用法学习: 1. be a sucker for 爱到无法拒绝 to like a particular type of person or thing very much, so that you will do almost anything to please them or to have them. to like someone or something very much, especially so that you cannot refuse them. Mike's a sucker for foreign sports cars. be a stickler for detail/rules/accuracy etc to think that rules etc are very important and that other people should think so too. If you are a stickler for something, you always demand or require it. I'm a bit of a stickler for accuracy. Lucy was a stickler for perfection, and everything had to be exactly right. stricken [ˈstrɪk.ən] suffering severely from the effects of something unpleasant: All the oil from the stricken tanker has now leaked into the sea. My country has been stricken by war for the past five years. He has been stricken with grief since the death of his wife. emergency aid for famine-stricken countries. a poverty-stricken area. strike down I. usually passive to make someone die or become so ill that they can no longer live a normal life. A husband and wife struck down with coronavirus after holidaying on the Diamond Princess cruise have spoken about how differently the deadly illness affected them. As a tiny baby she was struck down by polio. II. to hit someone with enough force to make them fall down. III. if a judge or court strikes down a law, they officially end it. (of a court) to decide that a law or rule is illegal and should be ignored: The court struck down the law on the grounds that it was unconstitutional. strike an attitude/attitudes 装腔作势, 装模作样, 装装样子 to speak or act in a particular way to try and make other people believe particular things about you, although this may not be sincere: Some politicians prefer to strike attitudes on the world stage rather than deal with problems in their own countries. strike at the heart of sth to damage something severely by attacking the most important part of it: By its nature, terrorism is designed to strike at the heart of our democratic values. strike fear/terror into sb to make someone extremely frightened: The brutal military regime has struck terror into the whole population. strike force 生力军 a group of people, especially soldiers or police officers, who are organized and trained to take strong, sudden action to stop something harmful or unpleasant from continuing: We need a multinational strike force to combat drug trafficking. strike gold I. to win a gold medal in a sports competition: She is the favourite to strike gold in the 400 metres hurdles. II. to make large profits or to become rich: A few lucky people have struck gold by investing in this company. 2. get-out-of-jail-free card something that allows you to avoid an unpleasant result of your actions, for example a punishment or duty: He warns Americans that their nationality is not a get-out-of-jail-free card if they break the law abroad.
世界末日 day of reckoning 末日审判, 末日清算 VS like there is no tomorrow VS apocalypse 世界末日 VS armageddon = Armageddon 末日决斗, 善恶大对决 VS doomsday = judgment day, final judgement 最终审判日: 1. 印度大停电: It had all the makings of a disaster movie: More than half a billion people without power. Trains motionless on the tracks. Miners trapped underground. Subway lines paralyzed. Traffic snarled in much of the national capital. For a country considered a rising economic power, Blackout大停电 Tuesday — which came only a day after another major power failure — was an embarrassing reminder of the intractable problems still plaguing India: inadequate infrastructure, a crippling power shortage and, many critics say, a yawning ( 大张着嘴的. Gaping open; cavernous. Wide open. a yawning chasm. Gaping open; cavernous. abyss [ə'bis] An immeasurably deep chasm, depth, or void. chasm [ˈkæzəm] 鸿沟. A deep, steep-sided opening in the earth's surface; an abyss or gorge. ) absence of governmental action and leadership. India's coalition government, already battered for its stewardship ( I.
One who manages another's property, finances, or other affairs. II. One
who is in charge of the household affairs of a large estate, club,
hotel, or resort. III. A ship's officer who is in charge of provisions
and dining arrangements. ) of a wobbling economy, again found itself on the defensive, as top ministers could not definitively explain what had caused the grid failure or why it had happened on consecutive days. Theories for the extraordinarily extensive blackout across much of northern India included excessive demands过度的需求 placed on the grid from certain regions, due in part to low monsoon rains that forced farmers to pump more water to their fields, and the less plausible possibility that large solar flares had set off a failure(A solar flare 耀斑 is a sudden flash of brightness observed over the Sun's surface or the solar limb, which is interpreted as a large energy release
of up to 6 × 1025 joules of energy (about a sixth of the total energy
output of the Sun each second or 160,000,000,000 megatons of TNT
equivalent, over 25,000 times more energy than released from the impact
of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with Jupiter). They are often, but not always,
followed by a colossal coronal mass ejection. The flare ejects clouds of electrons, ions, and atoms
through the corona of the sun into space. These clouds typically reach
Earth a day or two after the event. The term is also used to refer to
similar phenomena in other stars, where the term stellar flare applies.). "It's like a day of reckoning ( day of reckoning
末日大审判, 大审判, 最终大清算. a time when something must be dealt with. Taking out
another loan to cover your debts will only postpone the day of
reckoning. Etymology: based on the Biblical day of reckoning ( the day
when God will judge everyone). ) coming nearer," In cases when demand outstrips the power supply需求大于电力供应, the system of circuit breakers must be activated, often manually, to reduce some of the load in what are known as rolling blackouts. But if workers cannot trip those breakers fast enough( trip I. a. to activate (a mechanical trip). b. trip a switch to switch electric power off by moving the switch armature to disconnect the supply. trip out:
(Electronics) (adverb) (of an electrical circuit) to disconnect or be
disconnected or (of a machine) to stop or be stopped by means of a trip
switch or trip button. wiki关于trip switch: A residual-current device (RCD), or residual-current circuit breaker (RCCB), is an electrical wiring device that disconnects
a circuit whenever it detects that the electric current is not balanced
between the energized conductor and the return neutral conductor. Such an imbalance may indicate
current leakage through the body of a person who is grounded and
accidentally touching the energized part of the circuit. A lethal shock致命电击 can result from these conditions. RCCBs are designed to disconnect quickly enough to prevent injury caused by such shocks. They are not intended to provide protection against overcurrent (overload) 过电, 电量过载 or short-circuit conditions.
In the United States and Canada, a residual-current device is most
commonly known as a ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI), ground
fault interrupter (GFI) or an appliance leakage current interrupter
(ALCI). In Australia they are sometimes known as "safety switches" or simply "RCD" and in the United Kingdom, along with circuit breakers, they can be referred to as "trips" or "trip switches". ), Mr. Schewe said a failure could cascade ( cascade [kæˈskeɪd] 递叠的, 层层交叠的, 步步演变. 一步一步的演变, 层层递进, 逐渐发展成为, 一连串的, 接二连三的, 一个接一个的 a.
a series of stages in the processing chain of an electrical signal
where each operates the next in turn. b. a series of things that come
quickly one after the other. a cascade amplifier. The bank's collapse led to a cascade of business failures. v. to flow down or hang down in large amounts. cascade to/down/from/over: The tears cascaded down成串滚落 her cheeks. dark hair that cascaded to her shoulders. ) into a much larger blackout. 2. as if there were no tomorrow or like there is no tomorrow 好像到了世界末日似的. 好像没有了明天似的. (idiomatic) to an excessive degree, desperately, very quickly or very much. like one's life depended on it 就好像就靠那个活着了似的, 就好像生命就靠那个了似的. like nobody's business (simile, colloquial) In an extreme manner; rapidly; excessively; like crazy. His
customers reimburse him for the equipment he buys, but it looks like he
spends money like nobody's business. She can sing like nobody's
business. What a set of pipes! My mom can cook chocolate chip cookies
like nobody's business. 3. The government's electoral prospects选举前景 now appear terminal 日薄西山, 末日, 奄奄一息, but most MPs refuse to consider another late-term leadership change fearing 担心, 害怕. it would further spook voters 亲者痛仇者快. ( spook I. Informal A ghost; a specter. II. Slang A secret agent; a spy. III. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a Black person. v. Informal I. To haunt. II. 惊吓, 吓坏. 吓慌. 慌神. To startle and cause nervous activity in; frighten: The news spooked investors, and stock prices fell. to spook horses to spook a person. spook someone or something to startle or disorient someone or something. A snake spooked my horse, and I nearly fell off. Your warning spooked me, and I was upset for the rest of the day. ) while simply rewarding 获利, 受益 "saboteurs" 渔翁得利(saboteur [ˌsæbə'tɜ:] n. a person who commits sabotage. Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening another entity through subversion, obstruction, disruption, or destruction. In a workplace setting, sabotage消极怠工 is the conscious withdrawal of efficiency generally directed at causing some change in workplace conditions. One who engages in sabotage is a saboteur. As a rule, saboteurs try to conceal their identities
because of the consequences of their actions. For example, whereas an
environmental pressure group might be happy to be identified with an act
of sabotage, it would not want the individual identities of the
perpetrators known. ). 4. apocalypse [əˈpokəlips] 世界末日, 大毁灭, 天崩地裂, 天塌地陷. (Christianity) Great or total devastation; doom. The unveiling of
events prophesied in the Revelation; the second coming and the end of
life on Earth; global destruction. a time when the whole world will be destroyed. a situation in which many people die and many things are destroyed. Some people believe an apocalypse is going to happen today. the apocalypse of nuclear war. In a post-apocalyptic [əˌpɑkəˈlɪptɪk] world where 21st century technology has collapsed, 14-year-old Garland is a member of Madigan's Fantasia, a travelling circus(巡回马戏团). armageddon = Armageddon [ˌɑ:(r)məˈɡed(ə)n] 末日决战, 最终决战, 终极对决. 善恶对决.
(Christianity, Islam) Armageddon is mentioned in the Bible as the place
where the final battle between good and evil will be fought. The site
of a prophesied final battle between the forces of good and evil.
Armageddon is a terrible battle or war that some people think will lead
to the total destruction of the world or the human race. doomsday 最终审判日 I. The day when God is expected to judge the world; end times. II. judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution. doomsayer 世界末日论者 someone who always says that bad things will happen. someone who always predicts the worst outcome. The doomsayers were proved right a few months later when it was announced that the deal was on hold, perhaps permanently. party pooper someone who is not willing to take part in an activity or who spoils other people's enjoyment of it. judgement day = final judement 末日审判, 终极审判
The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, final trial of all humankind, both
the living and dead by God expected to take place at the end of the
world, when each is rewarded or punished according to his or her merits.
5. somebody's number is up 末日到了, 大限到了 someone is going to die I don't worry about flying. I figure if your number's up, your number's up. what if … ? I. What if the car breaks down汽车要是抛锚了怎么办呢. II. why should I care if … ? what does it matter if … ? 就是…又如何, 那又怎么样 是又怎样, 就算...又如何 'You'll
fail the exam if you don't work harder, Carol.' 'What if I do? It's not
the end of the world.' "卡罗尔, 如果你不努力, 就不能通过考试了." "那又怎样? 那又不是世界末日." What
if people are starving? It doesn't affect me人们在挨饿又怎么样呢? 这跟我毫无关系.
stockpile VS stock: stockpile [ˈstɑkˌpaɪl] 囤积 to collect large amounts of things that may be needed. If people stockpile things such as food or weapons, they store large quantities of them for future use. People are stockpiling food for the coming winter. Terrorist groups are believed to be stockpiling weapons. noun. a large collection of things that may be needed The country is believed to have stockpiles of chemical weapons. stock up on sth 囤积 If you stock up on something, you buy a lot of it, in case you cannot get it later. The authorities have urged people to stock up on fuel. New Yorkers have been stocking up with bottled water. We've stocked up on canned food in case we get snowed in. well-stocked 货品充足的, 货量多的, 储量充足的 a well-stocked store has plenty of things in it to choose from. bump stock a device that can be attached to a semi-automatic weapon to enable it to be fired as fast as an automatic. The shooter used gun modifications called bump stocks to make his rifles even deadlier. stock adj a stock answer 已经备好的 is one that someone always gives when they are asked a particular question. A stock answer 标准答案, expression, or way of doing something is one that is very commonly used, especially because people cannot be bothered to think of something new. My boss had a stock response 标准回应–'If it ain't broke, don't fix it!'. National security is the stock excuse for keeping things confidential. Hooper gave all the usual stock answers to their questions. stock car an ordinary car that has been changed for racing. stock verb I. if a store stocks goods, it has them available for sale. If a shop stocks particular goods, it keeps a supply of them to sell. The shop stocks everything from chocolate to recycled loo paper. Do you stock 存货 fishing rods? II. stock = stock up to fill a place with things that you will need. If you stock something such as a cupboard, shelf, or room, you fill it with food or other things. I worked stocking shelves in a grocery store. Some families stocked their cellars with food and water. The kitchen cupboard was stocked with tins of soup. I had to stock the boat up with food. Customers travel from hundreds of miles away to stock up their deep freezes. You can stock up the freezer with ice cream ready for the next sunny day. stock something with something: They had stocked 储存, 储满 their refrigerator with plenty of food before the big game. The bathroom was stocked with 满是, 塞满了 expensive toilet articles. III. to put fish in a lake or river. stock something with something: a river stocked with trout. stock noun I. countable an amount of something that you keep so that you can use it when you need it. If you have a stock of things, you have a supply of them stored in a place ready to be used. Keep a stock of essentials such as bread in the freezer. Stocks of ammunition were running low. stock of: Keep a good stock of nutritious foods available. Their stocks of ammunition were running dangerously low. a. countable the total amount of something that is available for people to use. The stock of something 存量, 存货量 is the total amount of it that is available in a particular area. ...the stock of accommodation available to be rented. Much of the city's housing stock is of very poor quality. Time is vital if fish stocks are to recover. A shop's stock is the total amount of goods which it has available to sell. We took the decision to withdraw a quantity of stock from sale. b. singular an amount of facts, stories, etc. that someone knows. stock of: He had soon exhausted his stock of jokes. II. uncountable the goods that are available to buy in a store. We're having some new stock delivered this afternoon. in stock: Do you have any of these batteries in stock at the moment? out of stock (=not available now): I'm afraid that size is out of stock. If goods are in stock, a shop has them available to sell. If they are out of stock, it does not. products that are out of stock are not available to buy in a store because they have all been sold. if a store is out of stock of a particular product, it has sold all of that product: You will be notified by email if any part of your order is out of stock. We will recommend alternative products in the event that we are out of stock of that particular item. Check that your size is in stock. Lemon and lime juice were both temporarily out of stock. III. countable usually plural business one of the equal parts into which the value of a company is divided. Stocks are shares in the ownership of a company, or investments on which a fixed amount of interest will be paid. ...the buying and selling of stocks and shares. As stock prices have dropped, so too has bank capital. He made a living buying and selling stocks. Technology stocks fell sharply today. a. uncountable the total amount of money and goods that a company owns that shows how much it is worth. A company's stock is the amount of money which the company has through selling shares. The stock 市值 was valued in the market at $460 million. The Fisher family holds 40% of the stock. IV. countable/uncountable 汤底. a liquid made by boiling meat, bones, or vegetables and used for making soups and sauces. Stock is a liquid, usually made by boiling meat, bones, or vegetables in water, that is used to give flavour to soups and sauces. Add half a pint of chicken stock. V. uncountable animals such as cows and pigs that are kept on a farm. Stock are cattle, sheep, pigs, or other animals which are kept by a farmer, usually ones which have been specially bred. I am carefully selecting the breeding stock. His herd of 170 dairy cattle and 200 young stock are kept on the land. IV. uncountable the type of people that your family comes from. If you are from a particular stock, you are descended from a particular group of people. Mr Ahmady was born of Kurdish stock in western Iran. But his parents sent him to Britain when he was 18 for his education. We are both from working class stock. The World Service no longer reflects the interests of listeners of British stock. He comes from Irish stock. VII. uncountable the degree to which someone is respected by other people. The President's stock remains low with the electorate. raise one's stock. VIII. the stocks plural a wooden frame that people were locked into in the past as a punishment. IX. theatre Americana system used by theaters in which a group of actors regularly perform different plays during a particular period of time. stocking I. Stockings are items of women's clothing which fit closely over the feet and legs. Stockings are usually made of nylon or silk and are held in place by suspenders. ...a pair of nylon stockings. II. A stocking is the same as a Christmas stocking. A Christmas stocking is a long sock which children hang up on Christmas Eve. During the night, parents fill the stocking with small presents. body stocking A body stocking is a piece of clothing that covers the whole of someone's body and fits tightly. Body stockings are often worn by dancers. rolling stock the engines, cars, and other parts of trains used on a railroad. laughing stock someone or something that everyone thinks is very silly. take stock (of something) 盘点, 计算得失 to spend some time thinking about the situation that you are in before you decide what to do next. If you take stock, you pause to think about all the aspects of a situation or event before deciding what to do next. It was time to take stock of the situation. I was forty, the age when people take stock and change their lives. Millie felt she needed to stop and take stock of her life.
brew VS brood VS simmer: brew I. If a storm is brewing, large clouds are beginning to form and the sky is becoming dark because there is going to be a storm. We'd seen the storm brewing when we were out in the boat. II. If an unpleasant or difficult situation is brewing, it is starting to develop. At home a crisis was brewing 酝酿成形. There's trouble brewing. noun. A brew of several things is a mixture of those things. Most cities generate a complex brew of pollutants. ...a potent brew of smooth salesmanship and amateur psychiatry. brood 默想, 沉思 noun. I. A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother. II. You can refer to someone's young children as their brood when you want to emphasize that there are a lot of them. ...a large brood of children. brood verb. If someone broods over something, they think about it a lot, seriously and often unhappily. I guess everyone broods over things once in a while. She constantly broods about her family. I continued to brood. Would he always be like this? stew noun. A stew is a meal which you make by cooking meat and vegetables in liquid at a low temperature. She served him a bowl of lamb stew. They made a stew. verb. I. When you stew meat, vegetables, or fruit, you cook them slowly in liquid in a closed dish. Stew the apple and blackberries to make a thick pulp. ...stewed prunes. II. To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering. I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole. The meat is stewing nicely. To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering. I'm going to stew 慢炖 some meat for the casserole. The meat is stewing nicely. III.
To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions. IV. (intransitive,
figuratively) 焦虑, 大着急, 生闷气 To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger. in a stew If you are in a stew, you feel very worried. He's been in a stew since early this morning. Highly charged emotions have you in a stew. let someone stew/leave someone to stew (in their own juice) 让...着着急
If you let a person stew or if you leave them to stew, you deliberately
allow them to worry about something for a while, rather than telling
them something which would make them feel better. I'd rather let him stew. Leave them to stew in their own juice. to deliberately leave someone to worry about something that they have done wrong. simmer I. [intransitive, transitive] 慢慢炖. to boil gently, or to cook something slowly by boiling it gently Bring the soup to the boil and allow it to simmer gently for about half an hour. II. [intransitive] if you are simmering with anger 怒火中烧, or if anger is simmering in you, you feel very angry but do not show your feelings. He was left simmering with rage. III. [intransitive] if an argument is simmering 强压怒火, 压抑着怒火, people feel angry with each other but only show it slightly. The row has been simmering for some time. Violent revolt was simmering in the country. hot under the collar very annoyed or nervous. embarrassed or angry about something. angry, resentful, or embarrassed When
I suggested he was mistaken he got rather hot under the collar. We
disagree with each other from time to time, and we both get a little hot
under the collar. If someone gets hot under the collar about something, they get very annoyed, angry, or excited about it. Some of you were getting very hot under the collar about Royals. Well, you seem hot under the collar or is that the sweater? Oh, oh, no, no. It's because I spent all afternoon at the Armenian church where his funeral mass was held. According to Father Solakian, no one attended. Luckily, my trip wasn't a complete waste.
I lit a candle and prayed for your death. But I'm not Armenian, so it
probably won't work! This is over, right? Oh, not necessarily. I suggest
you look for long-lost relatives either in Armenia or Lebanon. If you're a stickler for the "ya can't call shotgun until you see the car" rule, this one is going to get you hot under the collar 怒火中烧. fume 怒不可遏, 气不打一处来 to feel or show a lot of anger. to feel or show a lot of anger. Citizens are fuming over the latest gas shortages. Motorists are fuming over the latest petrol shortages. outrageous, furious 怒气冲天的, aggravated 气坏了.
Big bang theory 1. PENNY: I don't know what to do. My car threw a rod and it's totaled 报废( A connecting rod, also called a con rod, is the part of a piston engine which connects the piston to the crankshaft. Together with the crank, the connecting rod converts the reciprocating motion of the piston into the rotation of the crankshaft. The connecting rod is required to transmit the compressive and tensile forces from the piston, and rotate at both ends. The predecessor to the connecting rod is a mechanic linkage used by water mills to convert rotating motion of the water wheel into reciprocating motion. Failure of a connecting rod, often called "throwing a rod", is one of the most common causes of catastrophic engine failure in cars, frequently driving the broken rod through the side of the crankcase and thereby rendering the engine irreparable. ). I can't afford a new one, I have no job, and now I can't drive to auditions. I'm so sorry. I know it's a sensitive subject, but can you reconsider that part in the movie? I did. I called them. The part's gone. They gave it to someone else. Now that girl's gonna get discovered 被发掘, 被发现 and become famous and go on Letterman and talk about how she got her big break on a cheap monkey movie all because some dumb girl thought it was beneath her 配不上她, 不配. At least they talked about you on Letterman. Come on, I can drive you wherever you need to go. How? Unlike me, you have a job. I'm just gonna have to go back to being a waitress. Oh. like I will be for the rest of my life. Leonard, would you wrap it up? We're waiting on you. I'm sorry, is the fact that my life's falling apart 人生乱成一团 interfering with 干扰到, 打扰到, 影响到 your board game? It is. You were wrong, friend Howard. She completely understood. 2. Am I a terrible person? No. No, it was a mistake. Am I a terrible person that it crossed my mind that 想过 she might die and never see the card? Now I think you're flirting with the line 危险境地, 危险地带, 灰色地带. 3. Ah, it's Penny. Is she still mad? Oh, doesn't seem like it. She got Sheldon to go to a psychic with her. A psychic? He considers them not just mumbo jumbo, but extra-jumbo mumbo jumbo. Well, Penny can be pretty persuasive. She's gotten me to do a lot of things I wouldn't normally do. Because she has sex with you. Yeah, she does. Can I confess something? Once in a while, I get a little jealous of how close Penny and Sheldon are. Really? I mean, not in a romantic way. It's just, she really has some sort of connection with him. Well Well, they've known each other a long time, and Penny grew up around horses, so she knows how to approach him without making him skittish 胆战心惊的, 不安的, 易受惊的, 易惊着的, 惊吓着他. skittish [ˈskɪtɪʃ]
adj. (of an animal, especially a horse) nervous or excitable; easily
scared. If you describe a person or animal as skittish, you mean they
are easily made frightened or excited. My horse is very skittish, so I have to keep him away from traffic. Investors are skittish about the impact of an economic downturn. The declining dollar gave heart to skittish 胆战心惊的, 战战兢兢的 investors. "a skittish chestnut mare". II. (of a person) playfully frivolous or unpredictable. of a person) not serious and likely to change their beliefs or opinions often: Marilyn was like a child, playful and skittish one moment, sulky and withdrawn the next. "my skittish 反复无常的, and immature mother". Someone who is skittish does not concentrate on anything or take life very seriously. ...his relentlessly skittish sense of humour. give/lose your heart to somebody to start to love someone very much. If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something. It gave me heart to see one thug get what he deserves.
