用法学习: 1. trope ['trəʊp] 桥段, 道具 I. a use of a word or expression in an unusual way to help a writer to achieve an effect. something such as an idea, phrase, or image that is often used in a particular artist's work, in a particular type of art, in the media, etc.: Human-like robots are a classic trope of science fiction. The politician's speech was full of racist tropes. II. a recurring theme or idea. a recurring idea or motif in an artistic genre, especially one that is overused. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler kickstart the urban "tough-guy" detective trope 人设. Horror writers have to work hard if they want to avoid the usual tired old tropes. III. in rhetoric (= the study of the ways of using language effectively), a way of using words that means something different from their ordinary meaning: For those unfamiliar with poetic tropes, synecdoche is a figure of speech by which the part stands for the whole, such as "wheels" to mean "a car". Rhetorical tropes of antithesis and opposition recur throughout Shakespeare's writing. troupe [truːp] A troupe is a group of actors, singers, or dancers who work together and often travel around together, performing in different places. a group of performers such as singers or dancers who work and travel together: She joined a dance troupe and travelled all over the world. A troupe of dancers from Beijing is one of the leading attractions in the festival. ...troupes of travelling actors. company I. a group of actors, singers, or dancers who perform together: She's in the National Theatre Company. I'd like to thank the director, the choreographer and the other members of the company for being so supportive. II. an organization that sells goods or services in order to make money: He works for a software company/a company that makes software. I work for Duggan and Company. company policy No smoking is company policy. III. A company is also a military unit consisting of a large group of soldiers, usually with a captain in charge of them. IV. the fact of being with a person or people, or the person or people you are with. the state of having someone with you, or the person or people who are with you: It was a long trip and I was grateful for his company. I traveled to Chicago in the company of 作陪 two teachers (= with them). We’re having company (= guests) for dinner tonight. I just enjoy his company. It was a long trip and I was grateful for his company. in the company of 有...为伴, 与...一起 I travelled in the company of (= with) two teachers as far as Istanbul. in company 有其他人在的时候 I'd rather you didn't mention it when we're in company (= with other people). have company 有别人在 I didn't realize you had company (= were with someone/people). company for 相伴, 与...为伴, 与...为伍 Margot came to stay for a week as company for my mother while I was away. With only her thoughts for company (= being alone), she walked slowly along the beach. be good company 不错的同伴 to be pleasant and entertaining to be with: You'll like Rosie - she's good company. enjoy, prefer, like, etc. your own company to like being alone: I love my friends, but also I enjoy my own company. He was an enormously popular man, but much preferred his own company. I've become used to living alone and like my own company. for company 感觉不孤独, 觉得有伴 If you do something for company, you do it to make you feel as if you are not alone: I usually have the radio on for company. keep someone company 陪着 to stay with someone so that they are not alone: I'll keep you company till the train comes. the company someone keeps 天天混在一起的人 the influence of the people that someone spends time with: "Where does he pick up words like that?" "It's the company he keeps." He's been keeping bad company (= spending time with unsuitable people). be in good company to have the same problem as many other people: "I can't play tennis - I'm hopeless at it!" "Oh well, you're in good company." 2. dedicate verb. I. If you say that someone has dedicated themselves to something, you approve of the fact that they have decided to give a lot of time and effort to it because they think that it is important. to give all of your energy, time, etc.: dedicate something to something He has dedicated his life to scientific research. dedicate yourself to something The new president said she would dedicate herself to protecting the rights of the sick and the homeless. Back on the island, he dedicated himself to politics. Bessie has dedicated her life to caring for others. He's quite dedicated to his students. ...a company staffed by capable and dedicated people. We admire her dedication to the cause of humanity. To be successful takes hard work and dedication. II. If someone dedicates 献给 something such as a book, play, or piece of music to you, they mention your name, for example in the front of a book or when a piece of music is performed, as a way of showing affection or respect for you. She dedicated her first album to Woody Allen. This book is dedicated to the memory of my mother. III. If a building or church is dedicated to someone, a formal ceremony is held to show that the building will always be associated with them. The church was dedicated on 1 March 1805 to the local Saint Jude. The church is dedicated to St Mary of Bec. ...the dedication of the Holocaust Museum. Some 250 guests attended the dedication ceremony. IV. 揭幕. 开幕. To open (a building, for example) to public use. V. (transitive) To show to the public for the first time. dedicate a monument. The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on October 28, 1886. The ceremony took place on Liberty Island (then called Bedloe's Island) in New York Harbor. It was a gift from France to the United States to celebrate their friendship and shared values of freedom and democracy. The dedication ceremony 典礼, 揭幕仪式, 揭幕礼 was led by U.S. President Grover Cleveland, and the event included a large parade in New York City. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and built with the engineering expertise of Gustave Eiffel, has since become one of the most iconic landmarks in the world. dedicated [ˈdɛdɪkeɪtɪd] adj. I. devoted to a task or purpose. believing that something is very important and giving a lot of time and energy to it: a dedicated father/teacher. dedicated to 致力于 The Boy Scouts organization is dedicated to helping boys become moral and productive adults. She's completely dedicated to her work. The Green Party is dedicated to protecting the environment. "a team of dedicated doctors". You use dedicated to describe someone who enjoys a particular activity very much and spends a lot of time doing it. Her great-grandfather had clearly been a dedicated and stoical traveller. ...dedicated followers of classical music. II. 专门的. 专用的. exclusively allocated to or intended for a particular purpose. designed to be used for one particular purpose. used only for one particular purpose or job. You use dedicated to describe something that is made, built, or designed for one particular purpose or thing. Such areas should also be served by dedicated cycle routes. ...the world's first museum dedicated to ecology. ...a microcomputer dedicated to playing chess. The company designs its own clothes and sources them directly from dedicated factories in China. They decided to spend £2,000 setting up each of the at-home operators, equipping them with PCs and dedicated phone lines 专用电话线. dedicated funding 专用资金, 专项资金, 专门资金. On dedicated server 专用服务器 networks, clients access resources by requesting them from a PC that functions only as a server. a dedicated computer. a dedicated sports channel. "a dedicated high-speed rail link from the Channel Tunnel". committed adj I. 坚定的, 尽忠职守的. 忠诚的. 尽心尽力的. 致力于的. 乐于风险的. 乐于付出的. pledged or bound to a certain course or policy; dedicated. having a strong commitment to an ideology, religion, etc. loyal and willing to give your time and energy to something that you believe in. very willing to give your time and energy to something: The level of the bid shows we are very committed and serious. Endowment savings plans are for the committed 坚定不移的, long-term investor. a committed socialist/Christian/teacher. a committed socialist. "a committed environmentalist". II. in or denoting a long-term emotional relationship. "a committed relationship". III. 致力于. 坚定的支持. supporting; in favour of. having promised to be involved in a plan of action: We are committed to withdrawing our troops by the end of the year. He said the government remained committed to peace. IV. money that has been committed to a particular project, investment, etc. is spent on that project: He had raised committed financing of £10.4bn. committed capital. no end to a great extent; very much. The problem was causing the poor woman no end of misery. Teachers inform me that Tracey's behaviour has improved no end. "this cheered me up no end". no end of something a lot of: If you don't want the job, there's no end of people willing to take your place. no end in sight (to something) 没有要停止的意思, 没有终止的迹象 No foreseeable end or conclusion to something. The phrase indicates that one expects the thing to continue indefinitely. People keep dumping their trash on the curb all around the neighborhood, and there seems to be no end in sight! As far as I can tell, there's no end in sight to the abuses these people will suffer at the hands of the dictator. no relief in sight (to something) 没有停歇的迹象 No foreseeable end or conclusion to something. The phrase indicates that one expects the thing to continue indefinitely. A: "It's going to snow 10 more inches tonight?" B: "Yep, and another snowstorm is projected for this weekend." A: "Ugh, is there no relief in sight?" As far as I can tell, there's no relief in sight to the abuses these people will suffer at the hands of the dictator. 3. affront [ə'frʌnt] 羞辱, 侮辱 verb. If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it. to insult or offend someone: I was most affronted by his comments. an affronted look/glance. His reforms had so affronted many of his natural supporters in England. He pretended to be affronted, but inwardly he was pleased. Reggie reacted with the same affronted horror Midge had felt. noun. If something is an affront to you, it is an obvious insult to you. a remark or action intended to insult or offend someone: He regarded the comments as an affront to his dignity. It's an affront to human dignity to treat people so poorly. She has taken my enquiry as a personal affront. The order specifically calls for the renaming of the nation's highest peak, Alaska's Denali [dəˈnɑːli/], which then-President Barack Obama renamed in 2015 from Mount McKinley as a nod to the region's native population. The order calls Obama's decision "an affront to President McKinley's life, his achievements, and his sacrifice." Drawing parallels to Trump, the order notes that McKinley "championed tariffs" and was assassinated "in an attack on our Nation's values and our success." 4. bipartisan Bipartisan means concerning or involving two different political parties or groups. supported by or consisting of two political parties. involving or having the support of both sides, esp. of political parties: a bipartisan agreement. a bipartisan committee. ...a bipartisan approach to educational reform. bicameral [baɪˈkæmərəl] 两院的 adjective (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers. (of a parliament, congress, etc.) having two parts, such as the Senate and the House of Representatives in the US. unicameral 一个立法院的 (of a parliament) having only one group of members: a unicameral legislature. A bicameral bill is a proposed law that passes through both chambers of a bicameral legislature before becoming law. Bicameralism 两院制 is a type of legislature that is divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature. Bicameralism is distinguished from unicameralism, in which all members deliberate and vote as a single group. As of 2022, roughly 40% of the world's national legislatures are bicameral, while unicameralism represents 60% nationally and much more at the subnational level. vocabulary: If your committee has two distinct groups responsible for setting rules and developing policies, then you're involved in a bicameral system, meaning that there are two separate branches making up the system. You've probably noticed the prefix bi- and know that it's a tip-off that this word is likely going to describe something that has two parts. You're right. The word bicameral originates from the Latin bi-, meaning "two," combined with camera, meaning "chamber." Chamber is just another way of referring to a legislative branch of a government or other official organization. The English word 'chamber', or 'room', comes from the Latin word 'camera'? 'Bicameral' literally means 'two rooms'. In this case, a parliament or legislature that is made up of two separate houses or 'chambers'. You're probably already familiar with one famous bicameral system: the U.S. Congress, which is made up of two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives. 5. require I. If you require something or if something is required, you need it or it is necessary. This project will require massive investment. The proposed new measures require approval by the board. If you require further information, you should consult the registrar. This isn't the kind of crisis that requires us to drop everything else. Some of the materials required for this technique may be difficult to obtain. Please call this number if you require any further information. Skiing at 80 miles per hour requires total concentration. Bringing up children often requires you to put their needs first. You are required by law to stop your car after an accident. The rules require that you bring only one guest to the dinner. II. If a law or rule requires you to do something, you have to do it. The rules also require employers to provide safety training. At least 35 manufacturers have flouted a law requiring prompt reporting of such malfunctions. The law requires that employees are given the opportunity to improve their performance before they are dismissed. Then he'll know exactly what's required of him. III. to order or demand something, or to order someone to do something, esp. because of a rule or law: We're required 规定要求 to check your identification before letting you in. A building permit is required. require sb to do sth 要求, 规定 Health and safety regulations require all staff to wear protective clothing. require that The contract requires that we notify our sponsors of all changes in project specification. The company is required by law to make regular tax returns. In restaurant, everyone has a steak knife, but it doesn't require 并没有规定 anyone to use it. required reading If you say that something is required reading for a particular group of people, you mean that you think it is essential for them to read it because it will give them information which they should have. This book has been required reading at my company for 10 years and has yielded amazing results. The newspaper is required reading 必修课, 必读, 必修项目 in my politics course. It is an important report that should be required reading 必读 for every MP. Fredric Jameson died last month at the age of ninety. In his long career, he wrote more than thirty books and many more articles on literature, film, television, opera, and architecture, situating culture—popular and otherwise—within the "logic of late capitalism" (the subtitle of his perhaps most well-known book, Postmodernism, 1990). He was required reading 他的书是必读书目 for decades of graduate students 对于研究生来说—and the bolder undergraduates. We offer Jameson in his own words to demonstrate why. 6. unadulterated [ˌʌnəˈdʌltəreɪtɪd] I. complete: used for emphasizing how good or how bad a quality or feeling is. Sheer unadulterated greed should never be part of any system. pure unadulterated 不掺假的, 不掺杂的, 纯粹的 pleasure. What a load of unadulterated nonsense. not mixed or diluted with any different or extra elements; complete and absolute. "pure, unadulterated 十足的 jealousy". This is pure, unadulterated domestic Jew-hatred and should be recognised as such. Whatever happens down here, you control. The more you lie, the messier it gets. But if all you do is tell me the unadulterated truth, this'll be painless. II. in a pure form with nothing added. Something that is unadulterated is completely pure and has had nothing added to it. (especially of food or drink) having no inferior added substances; pure. "unadulterated whole-milk yogurt". Organic food is unadulterated food produced without artificial chemicals or pesticides. 特朗普总统令: Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman announced the end of two directives in a statement, giving agents more authority over whether they carry out enforcement and eliminating a legal pathway for migrants seeking to come to the United States. Federal immigration authorities will be permitted to arrest people and carry out enforcement actions in and near places such as churches and schools, marking a departure from long-standing policy to avoid so-called sensitive areas. "Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America's schools and churches to avoid arrest. The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to use common sense," the statement reads. Immigration and Customs Enforcement set a policy in 2011 preventing agents from making arrests in sensitive locations. The Biden administration put out similar guidance. Immigrant advocates have shared concerns over stripping that policy, arguing that doing so would stoke fear 引起恐慌 in immigrant communities and keep children from going to school or people from seeking care at hospitals. 7. interregnum [ˌɪn.təˈreɡ.nəm] 权力真空期 a period when a country or organization does not have a leader. An interregnum is a period between the end of one person's time as ruler or leader and the coming to power of the next ruler or leader. At the moment we are condemned to an interregnum for two whole months. But much of what Trump did was specifically aimed at turning Biden's four years into the interregnum between two Trump terms, undoing Biden immigration policies, ending government diversity programs and climate change efforts and taking more political control of the federal bureaucracy. Trump's actions are the mirror image of four years ago, when Biden came into office and signed executive orders to undo multiple Trump immigration policies. 7. straggler I. 拖后腿的人. 落在后边的人. a person in a group who becomes separated from the others, typically because of moving more slowly. The stragglers are the people in a group who are moving more slowly or making less progress than the others. There were two stragglers twenty yards back. Any straggler that fell behind or got lost in the darkness was easy prey for the enemy. "a few stragglers lingered, talking as they slipped on their coats". II. something that grows or spreads irregularly or apart from others of its kind. "these small trees are the remnant stragglers of their species". III. 不走的人, 不肯走的客人. 来了不走的人. The stragglers at an event such as a party are the people who are still there after most of the other people have left. ...round about two o'clock in the morning when there were only a few stragglers left. aphrodisiac [ˌafrəˈdɪzɪak] 春药 something, usually a drug or food, that is believed to cause sexual desire in people. An aphrodisiac is a food, drink, or drug which is said to make people want to have sex. Asparagus is reputed to be an aphrodisiac. ...plants with narcotic or aphrodisiac qualities. Are oysters really an aphrodisiac? They say that power is an aphrodisiac. Customs officials in France have warned people not to consume so-called "aphrodisiac honey" - illegally imported honey mixed with medicines used to treat erectile dysfunction. Jeffrey Baldwin (January 20, 1997 – November 30, 2002) was a Canadian child whose death from septic shock 败血性休克 ( Septic shock is a potentially fatal medical condition that occurs when sepsis, which is organ injury or damage in response to infection, leads to dangerously low blood pressure and abnormalities in cellular metabolism. Sepsis 脓毒症, 败血症 is a potentially life-threatening condition that arises when the body's response to infection causes injury to its own tissues and organs. ) and bacterial pneumonia after years of mistreatment by his grandparents, Elva Bottineau and Norman Kidman, led to significant changes in policy by children's aid societies in the granting of custody of children to relatives. Jeffrey was born on January 20, 1997 in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Yvonne Kidman and Richard Baldwin. On April 28, 1998, he and his older sister were taken by the Catholic Children's Aid Society, after allegations of abuse were levelled against their parents. They were given into the custody of their maternal grandparents, Elva Bottineau and Norman Kidman. However, a background check had not been done on the grandparents, and it was later discovered that Elva Bottineau had been previously convicted of child abuse in 1970, after her five-month-old daughter Eva died of pneumonia, and was found to have had numerous fractures. In 2000, a worker with the Catholic Children's Aid Society noticed a bruise under Jeffrey's eye. However, this was dismissed as an accident, and no further action was taken. According to later court testimony, Jeffrey and his sister were kept in a locked room at night with furnace vents shut, and when released, were forced to eat with their hands from a mat on the floor. Jeffrey was forbidden from using the bathroom, and as a result, his mattress was covered in dried feces, and his bedroom floor was covered in fecal matter and urine. Despite being forbidden to use a toilet, he would be beaten for defecating in his bedroom. In addition to this rule, Jeffrey was also forced to drink out of the toilet, and he and his sister were forced to eat their own vomit. James Mills, the boyfriend of Jeffrey's aunt who also lived in the house, declared that Jeffrey's grandmother did not love him or his sister, and that they were purely a "dollars and cents" matter, as his grandparents received social assistance for their care. On the evening of November 30, 2002, the grandparents called 911 to report that Jeffrey was no longer breathing. Upon arrival, emergency workers noticed that his body was "covered in sores, bruises, and abrasions." He had practically no body fat or muscle tone at death, due to possibly years of starvation. His weight at death was 21 pounds (9.5 kg), which was slightly less than his weight on his first birthday, almost five years earlier. 8. Silk Road, which was shut down in 2013 after police arrested Ulbricht, sold illegal drugs using Bitcoin, as well as hacking equipment and stolen passports. "The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me," Trump said in his post online on Tuesday evening. "He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!" Ulbricht was found guilty of charges including conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, money laundering and computer hacking. The Libertarian party had been advocating for Ulbricht's release and said his case was an example of government overreach 管的太宽( I. If you say that someone overreaches themselves, you mean that they fail at something because they are trying to do more than they are able to. to fail by trying to achieve, spend, or do more than you can manage: The housing meltdown hurt high-risk borrowers who overreached. In the flush of success, he overreached. Don't go too far and overreach yourself. Companies that overreach themselves soon find themselves in debt. He overreached himself and lost much of his fortune. The company had overreached itself and made unwise investments. The people who sustain the worst losses are usually those who overreach. II. to make a bigger claim than is reasonable: Those doing sound science don't overreach, knowing that their methodology will be replicated and their results tested. 夸大其词. 夸张地说法. To say "Organizations will be forced to pay for procedures they morally oppose" is clearly an overreach. III. to do more than your authority allows: Some officials charged that the investigators had overreached their authority 手伸太长, 超出管辖范围. It was a warning to the Florida court not to overreach its powers 超出权限. Courts act as a safeguard against executive overreach in individual counter-terrorism cases. Already there are signs of regulatory overreach. IV. an injury to a horse's foot caused by the foot reaching too far forward when the horse is moving: He was in the lead when he suffered an overreach and had to retire.). Republican congressman Thomas Massie, a Trump ally, applauded the president's decision. "Thank you for keeping your word to me and others who have been advocating for Ross' freedom," said the Kentucky lawmaker. 9. a riot of colour[s] 色彩缤纷, 色彩纷呈 extremely colourful and bright. That which contains an array of many different, contrasting colors. something with many different bright colours The garden is a riot of colour in spring. Jim's rose garden is a riot of colour. Her living room is a riot of color. I love watching the sun go down here. The whole horizon turns into a riot of colors. Her paintings are typically riots of color, so the stark, minimalistic palette in this work is especially striking. More than a hundred couples will tie the knot in one of Bangkok's biggest shopping malls, in a riot of colour and celebration. Bishop confronts Trump during sermon at inaugural prayer service: This came just one day after Trump issued a slate of executive orders, including one which has a section dedicated to "recognizing that women are biologically distinct from men," one that declared a national emergency at the country's southern border and issued several others related to immigration, including one attempting to do away with birthright citizenship. Budde challenged these orders and much of the rhetoric that has surrounded them. "The people who pick our crops 收割庄稼 and clean our office buildings; who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants; who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they – they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation. But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors," said Budde. Budde has long criticized Trump, and made headlines for doing so in 2020 when Trump took a photo outside of a boarded up St. John's Epsicopal ( episcopal [ɪ'pɪskəpəl] I. Episcopal means relating to a branch of the Anglican Church in Scotland and the USA. ...the Scottish Episcopal Church. ...the Episcopal bishop of New York. ...the Protestant Episcopal church. II. Episcopal means relating to bishops. ...episcopal conferences. ...a set of red episcopal vestments. wiki: The Episcopal Church (TEC), also officially the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere. The church was organized after the American Revolution, when it became separate from the Church of England, whose clergy are required to swear allegiance to the British monarch as Supreme Governor of the Church of England. The Episcopal Church describes itself as "Protestant, yet catholic" and asserts apostolic succession, tracing its bishops back to the apostles via holy orders. ) Church holding a Bible. Law enforcement had used chemical agents to disburse ( disburse [dɪsbɜːrs] verb. To disburse an amount of money means to pay it out, usually from a fund which has been collected for a particular purpose. to pay out money, usually from an amount that has been collected for a particular purpose: The local authorities annually disburse between £50 million and £100 million on arts projects. The aid will not be disbursed until next year. The bank has disbursed over $350m for the project. note: Disburse is sometimes wrongly used where disperse is meant: the police used a water cannon to disperse (not disburse) the crowd. disperse 驱散, 驱赶 I. When something disperses 喷发 or when you disperse it, it spreads over a wide area. The oil appeared to be dispersing. The intense currents disperse the sewage. Because the town sits in a valley, air pollution is not easily dispersed. II. When a group of people disperses or when someone disperses them, the group splits up and the people leave in different directions. to spread across or move away over a large area, or to make something do this: When the rain came down the crowds started to disperse. Police dispersed the crowd that had gathered. Police fired shots and used teargas to disperse the demonstrators. The crowd dispersed peacefully after prayers. ) racial justice protesters, and Budde was outraged. The Washington Post reported at that time that Budde said, "Everything he has said and done is to inflame 引燃, 引爆, 引火, 煽动, 煽风点火 (stoke up fire, fan the flame) ( If something inflames a situation or inflames people's feelings, it makes people feel even more strongly about something. to cause or increase very strong feelings such as anger or excitement. to excite someone's strong feelings or make them stronger: The defense objected to the graphic pictures, claiming they were meant merely to inflame the jury. Reducing the number of staff is certain to inflame the already angry medical profession. inflame passions Pictures of the bombed and burning city inflamed passions further. The image was used to inflame rather than instruct or reveal truth. The General holds the rebels responsible for inflaming the situation. The shooting has only inflamed passions further. to make a part of the body become red, painful, and swollen; to become red, painful, and swollen: Asthma is a chronic condition that inflames the inside walls of the airways. It triggers antibodies which cause the lining of the gut to inflame, causing abdominal pain. ) violence… We need moral leadership, and he's done everything to divide us." 10. the outskirts the areas that form the edge of a town or city. the outer area of a city, town, or village: We stayed in a hotel on the outskirts of Palma. The factory is in/on the outskirts of New Delhi. Even figures on the outskirts of Trumpworld are dabbling in the meme coin frenzy. "I need you to do me a favor right now," the Rev Lorenzo Sewell, a senior pastor at 180 church who delivered the benediction after Trump's swearing-in, said in a video posted on X hours after yesterday's inauguration. "I need you to go buy the official Lorenzo Sewell coin." benediction [ˌbɛnɪˈdɪkʃn] 祈福, 祈求保佑, 祈求佑护 I. A benediction is a kind of Christian prayer. the utterance of a blessing, especially at the end of a religious service. "he said the benediction" The minister pronounced the benediction. The Pope's hands were raised in benediction. II. You can refer to something that makes people feel protected and at peace as a benediction. She could only raise her hand in a gesture of benediction. The song hovered, like a whispered benediction, above the crowd. III. a prayer asking God for help and protection for someone. repartee [repərˈtiː repɑːr'tiː, US -pərteɪ, ] 快速的机智问答, 机智的对话 Repartee is conversation that consists of quick, witty comments and replies. quick and usually funny answers and remarks in conversation: Oscar Wilde's plays are full of witty repartee. She was good at repartee. We are work friends. Look, we come here, we exchange some delightful repartee, we are good colleagues and then we leave. There's nothing wrong with that? vocabulary: Late night talk show hosts are known for being experts at repartee, or clever conversation, with their celebrity guests. Repartee comes from the French word repartire, which is a fencing term meaning "an answering thrust with a sword." When you are engaging in repartee, you don't literally stab someone, but you come back with a quick verbal blow. Most of us aren't as quick as we'd like to be. Mark Twain defined repartee as, "something we think of 24 hours too late." epigram [ˈɛpɪɡram] 名言, 金句, 警句 An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or satirical statement. a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way. a short saying or poem that expresses an idea in a clever, funny way: One of Oscar Wilde's most frequently quoted epigrams is "I can resist everything except temptation". "a Wildean epigram". Epigrams and epitaphs are close cousins. epitaph [epɪtɑːf] 墓志铭 An epitaph is a short piece of writing about someone who is dead, often carved on their grave. a short piece of writing or a poem about a dead person, especially one written on their gravestone It might as well be her epitaph. 11. disbar 取消律师资格, 吊销律师执照 to make someone unable to continue working as a lawyer, especially because they have done something wrong. to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court. to expel (a lawyer) from the bar; deprive of the right to practice law. to deprive of the status of barrister; expel from the Bar. to take away someone's right to work as a lawyer, especially because they have done something wrong or illegal: He was later disbarred, and at his sentencing the judge read a scathing indictment on his actions. Field further threatened to strike the attorney off the roll of attorneys (or in other words, disbar him) if the money wasn't paid. He was charged with grand larceny 偷盗罪 in 1932 and was disbarred. disbar sb for sth The former attorney had been disbarred for fraud. debar 禁入, 拉入黑名单, 剥夺权力, 驱逐 to exclude from a place, a right, etc; bar. to deprive of the status of barrister; expel from the Bar. to stop someone from doing something by law or by official agreement: be debarred from He was debarred from the club for unacceptable behaviour. note: Disbar is sometimes wrongly used where debar is meant: he was debarred (not disbarred) from attending meetings. Debarment 除名, 去除 is the act of excluding someone or something from a right, privilege, or practice. It can also refer to the state of being excluded. Debarment can be temporary or indefinite. Debarment is the state of being excluded from enjoying certain possessions, rights, privileges, or practices and the act of prevention by legal means. For example, companies can be debarred from contracts due to allegations of fraud, mismanagement, and similar improprieties. In cross-debarment, organizations and agencies agree to mutually exclude others based on debarment by affiliates. Mike Waltz: In 2020, he secured legislation that provides a universal requirement for all agencies for researchers to disclose all foreign funding sources in applications for federal funding. Failure would result in permanent termination of research and development awards to the professor or school, permanent debarment of malign professors, and criminal charges. Further, Waltz directed the Department of Defense to track foreign talent recruitment programs that pose a threat to the United States, particularly as a response to Chinese Communist Party efforts to infiltrate American universities. 12. statutory [ˈstatʃʊt(ə)ri] 法定的. 法律规定的. 法律许可的, 法律准许的, 法律授权的 adj. I. required, permitted, or enacted by statute. decided or controlled by law. statutory obligations. decided, controlled, or required by law: There is no escape from these charges since they are statutory. In France everybody is entitled to a statutory 法定假日 25 days a year holiday. You have no statutory authority to order anybody to make a refund. statutory duty/obligations/responsibilities. When managing agents are dealing with other people's money, it is vital that this is covered by statutory regulation. Unions want a statutory right to time off for training. The Board of Management will submit the annual statutory accounts. The government wants to increase the turnover threshold above which companies are required to have a statutory audit of their annual accounts. "statutory controls over prices". We had a statutory duty to report to Parliament. Such tenants are statutorily protected. Broadcasting has had to be regulated statutorily. The agency plans to complete all statutorily required inspections by the end of May. II. having come to be required or expected through being done or made regularly. "the statutory 照例的, 例行公事的 Christmas phone call to his mother". White House sidelines staffers detailed to National Security Council, aligning team to Trump agenda: Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz had signaled before Inauguration Day that he would look to move holdover ( I. A holdover from an earlier time is a person or thing which existed or occurred at that time and which still exists or occurs today. something that is reminiscent or remains from the past
a holdover from the previous regime The coach had a pointed message for newcomers to the team and a reminder for the holdovers. Freud explained it as a holdover from a childhood problem. Most of the U.S. attorneys are holdovers from Republican days. II. politics, US someone who remains in a position or office after their term. an officeholder who continues in office or an entertainer whose engagement is extended. ) civil servants that served in the NSC during President Joe Biden's administration back to their home agencies. The move is meant to ensure the council is staffed by those who support Trump's agenda. Some directors have already made decisions to inform detailiees ( detail verb. I. to describe something completely, giving all the facts: Can you produce a report detailing what we've spent on the project so far? II. If someone is detailed to do a task or job, they are officially ordered to do it. to order someone, often a small group of soldiers or workers, to perform a particular task: be detailed to Four soldiers were detailed to check the road for troops. He detailed a constable to take it to the Incident Room. III. to clean the inside and outside of a vehicle very carefully: You can skip the car wash; Rogers has all the equipment to wash and detail your car in your own driveway. a car detailing company. noun. I. The details of something are its individual features or elements. The details of the plan are still being worked out. No details of the discussions have been given. I recall every detail of the party. II. Details about someone or something are facts or pieces of information about them. See the bottom of this page for details of how to apply for this exciting offer. Full details will be announced soon. information about someone or something: take down the details of A police officer took down the details of what happened. III. A detail is a minor point or aspect of something, as opposed to the central ones. Only minor details now remain to be settled. IV. You can refer to the small features of something which are often not noticed as detail. the small features of something that you only notice when you look carefully: I was just admiring the detail in the doll's house - even the tins of food have labels on them. eye for detail It's his eye for (= ability to notice) detail that distinguishes him as a painter. We like his attention to detail and his enthusiasm. V. A detail of a picture is a part of it that is printed separately and perhaps made bigger, so that smaller features can be clearly seen. VI. a group of people who have been given a particular task. a small group, esp. of soldiers or police, ordered to perform a particular duty: A detail of five police officers accompanied the diplomat to his hotel. full/precise details We don't know the full/precise details of the story yet. disclose/divulge details about/of She refused to disclose/divulge any details about/of the plan. go into details If someone does not go into details about a subject, or does not go into the detail, they mention it without explaining it fully or properly. He said he had been in various parts of Britain but did not go into details. Neither of them were prepared to go into the detail of their talks. in detail If you examine or discuss something in detail, you do it thoroughly and carefully. We examine the wording in detail before deciding on the final text. ) they will be sent back to the federal agencies they were on loan from 借调. For example, multiple holdover detailees assigned to counterterrorism directorate were told on Tuesday that their assignment was being cut short and that they will be sent back to their home agencies, according to two people familiar with the move who were not not authorized to comment publicly. The career employees, commonly referred to as detailees, were summoned on Wednesday to an all-staff meeting in which were to be told that they'll be expected to be available to the NSC's senior directors but would not need to report to the White House, the officials said. Officials said that they have already begun bringing detailees from agencies with expertise that the new administration values, including some who had served during the first Trump administration. 13. apoplectic [ˌapəˈplɛktɪk] 大为光火的, 暴怒, 震怒的, 勃然大怒的 adj. If someone is apoplectic, they are extremely angry about something. He was apoplectic with rage/fury. It's enough to make them choke with apoplectic rage. My father was apoplectic when he discovered the truth. The auto sector is likely "apoplectic" about the new potential tariffs, said Mary Lovely, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. US car companies have been able to keep production costs down by hiring lower-wage workers, particularly in Mexico, where much of their production has shifted to in recent years. But that cost saving will essentially be erased if the potential new tariffs go into effect, she said. vocabulary: Someone who is apoplectic is not just mad — they're so filled with rage, they can barely communicate. If your mother is apoplectic, you'd better hope it isn't over something you did. Apoplectic comes from a Greek word that means to "disable by a stroke." What is a stroke? The sudden loss of consciousness or control caused when a blood vessel in the brain ruptures or becomes blocked. When this happens, a person becomes apoplectic. This word also applies to someone who acts so upset, it is like he or she is having a stroke. apoplexy [æpə'pleksi] noun. I. [old-fashioned] Apoplexy is a stroke. II. Apoplexy is extreme anger. very great anger: In a fit of apoplexy, he thumped the table with both hands. He has already caused apoplexy with his books on class and on war. hug it out 冰释前嫌, 一笑泯恩仇slang To reconcile with someone by hugging, as after an argument or disagreement. I'm sorry I upset you, Jed—let's hug it out. I'm glad those two were able to hug it out—I hate when they fight. A: "I never meant to insult you." B: "Yeah, I know that now. I'm over it—let's hug it out." "Elon and I have hugged it out," Dimon said on Wednesday. "He came to one of our conferences, he and I had a nice, long chat. We settled some of our differences. The guy is our Einstein," the Chase CEO added. "I'd like to be helpful to him and his companies as much as we can." implicated [ɪmplɪkeɪtɪd] adj. If someone or something is implicated in a crime or a bad situation, they are involved in it or responsible for it. The President was implicated in the cover-up and forced to resign. It is thought that this virus is implicated in the development of a number of illnesses. implicate verb. I. To implicate someone means to show or claim that they were involved in something wrong or criminal. to show that someone is involved in a crime or partly responsible for something bad that has happened: implicate someone in something Have they any evidence to implicate him in the robbery? He was to resign when one of his own aides was implicated in a financial scandal. He didn't find anything in the notebooks to implicate Stuart. ...his implication in a murder. "Evidence that implicates him in the bombing". "Your cousins might implicate you in the planning of a big party for your grandparents". "His protest implicated censure by the authorities". "This news implicates my decision". "The results implicate poor hygiene as one cause of the outbreak" II. = imply. to involve as a consequence, corollary, or natural inference. To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment. What did Nixon's visit to China implicate 意味着 for Russia? III. To imply without entailing; to have as an implicature. IV. to involve as a consequence, corollary, or natural inference. Firing the federal employee because of her protest implicates the First Amendment. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch wrote concurring opinions. Sotomayor believed the Court should have squarely held that PAFACA actually implicates First Amendment rights, rather than evading that threshold question by merely assuming it does and then upholding the law's constitutionality anyway. I see no reason to assume without deciding that the Act implicates the First Amendment because our precedent leaves no doubt that it does. entail verb. I. If one thing entails another, it involves it or causes it. to make something necessary, or to involve something. To imply, require, or invoke. This activity will entail careful attention to detail. Such a large investment inevitably entails some risk. Repairing the roof will entail spending a lot of money.Such a decision would entail a huge political risk. The changed outlook entails higher economic growth than was previously assumed. The job of a choreologist entails teaching the performance of dance movements. I'll never accept parole because that entails me accepting guilt. II. to create a legal condition that property can only be passed to particular people, for example, only to an oldest son: entail sth to sb 仅限于 Due to a restrictive clause in an ancestor's will, the property was entailed to male-line descendants. implicature [ɪmˈplɪkətʃə] 推出来的结论, 暗示的结论, 推定的结论 I. a proposition inferred 推论 from the circumstances of utterances of another proposition rather than from its literal meaning, as when an academic referee writes the candidate's handwriting is excellent to convey that he or she has nothing relevant to commend. II.. the relation between the uttered and the inferred statement.
bear
I. 忍受. 承受. (used with can/could in negative
sentences and questions) accept/deal with = can't stand. a. to be able to accept and deal with something
unpleasant. to be so upset about something that you feel unable to accept it or let it happen. Please don’t leave me. I couldn't bear it. can't bear the thought of (doing) something I just can't bear the thought of having to start all over. can't bear to do something I can't bear to see her cry. can't bear doing something I couldn't bear not seeing him again. bear something The pain was almost more than he could bear. She couldn't bear the thought of losing him. bear doing something I can't bear 受不了 having cats in the house. He can't bear being laughed at. bear to do something He can't bear to be laughed at. How can you bear to eat that stuff? bear somebody doing something I can't bear you doing that. b. to dislike something or someone very much, often so that they make you feel annoyed or impatient Oh, I really can't bear him. can't bear somebody doing something He can't bear people smoking while he's eating. can't bear (stand/stomach/abide) doing something I can't bear being cold. II. [transitive] be responsible for something 承担, 承受. bear something to take responsibility for something She bore the responsibility
for most of the changes. Do parents have to bear the whole cost of 承担费用
tuition fees? Tuition fees are usually borne by 由...承担 the parents. You
shouldn't have to bear the blame for other people's mistakes. not bear thinking about 想想都害怕, 想都不敢想, 不敢想 to be too unpleasant or frightening to think about: "What if she'd been driving faster?" "It doesn't bear thinking about." A week without my art class to look forward to just wouldn't bear thinking about. The effect of all this pollution scarcely bears thinking about. He imagined sharing an office with his boss. The prospect didn't bear thinking about. Luckily the bomb was intercepted. The consequences if it hadn't been hardly bear thinking about. III. [transitive] not be suitable. not bear to 配不上, 不值得, 不配 not be suitable for something. bear something Her later work does not bear comparison with her earlier novels (= because it is not nearly as good). The plan won't bear close inspection 无力承受, 受不起, 承担不起, 承受不住, 受不了 (= it will be found to be unacceptable when carefully examined). bear doing something The joke doesn't bear repeating (= because it is not funny or may offend people). His sufferings don't bear thinking about (= because they are so terrible). This bears repeating 值得一再重复, 值得一再强调, 应该, 受得起, 受得住, 承担得起, 受得了, 经得起, 禁得住, 经得住 -> we should repeat this. to be important enough to state more than once What some of my fellow citizens thought fit to say about me, and my opponents too, doesn't bear repeating—and women have it much worse. The group's message is one that bears repeating. This bears mentioning
-> we should mention this. This bears reminding -> *we should
remind this. This bears investigating -> we should investigate this. "Not bear investigating" means something is not suitable for investigation or is not worthy of being examined. Bear watching 需要留心, 需要注意 To require or need observation or attention. IV. [transitive] negative feeling 怀有, 心怀.... to have a feeling, especially a negative feeling bear something (against/toward somebody) 心怀 He bears no resentment toward them. bear somebody something She bore him no ill will. V. [transitive] support weight 承重. bear something to support the weight of someone or something The ice is too thin to bear your weight. The weight of the bridge is borne by 承重, 承担重量 steel beams. VI. [transitive] show. bear something (formal) to show something; to carry something so that it can be seen The document bore her signature.
He was badly wounded in the war and still bears the scars 留有伤疤, 留疤. She bears
little resemblance to (= is not much like) her mother. The title of the
essay bore little relation to (= was not much connected with) the contents. VII. [transitive] name. bear something (formal) to have a particular name a family that bore an ancient and honored name. VIII. [transitive] carry. bear somebody/something
(old-fashioned or formal) to carry someone or something, especially
while moving three kings bearing gifts yourself. IX. [transitive] bear yourself well, etc. 表现地 (formal) to move, behave, or act in a particular way He bears himself 举止优雅 (= stands, walks, etc.) proudly, like a soldier. She bore herself with dignity throughout the funeral. X. [transitive] (formal) child. to give birth to a child bear something She was not able to bear children 怀孩子, 怀孕, 孕育孩子. bear somebody something She had borne him six sons. XI. 开花结果. [transitive] of trees/plants. bear something to produce flowers or fruit. bear fruit 结果:
to have a successful result. XII. turn. [intransitive] bear (to the)
left, north, etc. to go or turn in the direction mentioned When you get to the fork in the road, bear right. bear hard, heavily, severely, etc. on somebody 负担, 负重 (formal) to be a cause of difficulty or suffering to someone Taxes bear heavily on us all. bear, take, etc. the brunt of something to receive the main force of something unpleasant Schools will bear the brunt of cuts in government spending. bear/give witness (to something) 作证, 当证人, 作证人 to provide evidence of the truth of something The crowd of mourners at his funeral bore witness to the public's great affection for him. bring something to bear (on somebody/something) (formal) to use energy, pressure, influence, etc. to try to achieve something or make someone do something We must bring all our energies to bear upon the task. Pressure was brought to bear on us to finish the work on time. grin and bear it 笑着接受 (only used as an infinitive and in orders) to accept pain, disappointment, or a difficult situation without complaining There's nothing we can do about it. We'll just have to grin and bear it. have a cross to bear to have a difficult problem that makes you worried or unhappy but that you have to deal with We all have our crosses to bear. bear down on somebody/something 形成压力, 造成重压 I. to press on someone or something. to cause or threaten to cause problems for someone: All of these pressures are bearing down on him. We have to improve our infrastructure to deal with climate change that is bearing down upon us. Bear down on 全身压在 it with all your strength so it doesn't move. II. 来势凶猛的. 径直走过去. 气势汹汹的走过去. to move quickly toward someone or something in a determined or threatening way. move directly towards someone or something in a purposeful or intimidating manner. to move in a threatening way towards someone or something: I looked up to see the car bearing down on me. A hurricane is bearing down on the east coast. "at a canter they bore down on the mass of men ahead". III. (of a woman in labour) increase pressure within the abdomen by contracting the abdominal muscles and holding the breath, in order to push the baby out. IV. to make an effort to deal with something in a complete or detailed way: It is better to bear down on 着重于, 全力以赴, 全神贯注, 专注于 one topic, explore it fully, then move on to the next topic. In her book, she criticizes journalists for not bearing down on corruption. to put more effort into doing something: We're giving up too many points - we have to bear down. I knew I had to bear down hard in order to hit the ball. bear somebody/something out 证实 to show that someone is right or that something is true The other witnesses will bear me out. The other witnesses will bear out what I say. bear with somebody/something to be patient with someone or something She's
under a lot of strain. Just bear with her. If you will bear with me (=
be patient and listen to me) a little longer, I'll answer your question. bear up (against/under something) to remain as cheerful as possible during a difficult time He's bearing up well under the strain of losing his job.
