用法学习: 1. head in (to something) to move into something head or front end first. Head into that parking space slowly. It is quite narrow. I turned the boat toward shore and headed in. I said if NSW win the Origin series I'll host the NRL Footy Show naked, and that's what I'm going to do. As soon as they get the studio a little bit warmer, I'm going to head in. Cheers erupted as Ryan, 29, walked into the Sydney studio wearing nothing but a cheeky grin. do someone's head in To frustrate, irritate or disturb someone. Please stop reading the name of every sign we came across, it's doing my head in! They find all the options and compare them for you, so you don't have to do all the leg work跑腿工作. 2. form I. [countable] 某种形式的 a type of something. form of: The car is by far the most popular form of transport. He developed a rare form of cancer. Everyone agrees that the kids must receive some form of punishment. II. [countable/uncountable] the particular way in which something appears or exists. The information is also available in electronic form. in the form of: You can get the medicine in the form of a nasal spray or as a tablet. Help arrived in the form of six heavily armed police officers. take the form of 以...形式: The aid might take the form of food or medical supplies. Neglect of children can take a variety of forms. III. [countable] a shape of someone or something. She stared at the lifeless form on the driveway. Three forms gradually emerged out of the darkness. IV. [countable] an official document that has spaces where you can put in information. Use the order form to get new office supplies. fill in/out a form: Make sure you fill in the application form completely and legibly. V. [uncountable] 状态, 竞技水平 the level of someone's ability at a particular time, especially in a sport. She blamed a foot injury for her recent loss of form. The band's new CD marks a welcome return to form (=to a previous high standard). in/on (good etc) form 精神状态, 健康状况: She is hoping to be on top form in time for the Olympics. a. British the state of someone's mood and health at a particular time. in good/bad etc form: I saw Sam last night – he was in great form. in rare/top etc form 状态奇佳 behaving or performing in a way that is especially clever, skilful, amusing etc. Toronto's outrageous mayor was in rare form during his speech last night. VI. [countable] British a class at school. He was in my form at school. She's now in the sixth form. VII. [countable] linguistics one part of a verb or other word that has several different parts. It's important to learn all the forms of a verb. nouns like 'child' that have irregular plural forms. VIII. [uncountable] the structure of a piece of writing or music or a painting. The form of the novel is complex, with numerous flashbacks. IX. British informal 前科. 犯罪记录. a criminal record: They both had form. Mrs Dorries, who calls herself "pro-choice" but has form 有良好声誉, 有良好记录 in campaigns to whittle down abortion rights, argues that such charities cannot give
independent advice because their financial interest lies in doing more
abortions. "form" can mean record or reputation. If a person "has form" it means the person has a well-founded reputation for being or doing something. He has form as a long-time critic and did not miss this opportunity. It is also common police talk for "prior convictions前科". It is hard to believe that he got through the checks. He has form as long as your arm with some fairly serious convictions. So by using the expression the writer is saying that Mrs Dorries has a record of previously acting against pro-choice ( believing that pregnant women should be allowed to decide whether or not to have an abortion. ) aims. It means that she is not new to the type of campaign that is under way now. She has a record of involvement in campaigns of this type. It comes from UK judicial and police slang: "to have form" means to possess a criminal record - but that does not imply that Mrs Dorries' activities are or have ever been illegal in any way. Unfortunately AirAsia does have form with these rescheduling确实有乱改航班时间的前科. I got caught with having to leave a day earlier for the same reason and this added a day of accommodation plus a leave adjustment form to work.
A jumping jack (Canada & US) or star jump (UK and other Commonwealth nations), also called side-straddle hop in the US military, is a physical jumping exercise performed by jumping to a position with the legs spread wide and the hands touching overhead, sometimes in a clap, and then returning to a position with the feet together and the arms at the sides. The jumping jack name comes from the traditional toy of the same name, while "star jump" refers to the person's appearance with legs and arms spread. More intensive 加强型的, 加强版的 versions of this jump include bending down (over) and touching the floor in between each jump. A similar jump exercise is called half-jacks, which were created to prevent rotator cuff injuries, which have been linked to the repetitive movements of the exercise. They are just like regular jumping jacks, but the arms go halfway above the head instead of all the way above the head. The arms also hit the sides to help tighten the jump. Although he played no part in inventing the exercise, the late fitness expert Jack LaLanne was given credit for popularizing the exercise in the United States. LaLanne utilized the jumping exercise during routines he promoted in decades of television fitness programming.
drip pricing 隐形消费, 暗藏费用 practice targeted: Defined by the FTC, drip pricing is when a company advertises a low price for its product or service, and consumers learn that there are additional surcharges or add-on fees only later in the purchase process. Drip pricing usually ends up bad for consumers because it inevitably cost them time, money and the feeling of being ripped off. All the effort gone into shopping for the best price ends up being a waste of time because the advertised price is the base price and not what the consumer will end up paying. Also, many times the final price, including surcharges and add-ons, is not disclosed until after the consumer has committed to the service or product. Example: You pack the family into the car and drive for 12 hours to get to your vacation destination. You check in at the hotel and then find out that the hotel's "free parking" advertisement only applies to people who are paying full price and there is a $10 a day parking fee that you will be required to pay. You shrug it off 想想算了 and head to the room with the kids. Later, everybody decides to take a dip in the pool, but you stop first to do 20 minutes on the Stairmaster in the exercise room. When you return to the room you find that all the beds have been turned down(In the hospitality industry, turndown service 铺床服务 refers to the practice of staff entering a guest's room and "turning down" the bed linen of the bed in the room, preparing the bed for use. An item of confectionery such as a chocolate or a mint is typically left on top of a pillow in the bed that has been turned down. Some hotels have more elaborate turndown services, such as bed-time stories for children and cocktails served to young couples.). The week goes by一周过去了, and you have enjoyed the hotel stay because of all the great amenities. But when you go to pay the bill, you spot several extra charges and find out that each day you have been charged about $50 for services like newspaper delivery, pool usage, exercise room, premium television programming, pull-down service, internet service and a tourist tax. You had no idea that you were being charged for these services and when you throw in the extra $10 for parking, you now leave with $420 less in your pocket than you had planned to spend and a dull ache 隐隐作痛 in your stomach 心疼(dull pain/ache a mildly throbbing acute or chronic pain, which may not deter the patient from expected or desired activity.) from another expensive life lesson. ACCC targeting drip pricing: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has instituted separate proceedings in the Federal Court against Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd (Jetstar) and Virgin Australia Airlines Pty Ltd (Virgin), alleging that each airline engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct and made false or misleading representations in relation to particular airfares. The conduct which is the subject of the ACCC's allegations in each of these proceedings is an example of what is often referred to as 'drip pricing'. Drip Pricing is where a headline price is advertised at the beginning of an online purchasing process and additional fees and charges (which may be unavoidable for consumers) are then incrementally disclosed (or 'dripped'). This can result in consumers paying a higher price than the advertised price or spending more than they realise. The ACCC alleges that Jetstar and Virgin each made representations 声称 on their websites and mobile sites that certain domestic airfares were available for purchase at specific prices, when in fact those prices were only available if payment was made using particular methods. The ACCC alleges that these fees applied to the substantial majority of online bookings and should have been disclosed upfront and prominently with or within headline prices. While both airlines made some adjustments 做了调整 to the disclosure of these fees during the period of the ACCC's investigation, the ACCC remains concerned with these pricing practices. "The ACCC is concerned about advertising that draws consumers into 吸引进来 an online purchase process but fails to provide sufficient upfront disclosure of additional fees and charges that are likely to apply," ACCC Chairman Rod Sims said. "Drip pricing practices, such as those alleged by the ACCC in these proceedings, have the potential to cause both competition and consumer detriment既损害竞争又损害消费者利益. Not only can this practice lead to consumers potentially being misled, it may also make it difficult for businesses with more transparent pricing practices to compete on a level playing field公平竞争. The ACCC continues to investigate businesses in other industries in relation to their practices of incremental disclosure of fees and charges," Mr Sims said. In the ACCC Compliance and Enforcement Policy for 2014, the ACCC announced that it is giving priority consideration to emerging consumer issues in the online marketplace, particularly those associated with drip pricing. The ACCC is seeking pecuniary penalties(pecuniary [pɪˈkju:niəri] 金钱上的 relating to or consisting of money. pecuniary losses. monetary [ˈmʌnɪt(ə)ri] I. relating to a country's money and to the systems that a country uses for controlling its money supply. monetary policy. the monetary authorities. a. consisting of money, or able to be measured in money. The paintings are not of any great monetary value. ), declarations, injunctions, corrective advertising and costs against each airline.
新闻: 1. 女教师监狱被强奸: A female teacher at a US prison has been stabbed and raped after being left alone in a room full of sex offenders. The teacher was administering a high school equivalency test to about six inmates at an Arizona facility with no guard nearby and only a radio to summon help when the attack happened on January 30. Prison officials issued scant details in a press release at the time but the Associated Press pieced together what happened based on interviews and documents obtained under local freedom-of-information laws. The accused inmate, Jacob Harvery, asked the teacher if she could open the classroom's bathroom as the last of the other inmates left. He allegedly then stabbed the woman in the head with a pen, forced her to the ground and raped her. Harvey was in the first year of a 30-year sentence for rape and was not deemed by prison officials to be a high security risk. Harvey reportedly tried to use her radio to call for help after the assault but it had been changed to a channel not used by the guards in the prison — which houses about 1300 rapists, child molesters and other sex offenders — so Harvey let the woman use a phone. A spokesman for Arizona's Department of Corrections said classrooms at prisons across the state are having cameras installed. But he said no administrative staff were disciplined as a result of the incident. "This is an assault that reflects the fact that inmates in our system often act out violently, and it is the inmate suspect who is responsible for this despicable act可耻行为," he said. Harvey has been charged with sexual assault, kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon. The victim, who was not critically injured, has filed a worker's compensation claim. 2. NSW少年赛后被枪杀: The pair reportedly had been arguing earlier in the evening at the Colyton Hotel before they were thrown out by staff, but it is not known if their allegiances to either state had anything to do with the clash. Documents tendered to court show Mr Coates was waiting for Perry, a former schoolmate of his, outside his Nevada Avenue home with a shovel. He was metres from his home when he was shot in his neck, and later died in hospital. 3. 实习生的报复: Notorious radio pranksters Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O Henderson
have been fed a putrid ( [ˈpju:trɪd] I. formal decaying and smelling very bad. II. informal very unpleasant. a putrid yellow colour. ) serving of their own medicine this morning. The
KIIS FM duo, who in the past have courted controversy with poor-taste
pranks, were trapped in a lift for an hour and had stink bombs ( A stink bomb 臭蛋攻击 is a device designed to create an unpleasant smell. They range in effectiveness from simple pranks to military grade malodorants or riot control chemical agents. A variation on this idea is the scent bomb, or perfume bomb, filled with an overpowering 味道超冲的 "cheap perfume" smell.) unleashed
on them by their disgruntled "intern" - Intern Pete. "Payback's(payback [ˈpeɪˌbæk] I. a result of doing something. The no-smoking policy offers a payback of improved employee health. a. a bad or unpleasant thing that someone does to you after you have done something bad or unpleasant to them. payback for 报仇, 报复, 以牙还牙, 还账: It's simply payback for the way they defeated us. payback time: After last season's defeat, the Lions are hoping that today is payback time. II. payment that you make to someone who has lent you money. The longer the payback period还款期, the more it costs you in the end. get back I. 回来. [intransitive] to return to a place. It's late, I ought to get back. Dad always got back home in time for tea. get back from/to: What time does Sara get back from work? II. 取回, 拿回. [transitive] to receive or have something again after a time when it was taken or lost. She left her briefcase on the train and she doesn't know how to get it back. a. if you get your money back退款, the money that you paid for something is given back to you. III. [transitive] get someone back 报仇雪恨(= get your own back)报复 to do something to hurt or upset someone because they have done something to hurt or upset you. He was bitter, determined to get his own back. IV. 回归, 回到过去. [transitive] get something back to make something return to the state or condition it was in before. It won't take long for us to get things back the way they were. a. [intransitive] to return to the state or condition you were in before. get back to/in/into: I woke early and couldn't get back to sleep. She needs to get back in control of her life. V. [intransitive] to start doing something again after not doing it for a period of time. get back to/into: She was eager to get back to work after she had her baby. A year after his band broke up, he wants to get back into music again. VI. 走开. [always in imperative] spoken used for telling someone to move away because they are in danger. get back to someone 回头再说 to phone, write, or speak to someone at a later time because you were busy or could not answer their question earlier. get back to on: Can you get back to me on those figures by the end of the day? go/get back to basics to start paying more attention to the most important aspects of something. get back with someone to start to have a sexual or romantic relationship with someone that you had a relationship with before. He's getting back with his ex-wife. get/put someone's back up (idiomatic) To annoy or anger a person, either deliberately or inadvertently. That joke really got my boss's back up. You really put her back up there, John. have [got] someone's back (idiomatic) To be prepared and willing to support or defend (someone). If you ever need help, just ask. You know I have your back. )
a bitch," Pete said into a two-way radio communicating with Henderson
and Sandilands in their radio studios' lift after the sudden thud 猛然的响声 that
brought it to a stop, scaring the pair. Sandilands and
Henderson have ramped-up their bid for publicity recently after being
knocked from the top spot in ratings for the first time in years. The prank is the latest in a series of attention-grabbing stunts and it is unknown how complicit ( complicit [kəmˈplɪsɪt] 知情的, 有同谋关系的, 串通一气的 involved in or knowing about something bad that happens. involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing: all of these people are complicit in some criminal conspiracy. The government itself may have been complicit in the violence.) the duo were. Last
week the radio hosts riled up ( rile someone up 激怒 to get someone excited and angry. He yelled at them and riled them up. They left quite angry. He riles up everyone he talks to. privy I. (now chiefly historical) Private, exclusive; not public; one's own. The king retreated to his privy chamber. the privy purse II. (now rare, archaic) Secret, hidden, concealed. III. 知情的 With knowledge of; party to; let in on. He was privy to the discussions. privy to something 知晓内情的 knowing about something, usually official information, that other people do not know. knowledgeable about something secret or private. The reporter became privy to the senator's evil plan. Why are you privy to this secret information? He had not been privy to their talks.) Today host Karl Stefanovic, who lost his
cool after being pranked anonymously by the duo. Stefanovic eventually
phoned police after he was phoned by the pair at 3am who said in muffled
voices: "I'm watching you ... I'm always watching you." The prank was later revealed but not before it had unsettled Stefanovic( unsettle to make someone feel nervous, confused, or upset. The experience unsettled her profoundly.). But with the shoe on the other foot ( the shoe/boot is on the other foot 情况反过来了, 形势反过来了 Prov. One is experiencing the same (often bad) things that one caused another person to experience. (Note the variations in the examples.). The roles of people in a situation have been reversed, such that the advantage has shifted to a party which was previously disadvantaged. The teacher is taking a course in summer school and is finding out what it's like when the shoe is on the other foot. When the policeman was arrested, he learned what it was like to have the shoe on the other foot. turn the tables (idiomatic) To reverse a situation, such that the advantage has shifted to the party which was previously disadvantaged. Usage notes: Often used in the passive voice: the tables are turned, or similar forms e.g. the tables are turning. ) a clearly unimpressed Sandilands was not in the mood for games. "Don't f--- me around, I don't want to stay here. I'm a bit claustrophobic," he told the unrelenting intern. After
50 minutes of torment Pete unleashed 放出, 释放 his secret weapon: stink bombs
that had Sandilands and Henderson gagging for fresh air. "Oh Jesus Christ, don't take a big waft in ( waft n. a wafting motion, as a light current or gust: a waft of air. v. I. if a smell or a noise wafts, it floats through the air in a gentle way. The aroma of freshly made pancakes wafted through the air. II. to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water: A breeze wafted the music across the lake. II. to send or convey lightly: wafting kisses across the footlights. )," Sandilands warned. As
they approached a hour trapped in the tiny space Peter finally set them
free – but not before forcing them to perform a stunt neither wanted to
agree to. 4. 聚会闯入者重伤男孩: In a victim-impact statement read by his brother Shane at his attacker's sentence hearing, Liam told Sydney's District Court that the night has "left my life in tatters碎了一地". "I had to re-learn how to speak ... it's distressing(distressed伤痛不已的, 痛苦之至的) not to be physically strong and able," his brother read out on Friday. Liam, who now uses a walking aid, said he now feels self-conscious自卑的. "I feel that people are looking down on me. "People no longer see me as Liam but as a person who need help." "DS has changed my whole life for the simple fact that he couldn't get into a party." No punishment for DS could "compete with the life sentence that I have been given," he said. The then 17-year-old DS scaled the home's six-metre fence and climbed onto the roof of a shed, from where he began hurling 扔, 丢 building materials at partygoers. A three-metre "rebar"(Rebar钢筋棍 (short for reinforcing bar加强筋), also known as reinforcing steel and reinforcement steel, is a steel bar or mesh of steel wires used as a tension device in reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures, to strengthen and hold the concrete in compression. The surface of the rebar may be patterned to form a better bond with the concrete.) pierced 插破, 刺穿 Liam's skull and became lodged in his head, causing permanent brain damage. DS was found guilty of causing grievous ( grievous [ˈɡri:vəs] 极为严重的 extremely serious or severe. a grievous injury. He has suffered grievously. He has made a grievous error. grievous bodily harm noun very serious injuries caused by a violent attack on someone. ) bodily harm to Liam at a trial earlier this year.
