用法学习: 1. In exchange for surrendering his seat, Mr. Adkins had been offered a free ticket and an upgrade to first class on a later flight. "But right before the doors closed on the next flight," Mr. Adkins, a university research director, recalled, "a customer service agent boarded the plane and told me I needed to get off because I had been upgraded illegally. I told her my story, but she said she didn't want to hear it and if I did not get off the plane, she was going to call the police." Mr. Adkins, the passenger who was blacklisted on America West, said he had no plans to fly on America West again, regardless of his status. He dismissed the incident that led to his banishment as a "simple misunderstanding" and speculated that the employees who threatened to call authorities and then informed him of his presence on the blacklist were "just on a power trip." He acknowledged that the airline had turned a new leaf 翻开新篇章 in its customer service, but said that the improvements were too late for him. "When they told me to take my business somewhere else," he said, "I walked across the terminal to Southwest Airlines. I've never looked back." At a time when the federal Transportation Security Administration's "no fly" list is coming under intense public scrutiny, a growing number of air travelers have found themselves trapped on another kind of blacklist -- one kept by an airline. 2. Evie's parents, Meagan and Scott, from Melbourne, thought it was just a phase. The Macdonalds, finally understanding it was not just a stage 阶段性的, 临时的, turned to The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne for help. Gender clinics across the country, including all major children's hospitals, have seen a huge increase in GP referrals of children with gender dysphoria. Research at the hospital shows that 96 per cent of children diagnosed with gender dysphoria have continued to identify as gender diverse and no patient who commenced stage two treatment has wanted to transition back 变性, 变回原来的性 to their birth sex. "My first transgender client was in 1998 but a shift 情况发生变化 started to happen about 10 years ago. Social acceptance 社会接受度, 社会认同度 is increasing and parents become stronger advocates for the needs of their children. This is vastly different to the climate 大气候, 大环境 of fear, judgement and ignorance that was around more than 20 years ago when children were punished, beaten, abandoned or institutionalised for expressing gender diversity. In a landmark 2017 ruling, gender diverse youths were no longer required to go through The Family Court to access hormone treatment – making transitioning much easier. The charge was spearheaded 引领 by teenager and transgender advocate Georgie Stone, who was the youngest person in the country to be granted hormone blockers 荷尔蒙阻断 at just 10 years old. The first step in the transition process involves undergoing gender affirmation sessions, including changing their names and clothing. Stage one of treatment involves the use of puberty blocking drugs usually taken in early adolescence and stage two is irreversible 不可逆转的 cross-sex hormone treatment and surgery. "If Evie doesn't do the medical transition she wants and has asked for, what's the other side of that (other side (idiomatic, usually preceded by the and sometimes capitalized) The afterlife, as a supernatural realm inhabited by spirits of deceased people. the other side of the coin 另一方面 a different way of considering a situation, making it seem either better or worse than it did originally: I like having a white car, but the other side of the coin is that it soon gets dirty. the grass is (always) greener on the other side life seems better somewhere else, or other people's situations seem better than your own. you'll be laughing on the other side of your face 很快你就笑不出来了 used for telling someone that something is going to happen to stop them feeling so happy about a situation. on the other side of the fence in a completely different situation or position from the one you are used to. He looked uncomfortable on the other side of the fence from his former colleagues. )? The other side is I don't have a child who will even make it to adulthood 长大成人. "She's openly said to me: 'If my voice breaks, I'll kill myself'." 2. touchy I. 爱生气的. 动辄生气的. If you describe someone as touchy, you mean that they are easily upset, offended, or irritated. [disapproval] She is very touchy about her past. [+ about] Don't be so touchy. II. 敏感的. If you say that something is a touchy subject, you mean that it is a subject that needs to be dealt with carefully and in a sensitive way, because it might upset or offend people. ...the touchy question of political reform. touchy-feely adj kind and loving, especially by touching and holding people more than is usual, often in a way that makes other people uncomfortable: a touchy-feely approach. She's one of those touchy-feely people, always putting her hand on your arm while she's talking to you. monged [mɒŋd] adj offensive, slang under the influence of drugs. You want to get monged? maim [meɪm] 伤害 wound or injure (a person or animal) so that part of the body is permanently damaged. I'll maim you 废了你, 致残, 打残你, 弄残废了你 if you mess with me again. "100,000 soldiers were killed or maimed". "they are prepared to kill and maim innocent people in pursuit of their cause". philistine [ˈfɪlɪstʌɪn] noun a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts. "I am a complete philistine when it comes to paintings". adj. hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts. "a philistine government". 对艺术无感的. 不懂艺术的. 口味老派的, 没有艺术品味的. 没艺术情趣的. A philistine person is a man or woman of smugly narrow mind and of conventional morality whose materialistic views and tastes indicate a lack of and an indifference to cultural and æsthetic values. 3. The will of God (God's will) 上帝的意志, 天意, 上帝的意愿, 上帝的意旨, divine will, or God's plan (godsend 上帝派来的 a very helpful or valuable event, person, or article. something that you are very grateful for because it helps you in a difficult situation. If you describe something as a godsend, you are emphasizing that it helps you very much. something good that happens unexpectedly, especially at a time when it is needed: The grant was a real godsend, especially considering the theatre was going to be shut down next month. Pharmacists are a godsend when you don't feel sick enough to call the doctor. "these information packs are a godsend to schools") is the concept of a God having a plan for humanity. Ascribing a volition or a plan to a God generally implies a personal God (God regarded as a person with mind, emotions, will). crafty 诡计多端的, 狡猾的, 狡诈的, 狡黠的 adj. If you describe someone as crafty, you mean that they achieve what they want in a clever way, often by deceiving people. ...a crafty, lying character who enjoys plotting against others. A crafty look came to his eyes. That was my crafty little plan. The government has craftily put up all the hidden taxes. 电子烟: An electronic cigarette or e-cigarette is a handheld electronic device that simulates the feeling of smoking. It works by heating a liquid to generate an aerosol, commonly called a "vapor", that the user inhales. Using e-cigarettes is commonly referred to as vaping 抽电子烟. The liquid in the e-cigarette, called e-liquid, or e-juice, is usually made of nicotine, propylene glycol, glycerine, and flavorings. Not all e-liquids contain nicotine. 4. aside adj. used for telling someone that what you are mentioning is not as important as what you are going to say next. You're right to mention her home circumstances, but that aside, how is her school work? n. 闲话. a remark about something that is not the main subject of your discussion. a. something that you say quietly to someone because you do not want other people to hear. MP Huw Merriman was captured on the live feed from the House of Commons pointing at Michael Fabricant’s long blond locks and making the aside to colleagues: It's a wig.
Tourist holds deadly blue-ringed octopus in the palm of their hand: A visit to the beach could have been disastrous for one tourist who is believed to have casually held one of the world's deadliest animals in his palm. In the video originally, posted on Chinese social media app Tik Tok, the tourist can be seen reaching down into a rock pool, believed to be in waters off Darwin, and scooping up a blue-ringed ( ridge I. 棱的, 棱 A long, narrow upper section or crest: the ridge of a wave. II. A long, narrow, or crested part of the body: the ridge of the nose 鼻梁. ) octopus with his bare hand. With their small and vibrant 鲜艳的 ( [ˈvaɪbrənt] I. lively and exciting. a vibrant city. a strong vibrant market economy. II. bright and colorful. a vibrant green. ) blue and yellow rings, the blue-ringed octopus may have drawn the tourist to its beauty, but these creatures have enough venom to quickly kill 26 adults. "One bite death in minutes. Don't do this he is very lucky" another said. The Museum of Victoria said all it takes is one bite, and its death within minutes. "At only 10cms long, the Blue-ringed Octopus won't chomp through a speedboat anytime soon. But these tiny critters are some of the ocean's most distinctive and venomous 毒性最大的, 最毒的 [ˈvenəməs] inhabitants and can be found off the beaches of Victoria and beyond," a statement on the Museum Victoria website said. They are mostly found in rockpools but aren't always so easy to see and not everyone knows of their dangers. "You can literally see they had no idea whatsoever. Was just a "pretty and cute" little octopus," wrote a Reddit user in response to the video. In an article for e Medical Health, medical author Scott Fell said the octopus has dark brown to yellow bands over the body when at rest. "When excited or angered, the body darkens and the blue circles or striped glow iridescent blue," Mr Fell wrote. This means the octopus on the tourists' palm was likely "excited or angered", so it could have easily released its venom straight into their hand. Fell said the sting of a blue-ringed octopus contains tetrodotoxin, which paralyses its victim in one bite, and without treatment will result in death. "The venom is held in salivary glands and the mouth of the octopus is on the underneath side of the middle of the body… The sting is often fatal," he said. He also said symptoms include pain, nausea, vomiting, bleeding, changes in vision, loss of sight and paralysis, which the tourist would have experienced had they been bitten. Creating more awareness of these symptoms, especially for tourists, may reduce the number of people innocently picking them up. At present, there is no cure, but effective medical assistance and heart massage can treat a blue-ringed octopus bite.
Timothée Chalamet VS Lucas Hedges: While we're usually staunch 坚定信仰 believers of not pitting people or artists against each other 搬弄是非, 搅是非 — of celebrating people for their individual worth — we also accept that there can only be one mainstay ( mainstay [meɪnsteɪ] If you describe something as the mainstay of a particular thing, you mean that it is the most basic part of it. Fish and rice were the mainstays 主项, 主要内容, 本质 of the country's diet. This principle of collective bargaining has been a mainstay in labor relations in this country.) white twink actor internet boyfriend at a time. And we believe that twink should be Hedges, not Chalamet. And if you're seriously about to suggest To All The Boy's I've Loved Before's Noah Centineo should be the third contender for the title, then I am forced to provide some entry rules 门槛, 入门规则: they must have been nominated for an Academy Award, like Hedges (Manchester By The Sea) and Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name). Call me when Centineo provides a gripping performance in For All The Boys I've Still Loved, Will Always Love, And Will Kill For, or whatever the sequel's sequel will be called. An internet boyfriend is more than an attractive man. As Vox write in this explainer, an internet boyfriend is a celebrity who can look after you, a figure who, if they loved you, would love you with all of their heart. And while they use Centineo as an example, saying his basic wholesomeness and plain-but-hot persona made him the perfect, approachable fixation, we'd argue an internet boyfriend needs to have a little je ne sais quoi(literally "I don't know what". An indefinable quality that makes something distinctive or attractive. She has a certain je ne sais quoi about her. ), too. The two young, svelte (Someone who is svelte is slim and looks attractive and elegant. ) white actors have both attracted accolades( [ˈækəˌleɪd] an honor given to someone for their work. the TV industry's ultimate accolade.) since they both burst to attention a few years ago — and played some similar roles and featured in some pretty similarly titled films. Hedges first gained prominence 出名 in 2016 when he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Manchester In The Sea, but it's a recent spate of noteworthy films — Mid90s, Boy Erased, Three Billboards… and Ben Is Back — that catapulted him into B-list territory. But in terms of establishing their personas — and why Hedges is the superior internet boyfriend — it's best to take a look at a film they both star in, Lady Bird. In Lady Bird, Chalamet plays Kyle, a confident, slick teen who plays bass guitar and smokes while reading socialist-friendly history books and uses the word "anarchist" as a complement. Surprise, surprise: he's a classic fuckboi (In essence, a fuckboy (sometimes stylized "fuckboi" or "fuccboi") is a (usually straight, white) dude embodying something akin to the “man whore” label, mashed up with some “basic” qualities and a light-to-heavy sprinkling of misogyny. But consensus on a singular definition is a work in progress. A guy who will tell a girl anything to get them to hook up with them. A complete jerk who flirts with multiple girls at a time and makes them all believe they're individually special. They tell a girl they like them and act like they're in love so that they can get something out of it like pictures, hooking up, sex, etc. Someone who should not be trusted and is the reason for a lot of people's trust issues. Dont fuck with a fuckboi.), treating Lady Bird with frosty contempt. And that's kind of Chalamet's appeal, right? He's cocky-confident 拽拽的, the type who can wear a sparkly harness with nonchalance or precociously rap to his entire high-school at age 15 as "Lil Timmy Tim' and somehow not get bullied. Chalamet is perfect for pining: he's effortlessly charming to the point of being unapproachable 高不可攀的 for most. He makes the slightest move and corners of the internet collapses at the knees, ruining their lives. In Lady Bird, Hedges plays Danny O'Neill, a dorky teen who begins dating Lady Bird after they co-star in a school production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along. He is a boy who stutters around but springs alive singing on-stage. And yet they (twinks) are more culturally mainstream: a growing cohort of famous (and famously small) boys who stand in opposition to the lumbering ( I. to walk slowly because of being large and heavy. lumbering: Clumsy or awkward. II. [transitive] British to give someone a job or responsibility that they do not want. ), abusive oafs ( [oʊf] If you refer to someone, especially a man or boy, as an oaf, you think that they are impolite, clumsy, or aggressive. [disapproval] Leave the lady alone, you drunken oaf.) who have been dominating this year's headlines. Consider, for example, Tye Sheridan, the 21-year-old lead in "Ready Player One" — and one of few action heroes who won't be busting out of his T-shirt anytime soon. Or the rising star Lucas Hedges, also 21, whose acting exudes anti-alpha softness. Christopher Nolan's 2017 WWII epic "Dunkirk" was an ensemble showpiece of British twinkiness; "Love, Simon," starring Nick Robinson, 23, is the American suburban version. Historically, music's leading men have been less burdened by stereotypes of masculinity. But if the godfathers of nonbinary pop — from Freddie Mercury to Adam Lambert — paved the way, their personas often came across as glam-rock caricature. Today, gay twinks such as Olly Alexander of the band Years & Years and Troye Silvan feel less costumed. When Sivan, 22, performed on "Saturday Night Live" in January, his shirt was blown open by a wind machine, his whole mien (mien [miːn] 气质 Someone's mien is their general appearance and manner, especially the expression on their face, which shows what they are feeling or thinking. It was impossible to tell from his mien whether he was offended. ...his mild manner and aristocratic mien.) charged with sex. But there seemed to be safety in his slimness — both for the artist to express himself and for his countless questioning teenage fans. Sivan has also walked in a few runway shows, and several modeling agencies, including the German company Tomorrow Is Another Day, now specialize in lithe ( [laɪð] adj A lithe person is able to move and bend their body easily and gracefully. ...a lithe young gymnast. His walk was lithe and graceful.) men, lending their sometimes-teenage charges to Prada and Valentino. When Nicolas Ghesquière unveiled his spring/summer 2016 collection for Louis Vuitton, the actor and musician Jaden Smith, then 17, wore a metal embroidered kilt 苏格兰裙, going beyond drag to question what, if anything, boyishness looks like now. Female body types have always cycled in and out of style; yet with men, alternatives to the ideal of imposing physicality have usually been ignored or lampooned ( [læmpuːn] I. If you lampoon someone or something, you criticize them very strongly, using humorous means. He entertained his readers by lampooning the pretensions of the rich. He was lampooned for his short stature and political views. II. A lampoon is a piece of writing or speech which criticizes someone or something very strongly, using humorous means. ...his scathing lampoons of consumer culture. [+ of] The style Shelley is using here is that of popular lampoon.). But as women continue to use their voices to undo that legacy of toxic masculinity, a different kind of change is taking place from within the culture: These twinks, after all, aren't just enviably lean boys or the latest unrealistic gay fantasy, but a new answer to the problem of what makes a man. 评论: This is the best advice - just let guys look how they want to look. Whatever makes them enjoy what they see in the mirror, I deal with depression and self esteem issues (yeah, like every other gay man - so much for the word being synonymous with "happy") so looking at myself in the mirror and seeing the boyish side-swept hairstyle and a slim, smooth torso both "still there" is the only thing that makes me feel better about myself some days. I sure hope my hair doesn't go on me, baldness isn't too rampant in my family so I might luck out there. My face I'm trying to take care of by using moisturizer as well as sunscreen if I'm going to be outside for any extended period of time. I shave any unwanted body hair, even if just on the torso, though I don't bother with arms/legs (should I? I'm not sure if a hairless body with normal amounts of arm/leg hair is weird or not) and my inability to put on weight combined with a naturally small appetite looks after me in the size department. So I figured why settle for 甘心于 looking almost 30 when I can still pass for 24 with relatively little work. It makes me happy since I'm still reminiscent of what I'm attracted to physically in others. And while I'm not eager to broadcast my age without being prompted first, I'll be honest if asked. It would show a potential partner's true colours if they suddenly lose interest in me after finding out and sometimes telling people can be liberating when I see their disbelief. Now they've gentrified( I. renovate and improve (a house or district) so that it conforms to middle-class taste. to change a place from being a poor area to a richer one, by people of a higher social class moving to live there: The area where I grew up has been all modernized and gentrified, and has lost all its old character. When a street or area is gentrified, it becomes a more expensive place to live because wealthy people move into the area and buy the houses where people with less money used to live. The local neighbourhood, like so many areas of Manhattan, is gradually being gentrified. ...the gentrification of the area. II. make (someone or their way of life) more refined or polite. "a gentrified Irish American".) twinks. It's cultural appropriation. Anyone else notice NYT (and the like) is posting more and more of these articles trying to extrapolate [ɪkˈstræpəˌleɪt] ( If you extrapolate from known facts, you use them as a basis for general statements about a situation or about what is likely to happen in the future. Extrapolating from his American findings, he reckons about 80% of these deaths might be attributed to smoking. It is unhelpful to extrapolate general trends from one case. His estimate of half a million HIV positive cases was based on an extrapolation of the known incidence of the virus. I. 推算. to say what is likely to happen or be true by using information that you already have. It's possible to predict students' success by extrapolating from current exam scores. II. maths 推演. 演算. to calculate an amount that you do not know by basing your calculations on amounts that you already know. ) societal ( [səˈsaɪət(ə)l] relating to society or to the way that society is organized. societal problems. Societal means relating to society or to the way society is organized. [formal] ...societal changes. ...societal norms. ) "trends" based on one persons very limited viewpoint and 3-5 cherry-picked examples? Are these real full-time journalists or just freelance hacks? social 基于个人的 VS societal 基于群体的: Societal relates to the spontaneous and/or directed structuration and organization of society as a whole, while Social refers mostly to the relations of persons or groups within society. What's the difference between social and societal? Not much, but enough that you may become the victim of social stigma if you ignore subtle societal signals. Societal is the pedantic alternative to social. They both mean "pertaining to society," but as the latter word, first attested in the Middle Ages, was increasingly used in the modern era to refer to interpersonal contact rather than in the context of complex forces within human populations, societal appeared in the latter part of the nineteenth century as a more serious, scholarly alternative. It is mostly seen in such usage and is otherwise considered pretentious. Even now, social is more likely to appear in phrases referring to individuals, not groups, such as "social disposition," "social engagement," and "social life." Societal, on the other hand, is employed in contexts like "societal pressure to conform," though social still has the same import in usage such as "social institutions," which refers to widespread traditions, not venues where people hang out. Standing phrases that include social also include "social climber," referring to a person who tries to rise above his or her station in life; "social disease," a euphemism for "venereal disease" (one spread through sexual contact), or any disease whose distribution is related to socioeconomic factors; and "social drinker," which denotes a regular imbiber ( imbibe [ɪmbaɪb] I. To imbibe alcohol means to drink it. [formal, often humorous] They were used to imbibing enormous quantities of alcohol. No one believes that current nondrinkers should be encouraged to start imbibing. II. If you imbibe ideas or arguments, you listen to them, accept them, and believe that they are right or true. [formal] As a clergyman's son he'd imbibed a set of mystical beliefs from the cradle.) of alcoholic beverages whose indulgence is not considered excessive. The most ubiquitous such phrase of the last decade or so, however, is "social network(ing)," a case of an unfortunate usurpation of a useful term for a diluted sense: In most contexts, a social network is a virtual web of friends, acquaintances, and colleagues or professional contacts, enabled by recent technological innovations, that is widely seen as contributing to a more expansive yet much more superficial outlook on interpersonal communication and interaction than was prevalent in the past. (Yet the telephone, the telegram, and other once innovative devices were in their day similarly derided for weakening the social contract.) More provocative phrases are "social Darwinism," the name for the theory that some social groups are biologically superior to others, and "social engineering," which has two senses: large-scale manipulation or influencing of society, or deceptive collection of confidential personal information. I'll say something is a social problem as opposed to, say, an economic problem. I'd say something is a societal problem as opposed to an individual problem or an Asian-men-aged-21-to-22 problem. But then I can imagine using them interchangeably in other circumstances - "soci(et)al expectations", maybe? That example does make "societal" sound jargony.
