用法学习: 1. cool customer informal someone who stays calm and does not show their emotions, even in a difficult situation. Someone who remains even-tempered, especially in stressful situations. Brad is such a cool customer. Nothing ever seems to bother him. cool hunter 流行趋势发现 British a person who is employed to identify future trends, esp in fashion or the media. prowl 寻找猎物, 盘桓, 逡巡 If you move stealthily — like you're looking for something to prey on — then you prowl. Your cat might prowl around the room and pounce on your feet, which is cute if you're awake, but annoying when you're asleep. The noun prowl means the act of moving as if to capture prey. You could take a prowl through the music shop and try to find your favorite vintage album. Prowl is also used in the phrase "on the prowl," which implies that the person doing the prowling is looking for a romantic partner. Your idea of a fun Saturday night might be staying home while your friends go on the prowl at the dance club. prowler [ˈpraʊlə] a person who moves stealthily about or loiters near a place with a view to 试图想, 想着, 打算着 committing a crime. A prowler is someone who secretly follows people or hides near their houses, especially at night, in order to steal something, frighten them, or perhaps harm them. 2. Are clubs still using hand stamps that enables people to leave the club and then re-enter (without extra charge ofcourse): I was able to get hand stamped for re entry into Subliminal, so id imagine that would be the case with all parties there. pass-out: parks/stadiums/concerts/festivals/ 重新进去, 重新进门, 门禁, 门卡, 门票... would usually mean a system where you can leave the venue and re-enter without paying again. You might get a stamp on your hand, a wristband or a pass to wear, or somehow else get marked to show that you are a valid ticket holder. Sometimes the gate/entrance/door/area where this service is available might be called a pass-out as well. I hear this commonly in everyday conversation so I don't think this is particularly non-UK. 3. Jennifer Pan 买凶杀父母: Jennifer Pan is a Vietnamese-Canadian woman convicted of a 2010 kill-for-hire 买凶杀人 attack targeting both of her immigrant parents, in response to alleged severe abusive "tiger parenting" by her parents into her mid-20s. Jeremy Grimaldi, a journalist of the Markham Economist & Sun and the author of A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story, stated that the affair "captivated many, if for nothing else than the sheer intrigue of a case involving matricide 弑母, 弑父, a rarity in Canada." Jennifer and her friends reportedly regarded this upbringing as restricting and greatly oppressive 压抑的. When Jennifer failed calculus class in her senior year of high school, Ryerson University rescinded [rɪˈsɪnd] 撤回, 收回 her early admission. As she could not bear to be perceived as a failure, she began to lie to those she knew, including her parents, and pretended she was attending university. By the time that Jennifer was 24, Wong had grown weary of trying to pursue a relationship with her. As Jennifer was so daunted and restricted 看得紧, 限制的死死的 by her parents that she lived at home and only met him in secret, Wong began to date another young woman whom he soon fell in love with. Pan and Wong were back in contact at this time and, according to police, came up with a plan to hire a professional hit man 杀手 for $10,000 to kill her parents, calculating that she would then inherit $500,000. They planned to move in together. Wong connected Pan with a man, Lenford Roy Crawford, a man of Jamaican ancestry, whom he called Homeboy, and gave her a SIM card and an iPhone so that she could contact Crawford without using her usual cell phone. After demanding all the money in the house, and ransacking the main bedroom, they took Bich and Hann to the basement where they were shot multiple times; Bich was killed but Hann would survive his wounds. The three men then took all the cash that was in the house (including $2,000 from Pan) and left. Pan claimed that they tied her up, but that she managed to free her hands and dial 9-1-1. 4. conjecture [kənˈdʒɛktʃə] I. 瞎猜. 推测. 猜测. an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information. an opinion or judgment that is not based on proof; a guess: There's been a lot of conjecture in the media recently about themarriage. What lay behind the decision is open to conjecture. "conjectures about the newcomer were many and varied". v. form an opinion or supposition about (something) on the basis of incomplete information. "many conjectured that she had a second husband in mind". "I conjectured that the game was about to end". to guess, based on the appearance of a situation and not on proof: We'll never know exactly how shedied; we can only conjecture. He conjectured that the company would soon be in financial trouble. pit someone/something against someone/something 自相残杀, 同室操戈, 互相竞争, 互为较劲, 对立面 to make someonecompete or fight against someone or something else Coach Fox finds his team pitted against a teamcoached by his longtime friend and mentor. if you pit your skills, knowledge, or ability against someone, you use all your skill in order to deal successfully or compete with them Small businesses are having to pit their wits against the giant companies. 关于mental health: Nicki Minaj replied with a number of heart emojis on the post. She then tweeted, "We can be so insensitive. God bless Kanye & Pete. Being flippant ( 轻慢的, 无所顾忌的, 轻率的, 不负责任的, 轻佻的, 不当一回事的. 乱开玩笑的, 不严肃认真的. If you describe a person or what they say as flippant, you are criticizing them because you think they are not taking something as seriously as they should. [disapproval] Don't be flippant, damn it! This is serious! He now dismisses that as a flippant comment. facetious 不恰当的, 不当的, 轻佻的, 不严肃的 [fəˈsi:ʃəs] trying to be funny in a way that is not suitable. I wasn't being facetious. facetious comments. Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant. Robbie's joke about Heather's appearance was just him being facetious. cavalier [ˌkævəˈlɪr] adj. 不认真对待的, 满不在乎的. 不在乎的. 不严肃, 不认真的. 不当回事的. not caring about other people's feelings or about the seriousness of a situation. a cavalier attitude.
If you describe a person or their behaviour as cavalier, you are
criticizing them because you think that they do not consider other
people's feelings or take account of the seriousness of a situation.
[disapproval] The Editor takes a cavalier attitude to the concept of fact checking. n. I. historical a supporter of King Charles I in the English Civil War. II. archaic a courtly gentleman, especially one acting as a lady's escort. frivolous [ˈfrɪvələs] I. 轻慢的, 轻佻的. 不严肃的. behaving in a silly way in situations where
you should be behaving in a serious or sensible way. If you describe
someone as frivolous, you mean they behave in a silly or light-hearted
way, rather than being serious and sensible. I just decided I was a bit too frivolous to be a doctor.
II. lacking any real purpose or importance. If you describe an activity
as frivolous, you disapprove of it because it is not useful and wastes
time or money. [disapproval] The group wants politicians to stop wasting public money on what it believes are frivolous projects. frivolous complaints. ) about mental illness speaks more about you than them. Stop saying the word love & live it. Love is an action." 5. How you take your PrEP depends on: how far in advance 提前多长时间, 打出多少提前量 you plan on having sex. how regularly you have sex. It does not necessarily depend on how much sex you have. Switching between dosing options: There are slightly different recommendations for anal sex and vaginal or frontal sex. We recommend daily PrEP for all trans people using hormone treatment as we don't have sufficient data to support other dosing options. Switching between dosing options 用药量 to match your sexual activity and patterns is totally OK. You can adjust your PrEP regime to best suit you as your situation changes. Remember that: On Demand dosing (or Event Based Dosing) and 4 pills per week are methods suitable only for anal sex. Daily PrEP and Holiday PrEP are the only methods of taking PrEP that are suitable for both anal and vaginal or frontal sex. We know that a minimum of 6 pills per week is required for adequate protection for vaginal or frontal sex.
Questions remain about whether 'Honeymoon Killer' Gabe Watson was let off the hook over the death of his wife Tina Watson: AS a memorial is held for a bride who died on a honeymoon dive ten years ago, we ask, did her husband dodge the law 躲过了法律制裁? Watson, a bubble wrap salesman and standout high school basketballer, remarried before serving his prison term in Queensland. A HONEYMOON cut short by the bride's mysterious death. Two trials that left police and the victim's family feeling robbed. And a book from two Melbourne experts asks the question: Are we too cheap for justice? THE case of the "honeymoon killer" gripped (captivate 吸引注意力, 抓住了心房 ) the nation and made headlines around the world. At first her death off the coast of Townsville, Queensland, appeared to be a tragic accident, but suspicion soon shifted to her husband, Gabe Watson. With a mountain of evidence compiled, Watson was charged twice with murdering his wife, but never faced a jury. The bubble-wrap salesman was an experienced diver with rescue accreditation, but was seemingly unable to help save his wife. The mountain of collected evidence was presented to a coronial inquest in 2008, and Watson, who had returned to the US, was committed to stand trial in Queensland for murder. But at this point, the wheels of justice began to slip from their tracks. Despite police and the coroner's confidence Watson could be found guilty, he would never face a jury. Instead, he returned to Australia and struck a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter. "We believe Gabe Watson murdered our daughter,'' he said outside court. "This is in no way, shape or form a beginning to get justice for my daughter. "What has happened is ludicrous 荒谬绝伦的 ... an embarrassment.'' Senior Queensland investigators shared the Thomas famil's anger, including Det-Constable Kevin Gehringer, whom Flynn and Fitz-Gibbon interview in their book. "The justice system has let us down," he told them. Flynn and Fitz-Gibbon's book examines Queensland’s justice system at the time, and what they find is a basket case ( I. an insulting word for someone who is unable to do anything because they are too nervous or upset. II. 财政困难, 严重财务问题. 资金困难. a country or organization that has serious financial problems. If someone describes a country or organization as a basket case, they mean that its economy or finances are in a seriously bad state.[informal] The country is an economic basket case with chronic unemployment and rampant crime.). Courts were falling well behind national efficiency standards, while horrendously overworked prosecutors were lumbered with an average of 79 cases a year. Their interstate counterparts were handling just 27. The courts were further strained by two other expensive and lengthy trials, including manslaughter charges against notorious Bundaberg Hospital doctor Jayant Patel. Flynn and Fitz-Gibbon's research suggests the decision to accept a plea deal instead of running a full murder trial saved the Queensland Government up to $2 million. They conclude: "This saving appears to have been a substantial motivation underpinning the Queensland ODPP's (Office of the Director of Public Prosecution) decision to bargain its way out of prosecuting Gabe for Tina's murder." Police, already gutted by Watson not facing a murder trial, also felt the conditions of the plea bargain were unacceptable. As part of the deal, a summary of facts was agreed on by the prosecution and defence teams, which the judge used to decide on a sentence. Fitz-Gibbon said police were not consulted during this process, and thought the agreed set of facts did not illustrate the full extent of Watson's culpability (culprit)(culpable [kʌlpəbəl] If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened. Their decision to do nothing makes them culpable. ...manslaughter resulting from culpable negligence.). "The police felt all the inaccuracies and inconsistencies in Gabe's story they indentified in their investigation weren't reflected 没有体现出来, 没有反应出来 in the summary of facts, and as a result, the sentence imposed wasn't reflective of what is should have been," she said. In October 2010, while Gabe Watson was seeing out 送走, 迎来 the final month of his sentence in Borallon Correctional Centre, William Thomas was pursuing justice for his dead daughter on home soil. In Birmingham, Alabama, Mr Thomas and Assistant Attorney-General Don Valeska presented evidence to a grand jury to indict Watson for Tina's murder. Within five hours, the jury had agreed, and indicted Watson on charges of capital murder for pecuniary gain, and capital murder by kidnapping. But as in Queensland, financial constraints would rob Tina's family of justice. Prosecutors could not afford to produce key witnesses from Australia, and were unable to present key evidence painstakingly constructed 构建起来的 by police. Three pieces of evidence in particular damaged the prosecutors' case. First, police had videoed a re-enactment of the dive with the advice of local oceanographers. The video cast doubt over Watson's account of events, but the judge refused to allow it to be admitted as evidence because the Queensland scientists who worked on the re-enactment were unable to be cross-examined. With the prosecution hamstrung ( 抽去脚筋. hamstring n. A hamstring is a length of tissue or tendon behind your knee which joins the muscles of your thigh to the bones of your lower leg. Webster has not played since suffering a hamstring injury in the opening game. v. If you hamstring someone, you make it very difficult for them to take any action. If he becomes the major opposition leader, he could hamstring a conservative-led coalition. ), the judge decided there was not enough evidence to continue proceedings and threw the case out. Watson was acquitted on all charges and would never face a jury over Tina's death, an enduring cause of angst for investigators and the dead woman's family. "From the Thomas family perspective, they felt cheated by not having the opportunity for the jury to have made a decision on Gabe's guilt or innocence," Flynn said. The two academics hope their book will act as a warning of how belt-tightening can undermine justice systems. Major criminal cases in the Victorian Supreme Court were put on hold this year because a funding shortfall has restricted Victorian Legal Aid's ability to provide defence lawyers. Flynn said this was an example of the creeping threat that financial restraints posed to justice. While Watson was serving his term in Australia, authorities in Alabama flagged an intention 表明 to charge him with murder at a later date. After his release, he was deported to Alabama on the condition that he would not be sentenced to death if found guilty of murder. After being informed by her family that flowers and gifts were repeatedly being vandalized or disappearing from the grave site, even when chained down, police surveillance videos showed Watson removing them with bolt cutters and throwing them in trash cans. Watson later said he removed them because they were "big, gaudy [gɔːdi] 艳丽的, 俗艳的, 俗气的 (corny, daggy) ( If something is gaudy, it is very brightly-coloured and showy. [disapproval] ...her gaudy orange-and-purple floral hat.), plastic arrangements". Her grave was unmarked until 2009, when Watson provided a foot marker, prompting her father to request her body be returned for reburial.
East Area Rapist: In the Sacramento area he was known as the East Area Rapist, and was linked by modus operandi 犯罪行为 (MO) to additional attacks in Contra Costa County, Stockton, and Modesto. He was later known for his southern California crimes as the Original Night Stalker. He is suspected to have begun as a burglar (the Visalia Ransacker) before moving to the Sacramento area, based on a similar MO and circumstantial evidence. It was long suspected that the training ground 练手的地方 of the criminal who would become the Golden State Killer was Visalia, California (although the earlier crimes sprees of the 'Cordova Catburgler' or the 'Exeter Ransacker' are now suspected to be linked as well). Most of the Ransacker's activities involved breaking into houses, rifling through 乱翻, 翻来翻去 (or vandalizing) the owner's possessions, scattering women's underclothing, stealing coins and low-value or personal items, while often ignoring banknotes and other valuable items in plain sight. Most victims had seen (or heard) a prowler on their property before the attacks, and many had experienced break-ins (Burglary, also called breaking and entering and sometimes housebreaking, is an unlawful entry into a building or other location for the purposes of committing an offence. Usually that offence is theft, but most jurisdictions include others within the ambit of burglary. To engage in the act of burglary is to burgle in British English, a term back-formed from the word burglar, or to burglarize in American English. ). Police believed that the offender had a pattern of conducting extensive reconnaissance [rɪˈkɒnɪsəns]侦查 on several homes in a targeted neighborhood before selecting one for attack. As part of his surveillance, he was known to look in the windows of future victims and prowl in the yards of homes for several nights before attacking. On a few occasions, it is believed that in the run-up to 之前 attacks the offender entered the homes of future victims to unlock windows, unload guns and plant ligatures ( [ˈlɪɡətʃər] I. formal a piece of rope or string that you tie around something. II. medical a thread or wire that doctors tie around a blood vessel to stop someone from losing blood. ) for later use. He frequently called them before the attack, sometimes for months in advance, to learn their daily routines; he would sometimes hang up, pretend to have the wrong number, or (in calls after the attack) threaten to harm the victims again. Although he originally targeted women alone in their homes or with children, the offender eventually preferred attacking couples. His MO was to break in through a window or sliding glass door and awaken the sleeping occupants with a flashlight, threatening them with a handgun.Victims were then bound 捆绑起来 with ligatures (often shoelaces) which he found or brought with him, blindfolded and gagged with towels which he had ripped into strips 撕成布条. The female victim was usually forced to tie up her male companion before she was bound. The bindings were often so tight that the victims' hands were numb for hours after being untied. He then separated the couple, often stacking dishes on the man's back and threatening to kill everyone in the house if he heard them rattle. He moved the woman to the living room and often raped her repeatedly, sometimes for several hours. The offender sometimes spent hours in the home ransacking 翻找 (rummage) closets and drawers, eating food in the kitchen, drinking beer, raping the female again or making additional threats. Victims sometimes thought he had left the house before he "jump[ed] from the darkness." The offender typically stole items, often personal objects and items of little value but occasionally cash and firearms. He then crept away, leaving victims uncertain if he had left. The offender was believed to escape on foot through a series of yards and then use a bicycle to go home or to a car, making extensive use of parks, schoolyards, creek beds and other open spaces which kept him off the street. The Maggiores fled after a confrontation ([ˌkɒnfrʌnˈteɪʃn̩] confront [kənˈfrʌnt]) in the street, but were chased down and shot dead. Offerman's bindings were untied 解开, indicating that he had lunged at the attacker. Neighbors heard gunshots but failed to respond, saying that they thought the shots were innocuous. Paw prints of a large dog were found at the scene, leading to speculation that the killer may have brought one with him. The killer also broke into the vacant adjoining residence and stole a bicycle, later found abandoned on a street north of the scene, from a third residence in the complex. Charlene Smith had been raped. A log from a woodpile on the side of the house was used to bludgeon the victims to death. Their wrists and ankles had been bound with drapery (A curtain (sometimes known as a drape, mainly in the United States) is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light, or drafts, or (in the case of a shower curtain) water.[1] A curtain is also the movable screen or drape in a theater that separates the stage from the auditorium or that serves as a backdrop.) cord.
关于眼睛度数. 问视力度数: How strong/powerful are your glasses? What's the power/ strength of your glasses? "What diopter do you use?" or "What diopter are they?" Or "What's your prescription?" diopter (Dioptre BrE) (屈光度a unit of measure of the power of a lens, equal to the power of a lens with a focal length of one meter. 回答的时候: I'm -5 for left eye, or I have -5 in my left eye.) 表示度数, -4.5 D 代表近视 450 度. 读作: minus four point five diopters. +2.0 D 代表远视 200 度. 读作: plus 2 diopters. I'm -5.25 for my right eye and -5.00 for my left. The majority of young people with good vision will have approximately the same diopter in both eyes. Not perfectly, but not enough difference to make a difference in an optical prescription. Normally this will change as the person gets older. I used to have the same reading prescription for both eyes, but no longer. They are about a half diopter different lately. It will probably get worse over time. I would probably use: What prescription are your glasses? And if that's not understood, perhaps use an example: "What prescription are your glasses? I'm +1.75 for my right eye and +1.25 for my left." I suppose you could even say, "What prescription number are your glasses?" Remember that this is very general, for myopia and hyperopia, I believe. Once you get into astigmatism, there may be a different system. I'm sure someone can expand on that. You have to be sure that you have -1 D in your eye by cycloplegic refraction. If confirmed then only option is surgical correction. If you're asking about how strong their prescription is, we'd say "What's your eyesight?" [it's understood that a) this refers to their uncorrected visual acuity and b) this is over 20, with 20/20 being perfect - you can see from 20 feet away what someone with normal eyesight can at that distance; the person would answer, for example, "20/90"or 20/200"] I believe you're always 20 (the number on the left) and the person with perfect vision is on the right. So 20/100 vision would mean that I have to be at 20 feet to see what someone with perfect vision can see at 100 feet. . I am nearsighted with 6.5 diopters in both eyes. I have 2 diopter of farsightedness. In general, the further away from zero the number on your prescription, the worse your eyesight and the more vision correction (stronger prescription) you need. A "plus" (+) sign in front of the number means you are farsighted, and a "minus" (-) sign means you are nearsighted. These numbers represent diopters, the unit used to measure the correction, or focusing power, of the lens your eye requires. Diopter is often abbreviated "D." For example, if your prescription says -1.00, you have one diopter of nearsightedness. This is a fairly mild amount of nearsightedness. If you are -4.25, that means you have 4 and 1/4 diopters of nearsightedness. This is more nearsighted than -1.00, and requires stronger (thicker) lenses. Similarly, +1.00 would be a small amount of farsightedness and +5 would be more. For people who have astigmatism, there will be three numbers in your prescription. The general form for writing these numbers is S x C x Axis. The S refers to the "spherical" portion of the prescription, which is the degree of nearsightedness or farsightedness discussed above. The C refers to the "cylinder" or astigmatism, and can be a negative or a positive number. It measures in diopters the degree of astigmatism that you have. The bigger this number, the more astigmatism you have. Astigmatism most often is caused by a cornea that is shaped more like a football than a basketball. The Axis is a number anywhere between 0 and 180 degrees. It reveals the orientation of the astigmatism. It is not enough to specify how much astigmatism there is; you have to know where the difference in curvature is taking place. Eye chart 视力表. Eyestrain 眼疲劳 is a common condition that occurs when your eyes get tired from intense use. A Snellen chart is an eye chart that can be used to measure visual acuity. Snellen charts are named after the Dutch ophthalmologist Herman Snellen, who developed the chart in 1862. Many ophthalmologists and vision scientists now use an improved chart known as the LogMAR chart. 20/20 vision is a term used to express normal visual acuity (the clarity or sharpness of vision) measured at a distance of 20 feet. If you have 20/20 vision, you can see clearly at 20 feet what should normally be seen at that distance. If you have 20/100 vision, it means that you must be as close as 20 feet to see what a person with normal vision can see at 100 feet. Having 20/20 vision does not necessarily mean you have perfect vision. 20/20 vision only indicates the sharpness or clarity of vision at a distance. Other important vision skills, including peripheral awareness or side vision, eye coordination, depth perception, focusing ability and color vision, contribute to your overall visual ability.
