用法学习: 1. hi vis safety vest醒目安全马甲. Hi Vis Clothing Workwear. High-visibility (HV) clothing醒目服装, a type of personal protective equipment (PPE), is any clothing worn that has highly reflective properties or a colour that is easily discernible 容易被发现的, 容易看到的, 醒目的 from any background(discernible [dɪˈsɜ:(r)nəb(ə)l] 明显的, 醒目的, 清楚可见的, 明摆着的 able to be seen, noticed, or understood. a discernible improvement in the patient's condition. A small boat was clearly discernible in the middle of the lake.). Yellow waistcoats worn by emergency services are a common example. 2. rabbitoh [ˈræbɪtˌəu] or rabbito n. Austral (formerly) an itinerant seller of rabbits for eating. itinerant [ɪˈtɪnərənt; aɪ-] 游走的, 四处游走的 Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty: an itinerant judge; itinerant labor. cat burglar [ˈbɜ:(r)ɡlə(r)] 爬墙贼, 攀墙入室盗窃贼 a thief who gets into buildings by climbing up walls. burglar alarm a piece of equipment that makes a loud noise if someone enters a building while it is switched on. 3. scooch [sku:tʃ] I. Crouch or squat: he scooched down and rubbed the dog's head. II. Move in or pass through a tight or narrow space: waiters kept pressing against the table trying to scooch by. III. 挪一下. 过去一点. 腾点地方. Move a short distance, especially while seated. To shift, move aside, or scoot over. : she scooched over to make room, then leaned against me. misanthropic [ˌmɪs(ə)nˈθropɪk] 恨人类的, 厌世的, 遁世的, 不爱与人来往的, 不与人打交道的, 愤世嫉俗的 someone who is misanthropic dislikes people and avoids social situations. philanthropic [ˌfɪlənˈθropɪk] 博爱的, 乐善好施的, 有善心的, 仁爱的, 慈善的 Of or pertaining to philanthropy; characterized by philanthropy; loving or helping mankind; as, a philanthropic enterprise.
黄牛党并不都是黑社会: Since then, the footage has amassed nearly 2.5 million views, raising concerns about the foreign buyers, many of whom resold the iPhones at exorbitant prices ( exorbitant [ɪɡˈzɔ:(r)bɪtənt] 贵的离谱的, 多的离谱的 an exorbitant price or amount of money is much more than is reasonable. It meant borrowing money at an exorbitant rate of interest. exorbitant wage demands. ) in China, where the iPhone 6 is not yet on the market. The Chinese have "learned capitalism the wrong way," according to one YouTube commenter. There's no disputing that there's an underground market for iPhones, analysts who study China's wireless market told TIME. But for most first-in-line buyers, the iPhone 6 gray market, while expansive, is far from what's implied by a "Chinese mafia." In reality, the process both stateside美国 and overseas is much less of a structured, profitable operation. Analysts agreed that in reality the U.S.-China iPhone 6 grey market trade was rather fragmented. Those who purchased the iPhone 6 in the U.S. often did not sell it directly to a customer. Rather, they connected 搭上线 through word of mouth with scalpers who were transporting the devices to China. "Nowadays I think it's a lucrative enough business that there are literally gray market wholesalers," Howe said. Unlike stateside first-in-line buyers who just wanted a bit of quick cash, many Asian wholesalers had decidedly less innocent motives动机不单纯, 不单纯的动机. iPhone wholesalers tend to be small businesses, and they hire or transport people to wait in line in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and Australia—countries in the first batch to receive the iPhone 6—before illegally smuggling them into mainland China to avoid import taxes, according to Bryan Wang, a Beijing-based analyst at Forrester Research. Still, while there's certainly a small-scale, organized iPhone trade, the buzz in the U.S. and Asia has obscured the fact that 模糊了事实 transactions in the underground market aren't as fluid or clear-cut as they seem, analysts said. Getting the iPhones back to China, for example, isn't as simple as making a cash payment. They suspect the iPhone 6's initial launch precluded China because Apple and China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology were sorting out discrepancies between China's network and foreign networks. As it stands, some foreign-bought iPhone 6 models will either work at slow speeds or not at all in China, a fact that may have eluded Chinese buyers of resold iPhones. Perhaps the most surprising look into China's underground iPhone 6 market is that many of its participants—even on the reselling side—are ordinary individuals普通人 hoping to score some pocket money零花钱, not organized groups. The gray market will continue insofar as ( [ˌɪnsəuˈfɑːr æz] used for talking about the degree to which something happens, or the situation in which something happens. She cites other scholars' work only insofar as it supports her own theories.) the demand remains, analysts said, especially as Apple has established itself as a premium, luxury brand, even if it's not China's best selling smartphone. 苹果道歉, 并发布IOS8.0.2: Apple has moved quickly to 行动迅速 release its iOS 8.0.2 update, after leaving users around the world without cell service or Touch ID functionality on their iPhones following the release of its troubled iOS 8.0.1 update yesterday. Apple said that the new update fixes the issue in the iOS 8.0.1 update that impacted 影响了 cellular network connectivity移动网络连接 and Touch ID on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Apple has offered a rare apology for the bug-ridden [ˈrɪd(ə)n] iOS 8.0.1 update — itself released to fix bugs in last week's initial iOS 8.0 release — that saw iPhone users lose service, while seeking to quell a storm over reports that its new handsets are susceptible to bending. The bug appeared not to have been specific 独有的, 限于的 to a country or particular network, affecting 影响了 iPhone 6 devices running on networks in the US, the UK and Australia. The slew of negative headlines has seen a steep drop in Apple stock, as the US tech giant acknowledged the software glitch, and yesterday offered a temporary fix immediately and a full update "in the next few days". But Apple sought to minimise reports on bending of its newly released oversize iPhone — one analyst described the damaging claims as "a black eye" for Apple — saying it had received only nine complaints about the matter. "Our iPhones are designed, engineered and manufactured to be both beautiful and sturdy坚固耐用, 结实耐用," an Apple spokeswoman said in an email. "They also feature stainless steel and titanium inserts to reinforce high-stress locations and use the strongest glass in the smartphone industry." The statement said that "with normal use a bend in iPhone is extremely rare and through our first six days of sale, a total of nine customers have contacted Apple with a bent iPhone 6 Plus". Apple yesterday offered a "workaround" to the software glitch after numerous users complained on social media and online forums that the iOS 8.0.1 update left their phones largely inoperable没法使用的. The update, which was released and then pulled撤销, 撤回 within hours on Wednesday, had been developed to add in fitness monitoring programs which were omitted from the iOS 8 platform released last week.
暴君, 专制, 独裁, 暴政: 1. jammer: 干扰机 (electronics) A transmitter used in jamming of radio or radar transmissions. Also known as electronic jammer. scramble 指频率的干扰用. Electronics To distort or garble (a signal) so as to render it unintelligible (难解的, 无法了解的) without a special receiver. In its hey day, Though frequently scrambled (频率干扰) by Chinese martial music, the VOA journalist said, the broadcast is her family's chief source of credible 可信的, uncensored (未经审查的) foreign news in the authoritarian ( authoritarian [ɔ:ˌθorɪˈteəriən] 专制的, 独裁的 adj. controlling everything and forcing people to obey strict rules and laws. an authoritarian government/regime. dictator独裁者. dictatorial 专制的独断专行的. authorize 授权的 to give official permission for something to happen. All overtime payments must be authorized by a senior member of staff. authorize someone to do something: This officer was authorized to carry a gun. authoritative [ɔ:ˈθorɪtətɪv] I. 有权威的. 有威信的. 有威仪的. based on the best, most complete, and most reliable information. an authoritative report on drug use among teenagers. II. showing that you are used to being obeyed or expect to be obeyed. ) Central Asian country. People who are information-deprived 剥夺了信息的 or who don't have access to satellite TV or who don't have hookups 转播 to the BBC or CNN -- they don't speak English, and those are the people we need to reach. scramble的其他意思: 爬行, 攀缘, 抢夺, 混乱. scrambled for the best seats争夺最好的座席 scramble network不规则问题, 杂混问题. 2. But becoming a torchbearer 启蒙者 for disaffected Catholics(dissatisfied是不高兴的, 不满意的. disaffect vt. [尤指政治上]不满的不忠的, 愤愤不平的, 不为所动的. The soldiers were disaffected toward the government. The dictator’s policies had soon disaffected the people.) would have been the last thing Mary MacKillop wanted or stood for. I think she would be devastated if women interpreted her life as an invitation to leave the church or set it aside (置之不理) or to mount a feminist agenda against it. That's not her message. 3. a bad/rotten apple one bad person in a group of people who are good. You'll find the occasional rotten apple in every organization. tyranny ['tirəni]
暴政 I. arbitrary, unreasonable, or despotic behaviour or use of
authority the teacher's tyranny. II. any harsh discipline or oppression the tyranny of the clock. tyrannical [ti'rænikəl], tyrannic 暴政的, 暴君的 adj. characteristic of or relating to a tyrant or to tyranny; oppressive. tyrant ['tairənt] 暴君
n. I. a person who governs oppressively, unjustly, and arbitrarily;
despot. II. any person who exercises authority in a tyrannical manner.
III. anything that exercises tyrannical influence. tyrannize [ˈtɪrənaɪz] to use your power to treat people in a cruel and unfair way. a manager who tyrannizes his staff. 报道摘选: To set the record straight, it wasn't rape, it was more of rough play that the two played on many occasions. It got out of hand and Will didn't stop. He's not a rapist but he and his wife both live a life filled with lies. 4. Despotism [ˈdespəˌtɪz(ə)m] 专制主义 the use of power in a cruel and unreasonable way. 君主专制 Absolute monarchy(monarch [ˈmonə(r)k] a king, or a queen. monarchy [ˈmonə(r)ki] a type of government in which a country is ruled by a king or queen. They supported the idea of monarchy as the natural state of things. ). constitutional monarchy a country ruled by a king or queen whose powers are limited by a constitution. autocracy[ɔ:ˈtokrəsi] 独裁 I. [uncountable] a form of government or management in which one person has complete power. II. [countable] a country or organization that is completely controlled by one person. An autocracy is a system of government in which a supreme power is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of coup d'état or mass insurrection). Both totalitarianism and military dictatorship are often identified with, but need not be, an autocracy. Totalitarianism (totalitarian [təuˌtælɪˈteəriən] 高压政治的 controlling a country and its people in a very strict way, without allowing opposition from another political party.) is a system where the state strives to control every aspect of life and civil society. It can be headed by a supreme dictator, making it autocratic, but it can also have a collective leadership such as a commune or political party.
苹果遭遇的问题Apple stock dinged 下挫, 小幅受挫 ( I. to make the short sound of a bell. II. [transitive] American to make a small dent on the surface of something, especially a car. ) $23B since iPhone 6: Plagued with allegations of hardware that's a little too bendy for its newest iPhone and a problematic software update, shares of Apple (AAPL) are bending. The stock has now lost a staggering ( stagger I. [intransitive] 跌跌撞撞. to walk in an uncontrolled way, as if you are going to fall over. She staggered and fell. stagger backwards/towards/into/out of: He gave her a slight push, and she staggered backwards. Ruth staggered out of her bedroom to pick up the phone. stagger to your feet: The man staggered to his feet and ran away. II. [transitive] to surprise and shock someone. Rory was staggered by his answer. III. [intransitive] 挣扎着 to continue doing something despite great difficulty. He staggers on as president, despite his increasing frailty. The museum is staggering under debts of nearly £5 million. IV. [transitive] 错开的. to arrange for events or activities to start at different times. staggered working hours. V. [transitive] 交错的. to arrange objects so that they are not at the same height or are not in a straight line. ) $23 billion since the iPhone 6 was released on Sept. 19. The day's loss in Apple stock exceeds the entire market value of more than half the individual companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index. What's different this time is that there are serious questions about Apple's once-vaunted quality standards ( vault I. vault over [transitive] to jump over something, especially using your hands or a pole to support you. He vaulted the fence and continued running. II. [transitive] mainly journalism to suddenly put someone in a successful or important position. These two years have vaulted him to stardom. a. [intransitive] to suddenly improve or succeed. Stocks vaulted to record high levels on Wednesday. the pole vault 撑杆跳 a sport in which you use a long pole to push yourself over a high bar.) this time. While consumers are used to Apple not being first — for instance following other phone makers with a larger screen — they like to think of Apple's goods as perfect out of the gate. But suggestions that the iPhone 6 Plus can be bent by hand (or in the front pocket) and widespread reports of connectivity and battery woes caused by the update to the operating system, the popular theory of Apple's products that they "just work能用而已" is under assault. Of course, Apple products have had problems before. An earlier update to an iPhone would lose connectivity due to a faulty antenna design that founder Steve Jobs was able to do damage control around. But with more scrutiny on Apple, such mishaps are more difficult to scoff off and erode — maybe just a little — Apple's well-groomed aura of perfection完美的光环.
