用法学习: 1. irk 不爽, 生气 to annoy someone. If something irks you, it irritates or annoys you. The rehearsal process also irked him increasingly. She was irked by their behavior. I must admit it irks me to see this guy get all this free publicity. It irks them that some people have more of a chance than others for their voices to be heard. Claire had seemed a little irked when he left. It irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it. ick I. an expression of disgust. An exclamation of disgust. Lizzie grabbed a frog out of the lake and put it in her hair! Ick! II. ("the ick") A feeling of revulsion. icky I. (informal) Unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting. I stepped in something icky and it smells terrible. II. (informal) Excessively sentimental. III. (informal) Unwell or upset; in a bad state of mind or health. I'm not going to work today. I just feel icky. "The ick" is a relationship phenomenon that can be difficult to understand. We might not always be sure why it happens, but when it happens, we definitely know about it. You might have heard about your friends experiencing "the ick", or you might have felt it yourself without really knowing what it is. In last year's Love Island's Leanne Amaning dumped Mike Boateng after saying she'd caught "the ick". And she's certainly not the only Islander to mention the concept - the phrase is thrown around every season and although it hadn't been referenced yet, we've got a good number of weeks to go yet. 2. it is only fair used for saying that a particular action is correct or reasonable. it is the right way to treat someone and what they deserve: I think it's only fair to tell you that we have had over 300 applications for this job. It is only fair to let him go. it is only fair (that): It's only fair that I should pay half of the cost. It's only fair that they should share the profit from the songs they wrote. It's only fair that the wealthy should contribute more in tax. It was only fair that I give my landlord plenty of notice that I was planning to leave. give (one) the bum's rush 赶出来. 赶出门. 踢出来. 踢出局 I. To hastily and forcefully remove someone from a place. Likened to the ejection of a vagrant (a "bum") from a place. The bartender gave us the bum's rush after Joe started drunkenly insulting him. II. To peremptorily or abruptly dismiss someone, due to a failed or rejected plan, idea, or performance. The board of directors gave me the bum's rush when I suggested that managers should face a pay cut alongside the other employees. note: The term, American and dating from the 1920s, comes from the practice of bartenders and bouncers throwing out customers who are drunk and unruly, unlikely to pay their bills, or otherwise considered a disturbance. The expression may also be related to another meaning of bum—backside—in that such evictions are often physical and may indeed involve a kick in the pants, or worse. In 1925 Liam O'Flaherty wrote (in The Informer), "They might give him 'the bum's rush,' breaking his neck silently." 3. You look smashing! You're going out on a date. Your date is dressed really nicely. You say this to compliment her. If someone is dressed or made up nicely, you can tell them so like this: You look great. You look amazing. You look gorgeous. You look really nice today. When is OK to tell someone that they look good? In general, women can say this to other women. A man probably shouldn't tell a woman that she looks nice unless they are dating or in a relationship. (something) is smashing "Smashing" is a fancy-sounding word that means "great" or "wonderful". You can use it to talk about things that are very successful, very fun, or very beautiful: A: How did it go? B: It was a smashing success! That dress is absolutely smashing! "Smashing" is a little uncommon. In most situations, we use other words like "wonderful", "great", or "beautiful" instead. Oh shit. It totally slipped my mind 完全忘记了. You made plans with your close friend to meet up at a park to go jogging together. You forgot about it until your friend called to angrily ask where you were. You say this in response. This is something that people say when they realize that there's a problem and are suddenly worried. "Shit" is a curse word, so there are a lot of situations in which it isn't polite to say it: around strangers, to people who you are trying to impress, like your boyfriend or girlfriend's family, in church, if you're a child. There are some people who don't say words like "shit" at all. But most people do use curse words with their close friends and sometimes coworkers. (something) slipped my mind When you say that something "slipped your mind", it means that you forgot about it. People use "slip (one's) mind" for talking about forgetting to do tasks, or forgetting people's names. If you didn't remember something at all, you can say that it "totally" or "completely" slipped your mind: Oh my God. I was supposed to send that off by the 22nd, right? It completely slipped my mind. 4. agency I. The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power. II. (sociology, philosophy, psychology) The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices. moral agency. individual agency. He's his own agency 独立个体, he doesn't need me to tell him what to do. Agency is the sense of control that you feel in your life, your capacity to influence your own thoughts and behavior, and have faith in your ability to handle a wide range of tasks and situations. Your sense of agency helps you to be psychologically stable, yet flexible in the face of conflict or change. The sense of agency (SA), or sense of control, is the subjective awareness of initiating, executing, and controlling one's own volitional actions in the world. It is the pre-reflective awareness or implicit sense that it is I who is executing bodily movement(s) or thinking thoughts. In non-pathological experience, the SA is tightly integrated with one's "sense of ownership" (SO), which is the pre-reflective awareness or implicit sense that one is the owner of an action, movement or thought. If someone else were to move your arm (while you remained passive) you would certainly have sensed that it were your arm that moved and thus a sense of ownership (SO) for that movement. However, you would not have felt that you were the author of the movement; you would not have a sense of agency (SA). by/through the agency of used for saying that a person or thing makes something happen. a person who has bought property through the agency of a real estate broker. 5. miss the memo 不了解情况 (informal) To be unaware of the current state of affairs. get the memo 了解状况, 得到通知 (informal, often in the negative) To be aware of the current state of affairs. to know something that everyone else knows: Everybody seems to be wearing green today - I guess I didn't get the memo. to hear about or become aware of something generally known —typically used in negative constructions to point to someone's surprising lack of awareness, to say that something did not happen as expected, etc. Officials often warn tourists not to enter the water, but several tourists searching for that perfect Instagram photo apparently did not get the memo. The calendar may say only five more days until fall, but mother nature did not get the memo 不管那一套. It is going to be hot and feel even hotter over the next couple of days. You're not still wearing those acid-washed jeans, are you? Tube socks and shorts? … OK, so no one told you. You didn't get the memo. Those things went out with neckties the size of small landing strips. inside voice = inner voice a modulated, relatively calm voice, considered polite and socially appropriate when speaking indoors, as at home or in school or in an office (opposed to outside voice): The students were reminded to use their inside voice and not shout their responses in class. thoughts or feelings that you do not express but seem to warn, criticize, or advise you My inner voice told me to be cautious. an/(one's) inside voice 安静 A calm, quiet, and controlled voice; a voice that is appropriate for an indoor environment. Please try to use an inside voice while you're in the museum, OK? Please, children, use your inside voices! There are a lot of people here, and none of them want to listen to all that shouting! Inside voices, OK, kids? Mommy's got a terrible headache today. 6. prorogue [prəˈroʊɡ] to discontinue a session of parliament or another legislature, without dissolving it. to discontinue the meetings of (a legislative body) without dissolving it The Senate's 97th session was prorogued on Friday. The Prime Minister could simply prorogue parliament. The NSW parliament will be prorogued on Monday, five days before it is scheduled to be dissolved on March 3. Attorney-General Mark Speakman has written to NSW Governor General Margaret Beazley asking her to prorogue the parliament from February 27, a notice in the NSW Government Gazette confirmed on Thursday. Labor said the decision raised questions about whether current parliamentary inquiries would be shut down, including an upper house inquiry into allegations of impropriety in the Hills Shire Council. However, the government has confirmed that Upper House committees would continue to sit after Monday. Prorogation in the Westminster system of government is the action of proroguing, or interrupting, a parliament, or the discontinuance of meetings for a given period of time, without a dissolution of parliament. The term is also used for the period of such a discontinuance between two legislative sessions of a legislative body. 7. envisage [ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ] to think that something is likely to happen in the future. To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision. The scheme cost a lot more than we had originally envisaged. envisage doing something I don't envisage working with him again. commiseration [kəˌmɪzəˈreɪʃ(ə)n] 同情 an expression of sympathy for someone, especially someone who has lost a competition. After half an hour's commiseration, we turned to more practical matters. We have sent the team our commiserations. Commiserations on losing the match! commiserate [kəˈmɪzəˌreɪ] verb. If you commiserate with someone, you show them pity or sympathy when something unpleasant has happened to them. When I lost, he commiserated with me. pash 热吻 verb (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To snog, to make out, to kiss. noun. (Australia, New Zealand) A passionate kiss. gooch = The perineum = chad: The origin of gooch as slang for the perineum—also known as the taint, grundle, or chode—isn't exactly clear, but it's found on Urban Dictionary by 2002 and shortly after appeared in Usenet groups about shaving. Gooch may riff on coochie, slang for "vagina." Gooch is another word for chad: the region between the balls and the arse-hole; can be an erogenous zone for some. Girl: I was fingering that part between his balls and his arse and there was shit there. Everyone listening remained silent but later laughed among themselves: 'Eww! He had a shitty chad.' When you measure your dick, you don't start at the arse-hole and include the chad; you risk getting shit on your measuring tape. Q: What on earth is a gooch? A: You know, the chad, the part between balls and arse. dusty I. Covered with dust. a dusty carpet. II. Powdery and resembling dust. Grey in parts. III. (figurative) Old; outdated; stuffily traditional. IV. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Ugly, disgusting (a general term of abuse. headspace 精神状态 I. the air or empty space left above the contents in a sealed container. "pour the hot chutney into the jars, leaving 5 mm headspace". II. informal a person's state of mind or mindset. your general mental and emotional condition Before I start on a painting, I need to be in the right headspace. "if you're not in the right headspace for this stuff it's going to bore you, no matter how well it's done". Most of what they do is to get players in the right headspace. draw/pull a long bow 夸张, 夸大其词, 言过其实 (idiomatic) To lie; to exaggerate. to exaggerate in telling something. 8. Catharsis [kə'θɑ:sis] = katharsis 感情净化, 情绪宣泄. 感情抒发 is a term in dramatic art that describes the "emotional cleansing" sometimes depicted in a play as occurring for one or more of its characters, as well as the same phenomenon as (an intended) part of the audience's experience. It describes an extreme change in emotion, occurring as the result of experiencing strong feelings (such as sorrow, fear, pity, or even laughter). It has been described as a "purification" or a "purging" of such emotions. More recently, such terms as restoration, renewal, and revitalization have been used when referencing the effect on members of the audience. cathartic [kəˈθɑrtɪk] 宣泄的, 发泄的, 净化心灵的, 洗涤心灵的 (lethargic: 疲惫的) allowing you to express strong feelings that have been affecting you so that they do not upset you anymore. Something that is cathartic has the effect of catharsis. His laughter was cathartic, an animal yelp that brought tears to his eyes. ...a liberating and cathartic experience. 9. put one's best foot forward I. to behave very well in order to gain someone's approval. To try to act as an ideal version of oneself, typically to try to impress others. You really need to put your best foot forward in the interview if you want to get this job. When I visited my girlfriend's parents I tried to be very polite and put my best foot forward. II. British. to try as hard as possible to do something difficult. to start trying hard to behave or work as well as you can I've got to put my best foot forward to meet this deadline. III. If you put your best foot forward, you act in a cheerful, determined way. Put your best foot forward and find an acceptable solution to the problems you face. hold up I. If you hold up your hand or something you have in your hand, you move it upwards into a particular position and keep it there. She held up her hand stiffly. Hold it up so that we can see it. II. If one thing holds up another 撑起, 举起, 托起, it is placed under the other thing in order to support it and prevent it from falling. Mills have iron pillars all over the place holding up the roof. Her legs wouldn't hold her up. Her legs were almost too shaky to hold her up. III. transitive often passive To hold up a person or process 拖延 means to make them late or delay them. to cause a delay for someone or something, or to make them late. Sorry I'm late, but my train was held up. She got held up at work. Why were you holding everyone up? Continuing violence could hold up progress towards reform. IV. If someone holds up a place such as a bank or a shop 打劫, they point a weapon at someone there to make them give them money or valuable goods. to steal from a person, business, or vehicle by threatening them with a gun or other weapon An armed raider held up the village store last week. A thief ran off with hundreds of pounds yesterday after holding up a petrol station. V. If you hold someone up, or if you hold up something such as their behaviour, you make their behaviour known to other people, so that they can criticize or praise it. She said the picture that had appeared in a Sunday newspaper had held her up to ridicule. He had always been held up as an example to the younger ones. VI. If something such as a type of business holds up in difficult conditions, it stays in a reasonably good state. to remain strong or in a fairly good condition There were fears that her ankle might not hold up for the competition. Prices had held up well until late 1997. Children's wear is one area that is holding up well 撑着, 撑起, 坚挺 in the recession. I put my best food forward, it didn't hold up too well, so now I'm dejected. VII. If an argument or theory holds up, it is true or valid, even after close examination. I'm not sure if the argument holds up, but it's stimulating.
TBBT: 1. Sheldon: Gentlemen, I have the solution to our Comic-Con problem. We don't need them. I'm starting my own convention. Leonard: Sheldon, just buy scalped tickets 黄牛票 with us. Sheldon: I told you. Buying scalped tickets is against the rules. If you get caught, you get banned from Comic-Con for life. Life, Leonard. You're gonna feel pretty silly when we're 80 years old, and you have to drive me down there and then wait in the car for three days. Leonard: Do what you want. We're getting scalped tickets. Howard: I already found a guy online who's willing to sell. Sheldon: How do you know this isn't a sting operation set up by the Comic-Con police? Leonard: The same way I know that the people in the TV set can't see me. Howard: Sheldon, just come with us. You're not gonna make your own convention. Sheldon: You know, there was a time when Comic-Con didn't exist at all until one lone dreamer with a unique vision made it happen. And you mark my words 记住我的话, I'm gonna rip that guy off. 2. Raj: Okay, murder suspects, Leonard has found the time machine the killer must've used. You're all inside it, and we hurtle through ( hurtle through (something) 快速穿越 To move very quickly and forcefully through some thing or place. to travel through something at great speed or with great force, possibly causing breakage. A brick hurtled through the window and fell on the floor. The rocket hurtled through space toward Mars. On that ride, we hurtled through the air at such great speeds that I thought I was going to barf. hurtle to move very quickly, especially in an uncontrolled way. hurtle toward/along/down/forward 快速移动: If someone or something hurtles somewhere, they move there very quickly, often in a rough or violent way. A pretty young girl came hurtling down the stairs. A hunk of space debris is hurtling toward the Earth. He hurtled down the mountainside. ) the very fabric of time ( the fabric of something 根基 the fabric of a building is its basic structure, including walls and the roof the need to preserve the fabric of the church. the basic structure of a society, an organization, etc. that enables it to function successfully. a trend which threatens the very fabric of society. ). And welcome to 20 years in the future. Hey, you guys just time-travelled. Stop looking so bored. Penny: Well, my beer isn't flat and my rack's not saggy. So far, the future's great. Stuart: Hey, can I go to the bathroom? Raj: Fine, just try not to look too alive. Stuart: That's my jam 喜好, 爱好, 专长, 擅长 ( Yes, you use: "That's my jam" when referring to one of your favorite songs. But it isn't really used outside of music. Mostly because jamming refers to the musicians having fun and playing well. And it's become a slang word describing the listener to be having fun or being very into the music. It originally refered to favourite music in someone's personal playlist or music collection, and more specifically to music that forms a 'soundtrack' to their life or activities. It has come to be applied more generally to refer to something that the person likes a lot, approves of strongly or enjoys doing. Examples could include: 'Grilling steaks in the backyard with friends, yeah that's my jam!' 'like my girls a little plump, yeah, curvy is my jam'. 'Bass pounding dance music, that EDM stuff is my jam'. ). Bernadette: So one of us went back in time to kill Stuart? Amy: But why? Raj: Perhaps this will help. Here are some facts about yourselves in the future that might contain a clue. Amy: Hey, I won the Nobel Prize in physiology, then I used the money to buy Stuart's comic book store, and close it down so Sheldon would pay attention to me. Not the worst idea. 3. Bernadette: Howie, I'm back! Howard: Shh, I just got her to sleep. Bernadette: Sorry. Howard: What took you so long? The grocery store is a few blocks away. Bernadette: They only had regular yoghurt. I had to go to a different store to get the extra-fat kind your mom likes. Howard: Then why do I smell coffee on your breath? Bernadette: So what? After two days of taking care of her, excuse me for stopping to get a mocha. Howard: A mocha? Well, it must be nice to be queen. Bernadette: Queen? I've been killing myself here ( kill oneself informal to overexert oneself don't kill yourself. my head/back etc is killing me spoken used to say that a part of your body is hurting a lot I've walked miles and my feet are killing me. People often exaggerate and say that something is "killing" them when they are uncomfortable. For example: This heat is killing me! Man, these shoes are killing me. My boss is killing me! You use "___ is killing me" in casual situations, when talking to friends or people you feel comfortable with.). Howard: Well, whose fault is that? I wanted to get a nurse, but you were all, I'm nice, I want to take care of people. Bernadette: I'm glad I got that mocha. And you know what else I'm glad about? I bought you a brownie and I ate it in the car.
