pensive, broody, ruminative, reflective;

用法学习: 1. The Resort 1: This fell out of your purse 掉出来了. It fell out, or you went snooping in my purse? Eh, is there a difference? Kind of, yeah, what, do you think I'm cheating on you? The Resort 1: What's wrong? Just admiring your cool. Just jonesing ( jones verb. to have a very strong feeling of wanting something. jones for: By 1 pm I was starving and seriously jonesing for noodles. be jonesing to do something: I had just had my first child and I was jonesing to work. be jonesing for (something) slang To have a strong desire or craving for something, sometimes due to addiction. Want to meet me at the court a little later? I've been jonesing for some basketball lately. I gave up smoking this morning, and I'm already majorly jonesing for a cigarette! Of course you're jonesing for caffeine—you normally drink three cups of coffee a day. keep up with the Joneses If you say that someone is keeping up with the Joneses, you mean that they are doing something in order to show that they have as much money as other people, rather than because they really want to do it. Many people were holding down three jobs just to keep up with the Joneses. ) on your cool. Be you, buddy. Okay. Weird, but thank you. I'm gonna have a little snack. 2. senior moment [mainly US, informal] If an elderly person forgets something or makes a mistake and you refer to this as a senior moment, you mean that the person forgot the thing or made the mistake because they are old and their mental abilities are declining. He is 69 in February and sometimes has a senior moment, when the flow of words dries up. "Senior moments" is a term used to describe a sudden memory lapse, such as forgetting your PIN or a relative's name. While these types of lapses can affect people of all ages, older people are often more concerned when they happen, in case they could be the initial symptoms of dementia. senile [ˈsiˌnaɪl] adj. someone who is senile is confused, forgets things, or behaves in a strange way, because they are old. If old people become senile, they become confused, can no longer remember things, and are unable to look after themselves. someone who is senile is confused, forgets things, or behaves in a strange way, because they are old. He was showing unmistakable signs of senility. die on the vine 胎死腹中 be unsuccessful at an early stage. To fail at an early stage or never come to fruition, typically due to neglect, infeasibility, or lack of resources. His ambitious plan to build a flying car died on the vine. dead in the water 没有成功的希望 completely unlikely to succeed. If you say that someone or something is dead in the water, you are emphasizing that they have failed, and that there is little hope of them being successful in the future. A 'no' vote would have left the treaty dead in the water. The peace process is now dead in the water. 3. golf clap 礼节性的鼓掌 INFORMAL an instance of deliberately restrained clapping by an audience, of a type considered appropriate during a golf tournament but expressing a lack of approval or appreciation in other contexts. "it's not that they deserved a standing ovation, but the golf clap was just plain insensitive". A sarcastic or humorous form of applause performed by lightly and rapidly clapping the fingers of one hand against the palm of the other, used to show indifference or disdain, or to show polite or quiet appreciation. neurotic [njʊəˈrɒtɪk] 神经病似的, 神经质的 (mental) 神经兮兮的 adj. [disapproval] having, caused by, or relating to neurosis. neurotic person. If you say that someone is neurotic, you mean that they are always frightened or worried about things that you consider unimportant. He was almost neurotic about being followed. There are also unpleasant brain effects such as anxiety and neurotic behaviour. "I wasn't going to be labelled as a hypochondriac or neurotic". "I wasn't going to be labelled as a hypochondriac or neurotic". 4. Gauze [ɡɔz] 纱布 (bandage, wound dressing)( I. white cotton cloth that is very thin and has been woven in a loose way, used in layers for protecting and treating an injury Gauze is a type of light, soft cloth with tiny holes in it. Strain the juice through a piece of gauze or a sieve. II. thin white material with holes in that is used especially for making curtains. ) is a thin, translucent fabric with a loose open weave. In technical terms "gauze" is a weave structure in which the weft yarns are arranged in pairs and are crossed before and after each warp yarn keeping the weft firmly in place. [come from] far and wide 四面八方, 各地 over a large area. If people come from far and wide, they come from a large number of places, some of them far away. If things spread far and wide, they spread over a very large area or distance. "expanding industry sucked in labour from far and wide". Volunteers came from far and wide. His fame spread far and wide. Of many people, to come from many different places, often ones that are a long distance away. to arrive from everywhere; to arrive from many directions and great distances. People came from far and wide to attend the annual meeting. The deer came from far and wide to lick the salt block we had put out. People came from far and wide when they heard we were offering free doughnuts today. I was so touched that family and friends came from far and wide to attend my 40th birthday party. 5. hot and heavy US informal I. If something or someone is hot and heavy, they are full of strong emotions or sexual feelings. Guess who I saw getting hot and heavy 激情四溢 on the dance floor? Sexually or romantically passionate. referring to serious passion or emotions. Things were getting a little hot and heavy so Ellen asked to be taken home. The movie had one hot and heavy scene after another. Pretty soon it got to be a joke. Things got a little hot and heavy after we went out to dinner last night. Our relationship is just casual—nothing hot and heavy. II. 激烈. in an intense, vehement, or passionate manner. Passionate. sexually intense, active, or exciting They have a very hot and heavy 炽热的 relationship. They argued hot and heavy for 20 minutes. They had a hot and heavy love affair during the summer. The argument was hot and heavy. hold/put a gun to someone's head 被威胁, 被要挟 to force someone to do something by using threats. to force someone to do something by threatening to take extreme action against them if they do not do it Not a man to have a gun put to his head 被要挟, Mr Riordan was soon tearing up the offer and cancelling future meetings with the union. You don't have to go if you don't want to. No one's holding a gun to your head. pillory [ˈpɪləri] 枷锁 ( 欧式的站着把脑袋伸进去似的那种枷锁)( Stocks 脚镣 are feet restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation. The stocks, pillory, and pranger ( The pranger is a German physical punishment device related to the stocks and the pillory. The Middle Low German word means "something that pinches badly". The pranger chained the victim's neck to a pair of leg restraints fastened around the ankles. Often the chain was short so that the offender was placed in an uncomfortable half-kneeling position. In another type of pranger, the condemned person was tied to a column that stood in the town center for public view. The pranger was only used for public humiliation as punishment, not for painful interrogation or coercion. In German the word was also used for the scold's bridle. ) each consist of large wooden boards with hinges; however, the stocks are distinguished by their restraint of the feet. The stocks consist of placing boards around the ankles and wrists, whereas with the pillory, the boards are fixed to a pole and placed around the arms and neck, forcing the punished to stand.) verb. If someone is pilloried, a lot of people, especially journalists, criticize them and make them look stupid. A man has been forced to resign as a result of being pilloried by some of the press. attack or ridicule publicly. "he found himself pilloried by members of his own party". noun. A pillory is a wooden frame with holes for the head and hands. In Europe in former times criminals were sometimes locked in a pillory as a form of punishment. a wooden framework with holes for the head and hands, in which offenders were formerly imprisoned and exposed to public abuse. 6. sloppy seconds (vulgar, plural only) I. Having sex with someone soon after the person has had sex with someone else. Sometimes, it refers to having sex with someone who's just finished a sexual act with someone else. II. Sloppy seconds also refers to dating someone after they've just broken up with someone in your immediate social group. wiki: Sloppy seconds (or slops in Australian slang) is a slang phrase for when a man has sexual intercourse with a female or male partner who already has received another man's penis in the relevant orifice and is therefore wet or "sloppy". The phrase buttered bun is sometimes used to refer to said orifice. The practice is also referred to as a "wet deck". The term is used, by extension, to refer to any act of entering into a sexual relationship with a person who had previously been in a sexual relationship with someone else in one's peer group. Creampie 内射 (also known as internal ejaculation and, in same-sex contexts, as breeding( breeding I. old-fashioned (also good breeding 家教, 教养) polite and socially correct behaviour that someone has because they were taught it as a child. A person who has good breeding has been trained in childhood to be polite and behave correctly. If someone says that a person has breeding, they mean that they think the person is from a good social background and has good manners. It's a sign of good breeding to know the names of all your staff. ...men of low birth and no breeding. breeding area: Unless the traps themselves are to become a breeding area, the fruit containing larvae must be removed before the larvae attain maturity and pupate. breeding habits: A large mass of literature, dealing with its general habits, is extant, but the breeding habits and the larva have not been described. breeding pond: The toadlets then leave the breeding pond and begin to forage for prey such as ants, beetles and moths. II. the process in which animals have sex and produce young animals: The penguins' breeding season 繁殖季节 has begun. III. the keeping of animals or plants in order to breed from them: The family's business was horse-breeding. We used to keep pigs for breeding purposes 育种目的的, 种猪, 种牛. breed verb. I. If you breed animals or plants, you keep them for the purpose of producing more animals or plants with particular qualities, in a controlled way. He lived alone, breeding horses and dogs. He used to breed dogs for the police. These dogs are bred to fight. There is potential for selective breeding for better yields. II. When animals breed, they have babies. Frogs will usually breed in any convenient pond. The area now attracts over 60 species of breeding birds. During the breeding season the birds come ashore. III. If you say that something breed 滋生 bad feeling or bad behaviour, you mean that it causes bad feeling or bad behaviour to develop. If they are unemployed it's bound to breed resentment. Violence breeds violence. noun. I. You can refer to someone or something as one of a particular breed of person or thing when you want to talk about what they are like. Sue is one of the new breed of British women squash players who are making a real impact. The new breed of walking holidays puts the emphasis on enjoyment, not endurance. II. A breed of a pet animal or farm animal is a particular type of it. For example, terriers are a breed of dog. ...rare breeds of cattle. Certain breeds are more dangerous than others. ill-bred adj [disapproval] If you say that someone is ill-bred, you mean that they have bad manners. They seemed to her rather vulgar and ill-bred. pure-bred A pure-bred animal is one whose parents and ancestors all belong to the same breed. ...pure-bred Arab horses. well-bred 教养良好的 (have good breeding) ( well-brought-up ) A well-bred person is very polite and has good manners. She was too well-bred to want to hurt the little boy's feelings. familiarity breeds contempt Familiarity is used especially in the expression familiarity breeds contempt to say that if you know a person or situation very well, you can easily lose respect for that person or become careless in that situation. Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. cross-breed verb. If one species of animal or plant cross-breeds with another, they reproduce, and new or different animals or plants are produced. You can also say that someone cross-breeds something such as an animal or plant. By cross-breeding with our native red deer, the sika deer have affected the gene pool. Unfortunately attempts to crossbreed it with other potatoes have been unsuccessful. More farmers are creating hybrid crops by cross-breeding existing fruits. ...centuries of crossbreeding. noun. A cross-breed is an animal or a plant that is the result of cross-breeding. to be born and bred Someone who was born and bred in a place was born there and grew up there. I was born and bred in the highlands. Born and bred in this country, he and his wife emigrated to Los Angeles after the war. A Londoner born and bred, she suspected that a month in the country would bore her to distraction. ) and seeding( to go to seed/run to seed I. If you say that someone or something has gone to seed or has run to seed, you mean that they have become much less attractive, healthy, or efficient. He says the economy has gone to seed. He was a big man in his forties; once he had a lot of muscle but now he was running to seed. II. If vegetable plants go to seed or run to seed, they produce flowers and seeds as well as leaves. If unused, winter radishes run to seed in spring. seed money Money used to start a business or other venture. Once I save up enough seed money, I'm going to quit this place and start my own business. a bad seed A person who seems innately predisposed to dishonesty, bad behavior, or immoral decisions. Jeremy is really a bad seed. After five minutes with my usually well-behaved kids, they're all acting out. We've done all we can to put Mary on the right path, but she's just a bad seed. We could tell he was a bad seed even at a young age. )) is a sexual act, commonly featured in pornography, in which a male ejaculates inside his partner's vagina or anus without use of a condom, resulting in visible seeping or dripping of semen from the vagina or anus. Internal ejaculations, followed by images of semen dripping from the anus, are sometimes depicted in bareback gay pornography, where they are referred to by the term breeding or the reverse money shot( money shot informal I. (in a pornographic film) a sequence in which an actor ejaculates. The moment in a pornographic film where the male subject of the scene in question ejaculates; so named because it is often considered the most important part of the film, and often an actor who is unable to provide the shot goes unpaid. The release of semen on the partner's body, especially on the face or in the eye. II. a crucial or climactic moment, especially of a film. The shot or scene of a film that cost the most to produce, most commonly an action sequence. "and now for the money shot: the Titanic shearing in half in the middle of a freezing ocean". ). Breeding is sometimes followed by felching ( felch verb. taboo, slang to suck semen from the vagina or anus of (a sexual partner). belch [beltʃ] I. to let air from your stomach come out through your mouth in a noisy way. If someone belches, they make a sudden noise in their throat because air has risen up from their stomach. Garland covered his mouth with his hand and belched discreetly. He drank and stifled a belch. II. transitive ​mainly literary to produce a lot of smoke, steam, fire, etc. If a machine or chimney belches 喷云吐雾 something such as smoke or fire or if smoke or fire belches from it, large amounts of smoke or fire come from it. Tired old trucks were struggling up the road below us, belching black smoke. Suddenly, clouds of steam started to belch from the engine. The power-generation plant belched out five tonnes of ash an hour. ...the vast quantities of smoke belching out from the volcano. The truck was belching black smoke. III. intransitive if smoke, steam, etc. belches out somewhere, it comes out of something and into that place in large quantities. ), which involves sucking the semen from the partner's anus. Slang terms for semen include cum, jizz, spunk (primarily British English), spooge and/or splooge, load, nut, seed, and love juice. The term cum can also refer to an orgasm (when used as a verb rather than as a noun), while load is derived from the phrase blowing a load, referring to an ejaculation. The term nut originally refers to the testicles, but can be used to refer both semen and ejaculation.

 pensive, broody, ruminative, reflective: pensive 表情深沉的, 可能是苦思冥想的样子, 也可能是忧郁伤感的, 深沉的样子, 沉思的, 若有所思的 (look deep in thought) (pensive 是一种形态, 暂时的一种动作, ruminative 是一种情绪, 性格, broody也是一种情绪, 一种个性特征, 是外貌特征) thinking in a quiet way, often with a serious expression on your face: She became withdrawn and pensive, hardly speaking to anyone. He looked suddenly sombre, pensive. He gazed pensively at the glass in front of him, lost in thought. Nicole looked pensive in the photo and captioned it: "What do you think I'm thinking in this photo?. vocabulary: See that person staring out the window who looks so sad and lost in thought? He is pensive, the opposite of cheery 欢快的 and carefree. If you've studied Spanish, you know that the verb pensar means "to think." If you're pensive, you might simply be thinking hard about something. Having no expression or maybe even frowning can be a result of being so engrossed in your thoughts — it might not reflect a melancholy [ˈmelənˌkɑli] attitude. Remember this the next time you're about to ask a pensive person, "What's wrong?" It could very well be nothing. broody adj. I. If a hen (= female chicken) is broody, she is ready to produce eggs and sit on them. wanting to lay eggs or sit on them. A broody hen is ready to lay or sit on eggs. a broody hen. II. 想要孩子的. If someone, especially a woman, is broody, she feels as if she would like to have a baby. If you describe someone as broody, you mean that they want to have a baby and keep thinking about it. Much to her surprise, Ruth started feeling broody in her late twenties. III. 苦大仇深的样子. always thinking about things that make you unhappy. thinking and worrying about something a lot. You say that someone is broody when they are thinking a lot about something in an unhappy way. He became very withdrawn and broody. Tim plays the role of a broody teenager. reflective I. 反光的. A reflective surface sends back most of the light that shines on it and can therefore be seen easily. A reflective surface or material sends back light or heat. ...a garden of flowing streams, water basins, waterfalls, and a reflective pool. Avoid pans with a shiny, reflective base as the heat will be reflected back. II. thinking carefully and quietly. If you are reflective, you are thinking deeply about something. showing that something exists, or showing what something is like. reflective of: These cases are reflective of a more general problem. I walked on in a reflective mood to the car. Mike is a quiet, reflective man. 'The first part of her life hasn't been all that good,' he said reflectively. He gazed reflectively at his companion. After hearing the news they sat in a quiet, reflective silence. III. If something is reflective of a particular situation or attitude 反映, it is typical of that situation or attitude, or is a consequence of it. The German government's support of the U.S. is not entirely reflective of German public opinion. The pupil's answers may not have been reflective of what the class as a whole had understood. ruminative [ˈruːmɪnətɪv] 沉思的, 若有所思 ( broody, cogitative, contemplative, meditative, melancholy, musing, pensive, reflective, ruminant, thoughtful ) adj. expressing or involving deep thought. If you are ruminative, you are thinking very deeply and carefully about something. a quiet and ruminative temperament. Her writing is less descriptive, more ruminative. He was uncharacteristically depressed and ruminative. He smiles and swirls the ice ruminatively around his almost empty glass. "a deeply ruminative, mysterious lament". ruminant [ˈrumɪnənt] I. an animal such as a cow or a sheep that brings food back from its stomach into its mouth to chew it (=break it into small pieces with its teeth) a second time. II. meditating or contemplating in a slow quiet way. vocabulary: Use the word ruminant for any cud-chewing animal, like a cow or a camel. A ruminant is a mammal with hooves and a complicated system of stomach compartments whose digestion works by chewing partly digested food a second time in order to soften it. Cows, moose, giraffes, and goats are all ruminants. The Latin meaning of ruminant is literally "chewing over again" or "chewing the cud." A similar word is ruminate, which comes from the same root and means "think deeply about something." ruminate [ˈrumɪˌneɪt] I. to think about or discuss something very carefully. ruminate on something: In the article, Alex Ross ruminates on the differences between live and studio recordings. II. biology 反刍. if an animal ruminates, it brings food back from its stomach into its mouth and chews it (=breaks it into small pieces with its teeth) a second time. vocabulary: When you ruminate, it means you are thinking very deeply about something. You're likely to be so lost in thought that you stare off into space and don't hear people when they call your name. Another meaning of ruminate is to "chew the cud," which can mean "to turn it over and over in your mind." Or, if you're a cow, to turn food over and over in your stomachs in order to digest it. Whether you're a human or a cow, if you ruminate, it will take a LONG time. regurgitate [rɪˈɡɜrdʒɪˌteɪt] I. formal 死记硬背. to repeat facts or ideas that you have heard or learned without understanding them or thinking about them for yourself. II. to vomit forth (partially digested food). III. 喂食. biology (of some birds and certain other animals) to bring back to the mouth (undigested or partly digested food with which to feed the young). to bring food up from your stomach back into your mouth. To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back. Food may regurgitate from the stomach into the mouth. The young gulls were fed by their mother's regurgitated food. IV. (intr) 吐奶. to be cast up or out, esp from the mouth. V. (Medicine) (intr) 血液倒流. (of blood) to flow backwards, in a direction opposite to the normal one, esp through a defective heart valve. 婴儿吐奶: Almost every baby spits up. It may be that she's eaten more than her stomach can hold, or it may follow a burp. Most of the time, she will spit up a tablespoon or two of milk—not enough to interfere with her nourishment. Most babies grow out of this "spitting up" phase by the time they can sit. 动物的喂食: Regurgitation is used by a number of species to feed their young. This is typically in circumstances where the young are at a fixed location and a parent must forage or hunt for food, especially under circumstances where the carriage of small prey would be subject to robbing by other predators or the whole prey is larger than can be carried to a den动物窝 or nest动物巢穴. Some bird species also occasionally regurgitate pellets of indigestible matter such as bones and feathers. It is in most animals a normal and voluntary process unlike the complex vomiting reflex in response to toxins. Honey is produced by a process of regurgitation by honey bees, which is stored in the beehive as a primary food source.

What do you do in a reiki ( 霊気 ) session? a form of therapy in which the practitioner is believed to channel energy into the patient in order to encourage healing or restore wellbeing. During a reiki session, the practitioner places their hands either directly on you or just above you to bring about healing. The belief is that the practitioner is able to stimulate your body's natural healing abilities. It's a Japanese form of energy healing, a type of alternative medicine. Reiki practitioners use a technique called palm healing or hands-on healing through which a "universal energy" is said to be transferred through the palms of the practitioner to the patient in order to encourage emotional or physical healing. Reiki is a pseudoscience, and is used as an illustrative example of pseudoscience in scholarly texts and academic journal articles. It is based on qi ("chi"), which practitioners say is a universal life force, although there is no empirical evidence that such a life force exists.