bit on the side, side piece, bit of fluff; disenfranchise; vestige;

用法学习: 1. bit on the side 情人, 外遇对象, 小三儿, 情况 (woman on the side) British English an extramarital affair. A secondary lover, a mistress. I'm married to Paula, but Jackie, my bit on the side, is far more fun. someone'’s bit on the side is a person they are having a sexual relationship with, even though they already have a wife, husband, or partner – used humorously or to show disapproval She stayed, in the hope that he’d tire of his bit on the side. if someone has or is getting a bit on the side, they are secretly having a sexual relationship with a second partner. side bitch = side chick 小三儿 (main bitch) (African American Vernacular English, slang, vulgar, derogatory) A mistress; a woman one dates in addition to his girlfriend or wife, usually in secret. Usage notes: Often contrasted with the "main bitch" or the actual girlfriend or wife. side piece 情人, 外遇 (slang) A mistress; a woman with whom a man carries on a physical affair (not emotional affair) without having the intention of forming a serious relationship. side job, side hustle, side gig ways of making a little bit of money on the side. as a sideline  Keen on promoting venture capital, Viney owns a chain of wine bars as a sideline. One summer in Delaware I bought a chicken from a fisherman who raised birds as a sideline. be sidelined 靠边站 if you are sidelined, you are unable to play in a sports game because you are injured, or unable to take part in an activity because you are not as good as someone else Owen was once again sidelined through injury. sideline noun. I. a job that you do in addition to your main job, in order to earn extra money. II. the sidelines a situation in which you watch something that is happening but are not involved in it or cannot influence it. This is no time for sitting on the sidelines 旁观, 袖手旁观 – our government must get involved. III. the sidelines 边线 the area at the edge of a sports field. He was shouting instructions from the sidelines. keep someone/something on the sidelines to prevent someone or something from getting involved Men and women at the moment are so preoccupied with everyday gruelling schedule of life that they have no regrets about keeping humanity and humane treatment on the sidelines. to prevent someone from being involved in something that they would normally expect to be involved in. Some delegates complained of being sidelined 被退居二线, 被边缘化, 被推一边. on the side I. If you have one type of food with another food on the side, you have an amount of the second food served with the first. Serve a bowl of warm tomato sauce on the side for dipping, if desired. (of food in a restaurant) served on another plate, or on the side of the plate: I'd like a salad with the dressing on the side (= with the dressing served separately from the salad), please. I'll have a omelette with fries on the side, please. II. in addition to your main job: He makes a little money on the side by cleaning windows in his spare time. III. secretly: I think he has another woman on the side (= a relationship with a woman who is not his wife). bit of fluff (or skirt or stuff) UK slang old-fashioned I. a woman regarded in sexual terms. a woman regarded in sexual terms. a sexually attractive woman: Have you seen his latest bit of skirt? A physically attractive woman. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. Jack knew he was the envy of all of his friends as he paraded around town with his new bit of fluff. It was strangely flattering for a woman to be treated as a little bit of fluff that you just tumbled on to a bed. II. A derogatory term used to describe a woman who lacks value beyond being physically attractive. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. I can't believe my ex-boyfriend went out with that bit of fluff! 2. enter (into) the equation [ɪˈkweɪʒ(ə)n] 考虑范围之列 to become something that must be considered or dealt with. To be one of the factors that influences a situation or decision. An equation is a situation in which two or more parts have to be considered together so that the whole situation can be understood or explained. The equation is simple: research breeds new products. The party fears the equation between higher spending and higher taxes. New plans have taken chance out of the equation. Money didn't enter the equation when he offered to help. enter the picture (figuratively) To become part of, to become relevant. systemic [sɪˈstemɪk] systematically 系统的. affecting all of something The economy is locked in a systemic crisis. The committee will try to make the case for systemic reform. We know that human rights are being systematically violated. The collection has not been systematically updated. a. ​medical affecting your whole body. systemic illness. When a Trump administration official said he doesn't think systemic racism exists in policing, many were stunned -- especially after studies have shown different races are often treated differently. 3. 美国游行: Donald Trump has declared himself the "President of law and order" in a clear bid to take control of the narrative and the streets. Criticised for failing to manage the scourge ( [skɜrdʒ] I. ​formal something that causes a lot of trouble or harm. A scourge is something that causes a lot of trouble or suffering to a group of people. Union chiefs demanded more urgent action to stop the scourge of unemployment. There have been great advances in treatments for global scourges such as cancer and Aids. the effort to keep the scourge of drugs off our streets. II. a whip used in the past to punish people. III. ​formal someone in a position of power who criticizes people severely. verb. I. to whip someone. II. ​formal to cause a lot of trouble or harm to people. If something scourges a place or group of people, it causes great pain and suffering to people. Economic anarchy scourged 重创 the post-war world. New York Times: "There is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night," Robert F. Kennedy said in 1968 shortly before his assassination. "This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay [dɪˈkeɪ]. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat. "Racism is nothing short of a public health crisis," Michelle A. Williams, the dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, told me. "That reality is palpable 现实触手可及 not just in the scourge of police violence that disproportionately kills black Americans, but in the vestiges of slavery and segregation ( vestige [ˈvestɪdʒ] noun. I. countable 残渣余孽. a very small sign of something that has almost disappeared or stopped existing. A vestige of something is a very small part that still remains of something that was once much larger or more important. We represent the last vestige of what made this nation great–hard work. vestige of 残雪, 余雪: vestiges of snow melting in the sun. Their goal is to increase the pace of change, and wipe out the remaining vestiges of apartheid. II. singular a very small amount of a feeling or quality. vestige of: As the judge's sentence was read out, West showed no vestige of emotion. ) that have permeated ( permeate [ˈpɜrmiˌeɪt] I. transitive if an attitude or feeling permeates something 跃然纸上, 昭然若揭, 呼之欲出, 溢于言表, you can feel or see its influence clearly in every part of that thing. A sense of deep loss permeates Frost's poetry. II. intransitive/transitive if gas, liquid, or a smell permeates 渗透 something, it spreads into and through every part of it. The unpleasant odor permeated every room. permeate through/into: Water had permeated into the old walls. ) the social determinants 决定因素 [dɪˈtɜrmɪnənt] ( something that controls or decides how something else will develop or what result it will have. ) of health. ) of coronavirus, of delegating ( delegate (noun [delɪgət] verb [delɪgeɪt]) I. intransitive/transitive to give part of your work, duties, or responsibilities to someone who is more junior. If you delegate duties, responsibilities, or power to someone, you give them those duties, those responsibilities, or that power so that they can act on your behalf. He plans to delegate more authority to his deputies. How many of their activities can be safely and effectively delegated to less trained staff? Many employers find it hard to delegate. A key factor in running a business is the delegation of responsibility. Because Henry hated to delegate, he was always overworked. delegate something to someone: He always delegates boring tasks to his assistant. II. transitive to choose someone to do a job for you or to represent you. If you are delegated to do something, you are given the duty of acting on someone else's behalf by making decisions, voting, or doing some particular work. Officials have now been delegated to start work on a draft settlement. Bill was delegated to contact the manager. noun. A delegate 代表, 代理 is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting. ) too much of that responsibility to the states, of presiding over the deaths of more than 100,000 Americans, he now has an opportunity to get back in charge. Supporter Alice Butler-Short, who heads up Women for Trump in Virginia just a few miles from the White House, says she was "horrified" by the death of George Floyd. She says the President's walk to St John's Church was reassuring 让人安心的, and "very, very meaningful". "It was his way of signifying that 宣示, 宣告 God will bring us through this," she says. "It was not a photo op." Others, of course, saw the President's excursion very differently, as the historic Lafayette Square, now trampled and graffitied, was forcibly ( 使用武力的. involving the use of force. There are no signs of forcible entry.) cleared of 清理, 清干净 protesters and press to allow for it. His threat to send in the military was also greeted, by many, with alarm. But those people are not who the remarks in the Rose Garden and the walk outside the White House gates was aimed at. "I will fight to protect you. I am your President of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters," Trump said as he ordered state governors to send the National Guard in to "dominate the streets". It was an ultimatum that will split America along political lines as the President further fans division 加剧分化 heading into the November election. A threat to mobilise the military plays to an image of strength 迎合, and his preferred persona of Commander-in-Chief. Military vehicles now stand at key intersections around DC. The rhetoric is political 出于政治目的的, highlighting the role of the violent left in the riots, rather than the presence of hard-right white supremacists. It stands in stark contrast to his Democratic opponent Joe Biden who emerged from his home this week as consoler-in-chief, visiting African-American communities. But Barack Obama was also that, and yet police killings of black men continue. Right now, Biden is in a position to listen but not to stop the outbreak of chaos. Trump can, if only by force, and he's seized the advantage. As the riots continued elsewhere, Trump followed up this strategic leak. Low-flying military helicopters were deployed in the capital in a "show of force" manoeuvre to help disperse protesters. "His popularity is increasing," Butler-Short says. "Because people know and understand that he will take care of this. It will be resolved, and things will be better." "I'm grassroots. I know he hasn't lost any. I know that it's increased," Butler-Short says, because until coronavirus struck, "we had an economy that was soaring". The hip pocket is a powerful vote-getter. However, Brett Bruen — a Democratic strategist, former diplomat and adviser to former president Obama — says while Trump's base is solid 根基稳固, "it does not appear to be elastic". He points to an increasing lead for Biden, who is now a clear 10 points in front 领先十个点 in head-to-head election polling. He also has the edge in key states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania that got Trump over the line in 2016. So, can Biden cut through and can he play a part in ending the crisis on the streets? "If I was on Biden's team, I would be making an impassioned plea." For the moment though, expect Trump to continue to use division to his advantage. 3. coalesce [ˌkəʊəˈles] to come together and form a group or a single unit. If two or more things coalesce, they come together and form a larger group or system. Cities, if unrestricted, tend to coalesce into bigger and bigger conurbations. His sporting and political interests coalesced admirably in his writing about climbing. "I think what we're seeing is the intersection of the influence of riots, such as in Seattle, and this sort of Occupy movement and anti-capitalist grassroots organising," she said. "And it's kind of coalesced 合为一体, 合起来, 合并起来, 合二为一 with Black Lives Matter and justice and equality movements so that the targets have shifted slightly." subjugate [ˈsʌbdʒʊɡeɪt] to defeat a place or a group of people and force them to obey you. a. If someone subjugates a group of people, they take complete control of them, especially by defeating them in a war. People in the region are fiercely independent and resist all attempts to subjugate them. ...the brutal subjugation of native tribes. b. If your wishes or desires are subjugated to something, they are treated as less important than that thing. Health, common sense, and self-respect are subjugated to 让位于 the cause of looking 'hot'. Just 50 years later, England was again subjugated by the Normans. The so called war on drugs really did a lot to divide the police force and the public, especially those who are poor and/or disenfranchised or historically subjugated such as Blacks and Hispanics. disenfranchise [ˌdɪsɪnˈfræntʃaɪz] 剥夺公民权的. 没有投票权的, 剥夺投票权的 to no longer allow someone to have the right to vote. deprived of the right to vote or other rights of citizenship. the difficulties which disenfranchised minorities face. disenfranchised voters. Disenfranchise means to take it away. The U.S. has a shameful history of disenfranchising African-American citizens through bogus laws and outright intimidation. Being disenfranchised can make you feel like you don't belong or that you have no power. the disenfranchised people who are deprived of the right to vote or other rights of citizenship. The organization gives a voice to the disenfranchised. wiki: Disfranchisement (also called disenfranchisement) is the revocation of suffrage (the right to vote) of a person or group of people, or through practices, prevention of a person exercising the right to vote. Disfranchisement is also termed to the revocation of power or control of a particular individual, community or being to the natural amenity they are abound in; that is to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, of some privilege or inherent immunity. Disfranchisement may be accomplished explicitly by law or implicitly through requirements applied in a discriminatory fashion, intimidation, or by placing unreasonable requirements on voters for registration or voting. 4. 美国游行: "Protests, marches and demonstrations over the last several days have been often dynamic and at times dangerous situations for both officers and demonstrators," the statement said. "A number of these gatherings have unfortunately devolved ( devolve to take power or responsibility from a central authority or government and give it to smaller and more local regions. They first devolved power from Westminster to the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood. If you devolve power, authority, or responsibility to a less powerful person or group, or if it devolves upon them, it is transferred to them. ...the need to decentralize and devolve power to regional governments.We have made a conscious effort to devolve responsibility. A large portion of this cost devolves upon the patient. ) into chaos with rocks, bottles, and other projectiles being launched at police officers, who have sustained injuries that range from cuts and bruises to a fractured skull. "We have also experienced vehicle and structure fires with widespread looting and destruction while trying to facilitate the first amendment rights of those peacefully demonstrating.