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用法学习: 1. complement [ˈkɒmplɪmənt] I.  something that is added to something else. complement to: Her youthful energy will be a welcome complement to the strength and experience of the team. II. something that combines well with something else. complement to: Our sauces are the perfect complement to any meal. III. the number of people or things that something has. full complement 允许的最多的, 最大可能的, 尽可能最大量的, 所有必需的 (=the largest number possible or necessary): We already have our full complement of workers. complement of: the government department with the largest complement of civil servants. IV. 补语. linguistics in active clauses, the part of a clause that comes after a linking verb such as 'be', 'seem', or 'appear' and identifies or describes the subject. A complement is usually a noun or adjective. For example in the sentences 'Parking is always a problem in city-centres' and 'Sometimes the future seems very uncertain', the complements are 'a problem' and 'very uncertain'. V. 补角. maths an angle that is added to another angle to form an angle of 90 degrees. object complement 宾语补足语: a type of grammatical complement that identifies or describes a direct object. An object complement is usually a noun or adjective. For example in the sentences 'Everyone considered the project a success' and 'The window was left open', the object complements are 'a success' and 'open'. v. I. to combine well with something, often something that has different qualities. The plants are chosen to complement each other. a simple sweater that was perfectly complemented by elegant jewellery. II. to add another thing to something. This project is intended to complement, not replace, local authority programmes. supplement [ˈsʌpləˌment] to add something extra in order to improve something or make it bigger. Heat from the chimneys is pumped back in to supplement the heating system. supplement something with something: Our findings are supplemented with material from other surveys. a. to add extra money to the amount that you normally earn. supplement your income/salary etc. 贴补收入, 弥补收入, 贴补家用: He was able to supplement his income by writing stories. b. to add extra or different food to the amount that you normally eat. Their diet was often supplemented by home-grown vegetables. n. I. something extra that you add to make something better. supplement to: exercises that will provide a valuable supplement to your teaching materials. a. a pill or special food that you take or eat when your food does not contain everything that you need. vitamin supplements for pregnant women. a dietary/food/nutritional supplement: Dietary supplements may not help with this condition. II. a separate part of a newspaper or magazine. the Sunday supplement. a. an extra section in a book, or an additional book that gives more information. III. mainly British an extra payment that you have to make for special services, especially in a hotel. single supplement 单人补差价 an extra amount of money that you have to pay for a hotel room or package vacation if you are alone. sports supplement 运动补给品 a food substance or drug that people can take to increase their energy or to become more healthy.

Will Smith 同志传闻: Six degrees of separation ( small world phenomenon ) is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. Most of us are familiar with the concept of six degrees of separation - the idea is that anyone in the planet can be connected to anyone else in just six steps. So through just five other people, you're effectively connected to the Queen of England, Tom Cruise, or even a Mongolian sheep herder. But is there any experimental evidence to show that's the case in IRL social groups? But is there actually any science to back up this commonly cited theory? 电影简介: But the narrow world inhabited by the Kittredges and their public status as people interested in the arts make them easy prey for Paul (Will Smith). Paul is a skillful con-artist, who mysteriously appears at their door one night, injured and bleeding, claiming to be a close college friend of their Ivy League kids, as well as the son of Sidney Poitier. Ouisa and Flan are much impressed by Paul's fine taste 好品味, keen wit, articulate literary expositions ( exposition [ˌekspəˈzɪʃ(ə)n] I. [countable/uncountable] formal a detailed explanation of something such as an idea or process, or the action of giving such an explanation. exposition of: his exposition of recent developments in the teaching of history. II. [countable] a public event or show of industrial products or technology. ) and surprising culinary skill ( [ˈkjulɪˌneri]  [ˈkʌlɪˌneri] relating to food and how to cook it. He likes to show off his culinary skills. culinary delights 大餐 (=very good food): And what culinary delights do you have for us tonight?). His appealing facade soon has the Kittredges putting him up, lending him money and taking satisfaction in his praise for their posh lifestyle. Paul's scheme 骗局 continues until he brings home a hustler, and his actual indigence ( indigent [ˈɪndɪdʒənt] very poor. ) is revealed. The shocked Kittredges kick him out when it is revealed that they are but the most recent victims of the duplicity ([duˈplɪsəti] dishonest behavior that is intended to trick someone. ) with which Paul has charmed his way into many upper-crust homes along the Upper East Side. Paul's schemes become highbrow legend – anecdotal accounts of 越传越神的 which are bantered about at their cocktail parties. In the end, Paul has a profound effect on the many individuals who encounter him, linking them in their shared experience. New Yorkers Ouisa and Flan Kittredge are upper class private art dealers, pretentious 做作的 but compassionate 富有同情心的. Their prized possession is a double sided Kandinsky, one side that represents control, the other side chaos. They relay a story to their friends and acquaintances that over time becomes legendary. It is their encounter with a young black man who they had never met or heard of but who comes stumbling upon their front door one evening as they are courting an important investor, Geoffrey Miller, who could make them wealthy beyond what they could have dreamed. That black man is Paul Poitier, who has just arrived in the city, was just mugged outside their building and is sporting a minor knife wound to the abdomen. Tomorrow, Paul is meeting up with his father who is in town directing a movie of "Cats". Beyond the attraction of talking Paul into getting them roles in the movie, Ouisa, Flan and Geoffrey all end up being captivated by the charm, charisma, pedigree and eloquence of Paul, who the Kittredges, after tending to his wounds 处理伤口, invite to stay the night.   Transgender actress accuses Will Smith of paying first wife to hide gay secret…but is she credible 可信吗 ( I. able to be believed or trusted. There was no credible evidence against him. Boone was not a credible witness. II. 有希望的. 有可能的. 有可信度的. considered as likely to happen or be successful. a credible challenger/opponent/candidate. )? Jada Pinkett Smith made headlines this week after announcing that she'll be boycotting the 2016 Oscars due to a lack of black acting nominees. Now transgender actress Alexis Arquette is shifting the focus from race to sexuality. The Daily Mail reports that the 46-year-old sister of Oscar winner Patricia Arquette and her actor siblings David and Rosanna, has accused both Jada, 44, and her husband Will Smith, 47, of being in the closet. Alexis is said to have made her surprising claims in a Facebook post that has since been deleted. "When Jada comes out as gay and her beard husband admits his first marriage ended when she walked in to him … servicing his Sugar Daddy Benny Medina … then I will listen to them," Alexis wrote, adding, "'She' being his FIRST wife. Paid off, silent." That would be Sheree Zampino, who was divorced from Will in 1995 after three years of marriage and one son. Medina is a powerful Hollywood manager who has guided the careers of Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez, among others. While Alexis has solid inside-Hollywood connections as a member of the Arquette acting family, her curious timing has some on Twitter calling the gay allegation old news and asking if she's just using the #OscarsSoWhite debate to boost her own profile. And there's the fact that either she or the Facebook powers that be 掌权人物, 权势人物 deleted the post. It's not the first time Will has been involved in a gay-related controversy, though. After playing a homosexual character in his 1993 breakout film Six Degrees of Separation, he was criticised for refusing to pash a male actor while in character. "Will threw a fit on the set of ['Six Degrees of Separation'] when he was required by the scene to kiss Anthony Rapp," Alexis wrote, referencing the '90s story. "He persuaded the director to shoot the back of his head in frame. Blocking the non existent lip lock entirely." Alexis, who claimed to have been up for the role of Will's lover in the film, insists that while she used to be against outing, she now fully supports it. "F--- him," she wrote. "Gays have enemies. They lurk in gilded closets. Outing is healthy. You are either with or against us. You decide. Today. "I'm completely for it now," she added. "Too many bullied teens dead." Mr and Mrs Smith have yet to respond to Alexis' claims. Jada might have other things on her mind at the moment, as she's received a steady stream of criticism for her Oscar-boycotting. Sheree Fletcher makes clear her ex-husband Will Smith is not gay: WILL Smith's ex-wife has slammed transgender actress Alexis Arquette for publicly claiming the actor and his current wife Jada were gay. Arquette made the damning comments in a Facebook post, which has since been deleted, after Jada announced she was boycotting the Oscars due to a lack of diversity among the nominees. Arquette also claimed Smith paid off his former wife, Sheree Fletcher, to remain silent after she caught him in bed with producer and talent manager Benny Medina. Fletcher was outraged by the comments and posted a video on Facebook, directed at Arquette. "Alexis Arquette, let's be clear. I don't know you, you don't know me. So for you to claim to have first-hand information as to why my marriage didn't work out is completely out of line," she said in the video. "Not only is it out of line, it's absolutely not true and I'm offended and hurt that someone would be so malicious and just reckless and destructive and use a lie and an untruth to prove a point, I don't know what you were trying to do." Fletcher then revealed the real reason why her and Smith, who were married from 1992 to 1995, got a divorce. "I'm not here to fight Will and Jada's battle, they don't need me to do that, I'm here to set the record straight," she said. "My marriage ended not over any infidelity出轨. I didn't find Will in bed with a man, I didn't find him in bed with a woman, it just didn't happen. "Will was straight in 1992 and he's straight in 2016, so that kind of is what it is. "Our marriage ended, we were so young, the same age then as our son is now. "Marriage isn't easy, especially at that age, and now we are trying to be parents and navigate through our marriage. "Will was becoming bigger and bigger with his career and I'm becoming smaller and smaller and smaller and we didn't have the tools to make it work, I left because I was unhappy — it's really that simple." Fletcher made it clear she was never gagged 噤声, 禁口 and said while her former husband had a lot of money, he didn't have enough to take away her voice or deprive her of her story. Smith and Fletcher, who have a son together, have had an amicable relationship since they divorced. "I'm grateful for the relationship we have, it's loving, it's healthy, our children love each other — it's respectful," Fletcher said. Smith's former wife was most "ticked off" because she had to have a conversation with her and Smith's son over Arquette's claims and she left the transgender actress one piece of advice. "So in the future please be more careful with the things you say, check your facts, try and actually have some facts because you put untruths out there that could damage people and their families," she said. The video has already had almost 64,000 views and Arquette has not yet responded to Fletcher's tirade.

 空姐事件: Things got so bad on the March 2012 flight that the captain considered taking the rare step of standing Kilpatrick down. Following a disastrous feedback session and a period of sick leave, Air NZ dismissed 解雇, 开除 Kilpatrick. She then took a personal grievance ( The Employment Relations Act gives all employees the right to pursue a personal grievance if they have any of the following complaints: unjustifiable dismissal. unjustifiable action which disadvantages the employee. discrimination. sexual harassment (by someone in authority or by co-workers) ) case to the Employment Relations Authority claiming she was unjustifiably dismissed, but there was no merit found to her claims. In his just-released decision, Judge Mark Perkins again threw out Kilpatrick's claims and noted that when giving evidence in court she had been deliberately misinterpreting questions to give vague answers. He found it difficult to understand Kilpatrick's stance and believed Air NZ were well within their rights 有权, 在权限范围内 to start disciplinary action against her. "Ms Kilpatrick failed to appropriately engage with Air NZ in good faith 有诚意 and in a timely manner. "She refused to agree to meetings with management which were arranged so that AIr NZ could hear her side of events and possibly get to the bottom of why she had behaved in the way she did and by which discussion she could possibly have saved her employment." Another flight attendant on the Rarotonga flight, Michelle Coyle, gave evidence that Kilpatrick had been combative 好斗的, 脾气不好的 from the start. During the flight Kilpatrick was responsible for the galley( I. the kitchen on a boat or airplane. II. galley or galley proof 勘误页 a long sheet of paper on which a book is first printed, so that any mistakes can be corrected before the final pages are printed. ) and her attitude was described as poor by Coyle. Kilpatrick had not programmed the in-flight entertainment screens to include food orders, leading to complaints from passengers about a lack of food. The galley was described as "a shambles" with carts out and no replenishing of tea or coffee 续杯, 续茶(to make something full again, or to bring it back to its previous level by replacing what has been used.). One passenger also saw Kilpatrick eating one of the pies, which were supposed to be available for purchase by passengers but had not been added to the in-flight screen. The passenger made a pointed comment ( pointed I. with a point at the end. a pointed nose/chin. II. direct, in a way that shows you are annoyed or do not agree. They made a few pointed remarks about the proposals. a. 尖锐的, 直截了当的.  direct, because you are determined to get information. Be prepared for some very pointed questions. ) to Kilpatrick about the situation, who then "rudely berated him" for watching her while she ate. During the return flight, Kilpatrick broke protocol by going to the flight deck ( The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is the surface from which its aircraft take off and land, essentially a miniature airfield at sea. On smaller naval ships which do not have aviation as a primary mission, the landing area for helicopters and other VTOL aircraft is also referred to as the flight deck. The official U.S. Navy term for these vessels is "air-capable ships". ) without clearance from 未经允许 the flight service manager to complain about her fellow flight attendants. The two pilots formed the view 认为, 形成观点 Kilpatrick was trying to intimidate her staff members and "had it in" for( have (got) it in for 心里有气, 有成见, 心怀不满 informal feel a particular dislike of (someone) and behave in a hostile manner towards them. To be very angry at; to have a grudge against; to have little tolerance for. My boss must really have it in for me; that was the third lecture this week! "She's had it in for me ever since our quarrel". ) Coyle. Because of her behaviour, it was decided Kilpatrick would be given her performance rating, mandatory for all flight attendants following a flight, when the plane landed. She proceeded to make disparaging comments about the in-flight services coordinator, for whom English was a second language, when he attempted to give her feedback. Air NZ attempted to make an appointment for her to see an Air NZ medical officer, which is standard procedure when workplace stress is raised, but Kilpatrick refused and a stalemate developed regarding her return to work. During this period Kilpatrick was mistakenly rostered to work a flight to San Francisco and did so, despite being told she was banned until cleared to fly. Air NZ then began disciplinary procedures against Kilpatrick, which ended in her being fired.

 澳同性婚姻合法化问题: When asked to clarify by host Patricia Karvelas if he was worried people may think he is gay if the law changes, Mr Shelton says the people may or may not, but 'suddenly the terms of my marriage have changed'. The exact details of a plebiscite are yet to be confirmed but Mr Shelton is calling for public funds to be provided for campaigning on either side of the issue. 'The government has reached out to us 找过我们, 联系过我们 and some other groups that are in this space', he said. Mr Tuazon-McCheyne says his organisation is willing to work with the other side so 'children are not harmed by a plebiscite campaign' but would prefer the government avoid a popular vote ( an act of voting by the electorate of a country or area. The total number of votes of a given electorate. The president was elected even though he received only 40% of the popular vote.  "the cabinet and parliament must now debate the initiative before it goes to a popular vote". the choice expressed through the votes cast by the electorate. "the party won 26.6% of the popular vote". ). Plebiscite ( [ˈplebɪˌsaɪt] a vote by everyone in a country about a very important issue. There were calls to hold a plebiscite on Scottish home rule. ) or Referendum - What's the Difference: Here's a quick primer ( [ˈpraɪmər] I. [uncountable] a substance used for preparing a surface for paint. II. [ˈprɪmər] 简册. [countable] a book that gives very simple instructions or basic information about something. ) on plebiscites and referendums, given the same-sex marriage debate has attracted so much attention to the meaning of the two words. What is a 'Plebiscite' and what is a 'Referendum'? According to the Budget Macquarie Dictionary, a plebiscite is 'a direct vote of the qualified electors of a state in regard to some important public question'. (State here is used in a generic form and doesn't mean Australian state.) A referendum by the same dictionary is 'the principle or procedure of referring or submitting measures proposed or passed by a legislative body to the vote of the electorate for approval or rejection'. A quick perusal ( peruse [pəˈruz] v. I. To examine or consider with care. II. to read something. To read completely. III. (transitive, informal) To look over casually; to skim.  n. An examination or perusal; an instance of perusing. Usage notes: The sense of "skimming" is proscribed by some authorities on usage, including the Oxford American Dictionary. The shift, however, is not dissimilar to that found in scan. The Oxford English Dictionary further notes that the word was used as a general synonym for read as far back as the 16th century. ) of on-line dictionaries confirms these definitions. Referendum comes to English directly from Latin where plebiscite comes to English from Latin via French. Plebiscite is forever associated with the peace treaties that ended the First World War, being used to settle a number of complex boundary drawing problems 边境划线问题, 边境划分问题. In Australian usage, 'referendum' is generally reserved for votes to amend the Australian Constitution under Section 128 of the Constitution, though the word referendum is not used in the Constitution. To amend the Australian Constitution, a referendum requires that a proposed amendment must receive majority support in the national vote, but also receive majority of support in a majority of states. So to pass, a constitutional referendum must have a national Yes majority, and a Yes majority in at least four of the six states. It is to distinguish from this constitutional double majority requirement that that word 'plebiscite' is sometimes used to mean a simple national vote. Confusingly, all states hold votes that they call referendums but by the national definition are actually plebiscites. Has Australia Held Plebiscites before? Australia has held three national votes that were not constitutional referendums and so qualify as plebiscites. There were votes on Conscription in 1916 and 1917, and a vote on a National Song in 1977. The conscription vote was a Yes/No answer to a question. The National Song poll was a preferential ballot complete with a two-song preferred winner. What Have Been the Past State Referendums/Plebiscites: I ran through a range of the state plebiscites since 1901 in this post. The list does not include referendums required by entrenched provisions of state constitutions. The majority of state plebiscites have concerned hotel trading hours and daylight saving. How Are Plebiscites Held? To hold a plebiscite, the government could contract the AEC to conduct a poll under Section 7A of the Commonwealth Electoral Act. However, this would create problems as it would not invoke the general body of national electoral law. More likely a special Act would be passed, or possibly regulations used, to specify the conduct of the plebiscite. The point of an Act for a plebiscite would be to invoke the provisions of the Electoral and Referendum acts, and also to specify where the ballot would operate differently from the usual electoral legislation. The Act should ideally specify the question, and also the mechanism to determine the winning case. Specifying the question could be controversial. Should the question ask about restricting marriage to opposite sexes, or specifiy that same-sex marriage be allowed? Should it ask a de-gendered question such as whether marriage should be between two persons? How about marriage should be restricted to its traditional meaning between a man and a woman?  Even the horrible "Do you agree to an act to amend the definition of Marriage?" There is much scope 很多余地, 很多活动空间 for using the words to tilt the result one way or the other. It would be unlikely that changes to the Marriage Act would be dependent on the plebiscite. The Parliament would still have to legislate the changes and would presumably do so dependent on the plebiscite result. Past Plebscites and How They Happened: The 1916 Conscription referendum was brought on by the Military Service Referendum Act (1916). It defined the provisions of the Electoral and Referendum Acts to be invoked, though it included several provisions concerning the right to vote of naturalised citizens born in enemy countries. The Act also specified the Question. "Are you in favour of the government having, in this grave emergency, the same compulsory powers over citizens in regard to requiring their military services, for the term of this War, outside the Commonwealth, as it now has in regard to military service within the Commonwealth?" The electorate voted no. The 1917 Conscription referendum was introduced by the War Precautions (Military Service Referendum) Regulations 1917. The question asked was "Are you in favour of the proposal of the Commonwealth Government for reinforcing the Australian Imperial Force oversea?" The electorate again voted no. The 1917 regulations included many controversial provisions removing the vote from certain electors, including citizens born in enemy countries or whose father was born in an enemy country. Other War Precautions Act regulations were issued to censor coverage of the conscription debate. The 1977 national song poll had a brief act invoking the electoral and referendum acts. Advance Australia Fair was the winning song, but the Fraser government did not immediately act to make it the national anthem. Would you need to vote at a Plebiscite? The Electoral Act and the Referendum acts specify compulsory voting. If it was decided not to hold a compulsory vote on a plebiscite to change the Marriage Act, then the alternative form of voting would have to be specified in the enabling act. In 1997 the Howard government passed a special Act to conduct an election for the 1998 Constitutional Convention to draw up a republic model. The act activated various parts of Commonwealth Electoral Act, but included its own provisions to make voting voluntary, to conduct the ballot by post, and also to specify the form of voting and the method of counting. An act for a plebiscite would either enable all the usual election and referendum provisions, or otherwise specify an alternative mechanism. Could We Have a Constitutional Referendum Instead? Yes, but there is no need for one. High Court rulings have clarified that the Commonwealth parliament has the right to define the meaning of marriage under Section 51 (xxi) of the Constitution. The only reason to hold a referendum would be to restrict the right of Parliament to define marriage. For instance, if it was decided to restrict the power of the Commonwealth to define marriage so that it had to be between a man and a woman, then to do so the referendum would have to pass nationally and in four states. Only 8 out of 44 referendums have passed, so a referendum to ban same sex marriage would have a high hurdle to pass. For opponents of same-sex marriage, it would be easier to defeat a plebiscite on same-sex marriage than it would be to pass a referendum constitutionally ruling out same-sex marriage. The Constitution does not define marriage, merely defines it as an area where the Commonwealth can legislate and where Commonwealth law takes precedence. If you start to amend the Constitution to limit what the Commonwealth can legislate on, you begin to create areas where the states can legislate. National and state laws on marriage, de-facto relationships and all laws related to the children of relationships are covered by over-lapping powers that have been resolved by several decades of negotiations. Western Australia runs its own parallel Family Court where all other states come under the Commonwealth Family Law system. The states have referred many of their powers over de facto relationships to the Commonwealth, except Western Australia which has its own court. Limiting the power of the Commonwealth to define and legislate for marriage might have unintended consequences over areas of law that the states have in recent years vacated. Could the Commonwealth Legislate for Civil Unions? It could, but the Constitution gives the Commonwealth no power over Civil Unions, which traditionally have been covered by state law as de-facto relations. A Commonwealth Civil Union Law would require the Commonwealth to argue that a Civil Union is a marriage and can be covered by the Commonwealth. Referred state powers could be used, but that gets complex. What no one wants is to get stuck in the problem that once dogged people in non-marriages that if they had children they came under Commonwealth law, but if they didn't they ended up in state courts.