用法学习: 1. 女子烧国旗被捕: "There's no information to suggest any motive and why it has occurred. "I'm not going to go into the political climate政治气候 ( The aggregate mood or opinions of a population about current political issues that affect said population in some way. The political climate has warmed up to the plan. Usage notes: The term is generally used in politics to refer to public opinion on certain issues. It has connotations of a public consensus on said issues, but using it as such can be highly relative depending upon the point of view of the user. wiki: The political climate is the aggregate集体的, current mood and opinions of a populace about political issues that also currently affect that population. It is generally used to describe a state of change in mood and opinions rather than a state of equilibrium ( [ˌi:kwɪˈlɪbriəm] I. a situation in which there is a balance between different forces or aspects. A new arms race in the region would upset the delicate equilibrium 微妙的平衡 between the opposing factions. in equilibrium: a situation in which supply and demand are in equilibrium. II. a calm mental state in which you are in control of your feelings. He tried hard to maintain his equilibrium. III. physics 物理学上的"平衡" a state in which an object is not moving in any way, or is moving at the same rate all the time, because there is a balance between any forces affecting it. ). While the concept of a political climate has been used historically to describe both politics and public reactions to political actions in various forms, the naming of the concept by the addition of the modifier "political" to the base "climate" has been fairly recent. Public opinion is also widely used incorrectly as a synonym for political climate. As for judging what the climate is at any given time, there is no way to know an entire country's views on certain subjects. So, polls are used to estimate what the political climate "feels" like on a regular basis. However, this only works to some degree as polls cannot involve the entire population at once.) – I'm here as a police officer to deal with a crime." 澳元回升: "The economic situation in Australia remains moribund ( moribund [ˈmorɪbʌnd] no longer effective and not likely to continue for much longer. a moribund economy/industry. ) as demand from China has clearly slowed. But the overall economy 整体经济形势 is not contracting紧缩 and that dynamic is likely to keep the Reserve Bank of Australia in a neutral policy stance for quite some time." 2. It's hard to hold a conversation很难聊 with her. To make conversation means to start a conversation with someone with no other aim than to talk and break the silence. To have a conversation, and to hold a conversation, both mean to converse. "hold a conversation" implies something like keeping up a conversation, holding one's own, while "conduct a conversation" implies leading the conversation and/or initiating it, overseeing it, etc. hold your own 不掉份, 不输份 to be as successful as other people or things in a situation. to prove that you or something is as good as others. She can hold her own in any debate on religion. Our cotton shirts can hold their own against shirts costing $40 or more. Usage notes: often said about a competitive situation. She can hold her own in any debate on religion. (often + against ) The French franc held its own against the D-mark. 3. broad-spectrum 广谱 n. (Pharmacology) (modifier) 广域的. effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms. Widely applicable or effective: a broad-spectrum antibiotic. The term broad-spectrum antibiotic refers to an antibiotic that acts against a wide range of disease-causing bacteria. A broad-spectrum antibiotic acts against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, in contrast to a narrow-spectrum antibiotic, which is effective against specific families of bacteria. An example of a commonly used broad-spectrum antibiotic is ampicillin. 4. 妈妈跟拍翘课女儿: When Wyoming mum Jeannie Crutchfield heard that her 14-year-old daughter Ricki Durant had been cutting classes(ditch class) she came up with a unique punishment, KTWO reports. "You thought it was cute to ditch with your friends," Ms Crutchfield says as she stalks her daughter around her school. "Now let's see how cute you think it is to hang out with mom during class." Ricki said she was embarrassed by her mother's antics古怪行径, 荒唐行径 but said she realises that she did it because she cares about her.
Inoculation VS Vaccination VS Immunization预防比较: Inoculation接种 is a method of purposefully infecting a person with an
organism in a controlled manner so as to minimise the severity of the
infection and also to induce immunity against further infection.
Vaccination防疫 is the process of administering weakened or dead pathogens
to a healthy person, with the intent of conferring immunity against a
targeted form of a related disease agent.
Immunization is the process by which an individual is exposed to an
agent that is designed to fortify加固, 增强, 加强 his or her immune system against that
agent.
Immunization免疫 is the same as inoculation and vaccination in that
inoculation and vaccination use a viable infecting agent like
immunization does. Immunization is just the general term for vaccination
and such things as what you gain from these process. Between
inoculation and vaccination, the process of administering the organism
gives the difference. Vaccination emphasized the the therapeutic nature of the medical procedure and is limited to immunization. Inoculation emphasized the physical act and can be of beneficial or harmful substances. Inoculation can apply to non-human things. So one can inoculate the agar gel in a Petri dish.
悉尼恐怖主义分子: She said the accusations that her son had plotted to behead an Australian citizen and drape their body in the black ISIL flag were hard to take in很难接受, 难以相信. Ms Baryalei has lived in Sydney since she arrived in Australia as a refugee from Afghanistan, fleeing the kind of sectarian ( sectarian [sekˈteəriən] I. caused by disagreements among people from different religious groups. sectarian violence/killing/hatred etc 宗教屠杀: Sectarian violence poses a real threat to the stability of the country. a. involving or intended to help only one religious group. a sectarian agenda. ) violence her son is now perpetuating( perpetuate [pə(r)ˈpetʃueɪt] to make something such as a situation or process continue, especially one that is wrong, unfair, or dangerous. Current policy only serves to perpetuate the old class divisions过去的阶级分化.). 台湾高速路上的撞击: A passive aggressive road rage(Passive-aggressive behavior is the indirect expression of hostility, such as through procrastination, sarcasm冷嘲热讽, stubbornness, sullenness, or deliberate or repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is (often explicitly) responsible.) incident where two cars attempt to squeeze into the same lane on a Taiwan highway has been caught on camera.: A motorist in Taiwan desperate to change lanes at any cost has risked scratching up 刮坏 their Audi sports car by getting into an unflinching ( flinch 退缩了一下, 打退堂鼓 to make a sudden small movement because you are afraid, surprised, or in pain. Pamela flinched each time he yelled at her. flinch from (doing) something [usually in negatives] to avoid dealing with a difficult responsibility or decision. We won't flinch from making tough decisions. not flinch if someone does not flinch, they remain calm despite danger or shock. She was used to people shouting at her, and didn't flinch. unflinching [ʌnˈflɪntʃɪŋ] 互不相让的 not changing or stopping, despite difficulties Lisa looked back at him unflinchingly. ) game of chicken ( The game of chicken 斗鸡, 斗个你死我活, 斗个鱼死网破, 各不相让, also known as the hawk-dove game or snowdrift game, is an influential model of conflict for two players in game theory. The principle of the game is that while each player prefers not to yield to the other, the worst possible outcome occurs when both players do not yield. The name "chicken" has its origins in a game in which two drivers drive towards each other on a collision course: one must swerve( swerve 猛打方向盘 if something such as a vehicle swerves, or if you swerve it, it changes direction suddenly in order to avoid someone or something. He swerved suddenly, narrowly missing a cyclist.), or both may die in the crash, but if one driver swerves and the other does not, the one who swerved will be called a "chicken," meaning a coward; this terminology is most prevalent in political science and economics. The name "Hawk-Dove" refers to a situation in which there is a competition for a shared resource and the contestants can choose either conciliation or conflict; this terminology is most commonly used in biology and evolutionary game theory. From a game-theoretic point of view, "chicken" and "hawk-dove" are identical; the different names stem from parallel development of the basic principles in different research areas. The game has also been used to describe the mutual assured destruction of nuclear warfare, especially the sort of brinkmanship ( = brinksmanship [ˈbrɪŋksmənˌʃɪp] the act of deliberately taking risks and making a situation as bad as it can be in order to force a particular result. brink the brink the point in time when something very bad or very good is about to happen. on the brink of (doing) something: She believed she was on the brink of discovering a cure for cancer. bring someone to the brink of something: The crisis brought the two nations to the brink of war. back from the brink of something: A late goal pulled the team back from the brink of defeat. tip someone over the edge/brink 逼到崩溃边缘 to make someone feel so unhappy that they cannot deal with their life or a situation any longer. Losing the business was what finally tipped him over the edge. tip someone the wink 递眼色, 使眼色 British informal to give someone secret information. hover on the brink/edge/verge of something to be very close to doing or experiencing something, especially something unpleasant. Annabel was hovering on the brink of tears. teetering on the brink/edge (of something) 游走在边缘 in a situation in which something bad is very likely to happen. The organization is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.) involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis.) with a rival driver. Video of the incident posted filmed by a car travelling behind both vehicles shows the Audi driver coming from the left side of a multi-lane highway and pushing his way into a lane on the right, forcing a van to edge over挤过去(edge out to beat someone in something such as a competition or election by a small amount. Eileen Petersen edged out Victor Frazer by 27 votes. have the edge on/over somebody/something 有优势 to be slightly better than someone or something else He's got the edge over other teachers because he's so much more experienced. The new Renault has the edge on other similar models - it's larger and cheaper.). But the stubborn van driver only moves aside enough to avoid contact with the white sports car and refuses to give up the lane. As the vehicles crawl along the van slowly moves back towards the centre of the lane and forces the Audi sideways逼的车向一边让开. However, once the van appears to have won the battle and forced the Audi out of the lane its driver appears to snap勃然大怒. The Audi driver turns sharply into the van and forces it to move quickly to the right to avoid a collision. Eventually both drivers tire of the game and the Audi driver rams into 撞过去 the van, forcing it across the lane and onto the shoulder. 印度sore loser: An Indian boxer has caused a stir at the Asian Games after refusing to accept her bronze medal and instead placing it around the neck of the South Korean fighter who beat her. The drama unfolded after India's Sarita Devi was controversially defeated by South Korea's Park Ji-na in their semi-final of the 60kg division on Tuesday. In what appeared to be a well orchestrated move, Devi was awarded the bronze but as the Games official moved away from the dais she stepped off and placed it around the neck of silver medalist Ji-na's neck and embraced her rival. Devi's actions earned her a rebuke from the International Boxing Association, which opened a disciplinary case against her. "The whole incident looked like a well planned scenario by her and her team, and it is regretful 让人遗憾的 to watch a boxer refuse the medal regardless of what happened in the competition," AIBA technical delegate David Francis said in a statement. Devi's highly contentious defeat to Ji-Na on Tuesday, after the Indian dominated the semi-final, caused chaotic scenes with her husband scuffling with security and launching an expletives脏话-laden [ɪkˈspli:tɪv] tirade [taɪˈreɪd] 谩骂(a long angry speech criticizing someone or something.). Before the medal presentation颁奖, Devi burst into tears as she walked to the podium with her arms folded and her head down. As she was presented with the bronze a still sobbing and wailing Devi held up her hands and said she would not accept it. Twice officials tried to put it round her neck but she would not comply. After the other medals had been awarded, Devi stepped off the podium, took the bronze from the official and went to shake silver medallist Park's hand. Devi then put the bronze round the bemused fighter's neck before breaking into a smile and turning to wave to Indian supporters in the crowd. "I said, 'This is for you and all Korea, because you only deserve a bronze,'" Devi told AFP afterwards. "Once I put the medal round her neck I felt a great relief. I didn't want the medal. I'm happy now. "It was a protest for all the sportsmen and women of the world against injustice in sport. There should be fair play in sport." A bewildered Park said she was confused and didn't know what was happening. "She told me something, but I couldn't understand," Park told AFP. "Devi hung her medal on me. I tried to give the medal back to her, but she didn't want it. "I wasn't sure what to do, so someone told me to leave it on the podium颁奖台." A spokesman told AFP that Incheon Asian Games Organising Committee members present had been "offended" by Devi's gesture and had to send a volunteer to retrieve the abandoned medal. "If she wanted to refuse the medal she should have not come to the ceremony," he said. Ex-Apple managers dish the dirt on work habits: Apple employees are expected to be on call 24 hours a day and, for some, would only have time to take toilet breaks while their manager watched The Sopranos, according to two former company managers. In a revealing 爆料的 podcast, former internet technologies director Don Melton and former director of iOS apps Nitin Ganatra talk about the working conditions during their time at the tech giant. Mr Melton, who retired from the tech giant in February 2012, recalled the strenuous working hours all Apple employees were required meet, including working every Sunday night. He said the reason for the weekend evening work was because it was the company's "exec meeting" every Monday. "So you had your phone out there, you were sitting in front of your computer, it didn't matter if your favorite show was on," he said in the September 26 podcast, transcribed ( transcribe [trænˈskraɪb] to write, type, or record something exactly as it was said. I was transcribing their testimony for the court records.) by iOS developer Ole Begemann on Tuesday. "This was especially worse after The Sopranos ended because for a while there, you could count on the hour that The Sopranos was on that [former Apple senior vice president of iOS Software Scott Forstall] wouldn't bug you 'cause he was watching The Sopranos. And that was your reprieve(reprieve [rɪˈpri:v] 缓期执行 I. a decision to stop or delay something bad that was going to happen. II. an official decision not to kill someone who was going to be killed as a punishment.). "You could go to the bathroom, you could have a conversation with your family, you know, whatever." However he said given Mr Forstall, who departed Apple in October 2012, was a night-owl [aul], all those who reported to him were expected to be on call whenever he needed. "He was not a morning guy at all," Mr Melton recalled. "You were basically on until, like, 2 o'clock in the morning. How many times do you feel you got emails from him at 1:30 or 2:00?" Mr Ganatra then recalled how his inbox used to start filling up with requests from Mr Forstall "at about 11am on Sunday". If Mr Forstall's emails flooded in after that time, "he must be doing something fun today", he said. As well as dishing the dirt on their senior managers, the pair set the record straight about CEO Tim Cook and his work ethic comparisons to late Apple boss Steve Jobs. "When you hear the so-called apocryphal (apocryphal [əˈpokrəf(ə)l] 似是而非, 真假难辨的 probably not true, but believed by a lot of people to be true. ) stories about Tim Cook coming to work in the wee hours and staying late, it's not just some PR person telling you stories to make you think that Apple executives work really hard like that," Mr Melton said. "They really do that. I mean, these people are nuts." He said former senior vice president of software engineering Bertrand Serlet was known for being at work so often there was no way of telling "what time of the day or night you would get email from that man". Mr Ganatra added: "I mean, he didn't really make it a secret, either, that I don't think he slept more than three or four hours a night, right?" To which Mr Melton agreed: "No. And neither did Steve."
