用法学习: 1. Supermarkets are working to make sure that supply is not compromised after confirmation that major freight company Scott's Refrigerated Logistics 冷链运输 will fold after failing to find a buyer. interloper [ˈɪntəˌləʊpə] 硬闯进来的人, 硬挤进来的人 a person who becomes involved in a place or situation where they are not wanted or are considered not to belong. "Japanese consumers have in the past been unreceptive to foreign interlopers in the cell phone market". interlope [ˌɪntəˈləʊp] 强行入侵者, 干涉别人事务者 verb to intrude or interfere in the affairs of others. interlude [ɪntərluːd] 中断, 间隔 I. An interlude is a short period of time when an activity or situation stops and something else happens. a short period of time between two longer periods Except for a 12-year interlude, the World Cup has been held every four years since 1930. It was a happy interlude in the Kents' life. II. 间奏. a short piece of music played between the separate parts of a play Superb musical interludes were provided by Sinclair. loop-powered: The term loop-powered simply means that the device in question receives its power from the 4-20 mA process signal connected to the device. This is possible because current is the same throughout the 4-20 mA loop, so voltage drops caused by loop-powered devices do not affect the current signal. 2. bougie = boujee [ˈbuː.ʒi] ( bourgeois [ˈbʊə(r)ʒwɑː] 小布尔乔亚情调, 小资产阶级情调 = petit bourgeois ) belonging to or typical of the middle class (= a social group between the very rich and the poor), especially in giving a lot of importance to money, education, and social class, or in liking and wanting expensive and unusual things: People in the neighbourhood have strong opinions about inauthentic bougie snobs. It's one of those places where you pay a lot of money but don't get much. Too bougie for me! Boujee refers to a materialistic person. Boujee is an internet slang term that refers to people who enjoy their riches. showing a lot of concern with money and possessions; an adaptation of bourgeois Sweetgreen has all the bougie accoutrements that appeal to the young, conscientious set. bourgeois showing disapprovaltypical of middle-class people and their attitudes. This word often shows that you dislike people like this, especially because you think they are too interested in money and possessions and in being socially respected. bourgeois notions of good taste. She despised her parents’ bourgeois lifestyle. ascertain [ˌæsərˈteɪn] 弄明白, 弄清楚, 确认, 坐实, 寻求证实 find (something) out for certain; make sure of. If you ascertain the truth about something, you find out what it is, especially by making a deliberate effort to do so. It is always vital to ascertain the cause of a continual headache. Once they had ascertained that he was not a spy, they agreed to release him. Take time to ascertain what services your bank is providing, and at what cost. "an attempt to ascertain the cause of the accident". Police are trying to ascertain the facts of the case. ascertain whether/what/how etc.: We need to ascertain whether the project is feasible. ascertain from: This much could easily be ascertained from the newspapers. ascertain the cause/nature/extent of something: Experts were unable to ascertain the cause of the accident. ascertain that: The police have ascertained that he knew the victim. 3. outlet [ˈaʊtˌlet] I. An outlet is a shop or organization which sells the goods made by a particular manufacturer. ...the largest retail outlet in the city. II. An outlet or an outlet store is a place which sells slightly damaged or outdated goods from a particular manufacturer, or goods that it made in greater quantities than needed. ...the factory outlet store in Belmont. III. If someone has an outlet for their feelings or ideas 宣泄、释放、发泄的出口, they have a means of expressing and releasing them. Her father had found an outlet for his ambition in his work. IV. An outlet is a hole or pipe through which liquid or air can flow away. ...a warm air outlet 出口. ...an underwater outlet pipe discharging waste into the sea. V. An outlet is an organization that publishes news. Any respectable media outlet 媒体 would have fired him. ...the Associated Press and other news outlets. VI. An outlet 电源插口 is a place, usually in a wall, where you can connect electrical devices to the electricity supply. ( = socket in UK. 4. Forceps 手术钳 (plural forceps or considered a plural noun without a singular, often a pair of forceps; the Latin plural forcipes is no longer recorded in most dictionaries) are a handheld, hinged instrument used for grasping and holding objects. dabble [ˈdæb.əl] 尝试涉足 to take a slight and not very serious interest in a subject, or try a particular activity for a short period: He first dabbled in politics when he was at law school. She dabbled with drugs at university. If you dabble in something, you take part in it but not very seriously. He dabbled in business. ...a designer who dabbled with digital imagery. Magicians do not dabble, they work hard. posterity [pɒˈstɛrɪti] 后人们, 后代, 后来者们 noun all future generations of people. You can refer to everyone who will be alive in the future as posterity. A photographer recorded the scene for posterity. Was he making these notes for the benefit of posterity? "the victims' names are recorded for posterity". the descendants of a person. "God offered Abraham a posterity like the stars of heaven". the people who will exist in the future: Every attempt is being made to ensure that these works of art are preserved for posterity. posterior [pɑˈstɪriər] adj. relating to the back part of something, especially the back part of your body. noun. the part of your body that you sit on. A more usual word is buttocks or butt. Someone's bottom can be referred to as their posterior. anterior adj. [ænˈtɪriər] positioned at or towards the front. near the front of a part of your body: Specimens [ˈspesəmən] for examination were taken from the anterior side of the left ventricle from each heart. 5. All Quiet on the Western Front: The film dedicates a subplot to politician Matthias Erzberger's mission to end the war and negotiate an armistice [ˈɑrmɪstɪ] (停战, ceasefire 停火, 暂时的) with the Allied powers. "I thought it was important to build this out because it's a great contrast to the trenches," Berger explained. "Erzberger was used as a military patsy ( patsy [ˈpætsi] 替罪羊 [US, informal, disapproval] I. someone who is blamed for something that they did not do. II. someone who is stupid and can be tricked easily. If you describe someone as a patsy, you mean that they are rather stupid and are easily tricked by other people, or can be made to take the blame for other people's actions. Davis was nobody's patsy. He has long felt that Ray was set up, that he was a patsy. ). He was sent there to negotiate the peace because [the military] was too scared to go because they thought they would be blamed for losing the war. headroom I. Headroom is the amount of space below a roof or bridge. The forecabin, with 6ft headroom, also has plenty of room to stand and get dressed. II. If someone or something has headroom to do something 余地, 余力, they are able to do it if it is necessary or desirable. He has plenty of headroom to take on more debt if he needs to. III. room for manoeuvre, especially financially. He said the headroom 迂回空间 built up in the public finances could only be used for tax cuts and spending increases if a Brexit deal were secured. There was no slack left in the economy to provide headroom for growth. opportunity for doing something, especially opportunity to develop, progress, or grow: Budgets remain sufficiently large to give the Group headroom for further growth. Within the plan must be cash flow forecasts that ensure you have headroom to deal with unforeseen shocks such as interest rate rises. 6. gel = jell (US) verb. I. If people gel with each other, or if two groups of people gel, they work well together because their skills and personalities fit together well. when a group gels, the people in it start to form a good relationship with each other or start working together effectively We gelled as a group, right away. They have gelled very well 融洽 with the rest of the side. There were signs on Saturday that the team is starting to gel at last. Their partnership gelled and scriptwriting for television followed. II. If a vague shape, thought, or creation gels 成型, 初具雏形, it becomes clearer or more definite. if a thought or idea gels, it becomes clearer or more definite. if a thought, plan etc gels, it becomes clearer or more definite Don't start writing until the idea has gelled in your mind. Her interpretation has not yet gelled into a satisfying whole. It was not until 1974 that his ability to write gelled again. III. if a liquid gels, it becomes firmer or thicker. noun. Gel is a thick jelly-like substance, especially one used to keep your hair in a particular style. psych out 泄气 If you psych out your opponent in a contest, you try to make them feel less confident by behaving in a very confident or aggressive way. to talk or behave very confidently in order to make someone who you are competing against feel nervous and less likely to succeed They are like heavyweight boxers, trying to psych each other out and build themselves up. 7. A wet start occurs when the engine fails to light up in a certain period of time when fuel is introduced into the combustion chamber. The indication of a wet start to the pilot is a positive rise and stabilisation of high pressure compressor with no rise in engine exhaust temperature. A faulty start of a gas turbine engine in which ignition fails to take place or a self-sustaining RPM is not achieved. The unburned or burning fuel is ejected from the tailpipe. hot start I. A condition while starting a gas turbine engine in which the internal temperature rise is beyond permissible limits and can damage the engine. Special checks must be done on the engine after a hot start. II. An engine that has been running will tend to remain hot for a short time. During this period, it is possible to restart the engine by turning the crankshaft without the glow plug being plugged into a glow starter. This, however, could possibly create an unsafe condition. bumper adj. I. larger in amount than usual. bigger or more successful than usual It's been a bumper year for car sales. a bumper crowd of 80,000. Farmers have reported a bumper crop this year. II. a bar at the front and back of the body of a motor vehicle that keeps it from being damaged when hit. bumper to bumper with so many cars that are so close that they are almost touching each other: By eight o'clock the traffic was bumper to bumper. pervy [ˈpəːvi] 变态的 adj. INFORMAL sexually perverted. "he paid people attention and made them feel special—and not in a pervy way". They've got a pervy, distorted view of things. (of sexual behaviour or interests) considered strange and unpleasant by most people: Some pervy guy tried to put a camera in the women's changing rooms. perverse [pərˈvɜs] 和别人对着干的 [disapproval] determined to behave in an unreasonable way, especially by doing the opposite of what is expected or wanted. Someone who is perverse deliberately does things that are unreasonable or that result in harm for themselves. It would be perverse to stop this healthy trend. In some perverse way the ill-matched partners do actually need each other. It is simply perverse to refuse a perfectly safe treatment. perverted [pərˈvɜrtəd] [disapproval] I. relating to sexual behavior that you consider to be wrong or not normal. If you say that someone is perverted, you mean that you consider their behaviour, especially their sexual behaviour, to be immoral or unacceptable. You've been protecting sick and perverted men. His actions, to his small perverted mind, were surely forgivable. II. morally wrong. You can use perverted to describe actions or ideas which you think are wrong, unnatural, or harmful. ...a perverted form of knowledge. perverted political views. jaunty [ˈdʒɔːnti] adj having or expressing a lively, cheerful, and self-confident manner. "there was no mistaking that jaunty walk". showing that you are happy and confident: a jaunty grin/step. When he came back his hat was at a jaunty angle and he was smiling. If you describe someone or something as jaunty, you mean that they are full of confidence and energy. ...a jaunty little man. jaundice [ˈdʒɔndɪs] 黄疸 an illness affecting the liver that makes the skin and the white part of the eyes become yellow. 8. vindicate [ˈvɪndɪˌkeɪt] 证明是无罪的, 证明是对的 I. to prove that someone is right, or that something they said, did, or decided was right, especially when most people believed they were wrong. If a person or their decisions, actions, or ideas are vindicated, they are proved to be correct, after people have said that they were wrong. The director said he had been vindicated by the experts' report. Ministers and officials are confident their decision will be vindicated. He called the success a vindication of his party's free-market economic policy. I feel vindicated now since the court ruled in my favor. The latest research vindicates what we've been arguing for years. II. to prove that someone who was accused of a crime or dishonest act is not guilty.
Silicon Valley Bank shut by California regulator: Professional investors say the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank represents a contagion risk to the global financial system. "There's going to be a lot of fallout from this," investor and author Danielle Ecuyer said. Silicon Valley Bank executives were looking to raise capital 融资 early on Friday or find additional investors. But trading in its shares was halted before the opening bell due to extreme volatility ( volatility [ˌvɒləˈtɪlɪti] 动荡 In finance, volatility is the degree of variation of a trading price series over time, usually measured by the standard deviation of logarithmic returns. Historic volatility measures a time series of past market prices. ). The collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 sparked a worldwide credit crunch that contributed to the global financial crisis. Ms Ecuyer said she didn't think the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was on par with the failure of the Wall Street mega-bank but it was too early to tell whether the flow-on effects of the bank's demise would lead to a widespread financial rout ( rout [raʊt] noun. a complete defeat of an opponent in a battle, competition, or election. His touchdown completed the rout in the fourth quarter. verb. to completely defeat someone in a battle, competition, or election He was captured, and his army was routed. put to rout to defeat utterly; to exterminate, eradicate I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life. ). "Half of US venture capital firms are backed by this company — it has very deep tentacles into existing start-up companies across the US," she said. Silicon Valley Bank invested its customer deposits 储户存款 into the US debt market 债券 (bonds), and that investment has soured badly as US interest rates have risen. "The value of the mortgage-backed securities [bonds] has been plummeting in value as interest rates have risen." "It's your classic case of the bank investing all its deposits in a [non-performing asset]," Ms Ecuyer said. Notably, the FDIC did not wait until the close of business to seize the bank, as is typical in an orderly wind-down of a financial institution. The FDIC could not immediately find a buyer for the bank's assets, signalling how fast depositors had cashed out 取现, 套现. Customers have rushed to retrieve their deposits 存款 in the knowledge it is only going to get harder for the bank to pay up in the future — hence why the regulators have had to move in to stop a bank run. Unfortunately, the bank is on the wrong side of the decisions being made by the mammoth US Federal Reserve — and its decision on interest rates. "The US Federal Reserve does not want to have to deal with a financial crisis that would force it to ease monetary," Ms Ecuyer said.
TBBT: 1. We've gotten a little off-topic. Allow me to make things entertaining again in this little Spockumentary. That was Leonard's joke. As a child, when faced with a dilemma, my mother encouraged me to ask, "What would Jesus do?" The answer to that was always, "Love thy neighbor." But my neighbor had a dead tooth, so... that wasn't going to happen. 2. Do you know what that means? No.
Are you telling the truth? Nirsh. Well, this is ridiculous. Being upset about Amy all the time isn't accomplishing anything. If I want to resolve this situation, then I need to take action. What are you gonna do? I'm going to find her and ask her to marry me. And if she says yes, we can put this behind us and resume our relationship. And if she says no... well, then she can just ponfo miran. He didn't meant that. 3. So I should probably explain why I kind of fibbed ( fib 说瞎话, 扯谎, 撒谎, 胡说八道 If someone is fibbing, they are telling lies. He laughs loudly when I accuse him of fibbing. From the evidence just put in, it's evident that you're the only one of the three who fibbed any. It turned out that nine out of 10 people fibbed when describing themselves to prospective mates. She knew it was the truth; but as she would not confess to her vision, she fibbed outrageously. I knew you fibbed about the tool chest.). That would be nice. I told my dad that you were the one who didn't want kids because I didn't want to disappoint him. But you were okay throwing me under the bus? Turns out yeah, I didn't think twice about.
Pork barrel, or simply pork, is a metaphor for the appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to bring money to a representative's district. The usage originated in American English, and it indicates a negotiated way of political particularism. Scholars use it as a technical term regarding legislative control of local appropriations. In election campaigns, the term is used in derogatory fashion to attack opponents. Typically, "pork" involves national funding for government programs whose economic or service benefits are concentrated in a particular area but whose costs are spread among all taxpayers. Public works projects, certain national defense spending projects, and agricultural subsidies are the most commonly cited examples. Branch stacking is a term used in Australian politics to describe the act of recruiting or signing up members for a local branch of a political party for the principal purpose of influencing the outcome of internal preselection of candidates for public office, or of inordinately influencing ( inordinate [ɪnˈɔrdɪnət] 不寻常的 much more than you would usually expect: used for emphasizing how large something is or how much of something there is. If you describe something as inordinate, you are emphasizing that it is unusually or excessively great in amount or degree. They spend an inordinate amount of time talking. ...their inordinate number of pets. He is inordinately proud of his wife's achievements. It all took an inordinate amount of time. ) the party's policy. In political science, political particularism is the ability of policymakers to further their careers by catering to narrow interests rather than to broader national platforms. Political science: In a political system governed by particularism, sooner or later, the decisive factor of politics becomes ethnic and religious identity and the interests of the communities defined by these bonds. This stands in contrast with the ideas and values of political pluralism, with its emphasis on universal rights, separation of religion and the government, and an ethic of ethnic and religious tolerance. Cultural pluralism is a term used when smaller groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities, whereby their values and practices are accepted by the dominant culture, provided such are consistent with the laws and values of the wider society. As a sociological term, the definition and description of cultural pluralism has evolved. It has been described as not only a fact but a societal ( relating to society or to the way that society is organized. Societal means relating to society or to the way society is organized. ...societal changes. ...societal norms. societal problems.) goal.
