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 Compost 粪. 肥料. UK [ˈkɒmpɒst] or US [ˈkɒmpoʊst] is organic matter that has been decomposed in a process called composting. This process recycles various organic materials otherwise regarded as waste products and produces a soil conditioner. Compost is rich in nutrients. Did you know: Finished compost is dark and crumbly in texture and mostly broken down with a pleasant earth-like smell. Compost is rich in nutrients. It is used, for example, in gardens, landscaping, horticulture, urban agriculture and organic farming. The compost itself is beneficial for the land in many ways, including as a soil conditioner, a fertilizer, addition of vital humus or humic acids, and as a natural pesticide for soil. In ecosystems, compost is useful for erosion control, land and stream reclamation, wetland construction, and as landfill cover. table scrap 残羹冷炙, 剩菜饭 A piece of food left over from a meal. Meagre remnants of anything. Don't give the dog another table scrap, I don't want him to get sick. We spend all day cooking their food, and all we get to eat are their table scraps. vagrant [ˈveɪɡr(ə)nt] 流浪汉, 居无定所的人 a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging. adj. relating to or living the life of a vagrant. "vagrant beggars". vagrancy [ˈveɪɡr(ə)nsi] the state of living as a vagrant; homelessness. "a descent into vagrancy and drug abuse". cenotaph [ˈsenəˌtæf] 纪念碑 ( obelisk [ˈɑbəlɪsk] 方尖碑) a large structure built to remind people of soldiers, sailors, etc. who died in wars. A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war. A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere. It can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been reinterred elsewhere. Although the vast majority of cenotaphs honour individuals, many noted cenotaphs are instead dedicated to the memories of groups of individuals, such as the lost soldiers of a country or of an empire. The Sydney Cenotaph is a heritage-listed monument located in Martin Place, in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Bertram Mackennal and built from 1927 to 1929 by Dorman Long & Co. It is also known as Martin Place Memorial and The Cenotaph. It is one of the oldest World War I monuments in central Sydney. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 11 November 2009. The cenotaph takes the form of a monolithic stone block in a sepulchral shape. At its two shorter ends stand two bronze statues, a soldier and a sailor guarding the cenotaph. Words are carved into the longer faces of the cenotaph: on the southern side, facing the General Post Office, the carving reads: "To Our Glorious Dead"; on the northern side, facing Challis House, it reads: "Lest We Forget." Remembrance events are frequently held at the Cenotaph. Most importantly, it is the centre for Sydney's main ANZAC and Armistice Day dawn service ceremonies, regularly drawing thousands of attendees. liability [ˌlaɪəˈbɪləti] I. [uncountable] legal responsibility for causing damage or injury, or for paying something. liability for: The company accepts no liability for delays caused by bad weather. liability to: Being unemployed does not affect your liability to tax. II. [countable] [usually plural] the amount of money that a company owes. A company's or organization's liabilities are the sums of money which it owes. The company had assets of $138 million and liabilities 欠款, 债务 of $120.5 million. III. [countable] someone or something that causes problems for someone. If you say that someone or something is a liability 拖累, 累赘, 问题所在, 问题根源, you mean that they cause a lot of problems or embarrassment. You are the liability in your team but because of the English quota for home-grown players, you've not being dropped. Thank your stars for having a place in this team. Having poor ball control. Gather courage and ask your boss. Team-mates and coach began to see him as a liability. What was once a vote-catching policy is now a political liability 麻烦, 问题所在. liability to: His outspoken views have made him a liability to the administration. liable [laɪəbəl] I. If people or things are liable to something unpleasant, they are likely to experience it or do it. She will grow into a woman particularly liable to depression. This volcanic rock is less liable 易遭受 to shatter than limestone. II. If you are liable for something such as a debt, you are legally responsible for it. The airline's insurer is liable for damages to the victims' families. As the killings took place outside British jurisdiction, the Ministry of Defence could not be held liable. reprisal [rɪˈpraɪz(ə)l] something unpleasant that is done to punish an enemy or opponent because of something bad that they have done to you. reprisal against: The State Department is concerned about possible reprisals against American civilians. in reprisal (for something): Every tenth person in the village was shot in reprisal for the deaths of the two soldiers. penitentiary [ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri] a prison for people who have committed serious crimes. a state/federal penitentiary. A large prison is called a penitentiary and the people who are kept there are called prisoners. banger I. INFORMAL UK/AU a sausage(snag). II. INFORMAL an old car in bad condition. Not all the cars are old bangers. Is it greener to make do and mend, or scrap your banger and buy a new car? III. a type of firework that makes a very loud noise when it explodes. a small, noisy firework (= small container of explosives that makes a loud noise when it explodes): Some idiot decided to let off a banger right next to my ear. As a child I had a lot of fun with bangers and other cheap fireworks. IV. a catchy and uplifting song. a popular song or piece of music with a loud, heavy beat (= rhythm) that people like to dance to: Have you heard her new song? It's a banger. The new album is full of bangers. During my workout I like to listen to this song because it's a banger. V. US slang A member of a gang (shortened from the word gangbanger). gangbanger: a member of a violent group of young men, especially ones who use guns and commit crimes. bang I. to (cause something to) make a sudden very loud noise or noises: The fireworks banged away all through the night. Stop banging on the door. I heard you the first time! My head was banging after drinking all night at the concert. She banged her fist angrily on the table. Outside a door was banging in the wind. He could hear someone banging at the door. I could hear her in the kitchen banging about (= doing things noisily). II. to hit a part of the body against something by accident: He banged the door shut. David and Mary banged into each other. I banged my head against/on the shelf as I stood up. To hammer or to hit anything hard. Hold the picture while I bang in this nail. III. offensive to have sex with someone. We can hear the couple banging upstairs. optics I. [uncountable] the scientific study of sight and light. Optics is the branch of science concerned with vision, sight, and light. II. [singular] the way a situation looks to the general public. The optics of this protest will either take it to historic highs, or cause it fall apart quickly. III. Optics 外表, 外观, 别人怎么看, 看起来好看, 公众看法. are the way something looks to an outsider, especially concerning political actions. Typically in a political context) the way in which an event or course of action is perceived by the public. The public opinion and understanding of a situation after seeing it as the media shows it and the possible political effect of this. The viewing lens of public perception. How the media will play a story. Political repercussions are all about optics. Bad optics would be giving the media or the political opposition a juicy story to play with. The appearance and public perception of a certain situation or action, as was most recently used by the synagogue shooter in Pittsburgh on his social media post just before the horrible attack. The air of uncertainty about the meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is only heightened by President Trump's tendency for unpredictable utterances and awkward optics.  Screw your optics, I'm going in... A politician playing golf during a violent protest in their home state would be an example of bad optics. fibre optics 光纤 I. Fibre optics is the use of long thin threads of glass to carry information in the form of light. II. Fibre optic means relating to or involved in fibre optics. ...fibre optic cables. fanny fart = queef = vaginal flatulence Slang terms for vaginal flatulence include vart, queef, and fanny fart (mostly British). Whatever you call music coming from your undercarriage, it's likely you hardly ever talk about the magic of air escaping from your vagina. Few of us do. As loudly as our vaginas like to proclaim their existence (usually right in the middle of a really hot/romantic moment), we're all a bit shy about acknowledging the existence of the queef. We don't talk about vagina farts. We don't bring them up with our friends and partners. There's no established method for dealing with them. Usually with this kind of thing, I'd just accept it's just a minor part of our sexual experience that's just not that important to discuss. I'd figure that we don't talk about vagina farts because they just exist, we all know they exist, and we're all happy coexisting in our knowledge that someone, somewhere, may be experiencing a vagina fart right at this very moment. animosity [ˌanɪˈmɒsɪti] 敌对, 强烈敌意 strong hostility. Animosity is a strong feeling of dislike and anger. Animosities are feelings of this kind. There is no personal animosity between them. There's a long history of animosity between the two nations. Sir Geoffrey had no personal animosity towards the Prime Minister. The animosities between peoples in the region can be tied historically to political and governance issues. "he no longer felt any animosity towards her". by the scruff of the/your neck 后脖颈子, 脖梗子 by the skin at the back of the neck: Cats carry their kittens by the scruff of the neck. I took/grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and threw him out of the hall. dalliance [ˈdæliəns] I. old-fashioned a short sexual relationship, especially one involving people who are married to other people. If two people have a brief romantic relationship, you can say that they have a dalliance with each other, especially if they do not take it seriously. ...my dalliance with a certain footballer. ...sexual dalliances. II. formal a short period of time when someone is involved or interested in something but not in a serious way. Someone's dalliance with something is a brief involvement with it. ...my brief dalliance with higher education. [+ with]. Speaking to the mag ahead of his second solo record, the 25-year-old king shared perspectives on sexuality, how life has changed in the years since One Direction dissolved, and his dalliances with psychedelics ( 致幻药, 迷幻药  [ˌsaɪkəˈdelɪk] I. psychedelic drugs are drugs that make you see things that are not really there. II. psychedelic clothes, designs, etc. are very brightly colored and have big unusual patterns. ). boondoggle [ˈbunˌdɑɡl] a plan or project, especially one created by the government, that wastes a lot of time and money. to waste money or time on unnecessary or questionable projects. GM has been criticised - rightly - for boondoggling it up at taxpayers' expense. A boondoggle is a project that is considered a waste of both time and money, yet is often continued due to extraneous 不相干的, 不相关的 ([ɪkˈstreɪniəs] not relating to the subject or situation that you are dealing with. I deleted some extraneous material. extraneous to: All these factors are extraneous to our objectives. II. existing or coming from outside something. ) policy or political motivations. obliteration [əˌblɪtəˈreɪʃn] noun the action or fact of obliterating or being obliterated; total destruction. "headlines about the obliteration of the green belt". the action of removing all signs of something, either by destroying it or by covering it so that it cannot be seen: The war resulted in the obliteration 抹平, 抹去 of hundreds of villages. The reef faces obliteration in the near future. obliterate I. to remove all signs of something, either by destroying it or by covering it so that it cannot be seen: The missile strike was devastating - the target was totally obliterated. All of a sudden the view was obliterated by the fog. II. to make an idea or feeling disappear completely: Maybe she gets drunk to obliterate 消除 painful memories. oblivious adj. not conscious of something, especially what is happening around you: Absorbed in her work, she was totally oblivious of her surroundings. The mayor seems oblivious to the likely effects of the new legislation. oblivion I. the state of being completely forgotten: He was another minor poet who was consigned to oblivion. These toys will be around for a year or two, then fade/slide/sink into oblivion. II. the state of being completely destroyed: The planes bombed the city into oblivion. no-goodnik 非善类, 非善茬, 不是好人, 坏人 a wicked person. A person who commits crimes, does bad things, or is generally immoral. I thought I could trust him, but that no-goodnik double-crossed me and made off with the money! The government agency is full of no-goodniks willing to bend the rules for a bribe. She enjoyed a brief flirtation with a hunky Italian art expert but he turned out to be a no-goodnik. swipe I. a criticism of someone or something, or an attempt to annoy them or damage it. a spoken or written attack on someone or something. take a swipe at someone/something (=criticize them): Do you think he was taking a swipe at the President? In a recent interview, she takes a swipe at the theatre management. II. an act of hitting or trying to hit someone or something. take a swipe at someone/something (=try to hit them): He leaned forwards and took a swipe at me. Ed took a swipe at the ball and missed. take a swing at me You want to take a swing at me? No. Not gonna make the offer again. Do you know what that is? Is that Baz, Pope, Julia? Oh, I'm surprised Smurf didn't sand that shit off, man. Smurf asks, we're cool, right? Yeah. switch and swipe generation a marketing term coined to describe young people who are readier to change jobs, homes and sexual partners than older generations The 'switch and swipe' generation are unafraid of change, with the average 25 year-old having ten sexual partners before settling down. revolt to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion 公然反抗; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny: to revolt against the present government. I. [intransitive] to say that you will not accept someone's authority or leadership. revolt against: Several players revolted against their new coach. a. to refuse to accept something such as a law or a decision. revolt against: In 1992 the Serbs revolted against separation from Yugoslavia. II. [intransitive] to try to remove the government of your country using force. The Poles revolted several times in the 19th century. III. [transitive] if someone or something revolts you, they are so unpleasant that you feel slightly sick. He was revolted by the stench of the stockyards. Just the thought of kissing him revolts me. Mr Johnson returned from parliament's summer break today with a slender working majority on the floor of the House of Commons, vowing to take Britain out of the European Union at the end of October "no ifs, no buts". A few hours later, that one seat majority was gone and a group of Conservative Party backbenchers were in open revolt. dither [ˈdɪðər] to be unable to make a decision about something. She was dithering about what to wear. When someone dithers, they hesitate because they are unable to make a quick decision about something. We're still dithering over whether to marry. If you have been dithering about buying shares, now could be the time to do it. scourge [skɜrdʒ] I. formal something that causes a lot of trouble or harm. A scourge is something that causes a lot of trouble or suffering to a group of people. Union chiefs demanded more urgent action to stop the scourge of unemployment. There have been great advances in treatments for global scourges such as cancer and Aids. the effort to keep the scourge of drugs off our streets. If something scourges a place or group of people, it causes great pain and suffering to people. Economic anarchy scourged the post-war world. II. a whip used in the past to punish people. III. formal someone in a position of power who criticizes people severely. "Fire is the scourge of any ship," Sheriff Brown said, and to be in a remote location, asleep and then have a fire spread quickly, "you couldn't ask for a worse situation". smurf account 分身, 马甲 (Internet slang) An alternate computer account used by a known or experienced user in order to deceptively self-present as someone naïve or less experienced. someone who makes a new account then pretends they are a newbie. A slang term coined by Warp! and Shlonglor to mean good or famous players using fake names to hide from people then attempting to beat other players. sock puppet I. A puppet made from a sock placed over a hand. II. (Internet, derogatory) An alternative pseudonymous online account, especially one used for abuse. crescendo [krəˈʃendoʊ] I. music 渐强  a gradual increase in sound in a piece of music. a. the loudest part of a piece of music. In music, a crescendo is a section of a piece of music in which the music gradually gets louder and louder. II. literary Some people also use crescendo to refer to the point when a noise is at its loudest. She spoke in a crescendo: 'You are a bad girl! You are a wicked girl! You are evil!'. The crescendo of noise was continuous. The applause rose to a crescendo and cameras clicked. III. People sometimes describe an increase in the intensity of something, or its most intense point, as a crescendo. There was a crescendo of parliamentary and press criticism. And now the story reaches a crescendo. The feud between Javi and Smurf reached a crescendo 达到高潮 as Javi made a deadly move against Smurf. The boys regrouped from their successful heist as the show focused on Smurf and Javi. fence 销赃的: A fence is a person who receives stolen property and then sells it. He originally acted as a fence for another gang before turning to burglary himself. It's 15 grand. He was only expecting 10. Well, fence sold the bracelet for more than he thought it was worth, I guess. And they didn't pocket the difference? Huh. Honest fence. She's new. They always start out honest. I got a couple guys working hotels. It's a good operation. Could move a lot more if I could fence some of the bigger pieces to your contacts up north. non-starter 没希望成功的, 没可能的, 没救的, 扶不上墙的 an idea, plan, or person with no chance of success: Some of the points were non-starters but some of them were quite reasonable. The proposal was a non-starter from the beginning because there was no possibility of funding. As a business proposition, it is a total non-starter. I found Ellen Barkin and the Lena child actress a nonstarter. It shows his acting chops 表演功底, 演技. One of the top reasons I watch is for Pope's depth. chops I. the area of the face surrounding the mouth of a person or an animal: a dog licking its chops. I'll give him a smack in the chops if he doesn't shut up. II. technical skill, esp. of a jazz or rock musician. ability and technical skill, especially in playing a musical instrument: The players show their jazz chops and modern sensibility. the ability, skill, or experience needed to do something well: She just doesn't have the chops 能力, 本事, 功底, 功力 for this demanding role. lick one's chops to anticipate with pleasure. chop I. to cut something into pieces with an axe, knife, or other sharp instrument: He was chopping wood in the yard. Add some fresh parsley, finely chopped. Chop (up) the onions and carrots roughly. informal Laura had her hair chopped (= cut) yesterday. II. If something is chopped in business, it is stopped or reduced: Because of lack of funding many long-term research projects are being chopped 被砍了, 被取消了, 被削减了. noun. I. a small piece of meat with a bone still in it: a lamb/pork chop. the chop: I. mainly UK (US usually the axe) the situation in which your job is taken away from you, either because you have done something wrong or as a way of saving money: If you're late for work again, you'll be for the chop. Anyone stepping out of line is liable to get the chop. Hundreds of workers at the factory have already been given the chop. II. the ending of a factory, school, etc. or plan: When the reorganization occurs, the smaller departments will be the first for the chop. Many of these special schools are facing the chop. chop and change to keep changing your ideas, opinions, activities, or job: After six months of chopping and changing, we've decided to go back to our old system. dispensary a place in a hospital where you can get medicines and drugs. A dispensary is a place, for example in a hospital, where medicines are prepared and given out. A dispensary 取药处, 卖药的地方(a weed dispensary 卖大麻的地方) is an office in a school, hospital, industrial plant, or other organization that dispenses medications, medical supplies, and in some cases even medical and dental treatment. In a traditional dispensary set-up, a pharmacist dispenses medication as per prescription or order form. henchman 帮凶, 打手 If you refer to someone as another person's henchman, you mean that they work for or support the other person, especially by doing unpleasant, violent, or dishonest things on their behalf. No men were arrested at the scene, but the police managed to arrest a lady called María Teresa Quintana Rodríguez, sister of one of Constanzo's lovers and henchmen. A hitman 杀手 is a man who is hired by someone in order to kill another person. The gangsters drove Kilroy through the back streets of the city and past an industrial area. The number of bars and vendor stands in the street began to thin out as they drove Kilroy through a highway in the city's outskirts. ember 火炭块儿(Flames lap the road 吞噬 as a motorbike travels past, fires engulf homes as residents flee, an eerie glow in the air. Officers bang on doors and help an elderly man evacuate his home as houses on the street behind him burn. Emergency workers patrol the streets and direct traffic as embers fly through the air. A spark 火星子, 火花 is an incandescent particle. Sparks may be produced by pyrotechnics, by metalworking or as a by-product of fires, especially when burning wood. Spray of sparks from a Bessemer converter as air is blown through the molten metal): An ember is a glowing, hot coal made of greatly heated wood, coal, or other carbon-based material that remain after, or sometimes precede, a fire. Embers can glow very hot, sometimes as hot as the fire which created them. They radiate a substantial amount of heat long after the fire has been extinguished, and if not taken care of properly can rekindle a fire that is thought to be completely extinguished and can pose a fire hazard. In order to avoid the danger of accidentally spreading a fire, many campers pour water on the embers or cover them in dirt. Alternatively, embers can be used to relight a fire after it has gone out without the need to rebuild the fire – in a conventional fireplace, a fire can easily be relit up to 12 hours after it goes out, provided that there is enough space for air to circulate between the embers and the introduced fuel. clout [klaʊt] I. [uncountable] the authority to make decisions, or the power to influence events. A person or institution that has clout has influence and power. This former TV actress already has the clout 能量, 权势 to alter movie screenplays 更改剧本. The two firms wield enormous clout in financial markets. It is a system in which individual voters have more clout. political/financial/economic clout 势力, 影响: The articles suggested it was fashionable for "fair-skinned people" of diverse ancestry to choose Aboriginal racial identity for the purposes of political and career clout. The government has less political clout than the opposition on this issue. II. [countable] a hard hit with your hand. verb. to hit someone or something hard with your hand. grapple [græpəl] 抗争, 争斗 I. If you grapple with a problem or difficulty, you try hard to solve it. The economy is just one of several critical problems the country is grappling with. II. If you grapple with someone, you take hold of them and struggle with them, as part of a fight. You can also say that two people grapple. He was grappling with an alligator in a lagoon. They grappled desperately for control of the weapon. "Unbelievable" grapples with this less sensational part of the process — not merely the horror of a violent crime but the pain and drudgery that follow — and demonstrates that listening to women means caring about their stories long after the first headline breaks. drudgery [drʌdʒəri] 枯燥无味, 单调无聊 You use drudgery to refer to jobs and tasks which are boring or unpleasant but which must be done. People want to get away from the drudgery of their everyday lives. tedium [tiːdiəm] 琐碎, 繁琐 If you talk about the tedium of a job, task, or situation, you think it is boring and rather frustrating. She began to wonder whether she wouldn't go mad with the tedium of the job. Much as the movie Spotlight's shots of reporters filling out spreadsheets deglamorized 光鲜亮丽 the journalistic process, Duvall and Rasmussen's story line highlights the necessary tedium of police work. We get to see the hours spent poring over surveillance footage in order to chase down a single lead 线索 as well as the countless dead ends that they are forced to run down. glamorous [glæmərəs] 光环耀眼的, 光鲜的, 亮丽的 adj If you describe someone or something as glamorous, you mean that they are more attractive, exciting, or interesting than ordinary people or things. ...some of the world's most beautiful and glamorous women. The south coast is less glamorous but full of clean and attractive hotels. glamorize [ˈɡlæməˌraɪz] to make someone or something seem more attractive or exciting than they really are. If someone glamorizes something, they make it look or seem more attractive than it really is, especially in a film, book, or programme. Filmmakers have often been accused of glamorizing organized crime. ...a glamorised view of the past. a culture that glamorizes drugs, sex, and violence. deglamorize 失去光环 to make (a person or thing) less glamorous. pore 细细筛查, 过筛子似的筛查, 一遍遍的过 If you pore over/through information, you look at it and study it very carefully. to examine or read something very carefully and in a lot of detail. Ben was poring over computer printouts with an engineer. We spent hours poring over travel brochures. It will take several more months to pore through the volumes of documents. noun. I. Your pores are the tiny holes in your skin. The size of your pores is determined by the amount of oil they produce. II. The pores of a plant are the tiny holes on its surface. A plant's lungs are the microscopic pores in its leaves. from every pore 每一个毛细孔, 每一个毛孔 used for emphasizing that someone has a very strong feeling or quality that is very obvious. He oozes charm from every pore. moxie [ˈmɒksi] 勇气, 决心 American informal courage, nerve, or vigour. force of character, determination, or nerve. "when you've got the moxie, you need the clothes to match". It took some moxie to talk Pat into making that change. overture [ˈoʊvərˌtʃʊr] I. music 开场曲. the first part of a long piece of music, especially an opera, ballet or musical show. An overture is a piece of music, often one that is the introduction to an opera or play. The programme opened with the overture to Wagner's Flying Dutchman. II. formal a suggestion or offer that you make to someone. If you make overtures to someone 示好, you behave in a friendly or romantic way towards them. He had lately begun to make clumsy yet endearing overtures of friendship. [+ of] If only the West had been more responsive to his peace overtures in the fifties. diplomatic/friendly/sexual overtures 暗示. Adelaide were keen to re-sign Folau but the Kiwi veteran rejected overtures to return. piety [ˈpaɪəti] Piety is strong religious belief, or behaviour that is religious or morally correct. pieties: [plural] statements that are morally right but not sincere. impiety 亵渎, 大不敬 a lack of respect, especially for God or religion: The Church accused him of impiety and had all his writings burned. areola 乳晕 [əˈrɪələ] [ [æriˈoʊlə] ( plural -lae (-ˌliː) or -las): Upon close inspection of the boys, on Josh's right nipple 乳头 lies a prominent birth mark across the centre of the areola. any small circular area, such as the pigmented ring around the human nipple or the inflamed area surrounding a pimple. the pigmented area on the breast around the nipple. Areola, more generally, is a small circular area on the body with a different histology from the surrounding tissue, or other small circular areas such as an inflamed region of skin. kennel [ˈken(ə)l] I. [plural] a place where dogs stay while their owners are away, or a place where dogs are bred (=kept in order to produce young dogs). Kennels or a kennels or a kennel is a place where dogs are bred and trained, or looked after when their owners are away. The guard dog was now in kennels as it was not aggressive. Pauline runs a kennels. Once you have chosen a kennel, don't forget to make a booking for your pet. II. British doghouse (in AmE). A kennel is a small building made especially for a dog to sleep in. travelator [ˈtravəleɪtə] 步行梯, 行动电梯, 平面电梯 noun. a moving walkway, typically at an airport. A moving walkway, also known as an autowalk, moving sidewalk, moving pavement, people-mover, travolator, or travelator, is a slow-moving conveyor mechanism that transports people across a horizontal or inclined plane over a short to medium distance. Moving walkways can be used by standing or walking on them. They are often installed in pairs, one for each direction. chocolate starfish (Britain, vulgar, slang) The anus. Let me stimulate your chocolate starfish with my tongue. She likes it when I finger her chocolate starfish during sex. flax [flæks] I. 亚麻 a plant with small blue flowers that is grown for the fibres in its stem and the oil in its seeds. II. the fibres from the stem of a flax plant, used for making linen (=a strong cloth). Linen [ˈlɪnən] 亚麻布料 (fabric) is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant. Linen is laborious to manufacture, but the fiber is very strong, absorbent and dries faster than cotton. Garments made of linen are valued for their exceptional coolness and freshness in hot and humid weather. The collective term "linens" is still often used generically to describe a class of woven or knitted bed, bath, table and kitchen textiles traditionally made of flax-based linen but today made from a variety of fibers. The inner layer of fine composite cloth garments (as for example dress jackets) was traditionally made of linen, hence the word lining 里子. Flax 亚麻籽 (Linum usitatissimum), also known as common flax or linseed, is a member of the genus Linum in the family Linaceae. It is a food and fiber crop cultivated in cooler regions of the world. Textiles made from flax are known in the Western countries as linen, and traditionally used for bed sheets, underclothes, and table linen. Its oil is known as linseed oil. In addition to referring to the plant itself, the word "flax" may refer to the unspun fibers of the flax plant. Flaxseeds occur in two basic varieties/colors: brown or yellow (golden linseeds). Most types of these basic varieties have similar nutritional characteristics and equal numbers of short-chain omega-3 fatty acids. An exception is a type of yellow flax called solin (trade name "Linola"), which has a completely different oil profile and is very low in omega-3s (alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), specifically). Flaxseeds produce a vegetable oil known as flaxseed oil or linseed oil, which is one of the oldest commercial oils. It is an edible oil obtained by expeller pressing and sometimes followed by solvent extraction. Solvent-processed flaxseed oil has been used for many centuries as a drying oil in painting and varnishing. Although brown flaxseed varieties may be consumed as readily as the yellow ones, and have been for thousands of years, its better-known uses are in paints, for fiber, and for cattle feed. Hessian ([ˈhesiən]) 麻布, burlap [ˈbɜrˌlæp] in the US and Canada, or crocus in Jamaica, is a woven fabric usually made from skin of the jute plant ( Jute [dʒut] 黄麻 is a long, soft, shiny vegetable fiber that can be spun into coarse, strong threads. Jute is one of the most affordable natural fibers, and second only to cotton in the amount produced and variety of uses. Jute fibers are composed primarily of the plant materials cellulose and lignin. The fibers are off-white to brown, and 1–4 metres (3–13 feet) long. Jute is also called the golden fiber for its color and high cash value.  ) or sisal 剑麻 fibres ( [ˈsaɪs(ə)l] a white fiber used for making rope and rugs (=small carpets). It comes from a Mexican plant. a species of Agave native to southern Mexico but widely cultivated and naturalized in many other countries. It yields a stiff fibre used in making various products. The term sisal may refer either to the plant's common name or the fibre, depending on the context. It is sometimes referred to as "sisal hemp", because for centuries hemp was a major source for fibre, and other fibre sources were named after it. The sisal fibre is traditionally used for rope and twine, and has many other uses, including paper, cloth, footwear, hats, bags, carpets, and dartboards. Twine 合股线 is a light string or strong thread composed of two or more smaller strands or yarns twisted, and then twisted together. More generally, the term can be applied to a cord.  ), which may be combined with other vegetable fibres to make rope, nets, and similar products. Gunny is similar in texture and construction. Hessian, a dense woven fabric, has historically been produced as a coarse fabric, but more recently it is being used in a refined state known simply as jute as an eco-friendly material for bags, rugs and other products. Hessian is often used to make gunny sacks, and to ship goods like coffee beans and rooibos tea. It is breathable and so resists condensation and associated spoilage of contents. It is also durable enough to withstand rough handling in transit; these properties have also led to its use for temporary protection as wet covering to prevent rapid moisture loss in the setting of cement and concrete in the construction industry. Hessian is also commonly used to make effective sandbags; hessian sacks 麻袋, 麻布袋 filled with sand are often used for flood mitigation in temporary embankments against floodwaters or field fortifications.