口语: 1. 我太难了: Kill me, End me. Fuck my life. It's so difficult for me.
用法学习: 1. a laundry list a usually long list of items, and it's used to refer to lists of varying kinds. a long list of subjects. If you describe something as a laundry list of things, you mean that it is a long list of them. ...a laundry list of reasons why shareholders should reject the bid. Indeed, ask any bartender about the most memorable first dates they've witnessed, and you'll get a laundry list of cringe-worthy encounters. It wasn't much of a speech - just a laundry list of accusations against the government. His laundry list of recommendations includes a large fleet of conventional submarines, more aircraft, long-range missiles and sea mines. emeritus [ɪ'merɪtəs] adj. Emeritus is used with a professional title to indicate that the person bearing it has retired but keeps the title as an honour. no longer having a position, especially in a college or university, but keeping the title of the position: She became Emeritus Professor 名誉教授 of Linguistics when she retired. ...emeritus professor of physics. He will continue as chairman emeritus. 2. cheat day 偷懒日 noun a day in which a person goes off a dietary regimen: Today's my cheat day, so I'm eating pizza and ice cream. A cheat day is a scheduled break in a diet. The concept emerged around the same time as 'clean eating', and is based on the idea that a dieter can 'cheat' for one day a week as long as they eat to their diet plan for the remaining six days. tomcatting [ˈtɒmˌkætɪŋ] (of a man) the practice of being sexually promiscuous or having many sexual partners. Tomcat noun a male domestic cat. verb INFORMAL US pursue women promiscuously for sexual gratification. to pursue women in order to make sexual conquests He tomcatted around before settling down. "tomcatting all night and sleeping until afternoon". publican 酒巴经理 the manager of a pub. A publican is a person who owns or manages a pub. postmistress A postmistress is a woman who is in charge of a local post office. I know my neighbors and the postmistress. 3. bear with me: be patient or tolerant with someone. "bear with me a moment while I make a call". Bear with me while I try to fix the coffee machine. Our operating system is down at the moment. Can you bear with me as I fill out the form manually? Our restaurant is very busy this evening; please bear with me while I try to find you a table. Please bear with me while I try to locate you in our system. Could you bear with me for a moment, please? Thank you for bearing with me. After bearing with me for a moment, you'll be able to access your account. 4. apparition [ˌapəˈrɪʃn] 鬼影 I. a ghost or ghostlike image of a person. An apparition is someone you see or think you see but who is not really there as a physical being. something you believe, imagine, or dream you see, esp. the form of a person; ghost The patient recognized one of the women as the apparition she had seen. ...these apparitions of the Virgin. "a headless apparition". An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially something such as a ghost or phantom. The attic is haunted by the ghostly apparition of a young girl who died there. II. a remarkable or unexpected appearance of someone or something. the spirit of a dead person appearing in a form that can be seen "an apparition of the Virgin Mary". vocabulary: If you see something you think might be a ghost, you can call it an apparition to hedge your bets. Apparition doesn't commit you in the same way the word ghost does—and saying that you've seen one won't cause you to be committed. Deriving from the Latin apparere "appear," apparition was first used in 1520 in a religious context, referring to the moment when the three wise men appear before the infant Jesus in the Bible. Later, apparition came to include the appearance of ghosts, or ghostly figures. It can also mean a memory so vivid it's like seeing a ghost. 5. whereby A system or action whereby something happens is one that makes that thing happen. ...the system whereby Britons choose their family doctors and the government pays those doctors. They voted to accept a deal whereby the union will receive nearly three-quarters of a million pounds from the International Miners Organisation. a. by which way or method: They've set up a plan whereby you can spread the cost over a two-year period. We need to devise some sort of system whereby people can liaise with each other. b. in which, or with which: It's put me in a position whereby I can't afford to take a job. 6. Cranbook school's toxic culture: "Boys gave gifts of a bong ( a water pipe for smoking marijuana. A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances, especially cannabis.) to one teacher and fluffy handcuffs 毛茸茸的, 毛绒绒的, 毛毛的 to another as parting Year 12 gifts 毕业纪念. This was not the first time fluffy handcuffs had been gifted in this house," another said. Unsettled by this unexpected criticism, she raised it with a manager. Suddenly the focus turned on her — with a range of multiple minor allegations being levelled against her in meetings with senior men at the school. They included things like being late for debating when she was travelling from a compulsory economics conference 30 kilometres from Cranbrook and being "abrupt" to staff at the school sick bay when she had come out of a meeting with managers and was distressed. Ms Richards said for the first time in her long career she was wracked with stress so severe her doctor advised her not to work. She made a workers' compensation claim. "As Cranbrook stands poised to go co-ed, it concerns me greatly that these serious issues have apparently not been addressed, nor resolved, despite assurances 下保证 at the time of my departure that there would be an independent investigation," she wrote. "[I] am one of several senior women, and men, in recent years that I'm aware of to have suffered professional demise at the hands of this vicious culture and its repetitive associated pattern of intent-driven reputation destruction, white-anting (White-anting 从内部毁灭 is an Australian term for the process of internal erosion of a foundation. It is often used in reference to groups such as political parties or organisations where information from group insiders is 'leaked' or used to undermine the goals of the group. The Macquarie Dictionary says the verb "to white-ant" means "to subvert or undermine from within".), gaslighting, underhandedness 背后使阴招, dishonesty, collusion and outright lies. As evidence of Cranbrook's cultural problems mounted, the school pushed ahead with proposals to enrol girls — testing and eventually fracturing 分裂 the relationship between the headmaster and its council. The relationship between the school and the council further deteriorated. 7. in the pocket of (someone) = in someone's pocket (or hip pocket 屁股上的口袋) 随意差遣, 任意驱使, 随便拿捏, 玩弄于股掌之上, 听任摆布 disapproving under someone's control or influence. in a situation where someone has power or control over you. If you say that someone is in someone else's pocket, you disapprove of the fact that the first person is willing to do whatever the second person tells them, for example out of weakness or in return for money. The board of directors must surely have been in Johnstone's pocket. The head teacher has the school governors completely in her pocket/The school governors are completely in the head teacher's pocket. researchers/scientists who are in the pocket of pharmaceutical companies. I am disappointed that it has come to this and that the school will lose yet another hardworking, dedicated, experienced and capable leader as a consequence of being unable or unwilling to eradicate the … toxic culture that exists within pockets of the school. in pocket/out of pocket having more money than you started with after an activity involving money: Even when we've paid all our expenses, we should still be several hundred pounds in pocket. Investors who put money into funds before the start of 2000 are actually still in pocket 有钱. 8. a word in someone's ear 悄悄话 chiefly British a remark that is made privately to someone. a situation in which you speak to someone quietly and privately about a delicate or difficult matter I'll go and see him. It won't be official, mind. Just a word in his ear over lunch. May I have a word in your ear before you leave? have someone's ear = have the ear of someone 听...的话, 听话 to be able to talk and give advice to a person because one is trusted by him or her. If you have the ear of an important person, your ideas are listened to and considered important by that person. to have the attention of a person in power, who listens carefully to your opinions and often follows your advice on important issues He has been one of Italy's most influential figures, a man who is said to have had the ear of every Italian prime minister. an adviser who has the President's ear. King James had intimate male companions, known as "favourites", and it wasn't unusual for them to be bestowed with wealth and titles as well as affection. At the time, the king's favourite was Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset. But having the king's ear meant one also had a huge swathe of influence, and it's believed many people, including the king's wife, Queen Anne of Denmark, wanted the earl gone. 9. George and Mary: How much of Mary & George is true? And was Mary really a conniving 有心计的, 有心机的 meddler, or a just woman doing what she had to for her family? George quickly bagged 得到 the role of royal cupbearer (which also came with the position of gentleman of the bedchamber), and secured a knighthood a year later, in 1615. This rapid ascent saw George become the king's favourite, toppling the earl of Somerset and allowing himself to gather wealth and titles for himself and, most importantly, his mother Mary. George continued to climb the societal ladder, rising from a knight to a viscount, an earl, a marquis to the pièce de résistance in 1623 – the 1st Duke of Buckingham. According to Professor McCreery, a monarch's relationships with their consorts, mistresses and favourites was "very nuanced 微妙 and complex", and the sexual element between King James I and George was "not the most important point". "James was very strategic. He was a very canny ruler and he used individuals like George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, and others as buffers between himself and, not just other members of the court, but between his own heirs," Professor McCreery says. It is unsurprising that her son George is written about more in the history books. However, Mary Villiers played a crucial role in making sure her son was fit for high society 上流社会 and placing him in the king's path. "It's clear that Mary personally had a great deal of ambition," Professor McCreery says. "We know she married several times and that her marriages were really designed to gain not just wealth but also status and influence." "On the other hand, we need to step away from this really dangerous stereotype of seeing women as the meddlers and as the kind of evil force here." 10. skulduggery [skʌlˈdʌɡ(ə)ri] 阴谋诡计 underhand, unscrupulous, or dishonest behaviour or activities. Skulduggery is behaviour in which someone acts in a dishonest way in order to achieve their aim. ...accusations of political skulduggery. "a firm that investigates commercial skulduggery". rapacity [rə'pæsɪti] [formal, disapproval] Rapacity is very greedy or selfish behaviour. the quality of having or showing a strong wish to take things for yourself, usually using unfair methods or force: the rapacity of big corporations. Our rapacity is destroying species at a rate not seen in 65 million years. Overcrowded cities were the product of a system based on selfishness and rapacity. ...the rapacity of landlords and the misery of tenants. Morton was elected to Mar's office and proved in many ways the most effective of James's regents, but he made enemies by his rapacity. He fell from favour 失宠 when Frenchman Esmé Stewart, Sieur d'Aubigny, first cousin of James's father Lord Darnley and future Earl of Lennox, arrived in Scotland and quickly established himself as the first of James's powerful favourites. rapacious [rəˈpeɪ.ʃəs] = voracious 贪得无厌, 贪婪无度 having or showing a strong wish to take things for yourself, usually using unfair methods or force. If you describe a person or their behaviour as rapacious, you disapprove of their greedy or selfish behaviour. He had a rapacious appetite for bird's nest soup. ...a rapacious exploitation policy. a rapacious landlord/businessman. her rapacious appetite for fame. vapid ['væpɪd] 乏味无趣的, 缺乏想象力的 [disapproval] showing no intelligence or imagination. If you describe someone or something as vapid, you are critical of them because they are dull and uninteresting. a vapid reality TV show. He's attractive, but vapid. ...the Minister's young and rather vapid daughter. She made a vapid comment about the weather. vocabulary: Reserve the adjective vapid for the person in your office who brings nothing to the table, except maybe the doughnuts. Vapid is an adjective to describe someone or something that is dull or uninspiring. "We prefer not to consider the shockingly vapid and primitive comments uttered by athletes in postcontest interviews," David Foster Wallace wrote. The word was originally used in English in a much more literal sense, describing beverages that lacked flavor. It comes from the Latin word vapidus, literally "having exhaled its vapor." 11. The Handsome Devil: Knock, knock. Ah, there's Conor. Hey, can I ask you something? Yeah. Yeah, why are you hanging out with that freak Ned? That freak Ned is my mate. Your mate how? He's my roommate Weasel. Oh, okay, got you. Everything okay up there? Everything's really good, Conor. Just, I have cousin in st Barts. Well, second cousin. But I know everyone says you left your old school because I don't know, you were fighting all the time but I was talking to him and I was wondering, what was the reason, you know, for all this fighting. Why the fighting, you know? What do you want, Weasel? Conor, I promised my father, on his death bed, that I would do everything in my power to win that cup. I'm not the only one that's noticing you're spending a lot of time with the wrong kind of people. What we're gonna do is, you're gonna pick your company a little bit better. You're gonna focus on the semi-final. And we'll let the rumors from your old school be rumors from your old school. 12. hollow-eyed 眼窝深陷的, 眼窝塌陷的 adjective Someone who is hollow-eyed has eyes that seem to have sunk into their face because of illness or tiredness. with the eyes appearing to be sunk into the face, as from excessive fatigue.having deep-set eyes or dark areas under the eyes, as from sickness or fatigue. gallows [gæloʊz] 绞刑架 A gallows is a wooden frame used to execute criminals by hanging. a wooden structure used, especially in the past, to hang criminals from as a form of execution (= killing as a punishment): send someone to the gallows New witnesses have cast doubt on some of the evidence that sent the 19-year-old to the gallows. He is on the way to the gallows. gallows humor humor that treats serious, frightening, or painful subject matter in a light or satirical way. wiki: A gallows (or less precisely scaffold) is a frame or elevated beam, typically wooden, from which objects can be suspended or "weighed". Gallows were thus widely used to suspend public weighing scales for large and heavy objects such as sacks of grain or minerals, usually positioned in markets or toll gates. The term was also used for a projecting framework from which a ship's anchor might be raised so it is no longer sitting on the seabed, riverbed or dock; "weighing [the] anchor" meant raising it using this apparatus while avoiding striking the ship's hull. 13. liable I. responsible by law; legally answerable. If you are liable for something such as a debt, you are legally responsible for it. The airline's insurer is liable for damages to the victims' families. As the killings took place outside British jurisdiction, the Ministry of Defence could not be held liable. "the credit-card company is liable for any breach of contract". The law holds parents liable if a child does not attend school. If we lose the case we may be liable for (= have to pay) the costs of the whole trial. He is claiming damages from London Underground, which has admitted liability but disputes the amount of his claim. liable for sth The sellers were liable for all the damage. This is a serious crime and they can be held liable. liable to sth You will be liable to tax on the interest. liable to sth if someone is liable to a punishment, they will receive that punishment: He is guilty of an offence and liable to 14 years' imprisonment. II. likely to do or to be something 容易... 易遭遇, 易遭受, 易罹患. If people or things are liable to something unpleasant, they are likely to experience it or do it. very likely to do something: The areas of town near the river are liable to flooding (= are often flooded). He's liable to make a fuss if you wake him. She will grow into a woman particularly liable to depression. This volcanic rock is less liable to shatter than limestone. "patients were liable to faint if they stood up too suddenly". be liable to do sth When something is liable to happen, it is very likely to happen. When challenged about his behaviour, David was liable to dissolve in tears. likely to do, happen, or experience something: If you don't take care of yourself, you're liable to get sick. He's liable to say anything that comes into his head. susceptible [səˈsep·tə·bəl] I. 易遭受的. easily influenced or harmed by something: She isn't very susceptible to flattery. These plants are particularly susceptible to frost. Among particularly susceptible children, the disease can develop very fast. II. used to describe someone who is easily emotionally influenced. easily influenced or likely to be hurt by something. If you are susceptible to something or someone, you are very likely to be influenced by them. Young people are the most susceptible to advertisements. James was extremely susceptible to flattery. He was, she believes, unusually susceptible to women. Some people are more susceptible to peer pressure than others. He's very susceptible to colds. They persuade susceptible 容易劝服的, 容易说动的, 耳根软的 teenagers to part with their money. If you are susceptible to a disease or injury, you are very likely to be affected by it. Walking with weights makes the shoulders very susceptible to injury. Diesel exhaust is particularly aggravating to many susceptible individuals. A susceptible person is very easily influenced emotionally. Hers was a susceptible nature 本性耳根软, 听劝. III. (especially of an idea or statement) able to be understood, proved, explained, etc. in a particular way: Shakespeare's plays are susceptible to various interpretations. UK The facts are susceptible of other explanations. 14. clutter to fill something in an untidy or badly organized way: clutter something with something The kids always clutter the hall with school bags and coats and stuff. be cluttered with Every shelf is cluttered with ornaments. clutter sth up figurative I try not to clutter up my mind with useless information. 15. jubilant [ˈdʒuːbɪlənt] feeling or expressing great happiness, especially because of a success. If you are jubilant, you feel extremely happy because of a success. Ferdinand was jubilant after making an impressive comeback from a month on the injured list. ...the jubilant crowds of Paris. The fans were jubilant at/about/over their team's victory. Jubilant crowds shouted, "It's liberation day!". shill [ʃɪl] 内应, 托儿, 做托儿 verb. (derogatory) To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly. He is shilling for USA. noun. [US, informal, disapproval] If you refer to someone as a shill, you mean that they are paid to sell something or to participate in an activity in order to persuade others to buy or participate. someone who helps another person to persuade people to buy something, especially by pretending to be a satisfied customer He is tarnishing his reputation by being a shill for the tobacco industry. defy I. If you defy someone or something 不搭理, 无视, 不管不顾 that is trying to make you behave in a particular way, you refuse to obey them and behave in that way. to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation, etc.: It is rare to see children openly defying their teachers. A few workers have defied the majority decision and gone into work despite the strike. The fact that aircraft don't fall out of the sky always seems to me to defy (= act against) the law of gravity. A forest fire raging in southern California is defying (= is not changed by) all attempts to control it. This was the first (and last) time that I dared to defy my mother. Nearly eleven-thousand people have been arrested for defying the ban on street trading. II. If you defy someone to do something, you challenge them to do it when you think that they will be unable to do it or too frightened to do it. I defy you to read this book and not feel motivated to change. He looked at me as if he was defying me to argue. III. If something defies description or understanding 超出(想象, 理解范围, 年龄), it is so strange, extreme, or surprising that it is almost impossible to understand or explain. The skill of the craftsman who made it defies description. It's a devastating and barbaric act that defies all comprehension. defy one's age / the years If you say that someone defies their age, or defies the years, you mean that their appearance or behaviour suggests that they are younger than they really are. defy belief/description/explanation 难以解释, 超出想象 to be extreme or very strange and therefore impossible to believe, describe, or explain: The chaos at the airport defies description. defy someone to do something to tell someone to do something that you think will be impossible: I defy you to prove your accusations. defiant [dɪˈfɑɪ·ənt] 目中无人的 If you say that someone is defiant, you mean they show aggression or independence by refusing to obey someone. The players are in defiant mood as they prepare for tomorrow's game. Despite the risk of suspension, he remained defiant. They defiantly rejected any talk of a compromise. She is defiant, angry, and tough. When I said she might fail, she replied defiantly, "No, I won't!" 15. cut and dried I. already decided and unlikely to be changed: We need a cut-and-dried decision by the end of the week. II. simple and easy to understand: Most fire investigations are pretty cut and dried, but this one has left more questions than answers. worth one's salt = worth one's weight in salt 胜任的, 称职的, 合格的 If you say, for example, that any doctor worth his or her salt would do something, you mean that any doctor who was good at his or her job or who deserved respect would do it. Any coach worth his salt would do exactly as I did. any something worth your salt Any accountant worth their salt should be aware of the latest changes in taxation. Any doctor worth their salt should be able to correctly diagnose the illness. What pap that is worth his salt only takes one pic from a distance from such a prime spot? worth your while If an action or activity is worth someone's while, it will be helpful, useful, or enjoyable for them if they do it, even though it requires some effort. It might be worth your while to go to court and ask for the agreement to be changed. You'll find it well worth your while to learn something about the islands before visiting them. hamster wheel 徒劳无功, 白费心机, 无用功, 白费力气, 枉费心机, 无事忙, 忙忙碌碌却一事无成 I. a wheel fixed in position in the middle, designed for a hamster or other small animal to run around and around inside as exercise: At 3 a.m. I was awake listening to the rumbling of the hamster wheel. II. an activity that involves someone being busy all the time but never achieving anything important or reaching the end of a task. A monotonous, repetitive, unfulfilling activity, especially one in which no progress is achieved. There's always something that needs to be done to the house. It's like a hamster wheel. Time spent just sitting on a train can be a rare chance to step off the hamster wheel and observe the world. KPs (Kensington Palace) PR is literally a hamster trying to run on a broken wheel 费力不讨好的事, 干得是没有用的事! wiki: A hamster wheel or running wheel is an exercise device used primarily by hamsters and other rodents, but also by other cursorial animals when given the opportunity. Most of these devices consist of a runged or ridged wheel held on a stand by a single or pair of stub axles. Hamster wheels allow rodents to run even when their space is confined. "like a hamster on a wheel". It's a metaphor. People say they feel like a hamster on a wheel when they do the same unrewarding and repetitive tasks over and over again. They feel their routine is never-ending, and they can see no way to escape from it. A hamster is a small rodent, often kept as a pet. Hamsters have wheels in their cages which they run on, so they can get enough exercise. Oddly enough, I used this very metaphor in an answer yesterday. An alternative idiom is "on a treadmill". be (stuck) on a treadmill 原地踏步 To be seemingly trapped in a routine characterized by constant, monotonous, wearisome action that lacks meaning or forward progress. I just feel like I've been stuck on a treadmill at work for the last few years. I do the same thing day in and day out, with no real prospects of advancing in my career. Dealing with all the bureaucracy in order to secure funding for these projects has me feeling more and more like I'm stuck on a treadmill I can't get off. Are you stuck on a treadmill in your life? Are you in a rut? Then take our five-day motivational course to find out how you can make the most of your life! be a treadmill To be a constant, monotonous, wearisome routine that lacks meaning or forward progress and is difficult to change or eschew. I just feel like work has been a treadmill for the last few years. I do the same thing day in and day out, with no real prospects of advancing in my career. I'm passionate about finding funding for artistic endeavors, but the bureaucracy you have to deal with can be a treadmill sometimes. Is your life a treadmill? Are you stuck in a rut? Then take our five-day motivational course to find out how you can make the most of your life! spin one's wheels 浪费光阴, 原地踏步. ( = tread water. mark time军事术语中的原地踏步.
) to waste time; to remain in a neutral position, neither advancing nor
falling back. (Fig. on a car that is running but is not moving because
its wheels are spinning in mud, etc.) I'm
just spinning my wheels in this job. I need more training to get ahead.
The whole project was just spinning its wheels until spring. tread water 原地打转, 原地踏步, 无所作为, 什么也没干 (车的轮子原地打转. to
waste time; to remain in a neutral position, neither advancing nor
falling back. (Fig. on a car that is running but is not moving because
its wheels are spinning in mud, etc.)
I'm just spinning my wheels in this job. I need more training to get
ahead. The whole project was just spinning its wheels until spring. mark time 啥也不干, 无所事事 (军事上的术语"原地踏步") to not do anything important while you wait. I'll just mark time till things get better. Do you expect me to just stand here and mark time? Mrs. Jamison marked time while waiting to take up her new job. Etymology: based on the military phrase mark time (to march in the same place, moving your legs up and down without going forward). 16. long-shot 希望不大, 没什么希望, 希望渺茫 I. a competitor, as in a race, considered to be unlikely to win. II. a bet against heavy odds. Nikki Haley is the only serious Republican challenger to Trump still in the race, but she was a long-shot to win any primary going into today. In fact, one of Biden's long-shot challengers — congressman Dean Phillips, whose state of Minnesota voted today — joked that Haley was "attracting more appeal from Democratic Party loyalists" than him. III. an undertaking, guess, or possibility with little chance of success. something you try although it is unlikely to be successful: We can try your plan, but it's a long shot and it probably won't work. It's a long shot, but you could try phoning him at home. by a long shot People sometimes use the expression by a long shot to emphasize the opinion they are giving. The missile-reduction treaty makes sweeping cuts, but the arms race isn't over by a long shot. bailiff [ˈbeɪlɪf] I. British a sheriff's officer who executes writs and processes and carries out distraints and arrests. an official who takes away someone's possessions when they owe money. A bailiff is a law officer who makes sure that the decisions of a court are obeyed. Bailiffs can take a person's furniture or possessions away if the person owes money. They threatened to call in the bailiffs to recover the family's debts. They didn't pay their rent, so the landlord called/sent in the bailiffs. "word spread that bailiffs, accompanied by the police, had turned up to evict traders and seize their properties". II. North American an official in a court of law who keeps order, looks after prisoners, etc. an official who is responsible for prisoners who are appearing in court. A bailiff is an official in a court of law who deals with tasks such as keeping control in court. "as the bailiff took him away, his mother wept while I averted my eyes". III. historical British the sovereign's representative in a district, especially the chief officer of a hundred. the first civil officer in the Channel Islands. IV. (in the UK ) a person whose job is to take care of someone else's land or property. A bailiff is a person who is employed to look after land or property for the owner. 17. glide path I. an aircraft's line of descent to land, especially as indicated by ground radar. the approach path of an aircraft when landing, usually defined by a radar beam. the line through the air that an aircraft follows when coming down to land: To get these shots, he stood under the glide paths of landing aircraft and photographed them as they roared overhead. A normal glidepath would have been approximately 900 feet at three miles, 500 feet at 1.8 miles and 300 feet at one mile. If I can't make it to the clearing, I'll adjust my glide-path to the right and land in the scrub. II. a series of events or actions leading smoothly to a particular outcome. a series of events or actions that lead to a particular result, usually a successful one: glide path to Next year's budget will be part of their glide path to lower spending. A couple of months ago, he appeared to be on a glide-path to re-election. The bank needs to manage the glidepath so that we move from steep rise to gradual slowdown. "we are on a glide path to success". Ultimately, however, she was unable to knock Mr Trump off his glide path to a third straight nomination. 18. A blind item 匿名传闻, 匿名谣言, 不指名道姓的传闻 is a news story, typically in a gossip column, in which the details of the matter are reported while the identities of the people involved are not revealed. The advent of gossip websites brought about more public debate and speculation about the individual blind item stories, and also about the ethics surrounding the practice. Audiences might use blind item material as a shared topic of conversation with peers, and perhaps even as a conversational entry point to a sensitive topic that is personal to them. 19. commiseration [kəˌmɪzəˈreɪʃn] I. sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; compassion. "the other actors offered him clumsy commiseration". II. expressions of sympathy and sorrow for another. an expression of sympathy for someone, especially someone who has lost a competition: Commiserations on losing the match! Our commiserations to the losing side! He accepted my commiserations gracefully and wished me well in the role. I expressed my commiserations to the losing candidates. Lucy offered me her commiserations but added that she is sure I'll be successful one day. "our commiserations to those who didn't win". commiserate [kəmɪzəreɪt] VERB If you commiserate with someone, you show them pity or sympathy when something unpleasant has happened to them. to feel or express sympathy for someone's suffering or unhappiness: She called to commiserate over his loss. When I lost, he commiserated with me. I began by commiserating with her over the defeat. 20. The Roosters released a statement on Thursday, saying Leniu will enter a guilty plea to a contrary conduct ( misconduct on the part of a Player constituted by. A player is guilty of Contrary Conduct if he behaves in a way that is contrary to the true spirit of the game. "The true spirit of the game" is defined as a spirit of sportsmanship and fair play in the course of a vigorous sporting contest. Leniu was on Monday hit with a contrary conduct charge, with the NRL referring him straight to the judiciary.) charge. "I want to apologise to Ezra and his family for using the word I did and I am sincerely sorry to cause him such distress," Leniu said. Leniu added: "I've put my hand up and want to take ownership of(ownership I. the state or fact of owning something: under sb's ownership The business has been under the same ownership for 44 years. home/property ownership The spiralling cost of housing has pushed home ownership beyond the reach of many people. share/stock ownership The organization promotes wider share ownership. take/acquire/retain ownership of sth Earlier this year the group took 51% ownership of the financial services unit. State-owned railways were taken into private ownership. II. the fact of taking responsibility for an idea or problem: We need someone to take ownership of the issue.) this. I said the word but I didn't mean it in a racist way. Anyone who knows me knows that's not who I am." Leniu has been referred straight to the NRL judiciary. 21. double-header two events, sports games, entertainments, etc. happening one after another: The two games were played as a double-header in Paris. In those days, films were double headers with an intermission. wiki: A doubleheader is a term used by television networks to refer to two games involving the same sport that are shown back-to-back on the same network, even though the events do not involve the same two teams (three such games may be referred to as a tripleheader, this scenario occurring most frequently in regard to basketball). A doubleheader purposely coincides with a league's scheduling of "early" and "late" games. In North America, games usually start at the same time period in different time zones (Eastern and Pacific). The concept is less often extended to three games—a tripleheader—or, much more rarely, a quadrupleheader of four games. 22. Social climbers Mary and George Villiers used sex and skulduggery to become King James I's favourites: Based on Benjamin Woolley's 2017 biography The King's Assassin: The Secret Plot to Murder James I, it is a stylish, darkly humorous take on the period drama in the vein of ( in the same vein as I. used to indicate that two or more things are the same, similar, or closely related. When it's used in the middle of a sentence, it's typically followed by the word as. it means much the same thing as like or similar to. I like to read novels in the same vein as those of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë. II. 同样的. The phrase is also often used to start a sentence to introduce something similar to what was just mentioned. The company has been investing in renewable energy. In the same vein, we're working to reduce the carbon footprint of our offices. When it begins a sentence, it usually means the same thing as words like similarly and likewise. Less common variations of the phrase include in a similar vein and along the same vein. The similar phrase along the same line(s) is used to mean the same thing. ) Yorgos Lanthimos' and Tony McNamara's 2018 film The Favourite and McNamara's TV series The Great, full of machinations (machinations [ˌmækɪˈneɪʃ(ə)nz]
secret, complicated, and clever plans and actions intended to achieve a
goal. a. an intrigue, plot, or scheme. b. the act of devising plots or
schemes. vocabulary: When
a James Bond villain comes up with a plan to destroy the world, he
doesn't use a simple plan. No, he uses a machination — a complex plot
that relies on numerous elements coming together to work. Not surprisingly, machination derives from the Medieval French machina, meaning "machine." And, like many a machine, a machination is subject to going wrong, often comically (see James Bond movies). Politicians love a good machination, and their machinations are frequently exposed in the press as scandals. Cordeaux also said: "Why are we going through these machinations about this young woman? She should have her bottom smacked."), salty insults( salty I. (figuratively, of language) Coarse; provocative; earthy. not polite and using swear words (= rude and offensive words): He admits that there's more public swearing now but maintains that salty language 粗话 is nothing new. My advice would be not to tell salty jokes in a wedding speech. II. (figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea). III. (slang) Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy. If someone is salty about something, they feel bitter or resentful about it. annoyed or upset, especially when this is unreasonable: I don't know why she's acting salty. He got salty with me because I wouldn't go out with him. IV. critical in a slightly funny way: She shocks students and colleagues with her salty wit. salty dog I. (US, Navy, Marines) An experienced sailor. II. (US, slang, dated) A sexually promiscuous man; a male sexual partner. ), and acres of bare flesh. Although historians can still be unduly squeamish ( squeamish [skwiːmɪʃ] 反应大的 If you are squeamish, you are easily upset by unpleasant sights or situations. easily upset or shocked by things that you find unpleasant or that you do not approve of: She's really squeamish and can't stand the sight of blood. Many cooks are squeamish about putting live shellfish into boiling water. I'm terribly squeamish. I can't bear gory films. I am not squeamish about blood. When you've got over your squeamishness, there will be no stopping you. ) when it comes to the labelling of sexual orientation, one doesn't even have to read that far between the lines to grasp the nature of this relationship. In the intervening ( intervening 当中的, 中间的 I. An intervening period of time is one that separates two events or points in time. happening between two times or between other events or activities: It was a long time since my last visit to Berlin, and it had changed dramatically in the intervening period/years. During those intervening years Bridget had married her husband Robert. I had spent the intervening time in London, with Gretchen. II. An intervening object or area comes between two other objects or areas. They had scoured the intervening miles of moorland.) centuries the Villiers family have remained woven through British royal and political life – from the mistress of Charles II to a Vicereine of India to a current sitting Tory MP. In fact, according to Gerald Malcolm Thomson, George's father can now be traced as a common ancestor for 16 different British Prime Ministers, including, most recently, David Cameron. Once cemented, aristocratic power rarely wanes. The higher you climb, the show implies, the further there is to fall 爬得越高, 摔得越响, but it may make the landing softer for future generations. 23. tenacious
I. 意志坚定的. 咬定青山不放松的. 认死理的. a tenacious person is very determined and is
not willing to stop when they are trying to achieve something. If you
are tenacious, you are very determined and do not give up easily. She
is very tenacious and will work hard and long to achieve objectives. He
is regarded at the BBC as a tenacious and persistent interviewer. holding tightly onto something, or keeping an opinion in a determined way: The baby took my finger in its tenacious little fist. There has been tenacious local opposition to the new airport. II. 根深蒂固的 tenacious ideas, beliefs, or habits
continue for a long time and are difficult to change. If you describe
something such as an idea or belief as tenacious, you mean that it has a
strong influence on people and is difficult to change or remove. ...a remarkably tenacious belief that was to dominate future theories of military strategy. pertinacious [ˌpəːtɪˈneɪʃəs] very determined and refusing to be defeated by problems. very determined and refusing to be defeated by problems: Like most successful politicians, she is pertinacious and single-minded in the pursuit of her goals. Like most successful politicians, she is pertinacious and single-minded in the pursuit of her goals. dogged very determined to continue doing something, or trying to do something, even when this is difficult or takes a long time: She was a dogged advocate of the struggle against injustice. He is dogged in his pursuit of his dreams.
