用法学习: 1. make a case for sth 有充足理由, 理由充分, 阐述理由 (UK also make out a case for sth) to argue that something is the best thing to do, giving your reasons: We will only publish a new edition if you can make a convincing case for 说服 it. make one's case: to state one's arguments for a certain point of view. 'To make your case' means 'to present your arguments/reasons'. "I'm going to make [my case] until we have a nominee, but we're not going to have one today, and we're not going to have one tomorrow, and we're not going to have one the next day," Clinton said Monday in Kentucky. For example if A and B wanted to go out that night; and A wanted to go to the movies, but B wanted to go dancing, the following conversation is possible: A: I'd prefer the movies, but I'm willing to hear your case for dancing. B: Okay, we both need exercise, and we went to the movies last time. Do you have a good case for the movies? A: Well, I can make a very good case for not going dancing. I fell over today and sprained my ankle. Julie Bishop就"为什么Coalition之前反对在UN争一席之地, 现在自己却要那么做": Ms Bishop said the Coalition's concern about the previous bid was that it was made against the advice of experts in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She said on this occasion Australian diplomats had longer to make their case. In fact, in the two-year stint on the UNSC, the Coalition government effectively used its increased influence at UN to help drive the investigation of the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Eastern Ukraine in July last year. "Australia served with distinction throughout our last two-year term, which ended in December 2014. We championed initiatives that directly supported our national security interests, taking the lead on a number of landmark resolutions," Ms Bishop said in a statement. Australia won its last rotating seat 轮值席位 on the body after an intensive lobbying effort. The foreign affairs minister at the time, Bob Carr, described it as a "big, juicy, decisive win". build/gather a case (against someone) 收齐证据, 证据确凿 to put together the evidence needed to make a legal or disciplinary case against someone. The police easily built a case against the drunken driver. As soon as we gather the case against her, we can obtain a warrant to arrest her. make a point of doing sth 专门的, 特意的 to always do something or to take particular care to do something: She makes a point of keeping all her shopping receipts. 特技者skydiver意外死亡: According to KTVN News, authorities said Roner was trying to land when
he struck a tree and became entangled high above the ground. "It's a
great life. I wouldn't trade it 做交易, 交换 for anything in the world," he said in a
2011 interview with Freeskier Magazine. leadfoot (adj leadfooted) I. One who drives quickly or without subtlety, one who often engages in and/or is fond of slamming and flooring the accelerator often. The leadfoot screeched to a stop inches from the tree. II. A driver that does not compensate the throttle position of his vehicle for road conditions or terrain, invariable slowing down while going uphill (irritating other drivers), and speeding up while going downhill (preventing other drivers from passing), as if his foot were "made of lead," thereby "preventing him from adjusting the throttle's position." Out of the way, LEADFOOT!!! 2. 马特戴蒙受访: It started when Matt told The Guardian recently that actors are more effective when audiences know less about their personalities. "When Ben and I first came on the scene 刚出道 there were rumours that we were gay because it was two guys who wrote a script together," he told the publication. "I know. It's just like any piece of gossip…and it put us in a weird position of having to answer, you know what I mean? Which was then really deeply offensive. I remember thinking and saying, Rupert Everett was openly gay and this guy – more handsome than anybody, a classically trained actor – it's tough to make the argument 难以争辩 that he didn't take a hit for being out. 3. 比伯悉尼被呵斥Bieber get his marching orders(marching order 驱赶, 赶走 : an act of telling someone that they must leave a place or that they are no longer wanted, needed, or employed. give someone their marching orders: The boss gave him his marching orders this morning. marching order 驱逐令, 驱客令: I. UK (US walking papers) 驱逐令. If you give someone their marching orders, you ask that person to leave a place or a job because they have done something wrong: Three players got their marching orders last week. She was called into the boss's office and given her marching orders. II. 指示. US instructions from someone in authority about what you should do: He was waiting for new marching orders from the White House. ): Not such a show off now! Justin Bieber is told to clear off 走开 by angry security guard as he performs crowd-pulling 引来人群的 skateboarding tricks in a Sydney forecourt大门外: Wherever he goes he takes his trusted skateboard with him. But a wrong turn into a forecourt in Sydney's Central Business District on Tuesday landed the 21-year-old a grilling 拷问, 质问 by a furious security guard who told him, in no uncertain terms, to: 'Move on.' Ever the entertainer, the cap-wearing pop star put on an impromptu performance, prompting 引起 a uniformed guard to march his way and urge him on. Move on, son! Justin Bieber (left) is reprimanded 斥责 by an angry security guard. Come on, mate: Justin briefly pleaded 求情, 陈情 with the stern 严格 security officer, who refused to back down拒绝让步. Unsurprisingly, the singer's display drew quite a crowd招来人群, with fans snapping away 狂拍照 on their phones as Justin scooted back and forth along the pavements of The Rocks. The Where Are U Now hit maker's mistake was to swing into a forecourt when he clocked 注意到 the guard ( the clock strikes one/five/eleven (o'clock): The church clock struck 10 o'clock. set/adjust a clock (=change it to show the correct time): We need to set all the clocks back one hour. clock I. informal to hit someone. II. British informal to notice someone. III. to travel at a particular speed in a race. the skier who clocked the fastest time in practice runs. a. to measure or record the speed at which a person or vehicle is traveling. He was charged with dangerous driving after being clocked at 112 mph. ) but carried on his stunts, performing, what is known among skateboarding fans, a series of ollies. But once challenged by the officer wielding a walkie-talkie, Justin couldn't hide his displeasure 不高兴, 不快 and attempted to plead his case. Deflated泄了气的( feeling less confident and happy 垂头丧气的 After losing the game, Kelly felt pretty deflated. ), the Canadian-born star finally up picked his black and yellow board and, head bowed, moved on with his pal. Wearing his peroxide locks hidden beneath a cap, faded jeans and long baggy T-shirts, Justin was instantly recognisable to fans. Female groupies lined up to take snaps of their heartthrob as he concentrated on his moves. The What Do You Mean? multi-millionaire revealed he was furious about the rockstar reception he received on arrival back to Australia on Sunday. He dutifully gave waiting crowds in Melbourne high-fives and posed for selfies. But just hours later, he vented his rage about fans screaming for shots with him on Snapchat, and attempted to school them on the best way to approach a man of his considerable talents. Justin's voice can be heard saying: 'The way you ask or approach me when you want a photo with me is going determine if I take a photo or not. 'If I'm walking somewhere or arriving somewhere and you guys are asking me to take a photo, if I don't respond, if I continue to keep walking, the likelihood is that I probably don't want to take a photo at that moment. 4. 股票市场大跌: The calamitous ( [kəˈlæmɪtəs] 损失惨重的 causing serious damage, or causing a lot of people to suffer. Concerning or involving calamity, disastrous. The city was struck by a calamitous cyclone.) day was sparked 引发 by the plummeting price of UK-listed Swiss coal giant Glencore, which lost around 30 percent of its value yesterday over concerns its equity value could plummet if dire metals prices remained as they are. The ongoing economic struggles of China also appeared to push investors into selling mining stocks at a rapid rate - BHP finished at its lowest level since the global financial crisis. New Treasurer Scott Morrison yesterday urged Australians to stay calm amid overseas uncertainty. "These are obviously difficult days and there's lots of headwinds 逆风而行(a wind that blows in the opposite direction to the one in which you are moving. a wind blowing from directly in front, opposing forward motion.), we already know that," Mr Morrison told Sky News. "I think the issue for the Australian economy and Australians more generally is we know we have to swim against the tide 逆流而上 in many respects. Oil prices rose in US trading yesterday, with overseas analysts suggesting the sheer drop in Glencore's prices was a result of panicked investors overcorrecting纠偏过度. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called a "mini-summit" in Canberra tomorrow to discuss tax reform, infrastructure and boosting the flagging economy. 男子rap to the tune of Lose Yourself by Eminem about his complaint: He brilliantly and skillfully set his pasta problems to the tune of an early 2000s pop hit. The rap battle began when Melbourne man Jamie McGloin parodied Eminem's Lose Yourself to express his apparent spaghetti conundrum. The exchange has racked up 收获, 获得 about 10,000 shares and close to 100,000 cumulative likes so far. ideation [ˌʌɪdɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n] the formation of ideas or concepts. The conceptualization of a mental image. the creation of new ideas. A whole week's work of ideation on the whiteboard. press pack: A press kit, often referred to as a media kit in business environments, is a pre-packaged set of promotional materials of a person, company, or organization distributed 分发 to members of the media for promotional use 为促销用. They are often distributed to announce a release or for a news conference. 5. Utopia: Bunting (or bunt) 绑在一条绳子上的一个一个的小三角旗子 was originally a specific type of lightweight worsted wool fabric generically known as tammy, manufactured from the turn of the 17th century, and used for making ribbons and flags, including signal flags for the Royal Navy. Amongst other properties 特点, 特性 that made the fabric suitable for ribbons and flags was its high glaze 闪闪发亮, achieved by a process including hot-pressing. Today, "bunting" is a term for any festive decorations made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated (百褶裙的褶 n. a double or multiple fold in a garment or other item made of cloth, held by stitching the top or side. v. fold into pleats. ) into fan shapes. The term bunting is also used to refer to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship. The officer responsible for raising signals 打出信号 using flags is known as "bunts", a term still used for a ship's communications officer. Let's away开始吧. We must away出发: I have seen occasions on which "away" seems to be used as a verb, as in "We must away." Tolkien, who was a noted philologist, used this formation in one of his Dwarvish songs, for instance. However, I cannot seem to find any dictionary references for the verb "to away." Am I mistaken in thinking it is used on rare occasions as a verb? And does this rare role of the word merit a verb entry in the wiktionary? Shakespeare frequently used 'let's away' in his writings. It means 'let's go'. 6. tease sth out I. 梳理一下,梳理清楚. to try to get information or understand a meaning that is hidden or not clear. to succeed in discovering something difficult, complicated, or secret. It took me a while to tease the truth out of him. You said it was a place of possibilities, Let's just tease that out a little bit. I've sort of teased out by spelling it. II. 梳理开 to use your fingers to gradually separate hairs or threads that are stuck or twisted together: While it was still wet, I gently teased out 解开, 拆解, 散开 the tangled knots 打结的, 打卷的, 卷在一起的 in Rosie's hair. to separate a group or knot of pieces of hair, string etc into individual pieces. The wool is teased into longer and straighter fibres. Tease out 挖出 some of the roots before replanting. tease I. [intransitive/transitive] to make someone think that you are willing to have sex with them when you are not. II. 取笑. [intransitive/transitive] to say something to someone in order to have fun by embarrassing or annoying them slightly in either a friendly or an unkind way. I didn't mean it: I was only teasing. tease someone about someone/something: John's always teasing me about my accent. see someone out I. 送出门. to go with someone to the door when they are leaving in order to say goodbye to them. My secretary will see you out. a. see yourself out 自己走, 自己离开, 不送你 to find your way out of a place that you are visiting without any help. to leave a building or room by yourself after visiting someone there. Are you all right to see yourself out? I can see myself out. see out: I. to continue to the end of a period of time or an activity. He will see out the year remaining on his contract. II. 比你活的还长. 比你还长寿. if something sees you out, it lasts longer than the time you live. These are good strong shoes and they'll probably see me out. III. see out the Old Year 辞旧迎新, 辞去旧年 to celebrate the end of a year. 7. They think its the thin end of the edge. When this opportunity comes up they feel if they don't put their foot down ( put your foot down
I. 坚定的表明立场. to use your authority to stop something happening. to
assert something strongly. to tell someone in a strong way that they
must do something or that they must stop doing something. You
can't just let him do what he wants, you'll have to put your foot down.
When Anna came home drunk one afternoon I decided it was time to put my
foot down. The boss put her foot down and refused to accept any more changes to the plan. When she started borrowing my clothes without asking, I had to put my foot down. II. UK to increase your speed when you are driving. (mainly British informal) to suddenly increase your speed when you are driving The road ahead was clear, so I put my foot down and tried to overtake the car in front. The road ahead was clear, so I put my foot down.), they lose out( I. 输掉. To fail to achieve or receive an expected gain: Your
sister got here first, so I'm giving her the money—I guess you lose
out. The town will lose out on a lot of tax revenue if the factory is
shut down. II. lose out to To be defeated or surpassed by someone or something; lose to someone or something: Local companies are losing out to foreign companies in the competition for government contracts. III. 错失良机. lose out on/in = miss out on . Miss an opportunity to participate, as in We came so late that we lost out on our chance to see her dance, or The Republicans lost out in last fall's elections. to fail to get something desired, esp. in a competitive situation We're losing out on major economic opportunities that would be good for the whole city. If we don't act quickly, we'll lose out. ). 8. 对话: a. Have we got any coloured markers 有颜色的记号笔 in here? I'll get some. b. Did you need to see a Colin 你有要见一个叫Colin的人吗? c. Sorry about the rush. No worries. I can't see you are busy. Yeah, a little bit on more than we thought. d. They want it fast-tracked 加快速度. It's a tight time-line 时间紧迫, 任务紧 to make it 22nd. A
timeline (
时间表, 安排表. 进度表. ) is a way of displaying a list of events in chronological
order, sometimes described as a project artifact. It is typically a
graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates alongside itself
and usually events labelled on points where they would have happened. e. tick to that那个过了, 同意那个. f. We would like to take this opportunity to make our feelings 我们的想法感觉 clear. g. I don't see what the urgency was有什么好急的. h. Oh, lifesaver(这真是救了我一命啊, 救命稻草啊, 救命恩人啊). i. So stage two was an unmitigated 要命的, 无可救药的, 十足的 disaster([ʌnˈmɪtɪˌɡeɪtɪd] used for emphasizing how bad or how unpleasant something is. Last night's performance was an unmitigated disaster.). It under-performed表现不好. They got on top of the caterpillar ([ˈkætərˌpɪlər]
I. 毛毛虫 a small long thin insect with many legs that eats plants and
develops into a butterfly or moth. The bird just ate that green
caterpillar. II. 履带车. A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler. crawler: A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels. ) though. j. We'll do a ring-around电话调查. k. Where are we at. l. In what sense? 为什么这么说. 哪一方面说, 怎么说, 在某种意义上说. "Gay marriage is bad" "In what sense?" In what sense does the public need to understand global climate change? m. Be there in a sec. Can I just grab you for a sec? You need to choose for
the low-flow shower heads. Why am I choosing? for the water audit 水审计. n. What was that expression? 什么表情啊. 那什么表情. o. He has some minor reservations小意见, 不同意见. p. At least, it got "hub" written on it. That reads well 读起来显得很厉害. q. When was that decided那什么时候决定的? 9. 电台主持人对于一个他不喜欢的环节: I'll be there, but I won't be caring 我会去的, 但是我不会参与, 不会关心. You can just tune out, or wander off 心不在焉的, 有一搭没一搭的听, 似听非听地, 随便听听. top-shelf I. 高高在上的. [only before noun] informal top-shelf magazines show pictures of naked bodies or sexual activity and are usually kept on the highest shelf in a shop. II. American and Australian of the highest quality. He is a top-shelf gangster. 马特戴蒙受访惹争议: Don't expect to see Damon ever speak candidly again about much of anything. For her part, DeGeneres seemed pretty confident that Damon's heart was in the right place 心不坏, 心眼不坏, 心眼好, 本心是好的, and that his words were twisted into something much more sinister than intended. a way off I. a long time in the future. Christmas is still a way off. II. a long distance away. It's still quite a way off to Glasgow. It's a long way off: That's far away(时间上或者距离上还远着呢). Question: Is it bad? Answer: "I've suggestions but this is a long way from being bad(far from being bad)". way off (base) Inf.
Fig. on the wrong track; completely wrong. I think you're way off base.
Try again. Sorry. You are way off. You should just give up. A look-alike, or double 替身保镖( body double替身, 裸体. stunt double特技替身. stand-in 光替. ), is a person who closely resembles another person. In popular Western culture, a look-alike is a person who bears a close physical resemblance to a celebrity, politician or member of royalty. Many look-alikes earn a living by making guest appearances at public events or performing on television or film, playing the person they resemble. A large variety of celebrity look-alike images can be found throughout the web, including images placed by professional agencies that offer their services. Susan Scott brought the Lookalike phenomenon to the UK in 1979. She continues to run the longest established, most well known and most successful Lookalike Agency in Europe - Susan Scott Lookalikes. The agency has supplied artistes for all manner of high profile events including booking 4 Prince Harry lookalikes as decoys ( decoy I. a person or thing that you use to trick someone into going somewhere or doing something. II. a real or artificial bird used for attracting other birds by people who hunt them. v. (transitive) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap. to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net. wiki: A decoy is usually a person, device, or event meant as a distraction, to conceal what an individual or a group might be looking for. Decoys have been used for centuries most notably in game hunting, but also in wartime and in the committing or resolving of crimes. ) so the real Prince Harry could enjoy a weekend at the Secret Garden Festival during the summer of 2014. Look-alikes have also figured prominently at least since the 19th century in literature, and in the 20th and 21st centuries in film. Is One Direction hiring decoy lookalikes for 2014 'Where We Are' world stadium tour? According to the Daily Star gossip newspaper, the boys were told by their security team to consider getting lookalikes as decoys for this tour. "Having 1D lookalikes on hand would be great for distracting the fans," an insider said. "At the moment it seems to be the only way forward ( the way to succeed (one of the keys to success) in the future. There is always a way forward, it just takes a little bit of you to get it started. ) for security and safety on this tour. So these decoys would be there just for handling fans, right? Well the boys recently left Colombia, where they had to worry about being kidnapped since it is considered the kidnapping capital of the world. So there's that 也包括 too. Mainly the fans are the real concern, with recent incidents causing the boys to move hotels during their tour. "There were hundreds of screaming girls outside the hotel. Police were struggling to keep them back and keep them off the road," a source said earlier this month. "The fans with their posters nearly filled the entire square." Meanwhile we at least know that Niall Horan and Harry Styles have been letting off some steam with hotel hijinks ( high jinks I. the behaviour of people who are excited and having fun. Boisterous activity or behaviour, especially in sport; lively fun. II. Tricky and/or humorous behaviour.) while on tour. 10. repertoire [ˈrɛpətwɑz:] I. 曲目列表. 节目表. a stock of plays, dances, or items that a company or a performer knows or is prepared to perform. the whole body of items which are regularly performed. "the mainstream concert repertoire". II. a stock of skills or types of behaviour that a person habitually uses. "his repertoire of denigratory gestures". invigorate [ɪnˈvɪɡəreɪt] 注入活力 give strength or energy to. To impart vigor, strength, or vitality to. Exercise is invigorating. "the shower had invigorated her". To give life or energy to. The cold water invigorated him. testy I. Easily annoyed, irritable. easily irritated; and somewhat bad-tempered. "his testy, disapproving father". II. Marked by impatience or ill humor. He made testy remarks. downtrodden [ˈdauntrɒd(ə)n] 被欺负的, 被欺压的, 被骂 oppressed or treated badly by people in power. Oppressed, persecuted or subjugated. Oppressed; tyrannized. "a downtrodden proletarian struggling for social justice". daunty [do:nt] 不要发成dunt[d^t].
What do you mean VS How do you mean: 'How do you mean?' suggests that you are asking 'In what way?'. An example would be asking a question when someone has suggested that it would be a good idea to for example increase efficiency in a particular procedure. What do you mean? asks for a complete explanation. The speaker did not understand any of what was said, or understood very little of it. How do you mean? asks in what way what was said is true. The speaker understood the main idea of what was said, but wants clarification of the sense in which it was intended or how it applies to specific situations具体到某种情况. When people share information, they tend to share fractionally一点一点的, 零碎的, 零零星星的. As a result, there are many opportunities in your everyday conversations to say, "Tell me more." When interacting with best friends, saying, "Tell me more," will generally cause people to expound on ( 大讲特讲. 滔滔不绝. to explain something or to express your opinion about it in detail. It will be an opportunity to expound the ideas he has been developing. expound on/upon: He continued to expound on the failings of our educational system.) whatever the topic is that's being discussed. For salespeople who are forging new relationships, however, it's a little different. Notice that the phrase, "Tell me more…" is actually a command. But, if you don't yet have an in-depth relationship深入的关系, 深交, commanding a prospective customer to "tell you more" can sound a bit presumptuous((of a person or their behavior) 不知深浅的. 不知道委婉的. failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate. showing too much confidence and not enough respect. It would be presumptuous of me to decide what she wants. "I hope I won't be considered presumptuous if I offer some advice".). Instead, ask, "How do you mean?" Try this experiment. Next time someone says or asks you something, simply respond by saying, "How do you mean?" If you button up, they will share two, three, four, or five paragraphs of additional information. That's a pretty good return on investment in response to four words, don't you think? Of course, a grammarian who sits through our training will often point out that "What do you mean?" is more grammatically correct. That's true! I'm just more focused on increasing the productivity of my conversations than conforming to 遵守 grammar rules. Here's the difference. Asking, "What do you mean?", generally causes people to go backwards in the conversation, by revisiting 再说一遍 or justifying what they just said. But in sales, we're not wanting to go backward. Rather, we want the other person to share more detail. By asking, "How do you mean?", you won't have to worry about grammar. Whenever you deliver these four words, what people really hear is: "I am very interested in what you just said, can you please tell me more?"
