用法学习: 1. lumber 跌跌撞撞的走, 一瘸一拐的走 to move slowly and awkwardly. If someone or something lumbers from one place to another, they move there very slowly and clumsily. Large parts of its war effort are now unmanned, the robots, drones, and remotely piloted tanks giving it a sudden, albeit fragile, edge over a lumbering and strained Russian invader. He turned and lumbered back to his chair. The truck lumbered across the parking lot toward the road. He looked straight ahead and overtook a lumbering lorry. In the distance, we could see a herd of elephants lumbering across the plain. lumber someone with something 丢给...处理 [British, informal, disapproval] mainly UK informal If you are/get lumbered with something, you have to deal with something or someone that you do not want to. If you are lumbered with someone or something, you have to deal with them or take care of them even though you do not want to and this annoys you. I was lumbered with the job of taking charge of all the money. I hope no-one ever gets lumbered with you. I always seem to get lumbered with the job of clearing up after a party. pockmarked = pocked I. 满脸痘印的. 满脸麻子的. marked with pockmarks: a pockmarked face. II. 坑坑洼洼的. A pockmarked surface has a lot of holes or low areas in it: The old barn was pockmarked with bullet holes. Across the battlefield, control over location data is paramount, and sometimes they must feel their way using daytime recorded drone feeds and painstaking research of the best route over a pockmarked farming field. pock I. 水痘. a spot on the skin that contains pus (= thick yellowish infected liquid), caused by a disease such as chickenpox or smallpox, or a small hollow place that is left when the spot has healed: His face was covered in pocks and cysts. In rare cases the pock may reappear in the same place after it is apparently healed. II. a small hollow place or hole on a surface: Twenty-foot bomb craters pock the roads. The chickens have left little red pocks all over her legs. There are pocks left by hooves and shoes in the soft ground. verb. I. to create holes or raised areas on a surface: Heavy rain is pocking the roads with large potholes. Prairie dogs pock the golf course with their mounds, and take golf balls and hide them in their burrows. II. (of holes) to be all over a surface: Bulletholes pock the entrance to the tunnel. The scars of the trenches still pock the land. pockmark 痘印, 麻点, 麻子 a small hollow on your skin that is left after a spot caused by a disease, such as chickenpox or smallpox, has healed: a face covered with pockmarks. incurious [ɪnˈkjʊə.ri.əs] 不好奇的, 没有好奇心的. 司空见惯, 习以为常的 ot curious; indifferent or uninterested. not interested in knowing what is happening, or not wanting to discover anything new: incurious about He's strangely incurious about what goes on around him. One load is delivered in a non-descript farmhouse, where five boxes of ammunition are strapped onto a robot. It whirrs 嗡嗡着 to life as its remote pilot takes control from a bunker miles away, and trundles down the tiny mud path between two cottage fences, past incurious locals, beginning its 10-hour journey to the frontline. whirr = whir 嗡嗡叫, 嗡嗡着 verb. When something such as a machine or an insect's wing whirrs, it makes a series of low sounds so quickly that they seem like one continuous sound. The camera whirred and clicked. ...the whirring sound of the film projector. He could hear the whirr of a vacuum cleaner. Whirr, click, whirr, click–step by step the scan probed deeper. The silence was broken by the whirring of a helicopter. trundle 晃悠悠的走, 慢悠悠的游走 verb. I. If a vehicle trundles somewhere, it moves there slowly, often with difficulty or an irregular movement. The truck was trundling along the escarpment of the Zambesi valley. A few horse-drawn carts still trundle through the dilapidated mining villages. The train eventually trundled in at 7.54. II. If you trundle something somewhere, especially a small, heavy object with wheels, you move or roll it along slowly. (to cause something) to move slowly on wheels: She trundled the wheelbarrow down the path. Hundreds of trucks full of fruit and vegetables trundle across the border each day. The old man lifted the barrow and trundled it away. They trundled his mowers outside and dumped them. III. If you say that someone is trundling somewhere, you mean that they are walking slowly, often in a tired way or with heavy steps. Girls trundle in carrying heavy book bags. trundle something out mainly UK informal to produce in a boring way something that has often been seen or used before: They seem to trundle out the same old films every Christmas. 2. Puck bunny(Off Campus references the derogatory slang "puck bunny", which is used to describe female ice hockey fans who are more interested in the players than the game itself.) is a term used to describe a female ice hockey fan whose interest in the sport is purported to be primarily motivated by sexual attraction to the players rather than enjoyment of the game itself. Primarily a Canadian term, it gained popular currency in the 21st century, and in 2004 was added to the second edition of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. The term is somewhat analogous [əˈnaləɡəs] 可类比的 to the term groupie as it relates to musicians. Sociological studies of the phenomenon in minor league hockey indicate that self-proclaimed "puck bunnies" are "'proud as punch' to have sex with the [players]", as it confers social status on them. However, these transitory 短期的, 短时间的 relationships are often contrasted with those of girlfriends, with whom players have more stable, long-term relationships. In similar terminology, a female fan who hangs around rodeo cowboys is called a "buckle bunny", in reference to large belt-buckles given as awards. false dawn 落空的希望 I. something that seems to show that a successful period is beginning or that a situation is improving when it is not. a situation in which you think that something is finally going to improve but it does not. National elections are scheduled for next year, but this country has seen many false dawns before. Is it really heading for democracy and peace this time? The increase in sales at the end of the year proved to be a false dawn. We know the couple will end up in love, but the screenplay structure requires a false dawn before the real happy ending. There have been false dawns. First, the Membreys were told by police the killer had been found. But he was cleared. And now, police have reason to believe there is a new suspect. II. a time in which something such as the economy seems to be getting better but in fact it is not: In Japan, the concern is that the latest pick-up in activity will be another false dawn and that the economy will suffer a relapse.
