用法学习: 1. chasm [ˈkæzəm] I. A chasm is a very deep crack in rock, earth, or ice. II. If you say that there is a chasm between two things or between two groups of people, you mean that there is a very large difference between them. ..the chasm that divides the worlds of university and industry. ...the chasm 分歧, 嫌隙, 差距 between rich and poor in America. It was the gaping chasm between the kind of dignity and respect her granddad deserved in his final months and his lonely neglectful death in a Perth nursing home that hurt the most, Ms Cooper said. gaping [ˈɡeɪpɪŋ] a gaping hole or space is very large. a gaping wound. gape I. to look at something or someone with your mouth open because you are very surprised. II. to open wide, or to be wide open. Suddenly he was at the door, his pajama top gaping open. TRADE WAR: Trump had urged his advisers to press forward ( press I. to move as a group by pushing together in a particular direction. press forward: A wave of protesters pressed forward toward the building. press around: The crowd of fans began to press more closely around them. II. [transitive] to try in a determined way to make someone do something or tell you something. press someone about/on something: She continued to press him on the reasons for his decision. press someone into (doing) something: They had all been pressed into helping with the preparations for the party. press someone to do something: Managers are being pressed to ensure safety standards are met. a. to try to make someone accept something such as an opinion or a claim. press a point 勉强, 继续说下去: She gave no answer, so I didn't press the point. press a claim: The young Duke of Normandy continued to press his claim to the English throne. press a case: He was in Washington today to press the case for reforming tax laws. press the flesh if a politician or other famous person presses the flesh, they meet and shake hands with a lot of people because they want to appear friendly and popular. press someone/something into service I. to give someone a particular job or responsibility that they do not normally have. Local people are being pressed into service to help search for the girl. II. to use an object for a purpose that it was not intended for. press ahead = press on to continue doing something in a determined way, despite difficulties, opposition, or interruptions. They pressed ahead regardless of objections. press ahead with something: We shall press ahead with our plans for reform. ) with the $200 billion round, even as Washington and Beijing worked to restart trade talks. Trump's decision threatens to upend ( to turn something upside down. ) the possibility of a diplomatic breakthrough with Chinese negotiators. "China needs to come to the table and address the concerns that have been raised," said a senior administration official. They warned, however, if Beijing decides to execute its own round of tariffs on American goods, the president will unleash 放出 further measures. "To the extent they remain unwilling to work with us, the president has other options and those will be considered at the future time," said a senior administration official. Trump has floated the idea of slapping a third round of tariffs on $267 billion in goods on China. 2. violate I. 犯法. 违法 to do something that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle, etc. If someone violates an agreement, law, or promise, they break it. [formal] They went to prison because they violated the law. They violated the ceasefire agreement. To deprive the boy of his education is a violation of state law. [+ of] He was in violation of his contract. [+ of] Companies that violate environmental laws will be heavily fined. Human rights are being violated every day in their prisons. II. to enter an area or place without permission. Enemy jets have repeatedly violated the Allied no-fly zone. III. old-fashioned to rape someone. IV. 冒犯. 侵犯. to treat a holy place with no respect. If someone violates a special place, for example a grave, they damage it or treat it with disrespect. Detectives are still searching for those who violated the graveyard. V. If you violate someone's privacy or peace, you disturb it. [formal] These men were violating her family's privacy 侵犯隐私 打扰清净. out of the frying pan, into the fire (才出虎口, 又入狼窝) (idiomatic) Move or get from an already bad situation to a worse one; end up in a worse situation when trying escape from a bad or difficult one. SATC: When Cattrall's brother died in February, Parker sent an online message of sympathy. Cattrall was scathing ( criticizing someone or something in a very strong way. The committee's report is quite scathing. scathing attack/comment/remark: He launched another scathing attack against the press. ) in response. You are not my friend. So I'm writing to tell you one last time to stop exploiting our tragedy in order to restore your 'nice girl' persona. Speaking to Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live, Parker said she was "heartbroken" by the ongoing vitriol ( [ˈvɪtriəl] very severe and cruel criticism. She poured out a stream of vitriol against her ex-husband.). A MAN has been hacked to death 被砍死 in a suspected 'honour killing' in India after marrying a woman from a higher caste. 3. 案件: Michael Murphy, one of the men found guilty of murdering Anita Cobby in 1986, has been moved to palliative ( [ˈpæliˌeɪtɪv] reducing the pain or other bad effects of a terminal illness (=one that cannot be cured). 终极关怀. n. A palliative is a drug or medical treatment that relieves suffering without treating the cause of the suffering. II. A palliative is an action that is intended to make the effects of a problem less severe but does not actually solve the problem. [formal] The loan was a palliative, not a cure, for ever-increasing financial troubles. A scheme offered as a palliative for economic pain might harm the intended beneficiary. ) care. The 26-year-old had been set upon ( set upon someone/something 突然袭击, 突然攻击 to attack someone or something. If you are set upon by people, they make a sudden and unexpected physical attack on you. We were set upon by about twelve youths and I was kicked unconscious. set on/upon (doing) something determined to do or to have something. So you're definitely set on a career in medicine? ) by five men while walking home from work in Blacktown in Sydney's west. 4. Stencilling 喷漆模子, 模型喷漆( [ˈstens(ə)l] a piece of card or plastic with a shape or letters cut out of it. You place it on a surface and paint over it to make a design on something. a. the design or letters painted using this method. v. to make a design on a surface using a stencil. ) produces an image or pattern by applying pigment 色素 to a surface over an intermediate object with designed gaps in it which create the pattern or image by only allowing the pigment to reach some parts of the surface. The stencil is both the resulting image or pattern and the intermediate object; the context in which stencil is used makes clear which meaning is intended. In practice, the (object) stencil is usually a thin sheet of material, such as paper, plastic, wood or metal, with letters or a design cut from it, used to produce the letters or design on an underlying surface by applying pigment through the cut-out holes in the material. The key advantage of a stencil is that it can be reused to repeatedly and rapidly produce the same letters or design. Although aerosol or painting stencils can be made for one-time use, typically they are made with the intention of being reused. To be reusable, they must remain intact after a design is produced and the stencil is removed from the work surface. With some designs, this is done by connecting stencil islands (sections of material that are inside cut-out "holes" in the stencil) to other parts of the stencil with bridges (narrow sections of material that are not cut out). 5. 机场之争: Kevin Hill, from the Sydney Airport Community Forum, said even if some planes are getting quieter, they still make a lot of noise. "There's a point that 有一种观点 says yes, aircraft are getting quieter but the point also says aircraft are getting larger and they're getting more frequent," he said. The ACCC is warning low-cost travel could be at risk unless Australia's airports are subject to tighter regulation. It recommends airlines should be able to access arbitration 调停, 调解 ( [ˌɑrbɪˈtreɪʃ(ə)n] the official process of trying to settle a disagreement between two people or groups by considering all the facts and opinions. go to arbitration (=use arbitration): Some salary claims will go to arbitration. ) in order to increase their bargaining power 增加谈判筹码(bargaining chip = bargaining counter something that someone else wants that you are willing to lose in order to reach an agreement. In negotiations with other people, a bargaining chip is something that you are prepared to give up in order to obtain what you want. Rubio suggests that oil be used as a bargaining chip in any trade talks. Missiles were used as a bargaining chip in negotiations for economic aid. ) when dealing with airports. 草莓藏针: The strawberry contamination crisis shows no sign of abating 没有消停迹象, 没有减弱迹象, with a young girl biting into a sabotaged strawberry at her Perth school on Tuesday.
ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie sacked: Michelle Guthrie's departure as managing director of the ABC, while a shock, is not surprising. In the face of sustained pressure from the government and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, she has seemed incapable of mounting a sustained and effective response. And in this environment of hostility, ABC journalists have felt under siege. As editor-in-chief – which comes with the managing director's job – Guthrie was unable to give the kind of robust 强硬的 editorial leadership that journalists need if they are to report fearlessly 无所畏惧的 and independently. It was clear by the middle of this year that whatever qualities Guthrie brought to the job, editorial leadership was not one of them. Thus the ABC was at a crossroads. It had as its managing director and editor-in-chief a person with no journalistic background who had shown scant signs of understanding the impact of the federal government's relentless bullying on the ABC's editorial independence. Then in June, Guthrie gave a speech at the Melbourne Press Club in which she said Australians regard the ABC as a great national institution and deeply resent its being used as "a punching bag 出气筒 by narrow political, commercial or ideological interests". It was strong but it came late in the day ( late in the day/game If you say that someone is doing something late in the day, you mean that their action or behaviour may not be fully effective because they have waited too long before doing it. at a late stage in proceedings, especially too late to be useful. I'd left it all too late in the day to get anywhere with these strategies. ). By then, the weakness in editorial leadership had filtered down ( filter down (by extension) Of information, or resources; to move slowly down to lower levels of an organisation, or population. To pass or spread downward from an upper level to lower levels, as through a filter: The information slowly filtered down from management to the hourly employees. They might say that the economy is improving, but it is taking a long time for any money to filter down to the poorer classes. ) the ranks, so that journalists making everyday decisions on news desks were looking over their shoulders ( look over your shoulder 提心吊胆, 战战兢兢 to behave in a way that shows you feel nervous about something that might happen. He was constantly looking over his shoulder, afraid his past crimes would catch up with him.). One first-hand example 亲身经历, 亲身感受 makes the point 说明了这点, (I. (idiomatic) To argue or promote an idea. I suppose the people who wrote that stuff on the wall were trying to make a point, but they mainly made a mess. II. 再三叮嘱, 一定要. (idiomatic) To take care in doing something of something; to pay attention or ensure that something is done. Make a point to carry [or of carrying] your calendar with you at all times.). In May, when Barnaby Joyce accepted money – reportedly $150,000 – to go on Channel Nine with his partner Vikki Campion and talk about their affair, the ABC invited me to write a commentary on the ethics involved. I wrote that by agreeing to take the money, Joyce had called into question his fitness for public office. This was too strong for the ABC, and the article did not run 刊登, 刊载. I was told that it was a sensitive time for the ABC's relations with the government. Instead the article was published by The Conversation and then by The Age and an online newspaper, The Mandarin. It showed the effect of the water-torture 恫吓, 吓唬 approach ( Chinese water torture is a process in which water is slowly dripped onto a person's forehead, allegedly making the restrained victim insane. This form of torture was first described under a different name by Hippolytus de Marsiliis in Italy in the 15th or 16th century. Waterboarding is a form of water torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning. Ordinarily, the water is poured intermittently so as to prevent death during torture, however, if the water is poured uninterruptedly it will lead to death by asphyxia with the sensation of drowning, also called dry drowning. Besides death, waterboarding can cause extreme pain, damage to lungs, brain damage from oxygen deprivation, other physical injuries including broken bones due to struggling against restraints, and lasting psychological damage. Adverse physical consequences can manifest themselves months after the event, while psychological effects can last for years. ) the government has taken to the ABC, cheered on by News Corp's The Australian: grizzles (grizzle (especially of a young child) to cry continuously but not very loudly, or to complain all the time: The baby was cutting a tooth and grizzled all day long. They're always grizzling (= complaining) about how nobody invites them anywhere. cut a tooth 长牙 (usually of a baby or child) have a tooth appear through the gum. if a child cuts a tooth, it starts to grow through the gum. a grizzled person has gray hair and looks old. a grizzled veteran) about the work of Emma Alberici as economics editor, most of which turned out to be baseless; grievances about Triple J's changing the date of its Hottest 100 from Australia Day; more grizzles about Yassmin Abdel-Magied's comments about Anzac Day. Strong 强硬的, 强势的 editors do not sit back and let this happen. Unless there are clear and substantial errors of fact, strong editors stand by their journalists and hit back hard 反击 and publicly at unwarranted criticism. Strong editors also stand up for their journalists' right to express opinions, when those opinions are based on facts that are substantially true. And they do this personally, not through bureaucratic complaints processes that dilute the authority 权威性 of the editor's voice. There were signs early on in Guthrie's tenure that she did not grasp the editorial side of the job. Having given a keynote address at the New News Conference in Melbourne in October 2016, she took questions from the audience. A man asked her about some ABC story or another, to which she replied that she was not responsible for every story that appeared on the ABC. Well, the fact is that the editor-in-chief is indeed responsible for every story that appears. The journalists in the audience were stunned. Later, when Guthrie showed up at Senate estimates committee hearings, she would take along 带着, 带上 Alan Sunderland( To take another person to a particular location or gathering. A noun or pronoun can be used between "take" and "along." Feel free to take your sister along tonight—we'd all love to see her. Can I take along my boyfriend? He's very interested in the lecture topic.), who is in charge of editorial policies, to answer questions on the ABC's journalism. This was simply not good enough. Guthrie was the editor-in-chief. She should have taken the questions – and the heat. This state of affairs revealed a serious structural weakness in the ABC's editorial leadership under her control. Sunderland had seemingly become de facto editor-in-chief, but without the ultimate authority. He is a Walkley Award-winning journalist with a strong news background, but highly qualified though he is, it is an untenable ( 难以为继的. impossible to continue because of serious problems, opposition, or criticism. An argument, theory, or position that is untenable cannot be defended successfully against criticism or attack. This argument is untenable from an intellectual, moral and practical standpoint. He claimed the charges against him were untenable. She left, saying her job had become untenable.) position. Looking ahead, unless the ABC can find someone to combine the functions of managing director and editor-in-chief, as Guthrie's predecessor Mark Scott did, it would be better to split the jobs. This is the way good media outlets work. The editor-in-chief answers to the board through the managing director. The board and managing director answer to the shareholders – in the ABC's case, the government. The editor-in-chief is thus shielded 被隔离开, 被保护起来 in a way that enables him or her to make news decisions independent of corporate interests. It is called editorial independence and is the cornerstone of good journalism.
