用法学习: 1. maintain [meɪnˈteɪn] I. to make something stay the same. Maintaining your current weight through exercise and healthy eating is important. It's sometimes hard to maintain the right balance between your work and your home life. maintain stability维护安定/continuity保持持续性/the status quo维持现状: the problem of maintaining social stability in a period of great economic change. a. to continue to communicate with someone and not allow a relationship to end. maintain contact/relations/links: Though now in government, he has maintained close contact with his former colleagues in the oil industry. b. to make sure that something stays at the same level, rate, or standard. Some schools experienced difficulty in maintaining staffing levels. Regular inspections ensure that high safety standards are maintained. II. to make regular repairs to a building, road, vehicle etc so that it stays in good condition. a lovingly maintained houseboat. III. to continue to say that something is true, even if other people do not believe you. The missile system, Bush maintains, will protect the US against so-called rogue states. maintain (that): The company still maintains that the drug is safe. maintain your innocence 坚持自己是无辜的: She maintained her innocence throughout the trial. IV. to provide someone with the money and other things that they need in order to live. He was barely earning enough to maintain himself. a high profile a position or reputation that gets you a lot of attention. The company currently enjoys a high profile with its new line of mobile phones. maintain/adopt a high profile: Police maintain a high profile on the roads at all times. keep/maintain a low profile to try to stop people from noticing you. He was advised to keep a low profile in court. maintenance [ˈmeɪntənəns] I. work that is done to keep something such as a building, machine, or piece of equipment repaired and in good condition. regular/routine/preventive maintenance the aircraft maintenance crew. II. the process of continuing something or keeping it in existence. maintenance of 维护世界和平: the maintenance of international peace and security. III. 抚养费. money that you pay to your ex-wife or ex-husband to help her or him and your children after you are divorced. high-maintenance used for describing someone or something that always needs a lot of help or attention.
John 14 - Jesus Comforts His Disciples: 1"Do not let
your hearts be troubled. You believe in God ; believe also in me. 2My
Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told
you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3And if I go and
prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me
that you also may be where I am. 4You know the way to the place where I
am going." Jesus the Way to the Father: 5 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?" 6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well.
From now on, you do know him and have seen him." 8 Philip said, "Lord,
show us the Father and that will be enough for us." 9 Jesus answered:
"Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long
time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say,
'Show us the Father'? 10 Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and
that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority.
Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me;
or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12 Very
truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been
doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am
going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so
that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for
anything in my name, and I will do it.
Bachelor spokesperson confirms: The waterside mansion passed off as 装作是, 假装是 Lisa's was just a rental: She doesn't even live there! She called it 'my home' but The Bachelor's Lisa rented lavish waterside mansion and pretended to 向...假装 Blake Garvey it was hers: She constantly referred to it as 'my home' and her 'parent's house' but it turns out that Lisa Hyde or her family don't own or live in the lavish waterfront mansion that was shown on The Bachelor Australia last Thursday. The stunning four bedroom, four bathroom home, nestled in one of the finest locations in Noosa, Queensland, was shown when Blake Garvey went to meet the final four's families. Lisa and Blake romantically kayaked up the river to the house and then ran indoors to meet her parents and her sister. 'Welcome to my home, I cant wait for you to meet my parents,' she told him as they walked up the jetty. Not my humble abode 蜗居, 居所(abode [əˈbəud] the place where you live. of no fixed abode 居无定所 legal British without a permanent home. right of abode 居住权 official permission to live in a country.): Although she said it was hers, it is in fact a rented house that is listed on R&W's Noosa Holidays website for a whopping $1,050 a night. 'The property was rented on Lisa's parent's behalf. 'Their current family home in Noosa was not able to be used for production purposes,' the statement continued. Just like Blake, social media was awash with shock over the revelations that Lisa lived in the mansion. But just like Blake, the viewers believed the house belonged to her. 'Nerve wracking end to the Bachelor last night - I am thinking Lisa's parents house swung改变主意, 改变决定, 影响决定(=sway) Blakes decision,' Craig Grenfell tweeted on Thursday. Cribs(crib/crib sheet 小抄, 小抄纸, 纸条, 作弊纸条 [countable] informal a sheet of paper or piece of work containing information that a student uses for cheating in an examination. crib I. [countable] British a model of the wooden box that Jesus Christ was born in, according to the Bible. Some Christians have these in their churches and houses at Christmas. II. a wooden container for an animal's food. crib/cot death the sudden death of a young baby while he or she is sleeping, with no obvious cause.): Just like Blake, social media was awash with shock over the revelations that Lisa lived in the stunning mansion. 'Marry Lisa and you'll be set for life ( set for life 后半辈子有依靠, 今生无忧, 衣食无忧, 吃穿不愁 Possessing sufficient resources, especially financial, to last a lifetime. prepared to exist for the rest of one's life; having adequate supplies for the rest of one's life. As soon as I win the lottery, I will be set for life. I'll never have to work again! ) Blake. Look at that house in Noosa! #ahhhhmazing,' Phoebe Powell commented. And the stunning house that comes complete with a sun drenched terrace and a 25 metre pool may have swayed (=swing 影响决定) the former topless waiter's final decision as in the end it was Jessica who was given the boot. Sam, Lisa and Louise are the final three in the running to win the man of their dreams.
飞机乘客的恶心行为: Fancy sitting next to them? Former cabin attendant's 'flight shaming' website inundated with snaps of weird passenger behaviour in the skies: From boarding without socks to downing a drink bare-chested, these images show some of the most disgusting airline passengers to have recently taken to the skies. The photos, captured by outraged flyers from across the world, were posted on former flight attendant Shawn Kathleen's now-famous Passenger Shaming website. They include a middle-aged man napping with his top off, a woman propping up her feet 翘脚, 翘腿 against a wall and another donning a pair of very revealing denim shorts. Garish(garish [ˈɡeərɪʃ] 俗艳的, 颜色鲜艳的 very bright and colourful in an ugly way. garish colours/pictures/signs.): In some images, only a small part of the accused flyer's body is on show - but it is enough to prompt their fellow flier into taking a snap. These include this image of a female passenger's garishly painted nails. Others feature a man boarding a plane barefoot, a passenger performing press-ups on the floor and a woman canoodling ( canoodle [kəˈnu:d(ə)l] 又抱又亲 to hold and kiss another person in a romantic way. ) her partner while straddling 骑着, 跨坐 him. Ms Kathleen, who uses a fake name, set up Passenger Shaming in January 2013 to highlight some of the less than desirable - and often, 'disrespectful' - habits of flyers. Unsightly让人看不下去的, 煞风景的: A couple are caught canoodling during a flight (left) while a woman is snapped in tiny shorts. Images to have been previously uploaded include people changing children's nappies on tray tables, before remarkably leaving them on the floor or in the back seat pocket when they disembark下飞机. They also include people resting their feet near other flyers' heads, clipping their finger and toenails, eating smelly food and leaving a wake of destruction behind them. 'Sometimes things happen in a dark cabin that's attempted under a blanket,' Ms Kathleen told Yahoo! earlier this month, admitting that she would usually quickly put a stop to that sort of behavior when she was a flight attendant.
