用法学习: 1. dizzy I. feeling as if you or the things around you are spinning, especially when you think you are going to fall. I felt dizzy and had to sit down. The dizzy spells (=periods when you feel dizzy) have stopped completely. II. 令人耳晕目眩的, 令人目不斜接的. feeling or making you feel excited or confused, especially because everything is changing very fast. the dizzy pace of modern life. We were dizzy with excitement. III. informal 只知道吃喝玩乐的人. silly, careless, and not interested in serious things. the dizzy heights (of something) 遥不可及的高度, 站在塔尖上的人 humorous an important or successful position. This is often used to show that the position is not really very impressive. Now that you've reached the dizzy heights of supervisor, I suppose you won't be talking to us any more! scale new/dizzy/great heights to achieve a high level of success in a particular activity. The team scaled new heights with their Cup Final victory. They never dreamed of scaling such dizzy heights.
如何搭讪: chat up (transitive, idiomatic) To talk to (someone) in a friendly, open, or casual manner, sometimes also in a charming or affected manner, usually to curry favor, and sometimes flirtatiously with the intention of establishing a romantic or sexual encounter or relationship with that person. Have you been chatting up my girlfriend? He spent all evening chatting her up. Chatting up skills搭讪技巧: If you like someone making the first move can be scary, but your courage may well pay off收获多多. Get some tips on making the first move here... Take action: You've spent weeks eyeing them up(eye sth up 大量, 观察, 注意 to look closely at something that you are interested in: I saw you eyeing up that chocolate cake.) and have discussed their every move with your mates. But somehow s/he remains a distant figure遥不可及, 遥远的 on your love horizon. So why not take matters into your own hands自己把握未来, 自己决定, 自己做主? Remember - you won't get any action til you take some action! Repeat after me: Most people would love someone else to make the first move so keep that in mind. Here's some tips to get the ball rolling: Pick a time when the person you like is on their own - then you'll have their undivided attention without their mates sniggering( 窃笑, 偷着笑. to laugh quietly, especially at something that is rude or at something unpleasant that has happened to someone. ) in the background偷着, 在背后. Be yourself. If they like you, it's better that they like you for who you are. Don't jump in with anything too heavy. And don't try any cheesy lines(I. informal lacking style or good quality and slightly silly. cheesy songs. II. a cheesy smile is very obvious but looks false. his cheesy grin.) - they never work. Not even in an ironic way! 'Have you been working out?' Once you've got them alone and have started working your chat-up charm, you need to make your intentions clear (assuming you've resisted the urge to go straight in for a snog(if two people snog, or if one person snogs another, they kiss and hold each other for a period of time. They were snogging on the sofa.)!). Everyone loves flattery奉承, 夸奖, so be sure to drop a few honest compliments真诚的赞美 into the conversation. But don't overdo it at the risk of sounding insincere. If things are going well, they're making eye contact and engaging in the conversation then take a deep breath and ask them if they'd like to go out some time. If they say no... Don't let fear of rejection不要害怕被拒绝 put you off让你望而却步. You never know unless you ask. If they knock you back拒绝 it could be for all kinds of reasons各种原因: they're too shy, they're already with someone or maybe their mate fancies you. Whatever the reason, they'll be so flattered that you asked they'll probably let you down very gently. And when you've done it once, you'll realise that it's not really as big and scary an ordeal as you thought it was. So, what are you waiting for? Get out there!
关于花瓶: 1. Michael is better placed 更好的定位是 in the Big Brother house to entertain us on our TV, and Sam is best place chained naked in my garden shed to entertain just me on the work bench. I prefer to see an entertaining, game player(Ben) win, than a nice pot plant 摆设, 花瓶 ( pot plant = house plant. 花瓶. 好人. ). 2. Garvin singled out 专门夸奖, 特意提到 the show's female leads, including Marais, as its strongest suit( strong suit n. I. 强项 A quality, activity, or skill in which a person excels: Foreign policy was the President's strong suit. II. Games A long suit in a card game such as bridge that contains high cards. "Strong suit" is an expression derived from card-playing, in which hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades are the suits. When you put your best foot forward you play your strong suit. put one's best foot forward 展示最好的一面, 展现最好的一面. Fig. to act or appear at one's best; to try to make a good impression. When you apply for a job, you should always put your best foot forward. I try to put my best foot forward whenever I meet someone for the first time. ). "All play trophy women (Trophy wife 老夫少妻, 小媳妇 is an informal term for a wife, usually young and attractive, who is regarded as a status symbol身份象征 for the husband, who is often older and wealthy. The term trophy husband is the male equivalent. Referring to a spouse as a trophy wife usually reflects negatively on the character or personality of the husband, and has a connotation of narcissism and desire to impress others喜欢被称赞, 享受被人羡慕, and that the husband would not be able to attract the sexual interest of the attractive woman but for his wealth or position. It can also be used to imply that the trophy wife in question has little personal merit besides her physical attractiveness, does very little of substance没有什么实质 outside of remaining attractive, requires substantial costs for maintaining her appearance and is in some ways synonymous with the term "gold digger".) in a pre-feminist world, roles that could easily have sunk to bimbomania 很容易沦为花瓶, 胸大无脑的女人 ( 花瓶. Akin to nymphomania but only due to ripe (nubile) age and hormones; as opposed to sexual starvation after loss of virginity. A cultured woman at the age of 18 (bimbo) may share a whiff of nymphomania as subtle as the younger flocks (bird-brains) of the western bimbomaniacs who serve well @self-pimping up-to immature indulgence before favorable biological maturity of the psyché thereby. bimbo ['bimbəu] n I. 花瓶, 胸大无脑的人. an insulting word for an attractive but not very intelligent young woman. an attractive but empty-headed young woman. II. a fellow; person esp a foolish one. nympho ['nimfəu] Informal a nymphomaniac [ˌnɪmfəˈmeɪniæk] 欲求不满的女人. a woman who is always thinking about sex or always wanting to have sex. nymphomania [ˌnimfə'meiniə] Excessive sexual desire and behavior by a female. floozy an insulting word for a woman who likes to attract men and have sex. )," he writes. "Yet each of them projects intelligence and frustrated ambition, turning their characters into much more than sexual pawns 花瓶 in a male world."
单词辨别: 1. suspect n. 嫌疑犯, 嫌犯. 嫌疑人. a person who is suspected, esp. one suspected of a crime or offense. a person known to have committed an unlawful act. Police have arrested a suspect in a series of killings in the city. adj. 可疑的, 有嫌疑的. suspected; open to or under suspicion. Open to or viewed with suspicion: The government's statistics are suspect可疑的. Bomb squad officers were called in to deal with a suspect package. He might have suspect motives in accusing her of malpractice. a suspect policy; suspect motives可疑动机. Delegates evacuated the building when a suspect package was found. v. 怀疑, 质疑. To think (a person) guilty without proof: The police suspect her of murder. I suspect they are very disappointed. I suspect his motives质疑他的动机. She suspected his sincerity. You don't really think he suspects you, do you? Carl seemed very kind, but she suspected his motives.He'll be missed by some, but not, I suspect, by all his colleagues. I suspect they were right. suspect someone of something: Men suspected of involvement in the bombing. suspect someone of doing something: I suspected Alex of deliberately forgetting her purse. suspect someone of something to think or believe that someone has done something. I suspect the clerk of stealing. Ted was suspected of leaving the door unlocked when he left last Friday. the usual suspects 通常那些人, 通常那拨人, 那批人 (humorous) the people you would expect to be present somewhere or doing a particular thing 'Who did you spend the evening with?' 'Oh, Dan, Yuko, Jayne - the usual suspects.'. 2. credulous ( = gullible) 乐于去相信人的, 轻信的 tending to believe things that people tell you and therefore easily tricked or cheated. Credulous investors were persuaded to part with large sums of money. incredulous [ɪnˈkredjuləs] not able to believe something, or not wanting to believe it. a. showing that you find something hard to believe. Dan's voice was incredulous. unsuspecting [ˌʌnsəˈspektɪŋ] 毫不怀疑的, 丝毫不起疑心的 not knowing about something that is happening or will happen. Blogger
Leesalittle also shared some revealing information about how Big
Brother is only favourable to Tahan but not to others (read about it
here) and how Tahan's supporters have carried out a dubious tactic可疑测策略
that would get her votes even from unsuspecting 轻信的, 不加怀疑的 One Direction
fans. 3. susceptible [səˈseptəb(ə)l] 容易罹患的, 容易发生的, 容易出现的, 易感染的, 易感染体质的, 易感染族群的 easily influenced or affected by something. susceptible to: Police officers here are very susceptible to corruption. a. likely to suffer from a particular illness or condition, or to be affected by it more severely than others are. Susceptible livestock have been separated from the herd. susceptible to: Children are particularly susceptible to the disease. II. 容易受影响的. used for describing someone whose emotions are easy to influence. III. very formal able to experience something, or able to be treated in a particular way. susceptible of: The problem is not susceptible of so simple a solution. 4. suspicious 怀疑的 I. believing that someone has probably done something wrong. Colleagues became suspicious when he started acting strangely. a. feeling that someone or something cannot be trusted. suspicious of: People are often suspicious of strangers. b. showing that you believe someone has done something wrong or cannot be trusted. a suspicious glance/look. II. 可疑的. 让人怀疑的. making you believe that something is wrong, dangerous, or illegal. Customers noticed a suspicious package by the door. There's something a bit suspicious about this. suspicious circumstances: The brothers died in suspicious circumstances. I'll give you a hint. You measured the diameter of his suspicious mole可疑的肉瘤子 yesterday. The ACT Policing Bomb Response Team attended and did a check of the vehicle as a precaution locating nothing of a suspicious nature可疑物 was located.
比赛航班延误: "As you'll be aware, there's very strict curfew requirements into Sydney airport. Virgin Australia said the club was offered "a number of different solutions" including travelling on Thursday night's 'red-eye' overnight service, an offer some Fremantle officials took up (take up I. to start doing something regularly as a habit, job, or interest. I took up smoking when I was at school. Chris has taken up jogging. take up a post/position就职, 就位: The new surgeon will take up her post in May. II. to fill a particular amount of space or time. These files take up a lot of disk space. I'll try not to take up too much of your time. III. take up something to accept an offer or a challenge (=an offer to fight or compete) that someone has made to you. Schools are taking up the offer of cut-price computers. One of our greatest athletes has taken up a new challenge. IV. to reduce the length of a piece of clothing or some curtains. V. 继承. 接续. to continue to discuss or deal with an idea, problem, or suggestion. She fell silent, and her brother took up the story. Mrs Pankhurst took up the cause of women's rights. VI. take up arms formal to start a battle using weapons. Would you be willing to take up arms for this cause? VII. take up residence formal to start living somewhere. Mice have taken up residence under their floorboards. take someone up on something 接受 to accept an offer or invitation that someone has made. I've decided to take you up on that job offer. take up with I. [transitive] take up with someone informal to become friendly with someone, especially someone who could have a bad influence on you. I don't want you to take up with the wrong crowd. II. be taken up with something 充斥, 占据, 充满 to be busy doing, discussing, or thinking about something. The whole meeting was taken up with arguing about the budget. She was completely taken up with her own worries. ). The Dockers had their final hit-out ( Australian Rules An instance of hitting the ball towards a teammate after it has been bounced by the umpire or at a boundary throw-in. ) for the week at Fremantle Oval on Thursday morning, but the lengthy delay长时间的延误 still interferes with their plans. ANZ Stadium confirmed to AFL.com.au that Fremantle had been booked in for a 'field walk查看场地' between 10am and 12pm on Friday, where the players could familiarise themselves with the venue. Fremantle football operations manager Chris Bond said the flight drama was an inconvenience, but not a disaster. "These things happen. When there's technical difficulties with aircrafts, we're better off making sure safety comes first, which is what's happened," The Dockers always travel two days before a game interstate but it's now hoped the players can complete some light recovery work at the hotel on Friday night.
Sydney housing prices lock out 拒之门外 young people from property market: Mr Stevens has been attempting to jawbone ( 下颌骨 the bone that supports the lower part of your face and moves so that you can open and close your mouth. v. 游说. 试图说服. 不厌其烦的说. To talk persistently in persuasion of one or more people to cooperate. ) investment in the housing market down for some time, over concerns about the potential for a damaging correction down the track. Fair enough. But rising house prices are threatening Sydney's economy in a far more fundamental way: by locking 拒之门外 a generation of productive young people out of town. We are now at a point where prices are so high that most young people can't get a foothold无法插足. Sure, there's a lucky minority who can hit up the Bank of Mum for a hundred thousand dollars or two, but it is impossible for most to save an adequate deposit. With high rent prices forcing young people to jettison ( jettison [ˈdʒetɪs(ə)n] I. to get rid of something that is not useful or successful. We may have to jettison some parts of the business. II. 丢弃, 甩下. to throw goods, equipment, or fuel from a ship or plane in order to make it lighter and less likely to sink or crash. A storm forced them to jettison most of the cargo. ) a higher and higher percentage of their weekly income the problem becomes intractable( [ɪnˈtræktəb(ə)l] I. formal 难以解决的, 无解的. very difficult or impossible to deal with. the intractable problem of prison over-crowding. II. refusing to be persuaded, or refusing to deal in a friendly way with someone. ). It now takes more than nine times the average salary to buy a house in Sydney. Just a single generation ago it took three. Homes are cheaper on the outskirts of town, of course. But if the young people we are relying on to keep the economy ticking over ( I. 空转. if a car engine is ticking over, it is operating but the car is not moving. to idle (to run at a slow speed, or out of gear). II. informal to operate steadily but not very well. He just keeps things ticking over at the garage whilst the boss is on holiday. III. 平稳运行. 稳定运转. 正常运转. (idiomatic, of, e.g. a process or a business) To run smoothly and without problems. While the boss was on holiday, the deputy made sure things were ticking over in the firm. ) in coming decades can't afford a home within 50 kilometres of the city's centre, we are looking at serious long-term problems我们就有大麻烦了( look at I. 审视, 考虑, 评估. look at something to think about a situation or subject carefully, especially in order to make a decision. We're looking carefully at all the options. II. 看一下. look at something to read something quickly so that you can give an opinion on it. Would you like me to look at your essay before you hand it in? III. look at someone/something if an expert looks at someone or something, they examine them and decide what to do. I'd like a skin specialist to look at that rash of yours. IV. [always in imperative] spoken used for giving an example that proves that what you are saying is true Look at Helen 看看...就知道了. She's much happier now she's changed jobs. V. look at that spoken used for telling someone to look at something because it is surprising, unusual etc. Look at that! Someone's taken my parking space! VI. look at you spoken. a. used for telling someone that you are not impressed by them, especially in reply to a comment that they have made about you or your behaviour. Look at you! It's eleven o'clock and you're still in bed. b. used for telling someone that you are surprised or impressed by them. Look at you, all dressed up in a suit! VII. not look twice at 不会看第二眼的 used for saying that you are not at all interested in someone or something. I wouldn't look twice at someone like him. VIII. not much to look at 相貌平凡, 长相平凡, 看起来不起眼的, 看起来平常, 看上去不起眼的, 貌不惊人, 其貌不扬的, 看上去一般. informal not very attractive. He's not much to look at, but he has a great personality. Doesn't look like much, but looks are deceptive. She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts. "Used
to keep a bitch in my stable name of McCready," Cheese said eventually.
"Occasional trade, not regular. Didn't look like much, but you gave her
the right party favor, that girl could go." She didn't look like much 其貌不扬, 长相一般 = Her looks weren't up to much = She wasn't much to look at. ). We're going down the path of 重蹈覆辙, 走老路 the United States, where the suburbs are quickly becoming the new slums贫民窟. Across the globe, the beating heart of productivity in developed nations is positioning itself in the middle of major modern cities. Quality jobs好工作 are concentrating in tight, urban areas. It is simply not practical to have Sydney's young people spending 20 hours a week commuting from an apartment on the edge of suburbia. That's 20 hours they could be networking and exchanging ideas - the things that create innovation and growth in 21st century cities. And let's not forget those who aren't looking at six-figure salaries any time soon. Young hospitality workers, nurses, teachers, firefighters, cleaners, drivers - the young people who make a city work保持城市正常运转 cannot currently live anywhere near where the demand for their services are. Our city needs diversity to function. Our housing discussion needs to recognise sky-high prices are not just hurting young people - they are hurting Sydney's future prosperity. Young people are pushed into competition with older generations that see housing not as a place to live, but as a convenient investment. Mr Stevens can try to talk down house prices, but really what Sydney desperately needs is a broader range of housing options in key areas, including low-income housing, homelessness services and dense, apartment-style living in the inner city. The pushback to this( I. 阻力. resistance to a change that has been introduced. "We've had almost no pushback. Parents have been very happy," said the headteacher. One ray of hope that I see is recent pushbacks from shareholders on excessive pay at the top. II. a procedure in which an aircraft is pushed back from a gate by a special vehicle.), of course, will come from existing property owners. Yet it shouldn't. Every homeowner wants their place to increase in value增值. And creating more competing property nearby reduces their chokehold 扼住咽喉 on supply. But owners should nevertheless无论如何, 不管怎样 support change. Unless you're a major property investor or a billionaire developer, your time horizon on your home's value is long. While you want your house to increase in value, you want that growth to occur sustainably. But if we don't plan to keep our city's economy humming, the explosive boom in prices we've seen over the past couple of years will prove to be nothing more than a mirage一场空, 海市蜃楼 - a bubble. For property prices to be robust over the long term we need the city to be getting its grind on. We need real wealth being generated through productive effort. That requires young people living close to where they work. It's not good enough for older property owners to just keep borrowing, re-mortgaging, and forcing the price of existing property up higher and higher. Sydney's heart is a vital and growing part of our national economy. It generates as much wealth as the entire mining sector. If we want our city to keep singing into 高歌猛进 the future, we need to ensure new voices can make it in.
