用法学习: 1. 社会不公: "Racism has robbed black Americans from benefiting from the advancements they've fought for, bled for and died for throughout history. That reality manifests in myriad ways ( a myriad of something [ˈmɪriəd] an extremely large number of people or things, especially one that is too large to count. A myriad or myriads of people or things is a very large number or great variety of them. They face a myriad of problems bringing up children. These myriads of fish would be enough to keep any swimmer entranced for hours. A whole myriad of options exists for us. adj. Myriad means having a large number or great variety. very many, especially too many to count the country's myriad 各种各样的 problems. ...British pop and culture in all its myriad forms. ...the myriad tiny animals and plants living in the ice.) — from underfunded schools to the gutting of health care and social programs, to financial redlining ( redline [ˈredˌlaɪn] 拒绝贷款 I. to refuse to give financial help to a person or a business. (esp of a bank or group of banks) to refuse a loan to (a person or country) because of the presumed risks involved. II. to restrict people's access to goods or services on the basis of the area in which they live. ), to mass incarceration, to voter suppression, to police brutality and more. And it is undeniably harming health and prematurely ending black lives." Sociologists like Orlando Patterson have noted that while whites increasingly have progressive views about race in general, they often still favor public policies that disadvantage African-Americans. For example, they may oppose multi-occupancy housing in their affluent suburbs, reducing affordable housing and perpetuating segregation. Or they may support a broken local funding system for education that results in apartheid schools. Structural racism doesn't easily go viral, but it is deadly. A recent study of insurance records found that when blacks and whites with Covid-19 symptoms like a fever and cough sought medical help, blacks were less likely to be given a coronavirus test. Much of the research seems bleak 阴暗的, but three things give me hope. First, many metrics 指标 show improvement. Second, robust [roʊˈbʌst] evidence shows what policies would help. For example, a careful study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine last year showed how we could reduce child poverty by half — hugely reducing racial inequality. What we lack isn't tools or resources, it's political will. My third reason for hope has to do with those biased basketball referees. That research angered the N.B.A. and caused painful controversy — which laid the groundwork for progress. A follow-up study found that after the first research was absorbed, those biased calls 偏见的判罚 disappeared. It appeared that once people were forced to have anguished discussions about racial bias, they were able to overcome it. 2. to pip someone at/to the post If someone is pipped at the post or pipped to the post they are just beaten in a competition or in a race to achieve something. I didn't want us to be pipped to the post. The Canberra chef from season 11 just missed out on a spot in the top 10, pipped at the post by Sarah Tiong, Reynold Poernomo and Tessa Boersma. squeeze sb until the pips squeak (pip: a small seed in a piece of fruit.) to make someone rich pay for something, especially taxes. They should start taxing the rich until the pips squeak. pipe verb. I. to send liquid or gas through a pipe from one place to another. How do you manage without water piped into your home? II. to make a very high sound, or to speak in a very high voice. a bird's piping song. III. if you pipe cream or frosting onto food as a decoration, you force it through a special tube onto the food. pipe up to enter a conversation, for example by interrupting or speaking for the first time. pipe down 安静点, 放低声音, 小声点 used for telling someone to stop talking or to make less noise. pare down/back 删减, 缩减, 压缩 (trivialize something, 淡化, 说得不值一提, 说得一钱不值 trivialise the black lives matter movement) If you pare something down or back, or if you pare it, you reduce it. To reduce or decrease something in small increments. I will have to pare the budget down to the minimum.
I hope we can pare down the budget. After much arguing, we pared it
down. We've had to continually pare down out expenses ever since one of
our investors pulled out. See if you can pare your report down a bit—15
pages is far too long. I. To reduce the size of something by cutting or shaving off its outer layers; trim something: I
pared down the tiles so that they would fit snugly together. The pegs
were too big for the hole, so I pared them down with a pocketknife. II. To reduce the size or amount of something by gradually taking away parts of it: We
should pare down the supplies we keep in our storage room until we have
only what we absolutely need. The article was too long, and it took me a
long time to pare it down. If you describe something as pared-down 一切从简的, 简化版的, 简化了的 (strip down. trivilise the black lives matter movement, 贬得一钱不值, 说得不堪), you mean that it has no unnecessary features, and has been reduced to a very simple form. Her style is pared-down and simple. The opening and closing ceremonies are being pared back. pare I. 去皮. 剥皮. 刮皮 to remove the thin outer layer of something, especially of fruit. pare something She pared the apple. pare something from something First, pare the rind from the lemon. pare something off/away He pared away the excess glue with a razor blade. pare something (back/down) (strip down) 减量, 减小规模 to gradually reduce the size or amount The training budget has been pared back to a minimum. The workforce has been pared to the bone (= reduced to the lowest possible level). pare something (especially British English) to cut away the edges of something, especially your nails, in order to make them smooth and neat. strip down I. intransitive to remove all or most of your clothes. To remove all of one's clothing. As soon as he got home, Ryan stripped down to his t-shirt and shorts. strip down to: He stripped down to his underwear. II. transitive to take something such as a machine apart. His father would strip down motorcycle engines on the kitchen table. A robot with 29 arms is to strip down discarded mobile phones to allow the metals to be turned into new products. She completely stripped down the engine. III. To remove inessentials from. The project had to be stripped down to the core elements in order to hit the budget.特朗普: Hayes began, "One thing we've learned is that you can never actually get the full flavor of 透彻了解, 全面了解 ( Full-flavored food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste. (of food or drink) having a rich or intense flavour. a full-flavoured cheese. ) how disjointed, incoherent and incapable of the most basic responses ( disjointed [dɪsˈdʒɔɪntəd] I. confusing because the different parts seem not to be connected with each other. II. 不连贯的. Disjointed words, thoughts, or ideas are not presented in a smooth or logical way and are therefore difficult to understand. Sally was used to his disjointed, drunken ramblings. III. Disjointed societies, systems, and activities are ones in which the different parts or elements are not as closely connected as they should be or as they used to be. ...our increasingly fragmented and disjointed 分裂的, 互不关联的 society. ) the president is to the most pressing social questions until you actually just read the transcript." 3. repugnant [rɪˈpʌɡnənt] 下流的, 恶心的, 没品的 adj. extremely distasteful; unacceptable. "cannibalism seems repugnant to us". If you think that something is horrible and disgusting, you can say that it is repugnant. The odour is repugnant to insects. The Committee said his actions were improper and repugnant. She felt a deep sense of shame and repugnance. 百事广告: However, the intended response to the ad fell flat and viewers were instead furious with the brand and model for trivialising 小化, 淡化, 看简单, 简单化 the Black Lives Matter Movement and for positioning a privileged white model as a peacemaker between activists and police. make [all] the running If someone is making the running in a situation, they are more active than the other people involved. to do the best and most work: British companies have often made all the running in developing new ideas, but have then failed to market them. Republicans are furious that the Democrats currently seem to be making all the running. Where in the crisis of just a decade ago, central banks pretty much took the running on saving the financial system and the global economy, this time around it is governments pumping in extraordinary amounts of money. Social welfare and safety nets, temporary although they may be, are not the strategies most closely associated with Coalition governments who have led the charge for minimal government, if not always in practice, for the past half century. [go and] take a running jump British informal a contemptuous expression of dismissal. said to someone when you want them to go away and stop annoying you: He kept following me around, so I just told him to go and take a running jump. take up the running take over as pacemaker in a race. To become the leader in a race. Used especially when talking about horse racing. Though having a disastrous start, Kicking Queen quickly regained lost ground and took up the running in the last stretch of the race. 4. when something is going down 事情发生 informal to happen I was nowhere near here when the robbery went down. go/come down 失去尊重 in someone's estimation/opinion 在某人看来, 在某人眼里 to become less respected by someone than you were before, because of something that you have done. He has gone down considerably in my estimation. He was the best player on the pitch in his manager's estimation. go down as: to be remembered or recorded in a particular place or way Hansen will go down as one of the best teachers this school has ever had. go down in: Both their names went down in the referee's notebook. The efforts they made will go down in history. go down in history = take your place in history to be remembered by many people for having done something. He'll go down in history as one of our finest leaders. This day will go down in history as the start of a new era in South Africa. go down I. if food or drink goes down, you swallow it You need smaller pills that go down more easily 难以下咽, 容易下咽. II. to become worse The quality of their products has really gone down in the past few years. come down I. to make a decision that supports or opposes someone or something Everything depends on which side the judge comes down on. come down in favour of/against: The council came down in favour of closing the road. II. to continue to exist from a long time ago. come down to: the version of the story that has come down to 流传给, 流传下来 us. 5. bang to rights (UK) = dead to rights (US) 人赃俱获, 当场抓获 = Red-handed informal (of a criminal) with positive proof of guilt. "we've got you bang to rights handling stolen property". in the act of doing something wrong or illegal: Even if a kid is caught dead to rights with alcohol, we can't punish him. (US, idiomatic) With sufficient evidence to establish responsibility definitively. Because of the video replay, the ref had him dead to rights on the penalty. pipe hitting member of the tribe: To hit a pipe means to take a breath of smoke from the pipe, especially a pipe that is being passed around. Breaking Bad: He introduces himself as Saul Goodman to Walt 'Mr. Mayhew' and after finding out he's Irish Saul says "My real name is McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe hitting member of the tribe so to speak." Sorry, I digress 打叉了, 跑题了( anyways, just saying, tangent, I mean ): I digress is a phrase used when someone realizes they've been rambling ... for a long time ... about something that isn't even relevant to the original question or topic. It can also call attention to a smart observation. to move away from the main subject you are writing or talking about and to write or talk about something else: But I digress. To get back to what I was saying, this poem reflects the poet's love of nature and his religious beliefs. The lecturer temporarily digressed from her subject to deal with a related theory. go off on/at a tangent (UK also go/fly off at a tangent 离题, 岔开话题) to suddenly start talking or thinking about a completely new subject: It's hard to get a firm decision out of him - he's always going off on a tangent. His mind had gone off at a complete tangent. 6. make inroads into/on something 开疆扩土, 扩大影响力, 影响深远 I. to have an important effect or influence on something, especially by taking something away from it. Video is making huge inroads into attendance figures at movie theaters (=taking away its customers). They have made significant inroads into the European market. The administrative workload is making massive inroads into our working day (=taking away time). II. to make some progress towards achieving something difficult We haven't made much of an inroad into the backlog of work. Breaking bad: Marie Schrader: Hank's doing just great down there. He's really making inroads. Skyler White: I'm sure he is. He's a hero, after all. So you gonna go down to El Paso? Marie Schrader: Oh, please. It's Third World enough around here. They keep him busy every second. He's already got some big operation going. Some kind of hush-hush deal. He couldn't tell me a thing about it except it's on the other side of the border. Skyler White: Wow, that sounds exciting. He's being safe, right? Marie Schrader: Uh-huh. Yeah. He says he's mostly riding a desk. Which, between you and me, is just the way I want it. Skyler White: Speaking of riding desks, got myself a job today. Marie Schrader: You did not. As big as you are? Skyler White: Thank you. Marie Schrader: You know I just mean... where? With who? Well, someone willing to work around... that, apparently. Skyler White: Beneke. Marie Schrader: You did not. Is Mr. Grabby-Hands still there? Skyler White: Marie, that was one time at a Christmas party. And he was so drunk, he was practically slurring his words. Marie Schrader: Just what you want in an executive. 7. Outrage is a strong moral emotion characterized by a combination of surprise, disgust, and anger, usually in reaction to a grave personal offense. It comes from old French "ultrage", which in turn borrows from classical Latin "ultra", meaning "beyond". Moral outrage (morally outraged 大义凛然的) is the emotion of outrage experienced in reaction to an injustice, as such involving a moral judgement, and is often accompanied by a desire to shame and/or punish wrongdoers. When people publicly rage about perceived injustices that don't affect them personally, we tend to assume this expression is rooted in altruism—a "disinterested 不相干的, 没有利益关系的 and selfless concern for the well-being of others." But new research suggests that professing such third-party concern—what social scientists refer to as "moral outrage"—is often a function of self-interest, wielded to assuage feelings of personal culpability for societal harms or reinforce 加强, 强化 (to the self and others) one's own status ( Those drawn to extremism are "almost always self-radicalising" by accessing information in readings, online forums and in manifestos which reinforce 坚定 their views. ) as a Very Good Person. 8. 关于抢购: With futures suddenly thrust into the unknown, they did what felt reassuring 心安的, 安心的, 有安慰作用的, 心理舒服些的( If you find someone's words or actions reassuring, they make you feel less worried about something. It was reassuring to hear John's familiar voice. She gave me some reassuring news. 'It's okay now,' he said reassuringly. assure I. If you assure someone that something is true or will happen, you tell them that it is definitely true or will definitely happen, often in order to make them less worried. He hastened to assure me that there was nothing traumatic to report. 'Are you sure the raft is safe?' she asked anxiously. 'Couldn't be safer,' Max assured her confidently. Government officials recently assured Hindus of protection. II. To assure someone of something means to make certain that they will get it. Real Madrid's 2-1 victory has all but assured them of the title. Ways must be found to assure our children a decent start in life. assured adj. I. 自信的. 放松的. Someone who is assured is very confident and relaxed. He was infinitely more assured than in his more recent parliamentary appearances. This a lyrical work written with the authority and assuredness of an experienced writer. II. If something is assured 笃定的, 板上钉钉的, 有保证的, it is certain to happen. Our victory is assured; nothing can stop us. Yesterday, her future seemed assured. III. If you are assured of something, you are certain to get it or achieve it. Laura Davies is assured of a place in Europe's team. Bickerstaffe looks assured of being elected general secretary. rest assured If you say that someone can rest assured that something is the case, you mean that it is definitely the case, so they do not need to worry about it. Their parents can rest assured that their children's safety will be of paramount importance. Rest assured, he probably has rather more common sense than you realize. I can assure you/let me assure you You use phrases such as I can assure you or let me assure you to emphasize the truth of what you are saying. I can assure you that the animals are well cared for. This may sound trivial, but I assure you it is quite important! And let me assure you I will use whatever force is necessary to restore order.): panic shop. As President Trump declared a national emergency on Friday, hordes of shoppers flooded stores across the nation and emptied shelves, looking to stockpile 囤积, 囤货 groceries and household items to prepare for uncharted territory 未曾见过的场景, 没有经历过的, 没有见过的情况. Inside the Target at Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, customers snatched up hand soap, lotion, condoms, vitamins and tampons. Stores were overwhelmed with long lines of customers waiting just to enter what would be a disorienting space of packed aisles, backed-up checkout lanes 结账通道 and weary 疲惫不堪的 employees. In Santa Clarita, Calif., hundreds of people jostled for 争抢着, 争先恐后, 推挤着 position in the parking lot outside a Costco on Thursday. "Please don't call 911 because people are cutting in front of you in line," a sheriff's station tweeted after deputies responded to a false alarm of fights at the wholesale store. Soon after the 9 a.m. opening on Friday of the Trader Joe's in Hoboken, N.J., a line of nervous customers stretched along the block in the rain, waiting to pick through the mostly bare shelves inside. There was no chicken available, nor garbanzo beans, coffee or chips. The store was restocking regularly, but many of its registers were unstaffed 没有人在的, 没有人管的. It takes will and stamina 体力, 精力, 耐力 to brave the lines that can start at the store entrance, or even in the parking lot. "In a time like this, how can you not?" said Randi Klein, 48, of Harlem, who scaled ( scale if a business scales, it gets a lot bigger very quickly When your company scales that quickly it’s hard. to scale with all the parts the right size in relation to each other Is the drawing of the bridge to scale? scale new/dizzy/great heights to achieve a high level of success in a particular activity. The team scaled new heights with their World Series victory. They never dreamed of scaling such dizzy heights. scale back = scale down 缩小尺寸, 缩减规模 to make something smaller in size, amount, etc. than it used to be. The company is scaling back its plans for new stores. They've scaled back their expenditure considerably. a scaled-down peacekeeping force. scale up to make something larger in size, amount, etc. than it used to be. An order this size means scaling up our production capacity. ) a shelf for a box of gluten-free cereal for a friend's daughter. She had offered to help the family go "apocalypse 世界末日 shopping." Not all stores have seen a rush to amass necessities. Robust markets can be found in pockets, where shoppers peruse aisles ( peruse [pəˈruz] 边读边找, 读着搜索 to read something. If you peruse something such as a letter, article, or document, you read it. to read through something, especially in order to find the part you are interested in: He opened a newspaper and began to peruse the personal ads. We perused the company's financial statements for the past five years. She found the information while she was perusing a copy of Life magazine. ) with purpose, but little panic. 9. gnarly [ˈnɑːli] difficult, dangerous, or challenging. complicated and difficult to deal with gnarly problems. "he'd taken a fall during a particularly gnarly practice session". II. New Zealand informal American informal old-fashioned very good and exciting good; great. III. surfing slang difficult and dangerous. risky, extreme and radical The surfer really hit that gnarly wave! Usage notes: Note the word's contradictory senses of "good" and "bad". Its meaning varies by community and context, and may be indicated by extra-verbal cues such as tone of voice. The sense of "good" is particularly associated with surf culture, to the point of being somewhat clichéd as in "gnarly wave, dude!". gnarled [nɑːrld] I. A gnarled tree is twisted and strangely shaped because it is old. ...a large and beautiful garden full of ancient gnarled trees. II. A person who is gnarled looks very old because their skin has lines on it or their body is bent. If someone has gnarled hands, their hands are twisted as a result of old age or illness. ...gnarled 蜷曲的 old men. His hands were gnarled with arthritis. You don't look a day over [age]: However, this has become quite an ironic or comic saying, and people have become cynical about it. In my view, it is inadvisable to attempt to use it sincerely. I would say it's almost always used jokingly. mean-spirited 不善良的 inconsiderate and unsympathetic. characterized by malice or pettiness. they were a mean-spirited lot, biting the hands that feed them. mean-spirited killjoys. a mean-spirited attempt to scapegoat. Washington is a mean-spirited town. He's an egotistical, mean-spirited, abusive man. She dislikes his tweets, bluntly declaring: "I wish that would stop." She isn't fond of his name-calling or a tone that can be mean-spirited. But Deeter voted for Trump four years ago and -- for now, at least -- said she plans to do so again.
制造业重启 The rise and fall of Australia's manufacturing industry: 1. Given interest rates are at zero, or barely above it, in much of the developed world, many governments were forced to once and for all junk 抛弃 the austerity mantra that has so dominated our thinking. Deficits, it seems, just don't matter anymore. But that's not all. There's now a push to wind back some of the hard fought "advances" foisted upon ( foist upon (foist something on/upon someone) 强加给的 to force someone to accept or deal with something that they do not want. Voters are tired of new regulations foisted on them by faceless lawmakers. ) nations by the free market philosophy that prevailed 盛行于 throughout the west. For decades, free trade has ruled 是王道. Instead of producing everything, there's been a consensus that nations should produce the things they're good at. You sell that offshore and buy in the stuff you need. But in February, when China suddenly shut down, and the world couldn't buy what it needed — everything from pharmaceuticals to electronic components and packaging — a grassroots push to be more self-reliant gripped the globe. For more than 50 years, we've watched our manufacturing sector wither on the vine. It hasn't been an accident. In the post-war era, our flourishing manufacturing base was built upon protection. There was time when Australia manufactured almost everything, but today it's a very different story. The first was a natural protection in that we were a long way from our then traditional trading partner Britain. And in an era of relatively stable exchange rates, it was economical to make your own things. The second was trade protection. Tariffs, subsidies and import quotas cushioned our industries from the winds of change blowing through the global economy. It wasn't the removal of protection that ran a bulldozer over 摧毁 our manufacturing base. It was the dollar, or more specifically, the mining boom. Way back in the mid-1970s, Australian National University economist Bob Gregory put forth the idea that a boom in the resource sector could effectively squeeze out other sectors of the economy. In other areas of the world it was known by other names such as Dutch Disease. From 2000 on, Professor Gregory's thesis turned from textbook to real world playbook. As China transformed itself and built cities on a scale previously unknown, its insatiable demand for raw materials sparked an unprecedented Australian resources boom. As billions of dollars in new investment poured into building new mines, our dollar soared through parity with the greenback, eventually peaking at around $US1.10.
Yuba Country Five: Investigators could not, however, determine why it was abandoned as it could easily have been pushed out of the snowpack 积雪 ( pile of snow. heap of snow. Snowpack 常年积雪 forms from layers of snow that accumulate in geographic regions and high altitudes where the climate includes cold weather for extended periods during the year. Snowpacks are an important water resource that feed streams and rivers as they melt. Therefore, snowpacks are both the drinking water source for many communities and a potential source of flooding (in case of sudden melting). Snowpacks also contribute mass to glaciers in their accumulation zone. A snowdrift 风吹雪堆 is a deposit of snow sculpted by wind into a mound during a snowstorm. Snowdrifts resemble sand dunes and are formed in a similar manner, namely, by wind moving light snow and depositing it when the wind has virtually stopped, usually against a stationary object. Snow normally crests 形成雪峰 and slopes off toward the surface on the windward 对着风的一面 side of a large object. On the leeward 背风的一面 side, areas near the object are a bit lower than surrounding areas, but are generally flatter.) it was in, and was in good working order. At that time, no trace of the men was found. Assessing the formation and stability of snowpacks is important in the study and prediction of avalanches. Only bones were left of the three bodies in the woods, a result of scavenging animals, but the one in the trailer, Ted Weiher, had apparently lived for as long as almost three months after the men were last seen, starving to death despite an ample supply of food and heating materials available in it. He was missing his shoes, and investigators found Mathias' own shoes in the nearby woods, suggesting Mathias, too, survived for some time beyond the last night they were seen alive. During his Army service in West Germany in the early 1970s, Gary Mathias, a Yuba City native, had developed drug problems. These eventually led to his being diagnosed with schizophrenia and being psychiatrically discharged. He returned to his parents' home in California and began treatment at a local mental hospital. While it had been difficult at first—he was nearly arrested for assault twice and often suffered psychotic episodes 精神病发作 that landed him in a local Veterans Administration hospital—by 1978 he was being treated on an outpatient basis with Stelazine and Cogentin and was considered by his physicians to be "one of our sterling success cases." Mathias supplemented 补足 his Army disability pay by working in his stepfather's gardening business. Off the job, outside of his family, he was close friends with four other men, most slightly older than he, who either had slight intellectual disabilities (Sterling and Huett) or were informally considered "slow learners" (Weiher and Madruga, also an Army veteran) and who lived either in Yuba City or nearby Marysville. Like Mathias, each man lived with their parents, all of whom referred to them collectively as "the boys". The five men's favorite leisure activity 休闲娱乐活动 was sports. Their families said that when they got together, it was usually to play a game or to watch one. They played basketball together as the Gateway Gators, a team sponsored by a local program for the mentally handicapped. After the Davis team won the game, the group got back into Madruga's car and drove a short distance from the Chico State campus to Behr's Market in downtown Chico. There they bought snacks along with sodas and cartons of milk to drink. It was shortly before the store's 10 p.m. closing time; the clerk 店员 later remembered them because she resented 不满 that such a large group had come in and delayed her from starting the process of closing. Police in Butte and Yuba counties began searching along the route the men took to Chico. They found no sign of them, but a few days later a Plumas National Forest ranger told investigators that he had seen the Montego parked along Oroville-Quincy Road in the forest on February 25. At the time he had not considered it significant 没当回事, since many residents often drove up there into the Sierra Nevada on winter weekends to go cross-country skiing on the extensive trail system, but after he read the missing persons bulletin he recognized the car and led the deputies to it on February 28. Similarly, police could not figure out why the men had abandoned the car. They had reached 4,400 feet (1,300 m) in elevation along the road, about where the snow line was at that time of year, just short of 差点不到 where the road was closed for the winter. The car had become stuck in some snow drifts, and there was evidence that the wheels had been spun attempting to get out of it. But, police noted, the snow was not so deep that five healthy young men would not have been able to push it out. The keys were not present, suggesting at first that the car had been abandoned because it might not have been functioning properly, with the intention of returning later with help. But when police hot-wired the car, it started immediately. The gas tank was a quarter full. The questions continued after police towed the car back to the station for a more thorough examination. The Montego's undercarriage 车底 had no dents, gouges ( [ɡaʊdʒ] I. to cut long deep holes in something. II. to make someone pay more money than they should. They managed to gouge a small fortune out of my father. Merchants were warned against price gouging. ) or even mud scrapes, not even on its low-hanging muffler, despite having been driven a long distance up a mountain road with many bumps and ruts 沟沟坎坎, 车辙, 车钩. Either the driver had been very careful, or it was someone familiar with the road, a familiarity Madruga was not known to have. Nor, his family said, would Madruga have let someone else drive it. But the car also was unlocked and had a window rolled down when it was found, and they also said it was unlike him to leave the car so unsecured. Efforts to search the vicinity were hampered by a severe snowstorm that day. Two days later, after searchers in Snowcats nearly got lost themselves, further efforts were called off due to the weather. No trace of the men was found other than the car. possible sighting: Joseph Schons of Sacramento told police he inadvertently wound up spending the night of February 24–25 near where the Montego was found. He had driven up there, where he had a cabin, to check the snowpack in advance of a weekend ski trip with his family. At 5:30 p.m., about 150 feet (46 m) up the road, he, too, had gotten stuck in the snow. In the process of trying to free it, he realized he was beginning to experience the early symptoms of a heart attack and went back in, keeping the engine running to provide heat. Six hours later, lying in the car and experiencing severe pain, he told police, he saw headlights coming up behind him. Looking out, he saw a car parked behind him, headlights on, with a group of people around it, one of which seemed to him to be a woman holding a baby. He called to them for help, but then they stopped talking and turned their headlights out. Later, he saw more lights from behind him, this time flashlights, that also went out when he called to them. After that, Schons said at first, he recalled a pickup truck parking 20 feet (6.1 m) behind him briefly, and then continuing on down the road. Later, he clarified to police that he could not be sure of that, since at the time he was almost delirious from the pain he was in. After Schons' car ran out of gas in the early morning hours, his pain subsided 减轻 enough for him to walk 8 miles (13 km) down the road to a lodge, where the manager drove him back home, passing the abandoned Montego at the point where he had recalled hearing the voices originate from. Doctors later confirmed he had indeed experienced a mild heart attack. Autopsies showed they had both died of hypothermia ( exposure 冻死 I. the harmful effect of very cold weather on your body. Two of the climbers died of exposure. II. the state of being put into a situation in which something harmful or dangerous might affect you. radiation exposure. Even a small amount of exposure to the midday sun can cause burning. III. 曝光. 揭露. the act of making something publicly known because you believe that it is wrong or illegal. a reporter famous for his exposure of corruption within the government. IV. things that are written or said about a person, product, event, etc. that make them well-known. Both candidates are getting a lot of exposure in the press.); deputies speculated that one may have succumbed to the desire for sleep that marks that condition's final stages, and the other refused to leave his side, eventually meeting the same fate. Most puzzling 让人想不通的, 疑惑不解的 to the investigators was how Weiher had come to his fate. No fire had been set in the trailer's fireplace, despite an ample supply of matches and paperback novels to use as kindling ( kindle [ˈkɪnd(ə)l] I. transitive 引火. to start a fire by lighting small pieces of wood or paper that will burn easily. If you kindle a fire, you light paper or wood in order to start it. I came in and kindled 点起, 引燃 a fire in the stove. II. transitive to start a strong interest or emotion in someone. If something kindles a particular emotion in someone, it makes them start to feel it. The second world war kindled his enthusiasm for politics. These poems have helped kindle the imagination of generations of children. His interest in politics was kindled by the 1996 election. a. intransitive mainly literary if an emotion kindles, it begins to develop. ). Heavy forestry clothing which could have kept the men warm also remained where it had been stored. A dozen C-ration cans from a storage shed outside had been opened, and their contents consumed, but a locker in the same shed that held an even greater assortment of dehydrated foods, enough to keep all five men fed for a year if that had been necessary, had not even been opened. Similarly, another shed nearby held a butane tank with a valve that, had it been opened, would have fed the trailer's heating system. This behavior, however, was consistent with what Weiher's family members described as a lack of common sense arising from his mental disability; he often questioned why he should stop at a stop sign, and one night he needed to be dragged out of bed while his bedroom ceiling was burning in a house fire since he was worried about missing his job the next day if he left his bed.
