用法学习: 1. [on] company time 上班时间, 工作时间 (personal time 私人时间) the regular hours during which employees are expected to work. Time for which one is being compensated by one's employer, and for which the employer is therefore responsible for the welfare of the employee, and the employee is expected to refrain from engaging in personal interests. allowing staff to use company time to engage in community activities. the time during which a company is paying a worker Please do not make personal calls (when you are) on company time. affront [əˈfrʌnt] 羞辱, 侮辱 noun. something insulting that makes you shocked and angry. If something is an affront to you, it is an obvious insult to you. It's an affront to human dignity to treat people so poorly. She has taken my enquiry as a personal affront. She took the comment as a personal affront. verb. to insult someone or to make them shocked and angry. If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it. His reforms had so affronted many of his natural supporters in England. He pretended to be affronted, but inwardly he was pleased. Reggie reacted with the same affronted horror Midge had felt. Bert was deeply affronted by the remark. 2. Just under two years ago, Anthony Albanese was expectantly awaiting ( expectant I. 热切期待的 feeling excited about something that you think is soon going to happen. If someone is expectant, they are excited because they think something interesting is about to happen. An expectant crowd gathered. She turned to me with an expectant look on her face. The others waited, looking at him expectantly. II. only before noun an expectant mother or father will soon be a parent of a new baby. An expectant mother or father is someone whose baby is going to be born soon. ) the "Super Saturday" byelections. Of the five contests, the outcomes in two — Longman in Queensland and Braddon in Tasmania — would be critical for Bill Shorten's future as opposition leader. Now Albanese finds himself in Shorten's nail-biting 紧张不已的 situation. Saturday's Eden-Monaro byelection is vital for his leadership. Unlike 2018, there's not a pretender ( [prɪˈtendər] 觊觎者. 急于篡位者. someone who claims to be the true king, queen, or leader of a country, when another person holds this position. A pretender to a position is someone who claims the right to that position, and whose claim is disputed by others. ...the Comte de Paris, pretender to the French throne. ) seriously circling. But if Labor lost this seat it holds on a margin of just under 1 per cent, there'd be muttering and likely destabilisation, which usually ends badly for the incumbent. If this Saturday looms large ( I. 影响深远. 影响重大. to have a lot of importance or influence over someone or something. to be very prominent or important. If something looms large, it becomes very important and often causes worry: The issue of pay will loom large at this year's conference. America loomed large in Hashimoto's early life. II. 迫近. 不可避免. 无可挽回. if something unpleasant or difficult looms large, it seems certain to happen. This episode finds him deep in depression as divorce looms large. ) for Albanese, July 23 is more important for Scott Morrison. A Liberal win in Eden-Monaro would be a sugar hit for the PM but it would do nothing to solve the huge problems his Government is grappling with. catch someone out (blow a hole in sb's story) 当场抓获, 人赃俱获, 逮住, 拆穿 detect that someone has done something wrong or made a mistake. To catch someone out means to cause them to make a mistake that reveals that they are lying about something, do not know something, or cannot do something. Detectives followed him for months hoping to catch him out in some deception. He did not like to be caught out on details. The government has been caught out by the speed of events. "his tone suggested he'd caught her out in some misdemeanour". 3. 句子: Cohan claims that betting on expectations-beating 超过预期的 revenue growth is the new logic for corporate strategy. 句子: For starters, the PDI's plans to improve "expeditionary airfield and port infrastructure" will be seen by Chinese leaders as a way for the US to conduct extended military campaigns in their backyard. This perception probably extends to ordinary Chinese. 句子: And during a presidential election year in the US, when China-bashing 骂中国 is a perennial ( [pəˈreniəl] I. 永恒的 永远不变的, 亘古不变的 always existing, or never seeming to change. Money is a perennial source of disagreement among couples. The Wizard of Oz is a perennial favorite with children. II. biology 两年生的 a perennial plant lasts for more than two growing seasons. ) campaign strategy of both political parties, harsh rhetoric 强硬措辞 by President Trump is likely meant to stoke ( I. to add fuel to a fire. II. to make a feeling stronger. I didn't want to stoke 惹怒, 惹火 her anger further. ) his political base. 句子: "When you get a brand new virus that turns out to be a pandemic virus it's either due to mutations 基因突变 and/or the reassortment 重构, 重排, 序列重组 or exchanges of genes," he said. 句子: Federal prosecutors allege Ms Maxwell "enticed 引诱, 勾引 and caused minor victims to travel to Epstein's residence in different states" and that she would assist in their "grooming for and subjection to sexual abuse". 4. plunder 侵吞, 侵占, 强占 (embezzle, misappropriate, seize) I. 洗劫一空(=loot). to take valuable things from a place using force, sometimes causing a lot of damage. If someone plunders a place or plunders things from a place, they steal things from it. They plundered and burned the market town of Leominster. She faces charges of helping to plunder her country's treasury of billions of dollars. This has been done by plundering £4 billion from the Government reserves. ...a guerrilla group infamous for torture and plunder. The city was plundered and burned during the war. II. to take or use something that belongs to someone else in order to give yourself an advantage. Film producers often plunder TV's most popular shows. It later emerged he had plundered hundreds of millions of pounds from his companies' pension funds. subservient [səbˈsɜrviənt] I. 顺从的. 听话的. If you are subservient, you do whatever someone wants you to do. She is expected to be subservient to her uncle. ...an austere regime stressing obedience and subservience to authority. II. If you treat one thing as subservient to another, you treat it as less important than the other thing. The woman's needs are seen as subservient to the group interest. A shadow person 鬼影 (also known as a shadow figure, shadow being or black mass (hatman 戴帽子的鬼影)) is the perception of a patch of shadow as a living, humanoid figure, and, interpreted as the presence of a spirit or other entity by believers in the paranormal or supernatural. evangelist [ɪˈvændʒəlɪst] 福音教士 ( missionary 传教士 someone who has been sent to a place by a religious organization to teach the people there about a particular religion. a missionary to South Africa. Bradley spent the next two years doing missionary work. preacher 布道者 ) I. a member of an evangelical church. a. someone who travels around trying to persuade people to become Christians. b. evangelist = Evangelist. one of the four writers of the parts of the Bible called the gospels that tell the story of Jesus Christ's life. II. someone who is very enthusiastic about something and likes to tell other people how good it is. Televangelists 电视布道者 are ministers, whether official or self-proclaimed, who devote a large portion of their ministry to television broadcasting. Some televangelists are also regular pastors or ministers in their own places of worship (often a megachurch), but the majority of their followers come from TV and radio audiences. Others do not have a conventional congregation, and work primarily through television. The term is also used derisively by critics as an insinuation of aggrandizement by such ministers. 4. give someone the creeps 吓得一激灵 to make someone feel nervous or frightened. give someone the shivers/the chills 心生胆颤 to make someone feel very frightened or disgusted The way he looked at me gave me the shivers. send shivers down/up sb's spine to make someone feel very frightened or excited: The way he looked at me sent shivers down my spine. spruik [spruk] 贩卖, 兜售 (transitive, Australia) to try to persuade someone to do or buy something, often in a dishonest or exaggerated way. to speak in public (used esp of a showman or salesman). To promote a thing or idea to another person. Going "gift-free" has been spruiked in the pages of the Oprah magazine and advocated by Mennonite Christians as a way to rediscover the reason for the season. The unit has been met with criticism, with police forced to switch off comments on an Instagram post spruiking the SRS because "people were using abusive and offensive language" "I couldn't quite understand why we would need something like that," he said. "I felt the justification SAPOL has given for their existence, it's really flimsy 没有说服力的, 牵强的, 说不过去的, 说不通的 at best.". flimsy I. badly built or made, and so likely to break easily. Thousands live in flimsy huts in the hills surrounding the capital. II. 没有说服力的, 胡扯的, 牵强的, 说不过去的, 说不通的 not very reliable, or not easy to believe. If you describe something such as evidence or an excuse as flimsy, you mean that it is not very good or convincing. The charges were based on very flimsy evidence. He was convicted on very flimsy evidence. a flimsy excuse. III. 一捅就破的. 不结实的. 非常薄的. Flimsy cloth or clothing is thin and does not give much protection. ...a very flimsy pink chiffon nightgown.
grudgingly (不情愿的, 不由自主的, 身不由己的), VS begrudgingly (强调因羡慕, 觉得不公平等而愤愤不平但又无可奈何): 1. grudge 很少用作动词. noun. a feeling of anger toward someone because they have done something to you that does not seem right or fair. If you have or bear a grudge against someone, you have unfriendly feelings towards them because of something they did in the past. He appears to have a grudge against certain players. There is no doubt it was an accident and I bear no grudges. There's a whole list of people who might bear a grudge against him. grudge match 互看不顺眼之间的比赛, 死对头比赛 a sports game between teams or players that dislike each other a lot. grudging adj (知道应该、是对的事情, 但是)不情愿的, 不想的 done in an unwilling way I couldn't help feeling a grudging admiration for his achievements. A grudging feeling or action is felt or done very unwillingly. He even earned his opponents' grudging 身不由己的 respect (grudging praise 言不由衷的). There seems to be a grudging 无可奈何的 acceptance of the situation. The film studio grudgingly agreed to allow him to continue working. 2. begrudge I. 有意见. 不满. 觉得不公平. 觉得配不上. 有看法. to feel annoyed because someone has something that you want, and you think they do not deserve it. If you do not begrudge someone something, you do not feel angry, upset, or jealous that they have got it. I certainly don't begrudge him the Nobel Prize. not begrudge someone something: No one could begrudge him the money – he's such a nice guy. II. to feel annoyed that you have to do something. begrudge doing something: I begrudge paying so much just to park the car. III. If you do not begrudge something such as time or money, you do not mind giving it up. I do not begrudge 不在乎, 不看重 the money I have lost. begrudgingly 愤愤不平, 意难平 但又无可奈何的 reluctantly or resentfully. In a begrudging manner; in a manner that is envious or reluctant. "he somewhat begrudgingly accepted a reduced role for the better of the team". 3. In terms of general usage, "grudge" is never really used as a verb. You can hold a grudge, but no one "grudges" anything. I imagine it was used that was in the past, but isn't now for whatever reason. "Begrudge" still gets used as a verb, which is perhaps why it remains part of the contemporary lexicon. In terms of your actual question, I can only note the differences in the definitions; one (begrudging) is a display of resentment, the other (grudging) is more about the subjective feeling. I would use the verb "begrudge", but the adjective "grudging" ("grudging praise") and the adverb "grudgingly". Perhaps it's a personal thing, perhaps a British thing. Using these entries, one could say that grudgingly means unwillingly, reluctantly, or (consequently) sparingly 少少地 ( in small quantities Use the leaves sparingly in salads. ). It seems that begrudgingly would then specifically indicate displeasure/disapproval. As is often the case with the "be-" prefix that is used less frequently nowadays, the difference with or without is a matter of splitting hairs. "Begrudgingly" stumbles out of the mouth 不顺口的 so much that it just doesn't sound eloquent as a word. 4. Interesting question. In my mind 'grudgingly' denotes reluctance and makes me think of teenagers getting out of bed, two-year-olds getting into bed, me turning down a glass of wine because I'm driving or my Grandad admitting he was wrong. I think there's a general recognition that the action in question is the right thing to do, which is why it's done, but there's zero enthusiasm. 'Begrudgingly' on the other hand denotes resentment, since if you begrudge someone something, you don't really think they should have it: you're envious and truly think you deserve it yourself. 'Begrudgingly' is how I stomped off after losing a game of Monopoly with my brother as a child because 'big brothers get a second throw of the dice if they don't like the first'. It describes the manner in which I said 'You are the greatest, the most powerful person of all and I am you slave' when he had me in a headlock, etc., etc. Curiously, I think 'holding a grudge' is something you do 'begrudgingly' rather than 'grudgingly'. In the end, then, I think you're right that 'begrudgingly' is specific and directed, whereas 'grudgingly' is more general. 5. "I grudgingly 万分不舍的 paid the bill." I hate giving up my hard-earned money to MegaCorp Corp., but it is a necessity if I want electricity. "My ex begrudgingly 不甘愿的, 心不甘情不愿的 pays child support every month." The divorce was so bitter and ugly that he only writes the check because it is mandated by the state for him do so. I always have to wear latex gloves when handling it, however. One never knows if there is poison in the inkwell.
defer (推迟, 因敬畏而服从) VS deter: defer I. 延迟. 推迟. If you defer an event or action, you arrange for it to happen at a later date, rather than immediately or at the previously planned time. Customers often defer payment for as long as possible. My bank has agreed to defer the repayments on my loan. Can we defer making a decision until next week? I'm not going to defer decisions just because they are not immediately politically popular. If you defer an event or action, you arrange for it to happen at a later date, rather than immediately or at the previously planned time. Customers often defer payment for as long as possible. I'm not going to defer decisions just because they are not immediately politically popular. II. If you defer to someone 尊敬 (deference), you accept their opinion or do what they want you to do, even when you do not agree with it yourself, because you respect them or their authority. to allow someone or something to make decisions for you or tell you what to do because of your respect for them or because of their higher rank, authority, knowledge, etc.: I have to defer to my boss on important decisions. I defer to (= accept) your judgment. Doctors are encouraged to defer to experts 遵从, 听命于. I will defer to Mr. Walters on this point. defer something until/to something 推迟 Further discussion on the proposal will be deferred until April. The committee deferred their decision. deference [ˈdef(ə)rəns] 尊敬, 敬畏
behavior that shows you respect someone and are willing to accept their
opinion or decision. Deference is a polite and respectful attitude
towards someone, especially because they have an important position. The old sense of deference and restraint in royal reporting has vanished. Out of deference to him, I lowered my head as he prayed. deter
震慑, 威慑, 使不敢, 使踌躇不前, 使犹豫不前. to discourage (from acting) or prevent (from
occurring), usually by instilling fear, doubt, or anxiety deter someone or something from something 吓退 to prevent or discourage someone or a group from doing something. to make them not want to do it or continue doing it. Supporters of the death penalty argue that it would deter criminals from carrying guns. Arrests and jail sentences have done nothing to deter the protesters. Jeremy was not deterred by this criticism. We can't seem to deter them from leaving. They were not deterred from their foolish ways. daunt I. to intimidate. II. to dishearten. daunting 吓人的. 唬人的. 使人望而却步的. 使人却不不前的. nothing daunted (British & Australian formal) 置之脑后的. 勇往直前的. 义无反顾的. if you continue to do something, nothing daunted, you are not worried about problems you have with it I've had three letters of refusal but, nothing daunted, I'm writing a fourth application. Deterrence [diˈtɛrəns] theory震慑理论, 威慑理论 is a military strategy developed during the Cold War. It is especially relevant with regard to the use of nuclear weapons,
and figures prominently in current United States foreign policy
regarding the development of nuclear technology in North Korea and Iran.
The term is also used more casually to suspect a party in any field of potential conflict of being prepared to inflict unacceptable damage on an aggressor, and making sure the potential aggressor is aware of the risk so that they may refrain from aggression. Establishing a credible and known deterrence is at the opposite end of the spectrum from a policy of appeasement.
Unscrupulous ( 不道德的, 没有德行的, 良心坏掉的 willing to do things that are unfair, dishonest, or illegal an unscrupulous employer/company. If you describe a person as unscrupulous, you are critical of the fact that they are prepared to act in a dishonest or immoral way in order to get what they want. These kids are being exploited by very unscrupulous people. ...the unscrupulous use of hostages. ) security firms, being probed over their parts in triggering Melbourne's second cornavirus wave, - exploited the pandemic by charging taxpayers for shifts never worked. The rort - known as "ghosting" - led to hazardous under-staffing in hotels, with those who questioned operators even being threatened. Cash payments 现金支付 agreed between providers and workers, long a scourge ( scourge [skɜrdʒ] 苦难的根源, 导致苦难, 带来苦难的东西 noun. A scourge is something that causes a lot of trouble or suffering to a group of people. something or someone that causes great suffering or a lot of trouble: the scourge 毒害, 苦难 of war/poverty/drugs. Pop-up ads have been described as the scourge 毒瘤 of the Internet. 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. verb. If something scourges a place or group of people, it causes great pain and suffering to people. The country has been scourged by (= has suffered very much because of) famine in recent years. Economic anarchy scourged the post-war world. the bane of sth 苦难的根源 a cause of continuous trouble or unhappiness: Keeping noise levels low is the bane of airport administration. That cat is the bane of my life! scrounge [skraʊndʒ] 白拿 to get something that you want by asking someone for it instead of by providing it or paying for it yourself. If you say that someone scrounges something such as food or money, you disapprove of them because they get it by asking for it, rather than by buying it or earning it. Williams had to scrounge enough money to get his car out of the car park. The government did not give them money, forcing them to scrounge for food. They are just scroungers. ) in the security industry, were also widely used. Other alarming 惊人的 claims detailed by security industry figures and quarantine-hotel insiders include: Quarantined families were allowed to go between rooms to play cards and games with others. Other allegations which will be investigated include security firms engaging in 'ghosting' - a practice which involves inflating 虚报 the amount of guards ( inflate I. 充气 to fill something with air or gas so that it becomes the right shape and size for using. f you inflate something such as a balloon or tyre, or if it inflates, it becomes bigger as it is filled with air or a gas. Stuart jumped into the sea and inflated the liferaft. Don's lifejacket had failed to inflate. The pump inflates the tires automatically. a. intransitive to become inflated. It takes only a second for the airbag to inflate. II. transitive to make a number or price higher than it should be. If you say that someone inflates the price of something, or that the price inflates, you mean that the price increases. hey had to buy everything at inflated prices at the ranch store. The promotion of a big release can inflate 抬高 a film's final cost. Clothing prices have not inflated 提价 as much as automobiles. a. to make something seem more important than it really is. b. If someone inflates the amount 虚报, 虚高, 夸大其词 or effect of something, they say it is bigger, better, or more important than it really is, usually so that they can profit from it. They inflated clients' medical treatment to defraud insurance companies. Even his war record was fraudulently inflated.) listed on duty to charge the government and taxpayer more for their services. Operators charged the government for a certain number of staff even though there were less working, even giving fake names for the non-existent employees, the paper reported. Authorities first realised coronavirus was spreading via staff at the hotels after conducting genomic [dʒɪnɒmɪk] 染色体 genome [dʒiːnoʊm] testing - which tracks the markings of different strains of the virus - revealed there were commonalities among multiple hotel contacts. Health officials believe the virus was likely contracted at the hotel quarantine locations and then spread among security guards' friends and family. Mr Andrews said DNA tests showed a number of cases could be linked to 'staff members in hotel quarantine breaching well-known and well-understood infection control protocols'. On Sunday, the premier said staff at the hotel had followed correct protocols relating to social distancing, but had unwittingly 不知情的情况下 spread the virus after sharing a lighter. '[They were] keeping their distance but sharing a lighter between each other,' he said. 'An innocent thing that can lead to transmitting the virus.' The trio were handed the contracts without a formal tender process because the government was desperate to rush the decision through national cabinet. The decision was in contrast to New South Wales' process, which engaged police to man hotels, while Queensland used a combination of health staff, defence force personnel and police. 'There's been some closer mingling than we would have liked of these guards in the workplace,' she said. 'There's a large cohort of security guards and workers and unfortunately it does appear that quite a few of them have worked for single or multiple days whilst infectious.' Six of the state's 64 new cases on Tuesday were linked to an outbreak among workers at the Stamford Plaza hotel, taking the cluster total ( one source predicted a clusterfucking of issues would emerge ) to 29. Opposition health spokeswoman Georgie Crozier said the inquiry into the 'scandal-ridden' and 'shambolic [ʃæmˈbɑlɪk]' program was overdue. A source within the hotel quarantine program told us ghosting was rife, and the Andrews Government had been warned about the dangerous racket [ˈrækɪt] ( I. singular informal a loud annoying noise that continues for a long time. Stop making such a racket! II. countable = racquet. an object used for hitting the ball in games such as tennis, with a long handle and a round part with strings. III. countable informal 违法行径. 违法行为. 非法行为. an illegal activity that makes money. You can refer to an illegal activity used to make money as a racket. A smuggling racket is killing thousands of exotic birds each year. Suspicious fans exposed the racket and police arrested a man last night. a smuggling racket. protection racket 收保护费 an illegal system in which criminals threaten to harm you or your property if you do not give them money. racketeer [ˌrækəˈtɪr] someone who makes money from illegal activities. A racketeer is someone who makes money from illegal activities such as threatening people or selling worthless, immoral, or illegal goods or services. ) months ago. "Hotel staff often found that processes were incomplete. When this was raised with the people running various security, they were threatened ... it's a common practice 正常操作," the source said. In the quarantine setting, the practice of ghosting raises the risk of spreading coronvirus because it means there are not as many guards overseeing guests as health officials are led to believe, while increasing the guests each working guard has to interact with. Regarding the cash payments, one worker said a contractor deposited his wages without paperwrok or any evidence of them carrying out employer obligations. "They just put the money into the account," the worker said. Cash wages allow rogue operators to win contracts with much lower quotes than their rivals because it's saving on tax and other expenses. Such practices greatly increase the risk of cross-contamination 交叉传染. The allegations are sweeping police, hotel - industry and even government circles. But the accusations of more serious breaches - including sexual dalliances ( dalliance [ˈdæliəns] 野合 I. old-fashioned a short sexual relationship, especially one involving people who are married to other people. If two people have a brief romantic relationship, you can say that they have a dalliance with each other, especially if they do not take it seriously. ...my dalliance with a certain footballer. ...sexual dalliances. II. formal a short period of time when someone is involved or interested in something but not in a serious way. Someone's dalliance with something is a brief involvement with it. ...my brief dalliance with higher education.) and fights - will also be investigated. Premier Daniel Andrews said coronavirus was so contagious that something as innocuous as sharing a cigarette lighter could cause a spread in cases - and that this had happened in Victoria. Calls are growing 呼声越来越大 for the inquiry into the state's botched hotel quarantine system to include public hearings. Premier Daniel Andrews said on Wednesday those who had done the wrong thing by breaching infection control standards would be held to account, as he revealed experienced retired judge Jennifer Coate would probe the hotel quarantines. The NSW government called a public investigation into the Ruby Princess debacle early in the coronavirus crisis, with key staff taking the stand to explain how infected travellers from the cruise ship were released into the community.
