用法学习: 1. tailor [ˈteɪlə] I. 裁缝. a person whose occupation is making fitted clothes such as suits, trousers, and jackets. A tailor is a person whose job is to make men's clothes. II. another term for bluefish. verb I. (of a tailor) make (clothes) to fit individual customers. "he was wearing a sports coat which had obviously been tailored in London". II. make or adapt for a particular purpose or person. If you tailor something such as a plan or system to someone's needs, you make it suitable for a particular person or purpose by changing the details of it. We can tailor 量身定做 the program to the patient's needs. Local forces tried to tailor their policing style to increase public confidence. ...scripts tailored to American comedy audiences. "arrangements can be tailored 定制 to meet individual requirements". in the eye of 在风暴眼里 In the center or focal point of something. They were right in the eye of this controversy. in the eye of the storm in the middle of a difficult situation. in the eyes of 在...看来, 在...的眼里 In the view or opinion of, from the standpoint of. In the eyes of his fans Elvis could do no wrong, or In the eyes of the law he was a fugitive. The eyes here allude to their function, seeing. frontier [frʌnˈtɪr] I. countable a border between two countries, especially one with official points where people or vehicles cross. (边境: 英国用 frontier, 美国是border.) frontier between: the frontier between Israel and Lebanon. frontier with: Italy's frontier with 接壤, 交界 Switzerland. on/at the frontier: troops massing at the frontier. a. countable usually singular the outer edge of a country or area that is the farthest point where people have started to live and build towns. b. singular the western edge of the U.S. that Europeans had reached in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. When you are talking about the western part of America before the twentieth century, you use frontier to refer to the area beyond the part settled by Europeans. ...a far-flung 遥远的 outpost on the frontier. c. only before noun on or relating to a frontier. frontier controls. a frontier town. frontier post 前线阵地 (=official place for crossing): Armed police manned the frontier post. II. countable usually plural the most advanced or recent ideas about something. The frontiers of something, especially knowledge, are the limits to which it extends. ...technological frontiers. ...pushing back the frontiers of science. the frontiers of knowledge/science/technology 前沿知识. 前沿技术: Their work was on the frontiers of science. extend/push back the frontiers (=discover more): We are dedicated to experimentation, to pushing back 推进前沿研究 the frontiers. Now 49, Neil Gorsuch arrives at his own moment of testing as a child of the Reagan revolution who saw up close the promise and the perils. He inherited a frontier skepticism of government rooted 根源于 in his home of Colorado and nurtured in Washington during the 1980s. frontier worker = cross-border worker 边境工作人员 (frontline) someone who lives in one country but who travels to work in another on a regular basis. What distinguishes frontier workers from traditional migrant workers is the fact of living in one State and working in another. 2. originalism and textualist: President Trump has tapped Neil Gorsuch to fill the late Antonin Scalia's seat on the Supreme Court. The Post's Robert Barnes tells you what you need to know. Legal scholars have described Gorsuch as "a proponent of originalism — meaning that judges should try to interpret the words of the Constitution as they were understood at the time they were written — and a textualist, who considers only the words of the law being reviewed, not legislators' intent or the consequences of the decision," The Washington Post reported shortly after his nomination. Many of those tendencies can be seen as early as Gorsuch's teenage years. As a college freshman in the mid-1980s, Gorsuch ran for a seat on the student senate. The undergraduate-run newspaper, the Columbia Spectator, asked all candidates to respond to questions about major campus issues of the time: For instance, would students benefit from having a longer reading period before exams? Should students with AIDS be required to report their illness to campus health services? In his survey responses, a young Gorsuch was unique among his peers, both in his stances and his ability to articulate 清楚表达, 清楚表述 them. For example, in the opening question — on whether the U.S. Marine Corps should be allowed to recruit on campus — most of the student senate candidates rejected the idea, citing concerns about the military's policies that at the time discriminated against homosexual people. Gorsuch, however, turned in a long answer that recast the question into one about First Amendment rights. "The question here is not whether 'the Marines should be allowed to recruit on campus' but whether a University and its community, so devoted to the freedom of individuals to pursue their own chosen lifestyles and to speak freely, has the right or obligation to determine who may speak on campus or what may be said," Gorsuch wrote. "To fulfill an immediate end 为了实现短期目标, we are likely to forget the underlying principle that every human being, according to our nation's proclamations ( [ˌprɑkləˈmeɪʃ(ə)n] I. countable an official announcement, especially about something important, or something that affects everyone. II. uncountable the act of making an official announcement, especially about something important, or something that affects everyone. 搭配: Adjectives: formal, official, presidential, public, royal, verbal. The original flag was set out by royal proclamation on 12 April 1606. Verbs: issue, make, publish, sign. Important public proclamations were made here. ), and reinforced by our University's standards, has an inalienable right to express himself or herself — whether we agree or not. Free speech works; it works better than any form of censorship or suppression; and in exercising vigorously, the truth is bound to emerge." In 1987, he criticized protesters who had tried to block the eviction of a tenant from her university-owned apartment. "Our protesters, it seems, have a monopoly on righteousness 独家占有," Gorsuch wrote in April 1988. "In all their muddled 糊里糊涂的, 不清醒的, 没头没脑的, 莫名其妙的, 不明所以的 ( If someone is muddled, they are confused about something. I'm afraid I'm a little muddled. I'm not exactly sure where to begin. ...the muddled thinking of the Government's transport policy in recent years. not clear or effective The court can be accused of muddled reasoning in many cases. Adverbs: hopelessly, very. This hopelessly muddled thinking was typical of the department at that time. rather: a little, rather, slightly, somewhat. The arguments they presented were somewhat muddled. Nouns: thinking, thought. We take the view that this proposal is the product of muddled thinking and must be revisited. muddle-headed resulting from a lack of clear thought. muddle-headed plans. muddle up I. to put things into a messy state or the wrong order. His business files were muddled up with his personal files. II. to think that someone or something is another person or thing as a result of a mistake. If you muddle things or people, you get them mixed up, so that you do not know which is which. Already, one or two critics have begun to muddle the two names. The question muddles up three separate issues. He sometimes muddles me up with other patients. I know that I am getting my words muddled up. get someone/something muddled: I'm sorry but I get your names muddled. muddle along = muddle on 稀里糊涂的过, 糊里糊涂的过, 迷迷糊糊的过, 难得糊涂, 漫无目的的生活 to continue to live or do something without having a clear idea of what you want to achieve. If you muddle along, you live or exist without a proper plan or purpose in your life. I've started to learn how to do things properly, rather than just muddling along. They're content to just muddle along. muddle through 跌跌撞撞的成功 to succeed in doing something despite having no clear plan, method, or appropriate equipment. in a muddle 糊涂的 If someone is muddled, they are confused about something. I'm afraid I'm a little muddled. I'm not exactly sure where to begin. ...the muddled thinking of the Government's transport policy in recent years. ) thinking, however, our 'progressives' have become anything but truly progressive. Consider for example, their 'issue' of the elections scandal. Columbia College election rules are a swamp of bureaucratic pettiness, unequaled even by 比不上( unequalled UK = US unequaled [ʌnˈikwəld] adj. better than anyone or anything else. If you describe something as unequaled, you mean that it is greater, better, or more extreme than anything else of the same kind. This record figure was unequaled for 13 years. ) the federal government. They are confusing, often unduly 没有来由的, 没道理的, 没必要的 severe, and clearly in need of reform. Some candidates in this election may have manipulated them for personal gain. But is it 'progressive' for a minority of students to unilaterally decide to invalidate this election? Sounds more like vigilante justice to me." 3. reseat (内存条 memory stick) I. 重新插拔内存条. To plug (something) back into its socket. Try reseating your video adapter, and see if that fixes your computer's problems. II. (transitive, engineering) To fit (something, especially a valve) back into its place. To ensure that there are no leaks, clean the surfaces before you reseat the valve. III. To seat (someone) again, to give somebody a different seat. We have to reseat 换座位 you, sir: this seat is reserved for the guest speaker. Reseat 重新插拔, 换插槽 is a term used to describe removing an expansion card or RAM from the computer and then putting it back into the same slot. This process is a common troubleshooting technique. It helps verify that a loosely connected device or connection is not causing your computer issues. Note: This term is also used to describe the process of disconnecting and connecting a cable to make sure it's firmly connected. zeitgeist [ˈzaɪtˌɡaɪst] 时代潮流, 流行思潮 The zeitgeist of a particular place during a particular period in history is the attitudes and ideas that are generally common there at that time, especially the attitudes and ideas shown in literature, philosophy, and politics. the ideas, beliefs, and interests that are typical of most people during a particular time in history and are expressed in the culture of that time. He has caught the zeitgeist of rural life in the 1980s very well indeed. When Megxit crashed into headlines and the Zeitgeist in January 2020, the possibilities for where they would go next seemed limitless and thrilling. What no one quite expected was for their star to lose its lustre quite so fast. wiki: In eighteenth and nineteenth century German philosophy, a Zeitgeist ("spirit of the age") is an invisible agent or force dominating the characteristics of a given epoch in world history. Now, the term is usually associated with Georg W. F. Hegel, contrasting with Hegel's use of Volksgeist "national spirit" and Weltgeist "world-spirit". Its coinage and popularization precedes Hegel, and is mostly due to Herder and Goethe. Other philosophers who were associated with such concepts include Spencer[year needed] and Voltaire. Contemporary use of the term may, more pragmatically refer to a schema of fashions or fads that prescribes what is considered to be acceptable or tasteful for an era, e.g. in the field of architecture. 4. Bailey had been living in a state-run youth halfway house in the month leading up to his death and had been attending Sarina State High School, though Ms Pini said it was the Bowen State High School community that would feel this the most. Bailey Pini died a year after his mother and one month after being moved into state care. Bailey was placed in state care one month before his death.
TBBT: 1. Leonard: Whatcha doin' there? Working on a new plan to catch the roadrunner 头上炸毛的鸡 (a slender fast-running bird of the cuckoo family, found chiefly in arid country from the southern US to Central America. a bird from the southwestern US and Mexico with a long tail and feathers that stand up on the top of its head, that runs very fast. Roadrunners are frequently seen sprinting through the inn's grounds. )? Sheldon: The humorous implication being that I am Wile E. Coyote? Leonard: Yes. Sheldon: And this is a schematic 设计图 for a bird-trapping device that will ultimately backfire and cause me physical injury? Leonard: Yes. Sheldon: What I'm doing here is trying to determine when I'm going to die. Leonard: A lot of people are working on that research. So what is all this? Sheldon: My family history factoring in longevity 长寿, 寿命, propensity for disease, et cetera. Leonard: Interesting. Cause of death for Uncle Carl was KBB. What's KBB? Sheldon: Killed by badger. Leonard: How's that? Sheldon: It was Thanksgiving. Uncle Carl said, I think there's a badger living in our chimney. Hand me that flashlight. Those were the last words he ever spoke to us. Leonard: I don't think you need to worry about death by badgers being hereditary. Sheldon: Not true. The fight or flight instinct is coded genetically. Instead of fleeing, he chose to fight barehanded against a brawny member of the weasel family. Who's to say that I don't share that flawed DNA? Leonard: You can always get a badger and find out. Sheldon: But seriously, even if I disregard the Uncle Carl factor, at best I have 60 years left. Leonard: That long, huh? Sheldon: 60 only takes me to here. I need to get to here. Leonard: What's there? Sheldon: The earliest estimate of the singularity, when man will be able to transfer his consciousness into machines and achieve immortality 获得永生. Leonard: So, you're upset about missing out on becoming some sort of freakish self-aware robot? Sheldon: By this much. Leonard: Tough break. You want eggs? Sheldon: You don't get it, Leonard. I'm going to miss so much, the unified field theory, cold fusion, the dogapus. Leonard: What's a dogapus? Sheldon: A hybrid dog and octopus. Man's underwater best friend. Leonard: Is somebody working on that? Sheldon: I was going to. I planned on giving it to myself on my 300th birthday. Leonard: Wait a minute. You hate dogs. Sheldon: A dogapus can play fetch with eight balls. No one can hate that. 2. Sheldon: Who's going to tell whom about what? Howard: Sheldon. Hey. Raj: Hi. Sheldon: Your surprise confuses me. I live here. Howard: Right. So, listen, what are you doing tomorrow afternoon? Sheldon: Be more specific. Howard: Four thirty. Sheldon: That's not afternoon. That's preevning. Howard: What? Sheldon: It's a time of day I invented. It better defines the ambiguous period between afternoon and evening. Preevning. I'm fairly certain it will catch on as it fills a desperate need. Raj: Right, okay. What are you doing tomorrow preevning? Sheldon: Well, tomorrow's Saturday. Saturday night is laundry night, so I'll be spending the preevning pre-sorting and pre-soaking. Howard: Okay, what if I were to tell you, tomorrow, at 4:30 you could meet a woman who has been scientifically chosen to be your perfect mate? Sheldon: I would snort in derision 嗤之以鼻 and throw my arms in the air, exhausted by your constant tomfoolery. Raj: But it's true. But we put all your vital information into this dating site, answered all their questions just like you would, and they found a match for you. Her name is Amy Farrah Fowler. Sheldon: Please. Even assuming you could answer any question the way I would, the algorithms used by matchmaking sites are complete hokum. Howard: And that's exactly the answer we gave to the question, what is your attitude towards online dating? Raj: Howard wanted to write mumbo jumbo, but I said no, our Sheldon would say hokum ( hokum [ˈhəʊkəm] I. 一派胡言, 胡言乱语. nonsense. If you describe something as hokum, you think it is nonsense. The book is enjoyable hokum. "they dismissed such corporate homilies as boardroom hokum". II. trite, sentimental, or unrealistic situations and dialogue in a film or other work. "classic B-movie hokum". 用例: Sheldon: I thought this was supposed to be a guided meditation. Raj: Fine. You're in Sheldon Square. Sheldon: Really? This time of year? It's a bit nippy. Raj: Then, put on a sweater. Sheldon: Suppose I could run downtown and pick up something at Shel-Mart. Raj: Yeah, whatever. Just go buy a sweater. Sheldon: You know, the nice thing about Shel-Mart is I own it, so I get a 15% discount. Raj: You own the damn thing. Just take a freaking sweater! Sheldon: Look, I didn't turn a profit last quarter by taking product off the shelves willy-nilly 随心所欲的, 随意的. Raj: All right. You've paid for a sweater, and you're in Sheldon Square. Sheldon: Hang on. It's a cardigan. I have to button it. Oh, no. Raj: What now? Sheldon: A Godzilla-like monster is approaching the city. I have to get my people to safety. People of Sheldonopolis, this is your mayor. Follow me. If the children can't run, leave them behind. Oh, the simulated horror! (Sound of door slamming) Raj? Just as I suspected. Meditation is nothing but hokum. 用例: Leonard, this is Tom. Hi, Tom. Sheldon. Didn't I explain to you about your little mistake in the cafeteria? Yes, you were very clear, as was everyone else at the table. Tom, however, has been chosen by science as a suitable mate for Penny. Chosen by science. Well, what passes for science on dating sites. They may claim to use heuristic algorithms, but it may well be 很可能是 hokum. You got Penny to sign up for online dating? No, no, of course not. No, see, I used trickery and deceit. This is bad. Tom is a paramedic with the fire department. He's going to med school. Uh, he likes the outdoors and, uh, strong women who initiate sex. Really, really bad. I'm surprised you struck out with 失败, 没能成功 Penny. Apparently, she's a big old five. locum [ˈloʊkəm] 代理, 替代(医生或牧师) [mainly British] A locum is a doctor or priest who does the work for another doctor or priest who is ill or on holiday. a doctor or priest who does the job of another doctor or priest temporarily, for example while the usual one is ill or on vacation. heuristic [hjuˈrɪstɪk] 经验主义的, 靠常识的解决方法而非一步步计算的 I. relating to a method of teaching or learning in which you learn from your own discoveries and experiences. A heuristic method of learning involves discovery and problem-solving, using reasoning and past experience. II. A heuristic computer program uses rules based on previous experience in order to solve a problem, rather than using a mathematical procedure. vocabulary: A heuristic is a rule or method that helps you solve problems faster than you would if you did all the computing. It sounds fancy, but you might know a heuristic as a "rule of thumb." Derived from a Greek word that means "to discover," heuristic describes a rule or a method that comes from experience and helps you think through things, like the process of elimination, or the process of trial and error. You can think of a heuristic as a shortcut. Besides finding it in philosophy books, if you are interested in computing, you'll find references to heuristic programming. You can use it as a noun or as an adjective. strike out I. intransitive a batter strikes out in baseball by missing the ball three times, ending their turn at trying to hit it. a. transitive 出局. a pitcher strikes a batter out in baseball by throwing three balls that the batter is unable to hit, ending the batter's turn. II. intransitive informal to be unsuccessful in trying to do something. to not be successful at something 'Did she say she'd go out with you?' 'No, I struck out.' Looks like we've struck out again. My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women. It is meant to be humorous. This person has always failed with women, and continues to fail with women. However, in the past, he failed with a lower class of women. Now, he fails with a higher class of women. Are they richer? More attractive? More sophisticated? We don't know, but the speaker is poking fun at his own lack of social success. III. intransitive to try to hit or attack someone or something. strike out at: Without warning, he struck out at Holmes with his right hand. IV. intransitive to criticize someone or something, especially in a speech, interview, or article. strike out at: He struck out at supporters of the bill in his speech yesterday. V. intransitive to walk or swim in a particular direction in a way that shows energy or determination. strike out into: We decided to strike out 出发 on foot into the woods. strike out for: Rostov surfaced, then struck out for the nearest shore. VI. intransitive to start doing something new or different, especially in order to become more independent. strike out on your own 自己干, 单干: to start doing something or living independently O'Connor quit his job and decided to strike out on his own. strike out for: It was an opportunity to strike out for herself. VII. strike out = strike through 删去, 去掉, 划掉 transitive to remove words from a document, for example by drawing a line through them. Strike out lines 5 to 18. VIII. transitive legal to stop the continuation of a court case. The judge struck out the case for want of cause (=because it was not justified). ). Howard: Well, come on, where's your scientific curiosity? Sheldon: Well, most of it is being applied to unravelling the secrets of the universe while the rest of it's wondering why I'm having this conversation with you. Raj: Okay, how about this. Even Spock had a date once every seven years. Sheldon: He didn't date. It was pon farr. His blood boiled with mating lust. Howard: Okay, well, why don't you start with a cup of coffee, and you can pon farr Amy Farrah Fowler later. 3. Leonard: So anyway, Howard asked Penny to talk to Bernadette, and she did, and Bernadette agreed to meet him for a cup of coffee. Sheldon: One question. Leonard: Yeah? Sheldon: Why on earth are you telling me all this? Leonard: I don't know. Sometimes your movements are so lifelike 和真人一样, I forget you're not a real boy. (Sheldon opens his office door. It bangs against a desk. Inside, Raj is sat behind a huge, ornate antique wooden desk in an enormous antique swivel chair.) Raj: You said I could buy a desk. Sheldon: This isn't a desk. This is a Brobdingnagian [ˌbrɒbdɪŋˈnæɡɪən] 巨大无比的 monstrosity( Brobdingnagian used to describe anything of colossal size The Philistines produced a brobdingnagian champion called Goliath. monstrosity [mɑnˈstrɑsəti] [disapproval] something large and ugly. If you describe something, especially something large, as a monstrosity, you mean that you think it is extremely ugly. Most of the older buildings have been torn down and replaced by modern monstrosities. The Eiffel Tower was considered a monstrosity when it was first built. ). Raj: Is that the American idiom for giant, big-ass desk? Sheldon: It's actually British. 4. Howard: Isn't there somewhere else you can be 你一定要在这里吗, 你不需要去别的地方吗, 你没有别的事做吗? Penny: Not where I can hear you guys. Howard: Okay, fine. I'll admit, there are dark, sordid little corners of the Internet where the name Wolowizard is whispered in hushed tones. But the only reason I go there, the only reason I've ever gone there is because I don't have a real woman in my life. You happy? Penny: Yeah, that'll hold me for a while 够我笑一会儿了(It usually means this will keep me good for a amount of time. My boss gave me a large task that'll hold me for a while(keep me busy). I ate a large lunch that'll hold me for a while(I won't be hungry for a while).).
