用法学习: 1. punt I. 篙撑的窄船. A punt is a long boat with a flat bottom. You move the boat along by standing at one end and pushing a long pole against the bottom of the river. [mainly British] wiki: A punt is a flat-bottomed boat with a square-cut bow, designed for use in small rivers or other shallow water. Punting refers to boating in a punt. The punter generally propels the punt by pushing against the river bed with a pole. A punt should not be confused with a gondola, a shallow draft vessel that is structurally different, and which is propelled by an oar rather than a pole. II. When you punt, you travel along a river in a punt. [mainly British] We punted up 撑船而行 towards Grantchester and had a picnic in a meadow. The one thing I look forward to is going punting in Cambridge. III. The punt was the unit of money used in the Irish Republic. In 2002 it was replaced by the euro. He bought a plot of land for 50 punts, the Irish currency back then. The punt was also used to refer to the Irish currency system. ...the cost of defending the punt against speculators. IV. 飞踢球. In rugby and American football, a punt is a kick where you drop the ball and then kick it before it reaches the ground, so that it goes a long way. a way of kicking the ball in rugby or American football, by dropping it from your hands and kicking it before it hits the ground, or a powerful kick in football that causes the ball to go a long way. He caught a punt and scored the winning touchdown, with a minute left to play. ...a 66-yard punt return. The referee told him to punt or kick the ball off the ground. The Redskins punted. Dallas then marched 79 yards to seal the victory. take a punt on sth to risk money by buying or supporting something, in the hope of making or winning more money: It might be a good idea to take a punt on a few technology stocks. V. If you punt something, you decide not to do or include it: We were running out of time, so we decided to punt the sightseeing and just go shopping. punt on sth informal to risk money by buying or supporting something, in the hope of making or winning more money: Investors are punting on a big move in the stock market next week. 2. outlier [ˈaʊtˌlaɪə] (跟别人不一样的人) I. an outcrop of rocks that is entirely surrounded by older rocks. II. a person, thing, or part situated away from a main or related body. III. 住的离工作地很远的人. a person who lives away from his or her place of work, duty, etc. a person who lives a long way from where they work. IV. 离群数据. a point in a sample widely separated from the main cluster of points in the sample. a result that is very different from the other results in a set. V. 超群的人. a person who is very unusual or successful and not like others in the same group. allegiant [əˈliːdʒənt] noun. 效忠的人 a person who displays constancy, duty, and faithfulness, esp to a ruling body. adj. having or displaying constancy, duty, and faithfulness, esp to a ruling body I shouldn't be surprised that our elected officials want to indoctrinate the next flock of voters to be even more blindly allegiant. indoctrinate [ɪndɒktrɪneɪt] 洗脑. If people are indoctrinated, they are taught a particular belief with the aim that they will reject other beliefs. [disapproval] They have been completely indoctrinated. I wouldn't say that she was trying to indoctrinate us. ...political indoctrination classes. allegiance [əˈliː.dʒəns] loyalty and support for a ruler, country, group, or belief: Soldiers have to swear allegiance to the Crown/the King. In many American schools, the students pledge allegiance (to the flag) 向国旗宣誓 at the beginning of the school day. As an Englishman who'd lived for a long time in France, he felt a certain conflict of allegiances when the two countries played soccer. fealty [ˈfiːl.ti] old use loyalty, especially to a king or queen: an oath of fealty. 3. An All-Hands Meeting ( all-hands involving everyone who works for a company or an organization: an all-hands meeting/response. ) is generally an organization wide business meeting in which an executive report is made to employees and stake holders. All-Hands meetings are often held on a regular basis as a means of keeping a large group of people up to date on important events and milestones. An all-hands meeting 全员大会 is not just another meeting. It is the meeting. It's the driver of transparency and alignment within a team. All-hands meetings, sometimes referred to as town halls, have become an indispensable part of agendas in a great number of companies. All-hands meetings are regular company-wide gatherings where all employees and stakeholders have an opportunity to meet with leadership. The goal of an all-hands meeting is to share the business updates of the past month or quarter, celebrate milestones and the people who made them possible and create a space for the Q&A. It is a big opportunity for leadership to communicate directly with the team to: a. Share important updates from each functional area. b. Praise successes, highlight achievements and areas to improve. c. Get the team excited about the mission, vision and strategy. Each of those 3 items are critical to the team's performance. You should reinforce them each week to ensure the team is aligned and focused. Town hall meetings, also referred to as town halls or town hall forums, are a way for local and national politicians to meet with their constituents, either to hear from them on topics of interest or to discuss specific upcoming legislation or regulation. During periods of active political debate, town halls can be a locus for protest and more active debate. In the United States, town halls are a common way for national politicians to connect or reconnect with their constituents during recesses, when they are in their home districts away from Washington, D.C. 4. hotshot(ace (SKILLED PERSON) informal sensation, virtuoso, whizz (EXPERT) UK informal approving wizard informal) mainly us informal someone who is skilful and successful at something. If you refer to someone as a hotshot, you mean they are very good at a particular job and are going to be very successful. ...a bunch of corporate hotshots. She's a hotshot broker on Wall Street. Now he's a lecturer, he thinks he's a real hotshot! She's quite a hotshot at chess. virtuoso [ˌvɜrtʃuˈoʊsoʊ] 大师 复数: virtuosos or virtuosi a person who is extremely skilled at something, especially at playing an instrument or performing: Famous mainly for his wonderful voice, Cole Porter was also a virtuoso on the piano. whizz verb. to move or do something very fast: A police car whizzed by, on its way to the accident. We whizzed through the rehearsal, so that we'd be finished by lunchtime. Time just whizzes past when you're enjoying yourself. noun = whiz informal approving a person with a very high level of skill or knowledge in a particular subject: a computer whizz He's a whizz at poker. ace informal a person who is very skilled at something: a tennis/flying ace. sensation I. the ability to feel something physically, especially by touching, or a physical feeling that results from this ability: a burning sensation. I had no sensation of pain whatsoever. The disease causes a loss of sensation in the fingers. II. general feeling caused by something that happens to you, especially a feeling that you cannot describe exactly: I had the odd sensation (that) someone was following me. I can remember the first time I went sailing - it was a wonderful sensation. III. something very exciting or interesting, or something that causes great excitement or interest: Their affair caused a sensation. The books have been a publishing sensation on both sides of the Atlantic. The show was an overnight sensation (= was very successful immediately). 5. Edinburgh [ˈedɪnbrə]. borough [ˈbʌrə] a town or district which is an administrative unit. A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term borough designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely. have skin in the game 利益攸关, 既得利益, 利益共同体(vested intrest) to be at risk financially because you have invested in something that you want to happen. You take more ownership of something when you have some skin in the game. to be directly involved in or affected by something, especially financially: If people have skin in the game, preventable costs fall. A debate has been rumbling over how to ensure that lenders have more skin in the game. career fair = career expo 求职市场, 人才市场 Attending a careers fair is an ideal way to meet potential candidates face-to-face, raise your profile and gain excellent exposure for your employer brand. We hold fairs throughout the year and cover all industries. 6. deflate I. 失去信心. 夺去信心. 夺去自尊. to take away the self-esteem or conceit from. If you deflate someone or something, you take away their confidence or make them seem less important. to make someone feel less confident or important. Peter’s comments completely deflated the boy's confidence. Britain's other hopes of medals were deflated earlier in the day. When she refused I felt deflated. II. 泄气. 漏气. 放了气的. When something such as a tyre or balloon deflates, or when you deflate it, all the air comes out of it. When it returns to shore, the life-jacket will deflate and revert to a harness. ...a deflated dinghy. We deflate the tyres to make it easier to cross the desert. eyeball I. Your eyeballs are your whole eyes, rather than just the part which can be seen between your eyelids. II. If you eyeball someone or something, you stare at them. [informal] The guard eyeballed him pretty hard despite his pass. III. marketing slang viewers of a television programme or website, esp seen as potential customers, advertisers, etc. The site's goal was to get more eyeballs 收视率, 观众 for advertisers. eyeball to eyeball If you are eyeball to eyeball with someone, you are in their presence and involved in a meeting, dispute, or contest with them. You can also talk about having an eyeball to eyeball meeting 当面对质, 面谈 or confrontation [informal] ...the young thug who stands eyeball-to-eyeball with his victim. ...proposals that the two armies end their eyeball to eyeball confrontation and withdraw. up to the eyeballs You use up to the eyeballs to emphasize that someone is in an undesirable state to a very great degree. [informal, emphasis] He is out of a job and up to his eyeballs in debt. unchaperoned [ʌnˈʃapərəʊnd] 没有人陪伴的, 没有人看管的, 独自的, 没大人管得 adj. unaccompanied or unsupervised. "Cindy had been staying unchaperoned with Matthew". not chaperoned; not accompanied by a chaperone. I think it was for the best 这样最好, 这是最好的选择, 最好的结果, 最好的情况. know what's what 知道是怎么回事, 知道是个什么情况 the important facts that you should understand about a situation know what's what: He's worked in the insurance business all his life, so he knows what's what. what's the good of/what good is (it) (doing) something 有什么用, 有什么好? used for saying that you do not think something will give you any benefit What's the good of writing them a letter? They never read them anyway. acrimonious [ˌakrɪˈməʊnɪəs] (typically of speech or discussion) angry and bitter. an acrimonious situation is unpleasant because people feel angry toward each other. an acrimonious divorce. "an acrimonious dispute about wages". Friends: She is cool. And she's so smart. Her mind is totally acrimonious. Guess that's not how she used it. I feel like I owe you an explanation. I don't ordinarily go around kissing guys at parties. I'm Well, I'm kind of embarrassed. I really hope you don't think less of me 看不起, 看轻, 轻看. I mean, you saw someone you liked and you kissed them. Those people who like someone and don't kiss them those people are stupid. I hate those people. Actually, I'm a little surprised at myself. I mean, Joey's so different from the guys I usually date. They're all professors, intellectuals. Paleontologists mostly. You know, very cerebral. Yeah, I know the type. If we want to grab a bite 买点吃的 before work, we'd better get acrimonious. No? Am I getting close? I need to talk to you about Charlie. Oh, do you? Do you really? Yeah, I'm kind of having a little problem. Look, if you don't know what the word "acrimonious" means, just don't use it. 7. dive (US dove 过去式, UK dived 过去式) I. If you dive into some water, you jump in head-first with your arms held straight above your head. He tried to escape by diving into a river. She was standing by a pool, about to dive in. Joanne had just learnt to dive. II. If you dive, you go under the surface of the sea or a lake, using special breathing equipment. Bezanik is diving to collect marine organisms. III. When birds and animals dive 俯冲, they go quickly downwards, head-first, through the air or through water. He was killed when his monoplane stalled and dived into the ground. Witnesses said the plane failed to pull out of a dive and smashed down in a field. ...a pelican which had just dived for a fish. The shark dived down and swam under the boat. IV. (figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore. V. If you dive in a particular direction or into a particular place, you jump or move there quickly. They dived into a taxi. The cashier dived for cover when a gunman opened fire. He would dive under one obstacle, round another, and lightly step over a third. VI. If you dive into a bag or container, you put your hands into it quickly in order to get something out. She dived into her bag and brought out a folded piece of paper. VII. If shares, profits, or figures dive, their value falls suddenly and by a large amount [journalism] If we cut interest rates, the pound would dive 直线下跌, 断崖是下跌. Profits have dived from £7.7m to £7.1m. The shares dived 22p to 338p. Stock prices took a dive. VIII. [informal, disapproval] If you describe a bar or club as a dive, you mean it is dirty and dark, and not very respectable. We've played in all the little pubs and dives around Liverpool. Usage notes: The past tense dove is found chiefly in North American English, where it is used alongside the regular (and earlier) dived, with regional variations; in British English dived is the standard past tense, dove existing only in some dialects. Some speakers express uncertainty about what the past participle should be; dove is relatively rare as a past participle. 8. curvy 曲线玲珑的 I. a curvy woman has an attractive body with large breasts, a small waist, and wide hips. If someone describes a woman as curvy, they think she is attractive because of the curves of her body. [informal, approval] II. 多弯的路. forming or full of curves a curvy road. curvaceous [kɜːʳveɪʃəs] 身材婀娜的 (to have an hour-glass figure, shapely) adj If someone describes a woman as curvaceous, they think she is attractive because of the curves of her body. ...a curvaceous model. Kendal Jenner: The outing comes after her launch of the spring Tiffany & Co. campaign as well as the revelation that she felt 'less sexy' than her curvaceous Kardashian sisters. Meanwhile, the famous model told The Telegraph: 'My sisters are a lot curvier than me. They have boobs and I don't have boobs. Growing up being this little twiggy ( slender or fragile. ) girl, I saw my sisters and always thought, "Oh no, am I supposed to be sexy like them. voluptuous [vəlʌptʃuəs] 身材前凸后翘但是胖的, 块头大的 (Full-figured is usually a euphemism for "heavy." I would not describe Mariah Carey as full-figured.) I. If you describe a woman as voluptuous, you mean that she has large breasts and hips and is considered attractive in a sexual way. ...a voluptuous, well-rounded lady with glossy black hair. II. Something that is voluptuous gives you pleasure from the rich way it is experienced through your senses. The cheese has a mild, soft, voluptuous flavour. The leopard looks voluptuously strokable. ...flowers that have the fluffy voluptuousness of cotton wool. buxom [bʌksəm] If you describe a woman as buxom, you mean that she looks healthy and attractive and has a rounded body and big breasts. The buxom Frau Bauer was visibly pleased to see her. voluminous [vəluːmɪnəs] Something that is voluminous is very large or contains a lot of things [formal] ...a voluminous trench coat. The FBI kept a voluminous file on Pablo Picasso. 8. scruples [ˈskruːpəlz] 犹豫, 迟疑, 不安 doubts or hesitation as to what is morally right in a certain situation. Scruples are moral principles or beliefs that make you unwilling to do something that seems wrong. ...a man with no moral scruples. a man with no moral scruples. He had no scruples about appropriating other people's property. It took time to overcome my scruples. scrupulous [skruːpjʊləs] I. 谨慎的, 怕犯错的. 小心翼翼地. 谨小慎微的. Someone who is scrupulous takes great care to do what is fair, honest, or morally right. [approval] You're being very scrupulous, but to what end 图的是什么, 图什么? I have been scrupulous about telling them the dangers. The Board is scrupulous in its consideration of all applications for licences. He is scrupulously fair, and popular with his staff. Namibia has scrupulously upheld political pluralism. II. 详细, 细致的, 一丝不苟的. Scrupulous means thorough, exact, and careful about details. Both readers commend Knutson for his scrupulous attention to detail. The streets and parks were scrupulously clean. Hillsden scrupulously 谨慎的 avoided any topic likely to arouse suspicion as to his motives.
's 的发音: 's is the informal contraction for: a. is: "it's snowing" --this is the primary use. Here it would be pronounced /its/, even though "is" by itself is pronounced /iz/. b. has: "he's gone" -- this is less common than the "is" meaning, but hardly rare. Since "has" is also usually pronounced /haz/, this 's would have a /z/ sound to distinguish it from 's = is. c. us: "let's do it" -- less common than the "has" meaning, and not often used except with "let". "Us' has the /s/ sound, so "let's" would be pronounced /lets/. d. does: "what's she do? -- not unknown, but not very common. Although "does" is usually pronounced /duz/, "what's" here would be pronounced /hwats/. (Like "it" in the first example above, "what" ends in an unvoiced plosive /t/--I believe that what "t" would be called in this case--so the following "s" would be an unvoiced /s/-sound, not a voiced /z/-sound. I hasten to add that I am not an expert in phonetics.)
Young Sheldon s02e16 A Loaf of Bread and a Grand Old Flag: 1. Look at these prices. No wonder supermarkets are running my parents out of business. Your parents own a convenience store. They charge extra for the convenience. How is this not convenient? Excuse me, sir. Has anything changed with the bread from the Happy Hearth Home Bakeries? I have no idea. How can you not know 你怎么会不知道? You work here. What do you want from me? I get $3.35 an hour to stock shelves. Are you kidding? My father pays me five dollars a week. I bet they're violating child labor laws. 2. Would you like to sign my petition against Happy Hearth Home Bakeries? Well, what have they done? They're making their bread faster and cheaper to save money. That's terrible. It is. Would you like to sign? I would. Excellent. I'll get you on the way out 出去的时候.
