用法学习: 1. Crane needed to retrieve bodies of two men from submerged car at Hanwood: Their vehicle was found submerged ( 沉在水底, 泡在水里, 沉入水里 ) at Hanwood yesterday evening when a man walking in the area reported seeing the ute upside down in a canal. It appeared the car had run off the road and crashed into the canal in a tragic accident. Superintendent Ireland said there have not been any similar incidents on that stretch of road 那段路上, 那个路段, but the surface had become slippery with recent rainfall. "The road was particularly treacherous 凶险万分的, 危险的, 危机重重的 after the recent rainfall, and police and other emergency services had some difficulty getting to the location last night," he said. "We'll need some heavy lifting equipment, a crane or the like 类似的东西, 那样的东西, to get it out of there. I'm certain we'll be able to manage it." He said the accident occurred on an unsealed road and it was a reminder to drive safely. "You need to drive to the conditions. And after the recent rain … it's very slippery in the mud, so it's always worth being cautious," Superintendent Ireland said. 2. Trucks, tugboats and cranes -- two beluga whales finally reach the sea after epic journey from captivity: Rehoming animals is a delicate business at the best of times 好的时候, 好年景, 风调雨顺的时候. Rehoming two whales on a new continent during a global pandemic is about as hard as it gets. Now, Little Grey and Little White are enjoying their first taste of the sea since 2011, thanks to a leviathan ( leviathan [ləˈvaɪəθən] 超大型的 something that is very large and powerful. A leviathan is something which is extremely large and difficult to control, and which you find rather frightening. Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century. bariatric [bæriˈætrɪk] relating to the causes and treatment of obesity. Bariatric surgical procedures are an option for treating severe obesity. bariatric surgery surgery designed to achieve extreme weight loss, eg gastric band or gastric bypass The NHS only carries out bariatric surgery on people who are morbidly obese or those who are obese and have other health problems. ) relocation that's been years in the making. "It's been quite the journey for these two," Audrey Padgett, the Beluga Whale Sanctuary's general manager, told CNN on a video call in front of the belugas. "It hasn't been easy, but it's definitely been a labor of love 爱心工程, 出于爱心的( a task done for pleasure, not reward. "he spent eight years rebuilding the house—a labour of love")." More than 300 belugas are in captivity around the world, she told CNN. "Some belugas are in cramped and unsuitable conditions," she added. "And if what we can learn here from Little White and Little Grey can help improve welfare for other animals ... that's really the point." Although Padgett wasn't involved in the logistics of transporting the whales from China, she stressed 强调 that moving two belugas was no easy task. The belugas had bespoke "stretchers" or slings to move them overland, and the team did "practice runs" to get them used to being moved via trucks, tugboats and cranes, according to Padgett. "If you're trying to take your cat or your dog somewhere, you want them to have a positive association with travel ... We had to make the belugas a comfortable as possible," Padgett continued. After their arrival in Iceland, the whales were kept in a care facility with a quarantine pool for several months, to allow them to adjust to the colder Icelandic environment. And though the final leg of the journey from the care facility to the sanctuary was a shorter one, the Covid-19 pandemic complicated it significantly. "We're already in a pretty remote location here in Iceland. It affected our ability to get experts here to help us with the move. It affected our ability to get supplies and just the length of time it took to do things," Padgett told CNN. Little Grey and Little White's odyssey isn't quite over. They are currently in an "acclimatization 适应区 space" within the sanctuary that will allow them to adjust safely to their new home. Padgett says, however, that they will have free rein of ( to allow/give someone free [a] rein to sb/sth 自由自在, 自由度 freedom of action or expression. If you give free rein to someone, you give them a lot of freedom to do what they want. The government continued to believe it should give free rein to the private sector in transportation. "he was given free rein to work out his designs". The young film-makers were given free rein to experiment with new themes and techniques. He deliberately gave his emotions free rein 放纵, 放开束缚, 放开拘束, 肆意奔流 as he played the sonata. ) the sanctuary any day now. And while the whales benefit from more space to explore and new kinds of seaweed, kelp and fish to enjoy, the whole operation also helps humans understand belugas better, Padgett explains. "It's kind of the finish line for these two," she said, "but it's a new chapter for belugas around the world." 3. shebang [ʃɪˈbaŋ] I. INFORMAL a matter, operation, or set of circumstances. "the Mafia boss who's running the whole shebang". II. NORTH AMERICAN a rough hut or shelter. the whole shebang 方方面面的, 各方面的, 各个方面 The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing. all the different parts or aspects of a situation, process, or event. razz [ræz] 在逗你(tease sb. 开玩笑的) [mainly US, informal] To razz someone means to tease them, especially in an unkind way. Molly razzed me about my rotten sense of direction. I'm only razzing you, cuz. You're dreaming, really. I'm razzing you. to make someone feel embarrassed by making an insulting joke about them. 新闻短句: Three homes were reduced to rubble (瓦砾) 夷为平地, spokeswoman Blair Adams said. 俄罗斯疫苗: The speed at which Russia is moving to roll out its vaccine highlights 最好的说明了 its determination to win the global race for an effective product, but has stirred concerns it may be putting national prestige [preˈstiːʒ] 声望 ( the high reputation and respect that someone or something has earned, based on their impressive achievements, quality etc. This year's outstanding tournament will do a lot to restore the competition's prestige. The move was designed to enhance his personal prestige. If a person, a country, or an organization has prestige, they are admired and respected because of the position they hold or the things they have achieved. ...efforts to build up the prestige of the United Nations. It was his responsibility for foreign affairs that gained him international prestige. ...high prestige jobs. adj. having a high reputation and attracting a lot of respect, for example because of being of very high quality. Prestige is used to describe products, places, or activities which people admire because they are associated with being rich or having a high social position. ...such prestige cars as Cadillac, Mercedes, Porsche and Jaguar. prestige hotels/cars. a prestige international sports event. prestigious [preˈstɪdʒəs] adj A prestigious institution, job, or activity is respected and admired by people. admired and respected by people a prestigious school/institution/literary prize. It's one of the best equipped and most prestigious schools in the country. ) before sound 可靠的, 扎实的 science and safety. Its approval by the Health Ministry foreshadowed ( foreshadow [fɔː(r)ˈʃædəʊ] 预示 if something foreshadows a future event, it shows or gives a warning that it will happen. The storms and rains of that year foreshadowed a long period of unstable weather conditions. The disappointing sales figures foreshadow more redundancies. The change proposed last month was foreshadowed in the March Budget. ) the start of a larger trial involving thousands of participants, commonly known as a Phase III trial. Such trials, which require a certain rate of participants catching the virus to observe the vaccine's effect, are normally considered essential precursors ( 前兆, 征兆 [priːˈkɜː(r)sə(r)] something that exists before something else, and is related to it or influences its development. Were these small movements the precursor to a major earthquake? That which precurses: a forerunner, predecessor, or indicator of approaching events. A precursor of something is a similar thing that happened or existed before it, often something which led to the existence or development of that thing. Real tennis, an ancient precursor 前身 of the modern game, originated in the eleventh century. He said that the deal should not be seen as a precursor to a merger. ) for a vaccine to receive regulatory approval. 4. 美国政治: Trump has previously employed that same descriptor ( descriptor [dɪˈskrɪptə(r)] I. computing a piece of stored data that shows how other data is stored.a keyword assigned to a data-file and stored in a search index so that it can be located through a search engine or in a database. a file descriptor. II. linguistics 描述的话 a word or expression that is used to describe something. a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence. ) to criticize other female political rivals and perceived enemies, including former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, the late former first lady Barbara Bush, Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. 媒体裁员: "We have a media landscape that is being hollowed-out 吃空, 掏空, 挖空( hollow out something to remove the inside of something. If you hollow something out, you remove the inside part of it. Someone had hollowed out a large block of stone. Bake some big red peppers and hollow them out. We hollowed out the tree trunk to make a canoe. ) and the big losers in that landscape are the readers and viewers ... especially those living in regional areas," Mr Portelli said. 澳洲自动化落后: The idea that technology can support, not supplant 取代, 替代 ( [səˈplɑːnt] to replace something or someone, often as a result of being more powerful. If a person or thing is supplanted, another person or thing takes their place. He may be supplanted by a younger man. By the 1930s the wristwatch had almost completely supplanted the pocket watch. ), workers can be seen at the digital arm of Australia's biggest retailer, WooliesX. Paul Munnington from WooliesX has witnessed a surge in activity since the COVID-19 crisis began. Adding to their worry is the fact that even though their skills are new, they will likely need to reskill before 2025. 5. 裁员: Kyle Sandilands slams Channel 10 for axing legendary weatherman Tim Bailey amid brutal job cuts - and is shocked the much-loved presenter didn't appear to have a final sendoff ( 送别. 告别晚会. a party or celebration to say goodbye to someone who is leaving a place. a demonstration of good wishes to a person about to set off on a journey, new career, etc. give someone a good/big/warm sendoff: We wanted to give her a good sendoff from work.). 关于拜登副手选择的反应: What was noticeably absent from Hannity's conversation: the coronavirus. Hannity only lobbed a softball 象征性的问问题, 简单提问, 蜻蜓点水似的提了一下 ( softball a method of doing something that is not forceful, determined, or unpleasant: With its burgeoning trade deficit, the US is in no mood to play softball. a softball question 容易回答的问题, 简单的问题 a question that is easy to answer: I know this is probably like a softball question to you, but are you going to go ask Congress for more money and more staff? News crews lobbed softball questions. hardball a method that is forceful, determined, and often unpleasant: hardball approach/tactics 强硬的, 强势的. Now the agency wants the money back - and is prepared to play hardball to get it, holding out the threat of criminal prosecution. hardline 强硬派的, 态度强硬的 adj. strict or extreme in your beliefs or opinions, and not willing to change them. If you describe someone's policy or attitude as hardline, you mean that it is strict or extreme, and they refuse to change it. the fact of being very severe, for example in refusing to allow something or to give people what they want: The government wants to take a hard line against the strikers. a hard-line manifesto. a hard-line politician. His hardline stance appears to have gained him greater popularity with the public. The United States has taken a lot of criticism for its hard-line stance. East Germany's last hardline Communist leader. ) to Trump on the topic at the very end of his 30+ minute chat. Laura Ingraham opened her show by perpetuating the theme from right-wing media that Biden won't actually be in control of his White House. Ingraham read what she characterized as a "telling tidbit" from Biden's email to supporters in which he said, "I've decided that Kamala Harris is the best person to help me take this fight to Donald Trump and Mike Pence and then to lead this nation starting in January 2021." Ingraham then commented, "Wait, wait, to lead this nation? Wasn't that you supposed to be on the top of the ticket doing all that leading for us, Joe? You know, that whole presidency then? Come on, man. Even Joe is witted enough to understand that he's not really going to be running the show if he wins in November." Ingraham deserves credit for extrapolating ( extrapolate [ɪkˈstræpəleɪt] 据所知信息推断 I. formal to say what is likely to happen or be true by using information that you already have. It's possible to predict students’ success by extrapolating from current exam scores. If you extrapolate from known facts, you use them as a basis for general statements about a situation or about what is likely to happen in the future. Extrapolating from his American findings, he reckons about 80% of these deaths might be attributed to smoking. It is unhelpful to extrapolate general trends from one case. His estimate of half a million HIV positive cases was based on an extrapolation of the known incidence of the virus. II. maths to calculate an amount that you do not know by basing your calculations on amounts that you already know. ) all of that from an innocuous line ( innocuous [ɪˈnɒkjuəs] 看上去很单纯的, 看上去很普通的 I. not likely to offend or upset anyone. an innocuous remark/suggestion. Something that is innocuous is not at all harmful or offensive. Both mushrooms look innocuous but are in fact deadly. Even seemingly innocuous words are offensive in certain contexts. II. not likely to harm or hurt anyone or anything. an innocuous substance found in some types of fungi. ) in the Biden campaign email. 6. there but for the grace (of God go I) 我们的命运掌握在上帝手里, 命运不由我, 一切要看上帝了, 在上帝手里 I. A recognition that others' misfortune could be one's own, if it weren't for the blessing of the Divine, or for one's luck. said when something bad that has happened to someone else could have happened to you. If you are talking about someone who is in a bad situation and you say 'There but for the grace of God go I', you mean that you are lucky not to be in the same situation as them and you feel sympathy for them. "We're concerned there's community transmission we haven't picked up," she said. "We're doing well, we're holding our own, but when every week you get a couple of unknown cases and they can't be linked, you do worry because what it does tell us is that there is the disease circulating." In other words, there but for the grace…. II. Humankind's fate is in God's hands. III. More generally, our fate is not entirely in our own hands. Usage notes: a. This proverb is an expression of humility; in using it, a speaker acknowledges that outside factors (such as God's grace, or one's upbringing) have played a role in one's success in life. b. The adverbial phrase is often set off with commas: "There, but for the grace of God, go I." c. Used also to express that one cannot judge others for their flaws for we are all equally flawed 五十步笑百步. Etymology: Allegedly from a mid-sixteenth-century statement by John Bradford, "There but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford", in reference to a group of prisoners being led to execution. A paraphrase from the Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:8–10, which states, "Last of all, as to one born abnormally, he appeared to me. For I am the least of the apostles, not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am...".
昭然若揭, 跃然纸上 (shine through, permeate, palpable 伸手可触, 触不可及(反义)): 1. shine through = show/shine/come through 光芒耀眼, 昭然若揭, 掩盖不住,
If a quality shines through, it is strong and easy to see, usually in a
particular situation. if a good feeling or quality shines through, it
is very noticeable. if a quality in someone's character shows/shines/comes through, people can see it in the way that person behaves, speaks, or writes. There was a quality of simplicity that shone through in her life and letters. Perlman's musical talents shone through at an early age. Take off your make-up and let your natural beauty shine through. She is a quiet woman but her passion shines through in her music. Her disbelief comes through 映在脸上, 写在脸上, 昭然若揭, 再明显不过 in the questions she asks. show/shine/come through (可用于字如其人, 文如其人, 名如其人等的翻译) if a quality in someone's character shows/shines/comes through, people can see it in the way that person behaves, speaks, or writes. There was a quality of simplicity that shone through in her life and letters. 2. 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. 3. "This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay [dɪˈkeɪ] 慢慢腐烂, 一点点腐败. 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 慢慢地饿死,
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 伸手可及, 现实触手可及 not just in the scourge of police violence ( 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. ) 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 没有一丝的 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. 另一个例子: As media filed into 鱼贯而入 the Steve Jobs theatre this morning, the excitement and intrigue was palpable ( palpable [pælpəbəl] 能感觉得到的, 触摸得到的, 再清楚不过的, 清晰可见的, 可以感知的, 昭然若揭的 You describe something as palpable when it is obvious or intense and easily noticed. The
tension between Amy and Jim is palpable. There is an almost palpable
feeling of hopelessness. The scene was palpably intense to watch. easily perceived by the senses or the mind; obvious the excuse was a palpable lie. capable of being touched; tangible. tangible [tændʒɪbəl] adjective If something is tangible, it is clear enough or definite enough to be easily seen, felt, or noticed. There should be some tangible evidence 切实的证据
that the economy is starting to recover. The relief was almost
tangible. This tangibly demonstrated that the world situation could be
improved. feelable
adj That can or may be felt; perceptible by the senses, especially by
touch; accessible to, or impacting on, the emotions or thought. palpable VS tangible: palpable is something intense enough that it can be felt without being physical. Most often used with something emotive or conceptual, the sense of fear in the room was palpable.
Whereas tangible is something physically real that you can hold or
touch no matter what. Regarding definition, I think they can technically
be synonymous which may be the source of your confusion. Usage is
everything with these terms though, context will tell you whether
something is real or not. To elaborate on this, "palpable" is generally used figuratively ( it's often used to talk about the feelings in the air etc. eg. the excitement in the room was palpable. a "palpable sense of tension" isn't really something you can palpate (touch) any more than you could literally "cut the tension with a knife") whereas "tangible" 切实的证据 is generally used literally ( Tangible is usually used to express something that is physically there... "tangible evidence" is evidence you can actually touch). However, medically speaking
something palpable can literally be palpated, and you could use
"palpable" to mean "tangible," as in "palpable evidence," though this is
not something you often see.). This time Apple was swapping gadgets for the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. In lieu of smartphones, we got celebrities. 4. So, how'd you get involved with Byrde in the first place? Easy. I just stole some of his cash, and he wanted me to keep quiet.
Who knew we had so much in common? I wonder if it's the same cash he
hid in my wall. At the Blue Cat? It's gone, though, now. Has he ever
tried to fuck you with his overt-act(An open act; an act indicating an intent to commit a crime. In criminal law, an overt act 昭然若揭的, 不加掩饰的 is the one that can be clearly proved by evidence and from which criminal intent can be inferred, as opposed to a mere intention in the mind to commit a crime.
Therefore, it is an act that, while innocent per se, can potentially be
used as evidence against someone during a trial to show participation
in a crime. For instance, the purchase of a ski mask, which can conceal identity,
is generally a legal act but may be an overt act if it is purchased in
the planning of a bank robbery. The term is more particularly employed
in cases of treason, which must be demonstrated by some overt or open act. ) shit? Yep. Fucker. Does he roll in with that lame blue mesh bag 网兜,
lock himself in the office like he's working out or some shit? No, not
unless he's benching a flash drive and a bulk of cash, like a cat
burglar's utility bag. 5. in the foreground I. being used at the present time. Programs that are running on your computer but not being used are in the background. Spike happens to be in the foreground of this shot. The fly wheel, drive worm and wheel are in the foreground. II.
显眼, 明显, 赤裸裸的. 昭然若揭的. to be regarded as important and receive a lot of
attention Education has been very much in the foreground 走上前台, 走到台前 recently. 6. Muslim leaders across Australia have denounced as unjust, unjustified and hypocritical proposed new counter-terrorism laws and they have refused to "rubber-stamp" them
for the government. In a statement released on Wednesday afternoon,
more than 60 individuals and organisations, including 10 sheikhs, said
that the threat from the ostensible ( [oˈstensəb(ə)l] 似是而非的. 貌似真实的. appearing to be true, or stated by someone to be true, but possibly false. The ostensible reason for the army's presence was to keep the peace.) target of the laws - about 150 "radicalised" Muslims returning from Iraq or Syria - had been "trumped up"(to deliberately make up information that connects someone with a crime.). "There is no solid evidence to substantiate this threat. Rather 相反, racist caricatures, prone to violence and inherently problematic are being exploited," the statement reads. "It is instructive 昭然若揭的, 告诉你点什么的, 不言自明的, 引人遐想的, 让人联想的 让人遐想的, 让人浮想联翩的 that ( instructive 太有用了 giving useful information about something. I found the talk on healthy eating very instructive. ...an entertaining and instructive documentary. vocabulary: Instructive means "useful and informative." Say you're visiting Paris and looking for the Eiffel Tower when a friendly Parisian native helpfully stops to draw you a map. "Merci," you say. "This map is very instructive." In English, anything that informs or enlightens is instructive, but in the Finnish language there's something called the instructive case, which is a whole separate way of saying "by the means of." An example would be a sentence like "I traveled here by horse," which you would say differently than any other kind of sentence you might utter. You would also be speaking Finnish, so the information would only be instructive to Finns. ) similar issues about Australian troops travelling abroad to fight or
Jews travelling to train or fight with the Israeli Defence Force are simply never raised." The Muslim leaders also pointed out the official terrorism threat level has remained the same since 2001. 7. be as clear/plain as day 再明白不过的, 昭然若揭的 to be obvious or easy to see. She's in love with him - it's as plain as day.
Biden的竞选副手公布: For months, they obeyed 听话, 听从了. But as Biden entered the final stretch of his VP selection process, the dam broke 终于挡不住了 ( A dam failure 大坝决堤 or dam burst is a catastrophic type of failure characterized by the sudden, rapid, and uncontrolled release of impounded water or the likelihood of such an uncontrolled release. ). In late July, her surrogates grew incensed 气坏了 by a pair of stories in POLITICO — including a report that a top member of Biden's vetting team 筛选团队, 甄选团队, former Sen. Chris Dodd, complained to a donor that Harris had shown "no remorse" for her surprise attack on Biden in a Democratic debate last year. Harris' staunchest allies in California mobilized 发动了. Kounalakis reached out to more than a dozen current and former California officials, mayors, and labor union and business leaders to demand a conference call with Biden campaign brass( brass = (UK) top brass 大佬 In the army or in other organizations, the brass are the people in the highest positions. The brass are reluctant to fraternise with the enlisted men. brass rubbing A brass rubbing is a picture made by placing a piece of paper over a brass plate that has writing or a picture on it, and rubbing it with a wax crayon. to get down to brass tacks If you get down to brass tacks, you discuss the basic, most important facts of a situation. Let's take a quick look round and then we can get down to brass tacks. ). No other vice presidential candidate was afforded such a meeting. On Tuesday, Harris' strategy — a low-profile, leak-free effort that contrasted sharply with 鲜明对比 her undisciplined presidential campaign — and the late push by her supporters paid off when Biden made her the nation's first Black woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket. The logic of Harris as Biden's running mate was apparent 显而易见的 — no other contender had the combination of executive and legislative experience and diverse background. Not long into Barack Obama's presidency, she was being compared to him and pegged as a future national star( peg somebody/something as something 认定, 看死 to believe or say that someone has a particular type of character, or that a situation has particular qualities. I'd had him pegged as a troublemaker. have (got) (one) pegged as (something) To distinctly regard one as being a certain type of person. I had you pegged as a coward, but I'm impressed with how you stood up to that criminal. Everyone's got me pegged as a loser, but I'll show them! ). Much to her annoyance, Harris was held up 别认为是 ( hold up I. to cause a delay for someone or something, or to make them late. Sorry I'm late, but my train was held up. She got held up 拖住了 at work. II. transitive to steal from a person, business, or vehicle by threatening them with a gun or other weapon. An armed raider held up the village store last week. III. intransitive to remain strong or in a fairly good condition. There were fears that her ankle might not hold up for the competition. Prices had held up well until late 1997. hold someone/something up as something 被奉为, 被当做是, 被看做是 to say that someone or something is an example of something, usually something good. He was held up as a hero. We were held up as the best example of working practice. ) as an ideal No. 2 for Biden even before she announced her own campaign. Several people close to the process say the revelation that Dodd had expressed such distaste over Harris' remarks was the most disruptive period of the search. And the specter ( specter = UK spectre 坏事发生的可能性 If you refer to the specter of something unpleasant, you are referring to something that you are frightened might occur. The arrests raised the specter of revenge attacks. the possibility of something unpleasant that might happen in the future. The latest economic forecast again raises the spectre of increased inflation. ) that there was hesitancy about Harris — whom her competitors also considered the frontrunner — triggered a furious round of late lobbying and speculation about which direction Biden would ultimately go. "I think Susan Rice was in strong consideration. I think Karen Bass was in strong consideration," he said. "I think in the last two or three days I came to the conclusion that it was Harris, Bass and Rice. No one told me that, this is what I felt."
美国疫情: Way back in February — back when the US had 13 COVID-19 cases, and not 4.8 million — Donald Trump said that one day soon the virus would just "go away. It'll disappear". Medical experts shook their heads and publicly disagreed, but Trump had found himself a handy catchphrase. He's repeated it at least 25 times since. We'll never know his motivation for this. His supporters say he's projecting optimism during dark, dire times; his critics say he's just tossing out one more false assurance, trying to spur economic recovery. What we do know is that one of his newer iterations 轮回 of "the virus will go away" has fallen into a different web of polemics ( polemic [pəˈlemɪk] I. countable a strong statement of opinion, especially negative opinion. II. polemic or polemics uncountable the practice or skill of making strong statements of opinion, especially negative opinion. the art or practice of dispute or argument, as in attacking or defending a doctrine or belief. ). In a country seeing 9/11-level deaths every three days, tracking vaccine progress has emerged as a national pastime, a hope-filled 充满希望的 ritual that defies party lines. The US media dresses it up in fun colours and breaking headlines. The stock market does a little jump whenever good news gets passed around 传来传去. But with all the grasping around at "when", the conversation barely grazes over ( graze verb. I. When animals graze or are grazed, they eat the grass or other plants that are growing in a particular place. Groups of cattle were grazing on the rich grass. fields where they used to graze their sheep. You can also say that a field is grazed by animals. Five cows graze serenely around a massive oak. The hills have been grazed by sheep because they were too steep to be ploughed. Several horses grazed the meadowland. ...a large herd of grazing animals. II. If you graze a part of your body 擦伤, you injure your skin by scraping against something. I had grazed my knees a little. ...grazed arms and legs. noun. A graze is a small wound caused by scraping against something. III. 擦过. 刚刚错过. If something grazes another thing, it touches that thing lightly as it passes by. A bullet had grazed his arm. Wright managed a shot but it grazed the near post and rolled harmlessly across the goal. ) "whether" — as in, whether a vaccine could ever really make America's mess, as Trump put it, "disappear". The anti-vax movement was strong before the pandemic hit, buoyed by a fierce debate ( buoy I. If someone in a difficult situation is buoyed by something, it makes them feel more cheerful and optimistic. In May they danced in the streets, buoyed by their victory. German domestic consumption buoyed the German economy. Buoy up means the same as buoy. They are buoyed up by a sense of hope. II. to help a company, market, or economy to be more successful The stock market was buoyed by comments from the Bank of England chairman. III. to keep something floating on water. ) over the US measles outbreak last year. In the past few months, the movement has only stepped into overdrive 愈发白热化, fuelled by new ties with the re-open protesters. The anti-vaxxers have spread their rhetoric — baseless claims that vaccines lead to autism and other health issues — further on Facebook than ever before. For one group of Americans, the vaccine's alleged proximity only justifies the decision to resume life as normal. It's the same sense of impatience that's marked the US virus response since mid-April. An unwillingness to do the hard thing, disguised in dazzling 让人眩晕的, 让人耳晕目眩的 ideas about freedom and the inevitability of American innovation. But for another group of Americans, the vaccine fuels a sense that all the patience will have been worth it. They treat "soon" like a light at the end of the tunnel, a reason to hang on and do the hard thing just a little bit longer.
