用法学习: 1. register I. If you register something, such as the name of a person who has just died or information about something you own, you have these facts recorded on an official list. The council said the car was not registered. We registered his birth. The house is registered in her name. ...a registered charity. II. When something registers on a scale or measuring instrument, it shows on the scale or instrument. You can also say that something registers a certain amount or level on a scale or measuring instrument. It will only register on sophisticated X-ray equipment. The earthquake registered 5.3 points on the Richter scale. The scales registered 录得, 称得 a gain of 1.3 kilograms. III. If you register your feelings or opinions about something, you do something that makes them clear to other people. Voters wish to register their dissatisfaction with the ruling party. Workers stopped work to register their protest. The tradesmen at the end of my street who have cat-called me on my way to the station at 6:30 every morning this week? Barely noticed them this morning. The guy at the pub who endorses a stand-up act saying, 'she's actually so funny, and I don't usually like women comedians'? Barely registers. 2. 女性问题: For many women problems in their own homes can easily pass under the radar for years, until something so outrageous rears its head they can't ignore it. A woman has taken one such incident to parenting forum Mumsnet where it opened a can of worms that has brought a pressing issue to the surface. 'Asking permission' is shirking responsibility 逃避责任. The woman in question had the lightbulb moment 眼前一亮 after her husband asked if he could take a three-week cycling trip across France, leaving her at home with their pre-school aged child during the school holidays. "Is anyone else fed up with 受够了 their DH 'asking permission' to do stuff they haven't thought through, that clearly impacts on family life?" she posted online. To go ahead and pour some vinegar on that wound, the man's holiday would comprise of three-quarters of his annual leave, leaving little time for parenting the couple's child during school breaks. This wasn't the real issue however, as the woman pointed out. She made the very valid point that it was the fact he asked her permission, rather than looked at the issue as one half of the household team, that really rubbed her the wrong way. Dads, she argued, too often offload 推给 all parental and organisational responsibility onto the woman just by asking 'can I', instead of 'should we'. "Mine just asked 'can I go cycling across France for 3 weeks next May?' and I was like, I don't know, can you? Can 'we' manage it?' she wrote. "It just feels like I'm always expected to have The Family Plan and if I don't immediately say 'yes dear, that's fine I'll work everything else around you(work around somebody/something 避开, 绕开 (also work round somebody/ something British English) to arrange or organize something so that you avoid problems that may stop you from doing something. to deal successfully with a person or problem that might prevent you from achieving your aim. A skilled craftsman can work around these difficulties. John won't be here on the 15th so we'll have to work round that.)' then I'm treated like fun police (bad cop) 不让人玩的人, 不让人开心的人(I. Person or group of people who make others stop having fun for whatever reason, usually out of jealousy or spite, but sometimes because said fun is against the law. II. Another name for one's wife, instructor, parent(s), the legitimate authorities. "We were having fun hurling dog shit over the house into the yard across the street with my home-made trebuchet when the effing FUN POLICE made us stop". fun and games 打打闹闹 activities, behaviour etc that are not serious – often used to show disapproval It started out as fun and games but became a successful business. )." The all-too familiar scenario attracted hundreds of responses from women who shared their own experiences. An epidemic of dad-dodging: "ExH (ex-husband) used to do this about going to the footie (sic)," one woman shared. It made me the bad cop if I said no but his conscience was clear 不会良心不安 because he'd been given permission if I said yes so he could absolve all responsibility." "My DH will come up with an idea (let's visit friends in the US!), so sure that it can happen just like that," another woman shared. "When I suggest discussing these exciting plans, he loses the plot saying I'm anti-him-having-fun..." "In my experience, they ask because they know they are being unreasonable/ridiculous, but want someone else to blame for telling them that," a seasoned traveller shared. Also, means that they can tell their buddies that it was your fault!" The stories come on the back of 紧跟着...而发生 last years statistics that showed 86 per cent of Australian women believe they do most of the work around the house. This is despite the fact that 46.9 per cent of all employed persons in Australia are women, almost half of all working people. 3. urge noun. a strong wish, especially one that is difficult or impossible to control. a human/natural urge. Sometimes I get an urge to go swimming at lunchtime. The two of them seem unable to control their sexual urges 性冲动. [ + to infinitive ] The urge to steal is very strong in some of these young men. She felt an overwhelming urge to tell someone about what had happened. verb. to strongly advise or try to persuade someone to do a particular thing: Lawyers will urge the parents to take further legal action. [ + that ] Investigators urged that safety procedures at the site should be improved. Police urged continued vigilance in the fight against crime. The dogs are urged into fighting more fiercely by loud shouts from the crowd. We will continue to urge for leniency to be shown to these prisoners. urge sb on to encourage someone to do or achieve something: The crowd was cheering and urging her on all through the race. urging the act of strongly advising or encouraging someone to do a particular thing: With their dad's urging 敦促, 督促, the girls started playing tennis at a young age. It was only because of Michele's urgings that he sold the house. He accepted the post largely because of strong urgings from his wife. Flu makes thousands of people sick, but they seldom heed urgings to seek the vaccine. He is being pressed to retire from boxing, and the most fervent urgings come from those who admire him most. aquaplane [ækwəˌpleɪn] (hydroplane) n. I. 漂滑现象, 水层效应. II. a single board on which a person stands and is towed by a motorboat at high speed, as in water skiing. v. 滑水, 在积水的路面上打滑. (of a motor vehicle travelling at high speeds in wet road conditions) to rise up onto a thin film of water between the tyres and road surface so that actual contact with the road is lost. Lamborghini flies off motorway into muddy field after aquaplaning. hydroplane [ˈhaɪdrəˌpleɪn] I. if a car hydroplanes, it slides on a wet road so that you cannot control it. II. if a boat hydroplanes, it travels very fast on the surface of the water. 4. Defence lawyers say Christensen was in a drunken stupor 醉的不省人事 ( [stjuːpər , US stuː-] Someone who is in a stupor is almost unconscious and is unable to act or think normally, especially as a result of drink or drugs. the condition of being unable to think or act normally because you are not completely conscious. He fell back onto the sofa in a drunken stupor. He was drinking himself into a stupor every night.) when he spoke about other victims and that it isn't true. They've also denied M.D.'s allegations.
