用法学习: 2. 明星(The real reason Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss are no longer friends): Swift has previously said that Kloss had her very own room, complete with her favorite snack foods at the ready, at the singer's $47.7 million Tribeca compound. But an insider told The Post that Swift was "furious" when Kloss invited friends over to the home without first getting approval. Although both camps deny this happened, a source admits that the two had a tiff that turned into "something crazy." The fallout between Taylor Swift and her onetime best friend Karlie Kloss reportedly started when the model took advantage of the singer's generous hospitality. "Taylor got upset over something crazy and then she just alienated Karlie," she told The Post. Kloss' rep denies this. Sources say this is just another example of Swift, whose new album, "Lover," is out Aug. 23, overreacting to a situation. In fact, Swift turned down invites to both of Kloss' wedding ceremonies when she married her long-term boyfriend last year, according to a source close to both camps. However, Kloss' rep says Swift was unable to attend due to prior commitments. "She always does the same thing: She trips up when she goes further than she needed to," said a source in regards to Scooter Braun, who's the latest to be deemed one of Swift's enemies, after he purchased Big Machine Records, the singer's former label, for a reported $500 million in June. Swift, 29, took to Tumblr to call the sale, which included the master recordings from her first six albums, her "worst case scenario" — and accuse Braun, who manages Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato, of "incessant, manipulative" bullying. "She became famous very young 年少成名," said a music executive in the know 知情的人, 知情者. "And the behaviour that we might accept from a young girl — stamping your feet, 跺脚 acting petulant( [ˈpetʃələnt] 闹脾气. 发脾气. annoyed and behaving in an unreasonable way because you cannot get what you want. a petulant child. stamp your feet 跳脚, 跺脚 to keep putting one foot down hard and noisily on the ground and then the other in order to make yourself less cold or to make a noise. They stamped their feet to keep warm (=brought them down hard on the ground). People were standing around, stamping their feet and rubbing their hands. The little boy stamped his feet and screamed at his mother. wipe your feet 蹭了几下, 蹭一下: He wiped his feet on the mat. shuffle your feet: He looked at the teacher and shuffled his feet nervously. beneath/under your feet: The deck was slippery beneath her feet.) — no longer stands 不被接受 when you're a grown woman. Swift's representative did not respond to requests for comment. Kloss' rep says the two are still friends. 3. mental picture/image 脑中的画面 a clear and telling mental image. A mental picture of something not real or present that is produced by the memory or the imagination. A mental image or mental picture is an experience that, on most occasions, significantly resembles the experience of perceiving some object, event, or scene, but occurs when the relevant object, event, or scene is not actually present to the senses. "he described his mental picture of his assailant"; "he had no clear picture of himself or his world"; "the events left a permanent impression in his mind". sizeable = sizable [saɪzəbəl] adj Sizeable means fairly large. Harry inherited the house and a sizeable chunk of land. Savers with a sizeable chunk of cash would do better to leave their money elsewhere. narrative [ˈnær.ə.tɪv] 叙事, 讲述, 叙述, 记叙 I. a story or a description of a series of events: It's a moving narrative of wartime adventure. a first-person/third-person narrative. a gripping/compelling narrative. II. a particular way of explaining or understanding events: There was pressure on academics to construct narratives 说法 of the period that were positive. Both sides in the conflict have a narrative of victimhood. the grand narratives of nation, race, and faith. III. Telling a story or describing a series of events: a narrative 叙事性的 poem. You have to supply a narrative thread that allows the audience to make a connection with one or more characters. Nicole Kidman has not been sending messages to her kids Bella and Connor, who she shares with Tom Cruise, in an effort to pry them away from Scientology. That's the bogus narrative being peddled 兜售 in one of this week's tabloids ( peddle I. Someone who peddles things goes from place to place trying to sell them. His attempts to peddle his paintings around London's tiny gallery scene proved unsuccessful. II. Someone who peddles drugs sells illegal drugs. He offered the youngster $100 to peddle drugs. The war against drug peddling is all about cash. III. 兜售. 推销. 推广. If someone peddles an idea or a piece of information, they try very hard to get people to accept it. [disapproval] They even set up their own news agency to peddle anti-isolationist propaganda. ). Gossip Cop looked into the situation and we've learned the truth. Last year, Gossip Cop busted the magazine for falsely claiming Kidman was moving to London where her daughter Bella lives so she could "save" her from Scientology. That narrative obviously didn't pan out. 记叙文的书写: One last component of narrative writing is point of view. Point of view 视角 is the perspective in which the story is told. The two main points of view are first-person and third-person. If a story is told in first-person point of view, the narrator, or person who is telling the story, is a character in the story. 4. goody two shoes = goody-goody 娇娇女, 乖乖女, 乖小孩, 乖宝宝 (play goody two shoes, daddy's girl) [informal, disapproval]
The definition of a goody two shoes is a person who always does
everything right and always follows the rules, so much so that it
becomes annoying. If you call someone a goody-goody, you mean they
behave extremely well in order to please people in authority. The definition of a goody two shoes is a person who always does everything right and always follows the rules, so much so that it becomes annoying. An example of a goody two shoes is a person who always sits in front, waves her hand to answer every question in class and tattle tales on people on the playground. I. (used as a modifier before a noun) Of or having prudish, self-righteous and/or rigidly moral standards. Many have been critical of the agency as being nothing but a goody two-shoes organization more concerned with telling people how to behave than serving their best interests. A goody two-shoes is someone who tries to please someone in authority or who never does anything wrong. No child wants to be a goody two-shoes, and this is one way for them to demonstrate that they're not. II. An exceedingly and/or haughtily prudish, self-righteous, or rigidly moral person; someone who conforms inflexibly to the rules or the law. Mary is such a goody-two shoes, always squealing to the teacher when one of us does something against the rules. Our gang would have control of half the city if that goody two-shoes hadn't somehow gotten himself elected governor. 5. spurglar A spurglar is a woman who steals sperm to "accidentally" fall pregnant. A woman who tricks a man into having a baby. You know he never wanted a baby. She tricked him. She is a spurglar. Most people have heard of house burglars, but a desperate need to have a baby has resulted in the creation of a new term: spurglars. Used to describe the act of burgularising sperm, it may sound outlandish but apparently is a lot more common than one might think. Speaking to The Sun, Victoria Beckett revealed that she spurgled a man in order to fall pregnant with her first child. After going from one failed relationship to another, the 29-year old said she was willing to take drastic measures in order to fulfil her dream of being a young mum. "I met Tom on a night out and he was tall, dark, handsome and intelligent," she told the publication. "I wanted someone with good genes and he was perfect ... I deliberately had unprotected sex at my most fertile time of the month. "I love being a mum and can't wait to have more children. Ideally I'd be married but, if I never meet 'the one', I don't rule out being a sperm stealer again." Beckett said she had stopped taking the pill several weeks earlier, with the news of her pregnancy coming as a shock to Tom when she told him at the 12 week mark. He "went into meltdown 崩溃了" and told her he didn't want to be a father, which she said she was prepared for and has happily raised the baby on her own ever since. "She'd told me she was infertile and we'd only slept together a few times." bare minimum 最低限度, 最小量 The smallest possible quantity or the least fulfilling 最少需要的, 可以满足需要的,
but still adequate, condition that is required, acceptable, or suitable
for some purpose. as low as possible. The smallest possible quantity or
the least fulfilling, but still adequate, condition that is required,
acceptable, or suitable for some purpose. We need to keep expenses to a (bare) minimum.
for good measure 增加保险, 双重保险, 锦上添花, 以防万一
If you say that something is done for good measure, you mean that it is
done in addition to a number of other things. as a way of making
something complete or better. as extra; (adding) a little more to make
sure there is enough. When
I bought a pound of nails, the clerk threw in a few extra nails for
good measure. I always put a little extra salt in the soup for good
measure. Throw in a splash of red wine for good measure. I repeated my question for good measure. For good measure, a few details of hotels were included.
If something is done or added for good measure, it is done or added in
addition to other things in order to make certain that something is
successful or complete. There's salmon in the dish and prawns, with a few mussels in there for good measure. Note: You can also use the phrase thrown in for good measure when something is added. It's
a fairly conventional love story, with a murder mystery thrown in for
good measure. This trendy new nightclub has an excellent 70s disco music
policy and a few celebrities thrown in for good measure. desperate times call for desperate measures = desperate times require desperate measures 非常之时行非常之事
Extreme and undesirable circumstances or situations can only be
resolved by resorting to equally extreme actions. Derived from the
proverb, "Desperate
diseases must have desperate remedies." I know that the austerity
measures introduced by the government during the recession are
unpopular, but desperate times call for desperate measures. take (one's) measure = take the measure of someone 忖度
Size someone up, evaluate someone or something. To evaluate someone or
something; to judge the qualities of someone or something. The
boss wants to take the new intern's measure by having him complete this
project on his own. Be sure to take the car's measure with a test drive
before you buy it. I didn't mind your dad's questions, I know he was
just taking my measure. some measure I. A certain degree or extent; somewhat. While hard work and perseverance will take you far, success also depends in some measure on good fortune. II. A little; a small amount of something. Our team had some measure of success this year, and I know we'll do even better next year. measure (someone or sth) (up) against (someone or sth else) 跟人比, 对比, 比较 I. To compare the qualities of a particular person or thing with those of someone or something else. Because I'm pursuing the same career as my brother, I feel like people are always measuring me against him.
I just feel that modern architecture is missing some of the grandeur of
pre-21st-century buildings when you measure them up against one another.
II. To place someone or something against a larger person or thing so
as to observe, measure, or compare the size of one or both. We've been measuring our kids against the same wall
for nearly 15 years now—there's a lot of memories on that thing! When
you measure the new desk up against the older one, you can see that
there is a noticeable size discrepancy. measure something out to measure and distribute something as it is being taken out, unwrapped, unfolded, etc. Carl measured the grain out a cup at a time. He measured out the grain little by little. make (something) to measure 定做, 量身定做, 根据尺寸定做 To create a piece of clothing with the unique measurements of a specific person in mind. They
make all their suits to measure, so they cost a lot more than buying
something off the rack. That shirt fits you perfectly. It looks like it
was made to measure! in equal measure(s) To an equal degree or extent; in an equal amount or portion. We've worked in equal measure with law enforcement and mental health professionals to tackle the issue. Now, now—blame must be shared in equal measures for this. get/have/take the ˈmeasure of somebody = get/have/take somebody's measure 了解, 清楚, 明白 (formal) form an opinion about somebody's character or abilities so that you can deal with them: The champion soon had the measure of his young opponent. special measures
I. A designation given to a public establishment, such as a school or
hospital, that is in need of improvement. Often used in the phrase "in
special measures." Primarily heard in UK. My son's school is currently in special measures, so he's transferring to a different one next year. II. 特殊措施. Steps that must be taken, however unusual or extreme, to bring about some outcome. Oh,
I will take special measures to ensure that the neighbors' dog stops
barking, even if I have to buy him a muzzle myself! Don't worry, we took
special measures to make sure that nobody finds us in here—we have
furniture blocking all the doors. no half measures No reduction or limitation to the effort or resources employed or that could be employed. It's
clear by the sheer scope of this film trilogy that no half measures
were taken during its development. The gala was very impressive, and there were no half measures: copious amounts of food, drink, entertainment, and flair were present from the beginning of the evening to the end.
agitate VS irritate VS infuriate (furious) VS snap VS flip out VS rage/engrage VS rile up VS irate: 1. irk [ɜrk] If something irks you, it irritates or annoys you. The rehearsal process also irked him increasingly. She was irked by their behavior. I must admit it irks me to see this guy get all this free publicity. It irks them that some people have more of a chance than others for their voices to be heard. ire [ˈaɪr] anger. Their ire was directed mainly at the government. irate [aɪˈreɪt] very angry. If someone is irate, they are very angry about something. The owner was so irate he almost threw me out of the place. She then wrote an extremely irate letter to the New Statesman about me. an irate customer. agitate (ˈædʒɪˌteɪt) vt. I. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. II. 吹皱一池春水. 火大. 光火, 生气. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated. was agitated by the alarming news. III. To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated. IV. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs. vi. To stir up public interest in a cause: agitate for a tax reduction. agitate against someone or something to stir up active dissatisfaction about someone or something. The students were agitating against the closing of the old cafeteria. agitate for something to stir up active support for something. The committee agitated for a change, but nothing was done. enrage to make someone extremely angry. aggravate ['ægrə,veit] I. 恶化 to make (a disease, situation, problem, etc.) worse or more severe II. Informal 让人讨厌, 让人生气, 惹人烦. to annoy; exasperate, esp by deliberate and persistent goading. rile 激怒. I. to make angry. II. to stir or move from a state of calm or order. Money
problems rile the underpaid worker every day. Mosquitoes buzzing in my
ear really rile me. It riles me that she never closes the door after she
leaves. rile someone [up] 惹恼, 激怒 to annoy someone. to get someone excited and angry. He
yelled at them and riled them up. They left quite angry. He riles up
everyone he talks to. The president's outspoken remarks have riled
conservatives. rile someone up 激怒 (enrage someone) to get someone excited and angry. He yelled at them and riled them up. They left quite angry. He riles up everyone he talks to. ruffle someone's feathers Fig. to irritate or annoy someone. I didn't mean to ruffle his feathers. I just thought that I would remind him of what he promised us. 2. get the shits 气坏了 Australian, used in accordince with someone to get angry, pissed off, snakey, dirty. When Ryan Adams or Pete Murray get rotation(get played regularly) on triple J , I most definately...get the shits. Shits(give someone the shits 搞的火大, 惹的火大, 搞的头大. get the shits)(temper): to be ticked of, substantially annoyed etc. My computer gives me the shits. 3. obscene [əbˈsi:n] I. offensive in a sexual way. He was fined for making an obscene gesture at the umpire. obscene videos. II. so unfair or immoral that you feel angry. 让人火大的. 离谱的. The amount of money that top-class footballers earn is positively obscene. 4. irritate 让人恼火, 火大, 激怒 His words irritated me. be irritated by sb.'s insolence. That man really irritates me. I try to be patient with her but she was so irritating in that meeting, I just lost my cool. I try to be patient with her but she made so many irritating让人火大的 comments, I absolutely lost my cool. Wow, he really lost his cool! What a tantrum! Whatever you do, don't blow your cool. irritating [ˈɪrɪˌteɪtɪŋ] making you feel annoyed or impatient He had an irritating habit of cracking his knuckles. infuriate [ɪnˈfjuərieɪt](to make someone extremely angry. furious. To make furious; enrage. The general confusion and poor communication during the search has fuelled perceptions that Malaysian authorities are unable to handle a crisis on this scale and infuriated 激怒 relatives. 5. do somebody's head in 不开心, 不爽, 感觉不舒服, 头疼不已, 烦死我了 to make someone feel confused and unhappy Getting up at 4 o'clock every morning is doing my head in. I've been trying to make sense of all these figures and it's doing my head in. slightly rattled I. 一点点恼火, 有点火大, 有点不爽 Inf. upset; confused, to feel nervous, worried or irritated Tom
was slightly rattled by the policeman at the door. I'm slightly
rattled. I'll get over it. She turned quickly, rattled by his presence. II. Inf. tipsy; intoxicated. He's only slightly rattled. He'll recover by morning. She can be really drunk and still seem only slightly rattled. rattle off something also rattle something off 连珠炮似的说 to say something quickly She rattled something off in French that I didn't understand. Usage notes: often used when someone gives a list of facts or other related
information from memory: Walter could rattle off the statistics of
players from the 1920s and 30s. 6. "Switch things up" I. usually means change the situation (usually for the better). "We go to the movies every weekend. Let's switch things up and go bowling instead." Switch things up with flexible thinking. "I'm tired of eating at 6 p.m. Let's switch it up. How about 9 p.m.?" II. 大发雷霆, 大为光火, 勃然大怒. 发飙. 暴怒 There is another slang meaning which probably doesn't apply here - it means to change the mood or speed from calm to excited.
When your mood is calm, then someone does something, then your mood
faes up and you are really mad in an instance, you've switched up. Happy boy, someone steps on his toe at goose fair, boy switches up and starts smackin' the place out. 7. flip out (on sb.) 大为光火. 情绪失控, 哭闹 to suddenly become excited, frightened, or crazy. He didn't just flip out and start shooting, he planned to kill them. The first time I saw that film, I absolutely flipped out. Usage notes: also used in the form flip someone out: I am not easily scared, but this totally flipped me out. flip out Sl. to lose control of oneself. After a sleepless night, Wally simply flipped out. I felt like I was going to flip out from the steady dripping of the faucet. When you flip out, you not only get angry, but you act angry - you yell, rant, rave, maybe even throw things. There are definitely actions associated with your emotional response. flip someone off/out; flip someone the bird Sl. to give someone the finger, that is raise the middle finger, a rude sign. (The digitus impudicus.) The
youth flipped the police officer off. Not a good idea. He flipped off
the cop. You better not flip a cop out! The little kid flipped the cop
the bird and didn't even know what it meant. 7. "It's inflammatory ( [in'flæmətəri -tri] 让人火大的, 让人生气的. 让人光火的. 惹人生气的. Tending to inflame or provoke somebody. Sam posted an inflammatory comment in the talk page. ) to link [the recent massacres] with this, to say they shouldn't be made here at all. 8. Meryl Streep's speech upon receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award never mentioned Donald Trump by name, but its content was enough to set him off 大光其火, 大为光火, said USA Today. 9. snap v. I. 大发雷霆, 大为光火. 发脾气. To speak abruptly or sharply. He snapped at me for the slightest mistake. II. (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly. He snapped his stick in anger. If you bend it too much, it will snap. II. To attempt to seize with eagerness. She snapped at the chance to appear on television. III. To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension. She should take a break before she snaps. 10. jump/go off the deep end 做到极致, 做的太过分 informal
I. 大发雷霆, 大为光火. to get very angry about something or lose control of
yourself. to do or experience something in the extreme: to fall madly in
love, to go crazy, to commit suicide, to fly into a rage, etc. I saw what he had done, and I just went off the deep end. Become unduly excited, overwrought, or angry. For example, When he heard about John's smashing into his car, he went off the deep end. II. Be irrationally carried away, act irresponsibly or heedlessly. For example, Just because you like her looks doesn't mean you should go off the deep end and propose. In both of these colloquial usages deep end alludes to the deep end of a swimming pool. jump in at the deep end (also throw sb in at the deep end 毫无准备的, 没有思想准备的, 忽然置身于困难境地) If you jump or are thrown in at the deep end, you start doing something new and difficult without help or preparation. Blind rage 想都没有想就发火, 不多想就大发雷霆, 没及细想就发飙, 不想想就雷霆震怒, 恶向胆边生 is lashing out without thought. Blind rage, uncontrollable, psychologically-blinding rage. Bitter rage 积怨已久, 怀恨在心, 怨恨已久 is anger that you've been holding in, thinking about, allowing the fester ( I. 伤口化脓. if an injury or sore place on your body festers, it becomes infected. a festering wound. II. if food or waste material festers, it starts to decay and smell bad. III. 恶化. 得不到化解的怨恨. 无处发泄的怒气. if a problem or unpleasant feeling festers, it becomes worse because no one has dealt with it. This festering 愈演愈烈的, 得不到抚慰的 hatred could tear the community apart.). Anger that you've been thinking about for years or more. You gave in to blind rage and destroyed a valuable piece of training equipment. There was nothing but blind fear没有道理的怕, 不明就里的怕, blind rage, blind instinct around him. I must admit that your blind raging invigorated me. He
remembered now, with the Bic pen in his hand, the utter blind rage he
had felt at discovering that without Beaumont he couldn't write anything
but his own name. May this erase our mistake, due to our blind rage. Look,
I- I can' t be sure, but I think Darkstrike really did see The Crawler
murder his fiancée, and then, in a blind rage, he killed the crawler
himself. I was in a blind rage and didn't know what I was doing. 11. Petrol tax shock to leave voters fuming 大怒, 大为光火(征税的动词是 collect, impose, levy, introduce)(to feel or show a lot of anger. Motorists are fuming over the latest petrol shortages.). 12. aggravating ( 令人火大的, 令人光火的. I. To make worse or more troublesome. II. To rouse to exasperation or anger; provoke. Usage
Note: Aggravate comes from the Latin verb aggravāre, which meant "to
make heavier," that is, "to add to the weight of." It also had the
extended senses "to annoy" and "to oppress." Some people claim that
aggravate can only mean "to make worse," and not "to irritate," on the
basis of the word's etymology. But in doing so, they ignore not only an
English sense in use since the 17th century, but also one of the
original Latin ones. Sixty-eight percent of the Usage Panel approves of its use in It's the endless wait for luggage that aggravates me the most about air travel. 13. let it/her rip 火力全开: I. allow something, especially a vehicle, to go at full speed. to make a vehicle or machine move very fast. He would get up early Sunday mornings, fire up the lawnmower, and let her rip. Usage notes: the pronoun her is often used to refer to a machine "We'll get on to the motorway and let her rip".
II. Allow something to happen forcefully or without interference. utter
or express something forcefully and noisily. to do something with
energy and enthusiasm. Hendrix would walk into a
recording studio, turn on his amp, and let it rip while the tape
recorder rolled. "Once she started a tirade长篇攻击性演说, it was best to let it rip". let rip I. 大为光火. 勃然大怒. to suddenly express your emotions without control. This time I was furious and I let rip. He's a very restrained 非常克制的人 sort of person - you can't imagine him ever really letting rip. II. (British & Australian very informal) 放屁. to allow gas to escape from your bottom loudly. You can't just let rip when you're in a smart restaurant. 14. wind someone up 惹恼, 激怒 I. (usually be wound up) Make tense or angry: he was clearly wound up and frantic about his daughter. II. British informal Tease or irritate someone. to annoy someone: He keeps complaining and it really winds me up. she's only winding me up.
punitive VS penal VS penile VS pensive: punitive [pjuːnɪtɪv] 惩戒性的, 惩罚性的 Punitive actions are intended to punish people. relating to or causing punishment or great difficulty. punitive taxes/tariffs/laws. ...a punitive bombing raid. Other economists say any punitive measures against foreign companies would hurt U.S. interests. penal [piːnəl] 惩治的 I. Penal means relating to the punishment of criminals. the penal system. penal reform/laws. a penal sum 罚款. ..director-general of penal affairs at the justice ministry. ...penal and legal systems. Anyone found guilty of the offenses will be stoned to death, according to a new penal code
based on Sharia law, an Islamic legal system that outlines strict
corporal punishments. The strict new laws were announced by the Sultan
of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, in 2014 and have been rolled out gradually in the small nation on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. II. A penal institution or colony is one where criminals are kept as punishment. used as a place for punishing criminals. a penal colony/institution. ...imprisoned on an island that has served as a penal colony since Roman times. A criminal code (or penal code)
is a document which compiles all, or a significant amount of, a
particular jurisdiction's criminal law. Typically a criminal code will
contain offences which are recognised in the jurisdiction, penalties
which might be imposed for these offences and some general provisions (such as definitions and prohibitions on retroactive prosecution). penile [ˈpiˌnaɪl] relating to the penis. pensive [ˈpensɪv] 若有所思的, 陷入沉思的
thinking in a quiet way, often with a serious expression on your face.
If you are pensive, you are thinking deeply about something, especially
something that worries you slightly. He looked suddenly sombre, pensive. Angela stared pensively out of the window. She became withdrawn and pensive 寡言少语的, hardly speaking to anyone. ruminative [ruːmɪnətɪv , US -neɪt-] 深思熟虑的, 反复思考, 思过来想过去 If you are ruminative, you are thinking very deeply and carefully about something. He was uncharacteristically depressed and ruminative. He smiles and swirls the ice ruminatively around his almost empty glass. ruminate [ˈrumɪˌneɪt] I. formal to think about something very carefully. II. 反刍.biology
if an animal ruminates, it brings food back from its stomach into its
mouth and chews it (=breaks it into small pieces with its teeth) a
second time. wistful [ˈwɪstfəl] 无可奈何的, 舍不得的, 遗憾的, 不舍的
slightly sad because you want to have or to do something. Someone who
is wistful is rather sad because they want something and know that they
cannot have it. I
can't help feeling slightly wistful about the perks I'm giving up. [+
about] He has a wistful look. 'I wish I had a little brother,' said
Daphne wistfully. I sensed her wistfulness when she talked about vacations her relatives took. a wistful expression/smile. a. used when you are thinking about something that made you happy in the past. Miranda felt a wistful longing for the old days.
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