用法学习: 1. fix up I. to clean, repair, or decorate something. They take old furniture and fix it up. I'm going to fix up the house before my mother-in-law arrives. fixed up (=looking your best): I got all fixed up for the party. fix yourself up (=make yourself look nice): Go and fix yourself up – the Clarks are coming over. II. to arrange for something to happen. Perhaps we can fix up a meeting for next week. III. spoken to arrange for someone to have something that they need. If you need more equipment, Mark will fix you up. fix someone up with something to provide someone with something that they need: Can he fix us up with somewhere to stay? I can fix you up with a place to live. IV. informal to arrange for two people to meet so that they might begin a romantic relationship. fix someone up with someone: Jimmy wants to fix Joe up with his sister. fix 弄点吃的, 弄点喝的 to prepare food or drink I'll fix dinner. fix someone something: Jackie fixed me a drink. Never
thought you were good enough for my daughter. There you were, riding
around on that dumb motorcycle, knocking her up. Why don't you kids go
in the kitchen and fix yourselves some ice cream 自己弄点东西吃? I'm not going anywhere. break away I. 脱身 to escape from a person, place, or situation. If you break away from someone who is trying to hold you or catch you, you free yourself and run away. I broke away from him and rushed out into the hall. Willie Hamilton broke away early in the race. Anna tried to break away, but he held her tight. If you break away from something 摆脱掉, 甩脱 or someone that restricts you or controls you, you succeed in freeing yourself from them. Many contemporary designers have tried to break away from classical formal patterns. The group broke away from the Labour Party in 1932. II. to leave a political party or other group, especially in order to start another one. III. if a part of something breaks away from the rest, it becomes separated from it. 2. Young Sheldon: Don't let the hug fool 欺骗 you. The minute she went home, he made me give him the recipe. Sheldon's Father: Here we go, maiden voyage 处女航(第一次按食谱做)." 特朗普造假健康记录: Mr Trump has had a recent complete medical examination that showed only positive results," the letter read. "Actually, his blood pressure, 110/65, and laboratory results were astonishingly excellent. His physical strength and stamina 体力和耐力 are extraordinary," it stated, adding he had lost more than six kilograms in the preceding year. Dr Bornstien initially claimed he hurriedly wrote the letter while seeing other patients. He now states Trump outlined what to write as he and his wife drove across Central Park and that it was simply his take on "black humour". "He dictated 口述, 口授 the letter and I would tell him what he couldn't put in there," he added. 3. lamppost 路灯 (traffic sign post): a tall post with a light at the side of roads and in other public places. sidle [saɪdəl] If you sidle somewhere, you walk there in a quiet or cautious way, as if you do not want anyone to notice you. A young man sidled up to me and said, 'May I help you?' He was sidling into the bar, obviously trying to be inconspicuous. "A friend of mine was at a party and didn't know anyone, so he sidled up to this group who were talking about The Crown," the 30-year-old Brit told the magazine. While the Queen may be a Crown convert, her husband Prince Philip could need some more convincing. overture [ˈoʊvərˌtʃur] 暗示 I. music the first part of a long piece of classical music such as an opera or a symphony. II. formal a suggestion or offer that you make to someone. diplomatic/friendly/sexual overtures. For a hot minute back in 2016, the tantalising possibility of a relationship between Rihanna and Drake had fans obsessed. Instead of focussing solely on the release of her record ANTI, pop music fans were subjected to overtures and even billboards from Drake professing his adoration [ˌædəˈreɪʃ(ə)n] for the singer. It was a heady ( I. 让人晕眩的. 让人目眩神迷的 affecting you in a strong and pleasant way. the heady scent of jasmine. II. very exciting and making you feel that you can achieve anything you want. the heady freedom of the late 1960s. ) time for folks who wanted to see two music powerhouses collaborate on a level deeper than Work. But two years and a couple of massive business enterprises later, Rihanna has used a new Vogue profile to reveal exactly where she's at with Drake: nowhere. The admission is hardly the most substantial part of the feature, which touches on her strong business acumen ( US[əˈkjumən] UK[ˈækjəmən] the ability to make good quick decisions and judgments. business/ financial/ political acumen: We are looking for someone with both business acumen and technical expertise. ), her inclusivity-minded cosmetics and lingerie endeavours, and even her rumoured romance with the supposed heir to a US $1.5b fortune. parameter [pəˈræmɪtər] a limit that affects how something can be done. Parameters are factors or limits which affect the way that something can be done or made. We have to operate within the parameters of the budget. set/define/establish parameters (for something) 规定, 限制, 界限: Negotiators will meet next week to set the parameters for the peace conference. That would be enough to make sure we fell within the parameters of our loan agreement. [+ of] A person's stride length has certain parameters. pick up a scent (=start to follow a scent): The bloodhounds picked up the man's scent in the forest. be on the scent (=be following a smell): The dogs were soon on the fox's scent. the scent of something 味道, 滋味 a feeling that a new situation is going to happen. the scent of victory (=the feeling that you are going to be successful): The scent of victory was in the air. someone's trail/scent has gone cold it is difficult to find someone because it is a long time since they were seen. Police now fear his trail has gone cold. throw/put someone off the scent to do something to try to prevent someone from discovering the truth. Detectives were thrown off the scent after evidence was destroyed. 4. profanity [prəˈfænəti] 脏话 I. Profanities are swear words. We have grown accustomed to having our ears assailed by mindless cursing and profanities. II. [countable/uncountable] a word or language that is offensive because it is rude, or shows a lack of respect for God or people's religious beliefs. a. [uncountable] behavior that shows that you do not respect God, or a religious object, place, or belief. To desecrate a holy spring is considered profanity 亵渎. taxing [ˈtæksɪŋ] 艰难的, 困难的 difficult, and needing a lot of physical or mental effort. tax someone with something to accuse someone of doing something wrong. a. to order someone to do something. 杀小学生旧案: When asked by Steinfort if Mr Affleck thought Jones was capable of killing Terry Floyd, he answered: "Capable? Yes." It's a sentiment 想法, 情绪, 感觉 shared by former homicide detective Ron Iddles, who believes Jones is most likely involved in the schoolboy's disappearance. "He was on bail for sexual assault, he has a vehicle similar to what was seen, there's about an hour and a half that he can't account for," Mr Iddles said. "So he is a suspect and remains a suspect." He says that it's Jones' previous conviction – for an opportunistic 临时起意的 sexual assault of an 11-year-old boy in a Ballarat toilet block – shares striking similarities to the Terry Floyd case. "The assault on the boy in the toilet block, it was a sudden urge 一时兴起," Mr Iddles said. "This wasn't sort of a planned thing. [Then] you've got Terry Floyd who's walking down the road hitchhiking. If Jones is responsible, it's like that again, a sudden urge has come over." Mr Floyd believes Terry was abducted and murdered before his body was dumped in a disused 弃之不用的, 弃置的, 废弃的, 不再使用的 (derelict) ( defunct: 不再存在, 不复存在的, 不知那里去了的. 已经拆掉了的. ) mineshaft 矿井 ( Shaft mining 钻井 or shaft sinking is excavating a vertical or near-vertical tunnel from the top down, where there is initially no access to the bottom. ). 5. hook sb up (with sb/sth) 介绍认识, 安排认识 to arrange for someone to meet or work with another person or organization: We videotape applicants in practice interviews and hook them up with employers. hook up I. When someone hooks up a computer or other electronic machine, they connect it to other similar machines or to a central power supply. ...technicians who hook up computer systems and networks. He brought it down, hooked it up, and we got the generator going. ...if the machine is hooked up to an apartment's central wiring system. II. If one person, especially a musician, hooks up with another, the two people start working with each other. You can also say that two people hook up. Getting hooked up with an NBA team is usually about being in the right place at the right time. Seeing as how we got on so well together, it just seemed natural that we should hook up. snide [snaɪd] deliberately unkind in an indirect way. A snide comment or remark is one which criticizes someone in an unkind and often indirect way. He made a snide comment about her weight. They kept making snide remarks about each other. She couldn't tell if he was being snide, so she took the question straight. 'Westworld' star's snide jibe at DJ Khaled. hinterland [ˈhɪntərˌlænd] I. [often plural] 穷乡僻壤. an area that is a long way from a town or city. II. a place that is far away from busy or interesting places. III. the qualities and interests that someone has outside their professional lives, especially when that is politics. 印度人无人机救狗: It's those precarious (I. 充满变数的. 危机四伏的. 危险重重的. likely to change or become dangerous without warning. a precarious future/situation/position/existence. For the refugees life was always precarious. II. not safe or likely to fall. Her position on the ledge was somewhat precarious. a precarious chimney. ) few years when everybody is worried about their acne, their squeaky voice, their lankiness and their single chest hair. And then you come across a rare gem like Donyell Meredith II. Because this guy from India is making us all look bad with his sheer ingenuity. The drone and its attached robotic arm could monitor the heart rate of the little dog so they could tell if the harness was squeezing it too tight. After six hours of tinkering(tinker around 修修补补, 修修改改 to make small changes to something in order to improve or repair it. tinker with: He spends hours tinkering around with car engines. Problems can arise when management structures are tinkered with.), Raj was able to fly in and save the pooch. 6. Tesla资本困局: Lutz then did what he often does, praising Musk as a visionary 有远见的人 before pointing out that his "costs are way higher than his revenues" and that he's been keeping Tesla going by returning to the capital markets for funding. "That may work one more time, and then he's going to run out of money again, and then he's cooked," Lutz said. "At this rate, Chapter 11 [bankruptcy] is a certainty." Lutz could be right, and Lutz could be wrong, but he's been around the car business long enough to know when the endgames 大结局, 最后一站, 大决战, 最后一搏 are afoot. I've been covering Tesla for a decade, starting at about the same time the company evaded its previous brush with Chapter 11 in 2008. Lutz is right. Tesla is close to the edge. Investors need to start thinking not just about the stock tanking from its current height, nearly 1,000% of the 2010 IPO price – they need to start thinking about being how they could get wiped out. Musk thinks that by the second half of 2018, this will reverse and that automotive revenue will dramatically increase as the Model 3 mass-market vehicle seriously ramps up production and Tesla can reel in an average purchase price that will be around $US50,000-$US60,000. Costs will remain steady, and presto 见证奇迹, 见证时刻( I. spoken said by magicians just before they finish a magic trick, for telling the audience that they are going to be surprised. II. informal used for emphasizing how suddenly something happens or changes. Just give her a little praise and, presto, she's happy.)! No more losses, cash piling up on the balance sheet, and Tesla is out of the woods. A rosy scenario that would imply Tesla gets Model 3 on track – and then doesn't spend significantly more money on anything else. No new factories, no new models, no new technologies. From his comments on last week's earnings call, it sounds as if Musk is gently pushing some objective farther off into the future. Such as the Model Y, a forthcoming crossover SUV. If it doesn't work, then Tesla keeps losing money and has to beg for new funding, perhaps on onerous ( [ˈəunərəs] 不得已的. 不情愿的. 没有办法的. 不甘愿的. something that is onerous is something that you dislike or worry about because it is very difficult to deal with. If you describe a task as onerous, you dislike having to do it because you find it difficult or unpleasant. [formal] ... parents who have had the onerous task of bringing up a very difficult child. an onerous responsibility/ job. ) terms. I think Lutz is right that the markets will give Musk one more shot. And then, unless he sells off a chunk of Tesla to a deep-pocketed investors or partners with somebody, it's time for the portly ( (especially of a man) rather fat. "a portly little man with a bowler hat" ) lady to sing. That's not crazy far from the cheaper trim 内饰 levels of the Model S sedan that have sold in Tesla history (the least expensive Model S is about $US75,000). So Tesla's first Model 3 buyers aren't hugely different from its prior customers. Thus, Tesla must have customers who will buy the cheaper Model 3. But Tesla is making them wait and wait. If they doubt that Tesla will ever deliver their car, they could bail en masse and then it's curtains 剧终人散, 闭幕时刻 for ( be curtains for sb informal used to say someone will die or have to stop doing something. used to say that someone will die or that something will end: It'll be curtains for him if he doesn't do what I tell him! ) Elon. 7. 日本的厕所: There's something disconcerting 让人气馁的 about the way a jet of water can be dead-on target. These robot toilet bidets all look like they were installed in the mid-'90s, but their sensor technology seems beyond what human engineers are capable of. There's no guesswork 猜来猜去. There's no edging closer 一点点靠近, 一点点凑近. That jet of water hits you-know-where immediately. When you flush the toilet, the water refilling the cistern (储水箱, 水槽, 蓄水池. [ˈsɪstərn] a container for holding water. ) first flows from a tap into a basin atop the toilet. It's a conservation measure, so you are washing your hands with the water then will be used in a subsequent flush. Big bang theory: " Guys, I am sorry. We are full up. No! We're full up. We really want to see this. Isn't there anything you can do? Sorry. Fire regulations 防火要求. Should've gotten here earlier. This is nothing but a blatant 肆无忌惮的 abuse of power by a petty (I. [usually before noun] not important and not worth worrying about. I'm not interested in their petty squabbles. Village life is full of gossip and petty jealousies. II. unpleasant to someone because you care too much about something that is not really important. It was a bit petty to make me apologize to everyone. III. [only before noun] minor. 微不足道的. petty bureaucrats/officials. a petty criminal/thief/offender. ) functionary 小职员 ( A functionary is a person whose job is to do administrative work, especially for a government or a political party. an official who works for a government or a political party, especially one with unimportant or boring office duties. ). Explain to me why Wil Wheaton and his lackeys 跟班, 随从 (I. someone who is too willing to do whatever they are told to do, especially when the person, organization, etc. being obeyed is much more important or powerful. The ambassador is careful not to appear to be a U.S. lackey. II. literary an old word meaning a "servant") get in and we don't. 'Cause I'm the petty functionary with a clipboard, bitch. I guess that's that. Let's go home. 8. Rheumatism [ˈruməˌtɪzəm] or rheumatic [ruˈmætɪk] disorder 风湿性的 is an umbrella term for conditions causing chronic, often intermittent pain affecting the joints and/or connective tissue. The study of, and therapeutic interventions in, such disorders is called rheumatology. The term "rheumatism", however, does not designate any specific disorder, but covers at least 200 different conditions. Sources dealing with rheumatism tend to focus on arthritis, but "rheumatism" may also refer to other conditions causing chronic pain, grouped as "non-articular rheumatism", also known as "regional pain syndrome" or "soft tissue rheumatism". The term "Rheumatic Diseases" is used in MeSH to refer to connective tissue disorders. There has long been said to be a link between "rheumatic" pain and the weather. There appears to be no firm evidence in favour or against; a 1995 questionnaire given to 557 people by A. Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) 风湿性心脏病 is damage to one or more heart valves 心脏瓣膜 that remains after an episode of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is resolved. It is caused by an episode or recurrent episodes of ARF, where the heart has become inflamed. The heart valves can remain stretched and/or scarred, and normal blood flow through damaged valves is interrupted. Blood may flow backward through stretched valves that do not close properly, or may be blocked due to scarred valves not opening properly. When the heart is damaged in this way, the heart valves are unable to function adequately, and heart surgery may be required. Untreated, RHD causes heart failure and those affected are at risk of arrhythmias, stroke, endocarditis and complications of pregnancy. These conditions cause progressive disability, reduce quality of life and can cause premature death in young adults. Heart surgery can manage some of these problems and prolong life but does not cure RHD. 9. personal matters 个人私事: matters of personal concern. Sometimes the research is above board, focusing on things like voting records, and sometimes the research is unseemly, focusing on more personal matters. Mr Schonegger did speak about personal matters on one occasion, about his own upbringing - he was saying at one point he went to a seminary because his mother thought he should become pope. A person close to the studio, who was not authorized to comment publicly, cited personal matters. personal I. Personal matters relate to your feelings, relationships, and health. ...teaching young people about marriage and personal relationships. You never allow personal problems to affect your performance. We sacrifice our personal lives to our work. Mr Knight said that he had resigned for personal reasons. II. If you give something your personal care or attention, you deal with it yourself rather than letting someone else deal with it. ...a business that requires a great deal of personal contact. ...a personal letter from the President's secretary. People do not mind paying a bit extra for the personal touch.
不要着急: Let's not be too hasty! Let's not rush into things! No hurry = no rush. "Don't rush" or "Don't be hasty" "you don't have to hurry". 2. Hasty actions 仓促的, 匆忙的 are done in a hurry, sometimes without the necessary care or thought: He warned against making hasty decisions. Now let's not leap to any hasty conclusions. We saw the rain and made a hasty retreat into the bar. I think perhaps we were a little hasty 太急于, 过早 in judging him. 3. hasty I. A hasty movement, action, or statement is sudden, and often done in reaction to something that has just happened. He started screaming insults so I made a hasty escape. 'It may be satisfying, but it's not fun.'—'No, I'm sure it's not,' said Virginia hastily. 'I didn't mean that.'. II. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A hasty event or action is one that is completed more quickly than normal. After the hasty meal, the men had moved forward to take up their positions. He said good night hastily, promising that he would phone Hans in the morning. The survivors were recovering in hastily erected tents. III. If you describe a person or their behaviour as hasty, you mean that they are acting too quickly, without thinking carefully, for example because they are angry. [disapproval] So let's not be hasty. After all, he can't run away. A number of the United States' allies had urged him not to take a hasty decision. I decided that nothing should be done hastily, that things had to be sorted out carefully. 4. rush outside, rush to do sth., rush into action, rush sb into sth催促某人做某事 a rush job紧急任务, a rush of cold air一股冷空气扑来, a rush of anger一下子就很愤怒, 一股愤怒, a rush of blood (to the head)头脑发热, 一时冲动. press sth/sb into service 仓促启用, 仓促上马 to use something or someone that is not completely suitable because nothing or no one more suitable is available: The car's broken down so I've had to press my old bike back into service. 5. rash I. an area of small red spots on your skin, caused by an illness or an allergic reaction to something that you have touched, eaten, etc. diaper/poison ivy/heat rash. II. a lot of instances of a particular thing taking place in a short period of time, especially something unpleasant. Local police are investigating a rash of burglaries in the area. rash adj. acting or done too quickly, without considering the effects of your actions. I know you're angry, but please don't do anything rash 冲动行事, 莽撞行事, 仓促行事. a rash decision.
