用法学习: 1. 扎针 (prick your finger, stick a needle in my finger (TBBT: She stuck a needle into my hand), pierce, lance): Use a needle long enough to reach deep into the muscle. Identify the thickest part of the deltoid muscle by having the person raise their arm to define the muscle. Once defined, have patient relax arm and proceed. Insert needle at a 90o angle to the skin with a quick thrust( noun. I. The thrust 最主要最根本的部分 of an activity or of an idea is the main or essential things it expresses. The real thrust of the film is its examination of New York's Hasidic community. The main thrust of the research will be the study of the early Universe and galaxy formation. The conductor brought home the full thrust of the work's emotional resolution. II. Thrust is the power or force that is required to make a vehicle move in a particular direction. It provides the thrust that makes the craft move forward. verb I. If you thrust something or someone somewhere, you push or move them there quickly with a lot of force. They thrust him into the back of a jeep. She grabs a stack of baby photos and thrusts them into my hands. Two of the knife thrusts were fatal. II. If you thrust your way somewhere, you move there, pushing between people or things which are in your way. She thrust her way into the crowd. He reached the garden gate and thrust his way through it. III. If something thrusts up or out of something else, it sticks up or sticks out in a noticeable way. An aerial thrust up from the grass verge. A ray of sunlight thrust out through the clouds. cut and thrust 令人激动的部分, 有挑战性的部分 If you talk about the cut and thrust of an activity, you are talking about the aspects of it that make it exciting and challenging. This has something to do with the cut and thrust of modern political debate. ...cut-and-thrust debate between two declared adversaries. ). Retain pressure on skin around injection site with thumb and index finger while needle is inserted. Aspiration is not necessary. Multiple injections given in the same extremity should be separated as far as possible (preferably at least 1 day apart). 如何测血糖How to Test Your Blood Sugar Levels: From Your Fingertip: You prick your finger with a small, sharp needle (called a lancet [lancet] 手术刀. a pointed surgical knife with two sharp edges. also called lance. lancet window a narrow window having a lancet arch. lancet arch a narrow acutely pointed arch having two centres of equal radii. Sometimes shortened to: lancet. Also called: acute arch, Gothic arch, pointed arch, ogive. lance [læns] I. transitive 挑破 to cut an infected part of someone's skin in order to remove pus (=yellow liquid under the skin). If a boil on someone's body is lanced, a small cut is made in it so that the liquid inside comes out. It is a painful experience having the boil lanced. lance a boil. To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon. Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden. II. intransitive/transitive British to affect someone strongly and immediately. boil a painful lump on your skin that has become infected and is filled with pus (=an unpleasant yellow liquid). A boil is a red, painful swelling on your skin, which contains a thick yellow liquid called pus. verb. I. When you boil a kettle or pan, or put it on to boil, you heat the water inside it until it boils. He had nothing to do but boil the kettle and make the tea. Marianne put the kettle on to boil. II. When a kettle or pan is boiling 水壶开了, the water inside it has reached boiling point. Is the kettle boiling? III. When you boil food, or when it boils, it is cooked in boiling water. Boil the chick peas, add garlic and lemon juice. I'd peel potatoes and put them on to boil. ...boiled eggs and toast. IV. If you are boiling with anger 怒火中烧, you are very angry. I used to be all sweetness and light on the outside, but inside I would be boiling with rage. boil the ocean to try to do something that is very difficult or impossible, especially when starting something. Don't try to boil the ocean with your first version of a product. come to a boil. on the boil. take something off the boil. ) and put a drop of blood on a test strip. Then you put the test strip into a meter that shows your blood sugar level. You get results in less than 15 seconds and can store this information for future use. 2. creature of habit 喜欢一成不变 a person who follows an unvarying routine. If you say that someone is a creature of habit, you mean that they usually do the same thing at the same time each day, rather than doing new and different things. Jesse is a creature of habit and always eats breakfast. "he's a creature of habit—he keeps to the places he knows". to/for all intents and purposes 实际上等同于, 基本上等同于 I. for all practical purposes; virtually. used to say that one thing has the same effect or result as something else Their decision to begin bombing was, for all intents and purposes, a declaration of war. II. in all the most important ways: For all intents and purposes, the project is completed. 3. lozenge [ˈlɑzəndʒ] I. (shapes, heraldry) 菱形 ( diamond, rhomb, rhombus) A quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles. II. 含片. A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat. medicine shaped like a candy that you suck if you have a cough or sore throat. It appears in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra of 1606, in the speech at the end of Act One in which Cleopatra is regretting her youthful dalliances with Julius Caesar: "My salad days 少不更事的年代, 无忧无虑的年代(The days of one's youthful inexperience. 'Salad days' is used these days to refer to the days of carefree innocence and pleasure of our youth. It has also been used to refer to the time of material affluence in our more mature years, when the pressures of life have begun to ease - something akin to 'the golden years'. ), When I was green in judgment". So the phrase came to mean "a period of youthful inexperience or indiscretion少不更事", though it only became popular from the middle of the nineteenth century on. The link here is green, which had already had a meaning for a couple of centuries at least before Shakespeare's day of someone youthful, just like the young green shoots of spring, and also of somebody who was as yet inexperienced or immature. Incidentally, for Shakespeare a salad wasn't just lettuce with some dressing, but a much more complicated dish of chopped, mixed and seasoned vegetables (its name comes from the Latin word for salt); the word was also used for any vegetable that could be included in that dish. However, Jan Freeman pointed out in one of her word columns for the Boston Globe back in April 2001 that the expression has shifted sense in the US in the past twenty years or so. It now often refers to a period in the past when somebody was at the peak of their abilities or earning power, in their heyday, not necessarily when they were young. The shift isn't so hard to understand when you think how few people actually know their Shakespeare. 4. reassure 安慰, 消除疑虑 say or do something to remove the doubts or fears of (someone). If you reassure someone, you say or do things to make them stop worrying about something. I tried to reassure her, 'Don't worry about it. We won't let it happen again.' She just reassured me that everything was fine. "he understood her feelings and tried to reassure her". Mason is trying to reassure North about getting a stepdad. chasten [ˈtʃeɪs(ə)n] (chisel, carve) 历练过的, 被教做人, 被教训了的, 吃一堑长一智, 学乖, 汲取教训, 吸取教训, 气焰嚣张, 挫气焰 If you are chastened by something, it makes you regret that you have behaved badly or stupidly. to make someone feel ashamed or less confident She seemed suitably chastened by the experience. He has clearly not been chastened by his thirteen days in detention. The President now seems a more chastened and less confident politician than when he set out a week ago. ...a chastened England out to prove they are indeed one of the best teams in the world. a chastening experience 一次磨炼. blood, sweat, and tears 心血 extremely hard work; unstinting effort. "he's going through all the blood, sweat, and tears involved in getting a PhD". If you refer to something as involving blood, sweat, and tears, you mean that it is a very hard thing to do and requires a lot of effort. Why do apparently sane people go through all the blood, sweat, tears and heartache involved in getting a PhD? studious [ˈstudiəs] 热爱学习的 Someone who is studious spends a lot of time reading and studying books. I was a very quiet, studious little girl. Kris puts on her glasses to read from her phone, as Khloe asks if she is going to wear her glasses because she, 'looks very studious. 5. storied famous, or well known. Much talked or written about. Historical. Golden State Warriors NBA Win: Champions again, denying the storied Celtics what would have been their record 18th championship, one that would have allowed Boston to break a tie with the Los Angeles Lakers for the most in league history. This tale for the Warriors ended much differently than their previous finals appearance against Toronto in 2019, which saw Kevin Durant tear his Achilles tendon in Game 5 and then Thompson tear his ACL in what became the Raptors' title-clincher in Game 6. The aftermath of that loss was exacerbated by Durant's decision to leave that summer in free agency to join the Brooklyn Nets and Thompson's own Achilles injury while rehabilitating his knee injury.
chop: I. a small piece of meat with a bone in it, usually from a sheep or a pig. lamb/pork chops: We had pork chops for dinner last night. II. 砍. an act of hitting someone or something hard with the side of your hand. a karate chop: She gave him a karate chop to the neck. a. an act of hitting something with a tool. get/be given the chop I. to be forced to leave your job. More than 200 workers are expected to get the chop due to falling sales. II. to be stopped or ended, usually because of a lack of success. be for the chop I. to be likely to be forced to leave your job. II. to be likely to be stopped or ended, usually because of a lack of success. Chops: I. the jaws or cheeks; jowls. Long sideburns reaching down to the jawline. If I were really cool, I'd have me some wicked bushy chops. II. US, Slang technical skill, esp. of a jazz or rock musician. technical skill and assurance, especially in performing. I can sing. I did a lot of training for it. It took me a year and a half to get my chops up 唱功. and I had a lot of help and support, and a coach. He didn't really have the chops 功底, 技能, 本事 of Dizzie Gillespie or Chet Baker. Davis exhibits natural acting chops 演技, 能力 as Max. Did actress Jill Ireland have the acting chops to have made it as an actress on her own without the help of her husband Charles Bronson? III. have the necessary ability; be very skilled at something. If you want to be great at something, you've got to have the chops. No, we're not talking about the length of your sideburns. If you want to achieve fame and glory by being amazing at something, you have to have great skill—or chops. One's skill at any endeavor; ability, talent; competency. Have you ever heard her play before? She's got some serious chops on the piano. This course really helped me hone my writing chops. A major publisher is even interested in my work! Although he did not know all of the ins and outs of the newsroom, he had the writing chops 有写作能力 to become a regular contributor( hone I. 磨炼, 精雕细刻 If you hone something, for example a skill, technique, idea, or product, you carefully develop it over a long period of time so that it is exactly right for your purpose. Leading companies spend time and money on honing the skills of senior managers. His body is honed and kept in trim with constant exercise. II. If you hone a blade, weapon, or tool, you sharpen it on a stone or with a special device. ...four grinding wheels for honing fine edged tools and implements. ...a thin, honed blade.). skill or excellence in a particular field or activity (such as acting or playing music) It's a challenging role that will give him a chance to show off his acting chops. prove ones chops informal To demonstrate or establish that one is skilled in some area. I've heard that you're an excellent piano player. Well, here's a piano—time to prove your chops. Oh no, Tom definitely proved his chops—he stumped me with quite a few of his sports trivia questions. He knows way more than I do. note: Chops is slang for the jaws or mouth. Trumpet players need to have strong jaws if they want to become better players, so people used to say that you couldn't become a great trumpet player if you didn't have the chops for it. Later the expression came to mean the ability to play any instrument, not just the trumpet. And now we use chops to talk about any skill or ability. To be a good painter, for instance, you have to have good painting chops. And to be a good actor, you have to have good acting chops. Kristen Bell has roles on two TV shows, Heroes and Gossip Girl, and she's one of the stars of the new movie Couples Retreat. But she doesn't think there's anything special about her chops. She says there are a lot of pretty girls out there with great acting chops who could easily replace her as one of the hot young stars of the moment. So she just wants to enjoy being in the spotlight for as long as it lasts. lick one's chops 热盼, 热切期待, 急不可耐, 按耐不住的期待 informal I. to anticipate with pleasure. To anticipate eating (something) with great eagerness or appetite. I was licking my chops when the waiter set the juicy steak down in front of me. II. To show one's impatience or excitement to do something. You should have seen John at the car show. He was licking his chops looking at all those fancy sports cars. My detractors were practically licking their chops when they heard that my proposal had failed. chop and change 变来变去 BRITISH If someone chops and changes, they keep changing their plans, often when it is not necessary. After chopping and changing for the first year, they have settled down to a stable system of management. All this chopping and changing serves no useful purpose. Note: This expression was originally used to refer to people buying and selling goods. To 'chop' meant to trade or barter, and 'change' came from 'exchange'. bust someone's chops AMERICAN, INFORMAL I. If you bust someone's chops, you tease them or criticize them for something. His friends bust his chops about being voted the 'best-dressed man'. This is not a good time to bust his chops about his poor communication skills. II. To harass, nag, or upbraid someone to do, accomplish, or complete something. to annoy with nagging or criticism Stop busting my chops—I'll get the job done. The boss is busting everyone's chops to get the project ready by next week. Quit busting my chops! I'll get it done eventually! bust one's chops Slang. to exert oneself. I've been busting my chops to get this out by end of day. To "bust one's hump" means to overexert oneself to the point of collapse or injury, often heard in the sarcastic admonition, "Don't bust your hump." "Hump" can mean, as a verb, "to exert oneself," popularized in the Vietnam War slang term "humping the boonies," meaning to march with a heavy pack through the jungle or countryside ("boonies" being a short form of "boondocks"). "To bust one's hump" thus probably arose as a joking reference to an imaginary "hump" used in hard work which might be injured by overexertion. bust someone's chops Slang. to annoy with nagging or criticism. to "harass by the forcible exertion of one's authority," often by insisting on obedience to pointless rules or orders. And when someone busts your chops(I. To scold or insult someone. II. To disappoint or defeat someone. III. To hold a building contractor to the letter of an agreement. ), he injures or harasses you. But if you want to get better at English, the only chops you need to worry about are your English chops. "David is a decent musician, but I don't think he has the chops to be famous." "I don't have great chops as a singer, but I'm determined to get better." "Lance is a brilliant actor. He has amazing chops." "There are a thousand girls out there that have great acting chops and are pretty…Someone else could take my place." - Actress Kristen Bell on her competition. "Chop" just literally means jaws, or sides of one's face. It's the second noun definition for "chop" in the OED. Its usage extends back to the early 16th century. Its etymology is from "chap," which is a jawbone, and an ever older word. So, the phrase is literal: "Don't bust my chops," means "don't hit me in the jaw." However, its usage is typically metaphorical, as: "don't give me such a hard time." The first meaning "to exert oneself" is (elaborating just slightly on what the OED includes) just derived from aiming this action at oneself. The origin of the beating-up usage is USA in the early 50s, and the exertion usage is USA in the 60s. That is, "Why would I bust my chops to get a job?" = "Why would I beat myself up to get a job?" = "Why would I exert myself hard to get a job?" earn one's chops: earn one's chops = earn your stripes [ straɪp] (military) to do something to deserve a new position or a higher status He earned his stripes playing for the reserve team. "Earning your chops" is similar to the military-derived term "earning your stripes ( of every stripe = of all stripes of all types. people of all political stripes. )" meaning having gained enough experience to qualify for the next level. earn one's keep ( earn one's corn, earn one's crust, carry one's weight ) I. To perform satisfactory physical labor or to provide other worthy services in return for remuneration, lodging, or other benefits; to support oneself financially. work in return for food and accommodation. To perform sufficient work or help in exchange for money or housing. to help out with chores in return for food and a place to live; to earn one's pay by doing what is expected. I earn my keep at college by shoveling snow in the winter. Tom hardly earns his keep around here. He should be fired. If you're going to live here rent-free, then you need to earn your keep by helping out with the cooking and cleaning. That boarder earns his keep by doing maintenance in the building. II. 值回票价. 物有所值. To be worthwhile. be worth the time or money spent on one. if something earns its keep, it is useful or it produces an income These aircraft are still earning their keep 值得保留. "his media advisers were earning their keep". flap (one's) chops To chatter or blather. Quit flapping your chops—I need some quiet so I can think! Whenever Charlie starts to flap his chops, I can't get in a word! chop logic I. To argue skillfully, using complex logic or clever reasoning. II. To argue in a tedious or pedantic way. to use excessively subtle or involved logic or argument. To make an argument which is illogical, especially one which is overly complex or which improperly uses fine or clever distinctions; to equivocate. Chopped logic 颠倒是非黑白, 混淆逻辑: reasoning which is improper; sophistry. I can't stand the way he chops logic! You can't have a conversation without him turning it into some tiresome fight! To make an argument which is illogical, especially one which is overly complex or which improperly uses fine or clever distinctions; to equivocate. Usage notes: The verb "to chop logic" is a contranym (i.e., a term which is its own antonym). In one sense, it means "to argue properly" and, in another sense, "to argue improperly." get the chop = be given the chop I. (British informal) if a person gets the chop, they lose their job. Anyone who argued with the foreman was liable to be given the chop. II. (British informal) 被砍了. 被停了. if a plan or a service gets the chop, it is stopped. Our local bus service got the chop, so I have to walk to work or use the car. have the chops: Yeah, it means to have good skill at playing an instrument, I've only heard it for guitarists and basists, not classical instruments but I guess it can be for other things, maybe just cos I am a guitarist I only ever hear it being referred to guitarists. chop and change 颠来倒去, 换来换去. (British & Australian) to keep changing what you do or what you plan to do, often in a way that is confusing and annoying for other people. After six months of chopping and changing, we've decided to go back to our old system.
Socceroo qualified for 2022 Qatar: He is the true A-League journeyman, having represented five different clubs around Australia over the course of 14 seasons. It got to the point where, in 2016, Redmayne contemplated 考虑退出 quitting the A-League altogether, completing a barista course with the plan to work at a friend's cafe while finishing his degree on the way to becoming a primary school teacher. "I just didn't think I was good enough, to be honest. It was a pretty rough stage in my life," he told News Corp. a few years later. But Redmayne stuck it out 坚持了下来, ultimately linking up with his first goalkeeping coach John Crawley at Sydney FC in January of 2017 — the same man who also coached the gloveman Redmayne replaced on Tuesday, Mat Ryan. While it's (A League) a competition that may not be regarded as one of the world's best — but which has provided full-time football, professional environments, financial stability and an opportunity to grow — it has been ideal, even for late-bloomers 晚熟者, 大器晚成者 like Redmayne. It is testament to the A-Leagues' ability to produce national players that the majority of Socceroos — 17 of 23 players listed against Peru — started right here at home, representing one of the country's 12 ALM teams.
电力危机: Fears about blackouts due to a shortage of energy in Queensland did not eventuate 没有成真 last night but the Sunshine State is not the only one with warnings ahead. Electricity is like most other commodities in that it is about supply and demand, the latter of which is known as "load" in industry jargon. But unlike just about any other good, supply of electricity has to match demand almost perfectly at all times. Margins of error are tiny. Such rigour 严格 is required because power, while so essential, can also be dangerous to people and appliances. Think of the electricity system as a generator at one end, a user at the other end, and a highwire in between. The aim of the game is to keep the highwire perfectly stable by exactly matching the user's needs with the generator's output. Too little supply and the wire will drop. Too much power and the wire could overload. Either way, the consequences of failure are serious. They inevitably trigger safeguards at the generator that force it to switch off, or trip, to prevent even more drastic consequences such as an explosion, for example. In order to avoid circumstances where supply and demand become dangerously out of whack the market operator can cut power to big numbers of customers to restore balance — it sheds the load. This can be done by telling users, such as industrial players, to pare back or switch off. Or it can be done at what is known as the distribution level, where entire suburbs are switched off and households have to pitch in to keep the system stable. Across the east coast, but particularly in Queensland and NSW, a shortage of supply has run headlong into spike in demand as people increase their energy use during a cold snap. The causes of the supply squeeze 供货紧张, 供电紧张 ( squeeze I. If you squeeze something, you press it firmly, usually with your hands. He squeezed her arm reassuringly. Dip the bread briefly in water, then squeeze it dry. I liked her way of reassuring you with a squeeze of the hand 捏一下, 挤一下. II. If you squeeze a liquid or a soft substance out of an object, you get the liquid or substance out by pressing the object. Joe put the plug in the sink and squeezed some detergent over the dishes. ...freshly squeezed 挤出来 lemon juice. III. If you squeeze your eyes shut or if your eyes squeeze shut 合上眼, you close them tightly, usually because you are frightened or to protect your eyes from something such as strong sunlight. Nancy squeezed her eyes shut and prayed. If you keep your eyes squeezed shut, you'll miss the show. My eyes were squeezed shut against the light. IV. If you squeeze a person or thing somewhere or if they squeeze there, they manage to get through or into a small space. Somehow they squeezed him into 挤进去 the cockpit, and strapped him in. Many break-ins are carried out by youngsters who can squeeze through tiny windows. V. If you squeeze something out of someone, you persuade them to give it to you, although they may be unwilling to do this. The investigators complained about the difficulties of squeezing information out of residents. The company intends to squeeze further savings from its suppliers. VI. If a government squeezes the economy, they put strict controls on people's ability to borrow money or on their own departments' freedom to spend money, in order to control the country's rate of inflation. The government will squeeze the economy into a severe recession to force inflation down. Defense experts say joint projects are increasingly squeezed by budget pressures. The CBI also says the squeeze is slowing down inflation. noun. If you say that getting a number of people into a small space is a squeeze, you mean that it is only just possible for them all to get into it. a situation in which a lot of people or things are squeezed into a space It was a squeeze 强挤进去, 硬挤进去 to get everyone into the car. It was a squeeze in the car with five of them. The lift holds six people at a squeeze. II. [informal, journalism] Someone's squeeze is their boyfriend or girlfriend. Jack showed off his latest squeeze at the weekend. III. a small amount of something that is squeezed out of something a squeeze of lemon juice. IV. singular economics 严格管控. 紧张. a situation in which there is strict control over money or goods. a squeeze on costs/profits/wages. put a/the squeeze on someone/something 收紧: The government's putting the squeeze on business profits. feel the squeeze: The economy is said to be improving, but many of us are still feeling the squeeze. ) are many and various. And when you tally up the capacity of the missing coal units it is a big chunk of the generation in the NEM that would normally be available. To add to the supply woes, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the consequent ructions to global energy markets has put a rocket under coal and gas prices. A final straw is related to both of those factors and came to a head on Monday when AEMO issued its dire warning about the risks of blackouts. Under the NEM's rules, price caps for generators can be imposed when costs in the wholesale power market breach maximum thresholds. In what's believed to be a first, that threshold was breached on Monday in Queensland, and then New South Wales, where wholesale prices have been soaring in response to the supply crunch. Perversely ( perverse [pərˈvɜs] [disapproval] determined to behave in an unreasonable way, especially by doing the opposite of what is expected or wanted. Someone who is perverse deliberately does things that are unreasonable or that result in harm for themselves. It would be perverse to stop this healthy trend. In some perverse way the ill-matched partners do actually need each other. She was perversely pleased to be causing trouble. Some saw it, perversely, as a victory. It would be wrong to continue out of perversity. It is simply perverse to refuse a perfectly safe treatment. ), however, the imposition of a price cap prompted a bunch of so-called peaking power providers such as fast-start gas and diesel-fired plants to pull back from the market over concerns the high cost of those fuels would lead them to run at a loss. Governments at a state and federal level could also apply pressure on gas producers to send more of their supplies to the domestic market to ease record prices. To that end, the new federal Labor government has flagged changes to sharpen up the so-called gas trigger that is supposed to give the Commonwealth the power to order the companies to hand over supplies. And, of course, consumers are already being asked to use less energy where they can to help take pressure off the grid. Realistically, though, authorities such as AEMO will have to work with the powers they already have to stave off any repeat of this week's troubles. And by anyone's admission, that is far from ideal. The powers are costly and were only ever meant to be used as a last resort. Solving the problems bedevilling ( bedevil If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time. to cause a lot of problems for someone or something The team has been bedeviled by injury. His career was bedevilled by injury. The development has been bedevilled with problems. ...a problem that has bedevilled service industries for decades. ) Australia's largest power network will require longer-term solutions, according to experts in the field.
