用法学习: 1. cold sore an inflamed blister in or near the mouth, caused by infection with the herpes simplex virus. a sore area near your lips that is caused by an infection. 电影White bird in a Blizzard: Once there was this... obese man. Some sick fuck had doused ( douse [daus] I. 泼了一身. to cover something or someone with a liquid, especially water or fuel. II. to make a fire stop burning by pouring water over it. douse/smother/extinguish the flames (=stop a fire burning): Bryan smothered the flames with his coat.) him with
gasoline and then lit him on fire. And by the time we got to the body,
two days later, he was still burning. Guy had so much body fat he's like
a human candle. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed 感情压抑的, 情感压抑的 household ([rɪˈpresɪv] ruling or controlling people by the use of force or violence, or by laws that put unreasonable limits on their freedom. a repressive regime. repressive legislation.), she barely registers 没当回事 her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, Brock, for the loss. But as time passes, Kat begins to come to grips with how deeply Eve's disappearance has affected her. The pacing is stop and go 走走停停的 so be prepared for that. In addition, there are some things that might not make sense, so if you like things to be all set up in the correct compartments, forget it. The fact that this film exists at all is a testament to the perseverance of a director with a unique skew on the world ( skew I. to affect facts or information so that they are not accurate. To change or alter in a particular direction. A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results. A researcher's mistake has skewed the results of the study. a. to have a strong effect on someone's opinion, ideas, or judgment. II. to make something not even or not straight.) and the gift of being able to capture it. The story weaves back-and-forth with flashbacks (weave I. to create a story or plan with many complicated details. Grisham's new novel weaves a tale of mystery and suspense. II. to move somewhere by going around and between things. The taxi weaved in and out of traffic. weave your way through/across/around: Samantha had to weave her way through the crowd. III. [intransitive/transitive] to make cloth by crossing long threads over and under each other on a machine called a loom. The women shut themselves behind closed doors to weave their cloth. They spend some of the time weaving. Fresh or dried flowers can be woven into a garland. They spend their days weaving prayer rugs. ) of Eve's past life and the present day. In the flashbacks, Eve was a wild girl who gradually changed into a domesticated housewife after her marriage to Brock, an ordinary man who leads an uneventful life. While Kat explores her blossoming sexuality with her handsome but dim-witted neighbor and schoolmate, Phil (Shiloh Fernandez), Eve struggles to deal with aging and quenching her youthful wildness( quench I. if you quench your thirst, you drink something so that you do not feel thirsty anymore. a. used about other types of feelings or needs. Books have traditionally quenched a child's thirst for knowledge. quench your thirst 止渴 (=drink until you are no longer thirsty): She drank and drank but couldn't quench her thirst. meet/satisfy conditions. fulfill/meet/satisfy a criterion. meet/satisfy someone's demands. satisfy someone's curiosity: I just want to satisfy my curiosity – why did he do it? satisfy someone's hunger/appetite/thirst: There's nothing like a cold beer to satisfy your thirst. satisfy the demand for something (=provide as much as people want): Entire forests are being destroyed to satisfy the demand for wooden furniture. satisfy someone/yourself (that): The prosecution has to satisfy the jury that the defendant is guilty. We'll be carrying out our own inspection, to satisfy ourselves that safety standards are acceptable. slake your thirst to drink until you are no longer thirsty. ). She tries to be sexy when Brock is away, even luring Phil's attention. After Eve disappeared, Kat deals with her abandonment without much issue, occasionally releasing her own wild side, seducing the detective (Thomas Jane) investigating her mother's disappearance. The film then jumps forward three years to the spring of 1991. On a break from college, Kat returns home and seems unfazed 心平气和的, 波澜不惊的 to learn that her father is in a relationship with a co-worker. The older detective that Kat has been having an affair with informs her that Brock might have killed Eve after catching Eve cheating. Kat dismisses this theory, just like she did three years ago. Kat suspects Phil of sleeping with Eve and confronts him the night before she is to return to college, but Phil angrily rebuffs 否认 it and tells her that Brock knows where Eve is. Kat begins to unpack Brock's suspiciously locked freezer in their basement, but is stopped when he walks in on her. She questions Brock about her mother's disappearance, asking if he does in fact know where Eve is, but he denies having any knowledge of her whereabouts. It is revealed that this was the last time Kat saw Brock, as he went out to a bar shortly thereafter and drunkenly admitted to murdering Eve. He is soon arrested and later hangs himself with a sheet in his jail cell as well as showing that Brock moved Eve's body from the freezer the night before Kat unpacked it. The film ends with a flashback of Eve's death; she came home from shopping the afternoon of her disappearance to find Brock and Phil in bed together. Phil dashed out of the room and Eve began laughing hysterically at Brock, incredulous, and he responded by wrapping his fingers around her throat, asking her repeatedly to stop, to which she kept on laughing, and he strangled her to death. "Part suburban thriller, part sexual awakening drama – and fully convincing as neither – White Bird in a Blizzard rests a little too heavily on Shailene Woodley's typically superlative ( [suˈpɜrlətɪv] formal extremely good. a superlative performance.) work." 2. 乌克兰警方改革： On Valerie's belt is a pistol. Pinned to her shoulder is a tiny camera constantly monitoring her performance and recording the often colourful behaviour of the miscreants ( [ˈmɪskriənt] 没良心的. 缺德事. someone who does something wrong or commits a crime. Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous. ) these new recruits have to deal with. (在处理一起案件时) First he tries to get them to talk to his "powerful contacts" on his phone. Then when they move in to arrest him, he suddenly pulls a gun on them. It turns out that he himself is a long-standing law enforcement officer, attached to the Interior Ministry - he shows them his badge. In the end they manage to disarm him and lead him away. Part of the aim is to increase public respect for law and order. So far, in Kiev at least, it seems to be working. 另一起案件: It too seemed trivial enough - an old lady angry because the man next door had constructed a balcony that obscured her access to sunlight. He had called the police because he said she kept verbally abusing 口头辱骂, 口头侮辱 his wife and toddler. In fact there was a political undercurrent(暗流)(undercurrent I. a current that moves below the surface or below another current in the sea or a river. II. a feeling that exists and affects how people behave, but is not obvious or stated directly. undercurrent of: An undercurrent of tension pervaded the proceedings.). He was from Russian-speaking Donetsk in the East and she was a Ukrainian-speaking patriot. "She is insufferable 难以忍受的, 让人受不了的(extremely unpleasant or annoying.)!" said the man. "Just look what that scumbag did!" complained the woman. "No need to use insulting language," said Valery, trying to calm them down. As they continued to raise their voices, he rolled his eyes and cocked a mock gun to his forehead to signal he had had enough. "We are trained to be helpful and peaceful," he explained later. These young recruits have to play the part of social workers 社工 as well as law enforcement officers - a much needed social service for citizens who never before have had someone in authority prepared to listen patiently to their daily woes. But it is also an expensive use of police time and possibly a distraction in a place deluged by bigger problems. Ukraine also needs to get to grips with the large scale corruption and smuggling which have blighted its economy. This is a country desperately trying to remake itself 重塑自己 on all fronts 在各个层面上, 各个方面 at once, against the odds and against the clock. Ms Zguladze is optimistic. The police reform is going so well that she has speeded up the rate at which it will be expanded across the country 扩展到全国. "Sometimes at the precinct, the detainees we've brought in are released before we've even done the paperwork," said Badri Gogokhiya, a former philosophy teacher aged only 22, but already in command of his team. The old guard in the back offices 后方的 know they are on the way out. Why should they co-operate? And how long before they actively try to sabotage these reforms, especially in towns far away from Kiev and the careful scrutiny of Ms Zguladze's Ministry? It is the best tangible example of success and so it has been seized upon by the government to convince the population that the country really has started to change for the better. 另一文章:An arresting sight: Ukraine hires attractive men and women for its 'reformed' police department and encourages them to take selfies with locals: Since the revolution which ousted Viktor Yanukovich last year, Ukraine has been desperately trying to restore trust in its police force. A recent government poll showed just 3 per cent of Ukrainians trusted officers, while videos have circulated online showing traffic cops brazenly 毫不知耻的, 不知廉耻的 ( I. behaving in a way that is not moral or socially acceptable, and not caring if other people are shocked or offended. a. used about someone's behaviour that is not moral or socially acceptable. a brazen lie. brazen it out to deal with a difficult or embarrassing situation by pretending that you do not care if people are shocked or offended by your behaviour, especially when you are in fact embarrassed. Jane decided to admit everything and brazen it out.) taking bribes from drivers they have stopped. In the southern region of Mykolaiv, widely touted ([taut] I. to praise someone or something because you want other people to think they are good or important. be touted as something: She's being touted as a possible challenger for the title. II. 兜售. [intransitive/transitive] to try to persuade people to buy something by telling them about it, especially loudly and in public. tout for business/trade/custom: street vendors touting for business. III. [transitive] British to scalp tickets. ticket tout = scalper 票贩子.) as having one of the most corrupt forces in the country, he fired the local department in its entirety, turfing 300 police out of their jobs ( turf sb out 驱逐出去. 赶出去. To remove or eject from a place. to force someone to leave a place or an organization: She'll be turfed out of the study group if she carries on being disruptive.). In the capital Kiev, which has debuted the new-look police force today, he cut the force in half, sacking and replacing 2,000 officers. 3. 罗马机场遭遇: On getting ready to depart Italy, we stayed overnight at the Hotel Tiber Fiumicino near the airport. The hotel was a good choice. After returning our rental car, we were at the airport 3 and 1/2 hours ahead of our flight time. We needed every minute of this 一分钟都不能少( It is often needed to have every minute of that 3 hours given how long it takes to get through the process. ). After clearing security and a cursory ( 匆匆的. 简单的. 粗率的. 草率的. quick and not thorough A cursory examination did not reveal any problems.) passport control, there was a walk to a very, very long line at the actual immigration control. There were several groups of Americans near us in line, missing their flights, although they had been at the airport for 2+ hours. The Italian staff monitoring the line said nothing could be done. After clearing, there was transportation to the gate areas. We were at the gate a few minutes before boarding, only through luck because we had decided to perhaps have breakfast after clearing security etc. Be warned, you could miss your flight. The airport was one of the worst I have ever travelled through, with little concern for the problems travelers may have. On arrival: At the taxi rank, the official employee redirected us to a second line of taxis. I asked that driver if it would be 48 euros. He said it would be 60 euros so we went back to the line of taxis we initially tried to use. The employee screamed at us to use the other. We persevered 坚持不换, 坚韧不拔 and after being screamed at some more by a driver and told "no taxi, take bus" by the employee, we did get our bags into an official Rome taxi for 48 euros. The money was not the issue. The principle was. We were polite throughout and even tried to speak our bad Italian in a friendly way but it was a poor introduction to Rome, obviously directed at ripping off tourists. 4. 名模男女: But that all seemed to go out the window 跑到脑后 on Monday in Sydney when she was spotted getting amorous in public with her boyfriend, Angus Hood. Tegan, 22, looked as if she was visiting her handsome beau for lunch when she decided to push him up against a wire fence for a smooch - giving 50 Shades Of Grey a serious run for its money. The tradie-turned-model pulled up the Celebrity Apprentice's skimpy black romper( rompers [ˈrɑmpərz] a piece of comfortable clothing for babies and small children that is made of one piece of material and covers their whole body. ) and grabbed her perky bottom 翘臀 as she pressed herself up against him. Nestling her head against his as she wrapped her slender arms around him, he bent over for a look at her toned 紧致的 and tanned derrière([ˌderiˈer] a person's bottom.). The pair also enjoyed some steamy lip action during the frisky ( I. feeling lively and full of fun. II. informal 性致满满的. horny. feeling that you want to have sex.) clench on the empty side street with Tegan the one going in for the kill(move/go in for the kill to prepare to defeat someone in an argument or competition when that person is already in a weak position: He asked her a couple of difficult questions and then went in for the kill.). Pulling Angus's head closer to hers, it looked as if the pair were getting reacquainted 久别重逢 again after years spent apart while he fought in some war. It seemed Angus started to feel a little uncomfortable with all of the PDA and help his hands up against her chest to gentle push Tegan away. But that didn't stop Tegan and the both burst out laughing as she played with his tousled ( tousle ['tauz(ə)l] to make someone's hair look untidy. ) brunette tresses( tresses [plural] long hair that hangs down a woman's back. ). 5. I think they are defective(I. 有缺陷的, 有问题的. 有故障的. imperfect or faulty. not made correctly, or not working correctly. defective brakes. "complaints over defective goods". II. dated or offensive. having mental disabilities. ). 创意租房: There are many other ways to squeeze every last cent out of your property. Renting out your garden to campers might be an option for you. Homecamp, a startup launched in August, allows you to advertise your home's garden to travellers. They'll pay to come along, pitch a tent and stay a while. It is recommended that the guests have access to a bathroom, which could be a basic composting toilet ( A composting 堆肥式厕所 toilet ( compost [ˈkompost] 粪肥, 肥料 to make decaying plants and vegetables into compost. n. a mixture of decaying plants and vegetables that is added to soil to improve its quality. potting compost the soil that you use when you put a plant in a container. ) is a type of dry toilet that uses a predominantly aerobic processing system to treat human excreta, by composting or managed aerobic decomposition分解. These toilets generally use little to no water and may be used as an alternative to flush toilets. They have found use in situations where no suitable water supply or sewer system and sewage treatment plant is available to capture the nutrients in human excreta([ɪkˈskritə]). They are in use in many roadside facilities and national parks in Sweden, Canada, US, UK and Australia. They are used in rural holiday homes in Sweden and Finland. The human excreta is usually mixed with sawdust, coconut coir or peat moss to facilitate aerobic processing, liquid absorption, and odor mitigation. Most composting toilets use slow, cold composting conditions, sometimes connected to a secondary external composting step. Composting toilets produce a compost that may be used for horticultural or agricultural soil enrichment if the local regulations allow this. A curing stage is often needed to allow mesophilic composting to reduce potential phytotoxins. ) or access to the bathroom in your home. An alternative to someone staying in your home is to provide a safe space for their storage needs. Innovative Australian company Spacer, currently in pre-launch mode, allows you to rent out your space for self-storage, acting as a link between those with empty rooms and those with storage needs. This could be a garage, spare room, sheds, basements, attic space or backyard. You could earn $150 to $250 a month for allowing others to store 存放 their boat, caravan or other vehicle in your driveway. With parking prices skyrocketing in many inner-city areas and growing congestion, your driveway could be a goldmine 金矿, 摇钱树(a money-spinner 摇钱树 (British & Australian) a business or product that makes a lot of money for someone. Cookery books are becoming a real money-spinner for the publishing industry. cash cow I.
(idiomatic, business) A product, service, or enterprise that generates
ongoing, high net free cash flows. II. (idiomatic, by extension) Someone
or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of
money; a moneymaker. money-changer A person who will exchange currency of one type for another for a fee or percentage. The money changer gave me rupees for my dollars. bonanza [bə'nænzə]
n I. 聚宝盆, 摇钱树. 大金矿. a source, usually sudden and unexpected, of luck or
wealth. By extension, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a
large income or return. The popular show quickly became a ratings bonanza for the network. II. (Mining & Quarrying) US and Canadian 大铁矿. a mine or vein rich in ore. heaven-sent bonanza飞来横财. heaven-sent adj providential; fortunate a heaven-sent opportunity. windfall风吹来的意外之财. ). It is worth checking local council regulations, by-laws and the appetite 胃口, 需求量 for parking spaces in your area, before marketing the spot. 6. Dollar jumps as RBA wrong-foots ( I. British to put someone in a difficult or embarrassing situation by doing or saying something unexpected. II. 骗过. 晃过. in sport, to make an opponent go in the wrong direction by suddenly changing the direction in which you move, or hit or kick a ball. not put a foot wrong 犯错 to do nothing wrong and not make any mistakes. During two days of tough interviews, he never put a foot wrong. get off on the right/wrong foot with someone to immediately establish a good/bad relationship with someone when you first meet them or first start working with them. I got off on the wrong foot with Patrick. ) punters: The Australian dollar jumped back above US72¢ on Tuesday after the Reserve Bank of Australia held the cash rate at 2 per cent for the sixth month in a row, while leaving the door open to another cut in the next few months. In late local trade the Aussie was buying US71.99¢, compared with around US71.65¢ just before the central bank made its call and a peak of US72.09¢ soon after the RBA published its decision, which disappointed some traders who had bet the RBA would ease. Although growth and inflation remain sluggish 乏力, 劲头不足, the central bank has been happy with the lower Australian dollar's assistance to non-mining segments of the economy, and the board looked through last week's surprisingly low consumer price index data for the third quarter. RBA governor Glenn Stevens, in his statement around Tuesday's decision, also noted that "prospects for an improvement in economic conditions had firmed a little 前景趋稳 over recent months". However, many economists judged his comments as dovish 鸽派的, 和事佬的 ( [ˈdʌvɪʃ] preferring to use peaceful methods to solve problems rather than fighting. ) and interest rate swaps market pricing immediately firmed up around another 25 basis point cut, the third in the current cycle, in February. Mr Stevens said "the outlook for inflation may afford scope 空间 for further easing of policy, should that be appropriate to lend support to demand". All eyes are now on Friday's quarterly statement on monetary policy, where the RBA is expected to downgrade its inflation outlook and could tweak its growth forecast. The latter, in the past, has been a precursor to rate cuts. "We see this as more dovish than previous commentary and can be viewed as an official easing bias," said Charlie Jamieson from Jamieson Cootes Bonds in Melbourne. "Clearly the RBA are now highly sensitive to any weaker data going forward that could derail economic conditions," he said. The Aussie's future direction 未来走向 will now partly depend on whether or not the US Federal Reserve lifts interest rates in December, or waits until March. This, too, will have a bearing on the RBA's deliberations, as will the fight against low growth and zero inflation in most of the rest of the developed world. "The Federal Reserve is expected to start increasing its policy rate over the period ahead, but some other major central banks are continuing to ease monetary policy," said Mr Stevens. "Volatility in financial markets has abated somewhat for the moment." JP Morgan's economist for Australia Stephen Walters said the mixed signals on inflation and growth were partly designed to stop the Australian dollar rallying too hard in the meantime. "This combination hints there is no urgency to act on the implied bias," he wrote. "Tactically, this approach makes sense, with the 'scope' for the cash rate to fall likely to cap any Australian dollar upside." Australia and New Zealand Banking group's co-head of Australian economics Felicity Emmett said regularly-questioned inflation targeting by central banks remained relevant, even though low input costs and a lingering global mismatch between supply and demand had kept consumer price growth close to zero in some parts of the world. "Overall, Tuesday's statement highlights the importance of inflation to the [RBA]," she said. "That is, despite the prospect of some improvement in activity the bank seems prepared to ease monetary policy on the back of a lower inflation outlook. "This, then, suggests that a move in December is unlikely. "The RBA seems more likely to wait until February when it will have another inflation number which will likely confirm the lower than previously anticipated inflation trajectory," she said. 7. Don't fall back on the fantasy land 求助于幻想世界, 异想世界(比如单身汉里, 电影里的浪漫场景). You are a grown man. sloshed [slɒʃt]
adjective informal drunk. "I drank a lot of wine and got sloshed". spotless [ˈspɒtlɪs] adj Something that is spotless is completely clean. 没有污点的; 一尘不染的. Each morning cleaners make sure everything is spotless. The house had huge, spotlessly clean rooms. What a pass off. 太假了. What's a handball 太对付了, 太踢皮球了. (pass something off as something to pretend that something is different from what it really is Mother would never try to pass off supermarket cookies as homemade, would she? The senator passed his impolite language off as "the way we talk where I come from." pass yourself off as somebody to pretend that you are someone else Maurice is trying to pass himself off as a journalist to get admitted to the press conference. pass off I. To happen. if an event passes off in a particular way, it happens in that way. The protest march passed off without any serious trouble. The millennium passed off without any disasters. II. To misrepresent something. He tried to pass off the imitation Rolex as genuine. III. To give something (to someone). IV. To abate, to cease gradually. wiki: In common law countries such as England, Australia and New Zealand, passing off is a common law tort which can be used to enforce unregistered trade mark rights. The tort of passing off protects the goodwill of a trader from a misrepresentation. The law of passing off prevents one trader from misrepresenting goods or services as being the goods and services of another, and also prevents a trader from holding out his or her goods or services as having some association or connection with another when this is not true. ) I don't want to do audition, or interview. I am straight offer only 直接给offer. partners in crime (be joined at the hip) 穿一条裤子, 一条绳上的蚂蚱 I. Fig. persons who cooperate in committing a crime or a deception. (Usually an exaggeration.) The sales manager and the used-car salesmen are nothing but partners in crime. II. persons who cooperate in some legal task. if two people are partners in crime, they have done something bad together She'd kept watch and made sure no one saw us while I actually took the bike so we were partners in crime. The legal department and payroll are partners in crime as far as the average worker is concerned. keep (close) watch (over someone or something) 站岗放哨, 放风 to guard or care for someone or something. to guard or care for someone or something. I'm keeping watch over my children to make sure they have the things they need. I think that an angel is keeping close watch over her to make sure nothing bad happens to her. disintegrate [dɪsˈɪntɪˌɡreɪt] I. 分解. 土崩瓦解. 崩坏. to be completely destroyed by breaking into lots of very small pieces, for example as the result of an explosion. The rocket disintegrated when it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere. II. if an organization or society disintegrates, it stops working effectively and fails completely. By 1688, King James' regime was beginning to disintegrate. Robin Williams' widow has spoken for the first time since the comedian took his own life, saying he had been "just disintegrating 崩溃" in the months before his death and likely had only three years to live. You know, we were living a nightmare. 8. 男孩冲出去拥抱被摔: 'A young fella snuck onto the field somehow but when he was coming up to give me a hug, he got smoked by a security guard, full-on tackled 扑倒 him,' Williams said after the event. 'He was only eight and the other fella was a big man so he was lucky he didn't break his ribs or something,' Williams explained about the encounter with Lines, who is in fact a teenager. 'Rather than have the medal hanging up at home, it's going to hanging around that young fella's neck. He can tell that story for a long time to come.' Line, who is a student at British private Somerset school, was born in Singapore but supports the All Blacks, the Telegraph reported. After the kind gesture to the young fan which wowed the world of sport, Williams was rewarded by World Rugby with a new medal. The game's governing body, not wanting the superstar to go without a memento for his achievements on the pitch because of his good-natured actions 好心, have 'dug out a spare' to send home with him. Williams was called on stage at World Rugby's awards ceremony in central London on Sunday night to be handed the replacement. 'World Rugby would like every winner this evening to go home with a medal, so they've rummaged 查找, 搜查, 翻找 in the store cupboard and they have found the final one,' said the event's host Alex Payne, before Williams was given a standing ovation. The 30-year-old centre, who was lauded for consoling deflated 垂头丧气的 South Africa players after the semis, explained that he wanted to do something special for Lines.
Mindfulness takes over the corporate world: Within the busy, multicoloured halls of Google's Sydney headquarters is a small room dedicated to silence. Cushions and the scent of essential oils fill the isolated space 充满空间 where technical program manager James Worsley retreats for 20 minutes every day. "You would think taking 20 minutes to do nothing might slow you down, but it actually frees you up to get a lot more done," he said. Employers in corporations including Google are introducing workers to new ways of reducing stress 减压 through meditation, yoga classes, and colouring-in books. Some are even helping them make smoothies. The stress-relief strategies are linked to what psychologists call "mindfulness全神贯注", a method of getting people to absorb the present moment and their physical surroundings. Law firm Seyfarth Shaw has just opened a meditation room for its staff in Melbourne. Justine Turnbull, a partner at the firm, said the program has been well received很受欢迎, 大受欢迎. "It is about engagement and caring about our people who are sometimes required to work above and beyond," she says. Lendlease has also recently announced it will give staff an extra three days a year for "wellbeing leave" which can be used to attend a yoga retreat, a preventive 预防性的 health check-up or a meditation course. Sydney recruitment company Precision Sourcing is among employers encouraging workers to grab a coloured pencil and colouring book for adults, instead of reaching for a cigarette or coffee to relieve stress. Google's Sydney office opened its meditation room in August in response to the lifestyle needs of its workers who had been using the library for meditation. Yoga classes are also conducted in the conference room. "One of the philosophies we have is to hire smart people and get out of the way and let them organise their work and their life. There are things we can do to make that easier," Google spokeswoman Annie Baxter says. Numerous studies have shown that when done properly and consistently over at least eight weeks, mindfulness can retrain the mind and ultimately discourage feelings of stress and anxiety. But academics including Professor Julie Cogin, of the University of NSW Business School, warn that it is not enough for workplaces to simply provide yoga classes or a meditation room while ignoring a more holistic 全方面的, 全方位的, 全面发展的, 全身心健康发展的 approach ( [houˈlɪstɪk] I. 从根本出发的. 注重根基的. 全面发展的. based on the idea that you should take care of your whole body and mind, rather than just treating a part of the body that is ill. a holistic approach to cancer. II. thinking about the whole of something, and not just dealing with particular aspects. a holistic approach to the region's development. ) to the workplace environment and culture. Professor of work and health at the University of Sydney faculty of health sciences Philip Bohle said he had mixed feelings about mindfulness and stress-management approaches being adopted in the corporate sector. "In lots of ways they are laudatory值得表扬的. I am sure they often enhance people's lives and they also can be quite useful for coping with excessive demands at work, as long as those demands are short-lived bumps 磕磕绊绊 in workload," Bohle says. "It gives you a way to be more resilient and deal with the ups and downs at work. But I don't think they are an adequate solution to workplaces where workloads 工作量 are chronically excessive." Work intensification, downsizing and outsourcing are becoming more common, as is unpaid overtime. "Just finding ways to make workers more resilient to cope better with stress and demands is like putting a Band-Aid on that," Bohle says. "Rather than just focusing on a worker's resilience, which is a good thing, we need to have a look at the underlying organisational causes: excessive demands and stressful work." Zoe Krupka, a psychotherapist who teaches at the Cairnmillar Institute in Melbourne, says there is little doubt that the practice of mindfulness can produce significant health benefits. But its current prominence in corporate culture is "nested within a social, cultural and political context where stress is now seen as a failure of the individual to adapt to the productivity demands of the corporation. "In other words, if you're stressed out, you're not working hard enough on your personal focus strategy. You're letting the team down," she says. An increasing part of her work as a therapist involves helping clients manage and "survive" the expectations of their workplace. "It used to be people coming in to talk about relationships. That balance has really shifted. There is a significant increase in people seeing GPs and therapists about work stress," she says. And while the practice of meditation or yoga can be helpful, mindfulness should not be used to encourage compliance ( [kəmˈplaɪəns] I. the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request. compliance with: strategies to force compliance with air quality standards. in compliance with: All building work must be carried out in compliance with safety regulations. II. the behavior of someone who is too willing to do what other people want or too willing to accept their opinions. non-compliance failure to follow an official rule or obey a law. Companies can be fined for non-compliance. ) in a toxic workplace. "If you are trying to meditate to manage the stress of a working environment that is untenable([ʌnˈtenəb(ə)l] 难以为继的. 继续不下U去的. impossible to continue because of serious problems, opposition, or criticism. She left, saying her job had become untenable. a. impossible to defend as fair, appropriate, or true. Their actions are untenable.), it is not going to help you in the long term and is going to be harmful," Krupka said. "For the woman in the situation of domestic violence, mindfulness and yoga can be very helpful, but she still has to get out of danger. "It is the fact that we are not identifying the dangers of overwork that I find concerning." Isabelle Phillips, a leadership consultant and researcher on mindfulness at the University of Technology Sydney business school, said 30 years of global research has supported the notion that eight weeks of mindfulness practice can change the physical structures of the brain. "It increases wellness and decreases ill health in a myriad of ways," she says. "There is little to be found that critiques mindfulness in the peer review literature". Sadhbh Joyce, a psychologist who works with the workplace mental health team at University of NSW and The Black Dog Institute, said mindfulness has proven to be effective if applied consistently. "You need a certain amount of time for mindfulness skills to be taught," she says. "Someone can do a mindfulness talk in the workplace and ticking a box doing something that is a step in the right direction. But if it's not consistent, then it is going to fall flat on its face."
