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用法学习: 1. burnish 提升(形象) to rub metal until it is smooth and shiny. If you burnish something such as your public image, you take action to improve it and make it more attractive. To burnish the image of someone or something means to improve their image. It was a move that has burnished Mr Hu's populist credentials. The company is currently trying to burnish its socially responsible image. There is nothing surprising about Albanese’s choices – assuming they are honest, and not chosen to burnish the everyman credentials of a man who grew up in public housing and is now the happy owner of multiple homes. burnished adj I. 磨得闪亮的. smooth and shiny, usually because of being polished (= rubbed): The case is burnished aluminium. burnished mahogany doors. II. (of a colour) shining in a warm way: Their children have burnished olive skin. III. having had improvements made to it: Nothing in political prose has been so burnished as his acceptance speech. 2. The reminiscence bump 回忆杀 is the tendency for adults over forty to have increased or enhanced recollection for events that occurred during their adolescence and early adulthood. It was identified through the study of autobiographical memory and the subsequent plotting of the age of encoding of memories to form the lifespan retrieval curve. The reminiscence bump is a phenomenon in autobiographical memory where older adults tend to recall a disproportionately large number of memories from their adolescence and early adulthood (roughly between the ages of 10 and 30). This occurs despite the fact that these individuals have lived through other periods of life with equally significant events. Albo's song list: Not that there's anything wrong with his choices, either. There's a fair body of research behind the "reminiscence bump" theory that the music we fall in love with in our youth – when we're developing our sense of self and identity – is the music that ends up staying with us for life. The reminiscence bump is mostly strongly felt towards music heard between the ages of about 10 to 30. And nostalgia is a hell of a drug, which is why most people remain slaves to the conceit(The phrase "slaves to the conceit" refers to individuals who are excessively devoted to or controlled by their own vanity, pride, or inflated sense of self-importance. It implies that their actions and decisions are driven by this conceit, rather than by reason or a more balanced perspective. The term "conceit" in this context means an overly high opinion of oneself, often manifested as arrogance or vanity.) that the music of their generation was the greatest ever made. 3. death ray 死死地盯着, 杀气腾腾的看着 a weapon that generates an intense beam of particles or radiation by which it destroys its target. an imaginary ray capable of killing. She was shooting death ray at 杀气腾腾的看着我 me. keep watch 小心看着 保持警惕 stay on the lookout for danger or trouble. to watch to make sure that no one is coming. If someone keeps watch, they look and listen all the time, while other people are asleep or doing something else, so that they can warn them of danger or an attack. Jose, as usual, had climbed a tree to keep watch. She kept watch outside while the others robbed the bank. "at the mouth of the stream, two young sentries kept watch". keep a watch out for to regularly check to see if someone has arrived or if something has appeared or happened. She asked him to keep a watch out for the delivery truck. condemnation 瞧不上 看不起 [ˌkɒn.dəmˈneɪ.ʃən] the act of condemning something or someone: The shooting of the police officer has received universal condemnation. Condemnation is the act of saying that something or someone is very bad and unacceptable. The violence received widespread condemnation from politicians and senior police officers. There was widespread condemnation of Saturday's killings. The raids have drawn a strong condemnation from the United Nations Security Council. vocabulary: Condemnation is the act of declaring something awful or evil. If your little brother does something unspeakably awful, express your condemnation so he will learn not to do it again. Condemnation comes from the verb condemn, "to strongly disapprove." You might criticize something that you still think is worthwhile, but if you express condemnation, that's laying a heavy moral blame. Condemnation is used in law, and means the same thing as sentencing; you might have heard a judge say "I condemn you to ten years of hard labor." Also, a very dangerous building will be sealed up and deemed uninhabitable by an act of condemnation. 4. Shilajit Gummies