lekking

用法学习: 1. sockette [sɒˈkɛt] 低腰袜子 noun a small or short sock, esp one not covering the ankle. crevice [ˈkrɛvɪs] 缝隙 I. a narrow opening or fissure, especially in a rock or wall. a small, narrow crack or space, especially in the surface of rock. A crevice is a narrow crack or gap, especially in a rock. ...a huge boulder with rare ferns growing in every crevice. "many creatures hide in crevices in the rock". II. a deep line in an old person's face, or a deep fold in someone's body: The harsh light revealed every crevice and wrinkle in his face. Sweat poured out of every crevice of the fat man's body. crevasse [krɪˈvas] 冰隙 I. a deep open crack, especially one in a glacier. A crevasse is a large, deep crack in thick ice or rock. a very deep crack in the thick ice of a glacier (= moving mass of ice). He fell down a crevasse. II. North American a breach in the embankment of a river or canal. guttural [ˈɡʌt(ə)rəl] adj. (of a speech sound) produced in the throat; harsh-sounding. Guttural sounds are harsh sounds that are produced at the back of a person's throat. (of speech sounds) produced at the back of the throat and therefore deep: Two Egyptians were arguing outside the room, their voices loud and guttural. Joe had a low, guttural voice with a mid-Western accent. noun. a guttural consonant (e.g. k, g ) or other speech sound. 2. of a feather 一丘之貉, 物以类聚人以群分, 一个货色 of the same kind or nature. very much alike, usually used in the phrase birds of a feather. Those two guys are birds of a feather. Note: The expression birds of a feather flock together means that people who are alike tend to do things together. birds of a feather [flock together] often disapproving people who are similar in character. If you refer to two people as birds of a feather, you mean that they have the same interests or are very similar. people of the same sort or with the same tastes and interests will be found together. "these health professionals sure were birds of a feather". He'll like Tony - they're birds of a feather. scatty 心不在焉的, 漫不经心的 adj INFORMAL BRITISH absent-minded and disorganized. silly and often forgetting things. If you describe someone as scatty, you mean that they often forget things or behave in a silly way. Her mother is scatty and absent-minded.  a scatty child. scatty behaviour. "Julia sees herself as vaguely uneducated and slightly scatty". I'll have you know = I'll, he'll, etc. have you know 那我告诉你, 明白告诉你 used to emphasize something in a somewhat annoyed or angry way "Did your son go to college?" "Did he go to college? I'll have you know that he was given a full scholarship to Harvard!". used to emphasize something that you are telling someone: She's a very nice person, I'll have you know. I may look young, but I'll have you know I'm old enough to be your mother. And - as she'll have you know - it's an important job. be with it to be able to think or understand quickly. knowing a lot about new ideas and fashions: He reads all the style magazines and thinks he's really with it. You're not really with it today, are you? Oh, he's totally with it. I love it when students are tracking with the class. If you're going to take an 8 a.m. class, you need to be totally awake and with it or you'll fail. I'm sorry if that didn't make any sense - I'm not really with it this morning. He's smart but a little flaky, so even though he acts like he's not with it, he is listening. be on the ball, know the score, know what's going on, know what's what know - know how to do or perform something; "She knows how to knit"; "Does your husband know how to cook?" be with someone I. agree with or support someone. "we're all with you on this one". II. understand what someone is saying. "I'm not with you". tracking  = streaming 分班教育 I. the act of putting students with similar abilities in a group and teaching them together: Some people object to tracking because it gives an unfair advantage to intelligent children. In a school, a track ( = stream in UK) is a group of children of the same age and ability who are taught together. To track students 分流学生 means to divide them into groups according to their ability. Students are already being tracked. Tracking assigns some students to college prep and others to vocational programs. II. the activity of following a person or animal by looking for proof that they have been somewhere or by using electronic equipment: He is good at hunting and tracking. The tracking of big game requires a licence. tracking device She discovered a secret tracking device in her car. III. the use of electronic equipment to check where things such parcels or goods that are being sent somewhere are. The tracking of shipments is lax. The website provides both product availability information and order tracking. IV. the activity of recording the progress or development of something over time: The success of any objective requires the continuous tracking of progress 跟踪. It is important to have a national network of disease tracking. V. the position of the wheels on a vehicle, or the process of making sure the wheels of a vehicle are in the correct position: Usually when they balance the wheels they check the tracking. Wheel alignment, or tracking, is an important part of car maintenance. tracked 跟踪的, 追踪的, 有迹可循的 (of goods, a package, etc.) officially recorded as having left or arrived at various places on a route, when being sent to someone; relating to sending goods in this way. I've had two separate tracked packages lost in the last month, both with important documents in them. When you send a tracked shipment, you will receive a tracking number, which you can use to track the shipment online. For peace of mind, choose tracked delivery. 3. Honey Badger 蜜獾: Despite its name, the honey badger does not closely resemble other badger species; instead, it bears more anatomical similarities to weasels. It is primarily a carnivorous species and has few natural predators because of its thick skin, strength and ferocious 凶残的 defensive abilities. The honey badger is famous for its strength, ferocity and toughness. It is known to savagely and fearlessly attack almost any other species when escape is impossible, reportedly even repelling much larger predators such as lion and hyena. Bee stings, porcupine (豪猪, 又叫箭猪 Porcupines are large rodents with coats of sharp spines, or quills, that protect them against predation. ) quills, and animal bites rarely penetrate their skin. If horses, cattle, or Cape buffalos intrude upon a honey badger's burrow, it will attack them. In the Cape Province it is a potential prey species of the African leopard and African rock pythons. The honey badger is mostly solitary, but has also been sighted in Africa to hunt in pairs during the breeding season in May. It also uses old burrows of aardvark, warthog and termite mounds. It is a skilled digger, able to dig tunnels into hard ground in 10 minutes. These burrows usually have only one entry, are usually only 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in) long with a nesting chamber that is not lined with any bedding. The European pine marten 松貂 ( any of several agile arboreal musteline mammals of the genus Martes, of Europe, Asia, and North America, having bushy tails and golden brown to blackish fur. the highly valued fur of these animals, esp that of M. americana. ) (Martes martes), also known as the pine marten, is a mustelid native to and widespread in most of Europe, Asia Minor, the Caucasus and parts of Iran, Iraq and Syria. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. It is less commonly also known as baum marten or sweet marten. pine marten: a marten, Martes martes, of N European and Asian coniferous woods, having dark brown fur with a creamy-yellow patch on the throat. sweet marten a name for the pine marten, referring to the fact that its scent glands produce a less offensive scent marker than that of the polecat (the foul marten or foumart). 4. luscious [ˈlʌʃəs] I. 鲜嫩多汁的. (of food or drink) having a pleasingly rich, sweet taste. Luscious food is juicy and very good to eat. ...a small apricot tree which bore luscious fruit. "a luscious and fragrant dessert wine". II. appealing strongly to the senses; pleasingly rich. "the luscious brush strokes and warm colours of these late masterpieces". Robertson has brought her dog, Mac, a huge, luscious brown flat-coated retriever who she keeps under control using a rope lead, gentle commands, a whistle and a pungent bum bag of sprats 一种鱼 from which she occasionally feeds him. Sprat is the common name applied to a group of forage fish belonging to the genus Sprattus in the family Clupeidae. III. very sexually attractive. If you describe a person or something about them as luscious, you mean that you find them or this thing sexually attractive. ...a luscious young blonde. What I like most about Gabby is her luscious lips! "he'll fall for a luscious Spanish girl who can match him in passion". The decoy ploy to save Scotland's elusive 喜欢躲着人的 capercaillie: Capercaillie are the world's largest grouse ( grouse [ɡraʊs] 松鸡 noun. 复数也是grouse. A grouse is a wild bird with a round body. Grouse are often shot for sport and can be eaten. The party had been to the grouse moors that morning. Grouse is the flesh of this bird eaten as food. The menu included roast grouse. verb. If you grouse, you complain. She's always grousing about how she's been treated by the management. 'How come we never know what's going on?' he groused. When they groused about the parking regulations, they did it with good humor. noun. A grouse is a complaint. There have been grouses about the economy, interest rates and house prices. ), famed for the males' beautiful fan tails and "leks" – gatherings of males who put on a show for females during the breeding season. They're also extremely secretive and have a notorious hatred of disturbance. In the depths of the old Scots pine trees of Abernethy Forest, researcher and conservationist Jack Bamber has just dumped a pile of deer meat in the hope of attracting every nearby predator in a half km radius. It may sound ominous, but it's all part of plan to divert predators who might otherwise be interested in lunching on a capercaillie chick. We take a walk along the most used path of the nature reserve, to avoid the less-used parts where she says capercaillie are more likely to be. "Even if your dog is, as Mac is, on a lead, the very fact that he's here with us increases the likelihood of the capercaillie feeling threatened," says Robertson. Off the lead, dogs have been shown to flush out ground nesting birds with worryingly high rates. Dogs disturb capercaillie far less when kept under close control – as Carolyn Robertson does with her flat-coated retriever. Dogs are a common sight here: alongside resident dogs 家狗, the region has around 6,000 resident dogs and sees an estimated 150,000 visiting dogs per year. Robertson says an information campaign with resident dog walkers in the nearby Boat of Garten area has seen good results, with capercaillie now seen lekking ( lek a small area in which birds of certain species, notably the black grouse, gather for sexual display and courtship. ) for longer. "The local dog walkers [now] feel that it's their responsibility to look after the capercaillies," she says. The hope is that residents will set the tone for visitors, who are less likely to have heard of a capercaillie, let alone understand the impact their dogs might have on them. More difficult to contend with is some nature enthusiasts' desire to see or photograph a capercaillie, particularly while they are lekking(However, lek numbers tend to give only a rough idea of how the population is faring and tend to fluctuate from year to year. They have remained at roughly similar levels since 2021.). Leks involve males gathering together on the forest floor in spring to strut around for hours, fanning their magnificent tails, sounding an array of pops, clicks and whistles, and fighting each other, while the far smaller females scrutinise them from the treetops. A single photographer chasing a shot of a lek can end up disturbing and even disbanding it for good, says Robertson, adding that leks can otherwise remain in the same place for decades. When Robertson sees photos of capercaillie taken without a licence, she says, she just feels sadness for what are probably very stressed birds. Many people use these woodlands for recreational purposes, and Scotland's right to roam gives them the right to, so long as they act responsibly. But people themselves also disrupt capercaillie. Still, Scotland's right to roam ( The freedom to roam, or everyone's right, every person's right or everyman's right, is the general public's right to access certain public or privately owned land, lakes, and rivers for recreation and exercise. The right is sometimes called the right of public access to the wilderness or the right to roam. In Austria, Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, the freedom to roam takes the form of general public rights which are sometimes codified in law. The access is ancient in parts of Northern Europe and has been regarded as sufficiently fundamental that it was not formalised in law until modern times. However, the right usually does not include any substantial economic exploitation, such as hunting or logging, or disruptive activities, such as making fires and driving offroad vehicles. In countries without such general rights, there may be a network of rights of way, or some nature reserves with footpaths. ) gives them the right to. 5. tack noun. I. A tack is a short nail with a broad, flat head, especially one that is used for fastening carpets to the floor. II. a long, loose stitch. III. all the objects that the rider of a horse needs, including saddles and bridles. IV. the direction or distance that a boat moves at an angle to the direction of the wind, so that the boat receives the wind on its sails: on a port/starboard tack The ship was on the starboard tack. thumbtack ( = drawing pin UK) 大头钉, 图钉 A thumbtack is a short pin with a broad flat top which is used for fastening papers or pictures to a board, wall, or other surface. to get down to brass tacks If you get down to brass tacks, you discuss the basic, most important facts of a situation. Let's take a quick look round and then we can get down to brass tacks. to change tack If you change tack or try a different tack, you try a different method for dealing with a situation. In desperation I changed tack. This report takes a different tack from the 20 that have come before. tack verb. I. If you tack something to a surface, you pin it there with tacks or drawing pins. He had tacked this note to her door. She had recently taken a poster from the theatre and tacked it up on the wall. to fasten something to a place with tacks. II. If a sailing boat is tacking or if the people in it tack it, it is sailing towards a particular point in a series of sideways movements rather than in a straight line. (of a boat) to turn so that it is at an angle to the direction of the wind and receives the wind  on its sails. We were tacking fairly close inshore. Our last trip involved a coastal passage, tacking east against wind and current. The helmsman could tack the boat singlehanded. Originally taking office as a moderate, Elise Stefanik has tacked further to the right, and was among the lawmakers who voted against certifying Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election - showing her commitment to Trump's false claim that the election was rigged. III. If you tack pieces of material together, you sew them together with big, loose stitches in order to hold them firmly or check that they fit, before sewing them properly. Tack them together with a 1.5 cm seam. Tack the cord around the cushion. IV. (US baste (baste the seams)) to sew with a long, loose stitch that holds two pieces of material together temporarily, before they are sewn together in a more tidy or permanent way. baste [beɪst]: If you baste meat, you pour hot fat and the juices from the meat itself over it while it is cooking. to pour hot fat and liquid over meat while it is cooking: Baste the turkey at regular intervals. Pam was in the middle of basting the turkey. Bake for 15-20 minutes, basting occasionally. tack on If you say that something is tacked on to something else, you think that it is added in a hurry and in an unsatisfactory way. to add something that you had not planned to add, often without much preparation or thought: tack something on to something At the last minute they tacked on a couple of extra visits to my schedule. The child-care bill is to be tacked on to the budget plan. 6. recriminatory involving arguments between people who are blaming each other: Eventually the couple become angry and recriminatory. There has been a wave of recriminatory statements by rival leaders. recrimination [rɪˌkrɪmɪˈneɪʃn] 指责 an accusation in response to one from someone else. Recriminations are accusations that two people or groups make about each other. arguments between people who are blaming each other: Western leaders, instead of presenting a coherent policy, have repeatedly lapsed into finger-pointing and recrimination. The peace talks broke down and ended in bitter mutual recrimination(s). The bitter rows and recriminations have finally ended the relationship. The war sweeps up everyone in hatred and recrimination. "there are no tears, no recriminations". Democrats are, meanwhile, coming to terms with the massive fallout of their failure to stop Trump‘s return to power, even as they dissolve into self-recrimination 自责. They lack a clear leader to revive their message or a platform of power if Republicans retain control of the House. This will only strengthen Trump's hand in the weeks ahead. aberrate [ˈæbəˌreɪt] verb to deviate from what is normal or correct. aberration [ˌabəˈreɪʃn] 不和谐的小插曲, 个例, 孤例, 特例 ( outlier 异常值, 离群值, 飞值) [formal, disapproval] I. a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically an unwelcome one. If someone considers a person or their behaviour to be an aberration, they think that they are strange and not socially acceptable. a temporary change from the typical or usual way of behaving: mental aberration I'm sorry I'm late - I had a mental aberration and forgot we had a meeting today. In a moment of aberration, she agreed to go with him. The misconduct was an aberration from the norm for him. The drop in our school’s test scores was dismissed as an aberration. Single people are treated as an aberration and made to pay a supplement. "they described the outbreak of violence in the area as an aberration". II. An aberration is an incident or way of behaving that is not typical. It became very clear that the incident was not just an aberration. A growing sense of frantic reordering and recalculation inside the United States and abroad underscores how Trump will return to office more powerful than he ever was in his first term, with the advantage of fewer restraints. His march to victory in all seven battleground states — he won Arizona, according to a CNN projection on Saturday — offers him popular legitimacy. And his historic achievement of becoming only the second president to win a non-consecutive term means he's now a historic figure not an aberration. Data aberrations can manifest in different forms, including outliers, missing values, or unexpected spikes and drops in data trends. These irregularities can distort the results of data analysis, leading to incorrect conclusions and potentially flawed business decisions. 7. denizen [denɪzən] 住民, 居民 A denizen of a particular place is a person, animal, or plant that lives or grows in this place. an animal, plant, or person that lives in or is often in a particular place: denizen of Deer and squirrels are among the denizens of the forest. Gannets are denizens of the open ocean. ...the denizens of Her Majesty's House of Commons. Pompeo, the former CIA director and secretary of state, was seen as loyal to Trump in his first term. But he was recently branded a denizen of the "Deep State" by Trump consigliere Roger Stone. consigliere [ˌkɒnsɪɡlɪˈɛərɪ] 军师 (adviser) I. a trusted adviser, esp in a criminal organization. an adviser to an important or high-ranking person. "his father's consigliere took care of business". II. a member of a Mafia family who serves as an adviser to the leader and resolves disputes within the family. sage [seɪdʒ] noun. I. (especially in ancient history or legend) a profoundly wise man. A sage is a person who is regarded as being very wise.  ...ancient Chinese sages 智者. "the sayings of the numerous venerable sages". Several people who have worked with Ms Wiles said in interviews on Thursday she would provide stability and sage counsel to Trump in the White House, according to Reuters. II. Sage is a herb used in cooking. Sage is a plant with grey-green leaves and purple, blue, or white flowers. adj. profoundly wise. Sage means wise and knowledgeable, especially as the result of a lot of experience. He was famous for his sage advice to younger painters. "they nodded in agreement with these sage remarks".  Susan nodded sagely as if what I had said was profoundly significant. The family sagely married into American money many years ago. 8. dusty I. covered in dust. If places, roads, or other things outside are dusty, they are covered with tiny bits of earth or sand, usually because it has not rained for a long time. They started strolling down the dusty road in the moonlight. ...a dusty old car. Piles of dusty books lay on the floor. We drove along the dusty road. If a room, house, or object is dusty, it is covered with very small pieces of dirt. ...a dusty attic. The books looked faded, dusty and unused.  II. slightly grey in colour: dusty pink. III. lacking vitality. 没精神的, 疲累的. dusty scholarship. vitality [vaɪtælɪti] 精力, 活力 If you say that someone or something has vitality, you mean that they have great energy and liveliness. Without continued learning, graduates will lose their intellectual vitality. Mr Li said China's reforms had brought vitality to its economy. The state in which one wakes after a heavy night involving alcoholic beverages (getting otfp). The state is known to make people say things they never usually say, such as: "Can someone just fucking kill me", "I'm never drinking again". It's a feeling that no person ever wants to experience, as it reminds them that they are aging and their body can no longer perform with ease the next day, after participating in a bender or a big night out. "I just woke up and fuckk I'm Dusty". "I have never been this Dusty in my life.". Australian slang for 'hungover'. Imagine an old box that's been in the garage for a few years. Covered in dust. Smells like shit. A few spiders inside. That's you on Sunday mornings. Collocations: someone be dusty; someone feel dusty. IV. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Ugly, disgusting (a general term of abuse). V. (British, slang, chiefly in negative constructions) Ugly, unwell, inadequate, bad. a dusty answer an unhelpful or bad-tempered reply. not so dusty not too bad; fairly well: often in response to the greeting how are you? UNSATISFACTORY —used especially in the phrases dusty answer and not so dusty. dust-ridden 尘灰满面的, 满面灰尘的, 风尘仆仆的, 满是灰尘的 Full of or covered with dust. ridden I. harassed, oppressed, or obsessed by —usually used in combination. guilt-ridden. debt-ridden. II. excessively full of or supplied with —usually used in combination. slum-ridden. vocabulary: When you call something dusty, it's either literally covered in dust or so old and unoriginal that it might as well be. You can use a feather duster to clean off dusty surfaces, but if something is a dusty color, that just means it's got a grayish tint to it, like dusty pink or dusty blue. If something has been around for a really long time and it's worn-out, stale, or unoriginal, you can also call it dusty. If you're a stand up comedian whose been working the same act for thirty years, chances are your jokes are getting a little dusty. 8. prescribe 指使 I. If a doctor prescribes medicine or treatment for you, he or she tells you what medicine or treatment to have. (of a doctor) to say what medical treatment someone should have: The drug is often prescribed for ulcers. I've been prescribed painkillers. Our doctor diagnosed a throat infection and prescribed antibiotics and junior aspirin. She took twice the prescribed dose of sleeping tablets. The law allows doctors to prescribe contraception to the under 16s. II. If a person or set of laws or rules prescribes an action or duty, they state that it must be carried out. to tell someone what they must have or do, or to make a rule of something: Penalties for not paying taxes are prescribed by law. The law prescribes that all children must go to school. Grammatical rules prescribe how words may be used together. ...article II of the constitution, which prescribes the method of electing a president. Alliott told Singleton he was passing the sentence prescribed by law. But Rudd has received the unlikely backing of fellow former prime minister Tony Abbott, who said the US administration shouldn't be prescribing who can or can't be an Australian ambassador. prescriptive saying exactly what must happen, especially by giving an instruction or making a rule. A prescriptive approach to something involves telling people what they should do, rather than simply giving suggestions or describing what is done. ...prescriptive attitudes to language on the part of teachers. The psychologists insist, however, that they are not being prescriptive.  Most teachers think the government's guidelines on homework are too prescriptive. "It would be unusual for our closest ally to start being prescriptive about who can and can't be our ambassador," Abbott said. injudicious [ˌɪndʒʊˈdɪʃəs] 不明智的, 说话造次的, 不过大脑的, 不识大局的, 不识大体的, 不得体的 [formal, disapproval] If you describe a person or something that they have done as injudicious, you are critical of them because they have shown very poor judgment. showing bad judgment. showing very poor judgement; unwise. "I took a few injudicious swigs of potent cider". an injudicious remark. He blamed injudicious comments by bankers for last week's devaluation. "Sure, Rudd has said some injudicious things about the incoming president, but a lot of people have, including a lot of people on my side of politics here in Australia. vocabulary: A decision that's not very smart or well thought out can be called injudicious. It would be injudicious to spend your last five dollars on a fancy coffee drink. When you regret something you've done, you might decide in retrospect that it was injudicious. It's injudicious to spread rumors about a friend, because it's not thoughtful. It's also injudicious to ride in a fast-moving car without a seat belt, because it's dangerous. Judicious means "showing good judgment," from the Latin root iudicium, or "judgment."

In military organizations, a colour guard 国旗护卫队( Ecuador international soccer player Marco Angulo has died at the age of 22, the Ecuadorian Football Federation said in a statement.  "The Ecuadorian Football Federation expresses its deepest sympathy over the death of Marco Angulo, who with his talent and dedication defended the colours of our country at every opportunity," the governing body wrote.) (or color guard) is a detachment of soldiers assigned to the protection of regimental colours and the national flag. This duty is highly prestigious, and the military colour is generally carried by a young officer (ensign), while experienced non-commissioned officers (colour sergeants) are assigned to the protection of the national flag. These non-commissioned officers, accompanied in several countries by warrant officers, can be ceremonially armed with either sabres or rifles to protect the colour. Colour guards are generally dismounted 不骑马的, but there are also mounted colour guard formations as well. Colour guards are used in the military throughout the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia. A colour guard unit typically consists of the standard-bearer, who is of the rank of second lieutenant or equivalent (pilot officer or sub-lieutenant), positioned in the centre of the colour guard, flanked by two or more individuals, typically armed with rifles or sabres. A colour sergeant major typically stands behind the colours carrying a pace stick. In military organizations, the practice of carrying colours, standards, flags, or guidons, both to act as a rallying point for troops and to mark the location of the commander, is thought to have originated in Ancient Egypt some 5,000 years ago. The Roman Empire also made battle standards reading SPQR a part of their vast armies. It was formalized in the armies of Europe in the High Middle Ages, with standards being emblazoned with the commander's coat of arms. Regimental flags are generally awarded to a regiment by a head of state during a ceremony. They were therefore treated with respect as they represented the honour and traditions of the regiment. Colours may be inscribed with the names of battles or other symbols representing former achievements (see battle honours). Regiments tended to adopt "colour guards 军旗, 仪仗旗", composed of experienced or élite soldiers, to protect their colours. As a result, the capture of an enemy's standard was considered as a great feat of arms. They are never capriciously 随意的 destroyed – when too old to use they are replaced and then laid up in museums, religious buildings and other places of significance to their regiment. However, in most modern armies, standing orders now call for the colours to be intentionally destroyed if they are ever in jeopardy of being captured by the enemy. Due to the advent of modern weapons, and subsequent changes in tactics, colours are no longer carried into battle, but continue to be used at events of formal character.