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用法学习: 1. would/could kill for something 让我杀人都行 (also would kill to do something) to want something so much that you will do almost anything to get it or do it I could kill for a smoke right now. In those days, actors would kill to break into film. make a note of (something) To make a special effort to remember something in the future. to make a mental note of something. You want to be considered for promotion. I'll make a note of it. Please make a note of it. I tried to make a note of the car's license plate number as it passed by. Please make a note of your nearest exits, which may be behind you. downside [ˈdaʊnsaɪd] 缺点, 不利面 the disadvantage of a situation. The downside of a situation is the aspect of it which is less positive, pleasant, or useful than its other aspects. The downside of this approach is a lack of clear leadership. There is a downside: the more she remembers, the more bitter she feels about what happened. The downside of living in a city is all the pollution. Ariana Grande 前男友的采访: He makes her laugh, he makes her feel good, he probably treats her like a queen. He's intelligent- stupid people are NOT comedy writers- he's interesting.. I see no downsides 高攀 here 我看不出有什么不好的. The only problem I have with this conversation is the constant suggestion that Pete is so undeserving 配不上 of Ariana. Like only if he admits he is unattractive or that he has low self esteem or some defect or something, does it make sense that she would want to marry him. When actually, they are just two people who fell in love. underserved [ˌʌndərˈsɜrvd] 资源不足的 not getting enough help or services, especially medical services. inadequately provided with a service or facility. "a medically underserved community". undeserved 不配的 if something is undeserved, you get it although you should not, because you have not done anything to deserve or to cause it. If you describe something such as a reaction, treatment, or result as undeserved, you mean that the person who experiences it has not earned it and should not really have it. Douglas has an undeserved reputation for being dull and dry. Jim's treatment was harsh and undeserved. He has an undeserved reputation for being difficult to work with. an undeserved victory. 3. down in the dumps 情绪低落, 心情不好 In a gloomy or depressed mood: "After losing the student election, Jack really felt down in the dumps." If you are down in the dumps, you are feeling very depressed and miserable. [informal] She's feeling a bit down in the dumps and needs cheering up. moon language 天书 (slang) Text written in an incomprehensible script, especially Japanese or Chinese.

crouch 不自然的蹲坐 VS squat: In AE terms, B1 is a full "squat" and B2 is "squatting halfway" in some exercise. But A1 and A2, with one knee lower, are also "squatting". A3 is "kneeling", but it looks like a runner's start position, which is called a "crouch". B3 is "crouched down." Usually "squat" means lowering yourself with an erect body, to access an item on a low shelf (A1,A2), to excercise (B2), or even as an alternative to sitting (B1). "Crouch" means making your whole body low in order to hide (B3), or to start a race (A3). A dangerous thug "crouches" in an alley (making his body small to hide) then "springs out" at his victim. I would see B1 (two people talking) as squatting and B3 (the wicket-keeper) as crouching. To me squatting is stationary, resting, but crouching implies concealment or preparation for movement. Crouching is a fairly unnatural position, and is generally done for a short time. We crouch to get as low down as possible or to take up as little space as possible. We might crouch down for a short while to talk to a very young child, for example. We might also crouch down to hide. We tend to crouch with hunched shoulders, especially if we are trying to hide or are forced to crouch in restricted spaces. Squatting, by contrast, is a more natural and healthy position. It's simply a way of 'sitting' on our haunches(haunch [hɔntʃ] I. the upper part of an animal'. a. the upper part of an animal's leg, used as meat.) when there is no chair available. We squat with our upper body upright and shoulders straight, and, with practice, you can squat for a relatively long time. In many non-western cultures, squatting may be a normal way to sit while working or socialising. One difference, at times, could be that when you are talking about weightlifting, a squat is a particular move where you move your body down by bending your knees while keeping your back vertical. crunch I. [INTRANSITIVE/ TRANSITIVE] to bite hard food, causing it to make a loud noise. Jane was crunching a peppermint noisily. II. [INTRANSITIVE] to make a noise like something being crushed. Leaves crunched under our feet as we walked up the path to the house. a. to move on a surface that makes the noise of something being crushed. They crunched across splintered glass and wood to the door. III.  INFORMAL if you crunch numbers, you do a lot of calculations. a. if you crunch information, you deal with large amounts of it quickly. credit crunch a period when a country's economy is in a bad state and banks are not willing to lend much money. stomach crunch an exercise to make your stomach flatter, done while lying on your back with your knees bent. n. I. [SINGULAR] the loud noise that something hard makes when you bite it. the crunch of crisps. a. a noise like something being crushed. I could hear the crunch of someone's feet on the gravel. II. the crunch  INFORMAL the time when something important or difficult happens or must be decided if/when it comes to the crunch 紧要关头: If it comes to the crunch, can I rely on you to support me? a. [ONLY BEFORE NOUN] extremely important, usually because of having a major effect on the result of a situation. a crunch match. crunch time: July 1 is crunch time for us. III. [COUNTABLE] [USUALLY SINGULAR] MAINLY AMERICAN INFORMAL a situation that is very difficult because you do not have enough of something, especially time or money. a credit/budget crunch. squat n. I. a small group of soldiers who do a particular job. the bomb squad. II. a department in a police force that deals with a particular type of crime. III. a sports team. hit squad I. a group of people who are sent to do a difficult job. II. a group of trained people who are sent to kill someone. v. I. to bend your knees and lower yourself toward the g round so that you balance on your feet. II. to live in a place without permission and without paying the owner. crouch I. to move your body close to the ground by bending your knees and leaning forward slightly. She crouched down and reached out to the little boy. II. to lean forward with your head and shoulders bent, especially in order to get closer to something. Five or six men were crouched over papers on the desk. 沙发弄脏, Sheldon不愿意坐在上边: Leonard: Why are you crouching there? Sheldon: This is my spot. Where else am I supposed to crouch? Leonard: I don’t know. Texas? How to do Asian Squat: I do not mean those goofy chairless sits you see at the gym. No, toned glutes 线条分明的大腿肌 will not save you here. I mean the deep squat, where you plop your butt down as far as it can go while staying aloft and balanced on the heels. This position—in contrast to deep squatting on your toes as most Americans naturally attempt instead—is so stable that people in China can hold it for minutes and perhaps even hours ... And, for our purposes, while using the bathroom. Toilets are common in Chinese households now, but public restrooms are still dominated by squat pans 蹲坑, which many Chinese find more hygienic due to the lack of thigh-and-toilet-seat contact. The flat-heeled squat position here is crucial, not only for stability on wet porcelain but also—without getting too anatomical—for proper angling and position. Especially for the ladies. Let's just say if you stay on your toes, your shoes will get hosed. Of course, squat toilets 蹲位厕所 are not unique to Asia, nor is the deep-squatting position. But so ubiquitous is the position in Asia and so invisible it is in the West that it's been dubbed the "Asian squat." The internet is rife with suggestions that most Americans cannot squat properly, an idea with which I particularly enjoyed taunting my white American boyfriend. But is this true? Were my taunts fact-based 有事实依据的? How much is this nature or nurture 后天还是先天的? I figured I first had to understand the physiology of the deep squat. In fact, not everyone who can deep squat is, as Ausinheiler puts it, squatting "well," with feet close together and toes pointed forward. I grew up in the United States with few occasions to squat, and I fall into this category. (A fact I was painfully aware of in China because I had to place my feet wider than the grooved 有凹槽的 sides of the squat toilet that kept you from slipping on the wet floor.) The position, while doable, is not particularly comfortable for me either. When an editor dared me to write this entire article while squatting, I quickly realized I'd either end up with an extremely short article or a workplace injury 工伤. Body shape also seems to play a role. Short limbs, big heads, and long torsos make it easier to balance. (Again why toddlers have it so easy.) "I have three brothers, so of course every year I test all their abilities to deep squat," Ausinheiler told me. "What I found is of the four of us, my squat is the best, I gotta say, but I'm also most conscious of technique. I have another brother who has even shorter legs than me. His squat isn't quite as good as mine but it is very easy for him. And then the brother with the longest legs has the worst squat. He kind of has a hard time with it." Believe it or not, no one appears to have actually studied innate ability in deep squatting across ethnic groups. "You would have to take kids from the time they're born in China and never let them do any squats to be a control group, and it;ll never happen," says Matt Hudson, a physiologist at the University of Delaware, who kindly humored my questions. And ultimately, it may not matter. Practice and training make the bigger difference. (I suggested to my boyfriend that he could improve his squats, but he refused for reasons I cannot fathom.)

 chicken war: The Europeans had imported 224.3 million pounds of frozen chicken from the U.S. before the tariff. Afterward, that plummeted to 70 million pounds. It would decline still further in subsequent years. In response, the Americans threatened tariffs on a wide range of European imports. In Germany, the Munich Merkur sardonically ([sɑrˈdɑnɪk] 语带嘲讽的  a sardonic smile, expression, or comment shows a lack of respect for what someone else has said or done) observed: "American chickens apparently are endowed with an inalienable 与生俱来的, 天生的, 天赋的 right ( [ɪnˈeɪliənəb(ə)l] an inalienable right cannot be taken away from you or given to someone else. ) to emigrate to the EEC markets, above all into the Federal Republic of Germany." The conflict was not a "tempest in a stewpot," as the New York Times described it in 1963. At the time, the U.S. sent a quarter of its farm exports to Europe. Europeans paid for these with dollars, which helped stave off a balance-of-payments crisis that many American policy makers began to fear in the postwar era. European leaders had made clear that they wished to end their dependency on American food. The chicken tariff was intended to help the continent's farmers get their own factory farms off the ground 起步 by giving them some breathing room. The Americans knew this, and recognized that more was at stake here than chickens: the outcome might determine the fate of American agricultural exports more generally. The U.S. demanded justice, and had its case heard before a five-member panel representing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The arbiters concurred that the U.S. had sustained a loss, but pegged the amount at $26 million, rather than $46 million as the Americans claimed. This meant the U.S. could impose retaliatory tariffs up to that amount and the conflict would end there. That's not what happened. Under GATT, tariffs would apply to all nations that shared the Europeans' Most Favored Nation status. To spare other nations the pain, the U.S. selected four items it imported almost exclusively from countries that belonged to the EEC: potato starch and dextrin (Netherlands); brandy (France); and trucks (Germany). This tariff on trucks, which raised duties from 8.5 percent to 25 percent, fell entirely on one company: Volkswagen. Its leader, Heinz Hordhoff, expressed outrage. "Why should we be the scapegoats in the chicken war?" But the Americans refused to back down 拒绝退让, 拒绝让步, though they dropped plans to tax the company's popular bus at the last minute. (And good thing, too: imagine the 1960s counterculture without the VW Bus. Unthinkable.) Some of these tariffs, particularly the one on brandy, got rolled back a decade later. But what the architects of the retaliatory tariff could not imagine was the perverse consequences of(perverse determined to behave in an unreasonable way, especially by doing the opposite of what is expected or wanted. It is simply perverse 逆反心理的 to refuse a perfectly safe treatment. Someone who is perverse deliberately does things that are unreasonable or that result in harm for themselves. [disapproval] It would be perverse to stop this healthy trend. In some perverse way the ill-matched partners do actually need each other. She was perversely pleased to be causing trouble. Some saw it, perversely, as a victory. It would be wrong to continue out of perversity.) the tax on trucks. As Detroit automakers stumbled in the 1970s and beyond, they could not compete with foreign manufacturers when it came to producing small, fuel-efficient vehicles. But the 25 percent tariff on any foreign trucks effectively shut out not only the Germans, but eventually, the Japanese, too.

Hotel Transylvania: 1. How many of you are there? Just me. l like to hit it alone 一个人旅行, 独自行动. You meet so many awesome people in the youth hostels. Hey, speaking of awesome, that cape thing is killing it. 2. I never caught your name. My name's Mavis. Mavis? That's a pretty neat name. Yeah, my mom picked it 起名, 起的名字. Before you kill me, can l please talk to my backpack one more time? l don't want to leave anything unresolved 悬而未决的(not dealt with or agreed on in a satisfactory way. A lot of the political issues remain unresolved. to leave matters unresolved.). 3. What did you do? l did what I had to do. What was it? What exactly did you have to do? Tell me! I built the town. The staff put it all together. The zombies dressed up as the townspeople. Please. If you really went out there and something happened to you, I just couldn't live with myself 想都不敢想, 后悔莫及(can live with something used for saying that you can accept something. It's a little less than I asked for, but I can live with that.). But you can live with this? Lying to me? Tricking me? Keeping me here forever when you knew my dream was to go. 4. Did everyone see that? She said she was having fun. Johnny's blowing it 搞砸了. She's biking and mini-marting. She's gonna wanna move! I gotta fix this kid now. Are we almost there or what? Okay, I may have taken a wrong turn a few miles back. Don't get mad. What? Someone turn on the navigator on this thing. Look how light I touch
it. Please enter your destination. 5. You gotta answer it. You're pushin' too hard 敲的太用力了. Lighter. All right! Denisovich, wake up. Oh, boy, he's out cold 睡死过去了(Unconscious or in a deep, insensible sleep. Likened to a boxer who has been knocked out. I didn't even hear you come in last night. I was so tired that I was out cold as soon as my head hit the pillow. On his 21st birthday, Mike's friends gave him so much to drink that he was out cold by 10 PM. The rowdy customer was out cold when the bouncer punched him in the head. After a few minutes of tossing and turning, she was out like a light = out for the count 睡过去了.). 6. Hello, my little devil. Did you have sweet nightmares? Uh-huh. I dreamed that I saw a stegosaurus ( [ˌsteɡəˈsɔrəs] a dinosaur with large flat plates sticking up from its back.). Oh... And were you drinking his blood? No. Just throwing it out there 就是随便说说的, 就是那么一说. 没什么别当真 (Used in a conversation, when you want to indicate that the previous statement you made doesn't actually matter and that the listener can feel free to ignore the previous statement. Also, if you use the word "this" instead of "that", then it could be used to preface the irrelevant claim you're about to assert. "Just saying" is a synonym phrase of the same meaning. Margaret: Which of those two women over there is your boss? Julie: The one in the pink dress. Steve: She's really hot! (Margaret and Julie turn to stare at him.) What? I'm just throwing it out there.). Hey! You want to do something cool? Yeah! I'm going to teach you how to turn into a bat. Like me. 7. High five! Don't leave me hanging. Listen, before anything else, down there's the real Dracula! Prove it 证明给我看. All right. Continue. Drac's daughter's in love, and he's got to get to the airport! And he can't get through this crowd! Why doesn't he fly? The sun, you idiot. He's a vampire. That's right. Thank you, Monster Nerd. So, people, if you really are our friends, clear a path for the man 让开一条路! Okay. All Draculas, line up. 8.  Jonathan, can you hear me? Tell me, do you dream of being a vampire? This is how we're represented ([in the movie] 我们就是这形象, 人类就死这样描述我们的). Unbelievable. 9. My dear boy, l have made a terrible mistake. I was trying to keep my baby to myself, because l knew l would always protect her. But I reaIize now, children need to discover things for themselves. They'll stumble and fall 跌倒, laugh and cry, but such is life. The truth is, you and Mavis are meant to be. You Zinged. If she must give her trust to someone else, I'm thankful that it is you, Jonathan. I hope you can hear me and forgive me. Okay, folks, we're going to make a quick turnaround to refuel, and then we'll be back on our way. Quit your whining! I'm burning up out here! 10. I love this guy. He always bringing it full tilt. You're looking skinny, too. Now that you're just a head. Okay, you'll pay for that 你会遭报应的, 你会付出代价的. So what's up, Drac? The hotel is looking off the hook. Frank, did you book us for a tandem massage 预约按摩? Did you get us a table at Hunchback's? Did you do anything? Look, honey, l know you're excited, but everyone has gone to great lengths to 大老远的, 舟车劳顿的 come see you on your birthday. But aren't l getting a little old for these parties? l love them, but l really want to see new things. Maybe meet somebody my age. Come on. No, no, don't do that. Don't give me the pouty batface. Okay, there is a human village just a little ways past 过去...一点点 the cemetery( a little ways = a little "Wait," said Granger. "And move downstream a little ways, just in case". The store you want is just a little ways down the road. You're almost there. Keep on this road a little ways more and you'll see their house on the left. way past (something) "Way" means "far". You can use it like this: I was out way past midnight. This means that you stayed out not just until 12:05 or 12:30, but several hours past midnight. Here's another example: There's no use apologizing now. We're way past that point. You might say this if someone has made you so angry that there's no chance that you'll forgive them. It's way past your bedtime! past: I. 过去的. 曾经的. [only before noun] having held a particular position in the past or achieved a particular honour in the past. past president/member/winner etc a past president of the golf club. a celebration for past and present employees of the newspaper. Bruce Jenner, a past Olympic champion. II. 结束的. 过去了的. 逝去的. finished or having come to an end. Winter is past and spring has come at last. writers from past centuries. a tradition rooted in times long past. III. 刚过去的. [only before noun] used to refer to a period up until now. the events of the past year. During the past two weeks, 12 people have died of the disease.  She has been feeling tired for the past few days. IV. 过往的. [only before noun] done, used, or experienced before now. Judging by her past performance, Jane should do very well. From past experience she knew that it was no use arguing with him. Study some past exam papers to get an idea of the questions. past2 I. up to and beyond a person or place, without stopping She waved as she drove past. Will you be going past my house on your way home? straight/right past (=used to emphasize that someone passes close to you and does not stop). Monica hurried straight past me and down the steps. II. if a period of time goes past, it passes. Weeks went past without any news. The hours seemed to fly past. 5 beyond or no longer at a particular point or stage. The roses were already past their best.  Reid never really got past the stage of copying other artists. a pot of yoghurt well past 早就过了 its sell-by date. an Italian singer who was then past her prime (=no longer strong and active). I'm past caring 过了那个阶段了 about my appearance (=I do not care about it anymore). III. later than a particular time . It's ten past nine. I should be finished by half past (=30 minutes after the hour). It was past midnight when the party ended. Come on Annie, it's long past your bedtime. IV. further than a particular place The hospital's just up this road, about a mile past the school. There are parking spaces over there, just past (=a little further than) the garage. I wouldn't put it past somebody (to do something) spoken used to say that you would not be surprised if someone did something bad or unusual because it is typical of them to do that type of thing. I wouldn't put it past Colin to cheat. past it British English spoken too old to be able to do what you used to do, or too old to be useful. People seem to think that just because I'm retired, I'm past it. be past due American English something that is past due has not been paid or done by the time it should have been. ). You could go there and be back in, like, 30 minutes or so. It should be plenty for your first time. 11. I'll get back to you, Mr. Hydraberg. I hope so. I doubt it. See that you do 一定要哦. That's Ms. Hydraberg. 12. This room's kind of small for a big castle. No bed, but check out these awesome dustpans 簸箕 they give you. Quiet, you fool. What weapons are you keeping in this container? Your pitchforks? I can't breathe. lt's killing me. Yeah, definitely due for a fluff and fold(A self-service laundry, coin laundry, laundromat or coin wash is a facility where clothes are washed and dried without much personalized professional help. Laundromats are known in the United Kingdom as launderettes or laundrettes, and in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand as laundromats (from the genericized trademark of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation) or (rarely) washaterias. Some laundries employ staff to provide service for the customers. Minimal service centres may simply provide an attendant behind a counter to provide change, sell washing powder, and watch unattended machines for potential theft of clothing. Others allow customers to drop off clothing to be washed, dried, and folded. This is often referred to as fluff & fold, wash-n-fold, drop off, bachelor bundles, a service wash or full-service wash. Some staffed laundry facilities also provide dry cleaning pick-up and drop-off. ). What is this? A torture device? A secret mind controller? You won't read my thoughts. l won't let you. Dude, it's just music. Here, try it. lt's taking my soul! What? It's a good jam. Don't be a grandpa. Who's Mavis? Is this her room? I'm good with a roommate. I had six brothers growing up, so I could totally share. I can't kill him. It would set monsters back 倒退 hundreds of years. One time, in Hamburg, I roomed with this dude who I caught stealing my shampoo. I said, "Whoa, man," and he threw a flower pot at me, but he was cool. What are you babbling about? I just can't be without my backpack 不能没有. You know, everything I own's in there.