用法学习: 1. tongue tie a condition where a baby's tongue is too closely connected to the bottom of the mouth, sometimes causing difficulties in feeding and later on in speaking. If the child is over a year old, tongue tie can cause troubles in producing certain sounds of speech if it is left untreated. tongue-tied unable to speak because you are nervous or embarrassed. Being tongue tied, medically defined as having ankyloglossia, is a condition in which the lingual frenulum (a membrane that connects the tongue to the floor of the mouth) is unusually short, causing restricted movement of the tongue. Ankyloglossia, also known as tongue-tie, is a congenital oral anomaly that may decrease mobility of the tongue tip and is caused by an unusually short, thick lingual frenulum, a membrane connecting the underside of the tongue to the floor of the mouth. Ankyloglossia varies in degree of severity from mild cases characterized by mucous membrane bands to complete ankyloglossia whereby the tongue is tethered to the floor of the mouth. find your tongue to start to be able to speak again after being too afraid or embarrassed. lost your tongue 不说话了吗, 没话可说吗? used for asking someone why they are not saying anything, especially when they usually say what they think. have a loose tongue 口风松 to talk about things that you should keep secret. loosen someone's tongue to make someone more willing to talk about something. get your tongue round something to pronounce a difficult or strange word. I had trouble getting my tongue round some of their names. 2. come to pass To happen; to occur. have/want things both ways 鱼与熊掌兼得 (=avoid choosing between two different things): I'd like to live close to the beach and close to my office, but I can't have things both ways. all good things come to an end/must pass: Our vacation was great, but all good things come to an end. things have come to a pretty pass used for saying that a situation has become very unpleasant, difficult, or unacceptable. all things considered: All things considered, I think you'll be happier if you switch jobs. as things stand (=as they are) 目前的状态: As things stand, it will be difficult to raise prices further. put things (=describe or show a situation in a particular way): The official government report puts things quite differently. cock of the roost/walk An arrogant, conceited, or overly proud person, typically a man. He struts around campus like he's the cock of the roost, all because his dad is some politician. chickens come home to roost The consequences of doing wrong always catch up with the wrongdoer. To have repercussions or aftereffects, especially unfavorable ones. if you say that chickens are coming home to roost, you mean that bad or silly things done in the past are beginning to cause problems. There was too much greed in the past, and now the chickens are coming home to roost with crime and corruption soaring. The consequences of your mistake will eventually come home to roost. Now that you're finally admitting your true age, no one believes you-chickens come home to roost. The fact that chickens usually come home to rest and sleep has long been known, but the idea was used figuratively only in 1809, when Robert Southey wrote, "Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost". rule the roost = run the show Be in charge, boss others. to be the boss or manager, especially at home. Who rules the roost at your house? Our new office manager really rules the roost. In our division the chairman's son rules the roost. run one's own show 自己做主 exert control over one's own activities" or "act independently." The high school drama club didn't ask permission to perform that play-they want to run their own show. call [all] the shots / tune Fig. to make the decisions; to decide what is to be done. to decide on the course of action; to be in charge. Why do you have to call all the shots? Do what you're told. I'll call the shots. Sally always wants to call the shots, and Mary doesn't like to be bossed around. They don't get along well. Sally always wants to call the tune. 3. pass with flying colors Also, come through with flying colors. If you do something such as pass an exam with flying colours, you do it very successfully. Win, succeed, as in She came through the bar exam with flying colors. This expression alludes to a victorious ship sailing with its flags high. dance attendance on someone 随叫随到 to behave like someone's servant by being always ready to do what they ask you to do. dance the night away to spend the whole night dancing. 4. House on fire: Acting Commander Phil Smith from the Melbourne Fire Brigade said the incident served as a warning about the dangers of leaving charging items unattended. "It scares me to think that if it was night time, the kids were in bed, and this thing was actually plugged in the fire could very well 很有可能 have resulted in the loss of lives," he said. "It's a timely 及时的提醒 reminder. Russell Crowe got kicked off a plane because of the likelihood of these devices exploding." "Me, personally, I probably wouldn't let the kids have them unless they were supervised." "They were Christmas presents, all Australian compliant(Ash Ibraheim says he made sure the hoverboards met Australian safety standards.)," he said. "We made sure, we got them in from Sydney. They had to comply with all our battery standards. "We heard there were a lot of imported versions that weren't complying, so we wanted to make sure we got the right thing." "We're saying to people don't leave them charging unobserved, if you're determined to use it, make sure you're watching it," Ms Rickard said. "Most of the reports that we've heard have been of hoverboards that were charging unattended and spontaneously burst into flames."
英王子飙脏话: Speaking to comedy duo Ant and Dec, the "potty-mouthed" prince let the word slip while describing letters he received from his dad Prince Charles during his Eton schooldays. Prince Williams said he and Harry would read the letters carefully, "Just in case it was a bollocking ( [ˈbɒləkɪŋ] get a bollocking to be told in an angry way that you have done something wrong. give someone a bollocking to tell someone in an angry way that they have done something wrong. bollock v. 被训斥. 被斥责. to tell someone in an angry way that they have done something wrong. To reprimand severely and grossly. The boss bollocked me for coming in late. I knew I'd get bollocked for it, but I didn't care. n. (Britain, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A testicle. You've got a bollock hanging out of your shorts. ) we didn't know about." Unlike Australia and the US, where it is seldom used, bollocks is generally considered to be a swear word in Britain, a situation which has led to much confusion online. But it appears even some British are confused about how rude the word is. Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan got in trouble from his co-host Susanna Reid on Tuesday when he repeated the word while discussing the documentary. "Excuse your language, Piers!" exclaimed Reid, placing a hand on his arm. "Can you not say that?" Morgan asked in response, saying he "didn't know it was a bad word". Back in 1977, the English punk rock group Sex Pistols sparked a well-known obscenity case when the band released their album, "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols". A Virgin Records shop manager was arrested for indecency and taken to court for refusing to cover up the word "bollocks" in advertising for the record. The Nottingham Magistrates' Court however found that the word "bollocks" was not obscene. Although the word's Middle English origin gives the meaning "testicles" the term "bollocks" also dates back to a legitimate Old English term referring to a priest. In the context of the title, the court found, the word meant "nonsense".
NSW Police head of traffic calls for senior drivers to stay off the roads: Spokesman Paul Versteege told the newspaper older drivers were more likely to be injured or killed because they were more frail, not because their driving ability was compromised 开车能力受影响. Drivers aged 75 and over are required to have annual medical checks, and drivers aged over 85 must pass a practical exam every two years. The comments have been labelled insulting by The Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association. A spike 暴涨, 骤升 in the number of seniors killed in traffic accidents in New South Wales has led to calls for older drivers to stay off the roads. 英国人加入ISIS: The British ISIS fanatic accused of being the 'new Jihadi John' was able to 'breeze' out ( breeze out (of some place) to leave a place quickly. She was here for a moment and then suddenly breezed out. She breezed out of the room in an instant.) of the UK and flee to Syria with his family while on bail for terror offences, it was revealed today. Siddhartha Dhar, 32, also known as Abu Rumaysah, left Britain despite being forced to hand in his passport and being on a terror watchlist for encouraging terrorism and supporting banned group Al-Muhajiroun. MI6 are now racing to identify 确认 whether he is the militant with an English accent in a new ISIS execution video where five alleged British spies were killed and he was seen shooting one in the head. He was a known supporter of banned groups, had links to hate preachers and was seen at Islamist rallies in London. The former bouncy castle ( Inflatable [ɪnˈfleɪtəb(ə)l] castles 气垫床, 充气城堡
(closed inflatable trampolines, bouncy houses or CITs) are temporary
inflatable structures and buildings and similar items that are rented for functions, school and church festivals
and village fetes and used for recreational purposes, particularly for
children. The growth in popularity of moonwalks has led to an inflatable
rental industry which includes inflatable slides, obstacle courses, games, and more.
Inflatables are ideal for portable amusements because they are easy to
transport and store. The name given to such structures varies. They have
been marketed with such names as "Bounce House",
"Bouncies","Moon Bounce", "Boingalow", "Astrojump", "Moonwalk", "Jolly
Jump" and "Spacewalk". "Brinca brinca", another name commonly used by
Latinos, is Spanish for "jump jump". "Bouncy Castle" or "Inflatable
Castle" are used in Ireland, the UK, New Zealand and parts of Australia,
and "Jumping Castles" in Australia, Canada, South Africa and Arizona in the United States. call (one's) name 召唤, 呼唤 verb to be inviting. Bounce house is calling my name 召唤我呢. I gotta go.) salesman later posted a picture of himself cradling his baby while brandishing an AK-47 to taunt 嘲讽 security services( taunt [tɔ:nt] v to shout cruel things at someone in order to make them angry or upset. n. a cruel remark that is intended to make someone angry or upset. ) whose blunders allowed him to escape. Prior to posting the photo, Dhar taunted the police on Twitter for clumsily allowing him to slip through their fingers 眼睁睁的看着, 眼皮底下溜走( (be right) under one's nose I. 眼皮底下 (idiomatic) directly in front of one; clearly visible. to be in a place that you can clearly see: I spent all morning looking for the book, and it was right under my nose the whole time. She shoved the letter under her boss's nose (= made certain he saw it). I searched for my glasses for twenty minutes, and finally found them right under my nose. II. (idiomatic) obvious or apparent. If we had paid more attention, we would have found that answer was under our noses the whole time. ): 'What a shoddy security system Britain must have to allow me to breeze through 轻松穿过 Europe to the Islamic State.' He also boasted how he had fooled 骗过 MI5: 'My Lord (Allah) made a mockery of British intelligence and surveillance. Make hijrah (flight) Muslims. Place your trust in Allah.' Prior to fleeing the UK, he also appeared live on the BBC and declared his support for ISIS. 'What I can say is that Muslims cherish the Koran and for over 90 years we have been living without a caliphate ( [ˈkælɪfeɪt] I. the position of a caliph. II. the period of time when someone is a caliph. III. an area ruled by a caliph. 统一伊斯兰政府. A unified Islamic government for the Muslim world, ruled by a caliph. caliph [ˈkeɪlɪf] a Muslim man who was a religious and political leader in the past. The political leader of the Muslim world, successor of Muhammad's political authority, not religious or spiritual. Ahmadis call their Caliph the Khalifatul Masih. ) and many of the rules within the Koran cannot be implemented. 'Now we have this caliphate I think we will see many Muslims globally seeing it as an opportunity for the Koran to be fully realised.' 'The masked man sounds like he is from London. ISIS is full of people who are from all over the place, but he seems educated, given he uses the word 'imbecile' ( imbecile [ˈɪmbəs(ə)l] I. 蠢人. 蠢驴. A fool, an idiot. an insulting word for someone who behaves in a very stupid way. II. old-fashioned an offensive word for someone who has a mental disability. A person with limited mental capacity who can perform tasks and think only like a young child, in medical circles meaning a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal five to seven-year-old child. Usage notes: In modern times, "imbecile" is often used in jocular insults. imbecilic adj. imbecility n. ) a number of times. 'Jihadi John was a bit of a rudeboy from a west London crew and was a bit laddish 小混混, but this guy doesn't sound as 'street' 街头混混 as Jihadi John.' Several Twitter users, including respected Al Rai correspondent Elijah Magnier, have also raised the possibility he is the killer militant. It is possible that a different voice was dubbed over the footage after it was filmed. However, linguistics expert Jane Setter believes the militant was speaking at the scene. It came 结论得自 as it emerged the child in the video is the son of a notorious Jihadi bride from London, according to her own father. The young boy, dressed in military fatigues and a black bandanna ( [bænˈdænə] = bandana 头上绑着布条, 头上绑着日本浪人条 a piece of coloured cloth worn around your head or neck. ) bearing the white mark of ISIS, declares that 'We will kill kuffar [non believers]' in depraved new footage which sees five shackled 拷着的 men in orange jumpsuits brutally murdered by a masked executioner. 浪女新动作: Sporting a multi-print (好几个块块的打印格子) crop top and jeans, Miley, 23, reveals her abs 露着小腹 while striking a pose alongside Elsa – the wife of Liam's older brother Chris Hemsworth – and a small group of pals. It is the first clear shot to emerge of the Wrecking Ball hit-maker at the hugely popular event, held annually in coastal Byron Bay. The singer sports a pair of dungarees ( Dungaree or dungarees [ˌdʌŋɡəˈriz] 工装仔裤, 工装裤, 连体裤 may refer to: Dungaree (fabric) Jeans, trousers made from denim. Bib-and-brace overalls. A type of 20th-century U.S. Navy uniform. American old-fashioned pants made of strong cloth, usually blue denim. overalls [plural] American a piece of clothing consisting of pants and a part covering your chest that is attached to straps that fit over your shoulders. ) while playfully poking her tongue 伸着舌头 and flashing a peace sign above a friend's head, while Elsa adopts a similar pose. Miley is thought to have rekindled her relationship with Hunger Games star Liam after the pair were spotted looking close 看上去很亲密 in a backstage area at the festival on Sunday. One festival-goer told Daily Mail Australia: 'They were in quite a large group with their family. I didn't really notice them at first but then Miley said something. 'I don't know what it was but I noticed her husky 沙哑的 voice. I just noticed it straight away – at first I didn't think it was real but then I got a good look at her.' Despite being seen together, the pair were said to be keen to keep their joint appearance at the event under wraps 保密, 不公开. 'They were in the backstage bar but trying to stay away from the crowd,' the reveler added. 'Liam was rubbing 摩挲 抚着背 her back. They were quite affectionate towards each other. Hard to miss 很难不被注意到: Even with her back turned Miley's distinctive sense of style singled her out at the event. Miley enjoyed a stop-start ( 走走停停的. 兜兜转转的. continuously starting, stopping, and starting again. stop-start traffic. ) relationship with Liam - often referred to as her first serious boyfriend - after they met while filming romantic drama The Last Song in 2009.
Running out of puff: China can't inflate yet more speculative bubbles to disguise the structural problems in its economy: Andy Xie says China is running out of policy options 无计可施, 束手无策 in its attempt to maintain an impossible position: China's government has just cut interest rates again, demonstrating once more that monetary policy is the country's only meaningful response to the investment bubble bursting. The move comes just weeks after a massive operation to defend the exchange rate. At the same time, the government is propping up the stock market, the credit market, the banking system and all the industries suffering from massive overcapacities 过剩. Do the laws of economics apply at all in China? The "impossible trinity", or trilemma, here says that a country cannot run an independent monetary policy with a fixed exchange rate and free capital flows. Some may argue that China controls its capital account. It is true that the government has shut down underground currency exchange channels, which has lessened some of the pressure on the exchange rate.
But corporate foreign debt, cumulative foreign direct investment and
offshore renminbi in total are similar to the forex reserves. These
monies could all be withdrawn legally.
Further, every person can buy US$50,000 of foreign currency from banks
per annum. That's six times the per capita income. China's capital
account is really open. China's forex reserves 外汇储备
fell by US$329 billion in the first nine months of 2015, while the
country ran up a trade surplus of US$424 billion, which would have added
to the forex reserves, during the same period. These two numbers
roughly summarise the magnitude of capital flight. This is possibly the biggest capital flight in absolute and relative terms
that the world has seen in the past three decades. The government is
not dealing with capital flight either technically or fundamentally.
When renminbi leaves, the People's Bank of China hands over the dollars
and puts renminbi back into the banking system, to stop interest rates
from rising. The way to fight capital flight is to raise interest rates.
Running down forex reserves doesn't solve any problems. China is employing two policy instruments that are not available in other countries: first, killing a chicken to scare the monkeys 杀鸡儆猴; and second, turning up the propaganda machine to manipulate perception. At the fundamental level, diminishing opportunities for profits
is key. The first option is usually reserved for someone who takes
money out of the country illegally. The recent crackdown on underground
money exchange channels falls into this category. In 1998, some
influential people were caught up in this classic tradition of making an example out of someone.
This hasn't happened recently, but probably will. The trilemma is an
impossibility when people are rational. Yet, the Chinese government
seems determined to invalidate this assumption. The propaganda machine preys on people's struggle between fear and greed. Whenever people are about to run, the machine spews out all those stories of money-making opportunities and examples of people getting rich. When words alone don't work, the government spends money to manufacture an uptrend like a good pump-and-dump ( denoting the fraudulent practice of encouraging investors to buy
shares in a company in order to inflate the price artificially, and then
selling one's own shares while the price is high. ) artist. While the little people can be confused into inaction, those at the top won't be. A disproportionate share of China's wealth, mainly in property and cash, are in the hands of a small elite. They are driving the capital outflows 资金外流. In 1997-98 a similar elite in Southeast Asia, not the little people on the street, chose to abandon ship and take their wealth offshore. If China wants to prevent a similar crisis, its anti-corruption campaign has to turn towards the core vested interest group 核心利益相关的集团
soon. China went through a round of radical changes in the 1990s that
laid the foundations for its subsequent prosperity. Since 2002, the
system hasn't been able to deal with emerging 新出现的, 新涌现的 problems, so has allowed them to fester流脓 and has manufactured bubbles to hide the consequences. The reality is that the political imperative is in conflict with economic needs.
To move beyond an investment-led economy, China must cut taxes, shrink
the government and reform state-owned enterprises. But political
insecurity is driving resources further into the government's hands. The
alternative model is for stability to depend on people's goodwill, not an iron fist. It is hard to see such a shift any time soon. puff I. A short, explosive burst of breath or wind: a puff of wind swung the weather cock round. a. The sound of air or vapour escaping suddenly: the whistle and puff of steam. b. A small quantity of vapour or smoke, emitted in one blast: the fire breathed out a puff of blue smoke. c. An act of drawing quickly on a pipe, cigarette, or cigar. An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.: he took a puff of his cigar 吸一口烟, 抽一口烟. d. British informal Breath. The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself. After a chase of over three miles he had finally run out of puff 喘不上气. I've run out of hosting puff. II. A light pastry case, typically one made of puff pastry, containing a sweet or savoury filling. A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc. cream puff. a jam puff. III. informal A review of a work of art, book, or theatrical production, especially an excessively complimentary one. A flamboyant 哗众取宠的, 浮夸的, 吹嘘的 or alluring statement about an object's quality.: the publishers sent him a copy of the book hoping for a puff. a. British An advertisement, especially one exaggerating the value of the goods advertised: the distinction between a trader's puff and a statement having legal significance is a fine one. IV. A gathered mass of material in a dress or other garment. a. A rolled protuberant mass of hair: her hair was drawn up into a series of padded puffs and curves. b. North American An eiderdown: the snowy beds were piled with plump pillows and puffs. V. A powder puff: A ball or pad of soft material used for the application of cosmetic powder to the face. She sent her a box of dusting powder with a swans down puff. VI. (derogatory, slang, Britain, particularly northern UK) a homosexual; a poof. be puffed up Be conceited: he was never puffed up about his writing. Advertise with exaggerated or false praise 浮夸的, 夸张的, 吹嘘的: publishers have puffed the book on the grounds that it contains new discoveries. III. [intransitive/transitive] to say something in a way that shows you are annoyed and offended, especially when this makes you look rather silly. 'How dare you?' he puffed. IV. [intransitive] 喘粗气. 喘着气. to breathe or blow out air noisily, especially because you have been running, climbing etc. He was puffing a bit when he reached the top.
中国证券市场的熔断机制第一天: China's seven-minute selling frenzy shows circuit-breaker risks: The sell orders piled up fast on Monday at Shenwan Hongyuan Group, China's fifth-biggest brokerage by market value. China's CSI 300 Index had just tumbled 5 per cent, triggering a 15-minute trading halt, and investors were scrambling to exit before getting locked in 被套牢 by a full-day suspension set to take effect at 7 per cent. When the first halt was lifted, the market reaction was swift: it took just seven minutes for losses to reach the threshold for a second suspension as volumes surged to their highs of the day. "Investors rushed to the door during the level-one stage of the circuit breaker as they fretted the market would go down further," said William Wong, the head of sales trading at Shenwan Hongyuan in Hong Kong. Spiralling losses on the first day of China's circuit breakers show how measures meant to help restore calm to one of the world's most volatile equity markets risk doing just the opposite. The sell-off could spur policymakers to "fine tune" the new rules, according to Andrew Sullivan, managing director for sales trading at Haitong International Securities Group in Hong Kong. Unlike similar circuit breakers in markets including the US, the threshold for trading halts in China is low enough that they would have kicked in 生效 20 times last summer alone. Circuit breakers are the latest effort by Chinese authorities to tame swings in a stock market where the growing use of leverage by individual investors drove an unprecedented boom - followed by a $US5 trillion bust - in the span of just a few months last year. The CSI 300 index of the nation's biggest companies rose or fell by 5 per cent 20 times from the start of June through early September, with daily moves exceeding 7 per cent on half of those occasions. Chinese shares began Monday with losses after data showed manufacturing contracted for a fifth straight month and investors anticipated the end of a ban on share sales by major stakeholders at the end of this week. The first halt was triggered at 1.13pm local time as losses in the CSI 300 reached 5 per cent. Turnover surged 交易量猛增 after the suspension ended, peaking in the final minute before a 7 per cent slump halted trading in shares, futures and options for the rest of the day. Unlike some measures to calm the $US7.1 trillion equity market over the summer, Chinese authorities sought input from market participants when the circuit-breaker proposal was unveiled in September. They even made some changes to the rules, including shortening the length of the first halt to 15 minutes from 30 minutes, before implementing them for the first time on Monday. Traders said the halts took effect as anticipated without any major technical problems. "The circuit breaker intensifies 加剧抛售压力 selling pressure and panic sentiment as the index approaches thresholds because investors aren't familiar with it," Zhang said from Shanghai. Such routs may eventually be seen by money managers as good buying opportunities, especially for large-cap 资金充裕的 companies, he said. Policy makers proposed circuit breakers in the wake of a market crash that saddled ( saddle someone with something to give someone something that is difficult to deal with. The company was saddled with a huge debt last year. ) many of the nation's 99 million individual investors with losses. The new mechanism adds to trading restrictions that include a 10 per cent limit on daily swings for individual stocks and a so-called T+1 rule preventing investors from buying and selling the same shares in a single day. While the US also has circuit breakers to prevent excessive swings, the world's largest stock market has a higher threshold for shutting down exchanges completely. Like China's intervention to strengthen the yuan last year after a surprise devaluation roiled ( roil to seriously disturb; to throw into confusion. One lesson from the crises that have roiled the eurozone over the past five-plus years is that anyone who tells you the only response to a public debt crisis is to slash spending and embark on "structural reform" is either masochistic [ˌmæsəˈkɪstɪk]受虐狂的 ( sadistic [səˈdɪstɪk] ) or downright mad 十足的疯子.) global markets, policy makers may take steps to prevent losses from snowballing, according to Steven Leung, an executive director for institutional sales at UOB Kay Hian (Hong Kong) Ltd.
父亲驾车带孩子跳水: Damien Little battled his inner demons for three years before taking his life and the lives of his two small boys, his family has revealed. Over that time his relatives and close friends noticed a change in his personality 性情大变 as the 34-year-old was slowly defeated by his mental illness. "He and his brother used to pop out for a beer. He was just a normal, everyday Australian bloke." South Australian Commissioner for Victims' Rights Michael O'Connell said the heart-wrenching 揪心的, 让人心如刀绞的, 心如刀割的 incident had caused anguish ( 心理创伤, 精神创伤. 精神痛苦. a feeling of great physical or emotional pain. The rejection filled him with anguish.) for the family and friends. But he also urged 敦促 everyone not to rush to blame Mr Little, even those who might find murder by a parent to be among the "cruellest 最残忍的 of tragedies". "We do not know the reasons Damien did what he appears to have done and speculating 胡乱揣测, 胡乱猜测 helps neither the family nor the people of Port Lincoln," he said. Video of woman ogling MMA fighters sparks sexism debate: A certain UFC weigh-in woman (an occasion when someone who is taking part in a sport such as boxing or horse racing is officially weighed. weigh in I. to have your weight checked before you take part in a sport such as boxing or horse racing. weigh in at: Bowen weighed in at 241 pounds. II. to become involved in something. weigh in with: I just wanted to weigh in with some comments.) has sparked an online debate about "reverse" sexism after a "supercut" of her shamelessly 恬不知耻的, 不知羞耻的 ogling (ogle [ˈəuɡ(ə)l] 色迷迷的盯着. to keep looking at someone in a way that is too obvious, because you think they are sexually attractive. To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously 流着口水的, 垂涎欲滴的. Dan was ogling all the women as they walked past. impertinent [ɪmˈpɜː(r)tɪnənt] 目无尊长的 I. insolent, ill-mannered. rude and not showing respect for someone, especially someone older or more senior. an impertinent question/child. I didn't mean to be impertinent. II. irrelevant (opposite of pertinent). Usage notes: Although, historically, definition 2 was the original (derived from the French below) usage; meaning gradually changed to definition 1. More recently general usage has come to, once again, incorporate definition 2. Many older speakers will consider definition 2 incorrect. The construction "not pertinent" is one possible alternative. amorous [ˈæmərəs] 情意绵绵的 relating to or involving sexual love. amorous intentions/advances. covetous [ˈkʌvətəs] very much wanting to have something that someone else has, especially money.) fighters ahead of a bout in Las Vegas last month went viral. The footage, shot ahead of Fight Night at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan on the tenth of last month, shows the blue polo-shirted staffer barely able to keep her eyes in her head as a succession of seriously jacked ( I. physically or mentally stimulated from the effects of a drug or stimulant. high on drugs or stimulants. "a racing car driver, jacked up on amphetamines". II. = ripped. (of a person) having very well-developed muscles. "back in his wrestling prime, he was nicknamed the 'Anabolic Warrior' for his jacked-up 身材有料的. 相当有料的, 肌肉的 physique". III. broken, imperfect, especially when followed by 'up'. (jacked up). This computer is so jacked up, I'm surprised it can still turn on! jack around I. [intransitive] to waste time doing stupid things. II. [transitive] jack someone around to treat someone badly because you are not clear or honest with them. jacked up I. 千斤顶. 顶起来的. Hoisted, lifted off the ground, or propped up using a jack. Do you want to rotate the tires while we have the car jacked up? II. (slang, automotive) Describes a 4x4 automobile that has a "lift kit", raising the body and/or frame higher than stock. He took us for a ride in his awesome new jacked up truck. III. (informal) Significantly increased or expanded. It's hard to make ends meet with the jacked up price of gas. The new jacked up triple-barrel cannons helped turn the tide of the war. IV. (slang) Under the influence of stimulants; high. They were all jacked up on coke. V. (slang) Stimulated, excited. VI. (slang) Wrecked; damaged; ruined; injured. That jacked up refrigerator hasn't moved from that curb in months. My elbow is all jacked up from playing tennis. VII. (slang) Reprehensible; objectionable. Dude that's jacked up your girlfriend left you for your brother. Usage notes: Frequently employed as a bowdlerization, or substitution, for fucked up. ) competitors strip off in front of her. When one brawler bends over in front of her to remove his shorts, she fixates 死盯着, 死眼盯着 on his behind so intently that she seems to become entranced ( [ɪnˈtrɑːnst] 着了魔了. so attracted by someone or something beautiful or impressive that you give them all your attention. entrance v. if someone or something beautiful or impressive entrances you, you are so attracted by them that you give them all your attention. n. [countable] the place where you can enter a room, building, or area. I'll meet you at the main entrance at six o'clock. entrance to/of: The statue of the Little Mermaid stands at the entrance to the harbour. a. [usually singular] the act of going into a place. Our conversation ended abruptly with the entrance 走进来 of a group of reporters. make an entrance I. to enter a room or building in a formal way or in a way that makes people notice you. The prime minister made an entrance, surrounded by security men. II. 入场. 登场. 出场. theatre to come onto the stage of a theatre to begin your performance. ) – it's almost as if you can see a thought bubble above her head. Inevitably, the vision was compiled into a highlights reel 精华集锦, replete with ( [rɪˈplit] literary full of something. replete with: For him, the city was replete with memories. ) a hip hop soundtrack; just as inevitably, there were plenty of trolls and keyboard warriors among the 631,000-odd viewers, who were quick to deposit their two cents ( your two cents' worth 个人意见, 拙见 (also your two cents) US informal your spoken opinion on a particular matter: I thought I'd just throw in (= add) my two cents' worth. put your two cents (worth) in (American & Australian informal) to give your opinion in a conversation, often when it is not wanted She always has to put her two cents worth in! Why can't she just keep quiet? "My two cents" (2¢) and its longer version "put my two cents in" is a United States (US) idiomatic expression, taken from the original English idiom expression: to put in "my two pennies worth" or "my two-penn'orth." It is used to preface ([ˈprefəs] 抛砖引玉. 引入. to say, do, or write something before you say, do, or write the most important part. He prefaced his speech with a quotation from Faulkner.) the tentative stating of one's opinion. By deprecating the opinion to follow – suggesting its value is only two cents, a very small amount – the user of the phrase hopes to lessen the impact of a possibly contentious statement, showing politeness and humility. However, it is also sometimes used with irony when expressing a strongly felt opinion. The phrase is also used out of habit to preface uncontentious opinions. For example: "If I may put my two cents in, that hat doesn't do you any favors." (More polite way of saying, for example: That hat is ugly.) An example of the shortened version: "My two cents is that you should sell that stock now." contentious [kənˈtenʃəs] I. 有争议的. causing disagreement between people or groups. Sex education in schools remains a highly contentious issue. II. 好斗的. 爱争论的. 喜欢吵架的. enjoying arguing with other people. contentious/ controversial/thorny issue (=one that causes a lot of argument): Abortion is always a controversial issue. big/key/major issue: Public education was one of the biggest issues in the election campaign. raise an issue (=start to discuss it): The subject of cloning raises complex ethical issues. ) in the comments section. "If it was a man, you'd have some landwhale ( landwhale (slang, pejorative) 陆地鲸鱼. An obese person. fail whale an error message and image of a whale that users get when the microblogging service Twitter is too busy. As frustration with the service grew, Fail Whale sightings increased. The cute pastel image became a lightning rod 当头一棒 for Twitter-users' frustrations. pastel [ˈpæst(ə)l] having a pale soft colour. pastel shades/colours. pastel pink. ) feminist calling for his head ( 整死他. 要他命. 拿命来. 拿上项上人头. Call for somebody's head on a plate. somebody's head on a plate/platter if you want someone's head on a plate you are very angry with them and want them to be punished The director was furious at what had happened and wanted Watt's head on a platter. )," one commenter said. Other media has also questioned whether a double standard is at play, but ultimately it all seems in good fun – though hopefully the weigh-in girl's appreciation of the male form won't land her in trouble, as one commenter speculated it might: "You are probably going to get her fired haha". Woman claims Chris Gayle indecently exposed himself to her: Cricket star Chris Gayle's uncomfortable propositioning ( proposition I. a statement that people can examine in order to decide whether it is true. proposition that: the proposition that all religions are equally valid. II. an offer or suggestion, especially involving business or politics. I have a business proposition to put to you. a. an offer to have sex with someone, especially when the offer is considered offensive. III. something or someone that you have to deal with, described as having a particular quality. Finishing the run in the rain wasn't a very attractive proposition. IV. maths a problem or statement in mathematics or logic that must be solved or proved true or false. V. American a suggested law or change in a law that citizens vote for or against. v. to offer to have sex with someone, especially in an offensive way. ) of a journalist during a live post-innings interview has drawn criticism. Chris Gayle allegedly exposed himself to a female staffer of the West Indies team in Sydney last year, Fairfax has reported. The Australian woman has said she entered the dressing room during a training session at the World Cup, thinking all the players were on the field. But Gayle and another teammate were in the room, with Gayle wrapped in a towel. The opening batsman allegedly pulled down his towel and exposed his genitals, telling the woman: "Are you looking for this?" "You put yourself in an office environment in Australia, and there's no way that's going to fly( not going to fly 不会成功的, 恐怕不行, 不会成事 verb: When something won't go over well, won't pass muster, or won't work in a given situation, it is dismissed with the words "not going to fly" or "ain't gonna fly." "Dude, we are slammed every Christmas. Go ahead and turn in your vacation request if you want, but it's not going to fly with the boss. A brother and a sister have been arguing. Their mother tells them: "That is not going to fly in my house." A: "He said he wants to meet us at the cafe and then all drive together to the movie." B: "No, I don't think that's going to fly–you know how John doesn't like having a bunch of people in his car." it just means, "No, that's not going to work," or "No, I don't like that," or "No, he won't let that happen.". It seems to me that the term is used most often in the negative, but you can use it in the positive (ex: "Do you think he'll let us do that?" "Yeah, I think that'll fly."). You can also use it in a question (ex: "You think that'll fly?") )," the unnamed woman said. "Put yourself back in that deserted change room and it's somehow OK for a career professional to be subjected to sexual jokes and demeaning advances." West Indies team manager Richie Richardson was reportedly told of the incident without Gayle being identified, prompting him to email all players demanding female staffers be treated with respect. Richardson as well as Gayle's management had no comment about the alleged incident. The woman was motivated to come forward after Gayle came under a storm of controversy for making a pass at reporter Mel McLaughlin on live television on Monday night. Gayle made a qualified 有所保留的, 有条件的 apology at a press conference (unqualified I. Not qualified, ineligible, unfit for a position or task. His lack of a high school diploma renders him unqualified for the job. II. 语焉不详的. Not elaborated upon, undescribed. Her cooking ability, while mentioned, was unqualified by her. qualified I. thoroughly trained for a particular job. a qualified doctor/nurse/teacher. a. able to do something, because you have the knowledge, skill, or experience that is needed. well/suitably qualified to do something 有资格的: She is particularly well qualified to give an opinion. II. [only before noun] qualified support or agreement 有条件的支持. 有保留的支持, 有保留的同意 is not completely positive because someone has some doubts or criticisms. The proposals were met with qualified approval. Restricted or limited by conditions. Assuming that I have all the information, my qualified opinion is that your plan will work. fully/newly/properly qualified: a fully qualified ski instructor. qualify as: 90% of the boat people did not qualify as refugees. qualify for: To qualify for Olympic status, a sport must be played in 50 countries and on three continents. qualify for a discount/benefit/grant 可以享受 (=have the right to receive one): You may qualify for a student grant. professionally trained/qualified/certified: a professionally certified accountant. be qualified to do something 有资格: Only people over the age of 18 are qualified to vote. qualify someone for something: Her income was too high to qualify her for any help with child care expenses. qualify someone to do something: The fact that his grandparents were Irish qualified him to play in the Irish national team. qualify for: What are your team‘s chances of qualifying for the finals? a qualifying match/ tournament/round/tie 资格赛 (=one that you need to win to go on to the next stage of a competition): Scotland’s World Cup qualifying tie against Malta. qualify [transitive] to add something to a statement in order to change it slightly or state the situations in which it is not true. I welcome the positive approach – perhaps I should qualify that by saying 'the largely positive approach' – adopted by the government. ) yesterday but later joked on social media about the $10,000 fine he was hit with. Big Bash League big hitter Chris Gayle issued an apology to Mel McLaughlin for his controversial comments towards the reporter, but continued to defend his actions as well. McLaughlin spoke about the interview for the first time on Channel Ten last night, saying she wasn't expecting that from Gayle. "I don't really want to be the subject 话题 of such conversations, I like just going about my business and doing my job," she said. "It was a little bit disappointing because it just doesn't happen normally." The interview has sparked a discussion about how female sports reporters are treated, with Fox Sports reporter Neroli Meadows saying situations like that happen ten times a day. "We do not need that to happen to us in our workplace because that is what it is, our workplace and Mel has been doing her job for 10 to 15 years and she has done it with respect," Meadows told ABC's Grandstand. "Her career now gets defined by this. "We have successful careers and they get defined by idiots saying the wrong thing, inappropriate and then other people laughing as though it's the one thing that has ever happened." Cricketer Chris Gayle has sparked an off-field controversy after appearing to proposition a female journalist during a sideline interview. Gayle, the former West Indies' Test captain, hit 41 from 15 deliveries during the Melbourne Renegades' Big Bash League win over the Hobart Hurricanes on Monday night, a treat for the crowd of just over 16,000. But it was his sideline chat with Ten Network presenter Mel McLaughlin that drew unexpected attention. After some post-innings analysis, Gayle suggested he was keen to be interviewed by the journalist "just to see your eyes for the first time". "Hopefully we can win this game and we can have a drink after," Gayle told the reporter, before quickly adding "don't blush, baby". McLaughlin, who appeared momentarily taken aback by the comment, replied: "I'm not blushing." It prompted an on-air apology from the network a short time later, and reassurance that there would not be such comments made in the future.
