用法学习: 1. 莱斯去了LA: In an emotional Instagram post on Friday, the athlete explained she is taking each day as it comes(take something as it comes 见招拆招, 兵来将挡, 水来土掩, 平静以对 to deal with something as it happens and not plan for it At my age you take every day as it comes. take things as they come To accept and deal with events as they occur, with a composed state of mind.) and not immediately rushing into anything. 警察当街打板球: The first he smashes back down towards the bowler for one, and the second he whips away through square leg, humiliating the fielders with exquisite timing. No need to run for that - that is four on any street in the country. But the intrepid 英勇无畏的, 不畏艰险的, 不怕困难的 ( [ɪnˈtrepɪd] not afraid to do dangerous things. putrid [ˈpju:trɪd] I. formal decaying and smelling very bad. II. informal very unpleasant. a putrid yellow colour. ) paceman prevails on the very next ball, tempting the batsman in blue into the big shot, and it's six and out. 2. 欢乐国庆日: Shunning the pub and cold beers for their backyard and a sack of goon( = goonie ),
one group of friends stood around their Hills Hoist and partook in a
game of 'goon of fortune'. These true blue Aussies spun a sack of goon on their clothes line for a bit of fun. Explaining the
drinking game on photo sharing site Imgur, one commenter wrote: 'Strap a
goon (wine) sack onto the spinning clothes line. Spin. Whoever it lands
on sculls from the sack for a predetermined 事先定好的 amount of time.' One fan of
the photo added: 'I also like how during the drinking game you also
have a beer while you're waiting for your turn.' Australia's national day was ruined by grey skies and rain across some parts of the country including Toowoomba in Queensland. From a New Zealand flag accidentally hung on the ceiling in a Woolies store to the bowls club who announced Australia Day was 'postponed due to Pommie weather,' people have been posting the funniest things they spotted across the country on social media. On a dusty bush track, a puddle shaped like the Australian flag was allegedly spotted on Australia Day. One shopper questioned a navy tank top they found which had 'Made In Straya' adorned on it([əˈdɔ:(r)n] to decorate something. Several original paintings adorn the walls.) in white writing. Inside the singlet the shopper supposedly found a label which read 'made in China'. Another Aussie found a plastic drink's tumbler ( tumbler I. a drinking glass without a handle or stem. a. the amount of drink that a tumbler can contain. a flat-bottomed beverage container for drinking made of plastic, glass, etc. ) adorned with the Australian flag which was also 'Made in China'. Meanwhile, near Geelong in Victoria, four friends claim up to ten police officers tried to crack down on their fun after they pitched up 安营扎寨 by the side of the road with a 'You honk! We drink!' sign. Mitch Pentelow posted a picture of his friends' antics on Facebook, showing them dressed in the Australian flag and holding cans of Jim Beam Bourbon and Cola by the side of Portarlington Highway with their homemade sign. 3. 美国女人和自己女儿的男友: Fereshta Angel Williams, 38, is charged with nine felony counts, including oral copulation( to have sex ) and having sex with a minor more than three years younger. Williams, who was arrested on January 5 this year at a 24-hour gym in Escondido, is also up on a misdemeanour charge of trying to dissuade a witness. The age of consent in Californian is 18, and the state's statutory rape laws carry an extra provision prohibiting sex with a minor more than three years' the offender's junior. "Anytime that a 38 year-old has an inappropriate sexual relationship with a minor, it's obviously going to get the attention of the police, and it's going to land you in jail," Lieutenant Michael Kearney, of the Escondido police, told the media. "It wouldn't be uncommon for her to have to register as a sex offender if she is convicted." 4. 假日客流: Holidaymakers driving from the south coast back to Sydney have been told to tack at least an extra hour onto their journey( tack something onto something and tack something on to add something onto something. The waiter kept tacking charges onto my bill. He tacked on charge after charge. to add something that is extra or does not belong When we got the bill there was an extra 18% tacked on as a service charge. You should ask that question at the meeting and not tack it on to an e-mail. tack I. [transitive] to fix something somewhere with a small nail. The wooden strips have to be tacked down. a. to pin something such as a piece of paper on a wall or board etc. She tacked up the photograph on the bulletin board. II. [transitive] British to stitch pieces of cloth together with long loose stitches, usually before you stitch the cloth more carefully. III. [intransitive] if a boat tacks, it turns so that the wind is blowing on the other side of its sails. a thumbtack大头钉, 图钉. ). Motorists can expect a queue of at least six kilometres as they approach Gerringong and a five-kilometre crawl before they get down the main street of Berry. Meanwhile, northbound lanes on the Princes Highway approaching Kiama have reopened after a fluid spill on Monday morning, but motorists continue to experience lengthy delays. 5. 巴格达飞机被枪击: The nearest fighting to Baghdad's airport is on the western outskirts of
Abu Ghraib, more than 10km (6 miles) away. Guns are widely available in
Iraq and celebratory 庆祝性的 gunfire鸣枪 into the air is not uncommon. 个人设计Iphone7: Personally,
I'm not mad keen on some of Farahi's subdued ( subdue I. 制服. 控制住. to hold someone and make them stop behaving in an uncontrolled or violent way. It took three police officers to subdue him. II. formal to defeat a place or a group of people, and to take control of them. By 47 ad, the Romans had finally subdued the rebels. III. formal 压抑住. to control an emotion that you feel. She subdued the urge to run after him.) color choices, but it's
still a tantalizing ( tantalize [ˈtæntəlaɪz] 只许看不许摸, 只看不给, 解眼馋, 可远观不可亵玩焉的, 让人心痒痒的, 戏谑的teasing. 让人心痒难耐的 to make someone feel excited by showing or offering them something that they want, often with no intention of giving it to them. to tease (someone) by offering something desirable but keeping it out of reach. (transitive) to bait (someone) by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied. ) glimpse at what we could have to look forward to
next year. 沙特阿拉伯女人亮色: President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama
participate in a delegation receiving line 欢迎队伍 with the new Saudi Arabian
King, Salman bin Abdul Aziz, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Jan. 27,
2015. The president and first lady have come to express their
condolences on the death of the late Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin
Abdulaziz al-Saud. As
a delegation of dozens of Saudi officials — all men — greeted the
Obamas in Riyadh, some shook hands with Mrs. Obama. Others avoided a
handshake but acknowledged the first lady with a nod as they passed by. Saudi
Arabia imposes many restrictions on women on the strict interpretation
of Islamic Shariah (shah-REE'-yuh) law known as Wahhabism. Genders are
strictly segregated. Women are banned from driving, although there have
been campaigns in recent years to lift that ban. Guardianship laws also
require women to get permission from a male relative to travel, get
married, enroll in higher education or undergo certain surgical
procedures. 6. Give somebody an inch and they'll take a mile 得寸进尺, 得陇望蜀. something that you say which means that if you allow someone to behave badly at all, they will start to behave very badly. I'm always wary about making concessions to these people. Give them an inch and they'll take a mile. said about someone who has been given a small amount of power or freedom to do something, and then has tried to get a lot more. The camel's nose is a metaphor for a situation where the permitting of a small, seemingly innocuous act will open the door for larger, clearly undesirable actions. Foot in the door - a persuasion technique说服技巧(get one's foot in the door Fig. to complete the first step in a process. (Alludes to people selling things from door-to-door and blocking the door with a foot so it cannot be closed on them.) I think I could get the job if I could only get my foot in the door. It pays to get your foot in the door. Try to get an appointment with the boss. Foot-in-the-door (FITD) technique is a compliance tactic that involves getting a person to agree to a large request by first setting them up by having that person agree to a modest request. The foot-in-the-door technique succeeds owing to a basic human reality that social scientists call "successive approximations逐步逼近". Essentially, the more a subject goes along with small requests or commitments, the more likely that subject is to continue in a desired direction of attitude or behavioral change and feel obligated to go along with larger requests.). Slippery slope - an argument, sometimes fallacious. "The thin end of the wedge( the start of a harmful development There are those who see the closure of the hospital as the thin end of the wedge. )". Domino effect. For Want of a Nail("For Want of a Nail" is a proverbial rhyme showing that small actions can result in large consequences.) - the claim that large consequences may follow from inattention to small details. Boiling frog.
燃油附加费取消, 机票不降价: The idea of a fuel surcharge is pretty simple: When the cost of fuel is
abnormally high, instead of simply raising prices, a special, supposedly
temporary fee is passed along to customers. When fuel costs retreat
back to "normal" levels, logic dictates that the surcharge would
disappear. It's this kind of wholly logical thinking that has had airline travelers
up in arms over the last several months, as the price of gasoline and
rocket fuel has declined substantially, yet fuel surcharges remain and
airfares are still extraordinarily high. Consumer advocacy groups
Travelers United and FlyersRights.org recently sent letters to airline
CEOs voicing their outrage and demanding that airfares be lowered "in
light of the 50% reduction in jet fuel prices since June, 2014." In other words, the carriers are jacking up flight prices to compensate 弥补 for the "removal" of fuel surcharges. They're giving travelers a price break with one hand while taking more money away from customers with the other. The net result
is that passengers are paying pretty much the same for the cost of
transportation before the changes were announced. The only thing that's
changed is how the airlines break down the flight costs. To airline passengers, who want their total out-of-pocket costs to drop, and who couldn't care less about how the airlines categorize each component of a flight's price, these "changes" mean that nothing at all has really changed. The removal of these hated, astronomically 天文数字一样的 expensive fees is having little to no impact on the actual cost of airfare paid by travelers. For the most part, the airlines are simply incorporating fuel charges into base airfare prices, and the amount paid out of pocket by passengers will remain stubbornly high. 另一文章:
Passengers hoping for cheaper tickets will be disappointed as carriers
are likely to bump up fares to maintain margins. Aviation experts say
other airlines are likely to follow suit, because any drop in ticket
prices would erode 侵蚀 profit margins which, globally, are as low as $6 a
passenger. Last year in Southeast Asia, airlines faced an unsustainable
situation with low fares and high fuel prices. Fuel costs may have come
down but fares remain low. Ticket prices need to be higher for airlines
to make money. Cheaper oil could result in airline profits increasing by
$5 billion to $25 billion this year, but profit per passenger will rise
by just $1 to $7, showed estimates from the International Air Transport
Association, because of intense competition. "Most people would expect
the cost of fuel to be included in the base price of a ticket. Stripping
out part of the fuel cost and calling it a surcharge was little more
than a communications ploy花招 during the discounting airfare war," Choice
Australia said. Joyce will do the same(following virgin to put surcharge into base price), but at his own pace, which
probably explains why in his public statement yesterday he was quick to
deflect any thought ( deflect I. [transitive] 转移, 移除. to direct criticism, attention, or blame away from yourself towards someone else. The company was criticized for trying to deflect the blame for the accident. deflect something from something: It was designed to deflect attention from domestic political problems. II. [transitive] to make someone change their plans or stop what they are doing. deflect someone from (doing) something: Violence will not deflect us from seeking a peaceful political settlement to the problems. III. [intransitive/transitive] if something deflects, or if it is deflected, it starts to move in a different direction, usually because it has hit something. His long range shot was deflected by the goalkeeper. ) of price gouging in the industry. When everything is running in his direction the last thing Joyce needs is to have the ACCC peeking over his shoulder. In
his statement yesterday, he noted: "If you look at the trends in global
aviation over the past decade, costs and competition have been
increasing while fares and airline margins have been falling." He added:
"Even now, yields 收益 remain significantly below pre-GFC levels and like
the rest of the industry our strategy is to keep strengthening them.
Overall, the Qantas boss arguably lost any consumer goodwill from his
frequent flyer cuts by overemphasising the defensive aspects of what was
in fact a positive consumer move. Franklin's Balanced Equity has been a
net buyer of the stock in recent weeks and now owns around 6.1 per cent
of the stock. The changes may be more cosmetic than meaningful([kozˈmetɪk] I. showing disapproval 不伤筋动骨的. 皮毛的. 表面上的. cosmetic changes only affect the appearance of something instead of its basic structure. Alterations to the original building have been largely cosmetic. II. relating to the improvement of someone's appearance. Several nuts produce oils suitable for cosmetic use. the cosmetic industry)
but the bottom line is consumers are being treated to at least talk of
price competition. At least two consumer groups are crying foul(cry foul 大呼冤枉 Protest strongly about a real or imagined wrong or injustice: deprived of the crushing victory it was confidently expecting, the party cried foul.).
New York City Is Spared Worst Effects of Snowstorm: The winter storm, predicted to be one of the worst ever to hit New York City, failed to deliver much of a blow. But it still brought the city to a halt. As travel bans were lifted and transit services gradually restored on Tuesday morning, the impact of the decision to shut down the subway and order most drivers off the roads continued to be felt across the region. For some it was a pleasant break from routine, but for others it was a burden. Children stayed home from school, even in areas with hardly enough snow on the ground to build a snowman. Parents, too, were forced to take a day off. Some workers reveled in the chance to avoid the office while others spent the morning trying to figure out a way to get to their jobs. Before dawn, when the city is usually stirring to life( The air was full of the smell of flowers, and the buzzing of insects, and the twittering of birds, and there were no people, no wagons, there was no stir of life, nothing going on. stir anger/hatred/fears: This murder has stirred a lot of ill feeling in the community. The latest economic figures have stirred fears of growing inflation. stir hopes/excitement/interest: Approaching elections have stirred hopes of reform. stir yourself 行动起来, 动起来, 去干点什么, 别老呆着 to make yourself move or do something. He knew he should really stir himself and get to work. stir I. [intransitive] if an emotion or thought stirs in you, you feel it or think about it. A faint memory stirred in my mind. A feeling of excitement stirred in her. II. 风中舞动. [intransitive/transitive] to move, or to be moved, slightly because of the wind. The white curtains stirred gently in the summer breeze. III. [intransitive] 喧闹. 喧嚣. to move slightly after being still for a long time. Around 7.30 am, the children begin stirring sleepily. IV. [intransitive] if you do not stir from a place, you do not leave it or move away from it. She didn't stir from her house for three days. stir or stir it 搅混水, 捣乱 [intransitive] British informal to say things deliberately in order to cause trouble between people. Stop stirring! ), Grand Central Terminal was deserted, Times Square was quiet and the streets of Lower Manhattan were largely devoid of financial workers. The situation on the eastern end of Long Island, parts of Connecticut and the New England coast was more difficult, with winds as high as 48 miles per hour measured at Montauk Point and snowfall of more than two feet. "Suffolk County is still getting hit very hard雪灾严重, 受灾严重," Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said at a news conference in Manhattan Tuesday morning. Much of the snow-removal equipment in the city, he said, would be redeployed to the hardest-hit areas. But it was the decision to stop subway service that upset some New Yorkers. There were questions about whether officials overreacted and if they could have moved more quickly to restore service once it became clear the forecasts were wrong. Stopping the subways was once unheard of 从来没有听说过, 闻所未闻过 in any weather, but in recent years, it has happened a few times, occurring during Hurricane Irene and Hurricane Sandy. Transit officials say the maneuvers can limit damage to the system, while better positioning workers to restart the subways once conditions improve. The subways did not start running until 9 a.m. on Tuesday and slowly resumed operating on a Sunday schedule. The travel bans on the roads were not lifted until 7:30 a.m. Mayor Bill de Blasio said that he was informed by the governor that the subways would be closed just before the service was suspended. But he did not question the decision and he said his administration was right to order people off the roads overnight on Monday. "You can't be a Monday morning quarterback on something like the weather," he said. "Would you rather be ahead of the action or behind?" Mr. de Blasio said. "I will always err[ɜ:(r)] on the side of safety and caution." He said the city was spared only because the storm shifted slightly to the east. The vast majority of the city recorded less than 10 inches of snow, less than half what was forecast. Mr. Cuomo, who spoke earlier in the day, said past storms had taught him to "lean towards safety." He defended the decision to close roads and stop subway service, saying that crews will now be able to get roads cleared and restore service faster. "I would much rather be in a situation where we say we got lucky than one where we didn't get lucky and somebody died," Mr. Cuomo said. On eastern Long Island, where the storm hit hard, officials said there were only a handful of accidents and no serious injuries and attributed that in part to the decision to close the roads. If you get the urge to check in and smugly gloat ( to show that you are happy and proud at your own success or at someone else’s failure. gloat over: He was there to gloat over their defeat. ) that public officials are hysterical fear-mongers唯恐天下不乱的 keep in mind that it's you, the public, that has forced them to be that way. God forbid the city gets one more inch than predicted and your street isn't plowed within ten seconds of the first flake that hits it. Mr. Cuomo visited Suffolk County on Tuesday afternoon and said that there was still a "significant challenge" to clear roads and that he was redeploying assets 发派, 部署 from other parts of the state and dispatching 分派, 派遣 100 members of the National Guard to help speed up that work. "There are days of work to do before things return to normal," he said. Early Tuesday, the National Weather Service acknowledged that the predictions had been off target. "Rapidly deepening winter storms are very challenging to predict, specifically their track and how far west the heaviest bands will move," the weather service said as it updated its forecast. "These bands are nearly impossible to predict until they develop. Our science has come a long way(come a long way 进步了很多, 发展了很多 Make considerable progress or improvement. That's good, Rob - you've certainly come a long way. This usage, which transfers the "distance" of a long way to progress, gained considerable currency in the 1960s and 1970s in an advertising slogan for Virginia Slims cigarettes addressed especially to women: "You've come a long way, baby." to have advanced to an improved or more developed state: Information technology has come a long way in the last 20 years. ), but there are still many moving parts in the atmosphere, which creates quite the forecast challenge." Gary Szatkowski, the meteorologist in charge at the weather service station in Mount Holly, N.J., told weather watchers, "You made a lot of tough decisions expecting us to get it right, and we didn't." Baku James, who was waiting for a downtown A train as the subways were just rumbling back to life, said that he had walked all the way from 147th Street in Harlem — where he finished his shift as a doorman at 7 a.m. — to Times Square before he heard word that the subways were running again. "Was I inconvenienced by the subway stopping? Very much so," he said. "I think they could have opened everything back up earlier." Given that cars stranded on roads and highways have proved to be a problem during recent storms, state leaders all had a common message on Monday — get off the roads as soon as possible. But on Tuesday, some people expressed frustration with those orders. Bill Malone owns a trucking company in Connecticut, but none of his vehicles were on the road. "Parked," Mr. Malone said. "We employ 125 people and they're all staying home today. And I'm furious." After leaving his home in Greenwich at 5:30 a.m. and finding the roads plowed, Mr. Malone stopped at the Plaza Restaurant, a diner opposite the train station.
A belated 迟来的 recognition of all of Auschwitz's victims奥斯维辛集中营: The 70th anniversary put survivors and Jewish victims at center as Poland finally confronts its past. Roman Kent, an 85-year-old survivor of Auschwitz who spoke at the memorial ceremony for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Tuesday, said in his speech that "the passage of time makes it more and more apparent that there is an effort of the ideological successors of the perpetrators ... abetted ( abet [əˈbet] 怂恿 to help or encourage someone to do something immoral or illegal. aid and abet legal to help someone to commit a crime. He was charged with aiding and abetting a wanted criminal. ) by much of the media, to sanitize ( [ˈsænɪtaɪz] to make something clean and healthy, especially by killing bacteria. II. 净化. 阉割的 to take out from information, writing etc parts that might be offensive or unpleasant, usually in a way that makes them less interesting and less useful. books that sanitize history. ) the Shoah. They employ language to describe the Holocaust so it appears less wicked and brutal." Kent spoke of how anodyne(anodyne [ˈænəˌdain] 中性的 containing nothing that will offend anyone or cause disagreements, and therefore rather boring.) words such as "lost" are used "when referring to families brutally murdered," and how the fact that 6 million Jews were murdered is subsumed ( subsume [səbˈsju:m] 泛化, 归结为, 概括为 to include something in a larger group and cause it to lose its own individual character. The new treaty subsumes all past agreements. be subsumed by/under/within/into something: Art courses have been subsumed under the Humanities Department.) in the larger numbers of dead from all nations. It was difficult, however, for the organizers of the memorial to avoid a certain touch of sanitization. In an event attended by cabinet ministers, prime ministers and presidents from around the world, where diplomatic niceties had to be adhered to and 300 elderly survivors had to be taken care of, the ceremony was a nearly impossible balancing act. Many months ago the decision had been taken to put the survivors at the center of the 70th anniversary and not to repeat the proceedings of 10 years earlier, when many survivors took ill after spending long hours in the freezing cold listening to the speeches of politicians. This year, the absence of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who, according to Russian sources, had been snubbed 无视, 忽略, 忽视 and not invited due to the ongoing tension between Russia and its neighbors, had overshadowed the ceremony in advance. The survivors and VIPs were protected from the elements by a massive tent that engulfed the entire Birkenau gatehouse, the visual symbol of the entrance of no return to Auschwitz. The classical music gave a genteel ( genteel [dʒenˈti:l] I. 温文尔雅的. 儒雅的. typical of polite well-educated people belonging to a high social class who have strict moral standards and are easily shocked by anything rude. genteel manners. II. lived in by rich polite people and not very lively, exciting, or modern. a genteel seaside town. III. trying to appear as if you are genteel. ) European atmosphere, despite the horrors mentioned in the speeches and the survivors who seemed for a moment shrunken in the cavernous interior([ˈkævə(r)nəs] a cavernous room or building is very large and dark.), like Halina Birenbaum, a survivor born in Warsaw in 1929 and now a citizen of Israel, who was dwarfed by the young Polish man who held her hand on the way to the podium. But she was the only person who managed for a brief moment to transport the audience back in time, not by evoking the horrors she lived through, but when she spoke of her fear at the camp that "maybe one day I will go into the crematorium and I will never have experienced a true love's kiss," and granting a glimpse of the 15-year-old fearful not of death, but of the loss of life because "I am prisoner 48693 with a death penalty because I was young, because I was Jewish." For the first time, half of those speaking at the anniversary ceremony, Kent and Birenbaum along with the president of the World Jewish Congress, were Jewish, representing the million Jews killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, around 90 percent of all those who were murdered there. In many ways it was the culmination of a long struggle over the historical narrative of the camp, which for most of the decades since liberation on January 27, 1945 had been about the "Polish victims of fascism," while the Jews at first were not to be mentioned, and then only in the margins. The Polish political prisoners still featured prominently, with 92-year-old Kazimierz Albin, who was arrested on his way to join the exiled Polish Army in France, representing them, as well as 100 other survivors wearing scarves in the striped pattern of the prisoner uniform with the red triangle of political inmates. But the acknowledgment that the overwhelming majority of victims had been Jews was finally evident in the speech made by Polish President Bronisław Komorowski, who said that the Germans in Poland had made his country a giant cemetery for Jews and "ended many centuries of long Jewish presence in our land." It was a belated recognition from the leader of a country that is finally recovering from the accumulated trauma of the brutal German occupation, which killed 6 million Poles, half of them Jewish, followed by Communist subjugation(subjugate [ˈsʌbdʒuɡeɪt] 征服 ( conquer I. overcome and take control of (a place or people) by military force. to take control of land or people using soldiers. The tribes were easily conquered by the Persian armies. II. [transitive] 克服. to gain control of a situation or emotion by making a great physical or mental effort. conquer a fear/an addiction/a disease. III. 攻克. to succeed in climbing a tall mountain. The climbers later conquered six more peaks. IV. [transitive] mainly literary to earn the love, admiration, or respect of someone. His gentle nature had conquered their hearts. ) to defeat a place or a group of people and force them to obey you. Just 50 years later, England was again subjugated by the Normans.). Today's Poland is finally capable of confronting its past, and it seems that Jewish life has not been vanquished ( vanquish [ˈvæŋkwɪʃ] to defeat someone or something completely. ) here either. A few hours earlier, in the new Jewish Culture Centre in the old Jewish quarter of Krakow, they were preparing the last of 600 packed kosher lunches for the survivors and their family members. "There are still a lot of Jews here all around Poland, but some people run away from their identity 隐姓埋名," said Ishbel Szatrawska, a Jewish student working at the Jewish community center. "Many think we're these weird Jews who want to stay and live in the cemeteries, but that would be throwing away a thousand years of Jewish history."
