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用法学习: 1. 谁在买Coupe: Style and practicality 时尚和实用性 have never been close friends, but the people who design sporty-looking cars know they don't need to be. And practicality doesn't always mean a better result. While it's more practical to fit as many rooms as possible into your house, a big deck and swimming pool are more fun. So it goes with cars. While it's practical to fit as much into your vehicle's floorpan as possible, doing so will never turn heads or melt hearts like a Lamborghini Huracan or Aston Martin DB9.  The coupé has style, not just because of how it looks, but because of that devil-may-care 鬼才管, 鬼才关心 absence of drudgery and practicality([ˈdrʌdʒəri] boring and unpleasant work that you have to do.). That inherent 与生俱来的 cool is why the coupé appellation 名头 ( [ˌæpəˈleɪʃ(ə)n] a name or title. ) is thrown onto every car the manufacturers think they can get away with, like the Passat CC or BMW Gran Coupé. Because those who design and engineer coupés don't have to prioritise rear seat legroom and cargo space, they can devote their energies to making them as lithe, muscular and ground-hugging 抓地的 ( [laɪð] 曲线玲珑的. 曲线优雅的. (especially of a person's body) thin, supple, and graceful. moving and bending in a graceful way. He was as lithe and strong as an athlete.) as their budgets will allow. That starts with the coupé body itself, which as long as the B-pillars remain, has far greater torsional rigidity than any other body type. Having two doors and no rear hatch means fewer openings in the car's structure, which allows it to maintain a greater resistance to flexing ( flex to move or bend a muscle or body part, usually in order to stretch or exercise it. flex your muscles to show how powerful or strong you are, especially as a warning or threat to another person or country. ). The upmarket nature of coupés also means manufacturers tend to engineer incredibly rigid body shells for a more stable ride. 2. 种姓隔离: The woman was forced into an arranged marriage in February with a man from her own caste [kɑ:st]( half-caste an offensive word for someone who has one white parent and one black parent. A more polite expression is person of mixed race. ) despite her relationship, according to Zee news, citing the elder sister Meenakshi. The couple eloped 出走, 逃婚 ( if two people elope, they go away secretly to get married. ) in March, but returned to the village after the man's family were allegedly tortured by police. The village council then made its ruling that the Dalit family should be dishonoured to "avenge" 被报复 the brother's supposed crime. 1D解散的忠告: It continued to predict the future careers of the singers: "Here's how it's gonna go down, fellas. While you're all on hiatus, Harry will record some dope singles with Beyonce, Ryan Adams and Wiz Khalifa, come out with a killer solo album produced by Pharrell and Timbaland, cut his hair, dye his hair, do a second less awesome album, let his hair grow super long and wear it in two braids, crush a self-effacing ( [ˌself ɪˈfeɪsɪŋ] 低调的. 谦虚的. 不想被人注意到的. a self-effacing person does not want to be noticed by other people and tends not to talk about their abilities or achievements. efface to make something disappear. ) cameo in a Judd Apatow movie, buzz his hair and release a third, self-produced album on which he hints at being bisexual that everyone will call his 'best work.'" Best case scenario, you'll do a 6-week stint in Minions: The Musical! on Broadway before you bounce around different hosting jobs on channels like Spike and TruTv. Do you know what Chris Kirkpatrick is doing? Because I don't. He's completely unreachable 联系不到的(out of touch). He might be managing a Best Buy in Sacramento, he might be dead. No one knows. Louis, I'm looking at you. There is one exception: If one of you is gay you might have a shot. Wait till One Direction has been dead for two years, kiss your hot boyfriend at an awards show, then ride that relevance ( relevancy = relevance the quality of being directly connected with and important to something else. relevance of: I don't see the relevance of what you are saying. of relevance to something: The course covers four areas of relevance to modern life. Relevance is the concept of one topic being connected to another topic in a way that makes it useful to consider the first topic when considering the second. The concept of relevance is studied in many different fields, including cognitive sciences, logic, and library and information science. ) like a beautiful boner and pray to god you get a show on Bravo. It's not that you guys aren't talented, it's that Harry is so, so much cuter, cooler and more talented than the rest of you. Deep down, you've always known that, but you will never truly understand it until you're in your grimy ( [ˈɡraɪmi] very dirty. grime thick dirt that forms on surfaces. ) little condo, sitting in your boxers, sucking a chow mein noodle off your Playstation controller and watching Harry blow it up on SNL. 3. throw shade I. (gay slang) To subtly insult someone. II. to give attitude. Don't be throwing me shade. III. Publicly criticize or express contempt for someone: if she was really so above it all 超脱, 超然物外, she wouldn't have to throw shade. they weren't the only people who threw shade at her performance. no love lost Dislike, ill will, hate, as in There's no love lost between Bob and Bill. No affection; animosity: There's no love lost between them. no feelings of respect, admiration, or affection. If there is no love lost between two people they have a strong enmity towards or hate for the other and make no effort to conceal it. They had a curious relationship – there was no love lost there. Usage notes: often used with between: There's no love lost between Morris and his publisher. This term originated in the 1500s and until about 1800 could indicate either extreme love or extreme hate. The former was meant in "No love between these two was lost, each was to the other kind" ( Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 1765). Today, however, the term signifies ill will exclusively. 'Love me, love my dog' 爱屋及乌 If you love someone, you should accept everything about them and the people they like. He who hesitates is lost If one waits too long, the opportunity vanishes. 'Love begets love' If you behave lovingly to another person, that person will behave lovingly to you. beat up I. to hurt someone by hitting or kicking them many times They threatened to beat me up if I didn't give them my wallet. He and his brother are always beating up on each other. II. beat someone/yourself up 谴责, 指责 to blame or criticize yourself or someone else. It's time you stopped beating yourself up over this. I'm not here to beat up on single parents. beat-up 夸大. 夸张, 夸大其词. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand) An artificially or disingenuously manufactured outcry, usually in the media. "It has been suggested that this is a vicious book, a poisonous book, that it's a disgrace to have written it," Mr Barry said at today's book launch. "That's a total beat-up." 2009, Michael Cook, 'Is Britain's stem cell crisis a beat-up?', BioEdge: Few areas of science journalism are more susceptible to frothy beat-ups than stem cell research. 吸毒: One hit you are hooked 一沾就上瘾, 就戒不掉. the other side of the coin 另一个视角, 另一个角度 a different way of ​considering a ​situation, making it ​seem either ​better or ​worse than it did ​originally: I like having a ​white ​car, but the other side of the ​coin is that it ​soon gets ​dirty. raging bull愤怒的公牛. psychosis [sʌɪˈkəusɪs] a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. "they were suffering from a psychosis". 4. Police have been in a war of words with 骂战, 口水战 the city government, known as the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, over broken security cameras, saying a lack of maintenance has hindered their investigation. Cups King过世: "For Bart, aged 87, this was a fitting end合适的结局. A husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather; a master trainer and a larger than life figure. "We will miss you." In a tweet, his son, Anthony Cummings said his father lived a full life. Cummings had been in ill health for some time and rarely ventured from his farm in recent years. rumple 皱巴巴的 messy, or not smooth. a rumpled bed. rumble [ˈrʌmbəl] I. A rumble is a low, continuous noise. 隆隆声. The silence of the night was punctuated by the distant rumble of traffic. II. If a vehicle rumbles somewhere, it moves slowly forward while making a low, continuous noise. 轰隆着缓慢行进. 轰轰隆隆的走. A bus rumbled along the road. III. If something rumbles, it makes a low, continuous noise. 隆隆作响. The sky, swollen like a black bladder, rumbled and crackled. crinkle if you crinkle something such as paper or cloth, or if it crinkles, you make a lot of small messy folds in it. crumple [ˈkrʌmp(ə)l] I. = crinkle. crush (something, typically paper or cloth) so that it becomes creased and wrinkled. "he crumpled up the paper bag" crumple the paper, crumple the plastic bag. crumple or crumple up [intransitive/ transitive] to crush something such as paper or cloth so that it forms messy folds, or to be crushed in this way. I quickly crumpled up the letter and shoved it in my pocket. The front section of the car had crumpled in the collision. II. crumple or crumple up [intransitive] to fall to the ground suddenly, with your body, legs, and arms bent, because you are injured, sick, or upset. He crumpled in a heap at our feet. III. [intransitive] if your face crumples, you suddenly look very unhappy or disappointed. crumble I. 揉碎. [intransitive/transitive] to break something into very small pieces, or to be broken into very small pieces. The soft earth of the riverbank crumbled under his feet. Crumble the biscuits over the fruit mixture. a. crumble or crumble away 剥落 [intransitive] if something hard such as stone or a brick crumbles or crumbles away, parts of it fall off because it is very old or damaged. Part of the roof had rotted away and the exposed plaster was beginning to crumble. II. [intransitive] to stop existing or being effective. My determination crumbled 粉碎 as soon as I saw her. The government seemed powerless to prevent its weak economy from crumbling further. 5. Driver accused of crashing into pedicabs 脚踩出租车 (a small pedal-operated vehicle, serving as a taxi in some countries.) in Surfers Paradise then fleeing set to front court: A man accused of crashing his car into four pedicabs in Surfers Paradise then fleeing into the Gold Coast hinterland 腹地 is due to appear in court this morning. VMA颁奖: Nicki Minaj confronted MTV Video Music Awards host Miley Cyrus during the awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday night while accepting the award for best hip-hop video. Minaj thanked her pastor while taking the award for her music video Anaconda, then turned to Cyrus, who was on a nearby stage. "And now back to this bitch that had a lot to say about me the other day in the press – Miley, what's good?" said Minaj. In an interview last week with the New York Times, Cyrus had accused the rap star of being jealous and said that she had confronted music industry racism the wrong way. Cyrus responded to the confrontation( hit back quickly 反击, 回应. ), with a brief comment about interview responses being twisted from their intended message. "We're all in the industry, we all do interviews, and we all know how they manipulate shit," Cyrus said, before continuing with her script for the night. If we were Miley, we'd be sleeping with one eye open 不敢睡死, 时刻防范, 时刻提防 after this. Nicki was fuming over Miley calling her "not too kind…not very polite" for starting a Twitter war with Taylor Swift when she missed out on a Video of the Year nomination for 'Anaconda'. She also said that Minaj's criticism came from a place of jealousy and that if she wanted to talk about race, she could have done it in different ways. 6. go around I. [INTRANSITIVE] 转了一圈 to visit a person or a place. I went around last night, but no one was in. go around to: Are you going around to Tom's after work? II. go around/about/round [INTRANSITIVE] 游来荡去的. 到处游荡. 走来走去的. to behave or be dressed in a particular way. Why do you always go around without any shoes on? go around doing something: You can't go around saying things like that! III. [INTRANSITIVE/ TRANSITIVE] [USUALLY PROGRESSIVE] go around something 流传, 流行 if something such as an illness or a piece of news is going around, people are giving or telling it to each other. He caught a nasty flu virus that's been going around. There's a story going around the office that you're thinking of leaving. IV. [INTRANSITIVE] go around with/together 一起玩, 一起做事 to spend a lot of time with someone, going to different places and doing things. She used to go around with Susannah all the time. V. [INTRANSITIVE] to be enough so that everyone can have one or some. be enough to go around: In some classes, there aren't even enough books to go around. VI. [INTRANSITIVE] to move in a circle. The hands of the clock seemed to go around so slowly. VII. what goes around comes around used for saying that the way that you behave towards other people will influence the way that other people behave towards you in the future. go with (someone or something) to depart in the company of someone or a group. Jim's not here. He went with the last busload. I'm leaving now. Do you want to go with? go with I. 不配. 不合适. Lit. to accompany something agreeably. Milk doesn't go with grapefruit. Pink doesn't go with orange. II. 选择.  Fig. to choose something (over something else). I think I'll go with the yellow one. We decided to go with the oak table rather than the walnut one. 7. technicality [ˌtɛknɪˈkalɪti] I. a detail about a particular subject that is understood only by an expert. II. 技术性细节. 技术性细则. 无关紧要的一处描述. a minor detail of the law that can lead to an unfair result. a point of law or a small detail of a set of rules, as contrasted with the intent or purpose of the rules. on a technicality (=because of it). "their convictions were overturned on a technicality". He was acquitted on a technicality. Fairfax Media understands Mr Young took a corner too fast 拐弯太快 and clipped 斜刺里冲过去 the oncoming Mazda. Craig Sheahan, who was one of the first on the scene, said he came across the man cradling his dying son on the side of the road. Mr Sheahan was out for a motorcycle ride on Sunday afternoon and had chosen to take a shorter ride through Appin and Picton instead of to Port Botany. intercede 求情, 说项 I. to try to persuade someone in authority to help someone else or to change their opinion or decision about them, especially someone who is going to be punished. intercede with someone (on someone's behalf): Local groups asked the politician to intercede with the government on their behalf. expediency [ɪkˈspi:dɪənsi,ɛk-] 权益, 图方便. 便利 the use of methods that produce an immediate result or solution to a problem, but may not be fair or honest. the quality of being convenient and practical despite possibly being improper or immoral; convenience. "an act of political expediency". The Prime Minister can call an election when it is politically expedient. He gained entry by the simple expedient of bribing the doorman.

 VMA Awards - how to dress miley cyrus and 31 drag queens: Brad Callahan, for those of us who go deep into Instagram or are interested in the poppy flamboyance of downtown culture, is a familiar name. BCalla, a portmanteau of Callahan's name, is basically the label of every club kid's dream, the line that Macaulay Culkin as Michael Alig in Party Monster would have fainted over. It's an explosion of sexuality (though, maybe not "sexiness," at least in any traditional sort of way), glitter, latex, and Fun Fur. It is, of course, perfect for the VMAs, and even more so for the new queen of the night herself, Miley Cyrus. Brad, a pal of NYLON, gave us the scoop about designing for Miley's big night—plus her 31 "backup dancers"—all famous queens from former seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race. Having Miley call you for a major event is every designer's dream, but it's also especially gratifying to see Callahan get the shine 出头的机会 he so deserves, due to his allegiance to the underground...and incredible talent, too. So, did Miley just call you up on the phone? Simone Harouche, Miley's stylist, contacted me about pulling for a "promo shoot." I sent over a bunch of options and Miley fell in love with this oversized two-way sequin neon pink trench with a giant monster face in the back that I made for my last season. That's when they asked me to start sketching for a "performance." I had no clue it was for VMAs 'til they announced her involvement and confirmed it with me. Was it her team's idea? Yes, they reached out to me—all I did was design the clothes. They even assigned the looks to the queens—although some of the looks are very fitting to their personalities. They weren't really designed with specific queens in mind, except for Pearl, as she is a good friend and I was costuming her tour right before this gig. Did you do different outfits for all of them? Yes, there are a few styles and cuts repeated but it's 31 looks, and 31 individual patterns. Is this all custom定制的, 定做的? All 31 looks are custom. They are split into three sets: The first set is all hand airbrushed and rhinestoned(an imitation diamond used in costume jewelry and to decorate clothes.), the second set is all patchwork vinyl, and the third set are 3-D foam-lined pieces. It took a team of three sewers, three assistants, my airbrush guy, and my boyfriend three weeks to complete the garments and then another week of fittings 试装 and alterations 修改 in LA. What sort of mood or vibe was her team wanting to create? They just wanted something fun, something outrageous. They started me sketching by sending me inspiration images, I reacted to the images and from my sketches a direction was born. How does one wrangle that many queens? Everyone is so excited to be a part of the show and so eager to be on that stage the wrangling wasn't such an issue! Did you think at all about her twerking performance of her last VMAs? Yes, of course, but more than anything I've been thinking about all of the iconic moments at the VMAs, and me being plastered to the TV every year as kid, wondering who will wear what and what stunt will be pulled. It's surreal to actually be a part of something like the VMAs, which was such a big part of my childhood. Can you tell me the story of the collaboration? Are you nervous? Excited? I'm super excited! How could one not be? Simone sent over some really awesome reference images that were really easy to be inspired by, but I really took inspiration from two of the images: The first being a vintage picture of two little kids at a carnival wearing giant paper mâché heads as backpacks, and the second being that iconic image of Bowie in custom Kansai Yamamoto. My coat from last season was also a big jumping off point: The mouth of the face on the back of it opens and closes as you walk, so we wanted some 3D interactive elements like that throughout the looks. As the sketches developed, I noticed I was adding a personal reference to the '90s cartoon Aaahh!! Real Monsters so immediately I started to binge watch episodes while I designed—Oblina, krumm and The Gromble are definitely in there and having fun. Miley's look was a bit more involved and took several rounds of sketches, but my favorite part of that experience was Miley requesting a gold tooth in her outfit and then immediately changing it to braces because, "She is promoting braces, not grills now." And I could really get behind that train of thought.

 与孩子讨论性: She found little evidence the internet had been a corrupting influence on teenage sex lives, but that there was a real need to help teenagers navigate 引导渡过 relationships in the era of Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. "A lot of the things we say about teens are not things that are issues for them," Professor Lumby said. "There is a lot of worry on the part of parents, [but] there is still not enough engagement [with 参与度 their children about sex]." The 13- to 17-year-olds interviewed said what they really wanted to know was how to relate to people to whom they were attracted. And teachers feel ill-equipped to discuss sex in the digital age with students. The University of NSW is piloting a workshop with Family Planning NSW for teachers, health professionals and youth workers to learn how to promote safe sex practices and attitudes to teenagers who watch online porn, send explicit sexual images to each other, and chronicle their lives on social media. Professor Lumby said there was no filtering of the information available to teenagers about the adult world thanks to the internet. But while young people were extremely well informed about the mechanics 机理 of sex( anatomy of ), they still felt in the dark 一头雾水 about love and relationship communication. "They know everything they need to know biologically from a fairly young age, but they don't feel they get enough opportunities to discuss how to manage relationships, how you ask someone out, how you break up with them, how do you know what they want, what you want," Professor Lumby said. The girls interviewed said they did not feel pressure to be sexual, they were aware of the dangers of online predators, and none had personally experienced porn setting up false expectations in boys. They often deflected boys' requests for a sexy selfie by sending them a joke image instead. The teenagers were frustrated by the persistent gender stereotypes. While the boys all admitted watching porn, they were quick to add, "but I don't hate women". They resented the perception they were callous, sex-obsessed and potential predators, protesting "we have emotions, too". "Kids need to understand how porn fits into our culture and what it does to erode values in relationships," Liz Walker, national director of the Youth Wellbeing Project, which runs sex education programs in schools, said. "There is this tension between knowing porn needs to be addressed and being worried about parents' perceptions 担心父母怎么看." she said. Meanwhile, girls still fear slut shaming if they express their sexuality or act sexually. The current generation of teenagers are very open-minded about same-sex relationships. Professor Lumby said teenagers were sick of being talked at 教训, 说教 by authority figures when it came to sex, and were yearning instead to be listened to. They craved the advice of older peers. She advised parents to recognise their children had their own views and wanted to talk about issues, not simply be told. "Teenagers knew if a parent would genuinely listen and not just talk at them." While most families have slang words for penis and vagina, Ms Linke said it was necessary children knew the correct terms so they were better able to guard against abuse, and to tell adults if anything did happen. But Ms Linke cautioned 警告 parents not to go overboard with detail when answering. "Sometimes parents feel they have to say a lot, when the child doesn't want to know a lot at this stage," she said. Instead, parents should give a brief answer, and only provide more detail if the child asks for it. "It's really a matter of trying to get on their wave length," she said. "If you keep it natural and simple and take it just as far as they want to go, I don't think you can go wrong."

 澳洲口语: Dag is an Australian and New Zealand slang term, also daggy (adjective) and dagging (verb, to behave in a daggy way). In Australia, it is often used as an affectionate insult for someone who is, or is perceived to be, unfashionable, lacking self-consciousness 不自觉的 about their appearance and/or with poor social skills yet affable and amusing. it is also used to describe an amusing, quirky and likeable person (as in, "He's a bit of a dag") and is non-pejorative. The term was more widely used in the 70s due to the popular New Zealand comedy of Fred Dagg (John Clarke). Differentiated from bogans, whose accents are presumed to indicate working class or uneducated origins, dag refers to being unfashionable, eccentric and fool-like and hence has no necessary ties with social class or educational background. The literal meaning is a dung-caked lock of wool around the hindquarters of a sheep – an abbreviation of "daglock". Holding the man: Our interview was the day after Tony Abbott short-circuited hopes for a conscience vote for marriage equality in the Coalition party room. And Ryan and Craig were incensed about it. We're looking at a government that's out of touch. The fact is the Christian right have been given a foot-up, but there should be a separation between church and state. A minority voice is being treated as the majority and it's vastly unfair. It's creating an environment that's not conducive 没有助益的, 无助于的, 不具导向性的 for young people to feel comfortable about being gay. Ryan: Once they were diagnosed with HIV and sort of had this end-date, it focused their priorities. They did go through the trials of an early relationship. "What about time apart?" "What about seeing other people?" But towards the end they were very aware of what actually was important. Craig and Ryan [in unison](in unison I. In complete agreement, harmonizing exactly. For example, Their opinion was in unison with ours. II. 异口同声地. 众口一词的. 众口一辞的. Saying the same thing at the same time, simultaneously, as in The whole class answered in unison. Both usages allude to the unison of music, a single identical pitch. ): And it was each other. Craig: Tim! [Ryan laughs] John was such a man of his word说话算话的人, so true to himself, but when it came to Tim he could be completely irrational. He knew Tim could be bad for him. In the way Tim wanted an open relationship, the way Tim hurt him so often through infidelity. This is where love is blind 蒙蔽了双眼 and love can be madness. A sensible person would've walked away because he'd been hurt so many times. But John just adored him. I look at my own relationship with my boyfriend. The number of times he's had every reason to walk away from me and he's come back. Yes, I'm queer. For me there was the immediate parallel to 认同感 my own life, my own coming out as gay, then bi, and then queer. My mum still doesn't understand [smiles], most people don't. For a story like this to come out of Australia is a beautiful and rare thing, you know. We live in a society that's so machismo oriented and sports oriented, where men are indoctrinated from kids to, you know, fuck chicks and hate fags. Ryan: I'm straight. And it was an honour to have the chance to represent such an iconic figure in Australian literature. There were lots of things I had to learn. I've grown up pretty immersed in 围绕着, 包围着 gay culture. My sister is gay, many of my best friends are, so I understood a lot of the issues from the periphery([pəˈrɪf(ə)ri] on/at the periphery the outer part of an area, very far from the centre. on the periphery of something 外围: Each republic occupied a territory on the periphery of the Soviet Union.). Sure, I haven't experienced a lot of it first-hand, so having Craig by my side… The gay community has taken this story to heart 走心 and invested a lot into it. It's an enduring love story, it's an impassioned 真情流露的 plea for acceptance, and it's a grim [grim] reminder of those recent times – not easy for a straight person to quite comprehend – when gay people had to deal with the idea that the next time I have sex it may kill me. Ryan: We had an immense research period specifically for the AIDS stuff and the medications. The Victorian AIDS Council took us both through a bare-bones understanding(bare bones The mere essentials or plain, unadorned framework of something, as in This outline gives just the bare bones of the story; details will come later. This phrase transfers the naked skeleton of a body to figurative use.). We immersed ourselves in the stories and the people. Craig: There are lots of funny moments in the film. A lot of absurdity in so many situations you find yourself in, like when you're having sex with a man or the first time you experience anal sex, you know, it's just, well for me, and for Tim and John, it was just a strange experience. You're trying to work out how it works and the anatomy of 前因后果, 林林总总, 由表及里 the whole thing… Ryan: …the practicality of it… Craig: …and trying to deal with the pain as well, you know. When John and Tim are at it and they hear their parents coming John shoves Tim into the closet, a metaphor obviously, but that wouldn't happen in a heterosexual relationship. Lots of things here are real, and funny because of it. Ryan: It's that masturbatory hormonal awkward chemical stage we all go through, we can all relate to, which is the catalyst for a lot of the humour. That first love, the laugh-at-yourself sentimentality, the first phone calls. There's that great scene where they're up in the bush shack林间小破屋 and learning to masturbate together under covers! Until 1990, the men have relatively mild symptoms. Sadly, in the Autumn of 1991, John begins to rapidly deteriorate, suffering from lymphoma. Tim cares for his partner, whilst nursing symptoms of his own. The misery of HIV/AIDS is laid bare before the reader, with Conigrave sparing nothing in detailing the cruel progression of the disease. He watches as his lover's once-strong body is ravaged. The reader helplessly looks on as the story moves to its devastating conclusion.