用法学习: 1. glyphosate [ˈɡlʌɪfə(ʊ)seɪt] 草甘膦, 除草剂 a synthetic compound which is a non-selective systemic herbicide, particularly effective against perennial weeds. a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide and crop desiccant. potassium [pə'tæsiəm] 钾 Potassium is a soft silvery-white chemical element, which occurs mainly in compounds. These compounds are used in making such things as glass, soap, and fertilizers. The potassium in asparagus can help to control blood pressure. The glycemic [ɡlaɪˌsiː.mɪk] index (GI) 升糖指数 is a measure of how quickly a food raises blood sugar levels: A number from 0 to 100 that indicates how much a food raises blood glucose levels compared to pure glucose, which has a GI of 100. Foods with a high GI cause blood sugar to rise quickly, while foods with a low GI release sugar into the blood more slowly. Foods that contain carbohydrates (sugars and starches) have a GI, while foods like oils, fats, and meats do not. A low GI diet can help manage blood sugar levels, reduce cholesterol, and promote short-term weight loss. 2. Rudd spoke sense ( talk sense 说得有道理, 讲话合理 to speak in a reasonable way. If you say that someone talks sense, you mean that what they say is sensible. It's good to hear someone finally talking sense on this issue.) about Trump. It's a vengeful News Corp that has the explaining to do: Malcolm Turnbull, who replaced Rudd as co-chair of the Australians for a Murdoch Royal Commission group when Rudd went to Washington, attacked Murdoch's acolytes( acolyte [ækəlaɪt] 帮凶, 打手 I. An acolyte is a follower or assistant of an important person. Richard Brome, an acolyte of Ben Jonson's, wrote 'The Jovial Crew' in 1641. To his acolytes, he is known simply as 'the Boss'. II. An acolyte is someone who assists a priest in performing certain religious services. anyone who follows or helps another person, or someone who helps a priest in some religious ceremonies When the barge reached the shrine, acolytes removed the pall. ): "This is revenge … this is a campaign that News Corp kicked off, and they are running a vendetta … The question for the Trump adulators ( adulator 谄媚者 a person who obsequiously praises or flatters. adulate [ˈadjʊleɪt] to flatter or praise obsequiously. to admire or praise someone very much, especially when this is more than is deserved: The boxer was convicted of rape, and yet is still adulated by many. obsequious [ɒbsiːkwiəs] [disapproval] adj. If you describe someone as obsequious, you are criticizing them because they are too eager to help or agree with someone more important than them. Perhaps your mother was very obsequious to doctors. Synonyms: servile, flattering, cringing, fawning More Synonyms of obsequious He smiled and bowed obsequiously to Winger. His tone quickly changed from obsequiousness to outright anger. vocabulary: If you disapprove of the overly submissive way someone is acting — like the teacher's pet or a celebrity's assistant — call them by the formal adjective obsequious. There are many words in the English language for a person or an action that is overly obedient and submissive. Obsequious people are usually not being genuine; they resort to flattery and other fawning ways to stay in the good graces of authority figures. An obsequious person can be called a bootlicker, a brownnoser or a toady. You can also say that someone gives an obsequious bow, a gesture that means, "your wish is my command." ) in the right-wing media ecosystem in Australia is whether they want our representative in Washington to stand up for Australia, or join the ranks of the Trump sycophants." Only a small-minded nation would withdraw an ambassador for fear the diplomat might be unacceptable to an incoming administration. Hard-headed diplomacy is required, not craven ( craven [kreɪvən] 懦弱无能的 adj. [written, disapproval] Someone who is craven is very cowardly: a craven act of terrorism. Politicians are too craven to tackle this problem. They condemned the deal as a craven surrender. ...his craven obedience to his employers. ) sycophancy 巴结奉承. 3. a fine/pretty kettle of fish 乱局, 乱象 An unpleasant or messy predicament Well, that's a pretty kettle of fish. I thought I paid the credit card bill, but it turns out that I missed the due date by a week. They haven't spoken in years, and they're assigned to adjoining seats-that's a fine kettle of fish. He found out about my involvement and is using it to blackmail me—isn't that a fine kettle of fish? Well, isn't that a fine kettle of fish? Every time we win, so does the team we're competing against for that last playoff spot. Note: This term is believed to come from a Scottish custom of holding a riverside picnic, itself called a "kettle of fish," where freshly caught live salmon are thrown into a kettle boiling over an open fire and then are eaten out of hand, definitely a messy procedure. a different/another kettle of fish A very different matter or issue, not necessarily a bad one. They're paying for the meal? That's a different kettle of fish. fish and company stink/smell after three days 待时间长了惹人嫌 proverb One should not remain in some place as someone's guest for too long or else one's company will cease being desirable or enjoyable. (Fish that are not fresh typically have a very strong odor.) After the cool reception I received at breakfast, I was reminded of the adage "Fish and company stink after three days." Grandma has been super welcoming, but I think it's probably best if we head out tonight. Fish and company stink after three days. I truly didn't expect to stay with Jenn and her family for so long. After all, my parents raised me on the idea that fish and company stink after three days. and company You can say and company after mentioning a person's name, to refer also to the people who are associated with that person. and other people: K. Branagh and co. achieved great success in a very short time. and Company = & Co = and Co words used as part of the name of a company that is owned by more than one person: Five new Tiffany and Company boutiques were opened. 4. war game I. War games are military exercises that are carried out for the purpose of training, and that are designed to imitate a real war as closely as possible. II. A war game is a game in which model soldiers are used to recreate battles that happened in the past. War games can also be played on computers. The announcement came after several busy days of nominations from the Trump camp, which has been war-gaming what the next White House will look like from the president-elect's private Palm Beach club, Mar-a-Lago. wiki: A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a simulation of an armed conflict. Wargaming may be played for recreation, to train military officers in the art of strategic thinking, or to study the nature of potential conflicts. Many wargames re-create specific historic battles, and can cover either whole wars, or any campaigns, battles, or lower-level engagements within them. Many simulate land combat, but there are wargames for naval, air combat, and cyber as well as many that combine various domains. 5. In British English, a lido [ˈliːdoʊ] [ˈlaɪdoʊ] is a public outdoor swimming pool and surrounding facilities, or part of a beach where people can swim, lie in the sun, or participate in water sports. On a cruise ship or ocean liner, the lido deck ( She runs an "anti-woke" PR firm and described the jockeying for White House positions going on at Trump's sprawling Florida estate as "like House of Cards on the lido deck". ) features outdoor pools and related facilities. Lido, an Italian word for "beach", forms part of the place names of several Italian seaside towns known for their beaches, such as Lido di Venezia, the barrier beach enclosing the Venetian Lagoon. "Meet me on the lido deck" is a phrase you'll hear often on your cruise -- and a sentence you might utter yourself. But what exactly is the lido deck, apart from its prominent marking on the cruise-ship map? The name comes from Italian roots; a lido refers to a public outdoor swimming pool, or a beach where people gather to swim. Accordingly, the lido deck is traditionally the ship deck that is home to the outdoor swimming pool, and adjacent bars and dining options. 6. Trump Transitioning: Trump dines at a table that has been roped off 圈起来, although that doesn't stop people from sidling up in an attempt to gain his ear. Attendees dine on roasted octopus 烤鱿鱼 and scallops, lamb shanks, Wagyu steak, branzino, tuna tartar and — among the most popular dishes, according to Ms Rein Lively — braised cabbage. Before sitting down to eat, the whole crowd recites the pledge of allegiance. Mr Leamer said Trump has long felt relaxed inside his "presidential palace". striation [straɪˈeɪ.ʃən] a long, thin line, mark, or strip of colour. a pattern of lines or grooves on the surface of something What has caused the striations in this rock? stria [ˈstraɪə] I. = striation geology any of the parallel scratches or grooves on the surface of a rock caused by abrasion resulting from the passage of a glacier, motion on a fault surface, etc. II. fine ridges and grooves on the surface of a crystal caused by irregular growth. III. biology, anatomy a narrow band of colour or a ridge, groove, or similar linear mark, usually occurring in a parallel series. IV. a narrow channel, such as a flute on the shaft of a column. striated muscle 纵横交错的肌肉块(横纹肌) muscle tissue that is marked by transverse dark and light bands, is made up of elongated usually multinucleated fibers, and includes skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, and most muscle of arthropods. smooth muscle 平滑肌 muscle tissue that lacks cross striations, is made up of elongated spindle-shaped cells having a central nucleus, and is found especially in vertebrate hollow organs and structures (such as the digestive tract and bladder) as thin sheets performing functions not subject to direct voluntary control and in all or most of the musculature of invertebrates other than arthropods. Non-striated 非横纹的 means without striations, or unstriped. In the context of muscle, non-striated refers to muscle that lacks sarcomeres, which are bands or stripes. Skeletal muscle 骨骼肌 (commonly referred to as muscle) is one of the three types of vertebrate muscle tissue, the other being cardiac muscle 心肌 and smooth muscle. They are part of the voluntary muscular system and typically are attached by tendons to bones of a skeleton. The skeletal muscle cells are much longer than in the other types of muscle tissue, and are also known as muscle fibers. The tissue of a skeletal muscle is striated – having a striped appearance due to the arrangement of the sarcomeres. 7. codify [ˈkəʊdɪfʌɪ] I. 入法. 写入法律. 立法. arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code. to arrange something, such as laws or rules, into a system. to organize and write a law or system of laws. "the statutes have codified certain branches of common law". to arrange something such as laws or rules into a formal system for people to follow. If you codify a set of rules, you define them or present them in a clear and ordered way. The latest draft of the agreement codifies the panel's decision. The codification of the laws began in the 1840s. The essential function of our organization is to codify best banking practice. codify sth into sth We don't object to better standards, but we don't want them codified into state law. In September 1992, Carson appeared in an advertisement opposing Maryland Question 6, a referendum on a bill to codify the Roe v. Wade decision, in which he said he opposed abortion and would refer patients seeking the procedure to other doctors. II. arrange according to a plan or system. "this would codify existing intergovernmental cooperation on drugs". 8. dexterity [dekˈster.ə.ti] 心灵手巧 I. the ability to perform a difficult action quickly and skilfully with the hands: with dexterity He caught the ball with great dexterity. Young children lack the dexterity to brush their teeth effectively. II. the ability to think quickly and effectively or do something difficult extremely well: with the dexterity of He answered the reporters' questions with all the dexterity 熟稔, 娴熟 of a politician. vocal dexterity The duo's vocal dexterity is something to behold. manual dexterity someone's ability to use the hands to perform a difficult action skilfully and quickly so that it looks easy. dexterous = dextrous [ˈdek.strəs] I. having the ability to perform a difficult action quickly and skilfully with the hands: a dexterous movement. Baseball players have to be fast and dexterous. Raccoons have highly dexterous 灵巧的 front feet that are shaped like human hands. II. 反应快的. having the ability to think quickly and effectively or to do something difficult extremely well: She was lively and dexterous intellectually. He is a dexterous debater who deals swiftly with interrogators. turn the tide = the tide turns 转运, 时来运转, 改变命运, 运气上升 to reverse the general course of events. used to say that someone's luck is changed The team was on a losing streak, but then the tide turned and they went on to win the championship. Things begin to change (in favor of someone or something). For years now, it's felt like the working class has been the hostage of the rich elite, but the tide finally seems to be turning. The tide turned, though, when the team's star defensive tackle recovered a fumble and ran it back for a touchdown. the trend changed from one thing to another. We planned our investments to take advantage of the growth of the stock market. Then the tide turned and we lost buckets of money. For a long time there has been little political freedom, but slowly the tide is turning. 9. have two left feet to move in a very awkward way when dancing: When we danced together, I discovered he had two left feet. used to describe a person who dances badly My wife is a good dancer, but I've got two left feet. In human biology, footedness is the natural preference of one's left or right foot for various purposes. It is the foot equivalent of handedness 左撇子右撇子. While purposes vary, such as applying the greatest force in a certain foot to complete the action of kick as opposed to stomping, footedness is most commonly associated with the preference of a particular foot in the leading position while engaging in foot- or kicking-related sports, such as association football and kickboxing. A person may thus be left-footed, right-footed or ambipedal (able to use both feet equally well). loosey-goosey adjective informal North American I. imprecise, disorganized, or excessively relaxed. comfortable and relaxed: The show possesses a loosey-goosey freedom, creating a style of comedy that sets it apart from similar shows. The movie is aiming for the loosey-goosey chaos of the old Looney Tunes cartoons. "other guys can goof around, be all loosey-goosey before a game". II. not careful, accurate, or exact enough, or not tightly controlled: a loosey-goosey attitude. This idea is way too loosey-goosey to get past a curriculum committee. We can tackle the problem, as long as we don't have that loosey-goosey regulation that we had in the past. 10. time hangs/lies heavy on your hands 百无聊赖, 无事可做, 无所事事 if time hangs or lies heavy on your hands, it seems to pass slowly because you are bored or have nothing to do. you might say "time hangs heavy on one's hands" when someone is sitting with nothing to do or waiting for an appointment. The phrase compares the passage of time to a burdensome weight. She adjusted quite well to the nursing home, except that she says time hangs heavy on her hands. heavy schedule 紧密行程, 忙碌行程 There will be a heavy promotional schedule from March onwards. Despite this heavy schedule, she took good care of her child. time heavy: 需要很多时间. 花费很多时间. "This car is heavy on petrol"
"The woman is going heavy on the ketchup". "The engine is heavy on fuel 耗油". "His movies are light/low on talk and heavy on action". "She tends to be heavy on the salt 吃很多盐". be/go heavy on something to use a lot of something: The engine is heavy on fuel. You are going heavy on chicken salt. You can never have enough of chicken salt.
Oktoberfest Love Story: Mandy decided she wasn't going to wait around for the fates to conspire 命运之门开启, hoping against the odds their paths might cross again. She was going to make it happen — going to ensure they saw each other for a second time. Mandy enjoyed all aspects of the festival — from dressing up in her dirndl to enjoying "heartwarming Bavarian folk music" — but it was the pervading ( 无处不在的. omnipresent; felt everywhere Throughout the book there is a pervading sense of menace. There is a pervading atmosphere of gloom in the film. The pervading feeling is that economic recovery is near. pervade 无孔不入 When qualities, characteristics, or smells pervade a place or thing, they spread through it and are present in every part of it. to spread through all parts of something: The influence of the early jazz musicians pervades American music. The film movie is a reflection of the violence that pervades our culture. If something pervades a place or thing, it is a noticeable feature throughout it. The smell of sawdust and glue pervaded the factory. ...the corruption that pervades every stratum of the country. Throughout the book there is a pervading sense of menace. ) atmosphere of "togetherness, joy" that appealed to Mandy the most. For Mandy, this was epitomised in the festival's romantic origin story. She cleared a bit of space on the bench next to her, and Rags sat down. He was wearing a bright blue T-shirt that said, "Super Drinker" in Superman-esque font. It was slightly too tight, riding up 鼓起来, 翘起来 at the front. This was undoubtedly a questionable fashion choice, but Mandy let it slide. She was instantly intrigued by Rags — even as she wondered if she'd heard his name right. The two stayed out into the early hours. But then "it was over quite abruptly," as Mandy puts it. "I was suddenly like, 'I need to open up work'. Meanwhile, Rags needed to jump into the car with his friends and go back to London. We both got flung into reality 拉回现实 quickly." Rags accompanied Mandy to her restaurant, where she fiddled with the keys to open the doors and where they said goodbye — reluctantly and quickly — only just remembering to share email addresses before parting ways. He extolled ( If you extol something or someone, you praise them enthusiastically. Now experts are extolling the virtues of the humble potato. They kept extolling my managerial skills. ) the virtues 好处, 优点 of New Zealand — not just incredible landscapes but a higher quality of life for Mandy and her son. Mandy was sold, and the couple started planning a move across the globe. "Navigating that kind of grief together wasn't easy and took a very long time — years actually, Mandy says. "But Rags was unwavering. His loyalty, patience, forgiveness, and boundless love held us together when things were toughest or I was wanting to quit. Slowly, with his support, we found a way through the darkness." This was one of the "saddest times" in their lives, Mandy says. But as time went on, she says the couple "emerged stronger, with an even deeper bond".
GPs are fighting 'pseudo beauty wellness' companies for access to IV fluids (Intravenous (IV) fluids): Australia has been grappling with a global shortfall of IV fluids like saline and sodium lactate solution, essential medicines used across the sector from treating dehydration to helping patients in intensive and post-operative care. "We're having to ration care 省着用, and that means we are making some difficult choices about who or what medical condition is more deserving of this IV therapy. "It's a very uncomfortable position to be in, and in modern day Australia it shouldn't be happening." For Tamara, the use of IV fluids has been nothing short of life changing. She was using one to two litres of IV fluids a day to treat her condition, describing it as her "best symptom management technique outside of all of the medications." But she is now unable to access any bags from suppliers at an affordable price. Higher-than-expected demand and manufacturing constraints have fuelled the global supply shortages. Since the shortage hit, criticism has been levelled at the federal government as Australian manufacturers have struggled to plug the gap. "It is frustrating that sterile salt water — saline [UK: ˈseɪlʌɪn. US: ˈseɪliːn] 生理盐水, we call it — is in short supply in Australia," Denise Lyons said. Doctors are fighting against "pseudo medical wellness" companies for access to IV fluids amid a worldwide shortage, as sourcing the essential medicine continues to prove a challenge. A fixture on the arms of social media influencers and celebrities, IV vitamin therapy promises anti-ageing benefits, supercharged immunity and enhanced energy for hundreds of dollars a session. Wellness companies offer IV vitamin drips 点滴, 输液 which promise anti-ageing benefits and enhanced energy.
