用法学习: 1. take to someone/something to begin to like someone or something. Sandra took to it straight away. Charles was an odd character whom Kelly had never really taken to. I took to John immediately. take to doing something 养成新习惯 to start doing something as a habit Dee's taken to getting up at 6 and going jogging. Recently he's taken to 开始习惯于, 已经习惯于 wearing a cap. take up I. to start doing something regularly as a habit, job, or interest. I took up smoking when I was at school. Chris has taken up jogging. take up a post/position就职, 就位: The new surgeon will take up her post in May. II. to fill a particular amount of space or time. These files take up a lot of disk space. I'll try not to take up too much of your time. III. take up something 接受 to accept an offer or a challenge (=an offer to fight or compete) that someone has made to you. Schools are taking up the offer of cut-price computers. One of our greatest athletes has taken up a new challenge. IV. to reduce the length of a piece of clothing or some curtains. V. 继承. 接续. to continue to discuss or deal with an idea, problem, or suggestion. She fell silent, and her brother took up the story. Mrs Pankhurst took up the cause of women's rights. VI. take up arms formal to start a battle using weapons. Would you be willing to take up arms for this cause? VII. take up residence formal to start living somewhere. Mice have taken up residence under their floorboards. take someone up on something 接受 to accept an offer or invitation that someone has made. I've decided to take you up on that job offer. take up with I. [transitive] take up with someone 鬼混, 厮混, 混在一起 informal to become friendly with someone, especially someone who could have a bad influence on you. I don't want you to take up with the wrong crowd. II. be taken up with something 充斥, 占据, 充满 to be busy doing, discussing, or thinking about something. The whole meeting was taken up with arguing about the budget. She was completely taken up with her own worries. . take to something old-fashioned to go to a place, especially your bed. Joanne says she’s ill, and she's taken to her bed. take to your bed 卧床不起, 足不出户 to get into your bed and stay there He was so depressed, he took to his bed for a week. make little of sth (see little of) 不足为道, 不当回事, 不认真看待 to not consider something to be very important: He made little of his ordeal. the little/small matter of something 小事一桩 spoken something that is not important or not difficult – used when you really think something is important or difficult He seemed unworried by the small matter of the war that was in progress. There's the small matter of tonight's game if we are to reach the finals. to cross the Rubicon 踏上不归路, 没有回头路, 回不去了, 没有后悔药了 If you say that someone has crossed the Rubicon, you mean that they have reached a point where they cannot change a decision or course of action. [journalism] He's crossed the Rubicon with regard to the use of military force as an option. rooted to the spot 僵立当场, 当场僵住, 一动不动 If you are rooted to the spot, you are unable to move because you are very frightened or shocked. She was rooted to the spot with fear/amazement. We just stopped there, rooted to the spot. meritorious [ˌmɛrɪˈtɔːrɪəs] adj I. deserving reward or praise. If you describe something as meritorious, you approve of it for its good or worthwhile qualities. [formal, approval] I had been promoted for what was called gallant and meritorious service. "a medal for meritorious conduct". "the captain was awarded a medal for meritorious conduct". II. (of an action or claim) likely to succeed on the merits of the case. "the costs involved in civil litigation may prevent a meritorious appeal". 2. infamous [ˈɪnfəməs] well known for something bad. an infamous criminal. indication a sign that something will happen, is true, or exists. indication of: The size of the crowd is a clear indication of the strength of public feeling. give an indication: He gave no indication that that he had noticed her. Can you give an indication of how quickly you could respond in an emergency? indication that: The indications are that the economy has become more efficient and successful. 指甲垢: I always seem to get grease 油垢 under my nails whenever I use it. I always have grease under my nails, it's really quite annoying. I keep meaning to get one of those brushes 老是想着, 总想着, 老想着...but it just slipped my mind 总是忘. I have some grease under my nails right now. As for cleaning hands, gojo works miracles. I'm in the same boat as you... don't you just hate it when you chew a nail, and you can feel the grit 沙沙的东西 in your teeth from the said nail?. surly [ˈsəːli] adjective bad-tempered and unfriendly. Someone who is surly behaves in a rude bad-tempered way. He became surly and rude towards me. "the porter left with a surly expression". think better of it 想想又改主意了, 想想后悔了, 想想算了 If you intend to do something and then think better of it, you decide not to do it because you realize it would not be sensible. Alberg opened his mouth, as if to protest. But he thought better of it. to not do something that you had planned to do, because you realize that it is not a good idea He started to say something, then thought better of it. A cover band (or covers band) 模仿乐队, 翻版乐队, is a band that plays songs recorded by someone else, sometimes mimicking the original as perfectly as possible, and sometimes re-interpreting or changing the original. These remade songs are known as cover songs. 3. He's pushing 40 快40了, 年近40 and everything is fake. Harem [ˈherəm] n. 为一个雄性动物所控制的许多雌性动物, 闺房里的妻妾群, 闺房(伊斯兰教教徒的). 后宫. I. 妻妾群. If a man, especially a Muslim, has several wives or sexual partners living in his house, they can be referred to as his harem. a group of women living together as the wives of a rich man in some Muslim societies, especially in the past. II. 后宫. A harem is a part of a building where a harem lives. a separate part of a Muslim home in which only women live. trim adj. I. Something that is trim is neat, tidy, and attractive. The neighbours' gardens were trim and neat. II. If you describe someone's figure as trim, you mean that it is attractive because there is no extra fat on their body. [approval] The driver was a trim young woman of perhaps thirty. The 43-year-old looked youthful 看上去很年轻 and toned as she paraded her trim figure in a long-sleeved floral-print one-piece. verb. I. If you trim something, for example someone's hair, you cut off small amounts of it in order to make it look neater and tidier. My friend trims my hair every eight weeks. Grass shears are specially made to trim grass growing in awkward places. His hair needed a trim 修剪一下. II. If a government or other organization trims something such as a plan, policy, or amount, they reduce it slightly in extent or size. American companies looked at ways they could trim these costs. We trimmed the marketing department. trim costs 削减开支, 节省开支 Neither patients or doctors have any incentive to use purchaser power to trim costs. III. If something such as a piece of clothing is trimmed with a type of 镶着 material or design, it is decorated with it, usually along its edges. ...jackets, which are then trimmed with crocheted flowers. I am wearing a plaid nightgown trimmed with white lace. He wears a fur-trimmed 镶边的 coat. ...gold-trimmed fitted 镶金边的 furniture. n. The trim on something such as a piece of clothing is a decoration, for example along its edges, that is in a different colour or material. ...a white satin scarf with black trim. The saddles feature a reflective trim for night time visibility. in trim/in good trim 收拾的很得体 When people are in trim or in good trim, they are in good physical condition. He is already getting in trim for the big day. It is an excellent way of keeping my voice in trim. 4. 新闻: In a statement, Mr Broad said he had let his constituency and his family down, and would withdraw his nomination 被提名 to contest 放弃竞选 the 2019 election. The young woman told the magazine Mr Broad, the former Assistant to the Deputy Prime Minister, had 'bragged about his important job', before becoming brash 放肆 and forward 直接, 露骨 (If you describe someone or their behaviour as brash, you disapprove of them because you think that they are too confident and aggressive. [disapproval] On stage she seems hard, brash and uncompromising. I brashly announced to the group that NATO needed to be turned around. He was a typical showman with a brashness bordering on arrogance. ) when the pair arranged to meet after about a month of texting. 新闻电影制作人贩卖毒品: It was prosecutors' second attempt at jailing the pair after an earlier jury failed to reach a verdict. But in a twist befitting 堪比, 像电影一样的 ( befit verb. to be suitable for someone or something. She dressed as befitted the daughter of a millionaire. befitting adj. proper or right; suitable.) one of their films, Galecki and Ritchie's convictions were soon vacated. A court found their trial judge had erred in barring a US government scientist, who had been accused of soliciting a minor for sex, from testifying for the defence. After much legal wrangling 法律角力, Galecki and Ritchie's sentences were eventually reinstated 判决恢复, 恢复判决 but just last week, the pair launched a new round of appeals. Their latest appeal remains before US courts. For Shelley, helping eradicate what she calls the "poison" of spice and better training for first responders who deal with mentally ill young people are slivers 一丝 of hope(A sliver of something is a small thin piece or amount of it. Not a sliver of glass remains where the windows were. [+ of] There was only one sliver of light in the darkness.) from the darkness of her personal tragedy. entrance (captivate) 迷住, 着迷 Someone or something that entrances you is so beautiful or interesting that you cannot stop listening to or watching him, her, or it: He has entranced millions of people with his beautifully illustrated books. right to it 直接了当的进入主题. Right to it, huh? 不带打哈哈的. Out of focus 照片失焦: They deleted those pictures because they are out of focus. 5. 警察证人指认犯罪嫌疑人: My department didn't use physical line-ups (technically, these are called "show-ups or field identification"). We used what most agencies use these days, a photo array or "sixpack" of mug shots of people of similar ages, races, and hair types. I look enough like Joe Average that I posed for mug shots while wearing street clothes several times, and appeared in multiple photo arrays. A police lineup (in American English) or identity parade (in British English) is a process by which a crime victim or witness's putative identification of a suspect is confirmed to a level that can count as evidence at trial. The suspect, along with several "fillers" 充数的 or "foils" 迷惑人的—people of similar height, build, and complexion who may be prisoners, actors, police officers, or volunteers—stand side-by-side, both facing and in profile 既有侧门照也有正面照. The lineup sometimes takes place in a room for the purpose, one which may feature a one-way mirror to allow a witness to remain anonymous, and may include markings on the wall to aid identifying the person's height. For evidence from a lineup to be admissible in court, the lineup itself must be conducted fairly. The police may not say or do anything that persuades the witness to identify the suspect that they prefer. This includes loading the lineup with people who look very dissimilar to the suspect. Photographs of the suspect and fillers can be shown to the identifier in what is called a "photo-lineup", or a "six pack" 照片指认. If the victim or witness successfully identifies the suspect from among the fillers, the identification is considered valid. A "show-up" is another alternative, in which a suspect is individually shown to a witness. day release 和半工半读不同 I. BRITISH Paid leave of absence from employment (one day per week) to attend college. a system of allowing employees days off work to go on educational courses. a system in which people who work can study one day a week at a college. Day release is a system in which workers spend one day each week at a college in order to study a subject connected with their work: My boss wants me to do a day-release course in computing. "she goes to college on day release". II. Temporary liberation from a prison, for the period of one day. She committed a murder while on day release. forever I. 总是. 老是. 经常是. 一直是. You use forever to emphasize that someone always has or shows the quality mentioned. Katherine was forever secretive. To this end the young child is forever watchful. II. 经常会, 老是在, 总是在, 一直在 经常不断的 If you say that someone is forever doing a particular thing, especially something which annoys or amuses you, you are emphasizing that they do it very often. [informal, emphasis] I
think he's from Bristol, because he's forever making calls to Bristol.
He was forever attempting to arrange deals. I was forever dragging him
away from the fireplace. 6. make time I. 找机会. 找时间. 挤时间. to find an opportunity. find an occasion when time is available to do something. to find time to do something or be with someone in spite of being busy. He's finding it difficult to make time for his children. "the nurse should make time to talk to the patient". II. informal North American to succeed in seducing. make sexual advances to someone. "I couldn't make time with Marilyn because she was already a senior". to greet someone. 打招呼. 问好. diverse [dadɪ-ˈvəː(r)s,ˈdaɪvəː(r)s; US also: dɪ-]. The murder of Tran in 1995 sparked a power struggle 夺权斗争, 权力斗争, 争权夺势 within the organization. This was ultimately furthered加剧 with the death of the 5T successor. This led to an escalation of violence in 1999, as rival mobs, the 'Four Aces' and 'Madonna's boys', which were break-away groups of the 5T, challenged the 5T leading to an increase in the murder rate in Cabramatta. This gang warfare eventually led to the NSW Parliament establishing a Parliamentary Inquiry. A number of Phuong Ngo's supporters have stated that he was convicted on flimsy ( I. A flimsy object is weak because it is made of a weak material, or is badly made. ...a flimsy wooden door. ...a pair of flimsy shoes. ...flimsily constructed houses. II. Flimsy cloth or clothing is thin and does not give much protection. ...a very flimsy pink chiffon nightgown. III. 勉强的, 牵强的. If you describe something such as evidence or an excuse as flimsy, you mean that it is not very good or convincing. The charges were based on very flimsy evidence 证据非常不可靠, 非常牵强的证据. ) evidence. He was a prominent leader in the Vietnamese Catholic community, which held prayer services for him in the hope that he would be acquitted of the murder. However, almost 300 leaders in the Vietnamese community signed a petition to the Supreme Court requesting that Ngo be denied bail.
Coroner's court: A coroner may conduct or order an inquest into the manner or cause of death, and investigate or confirm the identity of an unknown person who has been found dead within the coroner's jurisdiction. The Coroner's Court of New South Wales is the court in the Australian state of New South Wales where legal proceedings, in the form of an inquest or inquiry, are held and presided over by the State Coroner of New South Wales (or NSW State Coroner), a Deputy State Coroner of New South Wales, or another coroner of the state of New South Wales. Coroners must be magistrates in the state and sit in branches of the Local Court of New South Wales. They hold jurisdiction over the remains of a person and have the power to make findings in respect of the cause of death of a person or the cause of any fire in New South Wales. Generally, there are no appeals from the decision(s) of a coroner; but, there is provision for the Supreme Court of New South Wales to order a fresh inquest or inquiry or to grant prerogative relief in respect of the proceedings. The Coronial Division of the Magistrates Court (or the 'coroner's court') investigates certain deaths, fires and explosions by collecting and examining evidence and making findings. The coroner's court is generally inquisitorial, with few adversarial elements: Most courts are "adversarial" in nature; this means that there are two opposing sides (such as prosecution and defence). Both sides argue that the judge should accept their own case. In an "inquisitorial" court, there are no sides: there is simply a search for the truth in which all parties collaborate. Each party may still wish to emphasise certain facts over others. Judges in inquisitorial courts do not rely on others to give the information to them; rather they investigate actively and find things out for themselves. The rules of evidence do not apply: The Coroners Act 1995, specifies in section 51 that the rules of evidence do not apply to coronial proceedings. Instead, coroners may inform themselves in any manner the coroner reasonably thinks fit. This flexibility allows coroners to take into account materials that would not be admissible in a criminal trial, such as hearsay and non-expert opinion evidence. Relevance is still paramount in coronial matters: the relevant issues define the scope of the investigation (and of the inquest, if one is held). Enquiries made by the coroner must be relevant to the manner and cause of death; therefore, all parties are prevented from pursuing causation to its extreme (refer to Key Elements in the Process: Inquests – Causation, scope and relevance). The common law has less effect: Section 4 of the Act states that 'a rule of the common law that, immediately before the commencement of this section, conferred a power or imposed a duty on a coroner or a coroner's court ceases to have effect'. This provision removes the common law jurisdiction of the coroner's court. It is most likely that 'duties imposed on a coroner' are procedural duties. A similar provision in the Coroners Act 2003 (Qld) expressly states as examples that coroners are not required to view a body or sit with a jury. Coroners remain bound by the authorities and judicial pronouncements of courts in interpreting the legislation. The coroner's court is neither criminal nor civil in nature: A coronial inquest is an inquiry not a trial. Coroners are concerned with fact-finding, not determining guilt and delivering punishment. Coroners are not permitted to include in their findings a statement that a person is, or may be, guilty of committing an offence (Act ss 28(4) & 45(3)). Coronial proceedings are not criminal or civil in nature, but they may open the way for proceedings of either type. Criminal proceedings may result through referral of the case to the Attorney-General and the Attorney-General / Director of Public Prosecutions preferring charges. Civil proceedings may result through the disclosure of evidence that potentially supports the argument that a person or entity was negligent or responsible in some way for the death, fire or explosion. There may also be repercussions as to internal disciplinary proceedings, tribunals, commissions and similar. It is important that practitioners do not discount the consequences that coronial proceedings may have for their clients or treat an inquest as a mere precursor to future court proceedings. preliminary hearing 先期听证会: Within some criminal justice systems, a preliminary hearing, preliminary examination, evidentiary hearing or probable cause hearing is a proceeding, after a criminal complaint has been filed by the prosecutor, to determine whether there is enough evidence to require a trial. At such a hearing, the defendant may be assisted by lawyer.
Yorkshire ripper: Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield was criticised for being too focused on a hoax confessional tape that seemed to indicate a perpetrator with a Wearside background, and for ignoring advice from survivors of Sutcliffe's attacks, and several eminent specialists including the FBI, plus dialect analysts such as Stanley Ellis and Jack Windsor Lewis, whom he had also consulted throughout the manhunt, that "Wearside Jack" was a blatant hoaxer. The investigation used it as a point of elimination 排除点 rather than a line of enquiry and allowed Sutcliffe to avoid scrutiny, as he did not fit the profile of 不符合特征 the sender of the tape or letters. The "Wearside Jack" hoaxer was given unusual credibility 可信度 when analysis of saliva on the envelopes he sent showed he had the same blood group as the Yorkshire Ripper had left at crime scenes, a type shared by only 6% of the population. 下级曾经提议查最终的罪犯, 被上级否决: He said: "I wasn't happy with Peter Sutcliffe, there were a lot of alarm bells ringing. He had a striking resemblance to the photofits of the attacker(photofit 素描: a reconstructed picture of a person, especially one sought by the police, made from composite photographs of facial features. A facial composite is a graphical representation of one or more eyewitnesses' memory of a face, as recorded by a composite artist. Facial composites are used mainly by police in their investigation of (usually serious) crimes. These images are also used to reconstruct the suspect's face in hope of identifying them.). He was in the suspect occupation group – he was a heavy goods vehicle driver. I took it directly to Dick Holland, a man I put on a pedestal (knock someone off pedestal) [ˈpedɪst(ə)l]. He asked, 'Has he got a Geordie accent?' I said, 'No, he's local. He's from Bradford. He's a dead ringer for the photofit'. Then he said, 'If anybody mentions photofits to me again, they'll be doing traffic for the rest of their service' with a few expletives thrown in. I could have crawled through the crack in the door 从门缝里钻出去的." Sutcliffe's murderous reign finally ended in January 1981, six years after claiming his first victim. Through his childhood and his early adolescence, Sutcliffe showed no signs of abnormality. Later, in part related to his occupation as a gravedigger, he developed an unhealthy, macabre ( [məˈkɑbrə] frightening or unpleasant, and usually involving death, decay, or violence. a macabre joke. You describe something such as an event or story as macabre when it is strange and horrible or upsetting, usually because it involves death or injury. Police have made a macabre discovery. Mr Dahl was well-known for his macabre adult stories called 'Tales of the Unexpected'.) sense of humour. In his late adolescence, he developed a growing obsession with voyeurism and spent much time spying on prostitutes and the men seeking their services. Sutcliffe was charged at Dewsbury on 5 January. At his trial, he pleaded not guilty to 13 charges of murder, but guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. The basis of his defence was he claimed to be the tool of God's will. Sutcliffe claimed to have heard voices that ordered him to kill prostitutes while working as a gravedigger. He said the voices originated from a headstone of a Polish man, Bronisław Zapolski, and that the voices were that of God.
