用法学习: 1. adjournment [əˈdʒɜrn] a pause or rest during a formal meeting or trial, or the act of giving a pause or rest. An adjournment is a temporary stopping of a trial, enquiry, or other meeting. The court ordered a four month adjournment. The defence attorney requested an adjournment. The court's adjournment means that a decision will not be reached until December at the earliest. adjourn to something to leave one place and move to another Let's adjourn to the bar. adornment [əˈdɔːnm(ə)nt] a thing which adorns or decorates; an ornament. "the necktie is no longer a necessary male adornment". 2. peace of mind If something gives you peace of mind, it stops you from worrying about a particular problem or difficulty. The main app eal of these bonds is the safety and peace of mind they offer. He began to insist upon a bullet-proof limousine, just for peace of mind. give someone a piece of your mind to speak angrily to someone about something they have done wrong: I'm going to give that mechanic a piece of my mind if the car's not fixed this time. renounce 断绝关系 I. to say formally or publicly that you no longer own, support, believe in, or have a connection with something. If you renounce a claim, rank, or title, you officially give it up. to state formally that you want to give up a right, title, position etc They refuse to renounce their claim on the territory. He renounced his claim to the French throne. Her ex-husband renounced his claim to the family house. Gandhi renounced the use of violence. II. If you renounce a belief or a way of behaving, you decide and declare publicly that you no longer have that belief or will no longer behave in that way. to state formally that you no longer believe in something or support something. No progress will be made until the terrorists renounce violence. Members of the cult are forced to renounce all their old religious beliefs. You must renounce your old ways of thinking. A substantial minority, unable to renounce Marxism, left to form a new party called Communist Refoundation. A renounceable right is an invitation to a company's existing shareholders to buy additional new shares in the company. Shareholders have the "right" to increase their investment exposure in the company's stock. However, shareholders can renounce that right, meaning that they can trade those rights on the open market. 3. imperious [ɪmˈpɪriəs] 气势凌人的, 气势压人的, 强势的 unpleasantly proud and expecting to be obeyed. If you describe someone as imperious, you mean that they have a proud manner and expect to be obeyed. an imperious manner/voice. She sent them away with an imperious wave of the hand. Her attitude is imperious at times. From across the desk she gave him a witheringly imperious look. Imperiously she beckoned me out of the room. enunciate [ɪˈnʌnsɪeɪt, ɪˈnʌnʃɪeɪt] verb. I. say or pronounce clearly. When you enunciate a word or part of a word, you pronounce it clearly. "she enunciated each word slowly". His voice was harsh as he enunciated each word carefully. She enunciates very slowly and carefully. ... his grammar always precise, his enunciation always perfect. II. When you enunciate a thought, idea, or plan, you express it very clearly and precisely. He was ever ready to enunciate his views to all who would listen. ...the enunciation of grand moral principles. 4. inspired [ɪnˈspʌɪəd] 神来之笔的, 犹如天助的, 神助的. adj. I. of extraordinary quality, as if arising from some external creative impulse. aroused, animated, or imbued with the spirit to do something, by or as if by supernatural or divine influence: an inspired poet. "they had to thank the goalkeeper for some inspired saves". II. (of air or another substance) that is breathed in. "inspired air must be humidified". pernicious [pərˈnɪʃəs] 恶性的, 负面的, 有害的, 害处多的 very dangerous or harmful, especially to someone's moral character. If you describe something as pernicious, you mean that it is very harmful. Parents are blaming not only peer pressure but also the pernicious influence of the internet. There is a pernicious culture of excellence: everything has to be not merely good but the best. There's a particularly pernicious Australian habit of hiding details and saying, 'Oh, we're keeping it secret for security reasons', which is not justified," Ms Teague said. Vanessa Teague says Australia has a pervasive problem with keeping data breach victims in the dark. pernicious anemia a type of anemia that can cause death if it is not treated. pervasive [pərˈveɪsɪv] 无所不在的, 到处都是的, 处处可见的 spreading through the whole of something and becoming a very obvious feature of it. Something, especially something bad, that is pervasive is present or felt throughout a place or thing. ...the pervasive influence of the army in national life. She lives with a pervasive sense of guilt. the pervasiveness of computer technology. a pervasive farmyard smell. the pervasive influence of Christianity in the Middle Ages. prevalent [ˈprevələnt] 司空见惯的, 常见的 very common in a particular place or among a particular group. A condition, practice, or belief that is prevalent is common. This condition is more prevalent in women than in men. The prevalent view is that interest rates will fall. ...the prevalence of asthma in Britain and western Europe. This negative attitude is surprisingly prevalent among young boys. the prevalent diseases in Western society. 5. sanguine [ˈsæŋɡwɪn] 乐观的, 正面的, 红润健康 have a ruddy face, 愉快自信的 I. cheerful and confident; optimistic. sanguine about the future. He's remarkably sanguine about the problems involved. II. (esp of the complexion) ruddy in appearance. a sanguine complexion. ruddy [ˈrʌdi] I. (of a person's face) having a healthy red colour. "a cheerful pipe-smoking man of ruddy complexion". having a reddish colour. "the ruddy evening light". II. informal British used as a euphemism for 'bloody'. "young people today, they're a ruddy shower". Word History: The similarity in form between sanguine面孔红润的, 乐观向上的, 快乐自信的, "cheerfully optimistic," and sanguinary [ˈsæŋɡwɪnərɪ] 嗜血如命的 ( I. 血腥的. accompanied by much bloodshed. II. bloodthirsty. marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed. III. consisting of, flowing, or stained with blood. ) may prompt one to wonder how they have come to have such different meanings. The explanation lies in medieval physiology with its notion of the four humors or bodily fluids (blood, bile, phlegm, and black bile). The relative proportions of these fluids was thought to determine a person's temperament. If blood was the predominant humor, one had a ruddy face 面孔红润 and a disposition marked by courage, hope, and a readiness to fall in love. Such a temperament was called sanguine, the Middle English ancestor of our word sanguine. Wolmar blames politicians, who have lumped together 堆在一起, 混在一起 regular pay negotiations with structural decisions about cost-cutting, maintenance and staffing numbers. "The government could solve this if it took a more sanguine view of what could be achieved, instead of mixing 混杂在一起 productivity deals with sorting out the wage rises," he says. 6. Prince Harry's 416-page autobiography, Spare, will be released on January 10 next year, with senior royals said to be bracing themselves for the publication. "Put it this way, it's not going to make for ( make for something to help to make something possible. If something makes for another thing, it causes or helps to cause that thing to happen or exist. A happy parent makes for a happy child. The new computers make for much greater productivity.) a relaxing family Christmas," a source told The Mail. It has been claimed that Prince Harry had to submit his book more than once before it was accepted by publishers, sparking fears that it was 'sexed up' with revelations about the Royal Family. ways and means 有方法有资源 methods and resources for achieving something. The ways and means of achieving something are the methods and other things needed to make it happen: With computer technology, even people working on their own have the ways and means to produce professional-looking documents. "the company is seeking ways and means of safeguarding jobs". A ways and means committee is a government body that is charged with reviewing and making recommendations for government budgets. Because the raising of revenue is vital to carrying out governmental operations, such a committee is tasked with finding the ways and means with which to raise that revenue. a matter of principle 原则问题: a situation that requires something be done a certain way because one believes it is the only right way. to be something that you feel you must or must not do, because of your moral principles She couldn't take the money. It was a matter of principle. It was a matter of principle for her that she pay her own way. As a matter of principle, he would not accept the gift. cut against the grain 纹理 I. In the opposite way or perpendicular to the direction of the fibers of a piece of wood (or meat), i.e. its "grain." Don't cut that wood against the grain, or it will be rough around the edges. For most cuts of steak, cookbooks recommend cutting against the grain. Hey, stop cutting that wood against the grain! II. By extension, in opposition or contrary to what is generally understood, assumed, practiced, or accepted. The artist always tried to go against the grain, ignoring the artistic trends of her day. It's funny to see my brother, who nearly dropped out of high school and spent so many years going against the grain, embrace college life all of a sudden. I don't understand why you always have to go against the grain instead of making things a little easier on yourself!. Trump's tax record made public: The tax return records cut against the Republican ex-president's long-cultivated image as a successful businessman as he mounts another bid for the White House. anachronistic [əˌnakrəˈnɪstɪk] 不属于这个世界的. 不属于这个时代的 adj. I. belonging to a period other than that being portrayed. "'Titus' benefits from the effective use of anachronistic elements like cars and loudspeakers". an error in chronology especially: a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other. found several anachronisms in the movie. a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place especially : one from a former age that is incongruous in the present By the time I reached my teens, the housewife was an anachronism, replaced on television by the perky, glamorous, character of That Girl, Marlo Thomas, who kept her boyfriend at bay in the interest of pursuing her acting career. II. 上一个世代的. 上古的. belonging or appropriate to an earlier period, especially so as to seem conspicuously old-fashioned. "she is rebelling against the anachronistic morality of her parents". 影评: Crackling over the speakers is LCD Soundsystem's anachronistic new single for the film: New Body Rhumba, all crunchy guitars and cowbell. "Super! Super! Super!" a voice extols in the background. It could be the world's most deranged ad jingle. That idea – of shopping as a means to ward off doom 购物解忧愁 – might seem outdated. (Some would call it retail therapy.) But there's something infectious about the delirious glee with which Baumbach pleads his case – in one of the only scenes that extends DeLillo's book into truly exciting terrain. For the majority of its run time, Baumbach's work hews too closely to its source material. The result is a film that feels both stuffy and overstuffed, lending credence to the long-held belief in White Noise's unadaptability. That argument is obvious: DeLillo's book, his eighth novel, is brilliantly slippery; too abstract, too thorny, too cynical, perhaps, for Hollywood. The more you squint at it, the blurrier it gets; it is entirely scattershot ( A scattershot approach or method 眉毛胡子一把抓, 瞎打一通, 漫无目的的开枪, 胡乱扫射, 乱打一起, 乱开枪 involves doing something to a lot of things or people in disorganized way, rather than focusing on particular things or people. trying to deal with a lot of things in a way that is not well organized. a scattershot approach to business problems. The report condemns America's scattershot approach to training workers. ) in its evisceration of its decade( eviscerate [ɪˈvɪsəˌreɪt] I. 开膛破肚. to remove organs such as the stomach or heart from inside someone's body. To eviscerate a person or animal means to remove their internal organs, such as their heart, lungs, and stomach. II. If you say that something will eviscerate an organization or system, you are emphasizing that it will make the organization or system much weaker or much less powerful. to make something such as an organization or system much less effective or powerful Democrats say the petition will eviscerate state government. ). Its targets are varied and plentiful: conspiracy theorists, Big Pharma, American exceptionalism, ecological crisis – to name just a handful. 7. fastidious [fəˈstɪdiəs] I. giving too much attention to small details and wanting everything to be correct and perfect. caring a lot about small details and wanting everything to be correct and neat He is very fastidious about how a suitcase should be packed. II. having a strong dislike of anything dirty or unpleasant. keeping your clothes, possessions, and property very clean and neat They were too fastidious to eat in a fast-food restaurant. anally retentive = anal-retentive Someone who is anally retentive is too worried about being organized and tidy: Don't you think Adrian's a bit anally retentive? Look how obsessively orderly everything is in his garage. excessively orderly and fussy (supposedly owing to conflict over toilet-training in infancy). anal-retentive 难搞的人 noun. a person who is excessively orderly and fussy.
Thornapple 曼陀罗: About 200 Australians have been reported being poisoned this week as a result of eating contaminated spinach. The contamination was traced back to the noxious weed thornapple, a poisonous invasive species that is found across Australia. Here's what you need to know about thornapple. Thornapple, also known as jimsonweed, devil's snare and devil's trumpet, has the scientific name of datura stramonium. It comes from the Solanaceae family of plants, which includes both highly toxic plants such as nightshade and belladonna and kitchen staples 常客 like tomatoes and potatoes. Common thornapple is a leafy annual herb that generally grows from 30-60cm in height. The plant has oval or broadly triangular shaped with jagged edges and produces white flowers from the summer to autumn, before dying in late autumn. Thought to have originated in Central America, the weed was introduced in Australia in the early 19th century as a garden plant before spreading to every state in the country. Once used by chemists as treatment for mania and epilepsy, the dangers of the plant have been known for a long time, with an 1873 newsletter from the Adelaide Philosophical Society claiming that of all the toxic plants in the Solanaceae family, "the thorn apple is one of the most dangerous". Touching the plant can also cause dermatitis, nausea and headaches in some people. NSW Poisons Information Centre medical director Darren Roberts said the onset of symptoms 开始发病 was generally obvious and rapid. "Most people are being affected very soon after eating, usually within a few hours, often within 30 minutes," Dr Roberts said. "With larger amounts they can get delirium or confusion, they can have hallucinations where they're seeing things or hearing things — vivid things, scary things." Thornapple in gardens can be removed physically with hand weeding 拔草, or chemically with herbicide.
ABC's doc about Fox News: Rupert Murdoch's global media operation is training its sights 盯上, 对准 on the ABC after the public broadcaster aired a critical look at Fox News and its relationship with Donald Trump. "It had a septic odour( septic [ˈseptɪk] 流脓的, 感染了的. infected with bacteria. If a wound or a part of your body becomes septic, it becomes infected. A flake of plaster from the ceiling fell into his eye, which became septic. ...a septic toe. a septic finger. septic tank 粪池 a large container buried under the ground and used for collecting waste from toilets. ), as if it were cobbled together ( cobble together 凑在一起, 东拼西凑, 拼凑起来 [disapproval] If you say that someone has cobbled something together, you mean that they have made or produced it roughly or quickly. The group had cobbled together a few decent songs. You can cobble it together from any old combination of garments. club together 凑份子, 凑钱 if people club together, each of them gives some money so that all the money collected can be used to buy something. ) from a trash can with only the rancid bits selected for regurgitation [rɪˈɡɜrdʒɪˌteɪt](I. 简单重复, 复述. 有样学样. 现学现卖, 乌鸦学舌. formal to repeat facts or ideas that you have heard or learned without understanding them or thinking about them for yourself. If you say that someone is regurgitating ideas or facts, you mean that they are repeating them without understanding them properly. You can get sick to death of a friend regurgitating her partner's opinions. II. biology to bring food up from your stomach back into your mouth. If a person or animal regurgitates food, they bring it back up from their stomach before it has been digested. Sometimes he regurgitates the food we give him because he cannot swallow. )". Henderson, who is a trenchant 犀利的 ( [ˈtrentʃənt] trenchant comments or criticisms are expressed strongly and clearly. You can use trenchant to describe something such as a criticism or comment that is very clear, effective, and forceful. He was shattered and bewildered by this trenchant criticism. His comment was trenchant and perceptive. ) ABC critic, said it "proved to be another hyperbolic, one-sided account of the impact of the Trump administration on US society". Murdoch's most popular columnist, Sky News presenter Andrew Bolt, said the ABC itself "is an echo chamber 传话筒, 传声筒 and propaganda vehicle 宣传工具(An echo chamber is "an environment where a person only encounters information or opinions that reflect and reinforce their own." an environment in which a person encounters only beliefs or opinions that coincide with their own, so that their existing views are reinforced and alternative ideas are not considered. "people are living in partisan and ideological echo chambers". In discussions of news media, an echo chamber refers to situations in which beliefs are amplified or reinforced by communication and repetition inside a closed system and insulated from rebuttal. By participating in an echo chamber, people are able to seek out information that reinforces their existing views without encountering opposing views, potentially resulting in an unintended exercise in confirmation bias. Echo chambers may increase social and political polarization and extremism. On social media, it is thought that echo chambers limit exposure to diverse perspectives, and favour and reinforce presupposed narratives and ideologies. The term is a metaphor based on an acoustic echo chamber, in which sounds reverberate in a hollow enclosure. Another emerging term for this echoing and homogenizing effect within social media communities on the Internet is cultural tribalism 文化集群. Many scholars note the effects that echo chambers can have on citizens' stances and viewpoints, and specifically implications has for politics. However, some studies have suggested that the effects of echo chambers are weaker than often assumed.) that destabilises democracy". The Daily Telegraph columnist Miranda Devine, who is based at the New York Post in the US and is a regular on Fox, joined in saying the ABC's documentary "would put the worst Fleet Street beat-up merchants to shame". The chair of ABC Alumni and former Media Watch presenter Jonathan Holmes said the coverage was a "classic example of the empire striking back 帝国反击". "It's a phenomenon that we've seen for decades that the News Corp columnists gang up on individuals or organisations that they don't like; we saw it with Gillian Triggs and Yassmin Abdel-Magied," Holmes said. "They know what the party line 政党纲领 is on these kinds of topics; they don't have to be told to write a column." The Media Unmade newsletter author Tim Burrowes said the News Corp coverage reminded him of "another low point" in 2013 when the Telegraph likened 比作 the then Labor minister Stephen Conroy to a despot ( despot [ˈdɛspɒt] ( tyrant, dictator, totalitarian, Big Brother, autocrat) a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way. someone who has a lot of power and uses it in a cruel and unreasonable way. autocrat [ˈɔtəˌkræt] I. someone who has complete power in a country or organization. II. someone who tells other people what to do without caring what they think. ) because the paper was opposed to his media reforms. "The response to Four Corners makes News Corp look worse than the program did," Burrowes told Guardian Australia. "Which makes me think it wasn't a coordinated attack but was based on instinct. Those who come up in the News Corp culture know who the natural enemy is and obviously the ABC is one. So when News Corp is attacked it's very tribal 一致对外的, 沆瀣一气的, 同仇敌忾的 ( Tribal is used to describe things relating to or belonging to tribes and the way that they are organized. They would go back to their tribal lands. ...their rich heritage of ancient tribal customs. ) and they all return fire."
TBBT: 1. Sheldon: I have. Beverley: Clearly, your old room represents an
escape hatch( I. a hatch for use as an emergency exit, especially from a submarine, ship, or aircraft. the part of a submarine through which people can leave when it is underwater. II. a means of retreat from or avoidance of a difficulty or problem. a way of getting out of a difficult or unwanted situation: The psychiatrist offered him an escape hatch from his feelings of guilt. "you shouldn't rush into marriage, looking at divorce as an escape hatch if things don't work out". ), and without it, you're forced to confront the terrifying
reality of being trapped in a relationship with Amy forever. Sheldon: I hadn't thought about that. Amy: And don't start thinking about it now. Beverley: Hello, Amy. Your defensiveness may indicate similar insecurities about your relationship with Sheldon. 2. Sheldon: Alright, alright, well, just, sit down, yes, sit down, now close your eyes. Leonard: Why? Sheldon: Just do it. Leonard: Okay. Sheldon: Now try to increase your alpha-wave activity. Leonard: What? Sheldon: It's a bio-feedback technique, it's relaxation through brain-wave 脑波 manipulation, I read a paper about it in the Journal of American Neuroscience, it was a little sparsely sourced( Groundless or not well supported by sound logic. ) but I think the basic science is valid, I probably have it here somewhere. Leonard: Oh, who am I kidding, I can't go through with this 真的做某事, you need to call her and cancel. 3. Penny: So, what's new in the world of physics? Leonard: Nothing. Penny: Really, nothing? Leonard: Well, with the exception of string theory, not much has happened since the 1930's, and you can't prove string theory, at best you can say "hey, look, my idea has an internal logical consistency." Penny: Ah. Well I'm sure things will pick up. Leonard: What's new at the Cheesecake Factory? Penny: Oh, uh, not much. We do have a chocolate key lime that's moving 卖得非常快, 畅销, 受欢迎 pretty well( intransitive/transitive informal to get rid of something by selling it. We couldn't move the stuff even at half the price. ). Leonard: Good. Good. And what about your, uh, hallway friend. Penny: Doug? Oh, yeah, I dunno, I mean, he's nice and funny, but… Waitress: Can I get you started with some drinks? 4. Leonard: Ugh, don't get me started on rebound sex. Penny: It's just, it's my pattern. I break up, then I find some cute guy, and then it's just thirty six meaningless of… well, you know. Leonard: I'm not sure that I do. Um, is that one thirty-six hour experience, or is it thirty six hours spread out over say, one… glorious summer. Penny: No, it's usually over a weekend, and trust me, you do not feel good after it. Leonard: Well, chafing(I. [intransitive] to feel annoyed and impatient about something that stops you doing what you want. chafe at/under 不耐烦: We were all beginning to chafe a little under such close supervision. II. 磨. 摩擦, 磨损. [intransitive/ transitive] to rub the skin on a part of your body and make it sore. The collar had been chafing his neck. The straps of the backpack were beginning to chafe.
a. [transitive] to rub a part of your body in order to make it warm.
III. used in cookery to describe when someone overworks scone dough, so
that it ends up with too much air in it. chaff [tʃɑːf] [tʃæf] the outer part of wheat and other grains that is removed before the grains are used. sort/separate the wheat from the chaff 去芜存菁 to show which parts or people are useless and get rid of them.), right? Penny: Emotionally. 5. Penny: How come you didn't go into work today. Sheldon: I'm taking a sabbatical, because I won't kow-tow to mediocre minds. Penny: So you got canned = get the can(To be summarily dismissed or ousted from employment; to be fired. The new accountant got canned after a miscalculation cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars.), huh? Sheldon: Theoretical physicists do not get canned. But yeah. Penny: Well, maybe it's all for the best, you know I always say, when one door closes, another one opens. Sheldon: No it doesn't. Not unless the two doors are connected by relays, or there are motion sensors involved. 6. Sheldon: So, how was your date? Leonard: Awesome! Sheldon: Score one (得一分, 记一分. "I was acquitted in court because I proved I was in hospital when the crime was committed". "Well, congratulations! Score 1 for truth!" It's meant to mean that, in the event being discussed, the truth won over falsehood. The "score" part refers to an imagined game between truth and lies, in which a mark is given on an imaginary scoreboard depending on whether the truth or lies about something is believed (usually, but not always, by authorities). The basis of the game is that lies usually win, so for truth to score is noteworthy. (Mark Twain's comment about lies running around the world before truth can get its boots on. a. A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes. b. A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on. ). In the case of advertising, adverts are generally based on unsupported claims, so for an advert to state the benefits of the product simply and honestly is quite unusual. ) for liquor and poor judgement.
