用法学习: 1. galore [gə'lɔːr] = in abundance adj. You use galore to emphasize that something you like exists in very large quantities. in great amounts or numbers: And to satisfy your sweet tooth, this café has desserts galore. You'll be able to win prizes galore. ...a popular resort with beaches galore. After the shipwreck there was whisky galore to be had for the taking. disenfranchise [ˌdɪs(ɪ)nˈfrantʃʌɪz] verb I. 剥夺投票权的. deprive (someone) of the right to vote. To disenfranchise a group of people means to take away their right to vote, or their right to vote for what they really want. Opponents say that the laws are a Republican ruse to disenfranchise entire groups of voters. ...the helplessness of disenfranchised minorities. "the law disenfranchised some 3,000 voters on the basis of a residence qualification". II. 剥夺权利的. 夺去特权的. deprive (someone) of a right or privilege. "we strongly oppose any measure which would disenfranchise people from access to legal advice". He tapped into cohorts of disenfranchised young men, who believed efforts for "gender quality" under the previous administration were giving women a free pass. President Yoon pledged to dismantle the Minister of Gender Equality, stating structural gender discrimination did not exist. over-egg 过分渲染, 夸大其词 (resume padding) overembellish or exaggerate (something). to make something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is: Yes, there is a risk that the deal won't complete, but the market is over-egging it. Many celebrities' memoirs overegg their difficult childhoods in order to flatter their later achievements. "investors want to be clear that companies are not over-egging their results". She had already come under controversy for allegedly not paying taxes, manipulating stock prices, taking kickbacks for hosting art exhibitions and for over-egging her resume. padding 填充废话充数 unnecessary words or information added to a speech or piece of writing. unnecessary words or information added to something to make it seem longer or better: His presentation was interesting but there was too much padding. Of the sonnet eleven of the lines are mere padding and say nothing. ...the kind of subject that politicians put in their speeches for a bit of padding. It could have been an interesting essay, but there was too much padding. The first lady is no stranger to controversy – over the past few years, she has apologized for resumé-padding and has faced allegations ranging from academic plagiarism to stock manipulation, which the presidential office has repeatedly denied. over-egg the pudding I. to make something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is: We all know insurance claimants who have over-egged the pudding to increase their payouts. It would be overegging the pudding to describe the system as universally popular. II. to spoil something by trying too hard to improve it. to try so hard to improve something that you spoil it, for example by making it seem exaggerated or extreme The movie obviously over-eggs the glowing childhood pudding with lots of cuddles, warm milk and snow pattering against the window panes. There are some great moments, but the writer tends to over-egg the pudding with metaphors and similes 比喻 when all she's describing is a group of women getting through the day. simile [ˈsɪmɪli, ˈsɪməli] 明喻, 比喻 ( analogy [əˈnalədʒi] 类比. metaphor 暗喻, 隐喻) A simile is an expression which describes a person or thing as being similar to someone or something else. For example, the sentences 'She runs like a deer' and 'He's as white as a sheet' contain similes. a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion ). What is the difference between a metaphor 暗喻, 隐喻 and a simile? 2. tamp If you tamp something, you press it down by tapping it several times so that it becomes flatter and more solid. Then I tamp down the soil with the back of a rake. Philpott tamped a wad of tobacco into his pipe. tamp down I. to pat or pack something down. Tamp the soil down over the seeds after you plant them. Please tamp down the soil firmly. II. to reduce the amount, level, size, or importance of something: As the price of gasoline rose above $3 a gallon, consumers cut their spending elsewhere, tamping down profits in retail, travel and other industries. The party retained power by boosting the economy and tamping down corruption. III. To suppress or demoralize someone. My ex-husband was always trying to tamp me down so that I would think I didn't deserve anything better in life. There will always be bullies who tamp you down for being different. IV. To limit, manage, or moderate someone. My doctor prescribed some medication to tamp me down when my food swings become too erratic. Whenever I get really stressed out or angry because of work, I always listen to classical music to help tamp me down. V. To lower or dampen something. The analyst is recommending that investors tamp down their expectations for the economy's performance. I don't want to tamp his hopes down, but I don't want him to end up disappointed, either. ask down 邀请到家里来, 邀请家访 to invite someone to come to one's home [for a visit]. To invite another person to one's home. I've been asked down to the MacLeods' farm this weekend. Haven't I asked you down to our new house before? I did ask Maureen down, but she's busy this weekend. She might be able to stop by during the week, though. Sam asked us down for Friday evening. Shall we go? We asked down some old friends for the evening. Note: (Usually said when someone must go to a lower level, travel south, down a hill, or into the country for the visit.) 3. jackpot 奖池 A jackpot is the most valuable prize in a game or lottery, especially when the game involves increasing the value of the prize until someone wins it. any large prize, kitty, or accumulated stake that may be won in gambling, such as a pool in poker that accumulates until the betting is opened with a pair of jacks or higher. the largest prize in a competition or game: The jackpot was over $1 million. A nurse won the £5 million jackpot. verb. (intransitive) Australian to accumulate 奖金累积 stake money in a prize fund. Powerball jackpots to $100 million, third highest prize this year. hit the jackpot 中奖, 中乐透 If you hit the jackpot, you have a great success, for example by winning a lot of money or having a piece of good luck. A prize pool is a collection of funds that is used to pay out the winnings in a lottery or other event. A large portion of the money from lottery tickets goes into the prize pool, which is then divided up among the different prize divisions. The larger the combination of winning numbers, the bigger the prize. unsecured I. 没有担保的. relating to a loan (= an amount of money that is lent) for which the person who has lent the money has no right to take property from the person who has borrowed it, if the money is not paid back: While we may request security for your loan, it can be unsecured. Total unsecured borrowing has increased by 60% over the past year. With an unsecured loan you do not offer your home as security and it is therefore a popular form of borrowing among consumers. II. 没有固定的. 没有弄紧的. not made secure or firm; not kept firmly in place. not made safe; not protected from danger or risk: According to the insurance company's report, the garage door had been left unsecured. III. 没有保障措施的. (of a creditor) having no security against a specific asset and with a claim inferior to those of secure creditors. An unsecured creditor is a creditor who does not have a security interest in the assets of a debtor. This means that if the debtor defaults on payment, the unsecured creditor has nothing to fall back on. The administrators' report lists 124 unsecured creditors, including customers, who are owed money from the company. The administrators say unsecured creditors may receive 19 cents for every dollar they're owed once Redflow's assets have been sold. IV. not protected against tapping or interception, as a telephone line or radio communication. notwithstanding I. preposition 尽管. 虽然. in spite of. If something is true notwithstanding something else, it is true in spite of that other thing. despite the fact or thing mentioned: Notwithstanding some members' objections, I think we must go ahead with the plan. Injuries notwithstanding, the team won the semifinal. He despised William Pitt, notwithstanding the similar views they both held. His relations with colleagues, differences of opinion notwithstanding, were unfailingly friendly. "notwithstanding the evidence, the consensus is that the jury will not reach a verdict". II. adv. nevertheless; in spite of this. 虽然是那么说. 尽管如此. 虽然如此. 即便如此. "I didn't like it. Notwithstanding, I remained calm". It's just the way the cookie crumbles. Notwithstanding it was a very bloody expensive cookie for me. wheels come/fall off 忽然就不行了, 猝死, 戛然而止 —used to say that someone or something fails in a sudden or unexpected way. Something failed, often after or amidst a laborious, tiring process. The coach said, "We were doing well for a while, but they got tired and then the wheels fell off". The pitcher was doing well for the first four innings, then the wheels fell off in the fifth. For the last several years, it felt like unless we could figure out a way to to raise a bigger chunk of money … eventually the wheels might fall off. demonstrable [dɪˈmɒnstrəbl] clearly apparent or capable of being logically proved. A demonstrable fact or quality can be shown to be true or to exist. The road safety programme is having a demonstrable effect on road users. Despite its demonstrable speed and safety, the boat failed to become popular. "the demonstrable injustices of racism". 4. Torah scroll ( torah [tɔrə] In the Jewish religion, the Torah is the first five books of the Old Testament of the Bible, regarded collectively. ...the first school for the study of the Torah. scroll [skroʊl] noun. I. 书卷 A scroll is a long roll of paper or a similar material with writing on it. a long roll of paper or similar material with usually official writing on it: The ancient Egyptians stored information on scrolls. Ancient scrolls were found in caves by the Dead Sea. II. A scroll is a painted or carved decoration made to look like a scroll. ...a handsome suite of chairs incised with Grecian scrolls. verb. If you scroll through text on a computer or phone screen, you move the text up or down to find the information that you need. I scrolled down to find 'United States of America'.) is a sacred handwritten copy of the Torah, the first five books of Moses, that is used in Jewish rituals and prayers. Torah scrolls are made from parchment ( parchment I. 羊皮. In former times, parchment was the skin of a sheep or goat that was used for writing on. the thin, dried skin of some animals that was used in the past for writing on, or a high-quality paper made to look like this: ancient parchment. He'd been ill for a long time, and his skin was like parchment. ...old manuscripts written on parchment. II. 牛皮纸. Parchment is a kind of thick yellowish paper. ...an old lamp with a parchment shade. Cover with a sheet of non-stick baking parchment. III. A parchment is a document written on parchment. parched [pɑːtʃt] adj I. 干旱的. dried out with heat. If something, especially the ground or a plant, is parched, it is very dry, because there has been no rain. parched earth/fields/corn. It was the height of summer and the land was parched and brown. The clouds gathered and showers poured down upon the parched earth. ...a hill of parched brown grass. "the parched earth". II. informal 口渴的. extremely thirsty. If your mouth, throat, or lips are parched, they are unpleasantly dry. "I'm parched—I'll die without a drink". If you say that you are parched, you mean that you are very thirsty. III. lightly roasted. "parched corn". ) from a kosher animal, usually a cow, and are written in Hebrew by a trained scribe, or sofer. The scroll contains 304,805 letters that must be written precisely. The process of making a Torah scroll is complex and can take up to 18 months. The parchment is specially prepared, and the scribe uses a quill or other permitted writing utensil dipped in ink. Torah scrolls are kept in synagogues in special cabinets called arks. Torah scrolls are read from regularly during prayer services and on the Sabbath and holidays. Torah scrolls are so sacred that if one is accidentally dropped in the synagogue, the congregation must fast for 40 days. 5. shoulder season noun a travel season between peak and off-peak seasons, especially spring and fall, when fares tend to be relatively low. In the travel industry, a shoulder season is a period just before or after most people take their holidays. In Peru, the shoulder seasons are April–May and October–November. Main character syndrome 主角症候, 主角光环(主角 leading character, protagonist ) is a term used to describe a person who views themselves as the main character in their life, believing they are the most important person in most situations: They see their lives like a movie or book, focusing on their own experiences and feelings; They act according to the narrative of their plot, however they define it; They see everyone else as secondary, often a sidekick or a villain. While the term is popular on social media and in pop culture, it's not an actual medical diagnosis or psychiatric condition: It's a colloquial term that originated on social media platforms; It's similar to narcissism, but the two are not the same thing. Main character syndrome can be a warning sign for other mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression, and narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). If you think you may be living with a mental health condition, you should speak to a psychiatrist or psychologist. 6. top flight noun. 顶级. the highest rank or level. The Sheffield Eagles move down to the second division after two seasons in the top flight. adj. 顶级的. 第一流的. of the highest rank or level. of superior or excellent quality; outstanding He's one of our top-flight engineers. "a top-flight batsman". high-flying adj. I. flying at a high altitude. "the remotely piloted, high-flying aircraft". II. 非常成功的. very successful, especially academically or in business. A high-flying person is successful or is likely to be successful in their career. ...a high-flying management consultant. a high-flying investment banker. "a high-flying, stressed-out Los Angeles tax attorney". A high-flying top Melbourne model who partied with A-list celebrities ended up homeless and in jail after party drugs wrecked her life and led to her downfall. The former private schoolgirl ended up at Melbourne's notorious Dame Phyllis Frost Centre women's prison after her party-drug addiction took a grip of her life. discernment [dɪˈsəːnm(ə)nt] 明辨是非 the ability to judge well. the ability to judge people and things well. Discernment is the ability to judge which things of a particular kind are good and which are bad. Over the years, I have learnt discernment, acceptance and patience (to a degree). ...their lack of discernment and acceptance of inferior quality. It's clear that you are a person of discernment. "an astonishing lack of discernment". discern 辨别, 看得出来 verb. I. If you can discern something, you are aware of it and know what it is. to see, recognize, or understand something that is not clear. to be able to see, recognize, understand, or decide something: He could discern the note of urgency in their voices. The exhibit is arranged in no important order that the viewer can discern. I could just discern a figure in the darkness. It is difficult to discern any pattern in these figures. You need a long series of data to be able to discern such a trend. It was hard to discern why this was happening. II. If you can discern something, you can just see it, but not clearly. Below the bridge we could just discern a narrow, weedy ditch. discerning 明辨是非的, 看得出好赖的, 有眼力的 adj. having or showing good judgement. showing good judgment, especially about style and quality. If you describe someone as discerning, you mean that they are able to judge which things of a particular kind are good and which are bad. ...tailor-made holidays to suit the more discerning traveller. Her childhood passion for collecting has not dimmed, but now she is more discerning. a discerning customer. "the brasserie attracts discerning customers". observant ( alert, sharp-eyed, eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed, with eyes like a hawk, keen-eyed) adj. I. 眼尖的. 明察秋毫的. Someone who is observant pays a lot of attention to things and notices more about them than most people do. good or quick at noticing things: "That's a new dress, isn't it?" "Yes, you are observant!" That's a marvellous description, Mrs Drummond. You're unusually observant. An observant doctor can often detect depression from expression, posture, and movement. II. An observant follower of a religion performs all the duties that his or her religion requires. obeying religious rules or customs: As an observant Muslim, she wore a headscarf. ...a profoundly observant Islamic country. keen-eyed extremely observant. "an accident was averted by a keen-eyed officer". 7. on account of 因为, 鉴于, 原因或者理由, 由于...的原因: Owing to, because of the fact that. You use on account of to introduce the reason or explanation for something. The
President declined to deliver the speech himself, on account of a sore
throat. A newly-married couple, he thought, on account of their walking
so close together. Penny: Okay. What do you watch on Thanksgiving? Sheldon: The parade. Penny: Oh, you know, that reminds me, I usually go back to Nebraska for thanksgiving, but this year they're calling it off on account of my brother's trial. Leonard: What's he on trial for? Penny: Oh, just a big misunderstanding. You know, you'd actually like my brother, he's kind of a chemist. Anyway, I was thinking I'd have thanksgiving here, and you are all invited. on that/this account 有鉴于此, 因而, 因此
You can use on that account or on this account when you want to say
that something happens for the reason you have just mentioned. Wine is radioactive but few people stop drinking it on that account. on sb's account 为了某人, 因为某人 If something is said to be on someone's or something's account, it is because of that person or thing: I'm
not very hungry, so please don't cook on my account (= don't cook just
for me). They were tired, but not any less enthusiastic on that account.
strife VS strive: strife noun. I. 困境. 困局. violent or angry disagreement. angry disagreement or violent actions: What are the prospects for overcoming the strife between the Christian minority and Muslim majority? 20 years of civil strife have left the country's economy in ruins. Money is a major cause of strife in many marriages. The boardroom strife at the company is far from over. It remains a highly unstable and strife-torn country. civil/ethnic/political strife. At no point was there any hint that we were in financial strife?. He led the union through several years of labor strife. The killer reportedly wrote that he acted alone and that he was self-funded. 'To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone,' Mangione said. 'These parasites had it coming. I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.' II. 分歧. disagreements between groups of people: industrial/financial/political strife. boardroom/internal strife. strive 努力, 寻求, 致力于 If you strive to do something or strive for something, you make a great effort to do it or get it. to try very hard to do something or to make something happen, especially for a long time or against difficulties: Mr Roe has kindled expectations that he must now strive to live up to. In her writing she strove for a balance between innovation and familiar prose forms. He strives hard to keep himself very fit. She strove to read the name on the stone pillar. The region must now strive for economic development as well as peace. ...a politician consumed by his own passionate striving for leadership. strive after something to try very hard to obtain something. I am always striving after perfection. Ted was striving after a promotion and finally got it. strive against something to work against something. He worked hard, striving against failure at every turn. Things were difficult. I had to strive against quitting almost every day. strive for something to try to obtain or bring about something. I am striving for the best possible result. Mary strives for perfection in everything she does. strive to do something to try hard to do something. She strove very hard to do what she had set out to do. Please strive to do it as best you can. strive toward something to work toward a goal. DI always strive toward perfection. Mary strove toward doing her best at all times.
Executives sucking up to Trump now have to factor in the 'first buddy': And in this bareknuckle 你死我活, 竞争白热化(Bareknuckle fighting is a sport in which two competitors fight by hitting each other with their hands, which are not protected by gloves (= thick hand coverings that are worn for protection): The men went to a bare-knuckle fighting club. He is a bare-knuckle campaigner who is not scared to take on any political opponent. A bareknuckle brawl broke out in the airport terminal.) world of corporate executive leadership, Zuckerberg and the like have little choice but to spin up some flattery and lay it on thick. Failing to do so risks upsetting a leader with a short fuse and the power to sink a company's stock or ignite a boycott with a single social media post. Trump also welcomed his faithful "first buddy" Elon Musk into his inner circle, where Musk appears to be relishing his role as a kind of gatekeeper for executives hoping to snag an audience with the president-elect, per the Wall Street Journal. (Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and the most prominent spokesman for the AI industry, is reportedly persona non grata around Mar-a-Lago because Musk "despises" him.) The Musk factor adds a wrinkle ( add a new wrinkle To bring or contribute a new and often unexpected aspect, dimension, innovation, development, or stratagem (to something). If proven to be true, the discovery could add a new wrinkle to the way we think about the evolutionary process. Their new, and unorthodox, pitcher has added a new wrinkle to the team's offensive game. Well, this certainly adds a new wrinkle—no one foresaw that the experiment would yield a rubber-like substance. A clever device or expedient, a novelty, as in The players added a new wrinkle to victory celebrations by tossing their shirts to the crowd after the game.) to an already tricky diplomacy that Zuck, who has a history of beef with both men, would have had to engage in anyway. But zooming out 全局来看, 从大的方面看, 从大处着眼, it also reflects a broader shift in recent years in the way business leaders approach their job. If at one point it was cool to speak out on political issues — as many executives did during the first Trump administration and early in Joe Biden's term — the pendulum has swung fully back. The mood now: Bend the knee, or say nothing and pray no one notices. We can see that happening not only in the parade of tech CEOs tweeting fawning congratulations to Trump but more broadly in the wave of companies backtracking on diversity, equity and inclusion programs. To be sure, plenty of companies are still committed to DEI programs, and not all executives are morphing into insufferable suck-ups 拍马屁, 拍须溜马, 逢迎巴结. But now that Trump has locked up a second term, businesses feel less pressure to fake it till they make it on the DEI front. "Trump's election gives business leaders who were never committed to DEI an easy out," Shaun Harper, a professor of education and business at the University of Southern California, recently told my colleague Nathaniel Meyersohn. In other words, as the country embraces its strongman era, the idea of "stakeholder capitalism( Shareholders: Have partial ownership of a company because they've bought stock in it. Shareholders are always stakeholders, but not all stakeholders are shareholders. Stakeholders: Anyone who is impacted by a company's decisions, regardless of whether they own part of the company. Stakeholders can have an interest in a company's decisions, plans, and financial stability. Shareholder capitalism: Companies focus on maximizing profits, which can lead to short-term goals that don't align with the long-term interests of other stakeholders. Stakeholder capitalism: Companies consider the interests of multiple stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers, and communities. Stakeholder capitalism is more focused on long-term management strategies that promote better business practices. )" — that companies should strive to be more than just profit machines — is losing its tug of war 角力 with the more traditional profit-at-all-costs model of "shareholder capitalism."
How a stowaway avoided identity and boarding pass checks on a flight from New York to Paris: A TSA spokesperson told CNN the woman first bypassed an airport terminal employee in charge of the security lane reserved for airline flight crews at JFK's Terminal 4 main checkpoint. It was at that point the woman skipped the station where her ID and boarding pass would have been checked, the spokesperson said. She then joined the line for standard TSA screening. It remains unclear how the woman was able to get past Delta gate agents at JFK. Delta has not said how the woman was able to board the plane once she made it past the TSA checkpoint. A review of JFK's security camera video shows the woman first blended in with a flight crew before the security screening, and later proceeded to the gate where she then placed herself in the middle of what appeared to be a family traveling together, according to a senior law enforcement official briefed on the investigation. TSA Administrator David P. Pekoske, speaking at the American Association of Airport Executives Aviation Security Summit on Tuesday, said the agency occasionally has "a very, very small number" of people who skip the identity verification stage undetected. He suggested electronic gates might be a solution to making sure all passengers are screened. What's really important here is, now the world knows our security is once again – just like before 911 – extremely porous 筛子似的, 漏洞百出. The flight attendants are required to check the bathrooms. Some airlines lock the bathrooms but Delta doesn't require them to be locked on takeoff," Schiavo said. "The airlines that require that is obviously to stop this bathroom dodgeball (四处躲藏的人)." Pekoske added, "We don't use e-gates in our system, and that's a problem." Schiavo said bypassing the first identity verification station with its facial recognition technology was among the glaring mistakes committed that day. "She came in and she didn't have any facial recognition, and obviously they didn't check to see she was ticketed passenger because she wasn't," Schiavo said.
