用法学习: 1. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern criticises Australia for stripping dual national terror suspect's citizenship: A Melbourne woman who had her Australian citizenship cancelled last year is at the centre of a political spat between Australia and New Zealand, after NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern accused Scott Morrison of an "abrogation ( abrogate[ˈæbrəˌɡeɪt] I. to officially get rid of a law or political arrangement, often without the agreement of the other people, groups, etc. involved. If someone in a position of authority abrogates something such as a law, agreement, or practice, they put an end to it. The next prime minister could abrogate the treaty. ...a dereliction of duty and an abrogation of responsibility. II. 不负责任. 逃避责任. to treat as nonexistent. to fail to do what is required by (something, such as a responsibility). The company's directors are accused of abrogating their responsibilities. III. to suppress or prevent (a biological function or process and especially an immune response) Continued progress in measurement and characterization of antibodies and strategies to abrogate antibody production both prior to and following heart transplant have been encouraging. vocabulary: Abrogate means to abolish or avoid. When someone cuts in front of you in line, they are abrogating your right to be the next one served. When you cut in line, you are abrogating your responsibility 回避责任 to those who were in line before you. The Latin root of this word is made up of the prefix ab- "away" and rogare "to propose a law." What does it mean if you propose a law away? You repeal it, of course, so abrogate means to officially revoke, cancel or abolish. The meaning of this word has expanded a bit since its earliest usage, but it still appears most often in a legal or political context, or when serious rights and responsibilities are being discussed. Abrogation is the act of canceling, nullifying, or repealing something, almost always in an official or legal context. To abrogate something is to repeal or cancel it, so abrogation is the act of repealing or canceling. This is mainly a legal term. Abrogation occurs whenever an old law or rule is abolished, like when slavery was outlawed. The abrogation of a lease means it is no longer valid and binding. The annulment of a marriage — which legally wipes out the marriage, as if it never happened — is also a type of abrogation.) of responsibility" over her case. On Monday evening (local time), news broke that she had been detained by Turkish authorities while crossing into Turkey from the north-western Syrian province of Idlib, where she had reportedly been living. The Turkish government has in the past labelled as terrorists people who merely lived under Islamic State and did not participate in fighting or actual acts of terrorism. In a Tuesday afternoon press conference, a visibly angry Ms Ardern said the Australian government should not have cancelled Ms Adam's citizenship, and that Mr Morrison had "abdicated responsibility ( abdicate [ˈæbdɪˌkeɪt] I. intransitive/transitive if a king or queen abdicates, he or she formally gives up power. If a king or queen abdicates, he or she gives up being king or queen. The last French king was Louis Philippe, who abdicated in 1848. ...the most serious royal crisis since the abdication of Edward VIII. II. transitive formal to stop accepting a particular responsibility or obligation that you have. If you say that someone has abdicated responsibility for something, you disapprove of them because they have refused to accept responsibility for it any longer. Many parents simply abdicate all responsibility for their children. abdicate (your) responsibility [ˈæbdɪˌkeɪt] 逃避责任, 逃避义务: The government cannot abdicate responsibility for national security. )" for Ms Adam. Ms Ardern said the woman had left New Zealand for Australia when she was six, and had departed for Syria from Australia on an Australian passport. "Our very strong view on behalf of New Zealanders was that this individual was clearly most appropriately dealt with in Australia," she said. "That is where their family reside, that is where their links reside, and that is the place they departed for Syria." Ms Ardern said she raised the issue with Mr Morrison last year but her concerns were brushed aside. "I was then informed [this] year that Australia had unilaterally revoked 注销, 取消 the citizenship of the individual involved," she said. "If the shoe were on the other foot ( the boot/shoe is on the other foot 换做是我们, 角色互换, 角色兑换, 换成是我们, 如果情况掉过来, 情况反过来 If you say, in British English, the boot is on the other foot or, mainly in American English, the shoe is on the other foot, you mean that a situation has been reversed completely, so that the person who was in the better position before is now in the worse one. You're not in a position to remove me. The boot is now on the other foot. role reversal 角色互换 Role reversal is a situation in which two people have chosen or been forced to exchange their duties and responsibilities, so that each is now doing what the other used to do. Instead of being a helper, I needed help, and I struggled with this role reversal. if/had (two people's) situations been reversed used to say how someone would have done something if he or she and another person had been in each other's situations. If/Had their situations been reversed, she would have done the same.) we would take responsibility," she said. "I never believed that the right response was simply a race to revoke citizenship, that is not the right thing to do. Australia did not act in good faith." In response to Ms Ardern's comments, Mr Morrison said: "It's my job as the Australian Prime Minister to put Australia's national security interests first. I think all Australians would agree with that." "The legislation that was passed through our Parliament automatically cancels the citizenship of a dual citizen where they've been engaged in terrorist activities of this nature. "Now, I understand that the New Zealand government has some issues with that. "Australia's interest here is that we do not want to see terrorists who fought with terrorism organisations enjoying privileges of citizenship, which I think they forfeit the second they engage as an enemy of our country." 3. New York Times: House Republican shunned by family members over Trump criticism: Eleven members of Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger's family sent him a vitriolic letter accusing him of being a member of the "devil's army" 坏人军团 in light of his criticism of then-President Donald Trump after the January 6 insurrection, The New York Times reported Monday. "Oh my, what a disappointment you are to us and to God!" they wrote to the Illinois Republican, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the paper, rebuking his "horrible, rude accusations of President Trump." "It is now most embarrassing to us that we are related to you," they continued in the letter. The Illinois Republican told CNN's David Axelrod that he is willing to lose his seat over his vote to impeach Trump. "I did it knowing full well it could very well be terminal to my career," Kinzinger said of his vote at the time. "But I also knew that I couldn't live with myself having, you know, try to just protect it and just felt like the one time I was called to do a really tough duty, I didn't do it." The letter comes as many Republicans who have opposed the former President, including by voting in favor of Trump's impeachment or conviction, grapple with the fallout from their own party. The blowback (= backlass 反冲力, 后坐力 ) these lawmakers have faced has underscored the hold Trump continues to have over the Republican base. "I hold nothing against them,'' he told the paper, "but I have zero desire or feel the need to reach out and repair that. That is 100% on them to reach out and repair, and quite honestly, I don't care if they do or not." "I wanted Adam to be shunned 孤立," his cousin told the Times. Kinzinger is from a large family in central Illinois, and his father has 32 first cousins, according to the paper. The congressman has previously referenced such familial backlash over his vote. 4. penalty rate Australian an increased rate of pay for overtime or for work performed under abnormal conditions (比如夜间, 节日期间). A mandated minimum rate of pay which is higher than the usual minimum wage, paid to an employee when working on weekends, public holidays, overtime, late night shifts or early morning shifts. 5. prime VS groom: prime I. If you prime someone to do something, you prepare them to do it, for example by giving them information about it beforehand. Claire wised she'd primed Sarah beforehand. Arnold primed her for her duties. The press corps was primed to leap to the defense of the fired officials. to prepare someone to behave or react in a particular way. She had been well primed about what to say to the press. They have 50,000 men primed for battle. II. If someone primes a bomb or a gun, they prepare it so that it is ready to explode or fire. He was priming the bomb to go off in an hour's time. Tom keeps a primed 10-foot shotgun in his office. In the moments after the crash, witnesses described Janorat as having "very narrow pupils". A loaded syringe with clear liquid was later found near his hand. "The level of methylamphetamine in your blood was high," the judge said. "You drove with a primed syringe within reach." The court heard the crash continued to devastate Mr and Mrs Anderson's three children, who have spoken about the "massive hole" it has left in their lives. III. to prepare a surface for paint or some other substance. to prime the pump To prime the pump means to do something to encourage the success or growth of something, especially the economy. ...the use of tax money to prime the pump of the state's economy. groom I. If you groom an animal, you clean its fur, usually by brushing it. The horses were exercised and groomed with special care. if an animal grooms itself or another animal, it cleans itself or another animal. II. If you are groomed for a special job, someone prepares you for it by teaching you the skills you will need. George was already being groomed for the top job. Marshall was groomed to run the family companies. to prepare someone for a particular job or activity by giving them special training and attention. The 15-year-old schoolgirl is being groomed for 特训 stardom. a. to prepare a child for illegal activity, especially sexual activity or selling drugs. Many times children are groomed by predators online. The men were convicted of systematically grooming and sexually abusing teenage girls. Gangs are increasingly using violence to groom children to be used as drug mules. III. to take care of your appearance by keeping your hair, body, and clothes clean and neat. Dan spends hours grooming 梳妆打扮, 打扮自己, 收拾自己 in front of the mirror. 6. gratitude (adj grateful ) a feeling of being grateful to someone because they have given you something or have done something for you. It would be nice to show your gratitude every now and then. We would like to express our gratitude to everyone. ...a sense of gratitude. I wish to express my gratitude to Kathy Davis for her immense practical help. I choose to bring an attitude of gratitude 感恩的心 into my life. Teaching children an attitude of gratitude 心怀感恩 requires helping them to look at their situations from a point of appreciation rather than from a deficit. You ready to do our affirmations [æfɜrˈmeɪʃ(ə)n]? Do we have to? It's stupid. Uh-oh, sounds like someone needs a little gratitude in their attitude. Affirmations are a self-help strategy used to promote self-confidence and belief in your own abilities. You've probably affirmed yourself without even realizing it by telling yourself things like: "All I can do is my best." owe (someone) a debt of gratitude: I felt I owed a debt of gratitude to my old teacher. gratuitous [ɡrəˈtuɪtəs] adj I. 不必要的, 没来由的. 没头没脑的. 无缘无故的. not called for by the circumstances. not necessary, appropriate, or justified. unwarranted. done or shown without any good reason. If you describe something as gratuitous, you mean that it is unnecessary, and often harmful or upsetting. There's too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV. ...his insistence on offering gratuitous advice. They wanted me to change the title to something less gratuitously offensive. There's too much gratuitous violence in the movie. a gratuitous insult. a gratuitous assumption. a movie criticized for gratuitous violence. II. given unearned or without recompense We mistake the gratuitous blessings of Heaven for the fruits of our own industry. III. costing nothing. It was printed in France at the author's expense, for gratuitous distribution to educators and others. III. not involving a return benefit, compensation, or consideration has gratuitous permission to pass over private land. 7. oblique [oʊˈblik] I. not expressing something directly. an oblique reference to his past. If you describe a statement as oblique, you mean that is not expressed directly or openly, making it difficult to understand. It was an oblique reference to his mother. Mr Golding delivered an oblique warning 间接的, 暗指地, talking of the danger of sudden action. He obliquely referred to the U.S., Britain and Saudi Arabia. II. not looking or pointing directly at someone or something. He was giving her oblique looks. III. maths an oblique line is sloping. An oblique line is a straight line that is not horizontal or vertical. An oblique angle is any angle other than a right angle. It lies between the plain and the sea at an oblique angle to the coastline. This muscle runs obliquely downwards inside the abdominal cavity. IV. maths an oblique angle is any angle that is not 90°, 180°, or 270°. Our culture is not your costume': Rihanna photo sparks social media backlash in India: Rihanna is facing accusations of cultural appropriation and religious insensitivity after she posted a topless image of herself wearing a pendant 吊坠, 胸坠 ( [ˈpendənt] a piece of jewelry that hangs from a chain around your neck. A pendant is an ornament on a chain that you wear round your neck. ) depicting the Hindu god Ganesha. Among her matching purple jewels are a bracelet, a large pair of earrings and what appears to be a diamond-studded carving of the elephant-headed deity -- a move branded "disrespectful" by some Hindus and other social media users in India.
Joe Biden's Townhall meeting: On White supremacists: Biden said White supremacists are the greatest domestic terror threat 恐怖威胁 in the US during a town hall event. "It's complex, it's wide ranging, and it's real," Biden added. "I would make sure that my Justice Department and the Civil Rights Division is focused heavily on those very folks, and I would make sure that we, in fact, focus on how to deal with the rise of White supremacy," he said. Biden thinks the nation is not divided: Biden said he takes issue with "everybody" stating that the US is a divided country. Biden explained that he believes most people in the country agree on issues like coronavirus aid. "The nation is not divided. You go out there and take a look and talk to people, you have fringes on both ends. But it's not nearly as divided as we make it out to be and we have to bring it together," Biden said.
Big Bang Theory: 1. Howard: Hey, Leonard, where do you come down on ( come down on the side of 支持争议双方的哪一方: If you come down on one side of an argument, you declare that you support that side. Make a choice or decision in favor of, plump for. I'll come down on the side of those who are needy. After much quibbling, the judges came down on the side of Thornton. plump for sth/sb 认真考虑后作出选择, 选择支持 UK informal to choose something or someone, especially after taking time for careful thought. to choose something or someone after thinking carefully about it Finally we plumped for a bottle of champagne. I'm going to plump for the vegetable curry. Which film did you plump for in the end? to support something or someone enthusiastically: Marcy had been writing campaign speeches and plumping for McCarthy since December. come down on sth 立场, 看法 (where do you stand on) To establish one's opinion or view as being in support of a particular side of an issue. And where do you come down on this issue, sir? I think the jury is going to come down on the side of the plaintiff. come down [hard] on someone If you come down on someone, you punish or criticize them severely. To scold or reprimand someone harshly. My professor is going to come down on me for not completing the paper, or The judge promised to come down hard on drug dealers. It was a mistake, so don't come down on him too hard, OK? Referees will come down hard on such cheating. come down on sth 反对 To actively oppose someone or something or attempt to prevent or abolish something. Oppose, voice one's opposition. The President came down on the new budget cuts, promising to veto them. This issue is unjust, and as your mayor I promise to come down on it. ) giant ants? Raj: Sheldon says impossible. Howard and I say not only possible, but as a mode of transportation, way cooler than a Batmobile. Sheldon: You are ignoring 你忘了 the square-cube law. The giant ant would be crushed under the weight of its own exoskeleton. And for the record, the appropriate ranking of cool modes of transportation is jet pack, hoverboard, transporter, Batmobile, and then giant ant. Leonard: Seriously? You have nothing better to do than sit around and discuss the possibility of giant ants? Howard: What's with him? Sheldon: Perhaps he's at a sensitive point in his monthly cycle. Howard: Are you saying he's man-struating? Sheldon: Not literally. But as far back as the 17th century, scientists observed a 33-day fluctuation in men's hormone levels. Raj: Interesting. That might explain my weepy days in the middle of the month. You know what I'm talking about. Howard: Okay, forget giant ants. How about giant rabbits? Raj: Big or small, I don't like rabbits. They always look like they're about to say something, but they never do. Sheldon: Rabbits do have a respiratory system that would support great size. And on a side note, they are one of the few mammals whose scrotum is in front of the penis. Raj: Maybe that's what they want to talk about. Howard: Leonard, where do you stand on giant rabbits and scrotal position? Leonard: I honestly don't care. Raj: Really? Because every time we've talked about unusual animal genitals, you've always had some pretty strong and controversial opinions. Leonard: What do you want from me? I just don't give a rat's ass. Howard: Would that be a giant rat's ass? Sheldon: For the record, giant rats are possible. Leonard: Can we please talk about something else? Maybe something vaguely related to life as we know it on this planet? Howard: Okay, how about this for a topic, why is Leonard being a giant douche? Assuming giant douches are possible. Sheldon: Of course they are. Leonard's being one. Raj: Maybe he's having a lover's spat ( lover's spat 小吵小闹, 小打小闹, 打打闹闹, 夫妻斗嘴, 情人斗嘴: You probably recognize the word spat from the phrase "lover's spat," which describes a minor squabble between a couple. The spat is usually over something as silly as which partner has to do the laundry, and the relationship usually recovers quickly, with no long-term harm done. A lover's spat involves only one lover ~ in other words, lover's spat is the illiterate version of the correct lovers' spat. spat [spæt] a short argument. dust-up Leonard: What do you want? Sheldon: Hey, good buddy. So, uh, I was just talking to Amy, and she made me realize that this little dust-up 小争吵, 斗嘴 between you and me is much ado about nothing 没事找事. Leonard: Is that so? Sheldon: Yes. All is forgiven, so come back home. tiff 夫妻斗嘴: a minor argument, especially between people in a sexual or romantic relationship. A tiff is a small unimportant quarrel, especially between two close friends or between people in a romantic relationship. bicker [ˈbɪkər] 打嘴仗, 拌嘴, 争吵, 吵架, 斗嘴 to argue about things that are not important. When people bicker, they argue or quarrel about unimportant things. I went into medicine to care for patients, not to waste time bickering over budgets. The two women bickered constantly. ...as states bicker over territory. He is still bickering with the control tower over admissible approach routes. The election will end months of political bickering. bicker (with someone) over/about something: children bickering with each other over whose turn is next. I'm tired of the constant bickering. n. the selection process that people have to go through in order to join an eating club at Princeton University. Even though the purpose of bicker is so the members can meet you and determine if you're a good fit for the club, a lot of the time that is already pre-determined based on your affiliations (frats, sororities, sports team, etc. ) with Penny. Leonard: No, there was no spat. Howard: Oh, but something happened. Leonard: I don't want to talk about it. Sheldon: But I sense you're going to and I don't want to hear about it. Excuse me. Howard: What'd you do, Romeo? You pour maple syrup all over your body and ask her if she was in the mood for a short stack ( Two pancakes one on top of the other, as opposed to a stack of three. )? Raj: Did you think it would be funny to put on a pair of her panties and jump around, but it wound up just creeping her out? 2. Sheldon: Good, Penny, reminder, bowling tonight at seven o'clock. Penny: Oh, right, bowling [ˈbəʊlɪŋ]. Leonard: You don't have to come if you don't want to. Penny: No, no, it's okay. I mean, let's face it, you guys would get creamed ( I. slang for "get beat up" or "get hurt" Ex: I'm gonna cream you. II. To obliterate, to defeat decisively. We creamed the opposing team! obliterate [əˈblɪtəˌreɪt] I. to destroy something completely. The bombing raid has obliterated 斩草除根, 彻底毁坏 whole villages. 铲平. 夷为平地( wiping out, elimination, eradication, blotting out ). If something obliterates an object or place, it destroys it completely. Their warheads are enough to obliterate the world several times over. Whole villages were obliterated by fire. ...the obliteration of three isolated rainforests. II. to cover something completely so that you cannot see it. The park had been obliterated beneath a layer of snow. III. to get rid of a memory, thought, or feeling from your mind. If you obliterate something such as a memory, emotion, or thought, you remove it completely from your mind. There was time enough to obliterate memories of how things once were for him. He tried to obliterate 铲除 all thoughts of Mary from his mind. ) without me. Sheldon: We would indeed. In this particular case, your lack of femininity [feməˈnɪnəti] 男子气概, 缺女人味(qualities that are considered to be typical of women, for example the quality of being gentle and delicate.) works to our advantage. Penny: It's always nice chatting with you, Sheldon. Sheldon: Sarcasm? Penny: Thinly veiled contempt 鄙视, 蔑视. Sheldon: Remember, seven o'clock. Penny: Got it. Sheldon: Pacific Daylight time! Penny: Bite me! Sheldon: Please reserve that butch spirit ( "Butch" means manly, masculine in appearance or behaviour. So if you have a "butch spirit" you act very manly, not like a lady or girl would. butch adj. If you describe a woman as butch, you mean that she behaves or dresses in a masculine way. This use could cause offence. II. If you describe a man as butch, you mean that he behaves in an extremely masculine way. ) for the lanes. 3. Howard: I thought you were bringing your own bowling shoes. Sheldon: These are my own bowling shoes. Howard: Then what's with the disinfectant 消毒剂, 消毒水? Sheldon: I know where my feet have been. Stuart: Hey, Penny! And you guys. Albino Bob couldn't make it, so I brought a substitute 替补. I believe some of you know Wil Wheaton. 4. 关于 telepathic: Sheldon: Are you sure you have enough comics? You're going to be monitoring the telescope for 12 hours, and by my estimate 据我估计, 在我看来, you've only selected seven hours of reading material. That's even factoring in your difficulty in parsing American comic book idioms like Bamf and Snikt. Raj: Is that racist? It feels racist. Howard: Don't be oversensitive. He's calling you illiterate, not your race. Raj: Oh, okay. Good. I don't need more comics 动漫书. Howard's gonna stop by, we're gonna play intergalactic battleship and Indian Monopoly. Sheldon: I don't care for novelty editions of Monopoly. I prefer the classics, regular and Klingon. Howard: Actually, Indian Monopoly's just like regular, except the money's in Rupees, instead of hotels you build call centers, and when you pick a chance card, you might die of dysentery 痢疾. Just FYI, that was racist. Leonard: You'll never guess what just happened. Sheldon: You went out in the hallway, stumbled into an interdimensional 跨维度的 portal which brought you 5,000 years into the future, where you took advantage of the advanced technology to build a time machine, and now you're back to bring us all with you to the year 7010 where we are transported to work at the thinkatorium by telepathically ( telepathic [ˌteləˈpæθɪk] able to communicate using telepathy. How should I know what she wants? I'm not telepathic! telepathy [təˈlepəθi] 意念控制 the ability of people to communicate directly with each other's minds, without using words. ) controlled flying dolphins? Sheldon's older brother Georgie (another fun cameo, this time by Young Sheldon's Montanta Jordan) makes an appearance as one of the football players and yells, "Yeah, give 'em hell!" But George Sr. says, "You watch your mouth, your mother's watching!" Sheldon just so happens to pause the tape at the exact moment George Sr. is looking straight at the camera; it's almost as if George Sr. is telepathically sending a message to his now-grown son. Sheldon: I was going to get my mail. Penny: Okay. Are, are you hoping to get it telepathically? Sheldon:
I think you mean telekinetically (kinetical 运动学的) ( telekinesis an alleged psychic ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction. ). And no, I just wasn't sure of the
proper protocol now that you and Leonard are no longer having coitus. Penny: God, can we please just say no longer seeing each other? Sheldon:
Well, we could if it were true. But as you live in the same building,
you see each other all the time. The variable which has changed is the
coitus. Penny: Okay, here's the protocol, you and I are still friends, and you stop saying coitus. Sheldon: Good, good. I'm glad we're still friends. 5. Leonard: Sheldon, I don't care if you want to be friends with Penny. Sheldon: Oh. Well, so the emotional turmoil that's been keeping me from achieving REM sleep was entirely unjustified? Leonard: Yes. Sheldon: Well then as my meemaw would say, looks like we butchered a pig, but nobody wanted bacon 白费了, 枉费了, 白干了, 白费功夫了. Leonard: I guess not. Sheldon: And now, as promised, the tangent. Sheldon and the Hell Hound, or How I Lost My Hot Dogs. 6. Sheldon: Anyway, I wanted to apologize. I am truly sorry. Arthur: All right, apology accepted. Have a nice night. Sheldon: No, no, now that we've cleared the air, I wanted to discuss another matter with you. Arthur: Sheldon, in a couple hours I have to get up, pee and then wander around the house. Sheldon: Well, then, I'll make this quick. Um, I want to talk about the paper you sent Leonard. Now, I know he said it's promising and he's going to collaborate on it, but now that you and I are friends again, I am at your disposal. And, um, frankly, lending my name and reputation to it will help, because a lot of people think that you're a washed-up has-been. Or dead. Arthur: I should be so lucky ( said when what you want is extremely unlikely to happen: "You might win first prize." "I should be so lucky." one will be lucky used to imply in an ironic or resigned way that someone's wishes or expectations are unlikely to be fulfilled. "'A shirt would be nice.' 'You'll be lucky.'" ). Sheldon: So, uh, what do you say? Arthur: You know, if it's all the same with you ( it's all the same to someone 如果你不介意的话, 如果没差的话 used for saying that it makes no difference to someone whether one thing happens or another thing happens. You can stay or go, it’s all the same to me. if it's all the same to you (=if you do not mind): I'd rather wait until tomorrow, sir, if it's all the same to you.), I, I think I'll, I'll stick with Leonard. 7. Amy: I must say, Sheldon, you're handling this DVD business with an impressive amount of maturity. Sheldon: I don't know why that surprises you. I'm a grown man. As should be evident 可以证明的 by this sport coat and very real flower in my lapel. Amy: Is there some kind of new coping mechanism you're employing? Sheldon: The more interesting question you should be asking is, what does this flower smell like? Amy: I'm gonna go with sad. So what's the story with you and this DVD? Sheldon: There's nothing to tell. Maybe I purchased a book entitled Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and I followed its wise suggestions, one of which was stop and smell the flowers. Amy: Seriously? 8. 关于flip out: Howard: Nine years ago he was part of a team that launched a spacecraft to collect data about Pluto, and it's finally close enough, so this morning it turned itself on. Raj: We hope. The signal has to travel over three billion miles. So it's gonna be hours before we know if it even survived. Howard: Now we get to see him flip out because he's worried it was demolished by space ice. Raj: Space ice is no joke. I can't even watch Frozen anymore. Leonard: Okay, okay. I'm gonna show you what's in the box. But just promise not to flip out. Sheldon: Why would I flip out? Is it a spider? It's a spider. Penny: No, if it was a spider, Lenny would've flipped out. Leonard: Okay, Sheldon, I know I was supposed to return this DVD a long time ago, and I know we rented it on your card. But it's been, like, seven years and clearly nothing bad has happened. So instead of being a giant pain in the ass like you always are, what if this one time you just tried staying calm? Sheldon: That seems like a reasonable request. Although so did, hey, Leonard, would you mind returning that DVD? Leonard: I'm sorry. I'll, I'll take care of it. 9. Raj: Wow. You're even prettier than Penny said. I can't believe a girl like you doesn' have a boyfriend. Girl: Well, I don't. Raj: I don't believe you, you're lying to me. Girl: What? Raj: Oh, it's okay. I have no morals and I'm desperately lonely. I'll be the other man if you want a little something-something on the side.
constituency 是选区, 在澳洲州极的叫 electoral district, 联邦级的叫division. constituent 是选区的居民, electorate 是选区的全体选民: constitution [ˌkɑnstɪˈtuʃ(ə)n] I. constitution = Constitution countable a set of basic laws or principles for a country that describe the rights and duties of its citizens and the way in which it is governed. The U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of the press. The U.K. does not have a written constitution. a. a set of basic rules and principles for an organization that control how it operates. Some members were proposing changes to the club's constitution. II. countable usually singular your general physical condition, health, and strength. She has always had a strong constitution. III. countable/uncountable the form or structure of something, or the way in which it is organized. We plan to change the constitution of the council so that it includes more members of the public. constituency [kənˈstɪtʃuənsi] 选区 I. a division of a country that elects a representative to a legislature. A constituency is an area for which someone is elected as the representative in a parliament or government. II. A particular constituency is a section of society that may give political support to a particular party or politician. In France, farmers are a powerful political constituency. constituent [kənˈstɪtʃuənt] I. one of the parts that form something when they combine. A constituent of a mixture, substance, or system is one of the things from which it is formed. Caffeine is the active constituent of drinks such as tea and coffee. The main constituents of wine are acid, tannin, alcohol, and sugar. II. 选区居民. someone who lives in a constituency and is allowed to vote in elections. A constituent is someone who lives in a particular constituency, especially someone who is able to vote in an election. A "much respected" constituent 选民 had simply requested documentation be passed on from her electorate office. But Ms McKay, who represents the Sydney electorate 选区 of Strathfield, said she had a strict rule in her office against writing letters of support. III. The constituent parts of something are the things from which it is formed. ...a plan to split the company into its constituent parts and sell them separately. ...the leaders of Russia's constituent republics. electorate [ɪˈlekt(ə)rət] ( electoral [ɪˈlekt(ə)rəl] relating to elections. He became president in 1999 under a new electoral system. The Democrats are promising electoral reform (=changes to the way elections are held) within five years. It was the party's fourth electoral defeat. ) all the people who are allowed to vote in an election. The electorate of a country or area is all the people in it who have the right to vote in an election. He has the backing of almost a quarter of the electorate. ...the Maltese electorate. a policy designed to appeal to all sections of the electorate. Constituents and constituencies: One member represents each local electorate, which is a clearly definable constituency, with the residents the constituents. The majority of the voters elect the member. If a constituent has a problem they can contact their local member, who often lives, or at least has an office in their constituency. However, twelve senators represent each state and, due to the electoral system, often only a minority of voters elect each senator. Most senators live in the capital cities and many senators' offices are located in the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in the central business district. The connection to constituents is more obscure, but senators do have constituencies, they are just not necessarily geographically contained. One senator made the distinction between a constituency and an electorate (which is the state). Constituents 选区居民 are people who live in a constituency. They don't necessarily have the right to vote, but are still represented by the elected person. The electorate is the group of people who have the right to vote. It's important to note the context this is used in, as it could be the electorate of a whole country or the electorate of a local constituency. Electorates in Australia are geographically defined areas represented by a single elected Member of Parliament. Known officially as divisions ( electoral divisions ) at the federal level and electoral districts at the state and territory level, "electorates" are also commonly referred to as seats 席位 or constituencies.
