用法学习: 1. on point up to the minute; spot on; exactly right. Yet another on-point 非常合适的 airport outfit. I should probably just set up a monthly direct debit to River Island and be done with it. They are so on point this season! on the point of doing something about to do something We were on the point of leaving when the phone rang. not to put too fine a point on it 不客气的说, 大胆的说 used before saying something in a very direct way that may seem rude. Emily is, not to put too fine a point on it, a liar. 2. Such a broad, false generalization 以偏概全, 片面化. 3. 关于航空公司: I thought their seats were terrible - got a sore butt 屁股酸疼 after a couple of hours. I don't know whether it was a lack of padding 座位不软乎 or design. Luckily on my longer flights I had some spare seats next to me so I could spread out 伸展, 伸开. I flatly 断然拒绝, 干脆, 没商量的, 想都不想的 refuse ( flatly I. in a firm and definite way intended to end discussion of a subject. flatly refuse/deny/reject 坚拒, 坚定拒绝: He flatly denied being near the scene of the crime. II. without showing any emotion or interest. 'How can I help you?' the clerk asked flatly. ) to fly them because of this, the 2 hour flight from BKK-HKG was more than enough 够够的了, can't imagine what a 10 hour flight would be like. Easily the worst seats on any plane I've traveled on. And they are old too which makes it worse, padding is non-existent 根本就没有. not be up to much UK informal to not be of good quality: The food wasn't up to much. And overall I found them to be a poor airline, poor, uninterested service, poor food, poor drinks and IFE wasn't up to much either. Again could be because intra-Asia flight, or it could be because they are just crap – there is probably a reason they are the cheapest for me to fly to Korea next week, by quite a substantial margin. The worst part was when my LCD screen kept freezing but I guess I lucked out 倒霉运 ( luck into [transitive] American informal to find or achieve something good by chance. (idiomatic, US, Canada, Australia) To experience good luck; to be fortunate or lucky. I lucked into a great apartment on the beach. luck out I. [intransitive] informal to be lucky. To experience great luck; to be extremely fortunate or lucky. We lucked out and got the last two tickets. II. (colloquial, idiomatic, Britain) To run out of luck. I lucked out and failed to get the tickets. ) with a dodgy one since I couldn't see anyone having an issue. crash and burn 一败涂地, 惨败 informal to fail very suddenly, obviously, and completely: In this business, new products often crash and burn. crash-and-burn making you fail or feel as if you have failed: It's that crash-and-burn moment of stepping on the scale and realizing you have put on weight rather than lost it. get slammed very busy. having more work to do than you can cope with. How do you deal with being slammed at work? We managed to catch her before she's too slammed with work to chat. Boy, am I slammed with work! I am getting slammed with work. risk of rain 可能下雨, 下雨的可能性 and risk of showers; risk of thunder(-storms) 可能性 a chance of precipitation. (Used only in weather forecasting. There is no "risk" of hazard or injury involved.) And for tomorrow, there is a slight risk of showers in the morning. There is a 50 percent risk of rain tonight. crazy talk 疯话, 胡话, 不讲道理的话 Talk that makes no sense at all. Talking outta your ass. Talking stupid. "Man that guy over by the bar is talking straight up crazy talk." That's crazy talk. girl talk Discourse between females which is considered to be inappropriate for male ears. man talk A discussion between male colleagues seen as inappropriate for female ears. Often involves dirty jokes and discussions about sports. Usage notes: The term is considered sexist today. An infamous use seen as more offensive today is Sean Connery (James Bond) in Goldfinger, when he asks his female companion to give him and Felix Leiter a moment and, when asked what for, replies, "Man talk" and slaps her on the bum. She then happily walks away in a seemingly dimwitted way. baby talk (linguistics) The form of speech used by adults in talking to very young children. 4. Bore water 地下水( bore v. 打洞. 钻洞. to make a deep hole in something hard. bore into/through: Insects that bore through wood. bore into someone/something 紧盯着 if someone's eyes bore into you, they look at you very hard and this makes you feel nervous. n. I. [countable] someone who talks too much about things that are not very interesting. Her husband is such a bore. a. [singular] a boring or annoying activity or situation. I find cleaning a real bore. The constant traveling was becoming a bore.) is groundwater that has been accessed by drilling a bore into underground water storages called aquifers. An aquifer is formed when water from rain and rivers seeps through layers of soil and rock and fills spaces or fractures within layers of sand and fractured rock. hoax [houks] n. a trick in which someone deliberately tells people that something bad is going to happen or that something is true when it is not. The school got a threat warning but they dismissed it as hoax. there are many hoaxes come through, but they shouldn't be dignified当回事. v. To deceive (someone) by making them believe something which has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated. (scam). dignify 长脸, 当回事 to make something or someone seem more important than they really are. I won't dignify his abuse by reacting to it. dignity [ˈdɪɡnəti] I. the impressive behaviour of someone who controls their emotions in a difficult situation. She faced her death with great dignity. maintain/retain your dignity 雅量高致. 保持优雅, 保持从容, 保持气度: It can be difficult to maintain your dignity during a divorce. a. respect that other people have for you or that you have for yourself. lose your dignity: After the accident, I felt I'd lost my dignity. b. a calm and important quality that a place or organization has that people respect. The dignity of the occasion was broken by shouts from the gallery. beneath your dignity 降身价 if something is beneath your dignity, you think that you are too important to do it. Is it beneath his dignity to help with the washing-up? stand on your dignity 作威作福 to make it very clear to someone that they must treat you with respect. to demand to be treated with more respect than other people because you think you are more important. to remain dignified in spite of difficulties. I will stand on my dignity to the very end. she stood on her dignity and ignored all the nonsense going on around her. And although he held a senior position in the company he would never stand on his dignity. dignitary [ˈdɪɡnɪˌteri] 达官显贵, 高官, 贵胄, 达官贵人, 政要名人, 要员, 贵宾 someone who has an important official position. visiting dignitaries. honor I. to show your respect or admiration for someone, especially by giving them a prize or title, or by praising them publicly. She will be honored for her work in promoting friendship between the two countries. We are here today to honor the men and women who gave their lives for their country. II. to do what you said you would do or what you promised to do. honor a promise/pledge/commitment: The government will honor its promise to give this land back to the Native Americans. honor a contract/agreement: Once a contract has been signed, it has to be honored. honor bound if you feel honor bound to do something, you think that you must do it because it is morally right. I was honor bound to rescue them. be/feel bound to do something: We felt bound to tell her that her son had been taking drugs. duty/honor bound 责任心驱使, 良心驱使: reporters who feel honor bound to protect their sources of information. honor a check/credit card if a bank honors a check or a store honors a credit card, they accept the check or credit card as if it were money. track I. 跟踪. [transitive] to follow or find someone or something by looking for evidence that shows where they have gone. To follow the tracks of. I tracked him as far as the factory. My uncle spent all day tracking the deer, whose hoofprints were clear in the mud. a. (transitive) To discover the location of a person or object. I tracked Joe to his friend's bedroom, where he had spent the night. b. (transitive) To leave in the form of tracks. In winter, my cat tracks mud all over the house. c. to follow the course of a moving object such as a ship or aircraft using special equipment. d. to follow the development or progress of something. II. (intransitive, chiefly of a storm) if weather tracks in a particular direction, it moves in that direction. The hurricane tracked further west than expected. There is a small depression tracking across the Irish Sea. III. To continue observing over time. a. (transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time. We will track the raven population over the next six months. b. (transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object. Agent Miles has been tracking the terrorist since Madrid. c. (transitive) To match the movement or change of a person or object. My height tracks my father's at my age, so I might end up as tall as him. "Four Seasons Hotel Sydney is tracking well for the rest of December, and bookings into 2016 are looking really strong." Mr van Dijk said. Simon McGrath, chief operating officer of Accor Pacific, the largest operator of hotel accommodation in Australia, said occupancies 宾馆订房率 at its Sydney hotels were tracking the levels reported by STR Global. "Sydney is without a doubt emerging as one of the strongest tier one city markets worldwide," Mr McGrath told The Australian Financial Review. d. (transitive or intransitive, of a camera) To travel so that a moving object remains in shot. The camera tracked the ball even as the field of play moved back and forth, keeping the action in shot the entire time. 5. gastro (uncountable) (colloquial, Britain, Australia) Gastroenteritis. He had a bad case of gastro, but came right as rain the next day. Gastroenteritis 肠胃炎 [ˌɡæstrəuˌentəˈraɪtɪs](gastritis [ɡæˈstraɪtɪs] 胃炎 an illness in which the inner layer of your stomach swells and becomes painful.) or infectious diarrhea is a medical condition from inflammation ("-itis") of the gastrointestinal tract that involves both the stomach ("gastro"-) and the small intestine ("entero"-). It causes some combination of diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal pain and cramping 痉挛. Dehydration may occur as a result. Gastroenteritis has been referred to as gastro, stomach bug, and stomach virus. Although unrelated to influenza, it has also been called stomach flu and gastric flu. Cruise ship 游艇 struck by gastro outbreak 爆发 was also hammered by freak wave during storm. Cruise ship arrives in Sydney days after freak storm 9News. Gastro outbreak aboard cruise ship bound for Sydney hits 182 passengers. THERE'S something you can get aboard cruise ships that isn't advertised in the brochures: a violent bout of gastro. That's what happened to passengers who docked at Sydney's international cruise terminal in The Rocks on Wednesday morning. A total of 182 passengers out of the 3566 on board the luxury Royal Caribbean cruise ship Explorer of the Seas have been struck down 中招 by the stomach bug. A passenger who disembarked told the Today Show: "Every time you walked in and out of the corridors there were medics (A Medic 医护人员 is an umbrella term for a person involved in medicine. The following fall under this term: a physician, paramedic, medical student, military medical corpsman and sometimes a medically-trained individual participating in the role of a medic such as an emergency medical responder.) going in and out of all the rooms. Just about everybody was sick." Last week, 200 passengers were confined to their cabins aboard the Dawn Princess after it left Melbourne bound for New Zealand's South Island. Cruise operator Carnival Australia said the ship was subject to "stringent sanitation" 严格消毒 measures. A passenger named Steve told the ABC he was forced to remain inside his cabin until he recovered. "I was crook on the third day, I had stomach cramps, and I was confined to my cabin for a couple of days, couldn't leave my cabin, but I got special food and they released me 放出来 after two days," he said. The voyage was cut short by one day due to fog, not illness, but passengers were thankful to disembark early. A spokesperson told news.com.au: "Those affected by the short-lived illness have responded well to over-the-counter medication administered on-board the ship. "At Royal Caribbean International we have high health standards for all our guests and crew. We have reported this to South East Sydney Local Health District and while docked in Sydney, the ship and terminal will undergo an enhanced 加强版的 cleaning and sanitisation to prevent any illness affecting future cruises. "According to health experts, each year as many as 300 million people worldwide are affected by the gastrointestinal illness known as Norovirus. Only the common cold is more prevalent." 6. The pillars 支柱, 三驾马车 of restaurant, retail, and service growth：So what drives fast food restaurant sales? Let's begin with the basics. Everybody needs food, often recommended as three meals a day to a working person. We can broadly break the food options down into full-service, quick-service, limited-service (fast-food), and home cooking. Generally, people tend to go for the cheapest option, home cooking, when they don't want to spend as much. When they do decide to spend more on food, they go out and take the more expensive options. So the three building blocks 三个基石 of restaurant sales are: Employment, Disposable income, Sentiment - essentially, people's financial situation.
坑坑洼洼的路(下水道manhole, 井盖manhole cover, lid): Almost invariably "potholes 路上的水坑" in the USA. But if they are really big, they get called "craters火山口". The biggest are "sink holes (sinkhole) 天坑, 可以把人掉下去的大坑" and are often 20 feet in diameter and 10 or 15 feet deep. A pot-holed road. chuckhole: A hole or rut in a road or track. wiki: A pothole is a type of failure in an asphalt pavement, caused by the presence of water in the underlying soil structure and the presence of traffic passing over the affected area. Introduction of water to the underlying soil structure first weakens the supporting soil. Traffic then fatigues and breaks the poorly supported asphalt surface in the affected area. Continued traffic action ejects both asphalt and the underlying soil material to create a hole in the pavement. Inskip beach collapse: just don't call it a 'sinkhole': As was widely reported in the media, at around 10pm last Saturday night, a "sinkhole" opened up at a beachfront campground on the Inskip peninsular. The thing is, it almost certainly wasn't a sinkhole. Unanticipated ground collapses occur around the world from time to time, and these generally get labelled "sinkholes", for want a more appropriate term ( for want of something because someone lacks something. She could not make the trip for want of money. for want of a better word/phrase/term 也许这么说不恰当, 也许这么说不合适 used for saying that you cannot think of a more exact way of describing or explaining what you mean. They were worried about, for want of a better word, competition from other charities.). Yet "sinkhole" is poorly defined and often misused, generally referring to some type of geological phenomenon that causes localised ground surface collapse. In its strict sense, a sinkhole occurs when there is movement of surface soil or rock downward to fill a cavity in the ground below it. Thankfully, open underground cavities [ˈkævəti] are not so common in nature, and are limited to a few characteristic geological settings. The classic manifestation of sinkholes is in karstic geological environments, such as the Nullabor Plains. These are where the percolation ( percolate [ˈpɜrkəˌleɪt] I. [intransitive] if a liquid or gas percolates through a substance, it gradually passes through it. Rainwater percolates 渗透 slowly through the soil. a. [intransitive/transitive] if coffee percolates, or if you percolate it, it is made in a container in which hot water passes through coffee powder. II. [intransitive] if information or ideas percolate, they spread gradually and become known to more people. Rumors of his resignation percolated through Congress. ) of groundwaters through limestones and dolomites over geological timescales causes them to dissolve, leading to the formation of underground cave systems. Where the span of the caves becomes too great, or the overlying roof rocks are too thin to support themselves, these may collapse. This produces the stereotypical sinkholes such as those known from Guatemala, Florida, Louisiana, and parts of China. Sinkholes can also arise from anthropogenic activity, such as mining and engineering works. Poorly backfilled or capped mine shafts may subside if the backfill collapses or is washed to deeper levels in the mine by inflowing water, such as occurred in the case of the Swansea "sinkhole" near Newcastle, New South Wales, in 2014. Shallow tunnels can also collapse, leading to a hole or depression forming in the ground above.
名词当形容词用做表语(gem, lemon, pit): be a dime to be perfect; to have the highest rating on a scale of 1-10; used to express how good something is. John Mayer's gig was a dime be a scream 太逗乐了, 太好玩了, 太有趣了 to be extremely funny. a person, thing, or situation that is very funny: Jane's such a scream - her jokes have me in stitches. I really like Jane, she's a scream. hoot: a short loud sound made by people who are laughing or criticizing something. hoots of laughter. hoots of derision from the audience. a. a short loud sound made by the horn of a car or other vehicle, especially as a warning. They heard the long hoot of a train whistle. b. Sound effect the deep sound that an owl makes. a (real) hoot something that is fun or funny. Maria
Carey is a hoot. She's so lovely with James Packer. I like her. He
always gives the impression that he finds life rather a hoot. not give a hoot/two hoots to not care about something. I don't give two hoots about what people think of me. lump 一滩泥似的: A dull or lazy person. someone who is lazy or stupid. Don't just sit there like a lump. a. someone, especially a child, who is heavy. boon 大好事. 好事一桩 something useful that brings great benefits or makes your life easier. boon for/to: Falling PC prices are a boon for consumers, but bad news for manufacturers. boon companion a very good friend. mint I. A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence. II. (informal) A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc. That house is worth a mint. It must have cost a mint to produce. III. (figuratively) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself. adj. I. (of condition) as new. in mint condition. II. (Britain, slang) Very good. She is mint. drag I. [singular] 掣肘. 拖后腿的人和事. informal something or someone that is boring or causes small annoying problems. 讨论关于宾馆的checkin checkout时间: Imagine checking in at 2am from late flight and then have to check out at 10am. That would be a drag. Work is a real drag at the moment. I'm sorry to be a drag, but could you check this again? It's such a drag having to take the bus to school. II. [uncountable] 变装. 易装. women's clothes worn by a man or men's clothes worn by a woman, usually as part of an entertainment. a drag artist/act/show. in drag: They went out in drag to raise money for charity. III. [countable] 吸一口烟. an act of breathing in smoke from a cigarette. He took a quick drag on his cigarette then spoke. IV. 掣肘的人和事. 掣肘因素. [singular] something that makes something else develop or progress more slowly. drag on: High interest rates are a drag on the housing market. V. [uncountable] physics the force that slows something down when it moves through air or liquid. chump [tʃʌmp] I. informal. 好骗的人. 易上当的人. a foolish or easily deceived person. a stupid person who is easily tricked. A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense. It shouldn't be hard to put one over on that chump(put/get/pull one over (on) I. (idiomatic) To succeed in a deception. II. 欺骗. (idiomatic, with on) To fool, trick, or deceive. to trick someone: He'd tried to put one over on the tax office and got found out.). "I was left feeling a bit of a chump, 感觉自己像个傻瓜". II. British the thick end of something, especially a loin of lamb or mutton. a thick end of a piece of meat. a chump chop. III. An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser. That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. Justin Bieber采访问及Selena MV中和男模调情:"What is she trying to do to my heart right now? I'm just kidding. She loves me. I love her, too, always," Justin said. "Who's this guy? He's a joke! This guy's a chump. Nah, I guess he's pretty handsome actually – I can't even lie." know one's ass from one's elbow = know one's head from a hole in the ground = know the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground = know one's ass from a hole in the ground 一无所知 (idiomatic, vulgar) To have an adequate level of knowledge or skill; to understand what one is doing or talking about. Usage notes: Almost always used in negative constructions to describe someone's ignorance or stupidity, such as: He doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. know shit from Shinola (US) To have the most basic level of intelligence or common sense. Etymology: A colloquialism which dates back to the early 1940s in the United States, sometimes ended with "that's why your shoes don't shine". Shinola was a popular brand of shoe polish, which had a color and texture not unlike feces. know what one is about 懵懂无知 = don't know what one is doing (informal) To understand one's situation, how to act in that situation, and the results of those actions. Be sensible, self-possessed, and aware of how to deal with difficult situations: Don't go to the Congo without knowing what you're about. chump change I. (chiefly US, idiomatic) A sum of money considered to be insignificant. He spent $300,000 for his new car, but that's chump change 小钱, 小菜一碟 for a billionaire like him. II. (chiefly US, idiomatic) An amount of remuneration, reward, or other monetary recompense considered to be insultingly small. We don't have much money, but we can at least pay some of these chump-change bills. If you sell one of those cars, your commission will be chump change. I don't work for chump change. I quit! off one's chump (Britain, Australia, slang) Crazy, insane. ripper: (Britain, Australia, slang) Something that is an excellent example of its kind. Searching for some fares for a neighbour and came across these rippers. I needed flights in May, but search around and you'll hopefully find dates that are suitable. gem I. A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine. a beautiful expensive stone that is used to make jewellery. a ring set with precious gems. II. someone who is special in some way, especially because they are useful or helpful. any precious or highly valued thing or person. She's an absolute gem. a. something that is special or beautiful in some way. He came up with a gem of an idea. lame I. [usually before noun] a lame excuse, explanation etc is difficult to believe because it seems so unlikely. It sounds a lame excuse, but I never seem to have time to visit. II. [usually before noun] done without much effort in a way that seems as though you are not trying very hard. Saturday's game was rather a lame performance. 电视剧 cuffs: Cuffs is a fresh, authentic and visceral drama ( visceral [ˈvɪsərəl] I. (anatomy) Of or relating to the viscera—internal organs of the body; splanchnic. II. Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking. III. (figuratively, obsolete) Having deep sensibility. literary relating to basic emotions that you feel strongly and automatically. a visceral hatred of cheats. gut feeling (idiomatic) an instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without a logical rationale. Don't think too hard about the answers to a personality test; just go with your gut feeling. Houst had a gut feeling he was being followed, so he hurried to his car. gut reaction An instantaneous reaction made without thought. When he saw that lion leaping towards him, his gut reaction was to run. knee-jerk 本能的 Automatic, spontaneous, easily predictable. He gave a knee-jerk response. knee-jerky (informal) Exhibiting or characteristic of a rash or automatic response. knee-jerkish (informal) Exhibiting or characteristic of a rash or automatic response. ) that will take the audience on an exhilarating ride through the challenges of front-line 第一线的 policing. Adrenalized and vibrant, the show is packed full of dramatic incidents and colourful characters. From a booby trapped cannabis farm in a suburban semi to an elderly farmer's wife with a shotgun, the stories are surprising and exciting. There will be more absurd altercations - such as a middle-class dog-napping or fisticuffs between pensioners - as well as the daily grind of speeding drivers(grind 日常杂事 something that is hard work, boring, and tiring because it takes a lot of your time and energy. the usual daily grind of household tasks.), city-centre shoplifters and Saturday night drinkers. Cuffs comes across as a clumsy 蹩脚的, 拙劣的 attempt to restore the public's jaded
opinion ( jaded 没有兴趣的, 丧失兴趣的, 失去热情的, 见怪不惊的 I. no longer enthusiastic or excited about things, especially because you have been disappointed by your many experiences of them. bored or lacking enthusiasm, typically after having been over exposed to, or having consumed too much of something. Even jaded New Yorkers were thrilled by his performance. II. 了无生趣的. Worn out, wearied, exhausted or lacking enthusiasm, due to age or experience. III. Made callous or cynically insensitive, by experience. ) of its policing services. So far, this series looks a lot like a
cheesy ( I. informal lacking style or good quality and slightly silly. Overdramatic, excessively emotional or clichéd, trite, contrived. a cheesy song; a cheesy movie. cheesy songs. II. 假笑. 假心假意的. (of a smile or grin) Exaggerated and likely to be forced or insincere. a cheesy smile is very obvious but looks false. his cheesy grin. ) exercise in preachy political correctness (preachy 说教的, 好为人师的 having or showing a tendency to give moral advice in a tedious or self-righteous way. Tending toward excessive moralization. giving advice or telling people how to behave, in a way that is annoying. a preachy, sentimental film. My old fussbudget aunt had a very preachy manner and would prattle on about the dangers of alcohol and other vices 恶习. "his patriotic pictures had a preachy tone". fussbudget One who complains or fusses a great deal, especially about unimportant matters; a fusspot. Their three-year-old daughter can be quite a fussbudget, but she's cute. fusspot (informal) A person who makes a fuss, particularly about trivial things. My teacher is such a fusspot, he marks us down for handwriting!), mixed with a
blatantly insincere pitch 倡导, 提倡 at transparency(pitch I. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap. It is hard to get this pitch off of my hand. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar. They put pitch on the mast to protect it. The barrel was sealed with pitch. It was pitch black because there was no moon. II. 齿距. 间距. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw, the turns of a screw thread, or letters in a monospace font. The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch. The pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood. A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning. III. 倾斜度. The angle at which an object sits. The point where a declivity ( 来自于decline. (geomorphology) the downward slope of a hill. ) begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant. a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof. the pitch of the roof or haystack. sales pitch Remarks or demonstrations intended to persuade a consumer to make a purchase, especially when vigorously delivered or exaggerated. dog and pony show 演戏的, 装假的 I. Originally, a small, traveling circus featuring animals as entertainment. II. (idiomatic) Any presentation or display that is overly contrived or intricate. They put on a whole dog and pony show for the investors, but I'm not sure they convinced anyone.). The stories are hackneyed ( 老掉牙的. 耳朵起茧的. [ˈhæknid] hackneyed words or ideas have been used so often that they no longer seem interesting or original. )
too, with the predictable line up of stereotypical villains politicians
like lambaste(参见"哗众取宠"一篇), mostly to help conceal their own incompetence, greed and
criminality. The standard of acting like most UK series is good
but really, this fails to make up for this series conspicuous flaws.
Three out of ten from me. lemon 骗人的东西, 骗人的玩意 I. [countable] 蹩脚货; 残次品, 劣质品 informal something that you buy, especially a car, that does not work properly. If you think that something is a failure, or not as good or as useful as it should be, you can say that it is a lemon. He took a little test drive and agreed the car was a lemon. II. 傻乎乎的人; 棒槌 If you think that someone looks foolish because they are shy or slow to take action, you can say that they are like a lemon. I just stood there like a lemon. tip I. [countable] (雪堆是 snow heaps, snow piles(像倒垃圾一样倒雪的地方). ) British 垃圾堆. 倒垃圾的地方. An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump. a place where you take rubbish and leave it. II. [singular] British informal a dirty or untidy place. Sorry, the flat's a real tip at the moment. dump (tip, pit) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place. This place looks like a dump. Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump. III. a piece of special or secret information. tip on: I've got a good tip 内线消息, 内部消息 on a horse in the Derby. give someone a tip: The police were given a tip on where they might find the killer. a hot tip (=a very good one): Occasionally my stockbroker comes up with a hot tip for me. IV. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil. the tip of one's nose 鼻尖. tip off I. 告密. 报告给. 透漏消息给. (idiomatic, transitive) To alert or inform someone, especially confidentially. An anonymous caller tipped off the police that the suspect would be in the area. II. (basketball) To put the ball in play by throwing it up between two opponents. III. (transitive, obsolete) To pour out (liquor). tip-off I. (idiomatic) An obvious clue or indication. The broken window and overturned plant pots were a tip-off that something was wrong. II. (idiomatic) A report of suspicious behaviour, especially to an authority. The police received a tip-off 接获线报 about a recent bank robbery. tip one's hand I. In card playing, to accidentally reveal one's cards or hand. II. (idiomatic) To inadvertently reveal any secret, particularly a secret that puts one at an advantage or disadvantage. be the pits 烂透了, 再烂不过了, 最烂了, 糟糕透顶了, 最差的 informal Be extremely bad or the worst of its kind. The worst possible situation. A very unpleasant or unfortunate thing, situation, or circumstance. I'm sorry to hear about your divorce, Sam—that's the pits! I worked as a telemarketer one summer, and it was the pits. Spending your birthday working alone is the pits, or That job is the pits. The allusion in this term is unclear. Some think it refers to coal pits, others to armpits, and still others to the area beside an auto racecourse, also called the pits, where cars are serviced during a race. rathole I. informal 拥挤不堪的地方. a cramped or squalid room or building. "a rathole where a friend lived until her place was broken into for the seventeenth time". II. North American informal used to refer to the waste of money or resources. "pouring our assets down the rathole of military expenditure". v. 藏起来. hide (money or goods), typically as part of a deception. "He had ratholed the nine thousand that nobody could find". pit I. informal 狗窝. 猪窝. 猪圈. an extremely untidy place. Her room was an absolute pit. II. mainly literary a state in which you have very strong unpleasant feelings or in which something bad is happening. pit of: Dimitri was in a pit of despair. Many politicians have fallen into the pit of corruption. III. a small mark or hole in a surface. His skin was full of pits 麻点, 麻子坑(pockmarked: chicken pox scars. 麻子坑的. 麻子点的. a small permanent mark on your skin that goes inward, caused by a disease such as chickenpox or acne. pitted scar or mark on the skin left by a pustule or spot. ). IV. the pits [plural] British the area beside a race track where cars are repaired or get more petrol during a race. V. a hole that you dig in the ground to put something in it. a barbecue pit. a. 矿坑. a mine under the ground, especially a coal mine. My father worked down the pit. b. 沙坑. a very large hole dug in the ground in order to obtain a particular substance or type of stone. a gravel pit. c. a hole in the ground where you can lie to look underneath cars. the pit of your stomach 心窝 the place in your stomach where you experience unpleasant feelings when you are worried, upset, or frightened. He had a sick, worried feeling in the pit of his stomach. VI. an area reserved or enclosed for a specific purpose, in particular: an area at the side of a track where racing cars are serviced and refuelled. pit your wits against to use all of your intelligence to try to defeat someone or to solve a problem. Two teams of experts will pit their wits against one another in the final round of the quiz. pit someone/something against someone/ something to make someone compete or fight against someone or something else. Coach Fox finds his team pitted against a team coached by his longtime friend and mentor. if you pit your skills, knowledge, or ability against someone, you use all your skill in order to deal successfully or compete with them. Small businesses are having to pit their wits against the giant companies. rabbit/mouse hole 老鼠洞, 耗子洞: a grassy bank containing several rabbit holes. hole in 破洞: All my socks have holes in them. a gaping hole (=a very large hole): Rain poured through a gaping hole in the roof. riddled with holes (=completely covered with holes): The tank was riddled with bullet holes. hole: I. 漏洞 a part of something such as an idea or explanation where an important detail is missing. His argument was full of holes. hole in: There is an obvious hole in the law covering pension funds. II. informal an unpleasant or dirty place. This town is a hole. make a hole in something 花一大笔钱 to use a large part of an amount of money. Childcare can make a huge hole in parents' budgets. make [transitive] to cause something to be formed by breaking, cutting, or tearing an object or by pushing one object into or through another. make a hole/scratch/dent etc in something: Something's made a scratch in the counter. bolt-hole a place where you can hide or where you can go in order to be alone. shit hole 狗屎洞 a dirty unpleasant place. black hole I. astronomy an area in outer space where the force of gravity is so strong that light and everything else around it is pulled into it. II. informal a situation in which large amounts of money are spent without bringing any benefits. The business was little more than a financial black hole. III. informal a situation in which there is a lot of sadness and very little hope. the psychological black hole of long-term unemployment. bit bucket (informal, computing, singular only) The supposed place where bits go when they fall of the end of a register during a shift operation; the great Recycle Bin in the sky; used to describe lost or missing information. /dev/null I. A device file, present in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, that discards all data written to it and yields no input. It's possible to suppress the compiler's warnings by redirecting standard error to /dev/null. II. (Internet, figuratively) Nowhere; often suggests an intent to ignore specific correspondence. memory-hole 记忆黑洞 I. a place where awkward or inconvenient information can be put; from '1984' by George Orwell. A figurative place to which lost or forgotten information is sent, usually deliberately; nowhere. How Truth Slips Down The Memory Hole. II. to get rid of awkward or inconvenient information. Samsung has memory-holed the Orwellian passage from its SmartTV privacy policy, but questions remain. Memory-holed Scientist Feared Resonant Frequency "Ray Gun" Would Fall into Wrong Hands. watering hole I. a waterhole. a natural area of water where wild animals go to drink. II. informal a pub or other place where people go to drink alcohol. plot hole an obvious mistake or missing element in the plot of a film, book, TV show or play. hole in the heart a medical condition in which someone is born with a small hole in one of the parts that divide the different areas of their heart. dig a hole for yourself 为自己挖洞 to do something that will make your situation difficult or embarrassing. blow a hole in something I. 炸出一个大洞. to destroy part of something in an explosion. The bomb exploded, blowing a hole in the side of the plane. II. to damage a plan or idea so that it cannot succeed, or so that people no longer believe it. The new research blows a hole in theories about the evolution of birds.
Movie - Love: Murphy uses a Loreo 3D camera to take pictures of Electra. At one point he turns the camera on end 竖起来 to shoot. This means the two resulting images will not align correctly to make a single stereoscopic picture( Stereoscopy (also called stereoscopics) is a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by means of stereopsis for binocular vision. Most stereoscopic methods present two offset images separately to the left and right eye of the viewer. These two-dimensional images are then combined in the brain to give the perception of 3D depth. This technique is distinguished from 3D displays that display an image in three full dimensions, allowing the observer to increase information about the 3-dimensional objects being displayed by head and eye movements. holography[hɒˈlɒɡrəfi] 全息摄影, 全息3D the study or production of holograms. Holography is the science and practice of making holograms. Typically, a hologram is a photographic recording of a light field, rather than of an image formed by a lens, and it is used to display a fully three-dimensional image of the holographed subject, which is seen without the aid of special glasses or other intermediate optics. The hologram itself is not an image and it is usually unintelligible 不可辨识的, 不可读的 when viewed under diffuse ambient light. It is an encoding of the light field as an interference pattern of seemingly random variations in the opacity, density, or surface profile of the photographic medium. ). He also neglects to use the flash in the dimly lit room( neglect to do something 忽略掉, 忘记掉, 没能做某事, 忘记做某事 to fail to do something. I hope you do not neglect to lock the door. He neglected to water the plants. ). But what would this review be if it didn't talk about the 3D sex? Love and cinema are inseparable. Love stories are why you stick glued to a chair for a couple of hours. Raw sex is part of love, yet, films used to cut to birds necking 相互依偎 after a kiss. Then it became steamy windows. Signs, metaphors, analogies, semiotic nausea. And here, Noé takes that away which makes the film even coarser 赤裸裸的, and ultimately more brutal. The film features no highbrow [ˈhaɪˌbrau] 高端的, 高级的, 装逼的对话 intellectual conversations but instead, favors the same lines you've probably slung at your lovers. I'm certain he took note of folks laughing at scenes meant to have profound emotional impact, like the entire ending. Little character development 角色没有推进 with the main character's 17 yr old wife, or 18, they had sex when she was 16, nothing more than a prop. Their child, the unintended creation of a broken condom, is named "Gaspar". The wife is an orphan of sorts, unwanted by her mother but somehow has the cash and wherewithal( the wherewithal 财力能力 the money and ability that give you the power to do a particular thing. Small businesses do not have the wherewithal to cover these costs.) to rent an apt in Paris and do nothing more than go clubbing, listen to her iPod and bang strangers. I imagine him thinking: this world is so mediocre, full of prude 装逼的 hypocrites 伪善者, 虚伪的人, I'll show them how it's done and make a movie about excruciating love and sex. So he started to write it and finally realized it wouldn't be so easy. To talk about life, and love, and sex it is necessary to be really alive, and not just criticizing the other's ways from outside. Unable to write a true love sexy story, he decided then to check every box that came to his mind 映入脑海 relating to sex: explicit scenes, close on dicks, threesome, sex clubs, homosexual sex, trannies, public sex and so on. As if a close on a ejaculating dick would be the quintessence of a revolutionary speech. There's a bunch of unrelated scenes, as if the awful voice-over could succeed in giving them some meaning.
A Ponzi scheme 庞氏骗局(非法集资, 非法吸金) is a fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator. Operators of Ponzi schemes usually entice new investors by offering higher returns than other investments, in the form of short-term returns that are either abnormally high or unusually consistent. Ponzi schemes occasionally begin as legitimate businesses, until the business fails to achieve the returns expected. The business becomes a Ponzi scheme if it then continues under fraudulent terms. Whatever the initial situation, the perpetuation of the high returns requires an ever-increasing flow of money from new investors to sustain the scheme. The scheme is named after Charles Ponzi, who became notorious for using the technique in 1920. The idea, present in novels (for example, Charles Dickens' 1844 novel Martin Chuzzlewit and 1857 novel Little Dorrit each described such a scheme), was actually performed in real life by Ponzi who with his operation took in so much money that 吸收资金 it was the first to become known throughout the United States. Ponzi's original scheme was based on the arbitrage 倒买倒卖, 投机倒把 ( [ˈɑ:(r)bɪˌtrɑ:ʒ] the process of buying things, especially currencies or company shares, in one place and selling them in another at the same time for profit.) of international reply coupons for postage stamps; however, he soon diverted investors' money to make payments to earlier investors and himself. Typically, extraordinary returns are promised on the original investment and vague verbal constructions such as "hedge futures trading", "high-yield 高回报 investment programs", or "offshore investment" might be used. The promoter sells shares to investors by taking advantage of a lack of investor knowledge or competence, or using claims of a proprietary 声称知识产权 investment strategy which must be kept secret to ensure a competitive edge. Ponzi schemes sometimes commence operations as legitimate investment vehicles, such as hedge funds. For example, a hedge fund can degenerate into a Ponzi scheme if it unexpectedly loses money (or simply fails to legitimately earn the returns promised and/or thought to be expected) and if the promoters, instead of admitting their failure to meet expectations, fabricate false returns 虚假回报 and (if necessary) produce fraudulent 骗人的 audit reports. A pyramid scheme(老鼠会, 传销) is an often illegal, unsustainable business model that lures members via a promise of payments or services for enrolling others into the scheme, rather than supplying any real investment or sale of products or services to the public. Such schemes have existed for at least a century, of variations to hide their true nature. Some multilevel marketing plans have also been classified as pyramid schemes. It is a form of fraud similar in some ways to a Ponzi scheme, relying as it does on a mistaken belief in a nonexistent financial reality, including the hope of an extremely high rate of return. However, several characteristics distinguish these schemes from Ponzi schemes: In a Ponzi scheme, the schemer acts as a "hub" for the victims, interacting with all of them directly. In a pyramid scheme, those who recruit additional participants benefit directly. (In fact, failure to recruit typically means no investment return.); A Ponzi scheme claims to rely on some esoteric investment approach and often attracts well-to-do investors, whereas pyramid schemes explicitly claim that new money will be the source of payout for the initial investments; A pyramid scheme typically collapses much faster because it requires exponential increases in participants to sustain it. By contrast, Ponzi schemes can survive simply by persuading most existing participants to reinvest their money, with a relatively small number of new participants. An economic bubble: A bubble is similar to a Ponzi scheme in that one participant gets paid by contributions from a subsequent participant (until inevitable collapse). A bubble involves ever-rising prices in an open market (for example stock, housing, or tulip [ˈtju:lɪp] bulbs (turnip 蔓菁)(Tulip mania 郁金香狂热 or tulipomania was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed.)) where prices rise because buyers bid more and buyers bid more because prices are rising. Bubbles are often said to be based on the "greater fool" theory(The greater fool theory states that the price of an object is determined not by its intrinsic value 故有价值, 真正价值, but rather by irrational beliefs and expectations of market participants. A price can be justified by a rational buyer under the belief that another party is willing to pay an even higher price. In other words, one may pay a price that seems "foolishly" high because one may rationally have the expectation that the item can be resold to a "greater fool" later.). As with the Ponzi scheme, the price exceeds the intrinsic value of the item, but unlike the Ponzi scheme, there is no single person misrepresenting the intrinsic value.
Bitcoin: 1. A ledger 账本, 记账簿 (bookkeeping 记账) is the principal book or computer file for recording and totaling economic transactions measured in terms of a monetary unit of account by account type, with debits and credits in separate columns and a beginning monetary balance and ending monetary balance for each account. The ledger is a permanent summary of all amounts entered in supporting journals which list individual transactions by date. Every transaction flows from a journal to one or more ledgers. A company's financial statements are generated from summary totals in the ledgers. 2. The block chain is a public ledger that records bitcoin transactions. A novel solution accomplishes this without any trusted central authority: maintenance of the block chain is performed by a network of communicating nodes running bitcoin software. Transactions of the form payer X sends Y bitcoins to payee Z are broadcast to this network using readily available software applications. Network nodes can validate transactions, add them to their copy of the ledger, and then broadcast these ledger additions 增加项, 新增项 to other nodes. The block chain is a distributed database; to achieve independent verification of the chain of ownership of any and every bitcoin (amount), each network node stores its own copy of the block chain. Approximately six times per hour, a new group of accepted transactions, a block, is created, added to the block chain, and quickly published to all nodes. This allows bitcoin software to determine when a particular bitcoin amount has been spent, which is necessary in order to prevent double-spending in an environment without central oversight 重要监管. Whereas a conventional ledger records the transfers of actual bills or promissory notes that exist apart from it, the block chain is the only place that bitcoins can be said to exist in the form of unspent outputs of transactions. 3. Ownership： Simplified chain of ownership. In reality, a transaction can have more than one input and more than one output. Ownership of bitcoins implies that a user can spend bitcoins associated with a specific address. To do so, a payer must digitally sign the transaction using the corresponding private key. Without knowledge of the private key, the transaction cannot be signed and bitcoins cannot be spent. The network verifies the signature using the public key. If the private key is lost, the bitcoin network will not recognize any other evidence of ownership; the coins are then unusable, and thus effectively lost. For example, in 2013 one user claimed to have lost 7,500 bitcoins, worth $7.5 million at the time, when he discarded a hard drive containing his private key. 4. Mining is a record-keeping service. Miners keep the block chain consistent, complete, and unalterable by repeatedly verifying and collecting newly broadcast transactions into a new group of transactions called a block. A new block contains information that "chains" it to the previous block thus giving the block chain its name. It is a cryptographic hash of the previous block, using the SHA-256 hashing algorithm. It has become common for miners to join organized mining pools, which combine the computational resources of their members in order to increase the frequency of generating new blocks. The reward for each block is then split proportionately among the members, creating a more predictable stream of income for each miner without necessarily changing their long-term average income, although a fee may be charged for the service. The rewards of mining have led to ever-more-specialized technology being utilized. The most efficient mining hardware makes use of custom designed application-specific integrated circuits, which outperform general purpose CPUs while using less power. As of 2015, a miner who is not using purpose-built 专门建造的 hardware is unlikely to earn enough to cover the cost of the electricity used in their efforts, even if they are a member of a pool. 5. Transaction fees: Paying a transaction fee is optional, but may speed up confirmation of the transaction. Payers have an incentive to include such fees because doing so means their transaction is more likely to be added to the block chain sooner; miners can choose which transactions to process and prioritize those that pay higher fees. Fees are based on the storage size of the transaction generated, which in turn is dependent on the number of inputs used to create the transaction. Furthermore, priority is given to older unspent inputs. 6. Wallets: A wallet stores the information necessary to transact bitcoins. While wallets are often described as a place to hold or store bitcoins, due to the nature of the system, bitcoins are inseparable from the block chain transaction ledger. Perhaps a better way to describe a wallet is something that "stores the digital credentials for your bitcoin holdings" and allows you to access (and spend) them. Bitcoin uses public-key cryptography, in which two cryptographic keys, one public and one private, are generated. At its most basic, a wallet is a collection of these keys. 7. Fungibility( Fungibility is the property of a good or a commodity whose individual units are capable of mutual substitution. That is, it is the property of essences or goods which are "capable of being substituted in place of one another." For example, since one ounce of gold is equivalent to any other ounce of gold, gold is fungible. Other fungible commodities include sweet crude oil, company shares, bonds, precious metals, and currencies. Fungibility refers only to the equivalence of each unit of a commodity with other units of the same commodity. Fungibility does not relate to the exchange of one commodity for another different commodity.): Wallets and similar software technically handle bitcoins as equivalent, establishing the basic level of fungibility. Researchers have pointed out that the history of each bitcoin is registered and publicly available in the block chain ledger, and that some users may refuse to accept bitcoins coming from controversial transactions, which would harm bitcoin's fungibility. Projects such as Zerocoin and Dark Wallet aim to address these privacy and fungibility issues. 8. Speculative bubble dispute: Bitcoin has been labelled a speculative bubble by many including former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and economist John Quiggin. Nobel Memorial Prize laureate Robert Shiller said that bitcoin "exhibited many of the characteristics of a speculative bubble". Two lead software developers of bitcoin, Gavin Andresen and Mike Hearn, have warned that bubbles may occur. David Andolfatto, a vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, stated, "Is bitcoin a bubble? Yes, if bubble is defined as a liquidity premium." According to Andolfatto, the price of bitcoin "consists purely of a bubble," but he concedes that many assets have prices that are greater than their intrinsic value. Journalist Matthew Boesler rejects the speculative bubble label and sees bitcoin's quick rise in price as nothing more than normal economic forces at work. The Washington Post pointed out that the observed cycles of appreciation and depreciation don't correspond to the definition of speculative bubble. ANZ Bank joins open source blockchain project: Open Ledger Project under Linux Foundation auspices ( [ˈɔ:spɪsɪz] under the auspices of formal with the help and support of a particular person or organization. He gave a series of lectures under the auspices of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.) announced. ANZ Bank will work with other financial institutions 金融机构 and technology companies to develop an enterprise-grade 企业级的 distributed ledger framework based on blockchain, the transaction tracking technology underpinning crypto-currency Bitcoin. Called The Open Ledger Project, the effort was announced by the not-for-profit Linux Foundation organisation, which steers the development of the open source Linux kernel for operating systems. According to ANZ CTO Patrick Maes, the bank decided to particpate in the open ledger project as there is currently no industry accepted, enterprise-grade blockchain framework that is fit for the finance industry. "Our objectives around blockchain initiatives are that we will seek to learn, explore and contribute to the development of a global framework with our ecosystem partners, and ANZ is uniquely placed in this regard since we operate in 34 markets," Maes said in a statement. The bank believes blockchain technology will improve the customer experience and potentially deliver productivity gains by solving real business challenges when it comes to payments and correspondent banking, Nigel Dobson, ANZ's general manager of payments transformation said. Tech firms IBM, Intel, VMware, Fujitsu and others have also hopped aboard The Open Ledger Project. Blockchain is a digital ledger that can be used to create secure, cost-efficient business networks that do not require a centralised point of control. Linux Foundation said "virtually anything of value can be traded and tracked" quickly and efficiently. Financial software company R3 will contribute a new transaction architectural network to the Open Ledger Project, and IBM will provide tens of thousands of lines of existing code, as well as corresponding intellectual property. Linux Foundation will set up technical steering committees to manage the contributions and to further develop blockcahin. Financial institutions and software houses have shown plenty of interest in blockchain technology lately.
