用法学习: 1. a broken record someone who keeps annoying you by repeating the same thing. sound like a broken record to say the same thing over and over again. (Fig. on a scratch in a phonograph record causing the needle [or stylus] to stay in the same groove and play it over and over.) He's always complaining about the way she treats him. He sounds like a broken record! I hate to sound like a broken record, but we just don't have enough people on the payroll to work effciently. jolt [dʒoult] 猛冲 I. [intransitive/transitive] to move with a sudden violent movement, or to make something move like this. The bus jolted to a stop. Another earthquake jolted the city yesterday. In trapezoidal profiles, jerk is infinite at the phase transitions, which correlates to the load experiencing an unwelcome jolt. II. [transitive] to shock someone so that they suddenly change what they are doing or thinking. The alarm jolted me out of a deep sleep. a. to shock someone so that they feel a sudden emotional reaction. backlash a strong, negative, and often angry reaction to something that has happened, especially a political or social change. They feared a backlash against the new laws. whiplash I. [uncountable] a serious injury affecting your neck, caused when the vehicle that you are in is hit from behind by another vehicle, which makes your head move violently. II. [countable] a hit from a whip. rout [raʊt] 溃败 I. a complete defeat of an opponent in a battle, competition, or election. His touchdown completed the rout in the fourth quarter. He was captured, and his army was routed. II. put to rout to defeat utterly; to exterminate, eradicate. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life. maniac [ˈmeɪniæk] I. informal someone who behaves in a stupid and dangerous way. Slow down! You're driving like a maniac 疯子. II. informal someone who is considered strange because they have an extremely strong enthusiasm for something. a religious maniac. III. someone who behaves in an extremely excited and confused way because they are mentally ill. a homicidal maniac. sex maniac someone who always thinks about sex and tries to start sexual relationships with people. Nicole Kidman may be a lady in the streets but she's a freak in the sheets, according to her husband Keith Urban! The 50-year-old country singer gave fans a little too much information about his sex life with the Aussie actress in his new single, 'Gemini.' "She's a maniac in the bed but a brainiac in the head," sang Urban. "She'll wake you to make love in the middle of the night." Brainiac is a colloquial adjective used to describe exceptionally intelligent people. 2. 摩托车祸: "Apparently there was a couple of off-duty paramedics that were a couple of minutes behind. They just finished lunch down at Brooklyn and they attended to me first on the scene and they had the direct line for Careflight, so if that didn't play out the same way 不是那样的话, 不是那样发生的话, who knows?" "I just remember him laying flat, tubes and everything everywhere, and I remember giving him a kiss on the forehead and he was just so cold," Mum Robyn said. But after almost two months in hospital, Daniel was cut off. "A couple of weeks before the police report came out, they just decided to cut everything," he said. "(I'm) pretty cheesed off ( annoyed and disappointed with something or someone: She's a bitcheesed off with her job. ) about the whole thing." Daniel said the loss of the insurance coverage, and the physio that went with it, meant he lost motivation in his recovery. virile [ˈvɪˌraɪl] I. 精力充沛的. 兴致勃勃的. a man who is virile is strong, active, and full of sexual energy. Roberts plays a young law student, with Denzel Washington as her virile co-star. II. something that is virile is strong, powerful, and full of life. a virile performance. go down the rabbit hole To enter into a situation or begin a process or journey that is particularly strange, problematic, difficult, complex, or chaotic, especially one that becomes increasingly so as it develops or unfolds. (An allusion to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.) Owning your own business is a huge responsibility that not everyone is prepared for. Are you sure you're ready to go down the rabbit hole? I've stayed away from drugs and alcohol since coming to college. I have an addictive personality, so I decided to just avoid going down that rabbit hole altogether. Overhauling the current tax legislation is a rabbit hole I don't think this administration should go down at this point. dangle a carrot in front of someone = offer someone a carrot 诱惑 To try to entice someone with the promise of a reward. Dad's going to have to dangle a carrot in front of us if he wants us to clean out the whole garage. If you dangle a carrot in front of someone or offer them a carrot, you try to persuade them to do something by offering them a reward. The team have dangled a $17 million carrot in front of the Italian to remain in North America. He is to offer the public a new carrot by reducing petrol prices. Note: The words carrot, dangle and offer are used in other structures and expressions with a similar meaning. Tax cuts may be offered as a carrot to voters ahead of the next election.The money's dangling there like a huge carrot, and you want to grab it. Note: The image here is of someone encouraging a donkey to move forward by holding a carrot in front of it. 3. skin tag 肉球, 肉袋: A skin tag, or acrochordon (pl. acrochorda), is a small benign tumor that forms primarily in areas where the skin forms creases, such as the neck, armpit and groin. They may also occur on the face, usually on the eyelids. Perianal skin tags can be associated with Crohn's disease. Acrochorda are generally harmless and painless and usually do not grow or change over time. Though tags up to a half-inch long have been seen, they are typically the size of a grain of rice. The surface of an acrochordon may be smooth or irregular in appearance and is often raised from the surface of the skin on a fleshy stalk called a peduncle. Microscopically, an acrochordon consists of a fibrovascular core, sometimes also with fat cells, covered by an unremarkable epidermis. However, tags may become irritated by shaving, clothing, jewellery or eczema. forethought 预见力, 事前想好 careful thought and planning that prepares you well for a future event. He wished they had had the forethought to bring extra water. aforethought with malice aforethought 有恶意 with a deliberate intention of causing harm. 短句: The witness said he tried to help the teenagers but the fire was too intense 火势太猛, 火太大 to get them out of the car. The breakfast slot has been somewhat of a poisoned chalice [ˈtʃælɪs] ( poisoned chalice: a job or piece of work that will cause many problems for the person who is forced to do it. chalice 圣杯: a large cup for wine, especially one used during the Christian ceremony of Holy Communion. ) at 2Day FM since Breen and Rusciano replaced Rove McManus and Sam Frostin January last year, with the station's ratings paling in comparison to rivals KIIS 1065, WSFM and Nova 969. Overcompensate 过度补偿亏欠 in other areas. to do more than you need to do in trying to correct a fault. overcompensate for: Don't overcompensate for your lack of experience by driving too slowly. power [on] through (sth) 坚挺过去, 忍过去 to continue in a strong and determined way until the end of something, even when this is difficult: resilient companies that have powered through the economic downturn. The challenge will be overwhelming at times, but we just have to power (on) through. teaching me the fundamental 教我最基本的. turkey shoot 具有优势火力, 毫无反击之力, 毫无还手之力 NORTH AMERICAN informal I. a situation, typically in a war, in which the aggressor has an overwhelming advantage. a situation in which one group is much stronger than another group that it is competing against. The other team was missing its star player, so the game was pretty much a turkey shoot 一边倒的结果. "a high-tech turkey shoot rather than a war". II. a competition in which people shoot guns at objects. reverse order/situation/process etc the opposite order etc to what is usual or to what has just been stated. The results were read out in reverse order (=with the worst first and the best last). Cosmologists have supposed that the universe might go into reverse and run through with all its physical laws in reverse order. Ultimately you are involved in a reverse process of what the historian H underwent while writing the book. if the situation were reversed 情况反过来. 4. Missing person: He never checked back in 联系, 打电话回来 with his mother. It has been more than five months since she, or anyone, has heard from him. That same day, a text message appeared on her phone with the word "Yeah". It stood out as strange. "He normally would have elaborated. He would have said 'Yeah, I'm at blah blah' or 'Yeah, I'll call you later'. It was the last I heard from him," she said. It is Ms Penno's belief someone else messaged her from her son's phone. Short Sentences: She said teachers at the school took advantage of the teens and that one relationship in particular was "common knowledge 众所周知的事, 公开的秘密, 大家都知道的事". ambidextrous [ˌambɪˈdɛkstrəs] 可以双手互博的, 左右开弓的 I. able to use the right and left hands equally well. Someone who is ambidextrous can use both their right hand and their left hand equally skilfully. "few of us are naturally ambidextrous". II. (of an implement) designed to be used by left-handed and right-handed people with equal ease. "an ambidextrous tile gauge". 5. 短句: Matthew's prognosis doesn't look good, but for Debbie and John, that's not their focus. "We've just got to take it one day at a time 得过且过, 过一天算一天, 一天天的过." "We went to Venice. That was a bit of a challenge. We were lucky our hotel was near a bridge that had the ramps. There are only a few that have got ramps so we managed to get around. "It's just trial and error 试了又试, 反复尝试(a way of finding a good method that involves trying several possibilities and learning from your mistakes. I figured out how to use the new software by a process of trial and error.) every time we travel but it is something that Matthew loves, and we enjoy doing as a family while he is well enough." Debbie says Matthew is very personable 善于交际的, 爱打交道的, always striking up conversations with strangers resulting in the family making friends wherever they go. Now that her son has defied the odds and lived to 19, Debbie is concerned about what happens for him next. "With Matthew, they didn't expect him to live as far as he has. So every day is a blessing 恩典 for us." However there are no adult respite and hospice care centres like Bear Cottage, although she has heard talk of one possibly opening at some time in the future. "Someone once asked me if I was sorry I had him. "We are truly blessed to have Matthew. He just brings everyone together and is a joy to all he meets."
balcony VS veranda VS porch VS patio VS pergola VS deck VS terrace: veranda [vəˈrandə] 前台 I. a roofed platform along the outside of a house, level with the ground floor. "I'll be on the veranda" II. Australian/NZ roof over the pavement in front of a shop. wiki: A veranda or verandah (from Bengali baranda) is a roofed, open-air gallery or porch. A veranda is often partly enclosed by a railing and frequently extends across the front and sides of the structure. A porch 门厅 (from Old French porche, from Latin porticus "colonnade", from porta "passage") is a term used in architecture to describe a room or gallery located in front of the entrance of a building forming a low front, and placed in front of the facade of the building it commands. It can be defined more simply as a "projecting building that houses the entrance door of a building or as a vestibule, or hall. The porch exists in religious architecture as well as in secular architecture and is found in different forms and structures, built from various materials around the world. A patio (/ˈpætioʊ/,[1] from Spanish: patio [ˈpatjo]; "courtyard", "forecourt", "yard") is an outdoor space generally used for dining or recreation that adjoins a residence and is typically paved. In Australia the term is expanded to include roofed structures similar to a pergola, which provides protection from sun and rain. In architecture, a deck is a flat surface capable of supporting weight, similar to a floor, but typically constructed outdoors, often elevated from the ground, and usually connected to a building. The term is a generalization of decks as found on ships. In gardening, a terrace is an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect. A raised terrace keeps a house dry and provides a transition between the hard materials of the architecture and softer ones of the garden. A balcony is a platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade, usually above the ground floor.
