用法学习: 1. rage on [intransitive] mainly journalism to continue with a lot of force, violence, or angry arguments. You say that something powerful or unpleasant rages when it continues with great force or violence. Train services were halted as the fire raged for more than four hours. [VERB] ...the fierce arguments raging over the future of the Holy City. [VERB] The war rages on and the time has come to take sides. [V on] Fierce fighting raged for several days. Outside, the storm continued to rage. Young actors Alex Lawther and Jessica Bardens are incredibly convincing as two messed-up teens on the run from their parents, and their story only gets more twisted as the action rages on. II. [intransitive/transitive] mainly literary to shout angrily at someone. If you rage about something, you speak or think very angrily about it. Monroe was on the phone, raging about her mistreatment by the brothers. [V + about/against/at] Inside, Frannie was raging. [VERB] 'I can't see it's any of your business,' he raged. "Don't lie to me!" she raged. I could hear one of the customers raging at him. n. Rage is strong anger that is difficult to control. He was red-cheeked with rage. I flew into a rage. He admitted shooting the man in a fit of rage. You can refer to the strong anger that someone feels in a particular situation as a particular rage, especially when this results in violent or aggressive behaviour. Cabin crews are reporting up to nine cases of air rage a week. Road rage is anger or violent behaviour caused by someone else's bad driving or the stress of being in heavy traffic. ...a road rage attack on a male motorist. A Times reporter yesterday became another victim of road rage. When something is popular and fashionable, you can say that it is the rage or all the rage. [informal] The 1950s look is all the rage at the moment. 2. 美国务卿: "This is a former secretary of state engaged with the world's largest state sponsor of terror and according to him, he was talking to them, he was telling them to wait out this administration 等过去,' Pompeo added. "What Secretary Kerry has done is unseemly 不适宜的, 不恰当的 and unprecedented," Pompeo told reporters at the State Department Friday. During interviews to promote his new book, Kerry told an interviewer that he has met with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif three or four times since leaving office and that their talks touched on the international nuclear agreement, to which Iran, the EU, Russia and China still adhere. In a Sept. 9 interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, Kerry said the withdrawal was "a very dangerous and ill-advised move that is not based on any broad strategy that is drawing other countries to the table to be supportive of it. Rather 正相反, I think it represents a campaign promise made by the President ... which has no basis in achieving the goals the President has set out, if there are goals." 3. "Netflix and chill" is an internet slang term used either as an invitation to watch Netflix together or as a euphemism for some form of sex, either as part of a romantic partnership or as a booty call. 娘炮问题: Sissy (derived from sister), also sissy baby, sissy boy, sissy man, sissy pants 娘炮, 娘娘腔(Effeminate), etc., is a pejorative term for a boy or man who does not conform to male gender stereotypes. Intense grooming has become a requirement in China's entertainment industry, following the trend in South Korea for men with perfect skin and impeccable hair. Chinese movies and pop videos are now full of men who have embraced their natural slenderness and have clearly spent a lot of time on their looks. This latest round of chest thumping (Chest bumping 互怼, 叫板, 挑衅性的 is something that I like to call 'social sparring' where two people try to assert their physical prowess over each other without resorting to punching. Chest bumping isn't exclusively used to intimidate, often it can be seen where jubilation is present.) began earlier this month after the broadcast of a program called "First Class for the New Semester". One father of a 5-year-old boy, identified as Mr. Feng, told the Communist Party-controlled Global Times that he was worried that the stars would influence his son to behave in a feminine way at school. Xinhua, the powerful state news agency, lambasted the singers as "sissy pants" and said they were "not men, but not women." They look androgynous and wear makeup. They are slender and weak," the influential opinion columnist using the pen name Xinshiping wrote. "The impact this sick culture 病态文化 will have on our young generation is immeasurable 难以估量的. The youth are the future of the country. … What a country's pop culture embraces, refuses and conveys is something that matters to the future of a country."Mr Zhang is part of a growing trend in China, where men are displaying a softer form of masculinity [ˌmæskjəˈlɪnəti], sparked by the rise of effeminate male celebrities in Chinese media and popular culture. Last week, Chinese state media Xinhua published an editorial slamming the portrayal of men in Chinese media, claiming the popularity of the "sickly aesthetics" 病态审美 in effeminate celebrities was having an adverse impact on teenagers.
American Vandal: 1. Do you remember what happened on that day? Kevin I'm sorry, I thought that was a rhetorical question. Let's just say, for the rest of this interview, there will be no rhetorical questions, okay? Was that a question? Kevin's got a wall up ( Having a wall up means that you probably don't want to deal with any problems head on. Yes, real communication is scary, and sweeping things under the rug is much easier. However, the latter never works out in the long haul. The longer you keep sweeping all that mess under the rug, the dirtier the floor gets, so to speak. Life can be pretty rough at any age, and by the time most people have hit their twenties, they've experienced some pretty harsh realities. So it makes sense to have some walls up in a relationship at one time or another. Everyone has baggage, and some more than others. And while you shouldn't go into a partnership with your eyes wide shut, it's also important to let down some of those walls as you two grow closer. The real problem occurs when you've gotten used to your little bubble of safety and are too afraid to open up. Eventually, those protective walls you've put up may be the difference between a successful relationship or a breakup. And if you never let them go, your partner won't truly have a chance to experience the real you. wall up 高墙关起来 If someone walls up a room, or if someone is walled up in it, walls are built blocking every door so that nobody can get in or out. They had walled up her room because of the fear that things might be infected. drive/send up the wall slang to cause to become crazy or furious. to make frantic, emotionally tense, crazy, etc. ), which is totally normal for for an adolescent, uh, especially one with deep-seated issues. Can you please tell me why you think we called you down here today? Well, I assume it must have something to do with this turd burglarizing. No one comes right out and confesses. 2. Tanner, would you say, uh that Kevin is, you know, bullied? Kids will often laugh at him rather than with him sometimes. In a situation where a student lashes out 发泄不满, 宣泄 at his school, especially this case where there's so much planning involved, we're looking for a student that's alienated by the rest of the school. Kevin fits this profile to a T 正是这样的人. It's tougher to spot bullying these days. You know, it's much more subtle. 3. A couple of students just started rushing away and I didn't even know it was going on. It took me a minute to process. It didn't really hit me right away 我懵逼里了一阵儿, 我懵了一会儿. 我一下子没有明白过来, 一下子没有搞明白. And then it really hit me. I had to shit.
