用法学习: 1. belter I. (Britain, informal) Anything that is particularly good of its class. an exceptional or outstanding example of something. "Owen made the goal with a belter of a pass". In New Zealand, Yep, the Department of Internal Affairs doesn't allow any name that implies a title or rank, such as Messiah, Christ or Bishop. The New Zealand Herald also reported that in 2014, rejected names 被拒的名字 included Duke, Prince, Princess and wait for it as it's a belter… Special Constable. Seriously, WTF? For those who have been trapped on a deserted island with no phone signal, Kim, 35, gave birth in LA on Saturday after a bit of a rough pregnancy. She announced the baby name on Twitter yesterday, with Saint West immediately trending. But the reaction was generally a raised eyebrow and requests to buy a baby name book. II. (Britain, informal) A very good-looking person. III. a loud, forceful singer or song. "a real bawdy belter called 'Ready For Love'". traverse [trəˈvɜː(r)s] 跨越, 穿越 to move over or across an area. To travel across, often under difficult conditions. He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side. It took several weeks to traverse the desert. II. To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly. to traverse all nodes in a network. C# 5.0 in a nutshell: Under the covers私底下, interpreted queries differ from local queries in how they execute. When you enumerate over an interpreted query, the outermost sequence runs a program that traverses the entire expression tree, processing it as a unit. In our example, LINQ to SQL translates the expression tree to a SQL statement, which it then executes, yielding the results as a sequence. n. Something that thwarts or obstructs. He would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control. buff up I. (transitive, idiomatic) to improve. II. (transitive) 擦亮. to shine; to make shiny. to make something shine by rubbing it with something such as a soft cloth. III. (intransitive, idiomatic) to become more muscular. IV. (intransitive, idiomatic) to study hard to learn a particular subject. I'll need to buff up on my Italian 提高, 加强 before my trip to Genoa. brush up I. To paint, or make clean or bright with a brush. II. to practice and improve your skills or knowledge of something. To review; to improve an existing but rusty or underdeveloped skill. I'll need to brush up (on) my Greek before my trip to Athens. I took a class to brush up my German before the trip. brush up on: the opportunity to brush up on various techniques. 2. masochistic [ˌmæsəˈkɪstɪk] I. Masochistic behaviour involves a person getting sexual pleasure from their own pain or suffering. 性受虐狂的. his masochistic tendencies. II. 自作自受的. If you describe someone's behaviour as masochistic, you mean that they seem to be trying to get into a situation which causes them suffering or great difficulty. Deriving pleasure from abuse, being punished, or dominated. 受虐狂的. It seems masochistic, somehow. sadistic [səˈdɪstɪk] A sadistic person obtains pleasure from hurting other people and making them suffer physically or mentally. getting pleasure from hurting or being cruel to someone else 有施虐狂的. The prisoners rioted against mistreatment by sadistic guards. sanity I. the state of having a healthy mind and not being mentally ill: He'd been behaving so strangely that they began to doubt/question his sanity. to keep/preserve/retain your sanity 保持理智. to lose one's sanity, keep one's sanity, have one's sanity kept. save one's sanity. II. 理智. the fact of showing good judgment and understanding: The closer we got to the deadline for action, the more I questioned the sanity of the decision we had taken. Maybe Jenny can bring some sanity into this crazy situation. honeypot 色诱间谍, 美女间谍 I. (espionage) A spy who uses sex to trap and blackmail their target. II. 蜜罐. Vagina. He spread her legs to get a better view of her honey pot. like bees/flies around a honeypot surrounding someone or something that is attractive or interesting. honey shot a shot of a pretty young woman in the crowd at a sporting or cultural event, broadcast on TV. In a clip from the documentary, Sidaris takes credit for bringing the honey shot to the masses, explaining that he's a "dirty old man.". "get (one's) priorities straight" 优先级搞错, 没搞清楚孰轻孰重, 没分清轻重: This phrase describes changing your priorities to place high value on the correct things.
关于Loser's Game VS Winner's Game: It's
an OK article, and the most important point is that investing that way
results in "fewer mistakes." But it bothers me that Blodget and many
others are completely missing the meaning of the phrase "the loser's
game," as put forward by Charles D. Ellis in his seminal essay, The
Loser's Game. The phrase "the loser's game" refers to a book by
one Simon Ramo entitled Extraordinary Tennis for the Ordinary Tennis
Player. Ellis says "Dr. Ramo summed it up this way: Professionals win
points, amateurs lose points." A loser's game means a play, and a level
of play, at which the outcome is determined by the ability to avoid
mistakes. Only at the very highest professional levels does it become a
winner's game -- a game in which both players are essentially perfect at
avoiding mistakes, and the outcome is determined by actually beating
one's opponent with better play. According to Ellis, the rise of
institutional investing has made investing into a "loser's game." That
doesn't mean that you shouldn't play it, or that only losers play it. It
means, very specifically, that people who succeed at investing don't do
it by making brilliant moves that beat other investors, they do it by
avoiding mistakes. In other words, he is saying, you and I should
not be trying to learn how to play a winner's game, we should accept
the fact that we are in a game that is a loser's game and seeking to
learn how to play in that kind of game. He says one might be well
advised, "Don't do anything because when you try to do something, it
is on verage a mistake." And if you can't beat the market, you
certainly should consider joining it. An index fund is one way. His
suggestions for "those who are determined to try to win the Loser's
Game" are: "First, be sure you are playing your own game. Know your
policies very well and play according to them all the time... Second,
keep it simple.... Third, concentrate on your defences... Fourth, don't
take it personally."
穿耳洞: sow [səu] 播种 to plant seeds in the ground. Sow the seeds thinly outdoors in spring. There's still time to sow broad beans for an early crop. sow fear/doubt/confusion etc to make people feel afraid, doubtful, confused etc. These people are terrorists who want to sow fear and panic among our people. sow/plant the seeds of something to do something that makes a process or feeling start to develop. The seeds of doubt were already planted in his mind. sew [sou] (sewed, sewed/sewn) I. to make or repair clothes using a needle and thread. sew a skirt/hem. II. to fasten something using a needle and thread. sew something on something: He was sewing a new button on his jacket. sew up I. [usually passive] informal to achieve something by dealing successfully with it, or by making certain that you are going to win. get/have something (all) sewn up: We've got the deal sewn up now. They seem to have the contest all sewn up. II. to repair something such as a hole in a piece of cloth by sewing it. Why I got my gaping ear lobes 耳垂 sewn up: ( My pierced ear holes have torn, and holes need to be sewn up, and ears repierced? Who can sew holes up? Doctor? If so, what kind of doctor? Plastic surgeon, dermatologist? Will insurance cover? How long after can I get ears repierced? This is something normally done by a dermatologist or plastic surgeon. They'll normally ask you to wait a year before getting repierced. When you get repierced, go to a real, professional piercer, such as one in a tattoo shop. You need an experienced professional because the doctor will want them to avoid the scar tissue, and not repierce where you were pierced before, so you need the piercer to place the new piercings just so.) Just over a year ago I wrote an article for the Telegraph website explaining why I wore large, wooden discs in my ear lobes. With youthful insouciance ( insouciant 不考虑后果的, 不计得失的 一时兴起的 [ɪnˈsusiənt] Carefree, nonchalant, indifferent; casually unconcerned. not worrying about or paying attention to possible problems. his insouciant manner. ) (call it naivety [naɪˈi:vəti], if you must), I mused that my appearance should not impair 影响, 干扰, 妨碍, 挡路 my chances of future employment. It was a case of me - and my ears - against the world 全世界反对, 反对全世界, 向全世界宣战(It was me against the world. "It was you and me against the world" and "You and I were against the world". It means that you're taking a lone stand - you alone against the rest of the world.). The reception 接受度 was mixed. I was told, variously, by the site's ever astute ( [əˈstut] 精明的. 善于审时度势的. good at judging situations and people quickly and able to use this knowledge for personal benefit. quickly and critically discerning. shrewd or crafty. ) commenters that my lugs ( n. I. ear. II. 拖. 拉. 拖拉. The act of hauling or dragging. a hard lug. The pack is a heavy lug. v. to carry or move something with difficulty because it is very heavy. She lugged his bag out into the hall. ) were "daft" ( insane, mad. silly. stupid. ), "stupid", and that "with the right glasses" I could "be Deidre Barlow". An occupational hazard, I suppose - but it only served to further entrench my commitment ( I. (military) To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in. The army entrenched its camp, or entrenched itself. II. (figuratively) To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc. III. To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or upon. entrenched [ɪnˈtrentʃt] 深入骨髓的, 根深蒂固的 entrenched attitudes or feelings have existed for a long time and are difficult to change. ) to my gaping 大张着口的, 大开口的 ear holes. So it's with a certain amount of contrition 后悔. 悔恨 ( [kənˈtrɪʃən] contrite [ˈkɒntraɪt] [kənˈtraɪt] very sorry or ashamed because you have done something bad. Sincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one's own actions; apologetic. ) that I now write to report that, much to the delight of my Grandmother, I recently I travelled to Wolverhampton and endured two hours of cutting and stitching until the holes that I had begun stretching as an angsty 14-year-old were no more. As a teenager, I was desperate to emulate 模仿, 效仿, 有样学样 the post-grunge style of my musical heroes and wear my badge of honour for all to see; but the truth is that, now a twenty something approaching the world of work, I am sick of people making not eye, but ear-contact. It wasn't just the cynical comments from passers-by 路人 ("look at those holes in your ears!" - as if I wasn't aware), nor the fact that total strangers felt entitled to touch my ears. My decision, a year before I graduate in journalism from university, came about because I realised that my ears were dragging me down. The sad reality 现实骨感, 悲哀的现实 is that my previous insistence 以前的坚持 that employers should should judge me on my aptitude 能力, 才干 and not my appearance was a youthful fantasy 年少轻狂的幻想. You can get the job done on the NHS, but I couldn't see why the taxpayer should foot the bill for what is essentially self-mutilation. It's often said you get more conservative as you grow older, and regarding my appearance, that is certainly true. Next May, I'll be entering a highly competitive job market, in which thousands of graduates from scores of universities will be applying for a handful of jobs. I know that if I turn up on the day of an interview with qualifications, experience and merit that are equal or better than the person next to me, I stand a good chance of getting the job. If I turn up with giant holes in my ears, my chances will wither. It's a situation I've played over in my head a thousand times. If anyone faced with a similar dilemma is reading this, let me reassure you that the procedure itself isn't at all that bad. Compared to the initial stretching (using special tapers) in my teens, the repair, without anaesthetic, was relatively painless and my ears healed quickly, leaving me with minimal scarring and quite normal looking lobes that don't draw attention.
女子性贿赂海关官员: A 55-year-old woman has been charged with offering sex to a Customs and Border Patrol officer if he would allow her adult daughter to pass through Kennedy Airport with undeclared goods valued at $160,000. Hong Yang, a divorcee who lives in China, was arrested over the weekend for customs fraud by U.S. Homeland Security agents. Customs and Border Patrol officers discovered the daughter had in her possession several undeclared goods, including expensive designer pocketbooks, wristwatches, a fur coat and diamond jewelry valued at $160,000. Yang allegedly wrote her nickname and a telephone number on a piece of paper and passed it to the officer, according to the complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court. Then she allegedly offered him $10,000 and a wristwatch 腕表 if he let her daughter pass through Customs with the goods, the complaint states. The honest officer excused himself to get wired up for sound, and returned to Yang where, this time, she upped the bribe to an offer to "sleep with" him and take him to China, according to the complaint. Yang was not charged and was allowed to leave the airport, defense lawyer Robert Gottlieb told the Daily News. She was arrested over the weekend at the airport when she attempted to board a flight back home to China. Yang was released on $250,000 bail on Monday afternoon and will reside at her daughter's apartment on E. 54th St. "There was clearly a misunderstanding that unfortunately has resulted in an unjust arrest of a wonderful woman," Gottlieb said. 悉尼火鸡成灾: Thanks to two wet summers and successful fox control programs in national parks around Sydney, the distinctive red-headed native bird has made a steady march south to the Harbour. Conservation group Birds In Backyards has recorded an increasing number of brush turkey sightings in urban areas over the past six years. Now they have made it to the Harbour's edge, with a colony in Hunters Hill. Birds in Backyards program manager Holly Parsons said actual number of sightings would be much higher, with only a fraction 一小部分 reported. "They are not uncommon any more," Ms Parsons said. "They are a bird that seems to be on the move across the northern suburbs." Usually found in rainforests, the noisy, aggressive birds are attracted to our lush gardens, where they cause havoc, tearing up flower beds and raking 刨堆 compost heaps ( Compost 植物肥料, 堆肥 [ˈkɒmpɒst] or [ˈkɒmpoust] ( 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 organic matter that has been decomposed and recycled as a fertilizer and soil amendment. Compost is a key ingredient in organic farming. At the simplest level, the process of composting simply requires making a heap of wetted organic matter known as green waste (leaves, food waste) and waiting for the materials to break down into humus after a period of weeks or months. Modern, methodical composting is a multi-step, closely monitored process with measured inputs of water, air, and carbon- and nitrogen-rich materials.) and leaf litter into enormous mounds (I. a small hill, especially one that has been made by people. a. the small hill where the pitcher stands to throw the ball in baseball. II. 土堆. 石堆. a pile of something such as earth or stones. a. an amount of something in a pile. a mound of papers.) where they incubate their eggs. They can also frighten pets and eat their food. But should you find a turkey nesting in your backyard, don't think you can just get rid of it - the birds are a protected species. But the feelings are not always reciprocated 有来有往的, 互相的, especially when a male begins to build a giant nest. "The mounds can be up to 4m in diameter and 1m high," Ms Parsons said. Brush turkeys are not the only animal to benefit from the reduction in fox numbers. Many small mammals including native bush rats and bandicoots have enjoyed a reprieve [rɪˈpriv] ( I. a decision to stop or delay something bad that was going to happen. II. 赦免. 免于死罪(absolve/absolution, pardon, spared, grant reprieve to turkeys). an official decision not to kill someone who was going to be killed as a punishment. 赦免火鸡报道: Turkeys have been delivered to the White House for centuries, but more often than not these were prime specimens intended for eating. While pardoning the Thanksgiving turkey today, President Obama absolved it with what he called a "special dispensation," making the Sign of the Cross over the gobbling turkey. It appears that Obama made a left handed, backward sign of the cross. Obama grants reprieve to turkeys 'Honest' and 'Abe' during White House ceremony: President Barack Obama spared two turkeys named for one of the nation's most admired presidents, continuing a White House tradition that provides a refreshing sense of amusement and bipartisan cheer no matter how troubled the times. Obama pardoned "Abe," the 2015 national Thanksgiving turkey, during a ceremony Wednesday in the Rose Garden. Abe gobbled right on cue( gobble or gobble down or gobble up I. 吞食. 大吃大嚼. 饕餮. 狼吞虎咽. [transitive] to eat something quickly and often noisily. He gobbled down his lunch and left. II. [intransitive] 火鸡叫. to make the sound made by a turkey. gobble up I. 吞噬. 吞掉. 独吞. to use a lot of something very quickly. The military gobbles up all the money. II. 吃掉. 吞掉. if a large company or organization gobbles up a smaller one, it takes control of it.) as Obama finished his absolution. Don't fret for "Honest," though, the second bird who was nearby if off camera. Both turkeys will spend their remaining days living it up on a Virginia farm. The White House's pardoned turkeys aren't so lucky after Thanksgiving: Every year, the president grants a stay of execution ( A stay of execution 缓期执行 is a court order to temporarily suspend the execution of a court judgment or other court order. The word "execution" does not necessarily mean the death penalty; it refers to the imposition of whatever judgment is being stayed. ) for two birds, and some even go to Disney World – but due to their diet, their days are still numbered. Every year as Americans gather around a table of mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and turkey, two fortunate birds are saved from the serving plate and sent to the White House, where they are granted a stay of execution. A stay can be granted automatically by operation of law or conventionally, when the parties in a civil or criminal case agree that no execution shall occur for a certain period. If a party appeals a decision, any judgment issued by the original court may be stayed until the appeal is resolved. ) from the introduced species, Sydney University wildlife management expert Mathew Crowther said. "They have been baiting in Ku-ring-gai National Park and that appears to have had a positive impact on many small mammals," Dr Crowther said. But as one introduced pest was brought under control, Sydney's wet weather was speeding up the return of another. "Rabbits go through cycles and we have had a wet summer with lots of rain so I wouldn't be surprised if we saw more rabbits with all the green growth around," he said. 全球搜索这个女孩: Justin Bieber's mysterious Instagram crush has spoken out on social media after a worldwide search to discover her identity. A young woman, under the Instagram name 'wolfiecindy', admitted she was overwhelmed by the attention she received after the singer posted her image on his own account on Monday. The Canadian demanded to know the identity of a mystery girl he spotted on Instagram as he uploaded an image of her, who bears a striking resemblance to Russian model Irina Shayk, then pleaded with his fans to help him track her down. He captioned the image: 'OMG who is this!' and was duly inundated by messages from female fans claiming to be the young lady, although sadly for the 21-year-old they were telling tales 胡说八道, 讲故事. Fans soon flocked to Twitter to tell him it was supposedly a girl called Cindy Kimberly, who has a habit of posting selfies on her Instagram page. It is unclear where she is from but her Instagram profile reads: 'My name is Cindy and I get too excited about fictional related stuff.' Following hours of speculation, an account under the name 'Wolfiecindy' posted a statement on Tuesday evening claiming she was overwhelmed by the furore over her identity. She wrote: 'I so do not know how to deal with this but I only have Instagram and Tumblr so whatever other stuff people are finding is fake (I did use to have a Twitter account but I deactivated).' And as well as posting a number of selfies, she has also put up 贴, 张贴 several drawings of herself, some of them created by her 108,000 followers. The image Justin posted was certainly popular, attracting more than 700,000 likes within the space of a few hours. One fan wrote: 'The girl Justin posted a picture of is actually stunning like OMG.' The post follows reports that Justin's former flame Selena Gomez, 23, locked lips with One Direction star Niall Horan, 22, at Jenna Dewan's birthday party following KIIS FM's 2015 Jingle Ball in LA. Could it be that Justin is feeling a little wounded 感觉受伤? Meanwhile the singer was wrapped up warm 裹的很严实, 裹得很暖和 as he disembarked from his plane after jetting back to his native Canada on Monday just hours after thrilling fans by going topless at a blockbuster gig in London. But the self-styled heartthrob was celebrating more than just his confetti-filled extravaganza at the Capital FM Jingle Bell Ball, as he also took to social media to boast about being nominated for a Grammy. The slender star's pumped pectorals 有料的胸部 glistened in the spotlight as he flexed his tattooed pipe-cleaner arms 瘦削的胳膊 ( it means that your arms are thin and scrawny, the opposite of having a nice set of guns. pipe cleaner a piece of wire covered with fibre, used to clean a tobacco pipe. A pipe cleaner or chenille stem 试管刷 is a type of brush originally intended for removing moisture and residue from smoking pipes. Besides cleaning pipes, they can be used for any application that calls for cleaning out small bores or tight places. Special pipe cleaners are manufactured specifically for cleaning out medical apparatus and for engineering applications. They are popular for winding around bottle necks to catch drips, bundling things together, colour-coding, and applying paints, oils, solvents, greases, and similar substances. They can also be used like a twist tie as a convenient way to tie something. ) for his rabid 疯狗似的 supporters during an energetic rendition of Sorry. And his set really climaxed when he danced topless while confetti rained from the skies near the end of the song. Justin will be on stage again on Monday night, albeit in a more restrained mode, when he performs an acoustic set at a $100-per-head gig in aid of aid of Stratford's House of Blessing. His mother used the centre's services when he was a child growing up in the area.
