用法学习: 1. it/that figures 合情合理的 I. 不出所料的. used for saying that something seems reasonable. used to say that something is reasonable or makes sense. That makes sense; that is as I expected or might have guessed. used to say that something was expected or seems logical: 'We're going to need new offices when the company expands 扩张, 扩大 next year.' 'That figures.' 'I think he killed her to get the insurance money.' 'That certainly figures.' A: "Sally already broke up with that new boyfriend of hers." B: "Yeah, that figures. The dude looked like a total drug addict!" Fired from another job, huh? Well, that figures: you were showing up hungover most days of the week! It figures that she'd be mad at you, after what you did. II. 不必大惊小怪 正常的. 没什么好奇怪的. used for saying that you are not surprised when something bad happens to you. used to say that something that happens is expected or typical, especially something bad It rained the whole weekend. Oh, that figures. It figures that I'd break my leg as soon as the ski season started. 2. gunnysack a sack (=large bag for storing potatoes, flour, coal, etc.). wiki: A burlap sack 麻包片, 麻袋 or gunny sack, also known as a gunny shoe or tow sack, is an inexpensive bag, traditionally made of hessian fabric formed from jute, hemp or other natural fibers. Modern-day versions of these sacks are often made from synthetic fabrics such as polypropylene. gun it 快点, 加速, 快速 (informal) To accelerate or speed up quickly or suddenly. To accelerate or increase speed suddenly or rapidly; to travel or move very quickly. Usually said while traveling in an automobile. We'll have to gun it if we want to make it to the movie on time! Okay, I've got the cash. Now gun it and get us out of here! You're going to have to gun it to pick up that much speed in such a short distance. give it/her the gun 快马加鞭, 加快速度, 提速 to cause something to start or gain speed. To accelerate or rev an engine. Bill: How fast will this thing go? Bob: I'll give it the gun and see. Hurry up, driver. Give 'er the gun. I've got to get there immediately. The burglar leapt into the getaway car and yelled, "Give it the gun, the cops are coming!" gun for I. [informal] 找麻烦. 加害. If someone is gunning for you, they are trying to find a way to harm you or cause you trouble. To seek to supplant someone or something by aggressive or underhanded means. Pursue relentlessly so as to overcome or destroy. He was sure they were gunning for him and asked for police protection, or The senator felt that the reporters were gunning for him with that article about his brother. I've had people gunning for me since the moment I took this job. I found it hard to believe that someone gunned for my position in the bank. He knew that they were gunning for him. II. To seek very aggressively to bring someone or some group to justice. Police are still gunning for the escaped convict. The FBI has been gunning for 追捕 the notorious gangster for years, but they are still no closer to nailing him on any credible charges. The government has really been gunning for companies that evade their taxes through unscrupulous means. III. 力争. 分离争取. To work hard in pursuit of a goal. To work hard in pursuit of a goal. How many college students are gunning for the same internship as me? She's really gunning for that promotion. How many college students are gunning for the same internship as me? She's really gunning for that promotion. IV. To show one's support for someone or something. I know she's nervous about taking this exam, so let's show her that we're all gunning for her. 3. stomping ground = UK a stamping ground 乐园, 经常光顾的地方, 常常会去的地方 Someone's stomping ground is a place where they like to go often. a place or area that someone is very familiar with and where they like to spend time: The band returned to their old stomping ground last night - and gave one of their best ever gigs. Do you ever go back to any of our old stamping grounds? stamp verb I. 脚踩. intransitive/transitive to put your foot down hard and noisily on someone or something. If you stamp on something, you put your foot down on it very hard. He received the original ban last week after stamping on the referee's foot during the supercup final. Mary tried to stamp on the spider, but it scuttled away. He doesn’t seem able to dance without stamping on his partner’s feet. II. intransitive to walk putting your feet down hard and noisily on the ground, usually because you are angry. stamp into/onto/out of etc. 脚步咚咚的: If you stamp somewhere, you walk there putting your feet down very hard on the ground because you are angry. 'I'm going before things get any worse!' he shouted as he stamped out of the bedroom. Overweight and sweating in the humid weather, she stamped from room to room. Riley suddenly stamped into the editor’s office. III. transitive mainly literary to give something a particular appearance or quality. IV. If you stamp a mark or word on an object, you press the mark or word onto the object using a stamp or other device. Car manufacturers stamp a vehicle identification number in several places. When a gift voucher is exchanged it's stamped with the details of the store. 'Eat before JULY 14' was stamped on the label. V. If something bears the stamp of a particular quality or person, it clearly has that quality or was done by that person. ...lawns and flowerbeds that bore the stamp of years of confident care. Most of us want to put the stamp of our personality on our home. stamp out 消灭, 打击, 杜绝 If you stamp out something bad that is happening, you make it stop. Dr Muffett stressed that he was opposed to bullying in schools and that action would be taken to stamp it out. ...on-the-spot fines to stamp the problems out. stamp someone as something: A quality, feature, or action that stamps someone or something as a particular thing shows clearly that they are this thing. Chris Boardman stamped himself as the 4,000m favourite by setting the world's fastest outdoor time in Barcelona last night. The whole episode had stamped her as a “difficult” client. be stamped on your memory/mind 深深刻在心里, 留下烙印to be impossible to forget, although you would like to His face was stamped on Maria’s memory. stamp your feet 跺脚 to keep putting one foot down hard and noisily on the ground and then the other in order to make yourself less cold or to make a noise. If you stamp or stamp your foot, you lift your foot and put it down very hard on the ground, for example because you are angry or because your feet are cold. Often he teased me till my temper went and I stamped and screamed. His foot stamped down on the accelerator. She stamped her feet on the pavement to keep out the cold. ...hearing the creak of a door and the stamp of cold feet. People were standing around, stamping their feet and rubbing their hands. The little boy stamped his feet and screamed at his mother. rubber-stamp When someone in authority rubber-stamps a decision, plan, or law, they agree to it without thinking about it much. Parliament's job is to rubber-stamp his decisions. Nearly 60 banks have rubber-stamped a refinancing deal. seal of approval = stamp of approval If a person or organization gives something their seal of approval or their stamp of approval, they officially say that they like it or think it is acceptable. Ministers have put their seal of approval on the proposal. Last November the commission gave its stamp of approval to the deal. stomp I. to walk making a lot of noise, usually because you are angry. If you stomp somewhere, you walk there with very heavy steps, often because you are angry. He turned his back on them and stomped off up the hill. He stomped out of the room. Kevin looked furious as he stomped into his office. II. if you stomp something, you do it very well He absolutely stomped that backflip. 4. You and Bernadette aren't doing stuff without me? What? No! Why would you even say that? You know how your talent is getting just drunk enough to have a good time without being hungover the next day? Thank you. Well, mine is knowing when I'm being excluded. So spill. I'm just running some errands. Yeah? With a bag full of wine? I... Got to stay hydrated. Try again. Okay, look, I'm sorry. We did not mean to leave you out 抛开, 排除在外. All right? Bernadette has been feeling fried 疲惫 ( Mentally exhausted, burned out, brain fried — whatever you want to call it, it happens to all of us at some point. It tends to sneak up on you after periods of stress or heavy thinking. You probably don't have any trouble recognizing when you're physically exhausted. Your limbs might feel heavy, your eyes droopy, your energy zapped. But knowing when you're mentally exhausted can be trickier. ) at home, so we ended up hanging out in Halley's playhouse. Like a secret club? No! Just, like, a place to spend time that we don't tell anyone else about. And what would be a shorter way of saying that? 5. Texas authorities admit to stunning string of failures in response to school shooting: Police admitted to a stunning string of failures — including driving right by the gunman — in responding to the Texas school shooting while children were being massacred inside, with the head of the state's Department of Public Safety saying the time for making excuses about the botched response was over. The Friday news conference came after days of confusion, inconsistencies and a muddled timeline of law enforcement's response to the rampage at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Speaking on the delay in breaching the classroom where the shooter was, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said that "from the benefit of hindsight where I'm sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision. There's no excuse for that." In a press conference late Friday afternoon, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he was "livid" after he was "misled"( livid I. [informal] Someone who is livid is extremely angry. I am absolutely livid about it. She is livid that I have invited Dick. II. Something that is livid is an unpleasant dark purple or red colour. The scarred side of his face was a livid red 紫红的. ) about initial reports of police response to the shooting. Abbott insisted law enforcement will get to the bottom of why responding police didn't take more aggressive action to "eliminate" the killer. "There will be ongoing investigations that detail exactly who knew what when, who was in charge and what strategy (was used), why was it that particular strategy was employed, why were other strategies not employed?" he said. "Bottom line would be, why did they not choose the strategy that would have been best to get in there to eliminate the killer and to rescue the children." Among the more stark revelations revealed earlier Friday by McCraw: A school resource officer was not already stationed at the school. When he arrived at the scene, he inadvertently passed the shooter, who was crouched down next to a car. The back door of the school the gunman entered had been propped open by a teacher earlier in the day. McCraw was overwhelmed with reporters demanding an explanation into the time delay in breaching the classroom. "A decision was made that this was a barricaded ( barricade noun. A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest. Large areas of the city have been closed off by barricades set up by the demonstrators. verb. I. If you barricade something such as a road or an entrance, you place a barricade or barrier across it, usually to stop someone getting in. The rioters barricaded streets with piles of blazing tyres. The doors had been barricaded. II. If you barricade yourself inside a room or building 堵在屋里, 堵住, 围困, you place barriers across the door or entrance so that other people cannot get in. The students have barricaded themselves into their dormitory building. About forty prisoners are still barricaded inside the wrecked buildings. ) subject situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point," he explained. "That was the decision, that was the thought process at that particular point in time." Officials said Thursday that responding officers waited for backup before moving in as the gunman was holed up in a classroom — a move one expert called "disgusting." They also revealed that the gunman was not confronted by a school police officer upon arriving and entered the building unobstructed 毫无阻碍的, 没有受到任何阻拦的. Police said earlier that a school resource officer had confronted the shooter before he entered the building. The shooting Tuesday has torn at the heart of the tightknit community in Uvalde, just an hour drive northeast of the Mexican border and home to a large Latino community.
小人物, 不值得一提的事情, 微不足道的事情: small fry = small potatoes 小事一桩, 不值得一提, 虾兵蟹将, 小鱼小虾, 小人物 (peanuts 专指money) Small fry is used to refer to someone or something that is considered to be unimportant. One or more persons or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value. The police did not arrest the drug dealer since he was small fry compared to his boss. These slot machines are just the small fry. The big games are in the back room. What they owe to the tax people is small fry compared to the overall £1.2 million debt. It's the small fry who are usually the last to get paid. small-time 微不足道的 If you refer to workers or businesses as small-time, you think they are not very important because their work is limited in extent or not very successful. ...a small time crook. ...a small-time actress and model. peanuts A very small or insufficient amount (especially of a salary). It's a fun job, but it pays peanuts. hill of beans (idiomatic) Something of no importance. It's not worth a hill of beans. This is nothing but a blatant 肆无忌惮的 abuse of power by a petty ( I. [usually before noun] not important and not worth worrying about. I'm not interested in their petty squabbles. Village life is full of gossip and petty jealousies. II. unpleasant to someone because you care too much about something that is not really important. It was a bit petty to make me apologize to everyone. III. [only before noun] minor. 微不足道的. petty bureaucrats/officials. a petty criminal/thief/offender. ) functionary 小职员 ( A functionary is a person whose job is to do administrative work, especially for a government or a political party. an official who works for a government or a political party, especially one with unimportant or boring office duties. ). Explain to me why Wil Wheaton and his lackeys 跟班, 随从 (I. someone who is too willing to do whatever they are told to do, especially when the person, organization, etc. being obeyed is much more important or powerful. The ambassador is careful not to appear to be a U.S. lackey. II. literary an old word meaning a "servant") get in and we don't. 'Cause I'm the petty functionary with a clipboard, bitch. I guess that's that. Let's go home. Name someone living that you can name in the same breath as them. We're one race, the human race, we're a blip ( I. 轻如鸿毛, 小鱼小虾. 微不足道. 沧海一粟. 小问题, 小障碍. 暂时的困难. 不足为道的问题. 不值得一提的困难. [usually singular] informal a minor problem or delay that does not last very long. Analysts described the drop in share prices as a temporary blip. II. a small flashing light on a computer screen or similar piece of equipment. ) in the existence of the universe (沧海一粟) and we're constantly trying to pull each other down 使绊子. two bob I. (Britain, Australia, obsolete) Two shillings; a florin. II. (Australia, slang) A 20-cent coin. III. (idiomatic, Britain, Australia) 微薄的. 微不足道的. A trivially small value; often used attributively. He got in his two bob's worth before the end of the meeting. Usage notes: The use of two bob for a 20-cent coin derives from the equivalence of two shillings for 20 cents for the purpose of conversion during decimalisation (in 1966); since then, the term has slowly dropped out of usage and it is seldom used today. Three on one. All for a deposition of little old me ( little old 小小的, 微不足道的 (little old me 小小的我) (US, idiomatic, informal, chiefly Southern US) Emphatically, affectionately, or humorously little; ordinary or harmless (especially when trying to downplay the importance of something). How about a little old game of pool? And now, this little old child is going to bed. Just one little old poker game now and then, that's not gambling. ). Would you be more comfortable over there, where your old desk used to be? No need. "They're two-bit pretenders ( two-bit I. Informal Costing or worth 25 cents: a two-bit cigar. II. Slang 微不足道的. 便宜不值钱的. 值不了几毛钱的 Worth very little; petty or insignificant. worth next to nothing; cheap. of very little value or not important (always before noun). The man was shot by a two-bit crook who nobody ever heard of. a two-bit thief小蟊贼. pretender 装模作样的人, 学别人样的人 I. One who simulates, pretends, or alleges falsely; a hypocrite or dissembler. a person who pretends or makes false allegations. II. One who sets forth a claim, especially a claimant to a throne. a person who mounts a claim, as to a throne or title. an aspirant or claimant (often fol. by to). a pretender to the throne. ). They're not gangsters. They're just young hoodlums ( ['hu:dləm] A tough, often aggressive or violent youth. gangster ['gæŋstə] member of an organized group of criminals; a racketeer. A member of a gang of delinquents. ) with firearms. It's very reckless what they're doing. It's out of control in terms of their behaviour." "Reddit is not just a cog in the machine ( a cog in the machine/wheel 小虾米, 微不足道的分子 (cog齿轮). 一个小兵, 一个小卒子, 一个小棋子, 一个小螺丝, 沧海一粟, 一滴水 one part of a large system or organization He was just a small cog in the large wheel of organised crime. This warehouse is an important cog in our distribution machine. obscure [əb'skjuə] 不受注意的, 穷困的, 微不足道的(rise from obscurity) adj I. unclear or abstruse. II. indistinct, vague, or indefinite. III. inconspicuous or unimportant. IV. hidden, secret, or remote. You are clearly just a pawn (象棋中的兵卒, 小卒子, 小虾米, 被利用的人 shrimp 虾, 矮小的人, 微不足道的人 chopped liver Someone perceived as being of little value or worth, as evidenced by being ignored when others are getting attention. "What am I, chopped liver?" "What do I look like, chopped liver?" I feel chopped liver ) in the game of a strong woman."Australia might only be 20 million people but you can't call us minnows 一种小鱼 小虾米, 微不足道的人 ( [mɪnoʊ] I. A minnow is a very small fish that lives in lakes and rivers. II. nformal an unimportant person or organization. ) when it comes to football." "We bring seas of fans, you know, anywhere in the world and we are no longer a small team in the world of football and people need to recognise that.")," she says. "It may not be the most visible site but is a powerful platform."). But aye, she wanted us to kill him.
小数点: decimal point or decimal separator. whole number part: 整数部分. Fractional part: 小数部分. decimal place: the position of a number after a decimal point: The number is accurate to three decimal places 精确到小数点后三位数. All values are rounded to the nearest decimal place. The second decimal place is therefore unlikely to be in greater error than one digit. The percentages are rounded to one decimal place, therefore the rows not always add up to 100%. This leads to roughly two decimal place accuracy (the actual accuracy is somewhat better due to the form of the convergence criterion). All dimensions are correct to the given accuracy, and we do not round up the final decimal place. Pi expressed to five decimal places is 3.14159. a. the position of a digit after the decimal point, each successive position to the right having a denominator of an increased power of ten. In 0.025, 5 is in the third decimal place 在第三位上. b. the number of digits to the right of the decimal point. 3.142 is a number given to three decimal places. significant figures I. the figures of a number that express a magnitude to a specified degree of accuracy, rounding up or down the final figure. 3.141 59 to four significant figures is 3.142. II. the number of such figures. 3.142 has four significant figures 四个小数位 ( = decimal places).
A decimal number consists of a whole number and a fractional part, separated by a decimal point. What is Decimal Point? It is a point or dot we use to separate the whole number part from the fractional part of a decimal number 小数. A decimal number is a number that consists of a whole number and a fractional part. The decimal point separates the whole number from the fractional part.
