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用法学习: 1.  no-good I. n. a worthless person. Tell that no-good to leave. II. mod. worthless; bad. I have never heard of such a no-good car dealership before. 2. A panda at a Japanese zoo falls into a ditch in its enclosure as it struggles to escape its keepers. Giving credence ( [ˈkriːd(ə)ns] gain credence 增加可信性, 提高可信性 if an idea gains credence, people become more likely to believe it. The notion that our mental state affects our physical health is gaining credence. give credence to something to believe that something is true. It was too silly an idea for Chrissy to give any credence to it. give/lend/add credence to something formal to make people think that something is likely to be true. The recent discovery of the largest meteorite crater in Europe gives credence to Prof Solomon's theory. ) to the theory that you can't be cute AND smart at the same time, this panda seems to be completely unaware of the havoc it's causing its handlers. In this video from Facebook, a baby giant panda from a zoo in Japan decides that today is not the day for good decision making. The playful cub, after making a mad dash from its handlers, slides down the "safety" ditch and promptly gets stuck, the slow realisation of just what it has done dawning on its face ( dawn on sb If a ​fact ​dawns on you, you ​understand it after a ​period of not ​understanding it. if something dawns on you, you realize it for the first time. It was several months before the truth finally dawned on me. it dawns on someone that: Little by little it dawned on Archie that his wife was not coming back. I was about to ​pay for the ​shopping when it ​suddenly ​dawned on me that I'd ​left my ​wallet at ​home. ). On average, a baby panda can weigh up to 40kg so the handler who single-handedly pulled that wriggling mass out of the ditch ( wriggle to move, or to make something move, by twisting or turning quickly. She wriggled her toes in the thick soft carpet. wriggle out of (doing) something to avoid doing something by making excuses. Don't try and wriggle out of doing your homework. wiggle to make short quick movements from side to side, or to move something in this way. Stop wiggling your foot. death wiggle taking a bad turn, curve or slipping while riding a motorcycle. Thank heavens my Harley is so balanced. I almost lost it during a death wiggle 急打把 in the snow. wiggle room freedom to change your mind or to try a different method, for example, in making decisions or achieving a goal. wring or wring out 拧干 to twist and squeeze something in order to remove liquid from it. I'll just wring out this jumper and hang it up. wring someone's neck 扭断脖子 used for emphasizing how angry you are with someone. When he finds out what you did, he'll wring your neck! wring your hands to twist and squeeze your hands together, especially when you are afraid or nervous. wring something out of/from to get something that is very difficult to get. She survives on the money she wrings out of the state.) deserves a clap. Snaps for the on-point ( on point up to the minute; spot on; exactly right. 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! not to put too fine a point on it 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. on the point of doing something about to do something We were on the point of leaving when the phone rang. draw a gun 拔枪 (=take it out, ready to use): He spun around at the noise, drawing his gun. pull a gun on someone 拔枪指着 (=take out a gun and point it at someone): Suddenly the officer pulled a gun on them. a gun goes off (=it shoots a bullet): A police gun went off accidentally during a search of his home. gun battle 枪战: He was shot dead in a gun battle with the police.) panda fashions, too. 3. 印尼人撞人仍淡定: A young Indonesian man who allegedly crashed his Lamborghini into three pedestrians, killing one of them, has been filmed calmly 淡定地 texting while hanging out the window of his wrecked supercar. 一夜情: Khloe gave a few hints: she hooked up with a "performer" at Sydney's MTV Awards in 2008. He was also an out-of-towner 离家在外的人, 外地人, 异乡人, 外地人(A visitor from another town or city. out-of-town 郊外的 built in the countryside outside a town or city, but intended to be used by the people who live in that town or city. out-of-town shopping. the outskirts/edge of town: a large industrial development on the edge of town. be in town: The crew was in town last week filming a new television series. be out of town: I'll be out of town next week. from out of town: His girlfriend flew in from out of town. run someone out of town old-fashioned to make a criminal or a person who you do not like leave a town.). Awkwardly, the unnamed guy tried to date her back in LA. dismal I. making you feel unhappy and without hope or enthusiasm. dismal living conditions. II. very bad. a dismal performance/record.

 Secret 'ghost' apps hiding explicit images on smartphones: SMARTPHONES now have secret chambers 密室, 密仓(Secret passages 密道, also commonly referred to as hidden passages or secret tunnels, are hidden routes used for stealthy [ˈstelθi] travel. Such passageways are sometimes inside buildings leading to secret rooms. Others allow occupants to enter or exit buildings without being seen. Hidden rooms have helped people evade capture, smuggle goods, or carry out illegal activities.), being used by teens to hide child pornography from authorities. The "ghost" apps had been used by children for months before cyber expert Susan McLean caught on 知道, 发现(catch on I. to ​become ​fashionable or ​popular: I ​wonder if the ​game will ​ever ​catch on with ​young ​people?  II. informal to ​understand, ​especially after a ​long ​time: He doesn't take ​hints very ​easily, but he'll ​catch on (to what you're saying) ​eventually.). The secret vault apps ( vault [vɔlt] I. an underground room where people's bodies are buried, especially under a church. a. 金库. a strongly protected room in a bank where money, gold, etc. is kept. II. a curved structure that supports or forms a roof, especially in a church. III. pole vault 撑杆跳. 手撑着跳过 a jump over something, especially using your hands or a pole to support you. ) look and work exactly like a calculator but once you punch in a sequence of numbers and press the equal sign, a whole chamber of photos, text messages and videos are exposed. Ms McLean, a former member of Victoria Police, said the vault apps were giving a whole new meaning to cyber safety. "Teachers and parents are oblivious 毫不知情的(not noticing something, or not knowing about it. oblivious to/of: She seemed completely oblivious to the noise around her.) and are looking at the face of the device thinking it's fine," she said. "Kids started to use them to hide games and other things they should not have on their iPads or smartphones but now kids are using it to hide naked photos and sexts — that exact scenario is happening in Australia." The secret apps were brought to light after a recent sexting scandal in a Colorado high school where teenagers were concealing hundreds of images behind them. Scarily, there is more than one vault app on the market in Australia's Android and Apple stores, and Ms McLean said people as young as 11 and 12 were using them. Hide It Pro is an app designed to look like an audio manager. Once opened, it looks innocent enough to prying eyes. The former cop spends her time educating teens on the dangers of sexting and said many did not realise taking or sharing a nude picture of somebody under 18 was classifed as a child pornography. "If somebody is taking the nude selfie they are making and transmitting 制作和传播 child porn. "Kids reckon it's a great idea but it doesn't cut it when we talk about breaches of the law." In Victoria, child porn cases are judged on each individual incident but Ms McLean said the laws around producing and possessing child porn were very black and white in other states. Teens are often put on the sex offenders register for a significant amount of time. "What the other states need to do is come in line with Victoria and have a separate set of laws," Ms McLean said. "You'll always find children with criminal intent 有犯罪意图 but the vast majority of young people get caught up in this behaviour because they've just been stupid and made poor decisions. "We need to be able to give them a consequence but it needs to be in line with the crime and the way the laws are structured in states other than Victoria do not allow that. "We do not want kids placed on the sex offenders register because they were stupid." Ms McLean said sexting was bolstered by social media platforms like Snapchat. "The potential for kids to misuse these apps is enormous," she said. "Kids don't realise that on apps like Snapchat the pictures are permanent and they are retraceable." Ms McLean said many teenagers shared photos with their partner or potential partner as a way of flirting. "It doesn't show anything about your resilience ( Psychological resilience is defined as an individual's ability to properly adapt to stress and adversity. Stress and adversity can come in the shape of family or relationship problems, health problems, or workplace and financial worries, among others.), self-esteem or self respect," she said. The cyber expert has dealt with young women in tears who have felt pressured to send naked photos. There have been instances where boys threatened to share that image if she did not send more. She blamed a highly sexualised society for normalising sexting. "I had a really robust discussion with a girl in year 10 who kept saying she didn't understand why she couldn't send naked photos," Ms McLean said. "They see celebrities posting illicit images and think it's OK to do the same but they need to realise celebrities don't live in the real world. To know if somebody is using the vault apps, know what the icons look like and check the device's storage to see if an app is taking up a significant amount of storage. A NSW teen who took time off school to help his then 14-year-old girlfriend after she became pregnant has been banned from returning. Jake has been placed on "principal's leave" and barred from school grounds, The Daily Telegraph reports. Jake said he desperately wants to finish his high school education to set an example for his newborn child and give them both a better shot at life. "I'd do anything from welding to construction to the army when I finish but people who don't pass Year 12 get a lower standard in life; people see us as failures and unsuccessful," he said. The teen told the newspaper that after seven months of pleading with the school to readmit him he has only just been given the option to complete the HSC at TAFE or apply, with no guarantee of enrollment, to Shoalhaven High School, which is an hour from his home. His mother Debbie Lee said she would like Jake to continue his schooling at Vincentia and took the matter to NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli in April. "Jake wants an education and that is clearly evident and he is entitled to that. "The anguish that it has caused to our family is just a joke. An education is a right not a privilege." Confessions of a white-collar heroin addict: Meet the corporate high flyer who manages to hold down a $100,000-a-year job while shooting up the deadly drug every day: A business analyst who earns $100,000-a-year is hiding a chronic heroin addiction from his boss and colleagues. Mr Porter, from an Australian city, injects himself at least once a day and started using the highly addictive opiate at just 19 after experimenting with other drugs. 'I didn't think about addiction or overdose when I first used. I had taken other drugs in the past like speed, ecstasy and acid. I was always taught that they were addictive and dangerous and I found that to be a lie,' he told Daily Mail Australia. 'So when a friend encouraged me to try heroin I didn't really think twice. But I obviously found out that this was the drug that was incredibly addictive.' Mr Porter has been using since he was 19 years old and has always managed to maintain his professional life. But his drug habit almost claimed his life in the early years of his addiction. 'I've overdosed once, it was very early on – I would have been 19 or 20,' Mr Porter said. 'I just remember using and then the next thing I knew I had paramedics over me with a resuscitation [rɪˌsʌsɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n] machine. 'I've been addicted since I was 19 but I've always managed to be pretty successful professionally,' Mr Porter told Daily Mail Australia. 'I live between worlds and I can navigate that distance. 'I've done it for 20 years - I somehow manage to function. I'm just a normal person who happens to have a massive weakness in heroin. 'I don't want to glorify heroin, I would be a much better person without it. It's not like I'm saying: "Hey look at me, I'm a junkie and I can work a decent full-time job". 'I despise being an addict. It's like a voice in the back of your head that won't leave you alone. It doesn't go away, it won't stop.' Dr Mark Daglish, who is the director of addiction psychiatry at Royal Brisbane Hospital, said it was rare to come across a high-functioning 正常工作的, 各方面都正常的 drug addict. 'We almost never see people like this in our clinics in the public sector. We do see the ones who try to be functioning and fail, and the ones who get caught,' Dr Daglish said. But Mr Porter has defied the odds. The addict claims he has never been unemployed for long periods and he has never been sacked or made redundant. Incredibly Mr Porter sometimes sneaks off to the toilets at work and uses. 'Occasionally I have used at work. I try not to, but it does happen. Thank god for floor-to-ceiling locked doors,' he said. 'It's amazing how I have gotten away with being high at work for such a long time.' But Mr Porter was nearly caught out earlier this year. He was in a two-hour meeting and had used heavily that morning. 'By the end of the meeting I was coming down (I. informal to start to feel normal again after a powerful illegal drug has stopped affecting you. II. come down in someone's estimation/opinion to become less respected by someone than you were before, because of something you have done. III. come down in the world to become less rich, powerful, successful etc than you were previously.) – when you're coming down really hard from heroin it's almost impossible to keep your eyes open. I nodded off and my boss noticed,' Mr Porter said. 'I blamed it on chronic migraines and my boss bought it. He told me to take two days off – with pay. So I went home and used.' 'But what separates me from the typical addict is I genuinely enjoy working,' he said. 'It helps that I look the part ( dress/look/act the part 看上去像回事 have an appearance or style of dress appropriate to one's role or situation. to ​look ​suitable or ​behave in a ​suitable way for a ​particular ​situation: If you're going to be a ​high-powered ​businesswoman, you've got to ​look the part. "he had been a major in an infantry regiment and he looked the part". ) - I dress well, I wear reading glasses and I have a good vocabulary. 'I also have a genuine interest in things like business and politics. I think that has always helped me speak well in interviews and come across as somebody you would want to hire. 'I have always been able to convince people that I am smarter than I am. 'The constant fear I have is that when you come across genuinely brilliant people, they don't buy my nonsense for a second, they see straight through it. 'Thankfully those people are few and far between in the upper-middle management levels of Australian business.' ISIL怀柔的新宣传策略: Indeed, compared with the inept ( [ɪˈnept] I. 笨拙的, 拙劣的. someone who is inept does not have much ability or skill. Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence. I was a hopelessly inept student. a. 蹩脚的, 惨不忍睹的 used about things that are done very badly. an appallingly inept performance. inert I. 懒惰的. 有惰性的. someone who is inert does nothing when they should be taking action. II. chemistry an inert substance does not produce a chemical reaction when it is mixed with other substances. an inert gas. The inertness of noble gases 惰性气体 makes them very suitable in applications where reactions are not wanted. For example: argon is used in lightbulbs to prevent the hot tungsten filament from oxidizing; also, helium is breathed by deep-sea divers to prevent oxygen and nitrogen toxicity. III. not moving. IV. not exciting or interesting. inertia[ɪˈnɜː(r)ʃə] I. a situation in which something does not change for a long time. a. a situation in which no progress is made or no action is taken. II. a feeling of not wanting to move or do anything. III. 惯性. physics a property of matter that makes an object stay in the same position or continue to move in a straight line until its state is changed by an external force.) video blogging of Osama bin Laden, ISIL's material looks like the work of a brainsick auteur(brainsick Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless. auteur [ɔˈtɜr] a movie director who has almost total control over their movies.). Expertly framed and taking full advantage of the desert surrounds, the high-definition atrocities are intercut 交叉着, 交织着 (if scenes in a movie are intercut, you see part of one scene first, then part of the other, then the next part of the first scene, and so on, usually to show you that different events are happening at the same time.) with photo-surrealistic, videogame-style combat scenes and rippling newscasts that give the impression of a world boiling towards the day of reckoning. Add to that (add to something to make something such as a feeling or a quality greater or more extreme. The arrival of five more guests only added to the confusion. add something to something to make an amount or number greater by adding another amount or number. All her many expenses were added to my bill. Add the amount of tax you paid to the total. add on something to ​include or ​build something ​extra: We've added on a ​couple of ​rooms to the ​house.) the hypnotic and rousing Jihadi anthem "Dawlat al-Islam Qamat" and the promise of a harem of Yazidi abductees, and you have created catnip (  [ˈkætnɪp] I. a plant with a strong smell that attracts cats and makes them excited. II. someone or something that cannot be resisted. Alternate universes, parallel lives, and the road not taken are usually irresistible catnip for me. He was catnip for the media. ) for outcast teens. The pictures of Bilardi, which were recovered from the mobile phone of a slain militant, show the 18-year-old standing arm-in-arm with his brothers, Kalashnikov aloft and buck teeth 龅牙, 暴牙 protruding ( top front teeth that stick out more than the bottom teeth. an upper tooth that projects over the lower lip. buck the trend/system 打破惯例 to succeed in doing something, even though there is a general tendency for this not to happen. The auto industry bucked the trend with a 5% increase in exports. follow a trend: Everyone seems to be following the trend for sleek shiny hairstyles. buck a trend (=not be affected by a general trend): Dell announced profits up by 30%, bucking the trend in the troubled high-tech market. set a trend. reverse a trend. growing trend: the growing trend toward fitness. ) in a hesitant grin, as if he is finally one of the boys. Days later, of course, Bilardi was blown to pieces in a suicide attack on Ramadi that Iraqi officials described as ineffective, which was a kinder judgement than that passed by his "brothers", who said he had a "weak body" and that he had "sold his soul cheaply" 贱卖. The hospital shown in the video appeared clean and well run, while Kamleh's persuasive approach was certainly at odds with ISIL's standard fare ( I. (countable, literally) The usual price for travel by air, rail, or another means of transport. The usual price for travel by air, rail, or another means of transport. II. 惯常行为. 惯常说法. (uncountable, idiomatic, by extension) Something which is normal, routine, or unexceptional; something which is commonly provided or encountered. family plan/fare, family-fare plan 家庭套票, 家庭套餐, 全家套票, 全家套餐 a special rate, especially of air passenger carriers, under which the head of a household purchasing a full-fare ticket may take other family members at reduced fares on certain days. The romantic-comedy is about two step-siblings who decide to embark on a romantic relationship. It doesn't sound like typically wholesome family fare, but it's not exactly groundbreaking either. ), which most recently involved locking four men into cages and burning them alive. If it is not a pile of rubble 一堆瓦砾, it may well be full of people who found themselves underneath a Russian or French warplane, dozens of which are raining death down on Syria in retaliation for the actions of a few who believed the artful lies 美妙的谎言 of ISIL's spin-men. 明星内斗: The 25-year-old gave a juicy 有料的 interview to Bret Easton Ellis on his B.E.E. podcast, confirming that his relationship with Channing was the main reason why he wasn't in Magic Mike XXL. Hit the grab above for Alex's bombshell chat. One of the issues was Alex's negative reputation on set. It got to the point where he said he was "scared to speak" in case he did something wrong. It gets really meaty ( I. informal providing you with interesting information or ideas that make you think. a meaty discussion of the issues. a meaty role in a new movie. II. informal big, and with a lot of fat or muscle. I yelled, but a meaty hand clamped over my mouth.) around the 2.48 mark. Alex recalls a nasty, expletive-ridden email Channing sent when he failed to pay rent on a New York apartment he was renting from one of Channing's friends. Alex was grieving for his cousin who'd died suddenly, plus he'd just moved out because he couldn't breathe properly in the apartment. But Channing wasn't having a bar 一点都不受 of his excuses. "I think he was looking for an excuse to not like me," Alex added. Interestingly, Alex doesn't regret Magic Mike at all, even if things went belly up with Channing.

 明星街演: Julianne Moore can cry on cue 说哭就哭 and access a depth of emotions in a heartbeat, but she left one ultra-laidback Aussie tourist unmoved by her acting efforts. In a segment for US comedy show Billy On The Street, the Still Alice Oscar winner recreated some of her best movie moments for tourists in New York's Times Square. Acting for tips, the 54-year-old attacked people with moments from The Kids Are Alright, Magnolia and The Big Lebowski. For one too-cool-for-school Aussie, it just wasn't worth getting enthusiastic about! Luckily Julianne impressed others, with some fans giving her hugs along the way. The skit tried to prove that it's more exciting to have real performers in Times Square than all those dudes dressed up as Elmo and Spider-Man. Mission accomplished, Julianne. The Kids Are Alright： I need to say something. Um, it's no big secret your mom and I are in hell 很糟糕 right now, and, uh... Bottom line is, marriage is hard. It's really fuckin' hard. Just... just two people slogging through the shit, year after year, getting older, changing. It's a fucking marathon, okay? So, sometimes, you know, you're... you're together so long, that you just... You stop seeing the other person. You just see weird projections of your own junk. Um, instead of talking to each other, you go off the rails and act grubby ( I. dirty and needing to be washed. He wore torn jeans and a grubby shirt. II. dishonest and morally bad. ) and make stupid choices, which is what I did, and I feel sick about it 鄙视自己, 瞧不起自己, 感觉恶心 because I love you guys, and I love your mom, and that's the truth. Sometimes you hurt the ones you love the most. I don't know why. I... You know, if I read more Russian novels, then... Anyway, I just wanted to say how sorry I am for what I did. I hope you'll forgive me eventually. Thank you.