用法学习: 1. Friends: Although the facets 面向, 多面性 of Phoebe's character are manifold ( adj. [ˈmænɪˌfoʊld] 多面性的 of many different kinds. Things that are manifold are of many different kinds. Gaelic can be heard here in manifold forms. The difficulties are manifold. noun. a pipe through which gases pass into and out of a vehicle's engine. ) and extremely complex, Phoebe can generally be classified 归类为 as kind-hearted, but ditzy ( [ˈdɪtsi] silly and not reliable. A ditzy person is silly and not very organized. She may come across as ditzy, but she knows what she's doing. ) and whimsical [ˈwɪmzɪk(ə)l]( I. 图好玩的. 想一出是一出的. 随性的. made or done for fun, not seriously. A whimsical person or idea is unusual, playful, and unpredictable, rather than serious and practical. McGrath remembers his offbeat sense of humor, his whimsical side. His graphic art became slighter and more whimsical. a whimsical design. II. slightly strange or old-fashioned. his whimsical smile. ). Due in no small part to her extremely traumatic childhood, Phoebe has developed a child-like naïveté in an attempt to shield her from the world's evils. 2. bleed I. to have blood flowing from your body, for example from a cut. I cut my finger and it's bleeding. bleed from: He was bleeding from a wound in his shoulder. bleed heavily/profusely: The victim was dumped by a roadside, bleeding profusely. She would have bled to death if we hadn't found her. II. transitive to make someone pay a lot of money, especially regularly over a long period of time. He'll try to bleed them for every penny he can get. bleed someone dry (=take all of someones money) 榨干: They were being bled dry by legal fees. III. intransitive if the colour in clothing, paper etc bleeds 褪色, 掉色, 弄得模糊, 糊了, it accidentally spreads. IV. transitive to remove liquid, gas, chemicals etc from a machine's system. He bled all the oil from the engine before starting work. V. transitive to take blood from someone's body as part of a medical treatment, especially in the past. bleed out to die from loss of blood. He almost bled out but he survived. bleed one's money 烧钱: The expression "bleeding money" means that the company is mismanaged, a disaster for investors, and that they are losing money faster than they can make it. working from home: "Now each of us is using two 24-inch, 40-watt monitors, going all the workday," he said. "And the workday bleeds into the evening when you are home ( bleed (into something) to spread from one area of something to another area. Keep the paint fairly dry so that the colours don't bleed into each other.)." 3. A back-of-the-envelope calculation 草草估算, 草草算了一下 is a rough calculation, typically jotted down on any available scrap of paper such as an envelope. It is more than a guess but less than an accurate calculation or mathematical proof. The defining characteristic of back-of-the-envelope calculations is the use of simplified assumptions. A similar phrase in the U.S. is "back of a napkin", also used in the business world to describe sketching out a quick, rough idea of a business or product. In British English, a similar idiom is "back of a fag packet". 用例 - convid19下的电费: Ms Schroeder used to go to choir every week. Now she's joining it online, as well as working from home, charging a laptop and a phone, and spending more time on the landline due to "patchy" mobile coverage. Now she is waiting for the bill shock. Her back-of-the-envelope calculation is sobering ( making you think about things in a serious way. a sobering thought. You say that something is a sobering thought or has a sobering effect when a situation seems serious and makes you become serious and thoughtful. Statistics paint a sobering picture–unemployment, tight credit, lower home values. The events of October 1987 had a sobering effect on managers of large funds. ). Mr Newman was working at the University of Sydney and his housemate was also on campus studying before the lockdown. "Now each of us is using two 24-inch, 40-watt monitors, going all the workday," he said. "And the workday bleeds into the evening when you are home ( bleed (into something) to spread from one area of something to another area. Keep the paint fairly dry so that the colours don't bleed into each other.)." And "tonnes" of tea and coffee means the kettle is getting a hefty workout. "There is no zip tap at home, that's for sure," he said. 4. have skin in the game 利益攸关 to be at risk financially because you have invested in something that you want to happen. to be directly involved in or affected by something, especially financially: If people have skin in the game, preventable costs fall. A debate has been rumbling over how to ensure that lenders have more skin in the game. You take more ownership of something when you have some skin in the game. To have "skin in the game" is to have incurred risk (monetary or otherwise) by being involved in achieving a goal. In the phrase, "skin" is a synecdoche for the person involved, and "game" is the metaphor for actions on the field of play under discussion. The aphorism is particularly common in business, finance, and gambling, and is also used in politics. eat your own dog food: I. 使用自家的产品. To use the product(s) one's company produces or develops as a means of demonstrating or validating its quality, capabilities, or superiority to other brands. Used primarily in reference to software industries, the phrase is thought to have originated with advertisements for Alpo dog food in the 1980s, in which actor Lorne Green promoted the product by pointing out that he fed it to his own dogs. The company sent out a memo to all of its employees telling them to eat their own dog food to demonstrate their new operating system's speed and ease of use. II. By extension, to use software one's company is developing—usually in its beta form—so as to test it for flaws and ensure its ease of use by end users before it is released. We didn't have time to eat our own dog food before the new operating system's release, so I'm worried it may still have a lot of glitches that haven't been accounted for yet. Eating your own dog food or dogfooding is the practice of an organization using its own product. This can be a way for an organization to test its products in real-world usage. Hence dogfooding can act as quality control, and eventually a kind of testimonial advertising. Once in the market, dogfooding demonstrates confidence in the developers' own products. dead in the water 胎死腹中 completely unlikely to succeed. If you say that someone or something is dead in the water, you are emphasizing that they have failed, and that there is little hope of them being successful in the future. A 'no' vote would have left the treaty dead in the water. The peace process is now dead in the water. blow someone/something out of the water I. to show that something is completely false or wrong. We found evidence that blew his case out of the water. II. to defeat someone easily. They think they can blow their rivals out of the water with this product. 5. ribbing good-natured teasing. the act of laughing at someone in a friendly way as a joke: They gave him a ribbing about his accent. "He took a good deal of ribbing with the utmost good humour". rib noun I. Your ribs are the 12 pairs of curved bones that surround your chest. Her heart was thumping against her ribs. My face was covered with bruises and I had a broken rib. II. A rib of meat such as beef or pork is a piece that has been cut to include one of the animal's ribs. ...a rib of beef. ...pork ribs in sweet sauce. rib verb. If you rib someone about something, you tease them about it in a friendly way. The guys in my local pub used to rib 开玩笑, 笑话 (mock) me about drinking 'girly' drinks. ribbed [rɪbd] A ribbed surface, material, or garment has a raised pattern of parallel lines on it. ...ribbed cashmere sweaters. ...special ribbed tyres. NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal has maintained his innocence over an appearance in hit Netflix docu-series Tiger King but that didn't save him from his colleagues' good-natured 无伤大雅的 ribbing 开玩笑. O'Neal said he only visited the zoo one more time after that but as he tried to downplay his link to Exotic, Barkley chimed back in to stir the pot. "Well how much time did you spend with Exotic? That's what America really wants to know," he asked. "There's a lot of stuttering (stutter I. intransitive/transitive to repeat the sounds of words in an uncontrolled way when you speak because you are nervous or have a speech problem. Richard stuttered a reply and sat down, his face red. II. intransitive to move, work, or progress in a way that is not smooth or regular. The car would start but then stutter to a stop. Last night the team nearly lost, but stuttered to a tie in the end. ) going on right there." 6. Khloe is left taken aback and mortified by the confession while Kris adds: 'Is that too much? Is my shirt on right 衬衫穿得对吗?' 'Why would your shirt not be on right?' Khloe asks. 'Just one of those days!' Kris replies. To which Khloe asks: 'Why isn't Corey here? I thought he was coming to lunch.' 'Corey had to go home and sleep because we were up all night. You know how that goes!' Kris teases with a perky tone. powder keg 火药桶 I. a barrel of gunpowder. II. a dangerous or volatile situation. "the place had been a powder keg since the uprising". Coronavirus may have just lit the fuse on the world's powder keg. Note: A powder keg is a barrel of gunpowder. The powder keg was the primary method for storing and transporting large quantities of black powder until the 1870s and the adoption of the modern cased bullet. 7. boots on the ground I. soldiers present somewhere taking military action, or prepared to take military action. soldiers, police, etc. who are physically present somewhere in a military or police operation: He said that US military policy relied too much on technology and air power and too little on boots on the ground 地面部队. He believes having more boots on the ground will help in the department's crime-fighting efforts. II. people who are physically present in a place doing the work to achieve something: "You simply have to have the boots on the ground 当地有人, the people in place, to manage the fisheries," he said. dig (one's) heels in To cling stubbornly to one's beliefs, position, or wishes. Please let me tell my side of the story before you dig your heels in on this, OK? I told Grace she can't go, and now she's dug her heels in as if this party is the most important thing in her life. If you dig your heels in or dig in your heels, you refuse to do something such as change your opinions or plans, especially when someone is trying very hard to make you do so. It was really the British who, by digging their heels in, prevented any last-minute deal. to refuse to alter one's course of action or opinions; to be obstinate or determined. The student dug her heels in and refused to obey the instructions. I'm digging in my heels. I'm not going back. dig yourself into a hole 越陷越深 = dig a hole for yourself to get yourself into a difficult situation: The party has really dug itself into a hole with its economic policies. for show 做做样子的, 做给人看的 for the sake of appearance rather than for use. in order to attract attention. The birch logs are just for show; at the moment we're burning scrap lumber. toing and froing ( going back and forth) I. constant movement or travel back and forth. a lot of movement backwards and forwards between two places. Movements up and down or backwards and forwards. "it does cost a lot, all this toing and froing up 来来往往 to London". II. repeated discussion or thought about something without making any progress. a lot of argument or discussion about a particular thing. "after some toing and froing 来来回回 the family settled on a costume". blowback (blow back on someone) 反弹, 找回来, 算账 negative reactions or results that were not intended, such as criticism, protest, or anger: If he tried to control immigration, there would be blowback from farmers who could not get workers to pick produce. strike a blow for something to do something to help or to support an idea, movement, or group. to do something that supports or defends something: The judge's ruling has struck a blow for racial equality. She has struck a blow for common sense and human decency. strike a blow at/against something 造成打击 to do something to harm or oppose an idea, movement, or group. His main desire was to strike a blow against the communist forces. 8. alert I. 理智. 头脑清楚. able to think in a clear and intelligent way. He's remarkably alert for his age. Regular exercise could help you to feel better, look better, and be more alert. If you are alert to something, you are fully aware of it. The bank is alert to the danger. II. paying attention to what is happening and ready to react quickly if necessary. If you are alert, you are paying full attention to things around you and are able to deal with anything that might happen. We all have to stay alert. He had been spotted by an alert neighbour. The drug improved mental alertness. alert to: Parents must be alert to the symptoms of the disease. Why is Ruth - a tiny antagonistic hothead picking up money on her own or at all? For instance. You'd employ some level headed, sensible and alert pros. noun. An alert is a situation in which people prepare themselves for something dangerous that might happen soon. Due to a security alert, this train will not be stopping at Oxford Circus. verb. If you alert someone to a situation, especially a dangerous or unpleasant situation, you tell them about it. He wanted to alert people to the activities of the group. I was hoping he'd alert the police. red alert If a hospital, a police force, or a military force is on red alert, they have been warned that there may be an emergency, so they can be ready to deal with it. All the Plymouth hospitals are on red alert. Sirens sounded an end to the red alert. on the alert If you are on the alert for something, you are ready to deal with it if it happens. They want to be on the alert for similar buying opportunities.
Ozark Season 3: 1. chipper [tʃɪpər] adj. Chipper means cheerful and lively. feeling happy and full of energy and hope. He looked unusually chipper this morning. Don't be upset, it's nothing, she's just anxious about 着急, 焦虑 the deal. be free with something 大方, 不吝啬, 不吝惜 to be very generous with something He seems to be very free with other people's money. She is always free with her advice. She might not know the truth, most parents aren't as free with truth 无所不谈, 没有隐瞒, 什么都说, 说实话, 坦率, 坦白 as we are. come around I. if a regular event comes around, it happens again. Before we knew it, Christmas had come around again. II. to become conscious again after being unconscious. When I came around 苏醒, 恢复意识, 清醒, I was lying on the back seat of a car. III. to go to a place where someone is, especially their house, in order to visit them. Why don't you come around after work? IV. if something such as a letter or a message comes around, it is sent to several people in a place. A note came around asking for new ideas. V. to go to several people in a room, one after another, especially in order to talk to them. The manager came around and congratulated everyone. come around with: A waiter came around with a tray of drinks. VI. to change your opinion or decision because someone has persuaded you to agree with them. He'll come around eventually. come around to: We knew she would come around to our way of thinking. I'm starting to come around on this place. I have come around on this place 喜欢上了 now, now I'm enjoying it. look at (one) cross-eyed 稍有不从, 稍有不敬, 稍有不恭 To glance at one in a threatening, insolent, or contemptuous manner. Usually used hypothetically. You're on thin ice, Jim—from here on out, if you so much as look at me cross-eyed, I'll have you fired so fast it will make your head spin. to merely appear to question, threaten, or mock someone. (Often in the negative.) You had better be on your best behavior around Tony. Don't even look at him cross-eyed! If you so much as look at me cross-eyed, I will send you to your room. insolent [ˈɪnsələnt] 动粗 rude, especially when you should be showing respect. If you say that someone is being insolent, you mean they are being rude to someone they ought to be respectful to. ...her insolent stare. The officer stamped his boot. 'Don't be insolent with me, mademoiselle.' Pupils could be excluded from school for insolence. 2. bootleg adj. Bootleg is used to describe something that is made secretly and sold illegally. ...a bootleg recording of the band's tour of Scandinavia. ...bootleg liquor. verb. To bootleg something such as a recording means to make and sell it illegally. He has sued a fan for bootlegging his concerts. Avid Bob Dylan fans treasure bootlegged recordings. The record was a bootleg. Bootleggers sold 75 million dollars-worth of copies. Etymology: From bootleg + -er. Originally a nickname given to smugglers in King George III's reign, derived from the smugglers' custom of hiding packages of valuables in the legs of their large sea-boots when dodging the king's coastguardsmen. bootlegger An illegal trader of goods, especially of alcohol. A still is a piece of equipment used to make strong alcoholic drinks by a process called distilling. a piece of equipment used for making strong alcohol to drink. stock 家族 the type of people that your family comes from. He comes from Irish stock. You've had a lot of loss, haven't you, boy? It is what it is, you know? It's the Langmore curse. Bullshit. Your daddy may have been useless, his daddy human garbage, but before that... your folks were all right. God, back in the day, they had stills in every kind of cove and holler. Biggest bootleggers in the Ozarks. Now, you can't pull that off unless you're tight-knit, hardworking folks. Langmore stock is as good as any around here. Don't let anyone tell you different. You still breaking and entering? I've been crashing 将就, 凑合 in my car so I don't get busted again. Hmm. I got a cabin on the property here. One of my workers used to live in it,but... it's been empty for a while now. If you want it, it's yours. crash to sleep somewhere for the night, usually when you did not plan to do this. You can crash at my place if you want. 3. Anita, I hope you're calling with good news. Well, I guess that depends on your perspective. I don't understand. Seems our rivals have gone and set themselves on fire. It's gonna be months before they can reopen. We're gonna be able to get that bank loan and upgrade. We're backing out of the deal. You can't do that. But I am. Our handle's about to go up a million dollars a month. But we had an agreement. A verbal agreement. Anita, where is this coming from? This isn't you. Oh, please. Don't pretend we had a relationship. "This is your life's work." Really? You were a carpetbagger (carpetbagger INFORMAL DEROGATORY I. a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections. II. a person who becomes a member of a mutually owned building society or insurance company in order to gain financially in the event of the organization demutualizing.), plain and simple. I was your fucking salvation. I'll take you to court. You could try. note: Following the American Civil War, if someone called you a carpetbagger or scalawag ( [ˈskæləˌwæɡ] someone, especially a child, who behaves badly but is difficult to dislike. scallywag [skæliwæg] If you call someone a scallywag, you mean that they behave badly but you like them, so you find it difficult to be really angry with them. It's his idea of a joke, I suppose, the scallywag. ), it wasn't meant as a compliment. The term carpetbagger was used by opponents of Reconstruction—the period from 1865 to 1877 when the Southern states that seceded were reorganized as part of the Union—to describe Northerners who moved to the South after the war, supposedly in an effort to get rich or acquire political power. A carpetbagger was portrayed as a lower-class schemer with little education who could carry everything he owned in a cheap carpet bag. These new arrivals supported the Republicans (the party of Abraham Lincoln) and were said to be corrupt profiteers who took advantage of the financial and political instability in the devastated postwar South. In reality, many of the Northerners who migrated to former Confederate states during Reconstruction were middle-class professionals seeking economic opportunities; a number also were motivated by a desire to aid newly freed African-American slaves or participate in other efforts intended to reform Southern society. Meanwhile, white Southerners who supported Reconstruction-era Republicans were called scalawags by their political enemies, who considered them traitors to the South and just as bad, if not worse, than carpetbaggers. Scalawags included non-slaveholding, small-time farmers; middle-class professionals and others who had stayed loyal to the Union during the war. Although the exact origins of scalawag are unknown, it was in use in the United States before the Civil War as a term for both a farm animal of little value and a never-do-well individual. Today, carpetbagger remains in use, as a slur for someone who's an opportunistic outsider, such as a political candidate who runs for office in a place where he has no deep ties or hasn't lived in for a very long time. 4. Hmm! Your uncle has a very fanciful imagination( I. 奇幻的. 不现实的. not serious or sensible. If you describe an idea as fanciful, you disapprove of it because you think it comes from someone's imagination, and is therefore unrealistic or unlikely to be true. ...fanciful ideas about Martian life. Designing silicon chips to mimic human organs sounds fanciful. What a fanciful suggestion! II. unusual and complicated rather than plain and practical. If you describe the appearance of something as fanciful, you mean that it is unusual and elaborate rather than plain and simple. The economic gloom of the early 1980s was relieved by fanciful architecture. new fanciful styles of architecture. ). get across to make people understand something He sometimes has trouble getting his meaning across in English. get something across to someone 传达出去: What message are you trying to get across to the consumer? get across how/what etc: I was trying to get across how much I admired them. When an idea gets across or when you get it across, you succeed in making other people understand it. Officers felt their point of view was not getting across to ministers. I had created a way to get my message across while using as few words as possible. Does that mean it's working? Hello---Like gangbusters. Don't let up 别停, 别放松, 喘口气, 别给他们喘息之机( let up I. if something bad or unpleasant lets up, it slows down or stops. The icy wind never let up for a moment. Things haven't let up at work, I'm still working over 60 hours a week. II. to put less effort into something, especially criticizing someone or making them work harder. Boy, you just never let up, do you? let up on: She's a coach who never lets up on her players. ). I want them stunned into submission. 5. I'm just asking for your help. Actually, you're not. You're going behind my back to expressly do what you know we are not allowed to do. Because you won't help. Do you not see a pattern here? You've done nothing but fight me on this. And now, now you want unfettered ( [ʌnˈfetərd] without limits or controls. If you describe something as unfettered, you mean that it is not controlled or limited by anyone or anything. ...unfettered free trade. Unfettered by the bounds of reality, my imagination flourished. He demanded unfettered access to a new nuclear facility. fetter I. literary to limit someone's freedom to do what they want. We are fettered by petty bureaucracy. II. to put chains on a prisoner's feet. ) access to the very thing you've tried to undermine since the very beginning. I don't want--I need access, Wendy. We need access. We have made promises to our shareholders about this casino and I don't think--I don't think we want to annoy our shareholders. What would you have me do? I don't feel very compelled to help you right now. I just had a very interesting conversation with Frank. From Kansas City. Oh, yeah? Hmm. And you do... you do realize what a magnificently stupid and dangerous thing it was that you did in Kansas, right? I pleaded with you, "Please don't do this. Please do not get us further in on this 越陷越深." Remember that? Yeah. And because you didn't get your way, you went behind my back to sabotage me. I was trying to protect our family, Wendy. That's it. That is such That is such a tired......tired excuse( tired something that is tired is boring because you have heard or seen it so often. that tired old excuse. 听到耳朵起茧字的. 听过太多次的. If you describe something as tired, you are critical of it because you have heard it or seen it many times. I didn't want to hear another one of his tired excuses. What we see at Westminster is a tired old ritual.). Yeah. You know what you like to do? You like to control your family. I'm asking you for fucking help on a problem that you created, and you're not helping. That's the whole story. To you. Let's pause there. Marty. Yeah. What would it look like to achieve your objectives without interfering with Wendy's project? I think that that would look like death. But what would it really look like? Really death. Marty, my mother had a saying. "Just like a pie is only as good as its crust, a marriage is only as good as its trust." Going behind Wendy's back on a project that is obviously meaningful to her violates that trust. Wendy is a powerful woman, and it's your responsibility to nurture that, Marty. Not stifle 压制 it. What the hell was that? Hey, Sue! What the hell was that? You told me to let her win a couple. Small things. 6. How is your ex? Is he still in the hospital? He is, and doing about as well as he should be. How are you and Marty? We're okay. We're good. We're just... We're a little disconnected at the moment. Ah. Same thing happened to us. When I started eclipsing him professionally, he was no longer interested in me sexually. Oh, I'd hardly say I'm eclipsing him. Oh, please! No, we can't do any of this without him. Few people get my client's attention the way you have. And should I be worried about that? What, his attention? Mm-hmm. Only if you fuck up. 7. She's not in my corner ( in (one's) corner Giving one's full support to someone. I'm nervous about the trial, but I'm glad I have you in my corner. I feel a little bad that he's going into the meeting with no one in his corner. in someone's corner = on someone's side = giving someone support This idiom and fight your corner are boxing metaphors and refer to the diagonally opposite corners taken by opponents in a boxing match. Trainers and assistants are in a boxer's corner to offer support and encouragement between rounds. fight your corner 维护自己 British English to try very hard to defend yourself in a discussion or argument, or to do this for someone else My line manager supports me, and says she's willing to fight my corner.), and I need you to get her there. I always do what I can to help her see your side, Marty Mm-hmm. Well, do you, Sue? You know, I'm not giving out participation medals 参与奖. From now on, if you want your bonus, you're gonna have to earn it. It's gonna be--You listening? It's gonna be $300 if she is leaning my way 倾向于我. It's gonna be $800 if she commits in session. Good? Oh, well, this is-- We don't usually talk about sums. Mm-hmm. Listen, if you're uncomfortable with our arrangement, why do you take my money? suppose I want to see where your story ends. You play your cards right 干得好的话, 做得好的话, it's gonna end with you getting $800. Sound good? Have a cookie. They're homemade. They smell delicious, but I'm gonna see myself out 先走了, 出去, 告辞. 8. He's out cold 睡熟了, 睡死过去了. I can't thank you enough for today. Did you mean what you said? Am I a good mother? Yeah. Yeah, every word. 9. Hey, thanks for doing this. You want some lunch? I got a whole mess of boiled peaches. Sure. I hope this is fine. It's from my dad's funeral, but... I bet he thought you looked real smart, too. Hey, you scrub up all right ( scrub up well UK informal approving said about someone when they have made an effort to look nice: Mary scrubs up well. 'YOU scrub up nicely' actually means 'normally you look pretty shit', recipients of the 'compliment' feel. clean up good to look attractive. Always used to refer to someone who doesn't usually appear attractive, but becomes attractive when they make an effort, e.g. by dressing nicely, putting on makeup, etc. She's dressed in sweatpants now, but boy can she clean up good! clean up nice(ly) To appear presentable after grooming oneself. This is a set phrase used to compliment one's appearance. However, because it implies that one was previously dirty or unattractive, it can be received as an insult or backhanded compliment 明褒暗贬. Did you see Owen in his suit and tie? He sure cleans up nice! All I said was that she cleans up nicely, and she got mad at me!), Langmore. With the exception of this filthy mop you're wearing. We gotta give that a good wash if anyone's gonna believe a word that comes out of your trap. I can just tie it back like I always do. Oh, don't be a fool. 10. The cartel's breaking their agreement to distribute my product. Can you believe that? The nerve. Well, I don't know what I can do about that. I can't arrest people for not doing crime. How many people you got working under you? Ten. Count the reserves. How many you trust? Your kind of business? Three, four. That'll do, for a start. We can always recruit. People around here trust the police. Darlene, no. No, come on. There's limits to what I can do 我能做的是有限的. Who sets those limits? Not you. Darlene, I cannot be slinging dope. Are you kidding me? How am I even supposed to ask 'em? You can stand there and refuse me after all I've done for you? Jacob's still warm in his grave 尸骨未寒, and you want to cross me now 惹怒我, 惹我生气? No. I'm gonna need some time. Get 'em primed( prime I. 做心理建设. 做好心理准备. to prepare someone to behave or react in a particular way. She had been well primed about what to say to the press. They have 50,000 men primed for battle. If you prime someone to do something, you prepare them to do it, for example by giving them information about it beforehand. Claire wished she'd primed Sarah beforehand. Arnold primed her for her duties. The press corps was primed to leap to the defense of the fired officials. II. to get a weapon or bomb ready to fire or explode. If someone primes a bomb or a gun, they prepare it so that it is ready to explode or fire. He was priming the bomb to go off in an hour's time. Tom keeps a primed 10-foot shotgun in his office. The bomb had been primed to go off at noon. III. to prepare a surface for paint or some other substance. prime the pump to help a business or activity to be successful, especially by providing money at the start. To prime the pump means to do something to encourage the success or growth of something, especially the economy. ...the use of tax money to prime the pump of the state's economy. adj. I. You use prime to describe something that is most important in a situation. Political stability, meanwhile, will be a prime concern. It could be a prime target for guerrilla attack. The police will see me as the prime suspect! She is the prime candidate to take over his job. II. You use prime to describe something that is of the best possible quality. It was one of the City's prime sites, near the Stock Exchange. III. You use prime to describe an example of a particular kind of thing that is absolutely typical. Marianne North was a prime example of Victorian womanhood of the more adventurous kind. noun. If someone or something is in their prime, they are at the stage in their existence when they are at their strongest, most active, or most successful. Maybe I'm just coming into my prime now. She was in her intellectual prime. We've had a series of athletes trying to come back well past their prime. ...young persons in the prime of life. groom I. If you groom an animal, you clean its fur, usually by brushing it. if an animal grooms itself or another animal, it cleans itself or another animal. The horses were exercised and groomed with special care. a. to clean and brush an animal, especially a horse or a dog. II. 训练. 培训. If you are groomed for a special job, someone prepares you for it by teaching you the skills you will need. to prepare someone for a particular job or activity by giving them special training and attention. The 15-year-old schoolgirl is being groomed for stardom. George was already being groomed for the top job. Marshall was groomed to run the family companies. a. to prepare a child for illegal activity, especially sexual activity or selling drugs. Many times children are groomed by predators online. The men were convicted of systematically grooming and sexually abusing teenage girls. Gangs are increasingly using violence to groom children to be used as drug mules. III. 梳洗打扮. to take care of your appearance by keeping your hair, body, and clothes clean and neat. Dan spends hours grooming in front of the mirror. ). Figure it out. You got three months. And whatever arrangements you have with the Byrde family... that's over. No more protecting them. 11. He's sorely ( very much: used for emphasizing how much you feel a particular emotion. Sorely is used to emphasize that a feeling such as disappointment or need is very strong. I for one was sorely disappointed. The new wing of the church provided sorely needed classroom space. National institutes in the east are sorely in need of renovation and modern equipment. He will be sorely missed. You'll be sorely missed. I was sorely tempted to pretend I was sick.) fucking mistaken 搞错了, 大错特错了 if he thinks that I'm gonna pay for that piece of shit car of his. I shouldn't have messed with him. I didn't realize. No, fuck that. It was funny. He's a piece of shit anyway. Maybe, but you gotta be careful with guys like that. No, he can't touch me. I'm like a made woman ( self-made man 白手起家 One who became successful and/or wealthy through hard work and not by inheritance or help from others. Joe is a self-made man who worked long, hard hours to turn his small business into a large, successful company. well-made made to a good or high standard. made-man I. A man whose fortune has been made. II. A person who has been through an induction ceremony into the Mafia or similar organisation. accepted as a member in a criminal organization. I wouldn't want to get on his bad side – he's a made man, you know. have (got) it made (in the shade) to be in a very good situation. Many people retire to Mexico expecting to have it made in the shade. You kids have it made. Your parents do everything for you. what someone is made of 看看你能折腾出什么花样来 what someone can achieve or what they are really like Let's see what you're really made of. be made (for life) to have so much money that you will never need to work again. When they sell those investments, they'll be made for life. be made for each other if two people are made for each other, they are perfect partners for each other because they have similar personalities. Everyone said that Janice and Danny were made for each other.) over there. If his boys try any shit tomorrow, I swear to God. No, stop it. Don't worry so much. I can handle it. 12. What about Maya? No. Progress? You know, she's... You know, she's an idealist 理想主义者. She won't take the payday lender info. And she wants to do the job, but she's not willing to bend any rules do it, so. So? So, I need a back channel to the FBI. Um... Even if she won't take it, I bet that her bosses won't give two shits about her principles 原则. So, if that happens, I'll have an opening 有一个出口. I might have an end around 迂回的办法 that could work( a solution to a problem that avoids the problem rather than dealing with it directly: We're not officially allowed to use outside contractors, so we'll need to do an end-around to bypass that rule.). I'll do it first thing. 13. I don't understand why we have to do community service. Well, you were arrested and then sentenced. I think the judge was pretty lenient, considering. So, you can't fix this 搞定, 疏通疏通? What, you want me to bribe a judge to get you out of community service? You can just tell him who you are. It's not technically bribery if you just introduce yourself. Okay, you both know we have to be above reproach ( above (or beyond) reproach such that no criticism can be made; perfect. "his integrity is beyond reproach". ). We can't afford to bring any negative attention to this family. One day, I promise you won't have to be so careful. But for now, we have to look like law-abiding citizens. Even though we're not.
A reprimand 口头警告 [ˈreprɪˌmænd]( to tell someone officially and in a serious way that something they have done is wrong. reprimand someone for something: He was severely reprimanded by the authorities for his inappropriate behavior. ) is a severe, formal or official reproof. Reprimanding takes in different forms in different legal systems. A reprimand in custody may be a formal legal action issued by a government agency or professional governing board (e.g. medical board, bar council). It may also be an administrative warning 行政警告 issued by an employer or school. A letter of reprimand was sent to the 911 operator who handled the emergency call from a social worker seeking help as Josh Powell killed his sons and himself in his Graham, Washington, home in February. Lovrak was confused about how the social worker, who brought the two children to Powell's home for a supervised visit, "fit into the equation 是什么身份, 什么角色, 跟...有什么关系( enter (into) the equation to become something that must be considered or dealt with Money didn't enter the equation when he offered to help. So where do tractors that tow boats and pink plastic unicorns fit into the equation? But where did Kirstein fit into the equation? fit into I. If you fit into a particular group, you seem to belong there because you are similar to the other people in it. It's hard to see how he would fit into the team 融入. II. If something fits into a particular situation or system, that seems to be the right place for it. Most film locations broadly fit into two categories: private property and public place. Some of the patients we see do not fit neatly into any of the existing categories. How does this fit into the company’s overall marketing strategy?)," the letter said. "During the fact-finding you said that you were indeed confused and at first thought that the caller was the mother of the children," Lock wrote. "You said that you regretted sounding contentious ( [kənˈtenʃəs] I. causing disagreement between people or groups. A contentious issue causes a lot of disagreement or arguments. Sanctions are expected to be among the most contentious issues. ...a country where land prices are politically contentious. This time he was contentiously omitted from the team. Sex education in schools remains a highly contentious issue. II. 爱吵架的. enjoying arguing with other people. A contentious person seems to like arguing and disagreeing with other people. Rodney was a cheerful, elegant and gregarious if rather contentious man. gregarious [ɡrəˈɡeriəs] adj 群居的 I. a gregarious person enjoys being with other people. Someone who is gregarious enjoys being with other people. She is such a gregarious and outgoing person. II. gregarious animals or birds live in groups. Gregarious animals or birds normally live in large groups. Snow geese are very gregarious birds.) when you said 'You can't supervise yourself.'" His assumption that the caller was a mother involved in a custodial [kʌˈstoʊdiəl] dispute contributed to the operator missing what "appeared to be many red flags," Lock wrote. "When asked about this in the fact-finding you responded that custodial interference calls( custodial [kʌˈstəʊdiəl] I. relating to the legal right to take care of someone, especially a child. II. relating to putting or keeping someone in prison. non-custodial I. a non-custodial punishment does not involve sending someone to prison. a non-custodial sentence. II. a non-custodial parent does not have custody of a child. ) typically have heightened emotions 情绪激动 and feel like emergencies to the person making the 911 call," she wrote. "You further stated that you wished you had known who Josh Powell was." The reprimand regarding the 911 call also listed factors that were beyond Lovrak's control. The 911 computers have a system to quickly identify addresses known to be related to problems, but there was no "premise hazard" information for Powell's home despite his history. This "would have alerted you and the dispatcher to the need for a heightened response," the letter said. The appropriate discipline should be corrective, not punitive, the letter concluded. "You have undergone local and national scrutiny, have admitted your errors, and have identified the ways you will correct and improve your call handling in the future," Lock wrote.
