用法学习: 1. cop out I. (idiomatic) To avoid or shirk, either by failing to perform, or by performing in a grossly insufficient, negligent, or superficial manner. Faced with the prospect of cooking for himself, his first thought was to cop out and order a pizza. II. plead guilty and ask for mercy. cop-out I. (idiomatic) Avoidance or inadequate performance of a task or duty; the action of copping out. His disappearance on the day of the audition was just a cop-out. I don't like receiving vouchers as birthday present, that's copout present. II. (idiomatic) 借口. An excuse made in order to avoid performing a task or duty; a reason offered when someone cops out. It was a cop-out to say he couldn't sign the petition because he sprained his wrist. III. (idiomatic) A person who cops out. He's always a cop-out when there's hard work to be done. Indian giver 先给后要的人 (informal, offensive) A person who demands the return of or takes back something which he or she has previously given. He was labeled an "Indian giver"—someone who gives a gift only to ask for it back. Indian giving (informal, offensive) The act of giving something to someone under the pretense that they get to keep it permanently, and then taking it back later on. 2. stand up and be counted to state or show publicly that you support someone or something, especially when something unpleasant or dangerous could happen to you as a result. It's time for people who care about freedom to stand up and be counted. How many designer bags have you got. I don't know. Too many to count数不清了. Stand-up guy 永远支持你的朋友 A loyal and reliable friend. The allusion is to someone who would be prepared to stand up and fight on your side if called on, that is, one who, in the words of the earlier (late 19th century) phrase, would 'stand up and be counted'. The phrase is, of course, American. The earliest citation I can find for it is in the Pennsylvania newspaper The Charleroi Mail, April 1935: "But he [Babe Ruth's employer, Jacob Ruppert] seems to be a 'stand-up guy' and loyalty, with him. seems to be less a virtue than obsession.". 3. have one's cake and eat it too and eat one's cake and have it too 脚踩两只船, 吃着锅里占着碗里的 Cliché to have in one's possession something and be able to use or exploit it; to have it both ways. (Usually stated in the negative.) Tom wants to have his cake and eat it too. It can't be done. Don't buy a car if you want to walk and stay healthy. You can't eat your cake and have it too. wiki: You can't have your cake and eat it (too) is a popular English idiomatic proverb or figure of speech. Many people misunderstand the meanings of "have" and "eat" as used here but still understand the proverb in its entirety and intent and use it in this form. Some people feel this form of the proverb is incorrect and illogical and instead prefer "you can't eat your cake and have it (too)", which is in fact closer to the original form of the proverb (see further explanations below) but very rare today. Other rare variants use "keep" instead of "have". 4. grubby I. 脏兮兮的 Dirty, unwashed, unclean. dirty and needing to be washed. He wore torn jeans and a grubby shirt. He's a grubby little boy, always playing around by the stream. II. Having grubs in it. III. dishonest and morally bad. disreputable; sordid: grubby little moneylenders. gravy train (ˈɡreɪvɪ) I. (idiomatic) 收入很高的工作, 利润丰厚的工作. An occupation or any lucrative endeavor that generates considerable income whilst requiring little effort and carrying little risk. II. (idiomatic, politics) A gorging on luxuries, since someone else foots the bill. Etymology: The word gravy by itself was used prior to any attestable use of gravy train to characterise 'cushy' situations. It is a shortening of the phrase riding the gravy train, rather than train referring to a number of individuals going the same way or a way of teaching people. ride the gravy train Fig. to live in ease or luxury. 1/7
had a million dollars, I sure could ride the gravy train. I wouldn't
like loafing if I were rich. I don't want to ride the gravy train. (the) rest is gravy Fig. Any additional money received is just an easily acquired bonus. There is some cost involved in buying the raw materials, and the cost of manufacturing is negligible. When we pay off the costs, the rest is gravy. a down and out (British & Australian) also a down-and-outer (American) someone who has no home, no job and no money. I just assumed he was a down and out, begging on the street corner. She was one of the many down-and-outers waiting for the soup kitchen to open. on the outer被排除在外 not included in a particular activity; a social misfit. fattening 会让人发胖的 [ˈfat(ə)nɪŋ] adj. (of a foodstuff) liable to make a person overweight. Blame it on the
cold weather that makes outdoor exercise less appealing, cravings for fattening
comfort foods, and the seemingly endless weeks of holiday celebrating. And of
course, you can hide your expanding waistline under layers of warm clothing.
It's a wonder more of us don't gain more than a pound each winter! fatten (someone or an animal) up (with something) 养胖 to use something to make someone or an animal fat. We will fatten the calf up with corn. I don't know why they keep fattening up their children with so much food. fatten up (on something) I. Lit. to get fat by eating something, The cattle fattened up on the succulent grass. The bears have to fatten up on food before they hibernate for the winter. II. Fig. to become prosperous because of something. The corporations fattened up on easy profits and low taxes. The directors of the company fattened up even during the recession when the workers were laid off. 5. Midas /ˈmaɪdəs/ the Midas touch金手指, 点石成金的手指 if someone has the Midas touch, they succeed easily at everything that they do. He seemed to have the Midas touch, appearing in three hit films by the age of 25. Can you relate ( to that)有同感? show/paint someone in a bad light 显得...像坏人 to make someone seem to be a bad person: He was concerned that the film had shown him in a bad light. Do you know we have a bad history过去不合. We totally dislike each other for 10 years. take (quite) a toll (on someone or something) to cause damage or wear by using something or by hard living. Years of sunbathing took a toll on Mary's skin. Drug abuse takes quite a toll on the lives of people. take a/its/their toll to have a bad effect on someone or something (often + on ). Bringing up nine children had taken its toll on my mother. The disease has taken a horrendous toll in parts of western Africa. sound/toll the death knell [nɛl] [for/of ]敲响丧钟 to cause an organization, system, or activity to fail or end. Usage notes: A knell is the sound of a bell being rung slowly to tell people that someone has died. (often + for ) The new superstore will sound the death knell for hundreds of small independent shops. (sometimes + of ) The closure of the local car factory tolled the death knell of the town. ring/sound hollow/false 听上去不靠谱, 听上去不真实, 听上去很假 if something someone says rings hollow, it does not sound true or sincere. to seem dishonest, not true, or wrong. The Rockets sounded like a defeated team - they talked of the possibility of a comeback, but the words rang hollow. Her characters and situations all ring false and her movie just seems painful and pointless. Usage notes: often used in the forms a hollow ring or a false ring (a dishonest or not sincere quality): Her story about the hostages is certainly exciting, but it has a hollow ring. The claims they made two years ago that peace was just around the corner ring very hollow now. 6. hoity-toity adv. hoity-toitily = hity-tity Pompous, self-important and snobbish. tinker [around with sth] 修修补补的, 小修小改的 to make small changes to something in order to improve or repair it. tinker with: He spends hours tinkering around with car engines. Problems can arise when management structures are tinkered with. broach v. I. to begin discussing something with someone, especially when you feel nervous because it may upset them. To begin discussion about (something). I broached the subject of contraceptives carefully when the teenager mentioned his promiscuity. He decided it was time to broach the subject of a pay rise. II. (transitive) To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid. III. (transitive) To open, to make an opening into; to pierce. French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line. n. I. A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel.
Mugshot 大头照 of ridiculously photogenic criminal Jeremy Meeks goes viral: When marathon runner Zeddie Little was snapped mid-race竞赛过程中, an internet meme风尚 was born. But it could be some time before the latest addition to the ridiculously photogenic meme gets to capitalise on his new-found online fame. Jeremy Meeks is 30, a convicted felon重刑犯(someone who has committed a serious crime such as murder or robbery.) and awaiting trial on weapons charges. He was arrested in Stockton, California with three other men and his bail was set at $US 900,000. The arrest mugshot of Meeks has set the internet ablaze with over 25,000 likes and almost 7000 comments on Facebook in 24 hours. The Stockton Police Department uploaded the photo to its Facebook page accompanied by a note explaining "Operation Ceasefire" in which Meeks was arrested. "Due to a recent increase of shootings and robberies in the Weston Ranch area, the Stockton Police Department just completed a multi-agency Operation Ceasefire enforcement mission. Through an Operation Ceasefire analysis of the recent shootings, we identified a new active group in the Weston Ranch Area." "This is why we like bad boys. Sometimes they have excellent bone structure. He better have all his teeth(get your teeth into sth to deal with something or become involved in something with great energy and enthusiasm: I'm so bored at work, I wish they'd give me something I could really get my teeth into.)! Who cares cause someone out there will buy him some," wrote one fan. "Is it wrong to say he's a hot criminal ... I mean his eyes could melt butter太性感了 and he'd fit right in in Grey's Anatomy as doctor McFine-as-Hell!" wrote another. The criminal charges weren't a deal breaker for everyone. "Oh wow!!! Yeh well I've got a criminal record, maybe we could catch up and compare??" wrote one woman. But some were more practical. "Very attractive, but can not do 6x felony rap. I do not do jail, won't visit I may write a letter three times a year. I have no money for ya books ain't talking to your lawyer either. So again he is pretty but he may be ugly as hell on the inside内心丑陋! Hopefully, if they do not strike him out he uses his little brains, or looks for good not evil用在好地方!" Many of the comments condemned his actions, advised him to seek redemption ( redemption [rɪˈdempʃ(ə)n] I. 救赎. the state of being made free from the power of evil, especially in the Christian religion. II. the sale of shares that you own in a company. beyond/past redemption 难以补救, 难以修补 too bad to be used or improved. Their relationship was damaged beyond redemption. ) through religion and urged him to turn his life around. "Sorry, gorgeous lips and gorgeous eyes. Too bad he wasted his life he could have been a hot model and instead of entertaining himself in the streets he could of been entertaining all these girls out here with his beauty. Hey but its never too late to turn his life around." Several have suggested the attention may be a turning point for Meeks, if an agent or Hollywood decides to pay his bail and set him up in an acting or modelling career. Meeks is one of several people to garner internet attention based on unanticipated 出乎意料的 good looks, including a Syrian fighter and even one of the right side of the law( get on the wrong side of the law also find yourself on the wrong side of the law 触犯法律, 违法 to be in trouble with the police because you have done something illegal From last Monday, owners of fighting dogs who fail to control them in public could find themselves on the wrong side of the law. keep/stay on the right/good side of someone Fig. to remain in someone's favor. (This has nothing to do with the right-hand side.) You had better keep on the right side of Mr. Franklin. He's very particular. I will keep on the good side of him.), a police officer escorting a criminal. The New York Post is reporting the female star of another attractive mugshot that became a meme is suing a website for running her image to promote their business without her consent未经同意. 'I'm not some kingpin': Jeremy Meeks, 'hot mugshot guy', responds to online attention: Meeks, whose 'dreamy' mugshot went viral last week, told local TV he had been informed about his newfound internet fame by his wife. "I appreciate [the attention] but I just want you to know this is not me, I'm not some kingpin," he told News10, a California news network. Meeks' chiselled 精致的下巴 jaw and light blue eyes caught the world's attention when his mugshot was posted online by the Stockton Police Department. Since then it has appeared in a number of photoshopped memes, including ads for Calvin Klein and Givenchy. Several fan communities have popped up on Facebook, the largest of which has more than 126,000 'likes'. The 30-year-old reportedly spent nine years in prison for 'grand theft' and has previously been involved in violent criminal gangs including the Northside Gangster Crips. He has been charged with illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, carrying a loaded weapon in public and street gang activity. Police stopped Meeks as he was driving a car with two passengers away from a house that was due to be searched as part of an FBI anti-gang operation. "A search of the passenger compartment yielded a 9mm round of ammunition and a small amount of what is believed to be marijuana," police said. "A search of the trunk located an unregistered and loaded Springfield Armory .45 caliber XD(M) semi-automatic handgun along with two extended magazines for the firearm." Mother Katherine Angier is now asking for money online to support her son, having so far raised $2680 from a goal of $25,000. "Please help. My son was taken into custody on his way to work," she wrote. "He is a working man with a son. He is being stereotyped due to old tattoos...please help him to get a fair trial or else he'll be railroaded( railroad to force someone to do something that they do not really want to do. railroad someone into (doing) something: We were railroaded into accepting the deal. railroad something through 强迫, 强行通过 if someone with power or influence railroads something through, they make someone else accept it, although they do not really want to. They hope to railroad the treaty through before June.)." While no doubt many women and men would be interested in bailing Meeks out, at $900,000 it won't come cheaply. Meeks' wife is furious and upset, according to Simone Johnson, a friend quoted by CBS local news. His brother, Bryan Varela, said Meeks is "a man who learns from his mistakes知错就改的人". Jeremy Meeks, who rose to fame after his ridiculously good-looking mugshot went viral this week, has been interviewed from jail on US TV. And, it's bad news for all the ladies out there with a penchant for bad boys. Wearing an orange jumpsuit, the blue-eyed spunk (spunk I. informal a brave or determined attitude. II. impolite a very informal word for semen. III. Australian informal 火辣的. someone who you think is sexually attractive.) revealed he is married and has a three-year-old son. Speaking to ABC's local affiliate KXTV on Thursday night, Meeks said he learned of his sudden internet popularity after chatting to his wife. "Well I appreciate that (the attention)," Meeks, 30, told a reporter from behind a glass wall. Shaking his head and smiling, he added: "But I just want them to know that this is really not me, I'm not some kingpin." Meeks' mugshot caused a social media frenzy after it was posted on the Stockton Police Department Facebook page on Wednesday. His pouting picture(pout I. to show that you are angry or annoyed by pushing out your lips, especially your lower lip. Petra usually just pouts until she gets what she wants. a. to push out your lips in order to look more sexually attractive. ) has even been memorialised in a number of memes (see below). The hot daddy and four others were arrested in a gang-related bust, dubbed Operation Ceasefire, involving federal and local police to halt a surge in robberies and shootings in the city. Meeks is currently being held on $US900,000 bail for illegally possessing firearms and ammo, carrying a loaded firearm in public and criminal street gang activity. On Friday his family came to his defence 为他说话 saying he wasn't as big a bad boy as it appeared. His mother Katherine Angier said her boy is no longer a gang man. "Please help," Angier wrote of her son's bail, posting cute pictures of him with his son. Meeks' sister told TMZ that the only reason he was armed at the time of his arrest was for protection. She said her brother has been a practising Christian for seven years. But Stockton PD spokesman Joseph Silva told the Associated Press Meeks is no model. In fact, he's "one of the most violent criminals in the Stockton area." According to the police department, Meeks spent nine years in prison for grand theft. HIS sultry looks have set internet hearts aflutter心跳不已, 心扑通扑通跳, but handsome prisoner Jeremy Meeks' mugshots weren't always so photogenic. Meeks became a viral sensation after he was arrested this week on weapons and gang-related charges in Stockton, California. Police posted his mug shot to their Facebook page, and his good looks and piercing blue eyes quickly attracted thousands of likes, appreciative comments, lustful memes and sent #JeremyMeeks trending on Twitter. However, past mug shots show Meeks, who has a long rap sheet and is a convicted felon, wasn't always such a looker(a very attractive person, usually a woman). In a 2002 mugshot, an 18-year-old Meeks sports an Afro and does not yet have his distinctive teardrop tattoo. 另一个事例: Zeddie Little was running a 10 kilometre race in his hometown, when he turned to smile and wave at a friend. That innocuous gesture ( innocuous /ɪˈnokjuəs/ 无毒无害的, 无公害的, 天真无邪的 I. not likely to offend or upset anyone. an innocuous remark/suggestion. a. not likely to harm or hurt anyone or anything. an innocuous substance found in some types of fungi.) was photographed and unexpectedly transformed him into the latest internet celebrity: "Ridiculously Photogenic Guy". It all started when photographer Will King posted pictures of the Cooper River Bridge Run, held in Charleston, South Carolina, USA, to his Flickr page and shared them on Reddit at the end of March. The photograph of Mr Little eventually went viral, inspired a hugely popular Facebook fan page, Twitter followers, parody photos and more than one million views of the original photograph. The 25-year-old New Yorker, who goes by his middle name Watkins, said the whole thing was a fluke. "We kind of just figured it out. I was running and waving at a friend that was on the sidelines and I turned around and I guess I caught a camera lens," Mr Little told Good Morning America overnight. "And that's history." Mr King said he was looking for his friends running in the race when he took the photo. "I had a few dozen friends in the race, but I couldn't find them. Internet pranksters have made different mash-ups ( mashup 拼接音乐 I. a website or piece of software making use of information from more than one website, for example using photographs from one website and text from another. Mashups allow non-programmers to create new and exciting websites. II. a piece of recorded music created by combining two or more pieces of recorded music, usually by adding the voice from one recording to the music of another. The mashup was created by combining Christina Aguilera's vocal from 'Genie in a Bottle' with the backing from the Strokes' 'Hard to Explain'.) of "Really Photogenic Guy". "But I found Zeddie there and he just takes a really good picture. "He was ... just looking straight at the camera, smiling, the sun was hitting his hair as it was flowing the wind. "Just an all around photogenic guy." Rachel Robbins, who studies face and object recognition at the University of Western Sydney's school of social sciences and psychology, said people were naturally drawn to 被吸引 smiling faces and direct gazes. "The bit about him being photogenic is probably less likely to make him pop out一眼被大家认出, 鹤立鸡群, because it turns out the faces that we think are most attractive are usually faces that are actually closer to a mathematical average of all the faces we've seen. "So they're actually less distinctive faces and they're actually less likely to pop out of a crowd脱颖而出. "He seems like he is quite attractive in having regular symmetrical features, so that probably is why we would say he is photogenic. "But the reason that he stands out for us first is probably not that he's photogenic, it's probably that he's smiling and looking at us." Herald photographer Peter Rae said a direct gaze 直视 was an important feature of a striking image. "People who are photogenic can get a certain emotion across," Rae said. "It's generally people who are relaxed with the camera. "I guess he looks like he's the modern Tom Cruise who girls would like to bring back to their mum's for a lamb roast." Mr Little said he thought his internet stardom was great and was planning to run in the New York marathon to raise money for aortic disease. "I kind of feel honoured to be part of a joke that's in good spirits because sometimes the internet can be a little vicious邪恶的 or jokes can get bent the wrong way. "These are all, for the most part, positive and it's funny that everybody's taken ... to it( taken with somebody/ something attracted to someone or something Carpenter was so taken with the sculpture that he persuaded the town to sell it to him. I was really taken with her, and admired her talent and personality. ). "It's I guess the most flattering way to get spread across the internet." Forget metro man, meet the 'spornosexual': A neologism combining sports, porn, and metrosexual, and used to describe an aesthetic adopted by many men who consume both sports and pornography. The spornosexual style emphasises heavy, lean musculature, and certain kinds of tattooing. The term entered the popular lexicon through a 2014 Daily Telegraph article by Mark Simpson, who also coined the term metrosexual. In 2006, Mark Simpson already wrote about 'sporno' for Out Magazine: "whole new generation of young bucks, from twinky soccer players like Manchester United's Alan Smith and Cristiano Ronaldo to rougher prospects like Chelsea's Joe Cole and AC Milan's Kak', keen to emulate their success, are actively pursuing sex-object status in a postmetrosexual, increasingly pornolized world.". The man who coined the term 20 years ago says the metrosexual has made way for 让路于, 让步于 a new pumped-up ( very excited or enthusiastic about something. Schumacher's really pumped up for the race this weekend. ) breed. In a development which will probably have him running to the mirror yet again to search anxiously for lines, this year the metrosexual man leaves his teens and turns 20. How quickly your children grow up. Although it seems only yesterday, I first wrote about him in 1994 after attending an exhibition organised by GQ magazine called "It's a Man's World". I'd seen the future of masculinity and it was moisturised. "Metrosexual man, the single young man with a high disposable income, living or working in the city (because that's where all the best shops are) is perhaps the most promising consumer market of the decade," I predicted. David Beckham is the archetype ( archetype [ˈɑ:(r)kɪˌtaɪp] a very typical example of a particular type of person or thing. archetype of: He was the archetype of a scientist.) 'spornosexual', the intersection of sport, porn and metrosexuality. Two decades of increasingly out and proud – and highly lucrative – male vanity later, and the metrosexual remains the apple of consumerism's rapacious eye. In a recent report, HSBC drooled all over his "Yummy"-ness (a play on Young Urban Male), pointing out how mainstream metrosexuality has become. This was, of course, old news to anyone with eyes to see the extremely image-conscious and product-consuming men around them – or in bed with them. Or the way that the glistening pecs and abs of men's health and fitness magazines have been outselling the lads' mags for several years. From the perspective of today's fragranced, buffed, ripped, groomed, selfie-adoring 喜爱自拍的 world, it's hard to believe that the metrosexual had to struggle to be heard in the early 1990s. Most people were in "New-Lad" denial back then about what was happening to men and why they were taking so long in the bathroom. Doctor John Myers allegedly groped and propositioned elderly patient at Geraldton Regional Hospital: A VICTORIAN doctor groped and requested oral sex from a 68-year-old woman admitted to a regional WA hospital for depression and suicidal thoughts, a tribunal has been told. John Barry Myers is facing professional misconduct allegations brought to the State Administrative Tribunal by the Medical Board of Australia. Dr Myers, who is suspended from practising, worked at Geraldton Regional Hospital as a locum physician for three months in 2012. During that time he allegedly fondled 猥亵 the woman's breast and bottom, hugged her, made advances for oral sex and came into her room after dark to kiss her on the cheek and say "goodnight sweetie". The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, this week told the SAT hearing "with all of his past history he shouldn't have even been near me". Dr Myers had four previous adverse findings against him through the Medical Board of Victoria and Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal from 2001 to 2013. The 2013 finding resulted in the cancellation of registration for a year. The previous findings against him were not used in evidence this week. But he was asked why he did not tell the WA Country Health Service about a 2001 disciplinary action involving an indecent assault conviction when he applied for the locum (locum [ˈləukəm] 代理医生, 代理神父 a doctor or priest who does the job of another doctor or priest temporarily, for example while the usual one is ill or on holiday) role. He denied trying to deceive his employer by not disclosing the conviction. Dr Myers represented himself during this week's hearing. He was not allowed to ask questions directly while the patient gave evidence via video link because his voice was too distressing for her. The woman said she even asked nurses if Dr Myers was really a doctor because she could not believe how he behaved. "A real doctor wouldn't sit there and ask me to suck his private parts," she said. Dr Myers argued he did not fondle or make advances, accusing her of being manipulative to get attention from her family. He said he had only given advice, telling her to "suck his (her husband's) c--k and put it between your breasts".
