是把某人挂断了): I. cut it/that out spoken used for telling someone to stop doing something that you do not like. Will you cut it out – I'm trying to sleep here! not be cut out for something/to do something to lack the right qualities or character for doing something. Bill was never cut out to be a parent. cut someone out to not allow someone to do something or get something. cut someone out of something 排除在外: I don't want to cut the children out of our plans. cut someone out of your will (=not leave them anything when you die): Frank's mother cut him out of her will. cut out [intransitive] if an engine or machine cuts out, it suddenly stops working. 2. You're cutting out (this is interference on the line). We were cut off 不小心挂断了 (the connection was broken while we were talking and we had to reconnect). Yes, cutting out is a specific type of problem to me, where parts of words are completely dropped. It's not static or echo, for example; it is when only some of the words are coming through and others (or parts of words) are dropping out completely. I use "cut off" for a situation where something outside the control of either party causes a disconnection, or when it was an accident: "Sorry, I cut you off when I tried to put you on hold." To me, breaking up is more of an analog thing. The static starts overwhelming the signal 压过信号, 盖过信号 or the squelch starts kicking in, and the words are blurred or indistinct when they are there. When a call is cutting out the pieces of words that are there sound fine but there are gaps of silence interspersed. It's a digital "on or off" kind of condition. I'm sure you've heard comedians imitate it. squelch I. 扑哧扑哧的声音. to make a wet sucking sound such as the sound that your feet make when you walk on wet ground. II. [transitive] American informal to stop someone or something that is causing you trouble, especially by taking firm action against them. The government's policy of imprisoning protesters had successfully squelched opposition.
