用法学习: 1. odious [ˈəʊdɪəs] 令人生厌的, 不讨喜的. adj. extremely unpleasant; repulsive. If you describe people or things as odious, you think that they are extremely unpleasant. Herr Schmidt is certainly the most odious man I have ever met. The judge described the crime as odious. "a pretty odious character". tripe [trʌɪp] I. the first or second stomach of a cow or other ruminant used as food. Tripe is the stomach of a pig, cow, or ox which is eaten as food. II. informal nonsense; rubbish. You refer to something that someone has said or written as tripe when you think that it is silly and worthless. I've never heard such a load of tripe in all my life. "you do talk tripe sometimes" 影评: I must've annoyed my wife, she is still watching this tripe! And she only seems to put it on when I'm about! Started watching first episode with her realised after 5-10 mins writing -actors where dire. How does this tripe get made, Jill Halfpenny needs a new agent or she must need the money! She is a good actress but the drowning & this come on Jill!
Nick Kyrgios brings out the worst in both sides of the tennis divide during Wimbledon campaign: After every match, in near-identical interview rooms, facing an interchangeable array of reporters armed with much the same questions as last time, the player responds. Stars and battlers alike, if they are smart, develop a stock range of responses. The anodyne ( anodyne [ˈænəˌdaɪn] 平淡无聊的, 没有惊喜的, 没有特色的, 无趣的 [formal, disapproval] containing nothing that will offend anyone or cause disagreements, and therefore rather boring. If you describe something as anodyne, you are criticizing it because it has no strong characteristics and is not likely to excite, interest, or upset anyone. Their quarterly meetings were anodyne affairs. ) patter ( patter [ˈpætər] noun. I. to make a series of short quiet sounds by falling onto or hitting a surface. A patter is a series of quick, quiet, tapping sounds. ...the patter of the driving rain on the roof. patter against/on etc.: Rain pattered against the window. II. to walk or run somewhere, making a series of short quiet sounds with your feet. patter over/along etc.: Lily pattered over to the window. III. Someone's patter 一连串的话, 叽里咕噜的一番话 is a series of things that they say quickly and easily, usually in order to entertain people or to persuade them to buy or do something. Even his neighbours in rural Maine fell for his patter. Fran began her automatic patter about how Jon had been unavoidably detained. patter [ˈpætər] verb I. to make a series of short quiet sounds by falling onto or hitting a surface. patter against/on etc. 敲打着: If something patters on a surface, it hits it quickly several times, making quiet, tapping sounds. Rain pattered gently outside, dripping on to the roof from the pines. Rain pattered against the window. II. to walk or run somewhere, making a series of short quiet sounds with your feet. patter over/along etc.: Lily pattered over to the window. pitter-patter 噼里啪啦, 噼噼啪啪 a sound like the sound of rain falling on a hard surface. the pitter-patter of birds on the roof. the patter of tiny feet used for saying that someone is going to have a baby. She hopes to be hearing the patter of tiny feet very soon. ) fulfils a contractual obligation, gets them out of those bleak cubes as quickly as possible and back to hotel rooms where they can process what they're actually thinking, if anything. Nick Kyrgios has always been considered different. Per his matches themselves, the theory goes, in his media conferences you never know what you'll get. And sure, few other players have interview-room highlight clips as entertaining as their playing ones. By his own admission, Nick Kyrgios thought his ship may have sailed but he has now made it to the singles semifinal of a grand slam for the first time in his career. He can be charismatic and cheeky. He can also be petulant and cruel, although who can honestly say they don't enjoy seeing a journalist squirm? Occasionally, Kyrgios is genuinely, laugh-out-loud funny. But when you consume enough of it, you see that it is just a different form of patter: the rote ( [roʊt] the process of learning something by repeating it many times instead of by understanding it. Children still learn their times tables by rote. rote learning 死记硬背, 重复记忆: Rote learning or learning by rote is learning things by repeating them without thinking about them or trying to understand them. He is very sceptical about the value of rote learning. You are merely reciting facts that you have learned by rote. Rote learning does not really give people any insight into their subject. ) sarcasm, the contrived airing of personal beefs, the novelty props — basketball jerseys, trays of sushi, etc — he uses to direct conversation away from tennis, which is a dilemma for Kyrgios because he finds few topics more boring yet knows that things can go even worse for him when the journalists start talking about everything else. "Everything else" has been redefined in the past week at Wimbledon. At the beginning of the tournament, everything else included but was not limited to: Kyrgios shouting insults, Kyrgios wearing a hat that offended some very strange and disingenuous ( [ˌdɪsɪnˈdʒenjuəs] 不那么诚实的 not really honest or sincere, and only pretending to be. Someone who is disingenuous is slightly dishonest and insincere in what they say. It would be disingenuous to claim that this is great art. He disingenuously remarked that he knew nothing about strategy. ) people, Kyrgios wearing shoes that surely didn't offend anyone but were thrown in the mix regardless, Kyrgios being "cretinous ( cretinous [kretɪnəs] 愚蠢的 [offensive, disapproval] feebleminded, simpleminded. foolish or stupid. If you describe someone as cretinous, you think they are very stupid. He made some disgusting, cretinous comments. What sort of cretinous moron are you! cretin [ˈkrit(ə)n] 蠢货 a very stupid person. )", Kyrgios perhaps being worthy of deportation, and so on. Reading that stuff, you assumed there are people who gather up all their petty grievances with modern life and focus the resultant rage on Kyrgios, like he is responsible for $6 pistachio milk lattes, whatever is happening on TikTok and our collective inability to remember the password for that fourth streaming service where all the good shows are geoblocked and you can only watch The Commish. A few days ago, a reasonable person might have felt sorry for Kyrgios, notwithstanding 虽然, 尽管 ( If something is true notwithstanding something else, it is true in spite of that other thing. He despised William Pitt, notwithstanding the similar views they both held. His relations with colleagues, differences of opinion notwithstanding, were unfailingly friendly. ) the role he plays in his own problems and the riches he earns from being so messy and dramatic. He might be the Frankenstein's monster of the hot-take industry but in perverse ways, he is also its beneficiary. And there were strident defences mounted in his name, too: that his charity works absolve him of guilt elsewhere, that the media's image of him is a caricature, that humility is an outmoded 过时的 ( no longer useful, suitable, or relevant. If you describe something as outmoded, you mean that you think it is old-fashioned and no longer useful or relevant to modern life. The country badly needs aid to modernize its outmoded industries. What hope is there, if people in positions of power continue to promote outmoded attitudes? The political system has become thoroughly outmoded. outmoded attitudes. humility [hjuˈmɪləti] 谦恭, 谦卑. 谦虚 a way of behaving that shows that you do not think that you are better or more important than other people. Someone who has humility is not proud and does not believe they are better than other people. ...a deep sense of humility. For a long time he still thought like a millionaire but he has humility now. ) concept, that one Kyrgios opponent, Stefanos Tsitsipas, had behaved even worse than the Australian, so Kyrgios wasn't really that bad after all, was he? Most strangely, Kyrgios's scattergun outspokenness( scattergun 扫射 noun. A scattergun is a gun that fires a lot of small metal balls at the same time. adj. Scattergun means the same as scattershot. They advocated a scattergun approach of posting dozens of letters. A scattershot approach or method 漫无目的的, 乱打枪的 involves doing something to a lot of things or people in disorganized way, rather than focusing on particular things or people. The report condemns America's scattershot approach 胡乱扫射, 无组织无纪律的 to training workers.) had him bracketed with the deeply principled Tommie Smith, who "was celebrated when he won the gold in the 1968 Olympics but was condemned for protesting for civil rights," a national celebration presumably having occurred in the time between Smith crossing the line and ascending the podium. As bore-offs (Bore Off is a command given to someone boring or annoying. For example: "I can't come out tonight, I'm washing my hair." "Bore off, then!" This handy phrase has become extremely popular with the general public and with many famous faces. bear off (of something) To turn or veer off of a road. This phrase is often given as an instruction to someone who is driving. Now bear off of this road and then take the highway entrance to the right. bear off something/someone To carry or transport someone or something away. We sat teary-eyed on the platform as the train bore our only son off to college. A team of laborers began bearing off pieces of the debris one at a time. bore the ass off someone mainly US offensive a rude phrase meaning to bore someone a lot: Jamie? He bores the ass off me! bore/annoy/scare etc the pants off someone to make someone feel very bored, annoyed, scared etc Opera bores the pants off him. ) go, it was a five-set tiebreaker between familiar and tediously unoriginal opponents. We in the media do not like admitting this about a popular topic but in the case of Kyrgios, it's got to be said out loud: it's all SO. DAMNED. BORING. At that point of the bore-off, a friend who enjoys watching Kyrgios play and wants him to go all the way at Wimbledon — and who'd weighed up all of the excruciating commentary provided from both sides of the Kyrgios divide — emailed with a summary that at first seemed a bit dramatic but now feels prophetic: "I'm left to wish he simply didn't exist." Soon after, news broke that Kyrgios had been summonsed to appear in court in relation to an assault charge. In a stroke, every word spilled on Kyrgios in the previous week, every insane ideal projected upon him, seemed even more worthless. A collective sense of shame was felt if not spoken. Fans and defenders winced. Those of us who've written of Kyrgios as an unfairly persecuted scamp ( scamp [skæmp] 淘气包, 捣蛋鬼 [informal] someone, especially a child, who behaves badly but is difficult to dislike. If you call a child a scamp, you mean that they are naughty or disrespectful but you like them, so you find it difficult to be angry with them. Have some respect for me, you scamp! ...cheeky young scamps. ) with sublime [səˈblaɪm] ( I. If you describe something as sublime, you mean that it has a wonderful quality that affects you deeply. Sublime music floats on a scented summer breeze to the spot where you lie. ...the sublime beauty of nature. You can refer to sublime things as the sublime. She elevated every rare small success to the sublime. ...the most sublimely beautiful of all living things. II. You can use sublime to emphasize a quality that someone or something has, usually a quality that is undesirable or negative. The administration's sublime incompetence is probably temporary. He displayed a sublime indifference to the distinction between right and wrong. Mrs Trollope was sublimely uninterested in what she herself wore. used for describing a feeling or quality that is extreme His face assumed an expression of sublime conceit. from the sublime to the ridiculous used when talking about a change from something extremely good or important to something silly and not important. ) athletic gifts cringed a little more than usual about things we'd written in the past. Tonight, Kyrgios was to face Rafael Nadal in the Wimbledon semifinal but injury has ruled out the Spaniard. By default, the Australian advances 挺进, 晋级 to his first grand slam final — a strange and mildly unsatisfying path towards the Holy Grail Kyrgios has never allowed himself to openly covet. A question that is rarely asked of Kyrgios, nor of his haters and apologists, is now more pertinent than ever: what really matters? Not the things he says to umpires and opponents, surely — none worse than the behaviour one could witness from red-faced parents hanging over the fence at virtually any junior football game this weekend. Certainly not the things he wears, or what his prominence in our culture "says" about this or that. Not even winning, for we can be assured that if he does, many will say he has not done so in the right way, and others, much more convincingly, that his victory is provisionally tainted. Sport is a matter of fundamental importance to many Australians and there is certainly no shame in that. If nothing else, the reactions Kyrgios has drawn 引发的反应 over the years remind us that many Australians have embedded in them some highly refined if awkwardly expressed sense of sportsmanship and fair play — one that Kyrgios has always breached. But at a point, we must accept that we are all participants in the problem. We all get worked up: maybe not about the hat, but perhaps about the reaction to the hat, or the reaction to the reaction to the hat, or something else entirely. We love and hate the Kyrgios love and hate. The nutty ( nutty I. If you describe food as nutty, you mean that it tastes of nuts, has the texture of nuts, or is made with nuts. ...nutty butter cookies. Chick peas have a distinctive, delicious and nutty flavour. II. [informal, disapproval] If you describe someone as nutty, you mean that their behaviour is very strange or foolish. He looked like a nutty professor. That's a nutty idea. ) Kyrgios op-eds are commissioned because nearly everyone has an opinion on him and we read them in extraordinary numbers, which is also the reason why you rarely read serious analyses of Kyrgios's game: a far smaller audience exists for explanations of his athletic brilliance than does for the confirmation of biases and narrowly-defined viewpoints. Our eyes are easily diverted from the ball, which is less embarrassing when it's merely a ball. For almost a decade now, Kyrgios has walked into interview rooms and been asked to judge himself, sometimes admitting his guilt. And us? We know that winning is never the only thing, but we should also admit that the alternative to guilt is not necessarily innocence. The tennis world has been left divided over Nick Kyrgios' apparel when entering and exiting Centre Court at Wimbledon after the enigmatic showstopper wore a red hat and shoes. Bothered by a shoulder issue that looked to have him in danger of another anti-climactic loss, Kyrgios showed grit and heart against American rising star Brandon Nakashima to seal a 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-2), 3-6, 6-2 victory. The Aussie was able to navigate tough periods during the match, when he vocalised that he couldn't hit a forehand, with his booming serve. Kyrgios received treatment from the second set onwards, but showed he wasn't ready to let this Wimbledon opportunity slip through his grasp after closing out the match in emphatic fashion. 关于dress code的争论: All white clothing has been worn at #Wimbledon since the tournament began in 1877. That's a tradition we're rather proud of. And we look forward 向前看 rather than back at tradition.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson clings to power as more ministers resign: Britain's Boris Johnson has defied pressure from senior ministers to quit and a mounting rebellion within his party, vowing to stay on as Prime Minister and fight off any attempts to oust him. Badly wounded 伤痕累累的 by the resignations of a stream of senior colleagues and junior ministers who said he was not fit to govern, Mr Johnson sought to come out fighting at parliament's weekly PM's questions session. In his resignation letter to the prime minister, financial services minister John Glen said that he could "no longer reconcile" his commitment to the role with "the complete lack of confidence" in Mr Johnson's leadership. "Recent events concerning the handling of the appointment of the former Deputy Chief Whip, and the poor judgement you have shown, have made it impossible for me to square 无法说服, 无法摆平 continued service with my conscience," he wrote. Outgoing junior housing minister Stuart Andrew said he had no other choice but to resign after his loyalty to the Prime Minister had cost him some of his integrity. "Loyalty and unity are traits 优点 that I have always endeavoured to provide for our great party. However, I fear I have let these override my judgement recently," Mr Stuart wrote on Twitter. "There comes a time when you have to look at your own personal integrity and that time is now." During the PM's questions session on Wednesday, Conservative MP David Davis gave a blistering attack on the embattled leader, calling for him to prioritise the nations' interests and resign. "Six months ago I called on the Prime Minister to resign because even then, it was clear that his approach to leadership and integrity was already creating a pipeline of problems that will paralyse proper government," he said. Javid calls for more senior resignations. In his parting speech as a minister, the former health secretary said the public expects members of government to "maintain honesty and to maintain integrity" and warned of the precarious 多变的, 危险的 position it was now in. "We've seen in great democracies what happens when divisions are entrenched 分歧被扩大化 and not bridged," Mr Javid said. "We cannot allow that to happen here." Mr Javid also called on more senior colleagues to resign on Wednesday, saying it had become increasingly difficult to stay in government. "Treading the tightrope between loyalty and integrity has become impossible in recent months," he told a silent parliament, while Mr Johnson listened on. Mr Javid said at some point people had to conclude that enough is enough. "That point is now," he said. The Conservative Private Members' Committee will hold an election to its executive before deciding whether to change the rules to bring forward a confidence vote in Mr Johnson, three Conservative party members said on Wednesday. The so-called 1922 Committee, which sets the rules governing when the party can hold a confidence vote in its leaders, decided on Wednesday to hold an election of a new executive on Monday. That new executive will then decide whether to change the rules to bring forward such a vote, which currently cannot take place until next year, as Mr Johnson had only last month survived a no-confidence motion. The 58-year-old leader, who pulled Britain out of the European Union and steered it through the COVID-19 outbreak, is known for his ability to wiggle out of tight spots, managing to remain in power despite allegations that: he was too close to party donors; he protected supporters from bullying and corruption allegations; he misled Parliament about government office parties that broke pandemic lockdown rules. In a letter to Mr Johnson, Mr Hart said: "Colleagues have done their upmost in private and public to help you turn the ship around but it is with sadness that l feel we have passed the point where this is possible." Many Conservative MPs openly said they wanted Mr Johnson gone, questioning his fitness to govern and his integrity. 辞职: In a speech outside Downing Street on Thursday that was tinged with ( tinged [tɪndʒd] 有一丝丝的 something that is tinged with a color, feeling, or quality contains a small amount of it. tinged with: His voice was tinged with regret. white flowers tinged with blue. tinge noun. a small amount of a color, feeling, or quality. A tinge of a colour, feeling, or quality is a small amount of it. His skin had an unhealthy greyish tinge. Could there have been a slight tinge of envy in Eva's voice? Her brown hair had a slight tinge of gray. a tinge of sadness/ nostalgia. ) bitterness, he blamed ministers for turning on him but expressed neither regret nor contrition ( contrite [kənˈtraɪt] adj. very sorry or ashamed because you have done something bad. If you are contrite, you are very sorry because you have done something wrong. She was instantly contrite. 'Oh, I am sorry! You must forgive me.' The next day he'd be full of contrition, weeping and begging forgiveness contrition [kənˈtrɪʃən] I. 悔恨. 忏悔. deeply felt remorse; penitence. II. Christianity detestation of past sins and a resolve to make amends, either from love of God ( perfect contrition) or from hope of heaven ( imperfect contrition). ) for his mistakes. The abrupt denouement ( denouement [ˌdeɪnuˈmɑ̃] 大结局 the end of a book, play, or series of events, when everything is explained. In a book, play, or series of events, the denouement is the sequence of events at the end, when things come to a conclusion. The book's sentimental denouement is pure Hollywood. ...an unexpected denouement. ) kicked off a scramble among contenders to take over in Downing Street – and demands from some MPs that he go now and not wait until the leadership election has finished.
TBBT: 1. Bernadette: Oh, hey, Raj, what are you doing here? Raj: I just felt like drinking alone, because I'm deep and dark ( deep, dark secret A piece of information that is extremely private and confidential, usually implied to be embarrassing, incriminating, or shameful. I've carried my fear of clowns as a deep, dark secret for many years now. Many saw her as a perfect candidate, but no one could have known she had a deep, dark secret from her past.). Bernadette: Uh-huh. So, uh, Howard's not here? Raj: No. It's just one of those times when it's just you and me. Like when the three of us went to the movies and you and I waited outside the bathroom while Howard threw up Red Vines and Cherry Coke. Do you remember that? Bernadette: Yeah. Raj: Me, too. Good times. Penny: Hey, 16 wants to order appetizers. Bernadette: Oh, thanks. Raj: This was nice. Penny: What the hell are you doing? Howard is your best friend, and that is his girlfriend. You should be ashamed of yourself. Raj: I was when I came in, but it's amazing what liquor does to guilt. Besides what you might not know is, Bernadette is planning on breaking up with Howard. Penny: Well, I know that. How do you know that? Raj: My sister told me. Penny: Oh, that gossipy bitch! No offense. Raj: None taken. You should hear how she talks about you. Penny: Okay, listen, just because Howard and Bernadette are having problems, does not mean you should be here sniffing around. Raj: What can I do? I can't stop thinking about her. Penny: All right, try thinking about this. Sheldon and Amy had sex. Raj: Shut your ass! Penny: Yeah, it's true. Amy told me. Raj: How did that even happen? Did they know that's what they were doing when they were doing it? Penny: I guess they just figured it out at some point. Raj: Wow. I can't believe old Smelly Pooper finally got laid. 2. Leonard: Pass the soy sauce. Howard: Sure. Amy: Bernadette just asked about my sexual encounter with you. The meme has reached full penetration. Sheldon: Pun intended? Amy: No. Happy accident. Sheldon: This is remarkable. Took less than 24 hours. Amy: I should let you know that she asked for details about our dalliance. Sheldon: Interesting. So it went beyond the mere fact of coitus to a blow by blow, as it were. Amy: Pun intended? Sheldon: I'm sorry. What pun? Amy: Not important. I described your lovemaking as aloof 心不在焉的, but effective. Sheldon: I wish you hadn't done that. That's going to make me a chick magnet, and I'm so busy as it is. Howard: Hey, everybody, I got something I want to ask Bernadette, and I can't think of a better time than when I'm with all my friends. Leonard: Oh, hold on, Howard. There's lots of better times. Raj: Leonard, please. The man is talking. Let him get it out, and let the chips fall where they may 随他去吧, 顺其自然, 该怎样就怎样, 听之任之, 随便吧( let the chips fall where they may let the consequences be what they may. to allow events to happen without trying to change them —usually used to suggest that one is willing to accept a result, whatever it may be I will run the best campaign I can, then let the chips fall where they may. Honesty demands that you tell the truth about what happened, and let the chips fall where they may. I'm going to admit my mistake to him and let the chips fall where they may. ). Howard: Thank you. Bernadette Maryann Rostenkowski… Bernadette: Oh, God. What's happening? Howard: I know things haven't been perfect with us, and we've had our problems, but I just have to tell you, from the moment I… Bernadette: Howard, let me just stop you right here. 3. Sheldon: Hello. Leonard: So am I driving you to work or are you still mad at me? Sheldon: I'd like a ride. Assuming you actually do take me to work. Leonard: Where do you think I would take you? Sheldon: Who knows? Uh, you said you'd be home yesterday, but you came home three days ago. You say you're taking me to work, but for all I know, I'll end up in a deserted amusement park. Or a cornfield maze. Or a back alley dog fight. You tell me. Leonard: I'm going to work. You can come if you want. Sheldon: Okay. By the way, you have something on your shirt. Leonard: No, I don't. Sheldon: Hurts, doesn't it? You know, I find myself wondering if anything you've ever told me is true. Leonard: I didn't make it back. The ship sank, I'm in hell. Sheldon: You say you're from New Jersey, but how can I believe you? 4. Amy: Thank you. Did you know that women wear high heels to make the buttocks and breasts more prominent? Leonard: Hadn't really thought about it. Amy: Look. Leonard: Uh, sure. Very… prominent. Amy: Please, Leonard, don't leer, you have a girlfriend. Leonard: Sorry. Amy: So, are you off to dinner with Priya, Howard and Bernadette? Leonard: Yeah. How did you know? Amy: I heard it at the mall, when I was shopping with my girlfriends, 'cause, you know, that's kind of my life now. Have a good night. Try not to ogle my caboose ( ogle ( eye up, gawp at 死盯着看) [disapproval] If one person is ogling another, they are continually staring at that person in a way that indicates a strong sexual interest. to keep looking at someone in a way that is too obvious, because you think they are sexually attractive Dan was ogling all the women as they walked past. All she did was hang around ogling the men in the factory. Paula is not used to everyone ogling at her while she undresses backstage. leer 色眯眯的盯着看 [disapproval] If someone leers at you, they smile in an unpleasant way, usually because they are sexually interested in you. to look at someone in an unpleasant way that shows you are sexually interested in them Men were standing around, swilling beer and occasionally leering at passing females. He looked back at Kenworthy and leered. When I asked the clerk for my room key, he gave it to me with a leer. ) as I walk away. 5. Bernadette: Did I tell you Priya invited me and Howard to have dinner with her and Leonard? Penny: Oh, that's nice. Amy: No, it's not. It's a strategic manoeuvre. Leonard's new girlfriend is testing Bernadette's loyalty to you and the group. That bitch is crafty 有心机的人, 工于心计, 有心计的. Bernadette: You think? Amy: Of course. How does the cheetah attack a herd of wildebeests 非洲角马 ( [ˈvɪldəˌbist] A wildebeest is a large African antelope which has a hairy tail, short curved horns, and long hair under its neck. Wildebeest usually live in large groups. )? By going after its weakest member. Bernadette: Well, what makes me the weakest member? Amy: Your trusting nature coupled with your teeny-tiny body. You wouldn't last a minute on the Serengeti. Penny: Okay, Amy, you're being silly. I am not concerned about who hangs out with who. And I certainly don't have a problem with Leonard's new girlfriend who wears way too much makeup. Ooh, these are cute. Of course if I buy them, I'll have to rent my womb out to a gay couple. Bernadette: It doesn't matter. I'm going to tell her we can't make it. Amy: Oh, no. You have to go. Bernadette: I don't understand. I thought I was a teeny-tiny wildebeest. Amy: You are, with hair that smells like strawberries. And we're going to use that to our advantage. Penny: Wait. What are you talking about? Amy: By accepting the invitation, Bernadette becomes a double agent inside the enemy camp. She could ferret out Priya's tactics( ferret [ˈferət] I. to search for something in a small space. If you ferret about for something, you look for it in a lot of different places or in a place where it is hidden. She nonetheless continued to ferret about for possible jobs. She ferreted among some papers. ferret around: She was ferreting around in a drawer for her keys. II. to hunt for rabbits or rats with a ferret. ferret out to discover information by searching for it in a determined way. If you ferret out some information, you discover it by searching for it very thoroughly. The team is trying to ferret out missing details. I leave it to the reader to ferret these out. I had to ferret out all the information for myself. reverse ferret a technical term used in journalism: a situation where a newspaper editor makes a dramatic change in the paper's editorial line on something. Wikipedia provides a good explanation. Last night, the Bishop of London "performed the most dramatic reverse ferret in modern church history". (The Guardian, 1st November 2011). wiki: Reverse ferret is a phrase used predominantly within the British media to describe a sudden reversal in an organisation's editorial or political line on a certain issue. Generally, this will involve no acknowledgement of the previous position. The term originates from Kelvin MacKenzie's time at The Sun. His preferred description of the role of journalists when it came to public figures was to "stick a ferret up their trousers". This meant making their lives uncomfortable, and was based on the supposed Northern England stunt of ferret-legging (where contestants compete to show who can endure a live ferret within their sealed trousers the longest). However, when it became clear that the tide of public opinion had turned against the paper's line, MacKenzie would burst from his office shouting "Reverse ferret!" The phrase moved into general usage after it became a catchphrase in Private Eye magazine, initially in its 'Street of Shame' section, but which quickly spread throughout its more satirical newspages. ), identify her weaknesses and feed her false information, such as, Leonard's no stranger to back-alley 地下的, 非法的 cockfights. Bernadette: I don't know. I'm not a very good liar. They kind of whup ( whup mainly US informal I. to beat soundly, as with a whip. II. to defeat totally; overwhelm. ) that out of you in Catholic school. Amy: Don't worry. I'll teach you. I did two years of Cub Scouts before they found out I was a girl. Penny: Okay, I don't know you people. I'm just an innocent woman wondering if this shoe store will take my Texaco card. Amy: How do you feel about concealing a recording device in the cleavage of your ample bosom? Bernadette: I don't want anything in my ample bosom. Amy: Come on, Strawberries. Take one for the team.
