用法学习: 1. glaring I. 异常显眼的. 不可忽视的. a glaring mistake is very obvious. If you describe something bad as glaring, you are emphasizing that it is very obvious and easily seen or noticed. I never saw such a glaring example of misrepresentation. It was glaringly obvious. He told a glaringly different story. It was great to see that Justice Estcourt could see that clearly there are glaring issues with this case which need to be examined. II. a glaring light shines very brightly in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable. glare verb. I. to look at someone or something in a very angry way. If you glare at someone, you look at them with an angry expression on your face. The old woman glared at him. Jacob glared and muttered something. ...glaring eyes. glare at: They glared at each other across the table. A glare is an angry, hard, and unfriendly look. His glasses magnified his irritable glare 怒目而视. II. to shine with a very strong light that makes you feel uncomfortable. If the sun or a light glares, it shines with a very bright light which is difficult to look at. The sunlight glared. ...glaring searchlight beams. The sun glared down, dazzling them. Glare is very bright light that is difficult to look at. ...the glare of a car's headlights. Special-purpose glasses reduce glare. the glare of publicity/the media etc. 密切关注, 死盯着, 公众的关注, 媒体的关注 attention from newspapers and television, especially when you do not want it. If someone is in the glare of publicity or public attention, they are constantly being watched and talked about by a lot of people. Norma is said to dislike the glare of publicity. She attacked police in the full glare of TV cameras. Their relationship will be severely tested in the full glare of media publicity. 2. dissent [dɪˈsent] verb. I. to express strong disagreement, especially with what people in authority think or with what most people think. If you dissent, you express disagreement with a decision or opinion, especially one that is supported by most people or by people in authority. Just one of the 10 members dissented. No one dissents from the decision to unify. There are likely to be many dissenting voices. II. legal 不同意. 非议. to officially disagree with the judgment made by the other judges working with you on a legal case. a dissenting voice/view/opinion. The second appeal is heard over three days, eventually being dismissed in a 2-1 judgement, with Justice Stephen Estcourt dissenting 持不同意见, saying he would order a retrial. noun. Dissent is strong disagreement or dissatisfaction with a decision or opinion, especially one that is supported by most people or by people in authority. He is the toughest military ruler yet and has responded harshly to any dissent. Political dissent would no longer be tolerated. I made a gesture of dissent. demur [dɪˈmɜr] verb. If you demur, you say that you do not agree with something,do not approve of something or will not do something that you have been asked to do. to refuse to do something Hunt asked me to take over the whole operation. At first I demurred. The doctor demurred, but Piercey was insistent. without demur 没有抗争, 没有异议, 没有意见 If you do something without demur, you do it immediately and without making any protest. refusal or disagreement. Both teams accepted the decision without demur. His plan was accepted without demur. 3. public appearance: a visit by a famous person in order to make a speech, advertise something etc She is paid £10,000 for the briefest of public appearances. There was a time when it seemed he might never make another public appearance. Marks were discovered on one suit only minutes before he left for a public appearance, causing momentary panic, according to a source. Lismore resident Melveena Martin said people were angry Mr Morrison did not hold a public appearance where residents could share their stories. The Prime Minister, who was in Queensland when the protest took place, travelled to Lismore after the floods but kept to a schedule of private appearances. "To think that our Prime Minister came to our town and wouldn't even speak to us and hid from us is absolutely deplorable," Ms Martin said. Another resident Koudra Falla said: "I had to swim under my house at 3am in the morning in hectic rapids 湍湍激流, 急流 because we could hear our neighbours calling for help.". deplorable If you say that something is deplorable, you think that it is very bad and unacceptable. Many of them live under deplorable conditions. The Chief Constable said that sexual harassment was deplorable. The reporters behaved deplorably. platform I. 讲台 (stage, stand, podium, rostrum) A platform is a flat, raised structure, usually made of wood, which people stand on when they make speeches or give a performance. Nick finished what he was saying and jumped down from the platform. II. A platform is a flat raised structure or area, usually one which something can stand on or land on. Some of these flood shelters are on raised platforms, which have allowed helicopters to land amid the continuing floods. They found a spot on a rocky platform where they could pitch their tents. III. A platform is a structure built for people to work and live on when drilling for oil or gas at sea, or when extracting it. IV. 站台. 月台. A platform in a railway station is the area beside the rails where you wait for or get off a train. The train was about to leave and I was not even on the platform. V. The platform of a political party is what they say they will do if they are elected. ...a platform of political and economic reforms. The Socialist Party won a landslide victory on a nationalist platform. This is not the time to be playing politics, this is not the time to be running your platform this is about making sure that we help these communities rebuild. VI. If someone has a platform ( deplatform prevent (a person holding views regarded as unacceptable or offensive) from contributing to a forum or debate, especially by blocking them on a particular website. "he was deplatformed from all the major social media sites for spreading a lie". ), they have an opportunity to tell people what they think or want. The demonstration provided a platform for a broad cross-section of speakers. VII. A platform is a particular type of computer hardware or computer operating system. Java can run on most computer platforms. VIII. In a bus, the platform 踏步台 is the area of floor at the front or back where you get on and off. I stood on the crowded back platform of the seven o'clock bus. 4. self-involved 自我的 self-centered; preoccupied with oneself. wrapped up in oneself or one's own thoughts. That's just Bob Durst. He's the most self-involved person I've ever seen. A beehive 蜂巢 is an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young. Though the word beehive is commonly used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature distinguishes nest from hive. Nest is used to discuss colonies that house themselves in natural or artificial cavities or are hanging and exposed. Hive is used to describe an artificial/man-made structure to house a honey bee nest. The nest's internal structure is a densely packed group of hexagonal ( [heksægənəl] [ˈheksəˌɡɑn] ) 六边形的 prismatic cells ( prismatic [prɪzˈmætɪk] shaped like a prism or containing a prism. prism [ˈprɪzəm] I. 柱体. a solid object that has a regular shape and can be cut into slices that all have the same shape. A prism usually has two or more sides shaped like a triangle. II. 棱镜. a glass object in the shape of a prism, used for dividing light into its different colors. ) made of beeswax 蜂蜡, called a honeycomb (一个cell叫honeycomb). The bees use the cells to store food (honey and pollen) and to house the brood (eggs, larvae, and pupae). Beehives serve several purposes: production of honey, pollination of nearby crops, housing supply bees for apitherapy treatment, and to try to mitigate the effects of colony collapse disorder. In America, hives are commonly transported so that bees can pollinate crops in other areas. A number of patents have been issued for beehive designs. Honey bees use caves, rock cavities and hollow trees as natural nesting sites 筑巢位置. In warmer climates they may occasionally build exposed hanging nests; members of other subgenera have exposed aerial combs. The nest is composed of multiple honeycombs, parallel to each other, with a relatively uniform bee space. It usually has a single entrance. The bees often smooth the bark surrounding the nest entrance, and coat the cavity walls with a thin layer of hardened plant resin called propolis 蜂胶. Honeycombs are attached to the walls along the cavity tops and sides, but small passageways 过道 are left along the comb edges. The basic nest architecture for all honeybees is similar: honey is stored in the upper part of the comb; beneath it are rows of pollen-storage cells, worker-brood cells, and drone-brood cells, in that order. The peanut-shaped queen cells are normally built at the lower edge of the comb. 5. haulier [ˈhɔːlɪə] = hauler 公路货运公司, 公路货运司机 I. a person or company employed in the transport of goods or materials by road. A haulier is a company or a person that transports goods by road. "a major haulier between Europe and Asia". II. a miner who is responsible for transporting coal within a mine. long hauler 长期后遗症患者, 阴魂不散的症状 someone who experiences the after-effects of an illness for a long time. I became what we now call a Covid-19 "long-hauler" – a patient with initially mild symptoms of likely Covid-19, who would go on to experience a range of sometimes severe symptoms for a prolonged period of time. Long COVID: What is post-COVID syndrome? Mild or moderate COVID-19 lasts about two weeks for most people. But others experience lingering health problems even when they have recovered from the acute phase of the illness. In such patients, there is no longer live coronavirus running amok 乱窜 in the body. If tested, the person would test negative for the coronavirus, but they might be severely debilitated nonetheless. The problem has several names. The National Institutes of Health refer to long-term COVID-19 symptoms as PASC, which stands for post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2. More common terms are post-COVID syndrome, long COVID or long-term COVID. People living with post-COVID syndrome are sometimes known as "long haulers." 6. high jinks [ˈhʌɪ dʒɪŋks] 打打闹闹, 小孩玩闹, 打闹 boisterous fun. High jinks is lively, excited behaviour in which people do things for fun. the behaviour of people who are excited and having fun "high jinks behind the wheel of a car". commensurate [kəˈmenʃərət] 相匹配的, 相应的, 相配的 adj If the level of one thing is commensurate with another, the first level is in proportion to the second. Employees are paid salaries commensurate with those of teachers. Managers saw a commensurate fall in their revenues. As life expectancy continues to rise, the demand for care services expands commensurately. The gain will be commensurately modest. While the intelligence was effectively shared within the Intelligence Community (IC) and with key officials at the Department of State, it did not lead to a commensurate increase in security at Benghazi nor to a decision to close the American mission there, either of which would have been more than justified by the intelligence presented. The desire of the State Department to maintain a low profile in Benghazi has been cited as the reason why the State Department circumvented 绕过 their own Overseas Security Policy Board (OSPB) standards for diplomatic security. In the aftermath, Clinton sought to take responsibility for the security lapses at Benghazi and expressed personal regret. In her January 2013 testimony before Congress, Secretary Clinton claimed security decisions at the Benghazi compound had been made by others, stating, "The specific security requests pertaining to Benghazi ... were handled by the security professionals in the [State] Department. I didn't see those requests, I didn't approve them, I didn't deny them.". 7. What was perceived as denigration 贬低, 亵渎 ( [ˌdenɪˈɡreɪʃ(ə)n] criticism of someone or something in a way that shows you think that they have no value at all. the relentless denigration of women and minorities. He said that he could no longer carry on in the face of a campaign of denigration in the press. denigrate [ˈdenɪˌɡreɪt] to criticize something in a way that shows you think it has no value at all. If you denigrate someone or something, you criticize them unfairly or insult them. They denigrated his work, questioning whether it did anything to confront the problems. ...the denigration of minorities in this country. Blasphemy, as defined in some religions or religion-based laws, is an insult that shows contempt, disrespect or lack of reverence [ˈrev(ə)rəns] concerning a deity, a sacred object or something considered inviolable 不可侵犯的. Some religions consider blasphemy to be a religious crime. ) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad resulted in demonstrations and violent protests against the video to break out on September 11 in Egypt and spread to other Arab and Muslim nations and to some western countries. The protests led to hundreds of injuries and over 50 deaths. Fatwas calling for the harm of the video's participants were issued and Pakistani government minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour offered a bounty for the killing of Nakoula, the producer. The film has sparked debates about freedom of speech and Internet censorship. liberty I. Liberty is the freedom to live your life in the way that you want, without interference from other people or the authorities. Wit Wolzek claimed the legislation could impinge on privacy, self determination and respect for religious liberty. Such a system would be a fundamental blow to the rights and liberties of the English people. II. Liberty is the freedom to go wherever you want, which you lose when you are a prisoner. Drug addicts need help, not loss of liberty. He was at liberty, but under 24-hour surveillance. civil liberties 公民权利, 公民自由 (civil liberty is used as a modifier) A person's civil liberties are the rights they have to say, think, and do what they want as long as they respect other people's rights. ...his commitment to human rights and civil liberties. ...civil liberty campaigners. at liberty to do If someone is at liberty to do something, they have been given permission to do it. The island's in the Pacific Ocean; I'm not at liberty to say exactly where, because we're still negotiating for its purchase. take the liberty of doing something 自作主张的 If you say that you have taken the liberty of doing something, you are saying that you have done it without asking permission. People say this when they do not think that anyone will mind what they have done. I took the liberty of going into Assunta's wardrobe, as it was open; I was looking for a towel. take liberties If you take liberties or take a liberty with someone or something, you act in a way that is too free and does not show enough respect. Try to make your writing exciting, without taking liberties with the truth 罔顾事实. She knew she was taking a big liberty in developing Mick's photos without his knowledge. While the film was praised for its acting performances, action sequences, and dark tone, the script was criticized for its historical liberties 不尊重历史. 8. overrun I. intransitive/transitive British to take more time, space, or money than was intended. If an event or meeting overruns by, for example, ten minutes, it continues for ten minutes longer than it was intended to. Tuesday's lunch overran by three-quarters of an hour. The talks overran their allotted time.
If costs overrun, they are higher than was planned or expected. The US developer took a $163m hit after costs overran at the wind farm. Costs overran 超支 the budget by about 30%. He was stunned to discover cost overruns of at least $1 billion. II. transitive to defeat an enemy in war and take the land that they control. If an army or an armed force overruns a place, area, or country, it succeeds in occupying it very quickly. A group of rebels overran 占领, 占据 the port area and most of the northern suburbs. His troops overran two-thirds of the country. III. transitive usually passive to be present in a place in such large amounts or numbers that it is dangerous or unpleasant. If you say that a place is overrun with or by things that you consider undesirable, you mean that there are a large number of them there. The flower beds were overrun with grasses. The Hotel has been ordered to close because it is overrun by mice and rats. Padua and Vicenza are prosperous, well-preserved cities, not overrun by tourists. a city completely overrun by crime. The mall was overrun with holiday shoppers. That night, a group of militants from Ansar al-Sharia assault the compound. The 17-Feb guards are quickly overrun 打败, which allows the attackers easy access to the compound. Wickland takes Stevens and Smith, an IT specialist, to the safe room. Unable to breach the safe room, the attackers set the building on fire hoping to burn the men out. 9. TBBT: Amy: Sheldon, I]ve given you the simplest things to do, and you haven't done one of them right. Sheldon: Maybe that's because I'm not being challenged. It's the same reason Einstein failed math. Amy: Maybe the math was too bubbly for him. Sheldon: You think you're doing science by cutting up that brain? They could do the same thing at any Quiznos (an American franchised fast-food restaurant based in Denver, Colorado, that specializes in offering toasted submarine sandwiches.). And they'd offer to toast it for me, too. Amy: Okay, smart guy. I'm about to remove the locus coeruleus, which is incredibly delicate 精细的 work. Have at it. Sheldon: All right. I'm no stranger to a little gray matter ( Gray matter 灰物质, named for its pinkish-gray color, is home to neural cell bodies, axon terminals, and dendrites, as well as all nerve synapses. This brain tissue is abundant in the cerebellum, cerebrum, and brain stem. It also forms a butterfly-shaped portion of the central spinal cord. Grey matter serves to process information in the brain. The structures within the grey matter process signals from the sensory organs or from other areas of the grey matter. This tissue directs sensory stimuli to the neurons in the central nervous system where synapses induce a response to the stimuli. White matter is the tissue through which messages pass between different areas of grey matter within the central nervous system. The white matter is white because of the fatty substance (myelin) that surrounds the nerve fibers (axons). This myelin is found in almost all long nerve fibers, and acts as an electrical insulation. This is important because it allows the messages to pass quickly from place to place. Unlike grey matter, which peaks in development in a person's twenties, the white matter continues to develop, and peaks in middle age. ). Locus coeruleus. Locus coeruleus. Amy: You're getting warmer, it is, indeed, in the brain. Hope your hands are steady. It's the width of a single hair. But this is just biology, so I'm sure it's no problem for a genius like you. Sheldon: It's not. I'll have you know ( I'll have you know 告诉你吧, 别吓着你了 used to emphasize something in a somewhat annoyed or angry way. "Did your son go to college?" "Did he go to college? I'll have you know that he was given a full scholarship to Harvard!"used to start to tell someone something when you are annoyed with them I'll have you know you're insulting the woman I love. ), in the field of physics, we work with particles so small, they make fat jokes about the locus coeruleus, i.e., when your locus coeruleus sits around the house( Kirsten: I'm going to do something that I haven't done in… ever. I'm taking Christmas vacation. Caleb: Don’t be ridiculous, Kiki. You hate sitting around the house 无所事事. sit around = sit about 闲坐着 If you sit around or sit about, you spend time doing nothing useful or interesting. Eve isn't the type to sit around doing nothing. We sat about in the gloomy airport lounge. Are we going to sit around all night, or shall we go out? Since Dad lost his job he just sits around the house all day. ), it sits around the house. Amy: Oh, are we nervous, Dr. Cooper? Sheldon: No. What you see is a man trembling with confidence. Does a locus coeruleus normally bleed that much? TBBT: Penny: Hi, you guys got a minute? Leonard: Sure, what's up? Penny: Well, I was thinking about Sheldon's little joke the other night about me eating all your food. Sheldon: Oh, that was no joke. But I understand your confusion as I am our group's resident cut-up ( cut up I. If you cut something up, you cut it into several pieces. He sits in his apartment cutting up magazines. Halve the tomatoes, then cut them up coarsely. II. If one driver cuts another driver up, the first driver goes too close in front of the second one, for example after passing them. They were crossing from lane to lane, cutting everyone up. III. [mainly British, informal] If you are cut up about something that has happened, you are very unhappy because of it. Terry was very cut up about Jim's death. cut-up I. a film or sound recording made by cutting and editing material from pre-existing recordings. "the band use old movie and televangelist cut ups and rap-influenced vocals". II. informal North American a person who is fond of making jokes or playing the fool. "she insists she was 'never a class cut-up', but her sister was always pretty funny". ). Leonard: I'm sorry, you are our resident cut-up? Sheldon: Yes. 10. TBBT: Howard: Give me a compliment. Sheldon: Fine. You have very tiny hands. Howard: No, about my job. I want you to tell me I'm good at what I do. Sheldon: You're obviously good at what you do. Howard: Well, then why are you always ripping on 手撕 me( rip on somebody/something American English informal to complain a lot about someone or something. To tease, mock, or ridicule someone very severely or maliciously. 嘲讽, 讥笑, 嘲笑 To mock, ridicule, or deride someone or something in a highly critical manner. I know they don't mean any harm with the way they rip on me, but my friends' comments can be pretty hurtful at times. We all ripped on Tommy for bringing a girl's backpack to school. )? Sheldon: Oh, I understand the confusion. I have never said that you are not good at what you do. It's just that what you do is not worth doing. Leonard: It's nicer than anything he's ever said to me. I'd take it and run. TBBT: Sheldon: I wish you could all be inside my head. The conversation is sparkling 火花四溅. (Pause) Fine, I'll tell you. A lichen (lichen [ˈlaɪken] 地衣 UK [ˈlɪtʃ(ə)n] a small soft plant that grows on surfaces such as trees and walls. Lichen is a group of tiny plants that looks like moss 苔类, 青苔 and grows on the surface of things such as rocks, trees, and walls. ) is an organism made up of two separate species, fungi ( [ˈfʌŋɡəs] 复数 [fʌŋgiː , fʌndʒaɪ] ) and algae 藻类. If you could merge with another species, what species would you pick and why? Hint, there is a right answer. None of you will get it. Raj: Okay, uh, I'd pick swan because, uh, the resulting hybrid would have the advanced industrial civilization of a human and the long graceful neck I've always dreamed of having. Sheldon: Wrong. Leonard? Leonard: Horse, but mostly just for the height. A little bit for the genital girth. Sheldon: Wrong, and let's keep it clean, shall we? Howard: Kangaroo, uh, I'd be a Kanga-Jew. The first of my people to dunk a basketball. Leonard: Also instead of just living in your mother's house, you could actually live inside her body. Sheldon: Clever, but also wrong. No, the best organism for human beings to merge with is the lichen itself. That way, you'd be human, fungus, and algae. Triple threat. Like three-bean salad. Leonard: Give me one circumstance in which that would be useful. Sheldon: All right, picture this, a beautiful outdoor concert. Now, as a human, I appreciate Beethoven. As a fungus, I have a terrific view 视野最佳, growing out of a towering maple tree. And no thank you, expensive concessions. Because as an algae, I'll just snack on this sunlight. Raj: He got us again. Leonard: No, he didn't. Raj: Anyway, if it's okay with you, we should talk about Howard's bachelor party. Sheldon: Well, seems like a bit of a let down after our lichen conversation, but, what do you know, you're half swan. Raj: I've been doing some research on strippers. One agency I spoke to, said I could get us a great price if we're flexible on age range and number of limbs. Howard: Sounds like loads of fun, but I promised Bernadette no strippers. Raj: You don't want strippers? You're the king of strippers. The one club in North Hollywood named a pole after you. Howard: What can I tell ya, I'm not into that stuff any more. Leonard: Good for you, Howard. I'm proud of you. And still, you're the first one of us to get married. We have to do something special. Sheldon: You know Germans have an interesting pre-wedding custom. Howard: Well, it's probably not for me. Raj: Maybe we can go up to Napa Valley. They've got that wine train. Sheldon: Boo, wine! But yay, trains. I'm in. Raj: Anyway, it's a beautiful time of year. Uh, you travel through the vineyards. There's a tasting on board. And all the wild flowers are in bloom. It's magic. Leonard: Look at that, in 30 seconds, we went from hiring women to being them. TBBT: Howard: Nice story. Anyway, the reason I wanted to talk to you is NASA has moved up 提前 my launch( move up I. to get a more important job in a company or organization: move up to sth He gave his first interview since moving up to the role of chairman. move up the ranks/ladder Gaining further qualifications can help you move up the career ladder. to go to a better job, higher level etc 升职. To advance or elevate one's position. I was only in the company for a few months before I started moving up. It's unsurprising how quickly Sarah has moved up in the company—her tenacity and determination are matched only by her intelligence and talent. I hear they only moved him up because he has some dirt 有把柄, 抓住把柄 on the CEO. He's been moved up to the position of manager. Interest rates are beginning to move up. II. to increase in value, number, or amount: Share prices move up and down depending on market conditions. III. move up in the world humorous to improve your social status, for example by getting a better job. To elevate or improve one's social, political, and/or financial position in life; to become more successful than one was before. You're only going to truly move up in the world if you make a point of 特意, 专门 rubbing elbows with those of a higher social standing. The Robinsons really moved up in life after they won the lottery. IV. to change your position to make space for someone or something Could everyone move up a bit, please? move/shift up a gear to start working much more effectively or quickly, or with more energy Both teams stepped up a gear in the second half. ) to the International Space Station. Mr. Rostenkowski: Yeah, so? Howard: So, the date is going to conflict (verb [kənˈflɪkt] noun [ˈkɑnˌflɪkt] ) with 日期冲突 me marrying your daughter. Now, I know what you're going to say, I made a commitment to Bernadette and to your family and I've got a hell of a lot of nerve coming in here and demanding that we postpone 推迟 this thing. Well, message heard and understood. Mission cancelled. Thank you. Mr. Rostenkowski: Where are you going? Howard: I'm sorry. May I be excused? 11. agreed adj. I. discussed or negotiated and then accepted by all parties. accepted. accepted or approved: The agreed deal also marks a new record in foreign take-overs of US banks. an agreed price/time/date. We have to stick to the agreed price. "So we'll meet at 5.30, shall we?" "Agreed (= yes)." "the agreed date". III. (of two or more parties) holding the same view or opinion on something. "all the republics are agreed on the necessity of a common defence policy". be agreed If two or more people are agreed, they have the same opinion: Are we all agreed (on that)? The members are agreed that the proposal should be rejected. When you use "Agreed" as an interjection, it is equivalent to "I agree." It is short for the much more formal "It is agreed." One way you typically see this done is when speakers are setting the ground rules (or baseline assumptions) before beginning a discussion where there may be some disagreement. This likely stems from a more formal era where you were making an oral contract with somebody, and the first speaker declares the terms of the contract, and the second speaker is accepting the terms of the contract. "It is agreed that we will proceed the way we have discussed." Over time this has just been shortened to "Agreed" which then morphed into a simple way of showing agreement. canary [kəˈneri] in the coal mine 灾难的兆头, 大祸临头的前兆 an early indicator of potential danger or failure. Something whose sensitivity to adverse conditions makes it a useful early indicator of such conditions; something which warns of the coming of greater danger or trouble by a deterioration in its health or welfare. "native brook trout are very much the canary in the coal mine for the health of a stream". Etymology: An allusion to caged canaries (birds) that miners would carry down into the mine tunnels with them. If dangerous gases such as carbon monoxide collected in the mine, the gases would kill the canary before killing the miners, thus providing a warning to exit the tunnels immediately. miner's canary I. A caged bird kept caged in mines because its demise provided a warning of dangerous levels of toxic gases. II. Any thing, especially an organism, whose demise or distress provides an early warning of danger. 12. Biden snaps at CBS reporter: Sir, deterrence didn't work. What makes you think Vladimir Putin will alter course (change course 改弦更张, 改主意) based on the action you've taken today? Biden's insistence contrasted with several members of his administration's previous claims prior to Russia’s invasion.
Don't lie scam and cheat (steal) people: Earlier this year, something bad happened. Something really bad. So, I decided it would be smart for me to address the WHOLE thing head on. "Just be open and honest 老实承认," I told myself. And that's what I did. I decided to address the whole thing head on. I buried my tail between my legs and I wrote and sent an email to the entire Social Triggers community letting them know what happened and how to fix it. One guy emailed me and said: "Oh, I see what you did there. You really didn't have a broken link, did you? You just did it to make more sales? Nice!" I was shocked, and responded: "Why on earth would you think this is a gimmick 花招?" There I was, hoping to be open and honest about what happened. And while 95% of people supported me, there were a few people who thought it was a big a trick, a tactic, a SCAM. I could have written them off, but it got me thinking: The reason why people thought it was a gimmick is because a lot of people in my line of work use gimmicks just like that to try and sell stuff. And I've always hated those people and that method to marketing. Because it's dishonest. It's short-term thinking 短视. It's not how you build a business that you plan on continuing to build for 20 years. But then I smiled. Because nowadays, integrity is scarce.
Slut is a patriarchal construct: patriarchal [peɪtrɪˈɑːk(ə)l] 父系社会的 ( patriarchy 父系社会, Matriarchy 母系社会, patriarch: 男头领, matriarch: 女头领 ) I. relating to or denoting a system of society or government controlled by men. a patriarchal society, system, organization, etc. is one in which men have all or most of the power and influence "a patriarchal society". II. relating to a patriarch. "a tall man who cut a patriarchal figure as he strode the floor of his busy factory". construct verb: [kən'strʌkt] noun: ['kɒnstrʌkt] verb. I. If you construct something such as a building, road, or machine, you build it or make it. to build something large or complicated, such as a bridge or road The tunnel was constructed in 1996. be constructed from/of/out of something: St Michael's was an older building, almost entirely constructed of red brick. The company is constructing 70 homes and a 130-room hotel on the land. The boxes should be constructed from rough-sawn timber. They thought he had escaped through a specially-constructed tunnel. II. If you construct 搭建, 构建 something such as an idea, a piece of writing, or a system, you create it by putting different parts together. to create something such as an idea or system by making various things fit together. He could now construct short sentences in Spanish. Police have called in an expert to construct a psychological profile of the murderer. You will find it difficult to construct a spending plan without first recording your spending. He eventually constructed a business empire 建造商业帝国 which ran to Thailand and Singapore. The novel is constructed from a series of on-the-spot reports. ...using carefully-constructed tests. noun. I. A construct is a complex idea. a complicated idea created by making several simpler ideas fit together. History is an ideological construct. ...the underlying constructs 构件, 要素, 概念, 思维 (beliefs, philosophy, etc.) which influence action and behaviour. It was a re-enactment of the same mental construct 概念, under which slavery was justified. II. 建造品. 成品. A construct is something that is built, made, or created. an object built from various parts. The kites were flimsy constructs but soared to over a thousand feet. The country was an artificial construct held together by force. social construct 社会构件 a concept or belief that is based on the collective views of a society rather than existing naturally. They see both gender and sexuality as social constructs. wiki: Patriarchy is an institutionalized social system in which men dominate over others, but can also refer to dominance over women specifically; it can also extend to a variety of manifestations in which men have social privileges over others to cause exploitation or oppression, such as through male dominance of moral authority and control of property. Some patriarchal societies are also patrilineal( patrilineal [ˌpætriˈlɪniəl] 男系继承的. 传男不传女的 used for describing the father's side of a family and the relations on that side. tracing descent, kinship, or title through the male line. ), meaning that property and title are inherited by the male lineage. Patriarchy is associated with a set of ideas, a patriarchal ideology that acts to explain and justify this dominance and attributes it to inherent natural differences between men and women. Sociologists hold varied opinions on whether patriarchy is a social product or an outcome of innate differences between the sexes. Sociobiologists have argued that the roots of inequality were set in humanity's earliest period and are primarily due to genetic and reproductive differences between men and women. Aligned closely with evolutionary psychology, this theory posits that gender inequity [ɪnˈekwɪti] is an inherent part of human social structures. Social constructionists contest this argument, arguing that gender roles and gender inequity are instruments of power and have become social norms to maintain control over women. Constructionists would contend that sociobiological arguments serve to justify the oppression of women. Historically, patriarchy has manifested itself in the social, legal, political, religious, and economic organization of a range of different cultures. Most contemporary societies are, in practice, patriarchal. Matriarchy is a social system in which women hold the primary power positions in roles of authority. In a broader sense it can also extend to moral authority, social privilege and control of property. While those definitions apply in general English, definitions specific to the disciplines of anthropology and feminism differ in some respects. Matriarchies may also be confused with matrilineal, matrilocal, and matrifocal societies. While there are those who may consider any non-patriarchal system to be matriarchal, most academics exclude those systems from matriarchies as strictly defined. Social constructionism is a theory in sociology, social ontology( Ontology [ɑnˈtɑlədʒi] 本体论, 存在学 is the branch of philosophy that studies concepts such as existence, being, becoming, and reality. It includes the questions of how entities are grouped into basic categories and which of these entities exist on the most fundamental level. oncology [ɑnˈkɑlədʒi] the study and treatment of cancer.), and communication theory which proposes that there are certain kinds of facts which, rather than depending on reality itself, instead depend on the shared ways of thinking about and representing the world that groups of people develop collaboratively. The theory centers on the notion that meanings are developed in coordination with others rather than separately by each individual. It has often been characterised as neo-Marxian or also as a neo-Kantian theory, in that social constructionism replaces the transcendental subject with a concept of society that is at the same time descriptive and normative. While some social constructs are obvious, for instance money or the concept of currency, in that people have agreed to give it importance/value, others are controversial and hotly debated, such as the concept of self/self-identity. This articulates the view that people in society construct ideas or concepts that may not exist without the existence of people or language to validate those concepts. There is weak and strong social constructionism. Weak social constructionism relies on brute facts – facts that are not socially constructed, such as, arguably, facts about physical particles – or institutional facts (which are formed from social conventions). It has been objected that strong social constructionism undermines the foundation of science as the pursuit of objectivity and, as a theory, defies any attempt at falsifying it.
Historical revisionism and Historical negationism [nɪˈɡeɪʃənɪst)] ( = denailism 否定一切 ) ( negativism [ˈnɛɡətɪvɪz(ə)m] 负面态度 the practice of being or tendency to be negative or sceptical in attitude while failing to offer positive suggestions or views. "the research found a high level of negativism and cynicism among working people". ): revisionism [rɪˈvɪʒ(ə)nɪz(ə)m] I. [formal, disapproval] 修正主义 a policy of revision or modification, especially of Marxism on evolutionary socialist (rather than revolutionary) or pluralist principles. Revisionism is a theory of socialism that is more moderate than normal Marxist theory, and is therefore considered unacceptable by most Marxists. The reforms come after decades of hostility to revisionism. "the political controversies over Yugoslav revisionism". II. 历史修正主义. the theory or practice of revising [rɪˈvaɪz] one's attitude to a previously accepted situation or point of view. "reconsideration of such figures is not just an attempt at revisionism". Historical negationism [nɪˈɡeɪʃənɪsm] 历史否定主义, also called denialism, is falsification 篡改 or distortion 歪曲 of the historical record. It should not be conflated with ( conflate [kənˈfleɪt] 混为一谈 to combine two or more things. If you conflate two or more descriptions or ideas, or if they conflate, you combine them in order to produce a single one. Her letters conflate past and present. Unfortunately the public conflated fiction with reality and made her into a saint. The two meanings conflated. The story was a conflation of Greek myths. ) historical revisionism, a broader term that extends to newly evidenced, fairly reasoned academic reinterpretations 重新解读 of history. In attempting to revise the past, illegitimate historical revisionism may use techniques inadmissible in proper historical discourse, such as presenting known forged documents as genuine, inventing ingenious but implausible reasons for distrusting genuine documents, attributing conclusions to books and sources that report the opposite, manipulating statistical series to support the given point of view, and deliberately mistranslating texts. In historiography, historical revisionism 历史修正主义 is the re-interpretation of a historical account. It usually involves challenging the orthodox (established, accepted or traditional) views held by professional scholars about a historical event or time-span or phenomenon, introducing contrary evidence, or reinterpreting the motivations and decisions of the people involved. The revision of the historical record can reflect new discoveries of fact, evidence, and interpretation, which then results in revised history. In dramatic cases, revisionism involves a reversal of older moral judgments. At a basic level, legitimate historical revisionism is a common and not especially controversial process of developing and refining the writing of histories. Much more controversial is the reversal of moral findings, whereby what mainstream historians had considered (for example) positive forces are depicted as negative. Such revisionism, if challenged (especially in heated terms) by the supporters of the previous view, can become an illegitimate form of historical revisionism known as historical negationism if it involves inappropriate methods such as the use of forged documents or implausible distrust of genuine documents, attributing false conclusions to books and sources, manipulating statistical data, and deliberately mis-translating texts. This type of historical revisionism can present a re-interpretation of the moral meaning of the historical record. Negationists use the term revisionism to portray their efforts as legitimate historical inquiry; this is especially the case when revisionism relates to Holocaust denial.
