用法学习: 1. 水冲刷, 水冲洗. There's one spider web back there now, haven't got around to flooding him out – take the hose to it and flush it out. Won't flooding it out have any adverse affect on the electrics if it's an adjustable mirror? I got a full car wash and then vacuumed all the inner surfaces of the car. There were a lot of web strands 蜘蛛丝 back there, too, but I didn't see any spiders at the time. I also tried spraying the outside of the car with peppermint oil, since I read that spiders don't like it. Other than making my car smell like a candy cane, it didn't seem to work, since the following morning when I rolled down my window, another huge spider crawled out at me. Chamois leather 洗车后擦干用的布 (British pronunciation: [ˈʃæmwɑː] or American pronunciation: [ʃæmˈwɑː]) — sometimes known as a wash-leather or by the trade name "Shammy" ([ˈʃæmi]) — is a type of porous leather that is favored for its gentle, non-abrasive composition and absorption properties. Widely used for drying and buffing ( buff up 擦亮 to make something shine by rubbing it with something such as a soft cloth. ) vehicles, such as cars and vans, after washing. Small pieces of chamois leather are commonly used as blending tools by artists drawing with charcoal. The leather blends the charcoal more softly and cleanly than the artist's fingers, which can leave smudges. The charcoal can be washed from the leather using soap and water. wheedle 吹捧, 奉承, 拍马屁 to persuade someone using tricks, lies, or flattery (=praise that is not sincere). Try and wheedle a few extra pounds out of him. smarmy [ˈsmɑ:mi] 虚伪的. 礼貌的显得假的. 过于礼貌的. 不真诚的. ingratiating and wheedling in a way that is regarded as insincere or excessive. extremely pleasant and polite in a way that seems false. Falsely earnest, smug, or ingratiating. a smarmy salesman with a big smile. "a smarmy, unctuous reply". unctuous [ˈʌŋktʃuəs] 不真诚的, 做作的, 虚假的 seeming to be interested, friendly, or full of praise, but in a way that is unpleasant because it is not sincere. fish out 打捞出来, 捞出来. 2. psyche [ˈsaɪki] the part of your mind that controls your attitudes and behaviour. psych up [saɪk] informal to try to make yourself or someone else feel mentally ready for something. The team is trying to get psyched up for the game. I was psyching myself up to ask her out to dinner. psych somebody out 打击自信心, 摧毁自信心, 动摇信心 intimidate. to talk or behave very confidently in order to make someone who you are competing against feel nervous and less likely to succeed. to make someone believe that they will fail. To undermine the confidence of someone by psychological means; intimidate someone: The admissions officer really psyched me out during the interview. They psyched out the other team by chanting. Our strategy is to psych out the other team before the game begins. She failed the test after psyching herself out, thinking how important it was for her future. psych something/someone out 猜测, 猜透, 看穿, 看懂, 看明白 Analyze or understand something; also, anticipate the intentions of someone, as in It's hard to psych out the opposition's thinking, but we have to try. psyche out = freak out I. to have a nervous or emotional trauma; to go mad for a brief time. (see also freak (out).) Another day like this one and I'll psych out for sure. II. Inf. to become very excited; to lose mental control. I was so angry, I almost psyched out. The kids were psyching out over the rock star. 3. Once considered a niche player 小众品牌 in the $90 billion grocery market, Aldi has become a regular shopping destination for many households. 苹果6s的问题: It's meant to be an unwritten rule 不成文的规定. The launch of new iPhones brings a new generation of iOS that invariably causes some problems to older models, but the latest and greatest iPhones always work perfectly. Some think it's an upgrade conspiracy, others that issues are inevitable with older hardware. AppleInsider admits it has verified the problem through its own tests and the sheer volume of traffic about this on Apple Support Communities is overwhelming with search results producing numerous threads. While the end result of data loss is undisputed 无可争议的, 毫无争议的, 不可辩驳的, the exact cause 确切的原因 of it is less clear. The common perception is it stems from iCloud backup errors in iOS 9. Interestingly feedback from Apple has been highly contradictory. Affected users across the threads report both admission of the fault and denial it exists following their contact with Apple support representatives and AppleInsider cites confirmations that the company is aware of the issue, but it not yet offering a timeline 时间表, 时间点 for a fix. Looking to clear this up, I have been in contact with Apple's US and UK press teams but after some delay was told the official response is "No comment". As with all hardware/software faults on any platform it is impossible to know the full scale of this one, but the traction behind it implies Apple will need to act sooner rather than later. 恐袭: A police source said three suspects had been taken alive 被活捉 and arrested so far with security forces still trying to 'neutralise' more holed-up in the flat. An innocent person on the street may have been killed in the crossfire 交火 and up to four police may have been injured in the ferocious gunfight(firefight 交火, 交战), which is still ongoing. 4. 戴妃前情人要卖书信: "He said James will sell the letters. I think he mentioned a figure of £150,000," Zimet said. However, the card and letter sale fell through 流拍 when Zimet was unable to find a buyer. "There's bad juju ( [ˈdʒuːdʒuː] I. [uncountable] a type of magic from West Africa that uses objects that are believed to have special powers. II. [countable] an object used in juju. ) about them" he said. "A lot of people don't want to touch them. The irony is, about three months ago a person approached me who had a client, but James didn't want to sell. I guess he became paranoid about the possibility of publicity." Zimet added to The Mail on Sunday, "From the start I was told secrecy and privacy was paramount. That no one must know James was behind the sale of these letters. I was told it had to be hush-hush and that James wanted absolute privacy and discretion." 明星发明: Hedy's idea was if you could make both the transmitter and the receiver simultaneously jump from frequency to frequency, then someone trying to jam the signal wouldn't know where it was," said Mr Rhodes. But the Navy turned their noses up at the idea 嗤之以鼻, 看不起, 看不上眼(to not accept something because you do not think it is good enough for you: They turned their noses up at the only hotel that was available.) and failed to implement the technology. It wasn't until 1998, when the patent had expired, that Lamarr and Antheil were credited for their invention. MJ儿子的身世之谜: The 57-year-old also addressed the likelihood of Prince's biological father being Dr Arnold Klein. Mark described the doctor, who worked as the Beat It singer's dermatologist and passed away at the age of 70 in late October, as "no good" for the singer. "He [Dr Klein] was out for his own gain 心怀鬼胎, 别有目的, 别有所图. It would not surprise me if he inseminated his own sperm into Debbie [Rowe, Jackson's former partner]," he explained. "Klein would've been in control of the whole thing and his link to Debbie makes him the most likely candidate to be Prince's father. He bears more than a passing resemblance不止长得像." Many have pointed out the physical similarities between Prince and the doctor. In 2013, the Beverly Hills dermatologist further fuelled the fire when he posted an old driver's license showing himself as a young, brown-haired man alongside a photo of Prince. Despite the questions surrounding his paternity, Prince looks to the Jackson's as his family. 恐袭相关: The mark of respect 表示敬意, 表示尊敬 was observed at matches across Europe, including at Wembley where France faced England, after Islamic State militants struck Paris on Friday killing 129 people. 橄榄球巨星过世: Lomu was a force of nature(A force of nature is a natural phenomenon that humans cannot control. In physics, there are four fundamental forces. Force of Nature, as a legal term, may refer to: An event outside of human control for which no one can be held responsible, also known as an Act of God 上天所为, 上帝的旨意. "Force of nature" is an idiom. To say a person is a force of nature (is one, not has one) means the person is a very strong personality or character -- like a hurricane or a tsunami are also forces of nature -- full of energy, unstoppable, unchallengeable, unforgettable. In short, a person to be reckoned with.). At 6ft 5in, 19 stone and capable of running 100m in just over ten seconds, Lomu put the fear in most defensive lines. A year later he became a household name 家喻户晓的名字 following a stunning World Cup debut. The only thing capable of stopping the gentle giant was a rare kidney disease. He underwent a transplant in 2004, but his body rejected it seven years later. 5. stretch I. 弹性. 弹力. the ability of a material or piece of clothing to become wider or longer when you pull it, and return to its original shape and size when you stop pulling it. a fabric that will keep its stretch indefinitely. stretch pants 弹性裤, 弹力裤 women's trousers that are made of cloth that stretches. II. 伸展运动. a movement or exercise in which you make a part of your body as straight as possible so that your muscles become long and tight. First, let's do some warm-up stretches. III. a continuous period of time. stretch of: You can't learn it all in such a short stretch of time. at a stretch (=continuously): He'll surf the Internet for anything up to six hours at a stretch. a. [usually singular] informal a period of time spent in prison. do a stretch (for something): He's doing a 15-year stretch in Pentonville for armed robbery. IV. [countable] an area of land or water. stretch of: The village lay across a narrow stretch of water. a deserted stretch of road. a. [usually singular] the straight last part of the track in a race. the final/finishing/home stretch: The horses entered the final stretch shoulder to shoulder. V. 有点夸张, 有点过分. an exaggeration. That's a stretch to give you this ticket just because you have a dream about him. It would be a stretch to call this restaurant the best in the city. not by any/by no stretch of the imagination used for saying that you think something cannot be true or possible no matter how hard you try to imagine it. It's not a great work of cinema by any stretch of the imagination. rousing [ˈrauzɪŋ] 振奋人心的. 激动人心的. making you feel emotional, excited, or enthusiastic. a rousing speech/song/chorus. The game was held at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on January 27, 1991, during the height of the Gulf War. It was thus played under much patriotic fervor, highlighted by a rousing rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Whitney Houston during the pre-game ceremonies. a. expressing enthusiasm. rousing cheers/applause. rabble-rouser 挑事的人 someone who speaks to a group of people and encourages them to behave in a violent way, usually in order to gain political power. 6. on/from the sidelines If you are on the sidelines or do something from the sidelines, you are not actively involved in something: Women have been on the political sidelines for too long - we must now work towards getting into power. She could only watch from the sidelines as her brother's health deteriorated. stay on the sidelines If you stay on the sidelines, you are not an important part of what is happening. on the sidelines 置身事外. Observing rather than taking part, out of the action. Bolivia's neighbors remained on the sidelines, waiting to see which faction in the dispute would prevail. Mr Obama asked his Australian counterpart who he would be meeting on the sidelines of the conference. get through I. 打通. 打不通. to be connected to a place by telephone. I couldn't get through – the line was engaged. get through to: I finally got through to Warren on his mobile. II. [transitive] to finish dealing with some work, a subject etc. There was a lot to get through in the meeting. III. to reach a good enough standard to pass a test. How did he ever get through his driving test? get someone through something to help someone pass a test etc. IV. to use or finish something. How do we get through so much milk? "You're going to what?" Mr Turnbull initially asked. "Oh yeah, good certainly," he said once the message had gotten through. 关于澳洲: The huntsman is the ninth most dangerous spider in Australia, but this is only due to their menacing 吓人的 (=terrifying) appearance ( [ˈmenəsɪŋ] intended to threaten or frighten someone. a menacing look/tone. ). 'Their danger comes more from causing accidents by the terrified 吓坏了的 drivers who react to a huntsman jumping out from behind the sun visor or dashboard of a car when it's in motion,' Australian Geographic claimed. 音乐驱赶抗议民众: The rally edged towards violence when protesters tried to break through lines of police, who were carrying riot shields and wooden batons, to reach the summit venue. Police responded by firing water cannons and scuffled with protesters who were chanting: "Junk APEC". Then police pulled out their secret weapon: pop princess Katy Perry on giant loudspeakers. Perry's hit song "Roar" was played at full volume, the top of a demonstration disco playlist aimed at distracting the protesters and drowning out their chants. To add a street bass beat, some of the police tapped their batons against their shields in time with the music. Many other protesters also expressed anger at authorities trying to suppress their message of opposition to globalisation and free-trade policies championed by APEC.
克拉克的反击: Michael Clarke has launched a scathing ( [ˈskeɪðɪŋ] criticizing someone or something in a very strong way. The committee’s report is quite scathing. scathing attack/comment/remark: He launched a scathing attack on the Prime Minister.) attack on former teammates. The former captain used his Ashes Diary 2015, released this week, to square the ledger with ( square the accounts/books 清算, 算总账 to make certain that you have paid and received all the money that you owed or that others owed you. ) members from Australia's glory era who took a public swipe at him after he announced his international retirement in August. He described the "pot shots" thrown at him by Hayden and Symonds as a "low act", mounted a spirited defence of his leadership and contribution to Australian cricket and lambasted the media who had "smashed" him "for every failure of the team in the last 13 years". While Clarke was careful to avoid publicly criticising players during his decorated ( to give someone a medal because they have done something brave or good. They were decorated for their bravery.) 11-year international career, the gloves have come off( Gloves are off When the gloves are off, people start to argue or fight in a more serious way. ('The gloves come off' and 'take the gloves off' are also used. It comes from boxing, where fighters normally wear gloves so that they don't do too much damage to each other.). 'Kid gloves' 小心翼翼的, 小心谨慎的 If someone is handled with kid gloves, they are given special treatment and handled with great care. 'New kid on the block' A new kid on the block is a person who has recently joined a company, organisation, team, etc, and does not know how things work yet. ) in retirement. Clarke is particularly upset former teammates had used his retirement to "publicly kick" him, suggesting the comments were motivated by publicity in an attempt to shore up their own media profile 声誉. He savaged ( savage I. to criticize someone or something severely. Smith's play was savaged by the critics. II. if an animal savages someone, it attacks them and injures or kills them. A jogger was savaged by two Rottweilers yesterday. ) Symonds, with whom he was once close friends, after the all-rounder questioned Clarke's leadership style. "This is a guy who turned up drunk to play for his country. It's pretty rich 恬不知耻的 for him to be throwing rocks(that's rich used for saying that a criticism that someone makes is unreasonable because they themselves can be criticized for the same thing. You're insulted? That's rich, after what you said to me!)." He hit back at Hayden's assertion Clarke had threatened to hand back his baggy green cap if asked to continue fielding at bat-pad by Ricky Ponting, saying it was a tongue-in-cheek comment that had been misunderstood by the former opener. Clarke hammered Buchanan, who presided over one of the most successful eras in Australian cricket, for alleging that the culture of the baggy green had deteriorated under his leadership. "I don't think John knows a thing about the baggy green, having never worn one," Clarke wrote. "He's still living off the fact that he coached a team that anyone, even my dog Jerry, could have coached to world domination." He took over when Australia was in disarray in the wake of the 2010-11 Ashes capitulation ( capitulate [kəˈpɪtʃəˌleɪt] I. 屈服于. 降服于. to stop opposing what someone wants and agree to it, usually because they are stronger than you. The police capitulated and allowed the march to go ahead. capitulate to: We will not capitulate to the demands of terrorists. II. to stop fighting in a war and accept that you are defeated. ) and though there were many lows - including the 2013 whitewash in India and homework scandal and subsequent Ashes defeat - there was also a lot of success under his watch. He said criticism of his leadership was "rough". "That's a tough rap for someone who has led this team to a World Cup victory at home, won a Test series against the best team in the world, South Africa, in South Africa won an Ashes 5-0, and in Tests has taken Australia from fifth to number one in the world." "Any time we've lost, it's apparently been because of me - my personal life, my attitude, the way I've captained," Clarke wrote. "Apparently I've been holding us back all along, and now that I'm leaving everyone will get along famously and the Australian team will never lose another game." Clarke said the fierce criticism he received from the media in the wake of his retirement and reaffirmed 再次确认, 告诉自己 to him that he had made the right decision.
反恐反思: Despite the Martin Place siege and despite the Paris slaughter 屠杀( onslaught I. 蜂拥而至. 蜂拥到来. large numbers of people or things that come at the same time and are difficult to deal with. A large quantity of people or things resembling an attack. They opened the doors and prepared for the onslaught of holiday shoppers. II. an attack. like a lamb (to the slaughter) 温顺的, 听话的, 没有任何抱怨的 without complaining or arguing, especially because what is going to happen is not known and therefore not frightening.), the NSW government continues to leave Sydney ill-equipped to cope with a mass-casualty attack. When the Lindt Cafe terrorism siege turned deadly on December 16 last year, emergency services had access to a hospital just 120 metres away. Sydney Hospital. The victims could have been wheeled up Martin Place and into the emergency ward in about 60 seconds. But, acting on preordained 实现定好的, 事先约定的 protocols(determined in advance; predestined. something that is preordained is certain to happen and cannot be changed, especially because it has been decided by God.), the ambulances were sent to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Camperdown, 20 minutes away via heavy traffic. Worse, operating theatres and anaesthetists were on emergency standby at Sydney Hospital and trauma surgeons were being arranged, but attempts by the hospital to treat the victims were turned away被拒绝. The protocols were inflexible 不灵活的. Bureaucratic inertia 惰政 ( [ɪˈnɜ:(r)ʃə] I. 惯性. 惰性. 懒惰. a situation in which something does not change for a long time. a. a situation in which no progress is made or no action is taken. II. a feeling of not wanting to move or do anything. III. physics a property of matter that makes an object stay in the same position or continue to move in a straight line until its state is changed by an external force. ) also extended to the police. When the gunman, Man Haron Monis, appeared briefly in the front window of the cafe, an appearance captured by the media, the obvious response was a sniper shot to the head. But the police were either unwilling or unable to react. Their protocols were for them to wait, seek to negotiate 寻求谈判, and assume a bomb might be involved. Just as the protocols were too rigid 不灵活的, 协定严格不可变 for both the medical response and the tactical response, ASIO had also been warned, no less than 18 times, that Monis presented a danger. Yet he remained at large and unmonitored. The emergency, tactical and intelligence failures are not the end of the bureaucratic complacency( a complacent attitude or way of behaving. The government has been accused of complacency over food poisoning outbreaks. ), rigidity and inertia that continues to leave Sydney inadequately prepared to respond to a major terror attack. The courts also failed, but it would have been more surprising if they hadn't. Our justice system is inherently dangerous because it gives enormous latitude ( [ˈlætəˌtud] formal 自由度. 自由空间. freedom to use your own methods and judgment in doing something. He was allowed a lot of latitude in implementing company policy. ) to the violent. Monis was given so much latitude that his vexatious ( [vekˈseɪʃəs] = vexing making you feel annoyed, confused, or worried. ) rantings were allowed to clog the legal system ( clog I. [intransitive/transitive] to block something such as a pipe, tube, or passage, or to become blocked, so that nothing can get through. The drain's clogged again. be clogged with something: The streams are clogged with ice in winter. II. [transitive] 拖慢. 拖垮. to slow down progress or an activity. Unfounded lawsuits are clogging the court system.) all the way to the High Court. Separately, he was also charged as an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife, Noleen Pal. In 2013, A magistrate granted Monis bail on this charge and said his accusations about ASIO needed to be examined 检视, 审视. The criminal justice system is so routinely dysfunctional that all these warning signals were never consolidated into a single brief, which would have alarmed anyone who saw it. The emergency, tactical, intelligence, legal and moral failures by the state bureaucracies, as revealed by the Monis debacle, were compounded by the gratuitous 毫无来由的 ( [ɡrəˈtuɪtəs] done or shown without any good reason. There's too much gratuitous 不必要的 violence in the movie.) bureaucratic over-reaction when the centre of Sydney was locked down during the siege. If one not-very-smart and not-very-well-armed individual could cause so much damage and disruption, imagine what trained and heavily-armed terrorists could cause. When our politicians tell us that Australia's security apparatus has the terror situation under control, they are either bluffing, hoping or lying. Despite the Lindt Cafe debacle, and despite the Paris slaughter, the NSW government would still rather hope than act when it comes to emergency preparedness in the CBD. The government has refused to buttress ( [ˈbʌtrəs] v. to make someone or something stronger by supporting them in some way. n. 碉堡. a structure made of brick or stone that sticks out from the wall of a building to support it. flying buttress 飞扶壁 a curved structure that supports the wall of a building. ( Gothic church architecture. 哥特式建筑的特点. ) ) the most vulnerable target in Australia, the Sydney CBD, with its high-profile, population density, confined spaces and vulnerability to instant gridlock. The evidence for this accusation is palpable 触而可及的, 可感知的. The greatest resource in the city centre in the event of a catastrophic event, either by terrorism, skyscraper fire, or natural disaster, is Sydney Hospital. It sits at the heart of the area, is largely immune from gridlock, and is adjacent to the Domain, and thus ideal for multiple helicopter evacuations. Requests have been made repeatedly on behalf of Sydney Hospital to restore 重建, 恢复 its general surgery and orthopaedic surgery units. These were eliminated when former Premier Neville Wran gutted the hospital's capacity from 400 beds to 100. Reopening this surgery capacity would complement the hospital's eye and hand treatment units, which are the best in the country. The emergency protocols could then be changed and Sydney Hospital would become the first, obvious and closest destination for multiple serious injuries in the CBD. But the Baird government, like the O'Farrell government, and the Labor governments before them, has refused, in order to to save money. I know all this because Dr John Graham, who for 14 years was chairman of the department of medicine at Sydney Hospital and Sydney Eye Hospital, has been beating his head against a bureaucratic brick wall over this issue since 2006. "You only have to look at the failed surgical response to the Lindt Cafe event," he told me by email this week. "Who knows whether or not Katrina Dawson or Tori Johnson would have survived if immediate care had been provided? I have seen the availability of immediate care at Sydney Hospital save the lives of patients, including all nine who were injured in the terrorist bomb explosion at the Hilton Hotel in 1978."
