法学习: 1. underutilized [ˌʌndərˈjut(ə)lˌaɪzd] = underused not used enough, so that people do not get all the benefits that they could. redemption [rɪ'dempʃən] Redemption is the act of redeeming something or of being redeemed by something. He craves redemption 救赎 for his sins. ...redemption of the loan. ...regional differences in the frequency of cash redemptions and quota payment. I. the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil. "God's plans for the redemption of his world". Rape scenes are often seen through male characters' eyes, as in Game of Thrones, or are overshadowed by the series' interest in examining the possible redemption of the rapist instead, as in the latest season of Netflix's 13 Reasons Why. II. the action of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing a debt. "the peasants found the terms of redemption 赎回 unattractive". past/beyond redemption 不可救药, 无药可治 If you say that someone or something is beyond redemption, you mean that they are so bad it is unlikely that anything can be done to improve them. Their relationship was damaged beyond redemption 无可挽回. No man is beyond redemption. I have no doubt that we are polluting the environment beyond redemption. 2. optics I. 眼科. Optics is the branch of science concerned with vision, sight, and light. II. the way a situation looks to the general public. Optics are the way something looks to an outsider, especially concerning political actions. A politician playing golf during a violent protest in their home state would be an example of bad optics. The optics of this protest will either take it to historic highs, or cause it fall apart quickly. Although he thinks that shortages of food, medicine and fuel will affect visitors far less than it does UK residents, he says it's bad optics 负面舆论, 负面形象, 负面看法, 看起来不好, 看上去不好, 不好看. pisser I. someone or something that pisses. II. a disappointment or nuisance. something that is very annoying or not convenient: "I need to work late tonight." "What a pisser!" What a pisser 让人恼火, 让人火大. 太讨厌了, 太讨人厌了! III. something that is of very bad quality: There was some pisser of a movie about a boy and his dog on TV last night. IV. something extremely good or humorous: It was a pisser of a party! impertinent [ɪmˈpɜrt(ə)nənt] adj If someone talks or behaves in a rather impolite and disrespectful way, you can say that they are being impertinent. rude and not showing respect for someone, especially someone older or more senior. an impertinent question/child. I didn't mean to be impertinent. Would it be impertinent to ask where exactly you were? I don't like strangers who ask impertinent questions. schmaltz [ʃmɔlts] I. 鸡油, 鸭油. Schmaltz is rendered chicken or goose fat used for frying or as a spread on bread in Central European cuisine, and in the United States, particularly identified with Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine. Rendered waterfowl fat is also used in the cuisine of Southwestern France. II. music, art, or movies that are emotional in a way that seems silly. If you describe a play, film, or book as schmaltz, you do not like it because it is too sentimental. I love you so much. How can I live without you? Come on, save the schmaltz for your lover boy. do something to death 多得要吐了, 太多了 to do something so much that it becomes very boring. The alien invasion movie has been done to death. play something to death 听得要吐了 That song used to be very popular, but it's been played to death, now I'm sick of it. someone/something will be the death of me used for saying that someone or something annoys, upsets, or worries you very much. That child will be the death of me. settle a score = settle an old score 算账, 清算 If you settle a score or settle an old score with someone, you take revenge on them for something they have done in the past. to punish someone for something wrong that they did to you in the past and that you cannot forgive: Police believe the killer was a gang member settling a score with a rival gang. He is using his wealth and power to settle old scores. The groups had historic scores to settle with each other. see for yourself 自己看, 亲自看 to check what someone has told you by looking at it. To see or experience something firsthand as a means of proving to oneself that it is true or accurate. A: "Restarting the computer didn't fix the issue?" B: "See for yourself! It just keeps getting stuck." I couldn't believe that his car could actually park automatically, so I had to go over and see for myself. It's all gone – see for yourself. 3. George Burgess might have played his last game with South Sydney – and possibly in the NRL – after the prop (球员) ( I. If you prop an object on or against something, you support it by putting something underneath it or by resting it somewhere. He rocked back in the chair and propped his feet on the desk. He propped his bike against the bus. Sam slouched back and propped his elbows up on the bench behind him. If you have difficulty sitting like this, prop up your back against a wall. II. A prop 支架, 支棍 is a stick or other object that you use to support something. III. To be a prop for a system, institution, or person means to be the main thing that keeps them strong or helps them survive. The army is one of the main props of the government. I had two props in my life; one was food, the other work. IV. The props in a play or film are all the objects or pieces of furniture that are used in it. ...the backdrop and props 道具 for a stage show. ...stage props. V. In rugby, a prop or prop forward is one of the two players who position themselves in the front row when a group called a scrum is formed. VI. A prop is the same as a propeller. ) was suspended for nine matches despite sensationally swearing "on my kids' lives" he did not deliberately poke Robbie Farah in the eye 挖眼. Burgess was charged last Thursday night for eye-gouging the Wests Tigers' favourite. 4. 新iphone11: However, never one to claim they are first, Apple seem comfortable, if not confident that being first is not the measure 不是衡量标准, indeed being best is what matters. 婆媳关系: I like to think, though, that I am generous of heart ( Your new love has a generous heart 胸怀宽广, 大方, 不小气, 大气, 不斤斤计较. Being of generous heart, she forgave him. This country should always be open for business and should always have a big, welcoming, generous heart.), so I did my best to include my mother-in-law in all things pregnancy, birth and baby related. I swear I did. 澳洲人在巴厘岛: But among them are the Bali-bound bogans who are making more than a nuisance of themselves and dominating local headlines for crimes and misdemeanours 行为不轨, 行径 that range from trafficking in drugs to fraud and outrageous drunken escapades. Their antics 古怪行径, 让人侧目的行为 are more mundane ( I. ordinary and not interesting or exciting, especially because of happening too regularly mundane activities/tasks/matters. II. formal relating to the world and practical matters instead of religious or spiritual ones. ) than the infamous Bali Nine or Schapelle Corby drug traffickers, but have still prompted Balinese governor I Wayan Koster to seek stricter laws to curb 控制, 限制 bad behaviour and enable "disrespectful tourists" to be "sent back home". Then there's Matthew Richard Woods, who faces up to seven years behind bars for allegedly snatching 抢钱包 a purse from a Canadian tourist while riding pillion ( pillion [ˈpɪljən] a seat for a passenger behind the driver of a motorcycle. ride pillion 坐后座, 汽车载人 if someone rides pillion on a motorcycle, they sit behind the driver. ) on a motorbike. Police here like to parade 游大街, 游街 the accused in prison orange overalls before the media, and according to one report, it was then that "Woods cowered under a desk, appearing to cry". 5. excised [ɪkˈsʌɪzd] adj having been cut out surgically. "excised 切除的 tissue". II. having been removed from a text or piece of music."he included the excised passages 删除的段落 in italic print". excise noun [ˈekˌsaɪz] 烟草税, 酒税 Excise is a tax that the government of a country puts on particular goods, such as cigarettes and alcoholic drinks, which are produced for sale in its own country. .New car buyers will be hit by increases in taxes and excise. ..this year's rise in excise duties. wiki: An excise or excise tax is any duty on manufactured goods which is levied at the moment of manufacture, rather than at sale. Excises are often associated with customs duties (which are levied on pre-existing goods when they cross a designated border in a specific direction); customs are levied on goods which come into existence – as taxable items – at the border, while excise is levied on goods which came into existence inland. excise verb. [ɪkˈsaɪz] I. If someone excises something, they remove it deliberately and completely ...a personal crusade to excise racist and sexist references in newspapers. ...the question of permanently excising madness from the world. excision [(ɪksɪʒən]: The authors demanded excision of foreign words. II. 切除. 割除. medical to remove something harmful that is growing inside a person’s body, especially by cutting it out. III. 删除. formal to remove part of a book or movie, for example because it is considered offensive. 6. Aldi 热卖caviar 护肤品: "This happens every time I go to Aldi early morning wanting to buy the cream," she said. "It's a real struggle for mums with prams because the other customers are in a dog-eat-dog situation ( 竞争残酷, 你死我活的, 非生即死 used to refer to a situation of fierce competition in which people are willing to harm each other in order to succeed. "New York is a dog-eat-dog society". )." She said she was "too scared to be near them" and saw people grabbing the product by the box-full.
Breaking Bad: 1. Krazy-8's one level higher. One level higher? Yeah, you know, not like street level. Higher. You know, there's like a Starbucks at every corner? Krazy-8 is, like, the dude that sells Starbucks his beans. Okay, so he's a distributor. Okay, so, is he I mean, is he In other words What is his reputation for violence? Well, um He did try to kill us both yesterday, so there's that. What I'm trying to say is that he's a distributor, right? He's a businessman, he's a man of business. It would therefore seem to follow that he is capable of acting out of mutual self-interest, yes? What? Do you think he is capable of listening to reason? What kind of reason? Like "Dear Krazy-8, listen, "if I let you go, will you promise not to come back and waste my family? "No Colombian neckties (A Colombian necktie is a method of execution by mutilation used in South America wherein the victim's throat would be slashed horizontally, with a knife or other sharp object, and their tongue pulled out through the open wound. )." You mean that kind of reason? No, man, I can't say as I have high hopes where that's concerned. 2. You all set 你可以吗, 没事吗, 不需要帮忙吗, 自己可以吗(腿不好的儿子自己下车)? Yeah, I'm fine. All right, see you at home. 3. Pinkman? It's me. I'm alone. How'd you find me? You're still in our filing system. So your aunt owns this place, right? I own it. No one's looking for you. Why are you here? I was curious. Honestly, I never expected you to amount to much ( I. If you say that one thing amounts to something else, you consider the first thing to be the same as the second thing. The confessions were obtained by what amounts to torture. ...a schoolboy comedy, which amounted to little more than slapstick. to be the same as or equal to something else. Two dates in nine years hardly amounts to an active social life. to have the same effect as something else The court decided that the company’s actions amounted to unfair dismissal. II. to add up to a particular total. His monthly earnings amount to about $3,500. not amount to much/a great deal 没有什么成就, 没有成绩 to not be very impressive, important, etc. The results of the research don't really amount to much. to turn out to be (something or someone important, impressive, etc.) I don't think he'll ever amount to anything. not amount to a hill of beans to not be important at all. amount/come to the same thing 结果一样, 效果一样 to have the same meaning or effect as something else. Whether someone made a mistake or whether there's a flaw in the system, it all comes to the same thing – sheer inefficiency.), but methamphetamine? I didn't picture that. 4. Can't we just dump 'em here? What, then somebody finds them? Then what? People have seen us. You're gonna flood it, man. I'm not gonna flood it. She's not gonna flood, all right? We're just gonna stay positive, right? We're going to clean up this mess. Wish you would start. Damn it. See? You flooded it. All right. All right. You know what? The RV is going to start now. The RV is going to start right now. It's gonna start and we're gonna drive it over to your house. My house? Yes. We'll drive it over there and park it overnight. And then tomorrow. No, man, not my house! Shut up! After we finish cleaning up this mess, we will go our separate ways. Our paths will never cross. And we will tell this to no one. Understood? What, I can talk now? Fine. That goes double for me ( that goes double for used to say that something one has just said about one person or thing relates even more strongly to another. You're in trouble, Steven. And that goes double for you, John. ). Be good to me. A flooded engine is an internal combustion engine that has been fed an excessively rich air-fuel mixture that cannot be ignited. This is caused by the mixture exceeding the upper explosive limit for the particular fuel. An engine in this condition will not start until the excessively rich mixture has been cleared. It is also possible for an engine to stall from a running state due to this condition. Engine flooding was a common problem with carbureted cars, but newer fuel-injected ones are immune to the problem when operating within normal tolerances. Flooding usually occurs during starting, especially under cold conditions or because the accelerator has been pumped. It can also occur during hot starting; high temperatures may cause fuel in the carburetor float chamber to evaporate into the inlet manifold, causing the air/fuel mixture to exceed the upper explosive limit. High temperature fuel may also result in a vapor lock, which is unrelated to flooding but has a similar symptom. 5. What time do you think you'll be home? Same time. I don't want him dicking you around ( dick somebody around 推脱, 推来阻去的 American English spoken to cause a lot of problems for someone, especially by changing your mind a lot or preventing them from getting what they want. The phone company's been dicking me around for three months.) tonight. You get paid till 5, you work till 5, no later. 6. What kind of plastic, man? Polyethylene. How the hell am I supposed to know that? Because I told you. Look, just look at the bottom for a triangle stamped "LDPE." It should be molded right into the plastic. Yeah, yeah, LDPE. Right on, got it. But I don't know, man, this feels kind of flimsy. Any decent acid's gonna eat right through this. Not hydrofluoric. Why not? Look, you skipped, clowned around ( clown around slang To joke, play, or otherwise behave in a silly way. to act silly; to mess around. We were just clowning around. We didn't mean to break anything. I can see you boys clowning around back there! Sit down and do the math problems I assigned. The kids are just clowning around with each other in the back yard, if you want to call them for dinner. ) or otherwise jerked off to every lecture I ever gave. As far as I'm concerned, your chemistry education is over. Oh, okay. Be a dick about it. So, hey, have you Have you done the thing? Yeah, I'm working up to it. You know what? I bet he doesn't even wake up. Not even if you took him to the hospital right now. Now, if it was me, I would just try and think of it like I was I was doing him a favor. 7. defect [ˈdiˌfekt] a fault in someone or something. There are a few minor design defects. genetic defects.
