用法学习: 1. cross over to go some place by crossing a border, river, mountain range, etc. Do we want to cross over the river at this point? How do we cross over the highway? II. 跨界. 华丽转身. To extend the success or popularity of someone in one field into another: The jazz musician hoped the media exposure would cross her over to a pop audience. To extend success or popularity in one field into another: The actor successfully crossed over from the stage to the movies. cross over into: Several Latino singers have crossed over into mainstream rock. III. 叛变. 叛逃. To change from one condition or loyalty to another: The political party was furious when the senator crossed over and voted against the bill. Graham Greene crossed over from the Anglican to the Roman Catholic Church.. If he doesn't run I'm going to cross over to the Democratic Party. take someone up on something to accept an offer or invitation from someone: I think I'll take him up on his offer of a free ticket. hype to use a lot of advertisements and other publicity to influence or interest people. the much-hyped news show. hype up to make something sound more interesting or impressive than it is. The movie had been so hyped up that it was a bit of a disappointment when I eventually saw it. over-hype to make exaggerated claims about something. 2. rebirth VS rebody: I am looking to purchase a vehicle form Melb. The guy says it is a rebirth. Now how do I know he has not just cut the fire wall out and done a cut and paste job? There's rebirth and then there's a re-body. Rebirth is illegal, where they just swap the numbers from a car (usually a legitimately bought wreck) onto a stolen car. If the car has a history that it has been crashed or written off, but looks new and shiny its probably a stolen car. A re-body is where a wreck has been bought legitimately, and all the bits placed into a legitimately bought body shell, either an import or from the manufacturer. In this case the engine number wont match the body number, but shouldn't be a problem if none of it is listed as stolen. Have you been caught with car rebirthing? Sydney is the capital of a booming criminal trade in cars that have been rebirthed, where a write-off can be repaired with parts from a stolen car then sold privately with a legitimate compliance label. The gut wrenching reality is if you're caught this way, you have no legal comeback(comeback I. 回归. 重生. a period when someone or something becomes successful or popular again. make/stage a comeback: He's hoping to make his political comeback in the next election. Seventies styles have been making a comeback. II. British a way of making someone accept responsibility for something bad they have done to you. have no comeback: You signed away your rights, so you've got no comeback没有回头路, 没有后悔药. III. 回嘴. 回呛. a quick clever reply to a comment or criticism. ), even though you may have performed all the necessary pre-purchase checks. Car-rebirthing will be a write-off under new laws: The changes to be introduced in August are designed to crack down on car rebirthing gangs who pick up damaged vehicles at auctions and sell them to unsuspecting buyers with parts from stolen vehicles. "There is a black market for purchasing written-off vehicles at auctions, then using stolen parts to rebirth and register the car to be sold for a tidy profit," Transport Minister David Campbell said yesterday. "This isn't being done by licensed repairers - in most instances it's not financially viable 划不来的, 不划算的, 不经济的 for genuine repairers to repair these cars using legitimate parts," Mr Campbell said. "Some consumers are being taken for a ride 上当受骗 - motorists might be driving around in what's effectively a stolen vehicle. More importantly many of these vehicles have had dodgy repairs which can mask major structural damage." The legislation doesn't prevent anyone from selling parts from their written-off vehicle - it is specifically for repairable write-offs. Limited exemptions will include vehicles written off because of hail damage or some classic antique cars. 3. Shuffling 洗牌 is a procedure used to randomize a deck of playing cards to provide an element of chance in card games. Shuffling is often followed by a cut, to help ensure that the shuffler has not manipulated the outcome. heavy hitter 重量级人物 noun informal an important or powerful person. A person of considerable importance who is a major decision maker or capable achiever; an especially significant organization or an especially functional object. a person or organization with a lot of influence and power, especially in politics or business. "its membership includes many heavy hitters in the insurance industry". heavyweight A very large, heavy, or impressive person. an intellectual heavyweight. big shot I. (idiomatic) A person with a reputation of importance or power. They stopped traffic so some big shot and his entourage could have the whole road to themselves. II. (idiomatic) A rare and significant chance to achieve fame or success. Her one big shot at the brass ring. disjointed adj. lacking a coherent sequence or connection. Not connected, coherent, or continuous. The hours of his illness were disjointed 断断续续的, 不连贯的 and confusing as he drifted in and out of consciousness. "piecing together disjointed fragments of information". 4. hover I. 盘旋. 徘徊. 踟蹰. if a bird, insect, or aircraft hovers, it keeps itself in the same position in the air. An army helicopter hovered overhead. II. 犹豫不决. 踟蹰不前. to stay somewhere because you are waiting to do something or because you cannot decide what to do. The waiter was hovering by their table. Her hand hovered over the phone for a couple of seconds. III. to be in a state or situation that may change at any time. hover between: His girlfriend is hovering between life and death. IV. to be at or near a particular level without changing much. hover around/near: Their total world sales hover around the 50,000,000 mark. V. computing to put the mouse over an icon on a computer screen to get more information without pressing the mouse button. hover on the brink/edge/verge of something to be very close to doing or experiencing something, especially something unpleasant. Annabel was hovering on the brink of tears. swag board. swag way/swagway. A hoverboard (or hover board) is a levitating board used for personal transportation in the films Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III. Hoverboards resemble a skateboard without wheels. During the 1990s there were rumors, fuelled by director Robert Zemeckis, that hoverboards were in fact real, but not marketed 没有售卖 because they were deemed too dangerous by parents' groups. These rumors have been conclusively debunked 证伪. Some companies hoping to leverage the commercial success of the movies have marketed hovercraft vehicles as hoverboards, but these products have not been shown to replicate the experience depicted in the movies. Subsequent to the movies the hoverboard concept has been reused by many authors in various forms of media in fictional universes not directly related to Back to the Future. swagboard, swagway( swag v. (intransitive and transitive) 摇摆. To sway; to cause to sway. n. I. [countable] Australian a bag or a roll of cloth containing a traveller's personal possessions. II. [uncountable] informal old-fashioned stolen goods. III. a slang term for style. Style; fashionable appearance or manner. Now this dude got swag, and he was pushing up on me (grind on me. Rhianna的一首歌, 往身上蹭来蹭去) 往我身上爬(to have sex) but, it wasn't like I was kicking it or anything! Swag starts with the person themselves you just gotta have that swag and the clothes will just enhance it 衣服只是锦上添花. They've got those dumb Kanye sunglasses that are $3 a pair at any skanky old market, they've go the word SWAG airbrushed onto them; these kids are hanging around listening to crunk records, throwing around sayings like "Swag it out", "Turn my swag on", "Flip the swag switch and homie" and even "Get out your sweaty swag length and push it deep inside me". Let me tell you something - if I ever see those kids out in Gangnam I'll be caving their sorry heads in with my swag bat, or I'll be making out with their swag girlfriend while they're too busy smoking crack behind a brick wall because that's how we do things in Gangnam, sucker. IV. Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, such as those handed out at conventions. swagger v. to walk in a proud and confident way. n. a proud and confident way of walking or behaving. push up on something 向上推 to raise something upward; to push something up from below. Larry pushed upon the trapdoor and lifted it so he could climb out. Push up on this lever if you want the lights to get brighter. push on (with something) to continue to try to make progress with something. Let's push on with this project. We must finish it soon. Yes, let's push on and finish. 表示: [transitive] to persuade or encourage someone to do something that they may not want to do. push on someone or something 催促 to put pressure on someone or something. Don't push on me! I can't move any faster than the person in front of me! Push on this button if you want the steward to come. Push on the door a little. It will open. push somebody (into something/into doing something) 逼迫. 胁迫. 逼着. 催逼, 威逼, 催促, 强逼 My teacher pushed me into entering the competition. push somebody to do something No one pushed you to take the job, did they? push somebody/yourself to make someone work hard The music teacher really pushes her students. Lucy should push herself a little harder. push someone around/around Fig. to harass someone physically; to jostle someone. I wish you would stop pushing me around all the time. Stop pushing Max around if you know what's good for you. push: push something (informal) to try hard to persuade people to accept or agree with a new idea, buy a new product, etc. The interview gave him a chance to push his latest movie. She didn't want to push the point 强推 any further at that moment. be pushing 40, 50, etc. 逼近, 快, 马上就 (informal) to be nearly 40, 50, etc. years old. push all the (right) buttons 恰到好处. (informal) to do exactly the right things to please someone a new satirical comedy show that pushes all the right buttons. push somebody's buttons(informal) to make someone react in either a positive or a negative way I've known him for years, but I still don't know what pushes his buttons. push the envelope(informal) to go beyond the limits of what is allowed or thought to be possible He is a performer who consistently pushes the envelope of TV comedy. push your luck, push it/things (informal) to take a risk because you have successfully avoided problems in the past You didn't get caught last time, but don't push your luck! push something to the back of your mind 抛到脑后, 抛到一边, 抛到九霄云外 to try to forget about something unpleasant I tried to push the thought to the back of my mind. ): A self-balancing two-wheeled board or scooter is a portable, rechargeable battery-powered vehicle. It consists of two wheels arranged side-by-side, joined by two small platforms on which the rider stands, and an internal balancing mechanism. The device is controlled by the rider's feet on built-in gyroscopic, sensored platforms. The board first debuted in China, but became popular in the United States after numerous celebrity appearances with the device in 2015. There is no universally accepted name for the device, as its various product names are attributable to the companies which distribute it, not its Chinese manufacturers. The device's increasing popularity in Western countries has been attributed, in part, to celebrities being recorded riding, performing on or amusingly falling off it. 5. glory hound [haund] 追名逐利的人 A person seeking accolades at the expense of everyone else, particularly peers. Ray is such a glory hound. He did nothing on that project, but he presented it to management as if he had done all the work. hound I. 穷追不舍. 抓住不放手. to follow someone in a determined way in order to get something from them. She was sick of being hounded by the press. II. to force someone to leave a place or job by always being unpleasant to them. He claims the media hounded him out of office. runny-bum, runny bottom 拉肚子 the uncontrollable act of diahorrea in the worst form, usually from a food type that didn't agree with 相克的, 不相容的 you or an alien food type,! I had such an upset stomach yesterday. I had a runny-bum all day from it!!! 名人约会: Mariah Carey's Christmas album is usually a fixture in stores around this time of year. But it's reportedly her Greatest Hits record that's causing problems for staff at Crown Perth - a hotel owned by the singer's billionaire beau James Packer. According to the Sun Herald, the 45-year-old's tunes are playing on a loop 循环播放 in the hotel and casino complex, located on the banks of the Swan River. The move is said to be a directive from ( 指令. 命令. 要求. n. an official order. adj. giving precise orders, instructions or guidance. Is cognitive therapy directive or non-directive?) the 48-year-old owner himself but according to the publication: 'staff are going batty( batty slightly crazy. )'. 'Even some guests are, as they keep playing her music on repeat,' the inside source told them. More recently the couple were spotted together on Halloween, at Mariah's Festive Halloween Party. The couple dressed up for the occasion, with Mariah in a witch's garb, while James added a face mask to his suit to look like a phantom. The singer's ex husband Nick Cannon was also at the party, as were the couple's four-year-old twins. 6. The father-of-five suffered an infamous public meltdown in 2011, and has admitted to substance abuse and soliciting prostitutes 召妓. 航空公司新航楼: Even though the demand for aviation in Western Australia is slowing, we are not breaking stride with ( break (one's) stride 停下脚步, 放慢步伐 slow or interrupt the pace at which one walks or moves. to deviate from a rhythmic stride while walking, running, or marching. Slow or interrupt the pace at which one walks or moves: Davis scored from 20 yards without breaking stride. "Davis scored from 20 yards without breaking stride". After I broke my stride, I never could pick up enough speed to win the race.) our investments. We understand that aviation you have to be able to look through the cycle because what you are delivering is complex and has long lead times 不是一蹴而就的, 不是说有就有的, 不是说来就来的.
丹麦王子新剧: Thank goodness Channel Ten, and not one of the other commercial networks, took up the challenge of telling the story of Our Mary. It's a tale ripe for sticky sentiment ( sticky–sweet 甜的发腻的, 太甜的 extremely sweet, too sweet. sticky-sweet caramel. a sticky-sweet smell. a love song full of sticky-sweet sentiment. sticky I. a sticky substance sticks to other things. The dough should be soft but not sticky. a heavy sticky soil. a. 粘糊糊的, 黏糊糊的, 黏黏的. sticky objects are covered with a substance that sticks to things. I licked my sticky fingers. sticky with: His hair was sticky with blood. b. sticky food contains a lot of sugar and has a sticky surface. sticky toffee/cakes/buns. c. sticky paper or plastic has glue on one side so that it sticks to a surface. sticky labels. II. sticky weather is hot and damp (=with a lot of water in the air). a warm and sticky summer afternoon. a. if you feel sticky, your skin feels hot and slightly wet. III. informal a sticky situation is difficult or dangerous. IV. business, computing a sticky website is one that interests visitors so that they continue looking at it for a long time. have sticky fingers to be likely to steal something. ) and concocted ( concoct [kənˈkokt] I. 设计. 捏造. 图谋. 编造. to contrive something using skill or ingenuity. to invent a false explanation or false information, especially for a dishonest purpose. create or devise (a story or plan). "His cronies concocted a simple plan". II. 调制. 调酒. to produce something unusual by mixing things in a new way, especially a drink or meal. make (a dish or meal) by combining various ingredients. "She began to concoct a dinner likely to appeal to him". crony a close friend or companion. "he went gambling with his cronies". ) controversy and it's hard to imagine the more mainstream players being able to avoid the temptation. This sprightly ( 有活力的. (especially of an old person) lively; full of energy. a sprightly person is healthy and has a lot of energy. "She was quite sprightly for her age". ) effort, though – while certainly adhering firmly to the fairy-tale 童话般的 template – feels consistently lively, fresh and modern. One suspects that's largely thanks to writer Samantha Strauss, one of the creators of the award-winning Dance Academy. Although pitched at 目标瞄准, 定位于 a younger audience( pitch something at someone or something I. to throw something at someone or something. The boys pitched cans at the tree. We all pitched rocks at the big boulder. II. to aim advertising at a particular group. They pitched the ad campaign at teenagers. These comedy programs are pitched at the lowest level of mentality.), the ABC3 series delivered an appealing mix of fairy tale (kids following their dance dreams), believably flawed characters, equally believable age-appropriate romance, and an intelligent examination of the challenges the diverse group of kids faced. Strauss brings that same deft ( I. deft movements are made quickly and with skill. a. moving quickly and with skill. ) touch to this familiar story. There are no actual facts or insights here that we don't already know from a hundred articles in women's magazines. And one suspects Queen Margrethe II has been made rather more unpleasant than she is in real life, purely to add a little friction 戏剧摩擦 to ( I. 戏剧冲突. [countable/ uncountable] disagreement. friction between: There is some friction between the various departments. friction with: The decision is likely to lead to friction with neighbouring countries. II. [uncountable] the fact that one thing rubs against another. He had burn marks from the friction of the ropes on his skin. a. 摩擦力. science the physical force that makes it difficult for one surface to move over another. ) the story. (After all, a romance to which there are no impediments ( I. formal something that makes it more difficult for someone to do something or more difficult for something to happen. impediment to: The size of the service sector is an impediment to economic growth. II. a physical or psychological problem that affects how well someone can do something. a speech impediment. ) is not much of a story.) What we do get is a heartfelt and credible romance between two young people that focuses on their personal connection (and the delicious thrill of the first flush of love) – and their ordinariness. By framing them as regular 20 somethings (which, of course, they were), and giving them dialogue that reflects that, a terrific sense of connection is established between our heroes and the audience. This has also been extremely well cast. Emma Hamilton and Ryan O'Kane certainly both look the part. They also both come with solid acting pedigrees (including a longish stint in The Tudors for Hamilton) that allows them to convince us beyond the physical resemblance. The resulting package is unquestionably fairy-floss light – and, in big chunks, complete fiction – but it's also completely charming. 查理辛染艾滋: Sheen said that he had told people that he trusted his status over the past few years, but also bought the silence of others. 'I have to put a stop to this onslaught, this barrage of attacks and of sub-truths ( home truths unpleasant facts or opinions about you that someone tells you.) and very harmful and mercurial ( I. likely to change your mood or opinion unexpectedly. II. lively and continuously active. ) stories that are about me, that threaten the health of so many others that couldn't be further from the truth,' said Sheen about his decision to go public with his status. 'We're talking about shakedowns(I. a test of something new, for example a new system, vehicle, or machine. The accident happened during a shakedown race last season. II. American 勒索. 封口费. a situation in which someone uses threats to force someone else to give them money. Extortion, especially through blackmail. What is this, a shakedown? III. American 仔细搜索. a situation in which someone searches a place thoroughly. A thorough search; a frisk.),' Sheen said of some of the people he had been forced to pay to keep quiet. 'I have paid those people. Not that many, but enough. 'I don't want to guess wrong( He guessed right/wrong. guess 猜测 at something We can only guess at her reasons for leaving. guess something 猜到, 猜出 Can you guess his age? She guessed the answer straight away. You'll never guess what she told me. keep somebody guessing (informal) to not tell somebody about your plans or what is going to happen next. It's the kind of book that keeps you guessing right to the end.), but enough to bring into the millions. What people forget: that's money they're taking from my children; I've got five kids and a granddaughter.' In a letter to Lauer written before his appearance, Sheen said of his life after learning of his diagnosis; 'In and around this perplexing and difficult time I dazedly ( unable to think clearly or understand what is happening because you are surprised, upset, tired, or have been hit on the head. ) choose or hired the companionship of unsavory ( I. 不愿想的. 不愿谈及的. 不愿提及的. involving things that you do not want to think or talk about, for example crime or sex. an unsavory character/reputation/business. II. 不可口的. food that is unsavory smells and looks bad. ) or insipid ( I. not enjoyable to eat or drink because of having very little taste. II. boring, dull, or pale, with no interesting features. The walls were painted an insipid beige colour. ) types. 'Regardless of their saltless reputations, I always led with condoms and honesty when it came to my condition. 'Sadly, my truth soon became their treason as a deluge of blackmail and extortion took center stage in this circus of deceit.' Lauer then asked Sheen why he continued to cavort with 鬼混. 厮混. ( [kəˈvɔ:(r)t] to play, dance, or have fun with someone, especially in a sexual way. He was seen cavorting with two scantily clad women. ) 'unsavory' characters even after some were able to successfully extort him. 'Because I was so depressed by the condition I was in I was doing a lot of drugs. I was drinking. And I was making really bad decisions,' said Sheen. In another passage from the letter Sheen wrote to Lauer, the actor said of the his state after being diagnosed; 'The personal disbelief, karmic confusion, shame and anger led to a temporary yet abysmal [əˈbɪzm(ə)l] descent ( extremely bad or low in quality. Some of the teaching was abysmal. an abysmal failure. ) into profound substance abuse and fathomless ( [ˈfæðəmləs] I. complicated and mysterious. II. very deep and impossible to measure. ) drinking.' Lauer asked if Sheen's behavior in early 2011 when he did a slew of interviews with almost every major network in which he claimed to have 'tiger blood' and be a 'ninja assassin from Mars' was a result of learning about his diagnosis. 'I wish I could blame it on that but that was more of a 'roid rage ( You may put your fist through a wall. The impulse is there; it's overreaction. Forget the roid, for the moment. It's a rage ... and that rage is precipitated by the brain being exposed to anabolic steroids. Roid rage 吸毒后变得易怒, 冲动, 好斗, 残暴 is a term given to people who act in very aggressive or hostile manner after taking large doses, usually on a regular basis, of anabolic steroids, sometimes nicknamed as roids. In recent times, several prominent murders and brutal attacks have been linked to roid rage, which might suggest a person is less responsible for committing a crime. This is not always an adequate defense given that people who take anabolic steroids tend to do so willingly. Further, roid rage resulting in violent behavior may be a little more complex than it is generally portrayed in the media. When people use anabolic steroids, a dangerous practice for many reasons, they are essentially placing extra levels of testosterone in their bodies. This hormone can at first have positive effects on the psyche, which later turn negative. Steroid users at first may equate steroid use with feeling well, unconquerable or very happy. Continued use of steroids may result in much greater mood and behavior change. People may become more aggressive, more hostile, or they may manifest symptoms of various forms of mental illness, like schizophrenia, mania, and deep depression. Anabolic steroid use is linked not only to roid rage and sudden mood changes, but also to a higher incidence of suicide than in the general populace. ),' said Sheen. 'But this was on the heels of 紧跟着, 紧接着 that I would say.' 'It started with what I thought was a series of crushing headaches and insane migraines and sweating the bed completely drenched 湿透, 水湿, two, three nights in a row,' said Sheen of his first symptoms. Sheen also said that he is not longer doing drugs at this time, and taking four pills a day as part of his drug cocktail to fight the virus. He did admit that he is still drinking a little bit. 'We're petrified about Charlie. We're so, so anxious,' said Huizenga (Charilie Sheen's doctor) in reference to the actor's lapses in the past with drugs and alcohol. 'If he was overly depressed, if he was abusing substances he would forget these pills. That's been an incredibly worry. 'And magically somehow in the midst of incredible personal mayhem he's managed to continue to take these medications.' 'I told my oldest daughter Cassandra the other night and I felt bad,' said Sheen. 'It hit her hard and she recovered. She's tough like her dad. And she said, "Wow."' Sheen then got a bit choked up 哽咽 before he continued to describe their conversation, saying; 'I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner, it didn't seem like you could do anything for me and I didn't want to burden you with all the stress. 'But she was a rockstar about it.' He did not say if he had told his four youngest children.
Boring machine: bore v. I. [transitive] to make someone feel impatient or dissatisfied, especially by talking to them about things that are not very interesting. I hope I'm not boring you. bore someone with something: I won't bore you with all the details. II. 挖洞. 钻洞. 打洞. [intransitive/transitive] to make a deep hole in something hard. bore into/through: insects that bore through wood. bore into someone/something if someone's eyes bore into you, they look at you very hard and this makes you feel nervous. In machining, boring 扩洞, 扩阔 is the process of enlarging a hole that has already been drilled (or cast), by means of a single-point cutting tool (or of a boring head containing several such tools), for example as in boring a gun barrel or an engine cylinder. Boring is used to achieve greater accuracy of the diameter of a hole, and can be used to cut a tapered hole. Boring can be viewed as the internal-diameter counterpart to turning, which cuts external diameters. There are various types of boring. The boring bar may be supported on both ends (which only works if the existing hole is a through 洞穿的, 穿透的洞 hole), or it may be supported at one end (which works for both through holes 通透的洞 and blind 一头通的洞 holes). Lineboring (line boring, line-boring) implies the former. Backboring (back boring, back-boring) is the process of reaching through an existing hole and then boring on the "back" side of the workpiece (relative to the machine headstock). A tunnel boring machine (TBM), also known as a "mole", is a machine used to excavate tunnels with a circular cross section through a variety of soil and rock strata. It may also be used for microtunneling. They can bore through anything from hard rock to sand. Tunnel diameters can range from a metre (done with micro-TBMs) to 19.25 metres to date. Tunnels of less than a metre or so in diameter are typically done using trenchless construction methods or horizontal directional drilling rather than TBMs.
