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Down Cemetery Road: 1. A twisty mystery that grows more addictive as it unfolds, Down Cemetery Road is tonally ( tonal [ˈtəʊ.nəl] I. music specialized relating to the quality of sound of a musical instrument or singing voice: The performance showed off the tonal power and richness of the symphony. II. music specialized Tonal music is music that is based on major and minor keys: He had originally worked as a nightclub pianist and his music was tonal and accessible. III. 语调上. expressing differences in meaning with the use of different intonation (= the sound changes produced by the rise and fall of the voice when speaking) for words that have a similar sound: Non-native speakers trying to learn a tonal language have great difficulty with tone. Tonal languages include Chinese, Vietnamese, Lithuanian, and most sub-Saharan languages. IV. relating to a form or degree of a colour: The interior design features the use of an autumnal tonal colour palette.) imbalanced but has a steadfast center of gravity in Emma Thompson's flinty ( flinty [ˈflɪn.ti] I. made of or like flint(火石). a flinty material. II. severe and determined. If you describe a person or someone's character or expression as flinty, you mean they are harsh and show no emotion. ...her flinty stare. ...a man of flinty determination. He looked at me with flinty eyes. like flint; extremely hard and firm; inflexible. a flinty heart. ) star turn (star turn I. a performance, role, or appearance (as in a movie or television show) that is done by a star or well-known personality. II. an outstanding performance or prominent role in or contribution to something. The star turn of a performance or show is the main item, or the one that is considered to be the most interesting or exciting. the main performer in a film, play, or other show, or an extremely good performance by someone This star turn is supported by a plot that draws on two trusty sources of drama. III. the most outstanding or prominent person or thing in a group. The star turn of a recent lunch in the plant-filled conservatory was a Goan curry—chunks of succulent chicken breast in a sauce the color of pesto, made with green chilies and coriander. ). 2. Careful. Be careful with that. That's it. Mind the bump 小心. Take it right through to the end. 3. We're bringing all the Augustus Starcks down here for safekeeping 安全保存. Had a tipoff about a protest group. Right. Of course. Wondered when he'd get canceled. He hasn't been canceled. Well, his wife was only 15 when he married her. Just, you know, saying. He was hugely influential. These are worth a fortune. Come along 推过来, 推着, come along. This way. Actually, you could put that one back on the wall. Yeah, Augustus Starck didn't use cobalt blue, but his wife did. That's a Christina Starck. Latterly, he claimed a lot of her work was his. Store it 储存起来. 4. You're not going for matching wine glasses? Well, I thought that random ones might be a useful talking point. You know? "Oh, look. We bought this little tumbler on our travels from a man with a wanking marmoset." Let's just use the posh ones though. This is the bank's top client we're talking about. Oh. Uh, can you do a salad dressing? Sorry, hon, just quick work email. Good day? Bad day? Yeah, Keith Wang came in to talk to the fund management posse(posse [pɒsi] I. A posse of people is a group of people with the same job or purpose. a group of people who have come together for the same purpose: The disgraced minister walked swiftly from the car to his house pursued by a whole posse of reporters. ...a posse of reporters. A posse of Marsh's friends persuaded them that this was a bad idea. a slang term that refers to a group of friends or people with a common interest. For example, you might refer to a group of friends who go to garage sales together as "your posse". II. In former times, in the United States, a posse was a group of men who were brought together by the local law officer to help him chase and capture a criminal. in the past, a group of men in the US who were brought together to catch a criminal: In a lot of old westerns, the sheriff gathers a posse to chase the bad guy. The sheriff rounded up a posse and went after the bank robbers. III. a group of friends: I was hanging with my posse. possie [ˈpɒzi] noun informal Australian I. a place or position. A position or place, especially one that is advantageous. "the bridge will provide a good fishing possie 好位置". II. a job.). Mmm. The Wang man always delivers(The phrase "always delivers" means that a person, product, or service is consistently reliable, meets or exceeds expectations, and follows through on their promises or commitments. under-promise and over-deliver 少说多做 To avoid raising expectations in order to subsequently exceed them. Used as a strategy to ensure the satisfaction of one's client, customer, boss, etc. Also spelled without hyphens. I want all of our customer service representatives to under-promise and over-deliver, so that all experiences with our company are positive ones. The boss urges us to underpromise and overdeliver, but I think our clients are perfectly happy when we do just what we promised. signed, sealed, and delivered Fig. formally and officially signed; [for a formal document to be] executed. Here is the deed to the property—signed, sealed, and delivered. I can't begin work on this project until I have the contract signed, sealed, and delivered. stand and deliver 乖乖的交出来 to give up something to someone who demands it. (Originally used by highway robbers asking for passengers' valuables.) And when the tax agent says "Stand and deliver" you have to be prepared to pay what is demanded. The robber stopped the coach and demanded of Lady Ellen, "Stand and deliver!" II. A threat made by highwaymen (muggers operating along the King's highway) in 18th-century England, demanding the traveler halt and surrender their money or goods. A group of bandits descended on the caravan of travelers, the leader stopping in front of the first carriage and shouting, "Stand and deliver!"). Okay. All right. All right. Just get it all out of your system 发泄出来 now. There's gonna be loads of investment talk tonight. I really need you not to take the piss. Gerard Inchon's a big catch 一条大鱼. Trust me, I'll be chatting acid peels with the ex-model wife. What time are Steve and Becca due 什么时候来? Oh. Yeah, uh… Can't come. Babysitter bailed, but don't worry, don't worry. Replacements are sorted. Who have you invited instead? 5. Wigwam and Rufus. Marvelous. Sounds like a 1960's folk duo or a… or a pair of goldfish. No, no. I'm just… just joshing (josh to joke, often in order to tease someone (= annoy them slightly in a humorous way): They were always joshing him about his bald head.). Uh, good to meet you. 6. Rufus has got his balls out (剧中Rufus拿出球来玩juggling了. 喝上劲了, 喝开心了, 喝开了) ( balls out I. With great abandon. With maximum effort, energy, or speed, and without caution or restraint. The phrase most likely originated as an railroad engineering term, referring to the mechanical governor of steam locomotives, which has two weighted steel balls that extend to the "balls out" position when at maximum speed. While it does not in fact refer to testicles, it should be used with caution because of this popular association. If we're going to win this battle, we have to go absolutely balls-out! We're gonna have to go balls-out on offense today if we want to have any hope of beating this team. Hey, you don't have to go balls-out just because there's no one else on the road! Slow down! II. (US, idiomatic, slang) At the fastest possible speed. We're gonna have to go balls-out on offense today if we want to have any hope of beating this team. Etymology: Usually said to be from the maximum-speed state of a ball governor 离心式调速器, 球状调速器, whose balls are swung out to the near-horizontal position. Neither balls-out nor balls to the wall is connected with the vulgar sense of balls ("testicles") except connotationally via folk etymology. (In that vein of apparent vulgar innuendo, see also rock out with one's cock out.) The metal balls of a centrifugal governor are pushed apart to a degree depending on the speed of a rotating shaft, providing negative feedback to the throttle. balls to the wall I. (US, idiomatic, slang) With maximum effort or commitment. II. (US, idiomatic, slang) Full throttle; (at) maximum speed. Etymology: First attested in the 1960s in the context of aviation, in reference to ball-shaped grips on an aircraft's engine controls 球形推杆 (typically throttle, prop pitch and fuel mixture). Pushing these "balls to the wall" would put the aircraft at maximum thrust. Analogous to pedal to the metal. Not related to the term balls-out, which refers to a ball governor on a steam engine. Neither balls-out nor balls to the wall is connected with the vulgar sense of balls ("testicles") except via folk etymology. ball out I. A misspelling of "bawl out," meaning to scold or reprimand someone in a harsh, forceful manner. The teacher balled us out when she caught us cheating on the test. I got balled out by my mother for staying out past curfew. Oh man, Dad is going to ball you out when he sees the massive dent you put in the car! II. slang In basketball, to perform extremely well on the court, especially by scoring many baskets. Footage has emerged of the legendary coach balling out during his high school team's division championship game. Ugh, there's no way we're gonna win this game with their star player balling out like that. I'm pretty sure she's more of a defensive-minded player. I've never seen her ball out before. III. slang In pinball, to lose the game by allowing the ball to drop into the space between and beneath the flippers. I like pinball well enough, but I always ball out before getting a good score. Don't get frustrated—with some more practice, you won't ball out as much. He's so great at pinball that I don't like playing against him. He always gets some massive high school, whereas I'm balling out every time. ). What? Wow. Goodness. And he can play the spoons. Okay. Can I get anybody a drink? 7. I don't like to boast but I've got quite the impressive art collection myself. Oh, well, the bank has just started a crypto art portfolio. Oh. My dealer says to avoid it. I think my kids' art is just as good as the fancy stuff. You know, our little Ziggy, he designed these. Oh, you have children already? Yeah, yeah. Four. Four? You starting a cult? Well, they're not Rufey's, but we're trying. What about Sarah? Any plans for children? Well, none that aren't private (The phrase "none that aren't private" means that every single available option is private, and there are no public or open ones.), Gerard. We do want kids though. Don't we? Sares, I think you'll feel so different when it's one of your own. Yeah. So everyone says. But what if they're wrong? Hey? Treat it like an investment. You can get a good price for kids in some parts of the world. I'm sorry, do you seriously think that adoption's a business opportunity? Well, it bloody well should be. Adoption process round here's gone mad. Social justice warriors screwed the system. More wine? This part of town's crawling with disenfranchised youths( disenfranchised I. to take away power or opportunities, especially the right to vote, from a person or group. Disenfranchised means being deprived of a right, privilege, or power. not having the right to vote, or a similar right, or having had that right taken away: Hundreds of thousands of teenagers and particularly teenage girls are utterly disenfranchised in this culture. 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. II. 没有话语权的. 人微言轻的. having no power to make people listen to your opinion or to affect the society you live in: The most common shared characteristics among Florida's 175,000 disenfranchised voters were income and education. disenfranchised youth/communities. ) with daddy issues out for revenge. Well, what's your solution, Gerard? What? Put all the kids in private orphanages run by creepy priests? And if not, oh, there'll be some massive urban revolt? You may scoff 嗤之以鼻, Sarah, but come the revolution(come I. You can use come before a date, time, or event to mean when that date, time, or event arrives. For example, you can say come the spring to mean 'when the spring arrives'. Come the election on the 20th of May, we will have to decide. He's going to be up there again come Sunday. II. If a thought, idea, or memory comes to you, you suddenly think of it or remember it. He was about to shut the door when an idea came to him. Then it came to me that perhaps he did understand. III. If money or property is going to come to you, you are going to inherit or receive it. The fortune will come to you. He did have pension money coming to him when the factory shut down. IV. If a case comes before a court or tribunal or comes to court, it is presented there so that the court or tribunal can examine it. They were ready to explain their case when it came before the planning committee. President Cristiani expected the case to come to court within ninety days. V. Something that comes from something else or comes of it is the result of it. There is a feeling of power that comes from driving fast. Some good might come of all this gloomy business. He asked to be transferred there some years ago, but nothing came of it. VI. If someone comes of a particular family or type of family, they are descended from them. She comes of a very good family. VII. The next subject in a discussion that you come to is the one that you talk about next. Finally in the programme, we come to the news that the American composer and conductor, Leonard Bernstein, has died. That is another matter altogether. And we shall come to that next. VIII. You can ask how something came to happen when you want to know what caused it to happen or made it possible. How did you come to meet him? IX. If someone comes to 开始做某事 do something, they do it at the end of a long process or period of time. She said it so many times that she came to believe it. Although it was a secret wedding, the press did eventually come to hear about it. X. You use come in expressions such as come to an end or come into operation to indicate that someone or something enters or reaches a particular state or situation. The summer came to an end. The Communists came to power in 1944. I came into contact with very bright Harvard and Yale students. ...new taxes which come into force next month. Their worst fears may be coming true. XI. If something comes apart or comes to pieces, it breaks into pieces. If something comes off or comes away, it becomes detached from something else. The pistol came to pieces, easily and quickly. The door knobs came off in our hands. ), bloody good luck to you. Least I'll be armed and ready. Have you got a gun? Got a whole collection, love. Oh, so you see yourself as some kind of suburban warlord? Osama bin Businessman, that's me. 8. You go, babe. I'll stay and help 留下来帮忙. 9. Actually, what I was thinking was… this house explosion could be a bit of a cash cow. In what way exactly? Well, due diligence. Maybe the gas company didn‘t do it. Maybe this case could go all the way to the top. Well, maybe sort of all the way to the middle. Bottom of the middle. Middle of the bottom. 10. The good news is that our latest tests suggest delayed deterioration. The slightly less optimistic news is that without continued access to our case studies, we don't yet have enough data to move into the next phase. Hello. Hamza Malik, Intelligence and Threats. Thank you. Well, the Ministry of Defence can't hurry medical science. Can we, Dr. Wright? Although in this instance, you're going to have to. Well, you've really bollocksed ( bollocks I. A man's bollocks are his testicles. II. Bollocks is used by some people to express disagreement, dislike, or annoyance. a rude word for nonsense: That's a load of bollocks. Bollocks to that (= I do not agree with or do not want to do that)! Have you read this article? What a load of old bollocks! And he reckons he's been badly treated, does he? Pardon me but that's complete and utter bollocks! Everything he said was absolute bollocks. Honestly, what a load of pretentious bollocks!) this one. Haven't you, Malik? I don't remember you receiving permission to start a war in Oxford. Ah, the, uh, department was given carte blanche ( carte blanche 全权授权, 绝对自主权 [ˌkɑːt ˈblɑ̃ːʃ] complete freedom to do something: give someone carte blanche Congress has effectively given the president carte blanche. carte blanche to The landlord has given her carte blanche to redecorate the living room. have carte blanche They seem to feel they have carte blanche to do whatever they like. ), sir. Carte blanche? Well, that does suggest pretty wide parameters, I'll grant you 我算你是. Not wide enough to cover barely controlled explosions in densely populated university towns. Who'd you have running this one 你让谁负责的? Wile E. Coyote? Well, our man on the spot is a… A trigger-happy twat? I assume the incendiary(incendiary [ɪnˈsɛndɪəri] adj. I. (of a device or attack) designed to cause fires. Incendiary weapons or attacks are ones that cause large fires. Five incendiary devices were found in her house. ...incendiary attacks on shops. "incendiary bombs". II. tending to stir up conflict. "incendiary rhetoric". noun. I. an incendiary bomb or device. An incendiary is an incendiary bomb. A shower of incendiaries struck the Opera House. "the Holy City was blasted by incendiaries". II. a person who starts fires. "he was an English incendiary, responsible for the burning of three French battleships". sedentary [ˈsɛd(ə)nt(ə)ri] 不动的人, 久坐的, 不活动的人. 久坐不运动的 involving little exercise or physical activity. Someone who has a sedentary lifestyle or job sits down a lot of the time and does not take much exercise. Obesity and a sedentary lifestyle has been linked with an increased risk of heart disease. Marilyn leads a more sedentary lifestyle now that she works at home. vocabulary: Scientists believe that one of the causes of the obesity epidemic sweeping the U.S. is our sedentary lifestyle. Sedentary means sitting a lot and refers to a person or job that is not very physically active. If you have a sedentary job, you might want to stand up and stretch every hour or so, and if your doctor says that you are too sedentary 不运动的, she means that it would be healthier for you to exercise more. This adjective has a specialized meaning when referring to certain types of birds that stay in one area and do not migrate. Sedentary comes into English from French sédentaire, which is derived from the Latin word sedēre, "to sit." ) was his idea? It was a field decision 当场决定的, 现场决定的, sir. Oh, is it a field decision, Malik? Yeah. Well, I would love a heads-up on what fucking Ralph has planned for an encore. Small nuclear device in a crowded shopping center perhaps? Don't think so, sir. You don't think so? Well, that is very reassuring 太让人放心了, 大可以放宽心了. You need to get down on your hands and knees, and mop up this piss fountain you've created before it becomes a piss geyser… the size of Old fucking Faithful ( Old Faithful 老忠實間歇泉 is a cone geyser in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, United States. It was named in 1870 during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to be named. It is a highly predictable geothermal feature, erupting on average every 92 minutes, with the period between eruptions ranging from as short as 35 minutes to as long as 120 minutes. The geyser and the nearby Old Faithful Inn are part of the Old Faithful Historic District. ).
