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用法学习: 1. spruik [spruːk] 吹嘘, 打广告, 宣传 INFORMAL AUSTRALIAN speak in public, especially to advertise a show. "men who spruik outside striptease joints" promote or publicize. "the company forked out $15 million to spruik its digital revolution". The website spruiking the Opal Tower apartments promises "uncompromised quality". spook [spuːk] I. a ghost. II. NORTH AMERICAN a spy. ...as a U.S. intelligence spook said yesterday. "a CIA spook". v. 惊吓. 吓到. 惊弓之鸟 frighten; unnerve. "they spooked a couple of grizzly bears". If people are spooked, something has scared them or made them nervous. [mainly US] He was so spooked 吓破胆 that he began to believe he heard strange clicks on the telephone. But was it the wind that spooked her? Investors were spooked by slowing economies. spooky 鬼嘘嘘的, 吓人的 frightening in a way that makes you nervous because it involves things that do not seem natural and cannot be explained by science. A place that is spooky has a frightening atmosphere, and makes you feel that there are ghosts around. [informal] The whole place has a slightly spooky atmosphere. a spooky story. 2. unobtrusive [ʌnəbˈtruːsɪv] 默默地, 悄无声息的, 不为人注意的, 不声不响的 adj not conspicuous or attracting attention. If you describe something or someone as unobtrusive, you mean that they are not easily noticed or do not draw attention to themselves. The coffee table is glass, to be as unobtrusive as possible. He managed the factory with unobtrusive efficiency. They slipped away unobtrusively. Unobtrusively, the other actors filed into the lounge. "the service was unobtrusive and efficient". Very pleasant staff who were unobtrusive but made things happen. obtrusive [ɒbtruːsɪv] 特别显眼的, 敲锣打鼓的, 大张旗鼓的 adj If you say that someone or something is obtrusive, you think they are noticeable in an unpleasant way. 'You are rude and obtrusive, Mr Galbraith,' said Tommy. These heaters are less obtrusive and are easy to store away in the summer. Hawke got up and walked obtrusively out of the building. 3. polar opposite/extreme something that is the complete or exact opposite of something else. Brad wants this year's Christmas to be the polar opposite of last year's. He was so alone last year, so heartbroken and really felt like he had nothing to look forward to. Now that the custody battle is over and Brad finally has won the kids back on his terms, going on a big family trip to Missouri is on the cards. He's moving heaven and earth to make it happen – he wants all the people he loves under one roof come Christmas morning. According to our source, Jennifer is splashing out on $40,000 worth of presents for the kids and is looking forward to helping her former mother-in-law Jane with the cooking. Ortega's cheerful landscapes are the polar opposites of Miller’s dark, troubled portraits. icy I. If you describe something as icy or icy cold, you mean that it is extremely cold. An icy wind blew hard across the open spaces. His shoes and clothing were wet through 湿透 and icy cold. II. An icy road has ice on it. III. 冷淡的. If you describe a person or their behaviour as icy, you mean that they are not affectionate or friendly, and they show their dislike or anger in a quiet, controlled way. [disapproval] His response was icy. 'Have you finished?' he asked icily. The prison official is icily polite and bureaucratic. livid [lɪvɪd] I. Someone who is livid is extremely angry. [informal] I am absolutely livid about it. She is livid that I have invited Dick. II. Something that is livid is an unpleasant dark purple or red colour. The scarred side of his face was a livid red. 4. dissipate [dɪsɪpeɪt] I. 驱散疑云. 疑云消散, 消散. 散散. When something dissipates or when you dissipate it, it becomes less or becomes less strong until it disappears or goes away completely. [formal] The tension in the room had dissipated 驱赶寒意. His suspicion dissipate 怀疑尽销. He wound down the windows to dissipate the heat 散散热气, 散热. II. When someone dissipates 挥霍一空 money, time 挥霍时间, or effort, they waste it in a foolish way. [formal] He is dissipating his time and energy on too many different things. Her father had dissipated her inheritance. ...the dissipation of my wealth. gingerly 小心翼翼地 If you do something gingerly, you do it in a careful manner, usually because you expect it to be dangerous, unpleasant, or painful. [written] She was touching the dressing gingerly with both hands. I drove gingerly past the security check points. wear on 随着时间推移, 时间继续, 随着时间流逝, 随着天色渐晚 If you say that time wears on, you mean that it passes, especially when it seems to pass slowly. As the day wore on, Brand found himself increasingly impressed. The summer days wore on and life returned to its boring routine. centre around / round = centre on/ upon (= revolve around) 以...为中心, 围绕着 I. if something centres around someone or something, or if you centre something around them, they are its main subject of attention or interest. to have something as the main subjectof discussion or interest. if your thoughts, activities etc centre around something or are centred around it, it is the main thing that you are concerned with or interested in My arguments are centered around 围绕着...展开的 the hypothesis that every dog has his day. In the 16th century, village life centred around religion. The debate centred around the issue of finance. The discussion centred around reducing waste. 争议: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary observes that center aroundis objected to by some people on the grounds that it is illogical, but states that it is an idiom, and thus that such objections are irrelevant. It offers revolve around as an alternative to center around for those who would avoid the idiom. Here is Merriam-Webster's original wording: The intransitive verb center is most commonly used with the prepositions in, on, at, and around. At appears to be favored in mathematical contexts; the others are found in a broad range of contexts. Center around, a standard idiom, has often been objected to as illogical. The logic on which the objections are based is irrelevant, since center around is an idiom and idioms have their own logic. Center on is currently more common in edited prose, and revolve around and similar verbs are available if you want to avoid center around. 5. than meets the eye You say 'there's more to this than meets the eye' when you think a situation is not as simple as it seems to be. This whole business is very puzzling. There is a lot more to it than meets the eye. there's no mistaking 绝不会搞错, 绝不会看错, 绝不会认错 You can say there is no mistaking something when you are emphasizing that you cannot fail to recognize or understand it. used for saying that you cannot fail to understand or recognize something. There was no mistaking the surprise on his face when I told him the news. There's no mistaking a painting by Picasso. There's no mistaking the eastern flavour of the food. There was no mistaking Magda's sincerity, or her pain. account for I. If a particular thing accounts for a part or proportion of something, that part or proportion consists of that thing, or is used or produced by it. Computers account for 占据 5% of the country's commercial electricity consumption. II. 可以解释. If something accounts for a particular fact or situation, it causes or explains it. Now, the gene they discovered today doesn't account for all those cases. III. If you can account for something, you can explain it or give the necessary information about it. He could not account for his whereabouts 说不清楚去向. How do you account for the company's alarmingly high staff turnover? He said only 200 of the train's 600 passengers had been accounted for. IV. If someone has to account for an action or policy, they are responsible for it, and may be required to explain it to other people or be punished if it fails. The President and the President alone must account for 负责 his government's reforms. V. If a sum of money is accounted for in a budget, it has been included in that budget for a particular purpose. The really heavy redundancy costs have been accounted for. VII. If you account for an enemy or opponent, you kill, destroy, or beat them. In the first ten days of May our squadron accounted for at least seven enemy aircraft. In the final they accounted for Brentford by three goals to two.  6. deceitful (dishonest): having a tendency or disposition to deceive. a. not honest a deceitful 不老实的, 不实诚的, 不实在的 salesman. b. deceptive, misleading deceitful 欺骗性质的, 骗人的 advertising. deceptive 让人误解的, 让人误会的, 似是而非的, 误导的: tending or having power to deceive; deceptive advertising. deceptive practices. New laws against misleading or deceptive advertising The hotel looked nice but appearances can be deceptive. It's deceptive - from the outside the building looks small, but inside it's very big. He put the question with deceptive casualness. a deceptive appearance. difference: deceitful 骗人的, 欺骗性质的, 不老实的 means intended to deceive or cheat (focus on intention) while deceptive 欲以骗人的, 意在骗人的, 意欲骗人的,具有欺骗性的 means causing one to believe what is not true or likely to mislead someone (focus on effect) Appearances can be deceptive. Deceiving VS deceptive: In general, the noun-derived form (such as 'deceptive') implies a characteristic: that is, a typical attitude, behaviour or property, whereas the verb-derived form (such as 'deceiving') does not. This does not mean that the words may not in some contexts convey a very similar semantic meaning. The above is a general principle for words of this kind. looks/ appearances can be deceiving used for saying that people and things are often very different from how they appear. He's being deceitful 没说实话, 骗人的, 说谎的 all the time. deceive (deceiver 骗子): to persuade someone that something false is the truth, or to keep the truth hidden from someone for your own advantage: The company deceived customers by selling old computers as new ones. The sound of the door closing deceived me into thinking they had gone out. If something deceives you, it gives you a wrong impression and makes you believe something that is not true. His gentle, kindly appearance did not deceive me. The boys, if my eyes did not deceive me, were praying. deceive yourself 自欺欺人 to refuse to accept the truth: She thinks he'll come back, but she's deceiving herself. are my eyes deceiving me? something you say when you cannot believe what you see: Is that snow in May, or are my eyes deceiving me? cancer in remission 检测不出癌细胞: Remission means you have either little or no sign of cancer in your body. It doesn't show up on X-rays, MRI scans, or blood tests. Symptoms, like pain or fatigue, often ease up or stop. Your cancer is in complete remission when, after treatment, no cancer can be detected. The term "cure" can only be used in hindsight. Commonly, years after the cancer has gone into remission, if it has not returned (or relapsed), it is said to have been cured. However, a secondary cancer could occur if the same conditions that triggered the first are present. remission I. If someone who has had a serious disease such as cancer is in remission or if the disease is in remission, the disease has been controlled so that they are not as ill as they were. Brain scans have confirmed that the disease is in remission. After six years of remission, cancer reappeared. II. 减刑. If someone in prison gets remission, their prison sentence is reduced, usually because they have behaved well. a reduction of the term of a sentence of imprisonment, as for good conduct. he got three years' remission. With remission for good behaviour, she could be freed in a year. III. lessening of intensity; abatement, as in the severity of symptoms of a disease. IV. the process by which someone is allowed not to pay money that they owe. Scholarship students will receive full remission 减免, 全免除 of their tuition fees. 相关句子: Failure to receive an invoice does not absolve the payer of the responsibility to ensure school fees are paid prior to a student's attendance. Remission of tuition means that the cost of tuition has been waived by the University for its employee or dependent. Most Universities that offer this benefit require a minimum of service for the benefit to become effective for the employee and a little longer for it to expand to cover the dependent. remit I. Someone's remit is the area of activity 活动范围, 管辖范围, 势力范围, 工作范围 which they are expected to deal with, or which they have authority to deal with. [British] That issue is not within the remit of the working group. [+ of] The centre has a remit to advise Asian businesses and entrepreneurs. v. I. If you remit money to someone, you send it to them. [formal] Many immigrants regularly remit money to their families. II. 打回重审. In an appeal court, if a case is remitted to the court where it was originally dealt with, it is sent back to be dealt with there. [law] The matter was remitted to the justices for a rehearing. remittance I. a sum of money sent in payment or as a gift. "complete your booking form and send it together with your remittance". "complete the booking form and send it together with your remittance". II. allowance, sum of money, consideration. "he gets a remittance once every three months". III. the action of sending money in payment or as a gift. "remittance may be made by credit card". 7. fall by the wayside 半途而废, 半路返航, 倒在路上, 中道崩殂, 事业未竟身先死, 不能完成, 中途放弃, 半路放弃, 半路返回 fail to persist in an endeavour or undertaking. to cease or fail to continue doing something. of the nine starters, three fell by the wayside. Many readers will fall by the wayside as the terminology becomes more complicated. A hit has been taken out 雇凶杀人, 买凶杀人, 找杀手杀人 to kill his mother. 'And I warn you, if you back out of the doctor's visit after this, I'm going to take out a hit on you 找人杀了你.' Put a hit out on 悬赏杀人 to contract with a killer to have someone murdered. Peter: I sort of put a hit out on ya. Louis : How could you put a hit out on me!. vehemently [ˈvi:əməntli] in a forceful, passionate, or intense manner; with great feeling. "he vehemently denied any suggestion of improper conduct". to the max 做到极致 to the highest degree or level. If you do something to the max, you do it to the greatest degree possible. [informal] Everyone involved is enjoying himself to the max. Too many guys in the gym are pushing their bodies to the max and not using the weights correctly. loiter [ˈlɔɪtə] I. 闲晃. stand or wait around without apparent purpose. "she saw Mary loitering near the cloakrooms". II. 闲溜达 walk slowly and with no apparent purpose; dawdle. "the weather had tempted them to loiter along the banks of the Cherwell". to move slowly around or stand in a public place without an obvious reason: A gang of youths were loitering outside the cinema. to go slowly, stopping often: Come straight home and don't loiter, Alan. In any pass/fail exam, there is a "pass point, 及格分, 及格线 a passing grade 及格分"(passing grade: the number of points that must be achieved in order to be successful in an exam. ) the number of questions a candidate must answer correctly in order to pass the exam. ... When a candidate completes an exam, the testing software calculates a raw score—the actual number of correctly answered questions. The social work licensing exams are all pass/fail exams developed to measure minimum competence in social work practice. In any pass/fail exam, there is a "pass point," the number of questions a candidate must answer correctly in order to pass the exam. All jurisdictions that use the ASWB exams recognize the same pass point. This pass point varies, depending on the category of exam you're taking and which version ("form") of the exam you get. Generally, pass points range from  93 to 107 correct of the 150 scored questions. Remember that the test also includes 20 nonscored "pretest" questions mixed in with the scored items. Because different test takers 考生, 参考人, 考试人员 receive different sets of questions, ASWB has to account for 考虑进去 differences in the difficulty levels of individual items on different versions of the same test. When a candidate completes an exam, the testing software calculates a raw score—the actual number of correctly answered questions. Because raw scores 原始分数 can be affected by the difficulty of individual items on a particular form of an exam, these slight variations are accounted for through an equating process. passing I. A passing fashion, activity, or feeling lasts for only a short period of time and is not worth taking very seriously. Hamnett does not believe environmental concern is a passing 短时间的 fad. II. The passing of something such as a time or system is the fact of its coming to an end. It was an historic day, yet its passing was not marked by the slightest excitement. When the Fifties faded into history, there wasn't a lot of mourning for the passing 逝去 of an era. III. You can refer to someone's death as their passing, if you want to avoid using the word 'death' because you think it might upset or offend people. His passing 去世, 离世 will be mourned by many people. ...the passing of one of this century's great artists. IV. The passing of a period of time is the fact or process of its going by. The passing of time brought a sense of emptiness. The passing of the years has been kind to Dan. He looks like a man of half his age. V. A passing mention or reference 捎带的, 随便提及的, 顺便提及的 is brief and is made while you are talking or writing about something else. It was just a passing comment, he didn't go on about it. The colonies received only a passing mention. Everyone only asked a passing question 随便一问的, 随便问问的, 随口一问的 where he went, no one really cared about the answer. with each passing year/with every passing year 年复一年. 8. Pure alexia, also known as agnosic alexia or alexia without agraphia or pure word blindness, is one form of alexia which makes up "the peripheral dyslexia" group. Individuals who have pure alexia have severe reading problems while other language-related skills such as naming, oral repetition, auditory comprehension or writing are typically intact. notorious[nəˈtɔriəs] notoriety [ˌnəutəˈraɪəti] a situation in which someone or something is famous for something bad. The regime gained notoriety for its harsh treatment of political prisoners. sobriety [səuˈbraɪəti] I. the state of not being drunk. II. serious behaviour, or a serious attitude. crushed soul 不堪重负而心力交瘁的人, 伤痕累累的人 She has been a crushed soul herself, couldn't take another blow about her son. A hookah 水烟袋, also known as the ḡalyān, is a single- or multi-stemmed instrument for vaporizing and smoking flavored tobacco (often Mu'assel), or sometimes cannabis or opium, whose vapor or smoke is passed through a water basin—often glass-based—before inhalation. Health risks of smoking through a hookah include exposure to toxic chemicals that are not filtered out by the water and risk of infectious disease when hookahs are shared. ride a hobby = ride (one's) hobby-horse 滔滔不绝的说 to be excessively devoted to one's favorite pastime or subject. To frequently or incessantly talk or complain about a subject, topic, or issue in which one is excessively interested. Ah, here we go again. Once grandpa starts riding his hobby-horse about the government, there's no stopping him! hung up on/about 太过沉迷于, 沉醉于, 醉心于, 着迷于, 太当回事, 太过重视 obsessively or exclusively interested in. If you say that someone is hung up about a particular person or thing, you are criticizing them for thinking or worrying too much about that person or thing. [informal, disapproval] It was a time when people weren't so hung-up about health. [+ about/on] Are you really that hung up on her? he's hung up on modern art these days. hang back 不要一鼓作气的, 稍微缓一下 I. If you hang back, you move or stay slightly behind a person or group, usually because you are nervous about something. I saw him step forward momentarily but then hang back, nervously massaging his hands. II. If a person or organization hangs back, they do not do something immediately. They will then hang back on closing the deal. Even his closest advisers believe he should hang back no longer. hang on/upon sth to give careful attention to something, especially something that someone says: He hangs on her every word as if she were some sort of goddess. to hang on someone's every word 言听计从, 唯命是从 If you hang on someone's every word, you listen very carefully to what they are saying, because you admire or respect them. To be completely attentive to what another person is saying. Melina was hanging on his every word, fascinated. rabble-rouser 哗众取宠的人, 煽动大众情绪闹事的人 a person who speaks with the intention of inflaming the emotions of a crowd of people, typically for political reasons. A demagogue = demagog [ˈdɛməɡɒɡ] or rabble-rouser(If you say that someone such as a politician is a demagogue you are criticizing them because you think they try to win people's support by appealing to their emotions rather than using reasonable arguments. ) is a leader in a democracy who gains popularity by exploiting prejudice and ignorance among the common people, whipping up 煽动情绪 the passions ( I. If someone 煽动负面情绪, 引发情绪 whips up an emotion, especially a dangerous one such as hatred, or if they whip people up into an emotional state, they deliberately cause and encourage people to feel that emotion. He accused politicians of whipping up anti-foreign sentiments in order to win right-wing votes. Joe McCarthy whipped up Americans into a frenzy of anti-Communist activity in the Fifties. II. If a force such as the wind whips up dust or water, it makes it rise up. In 1346 a hurricane whipped up 掀起, 风卷起 the sea to destroy the town. ...clouds of smoke and sand whipped up by a strong wind. III. If you whip up something, especially a meal, you make it quickly. [informal] I used to entertain at home quite a lot, and I can still whip up a fairly decent dinner party. ) of the crowd and shutting down reasoned deliberation. Demagogues overturn established customs of political conduct, or promise or threaten to do so. Demagoguery exploits a fundamental flaw in democracy: because power is held by the people, it is possible for the people to give that power to someone who appeals to the lowest common denominator of a large segment of the population. Demagogues usually advocate immediate, forceful action to address a national crisis while accusing moderate and thoughtful opponents of weakness or disloyalty. rabble [ræbəl] I. A rabble is a crowd of noisy people who seem likely to cause trouble. He seems to attract a rabble of supporters more loyal to the man than to the cause. II. 普通民众. 普通大众. 老百姓. People sometimes refer to ordinary people in general as the rabble to suggest that they are superior to them. [disapproval] In 40 years, the Guards' Polo Club has changed, but it has managed to keep most of the rabble out. 9. 明星: The 43-year-old Blossom legend took to social media to reveal her recent status as a single woman was playing on her mind 摆脱不掉, 挥之不去, 影响情绪(prey/play on somebody's mind if a problem preys on your mind, you cannot stop thinking about it Finally, she broached the subject that had been playing on her mind for days.). She also expressed woes over the current state of American politics - and a split of peace between her pet cats. By Christmas Day, however, Mayim's fortunes where changing. She posted another selfie - this time looking more upbeat 乐观开朗的 as she shared a photo of herself smiling inside a car.

 罗马尼亚国王Carol: Sisi Prince - The marriage thrust her into the much more formal Habsburg court life 宫廷生活, for which she was unprepared and which she found uncongenial(congenial [kənˈdʒiniəl] friendly and enjoying the company of others. uncongenial [ʌnkəndʒiːniəl] 不让人愉悦的, 让人不快的, 让人不舒服的, 让人不爽的, 让人不痛快的, 让人痛苦的 If you describe a person or place as uncongenial, you mean that they are unfriendly and unpleasant. He continued to find the Simpsons uncongenial bores. Hollywood was an uncongenial place to work. congenital [kənˈdʒenɪt(ə)l] 天生的, 与生俱来的, 胎里带的, 先天性的 a congenital medical condition is one that a person has had since they were born. congeal [kənˈdʒil] 凝固 if a substance such as blood or fat congeals, it becomes thick and almost solid. harem [ˈherəm] 后宫 ). Early in the marriage she was at odds with her mother-in-law, Archduchess Sophie, who took over the rearing of Elisabeth's daughters, one of whom, Sophie, died in infancy. The birth of a male heir, Rudolf, improved her standing 地位 at court 宫里的地位提高, but her health suffered under the strain, and she would often visit Hungary for its more relaxed environment. She came to develop a deep kinship with Hungary, and helped to bring about the dual monarchy of Austria–Hungary in 1867. The death of her only son and his mistress Mary Vetsera, in a murder–suicide at his hunting lodge at Mayerling in 1889 was a blow from which Elisabeth never recovered. She withdrew from court duties and travelled widely, unaccompanied by her family. In 1890, she had a palace built on the Greek Island of Corfu that she visited often. The palace Achilleion, featuring an elaborate mythological motif, served as a refuge. She was obsessively concerned with maintaining her youthful figure 保持青春和美丽 and beauty, which were already legendary during her life. While travelling in Geneva in 1898, she was stabbed to death by an Italian anarchist named Luigi Lucheni. Elisabeth was the longest serving Empress of Austria at 44 years. 罗马尼亚国王: King Ferdinand died in 1927 and Carol's five-year-old son ascended the throne 继位 as Michael I. Carol then returned to Romania in 1930 and replaced his son and the regency that had been in place. His reign was marked by re-alignment with Nazi Germany, adoption of anti-semitic laws and ultimately evolved into a personal dictatorship beginning in 1938. On 6 September 1940, he was forced by his Prime Minister Ion Antonescu to leave the country and withdraw abroad into exile. He was succeeded by his son Michael. Carol was born in Peleș Castle. Carol grew up under the thumb of his dominating grand-uncle King Carol I, who largely excluded his parents, the German-born Crown Prince Ferdinandand the British-born Crown Princess Marie from any role in bringing him up. Romania in the early 20th century had a famously relaxed "Latin" sexual morality, and in this environment, Princess Marie pursued a series of love affairs with various, predominantly Romanian men who offered her more emotional and sexual satisfaction than her husband Ferdinand could. For his part, Ferdinand fiercely resented being cuckolded 被戴绿帽. The stern Carol I felt that Marie was unqualified to raise Prince Carol because of her love affairs and her young age, as she was only seventeen when Carol was born, whereas Marie regarded the king as a cold, overbearing 傲慢的 tyrant who would crush the life out of her son. The childless Carol I (who had always wanted a son) treated Prince Carol as his surrogate son and thoroughly spoiled him by indulging his every whim. Ferdinand was a rather shy and weak man who was easily overshadowed by the charismatic Marie, who would become a much-loved member of the Romanian royal family. Growing up, Carol felt ashamed of his father, whom both his grand-uncle and mother pushed around 呼来换取. Carol's childhood was spent caught up in an emotional tug-of-war between Carol I and Marie, who had very different ideas about how to raise him. Aspects of both Marie's and Carol I's personalities were present in Carol II. Largely as a result of the battle between the king and Marie, Carol ended being both spoiled and deprived of love. From Carol I, he certainly acquired a "profound love of German militarism" (in the words of the American historian Margaret Sankey) and the idea that all democratic governments were weak governments, but he was also influenced by the intense Francophilia (Francophobia a strong dislike or fear of France and French culture. Hitler's anti-Semitism in "Mein Kampf" is deeply entangled with his Francophobia. A Francophile 法国迷 (Gallophile) is a person who has a strong affinity towards any or all of the French language, French history, French culture or French people. That affinity may include France itself or its history, language, cuisine, literature, etc. The love or admiration of France, the French, or French culture. ) that prevailed in Romania of his day. Romania in the early 20th century was perhaps the most Francophile nation in the entire world; the Romanian elite obsessively embraced all things French as the model for perfection in everything. During his teenage years, Carol acquired the "playboy" image that was to become his defining persona for the rest of his life. Carol I expressed some concern at the direction that Prince Carol's personal development was taking. His only serious interest was stamp collecting, and the young prince spent an inordinate amount of time drinking, partying, and chasing after women. Carol rapidly become a favorite of gossip columnists around the world owing to the frequent photographs that appeared in newspapers showing him at various parties holding a drink in one hand and a woman in the other. In order to teach the prince the value of the Prussian virtues, the king had him commissioned as an officer into a Prussian guards regiment in 1913. His time with the 1st Prussian Guards regiment did not achieve the desired results, and Carol remained the "playboy prince". In November 1914, Carol joined the Romanian Senate in accordance with the provisions of the 1866 Constitution of Romania, which guaranteed him a seat in the Senate upon reaching maturity. Known more for his romantic misadventures than for any leadership skills, Carol was first married in the Cathedral Church of Odessa, Ukraine, to Joanna Marie Valentina Lambrino on 31 August 1918. Lambrino, known as "Zizi", was the daughter of a Romanian general, Constantin Lambrino. The fact that Carol had technically deserted 脱离军队, 脱队 to marry Lambrino (as he left his post at the Army without permission) caused immense controversy at the time. The marriage was annulled on 29 March 1919 by the Ilfov County Court. Carol and Zizi continued to live together after the annulment. Their only child, Mircea Gregor Carol Lambrino, was born 8 January 1920. Carol next married Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark (who was known in Romania as Crown Princess Elena) in Athens, Greece, on 10 March 1921. Helen had known Carol's indissolute behaviour and previous marriage, but was undeterred 没有被吓到, being in love with Carol. They were second cousins, both of them great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria, as well as third cousins in descent from Nicholas I of Russia. The intention behind this arranged marriage was to help organise a dynastic alliance between Greece and Romania. Bulgaria harbored territorial disputes with Greece, Romania and Yugoslavia and all three of the latter states tended to be close during the period between World War I and World War II due to their shared fears of the Bulgarians. Their only child, Michael, was born seven months after Helen and Carol's marriage, sparking rumours that Michael was conceived out of wedlock. Apparently close at first, Carol and Helen drifted apart, and he frequently engaged in extramarital affairs. The elegant Helen found Carol, with his love of heavy drinking and constant partying, rather too wild. Carol disliked women of royal and aristocratic background, whom he found too stiff and formal, and displayed an extremely marked preference for commoners, much to the chagrin of his parents. Carol found low-born 出身低贱的 women to have the qualities he sought in a woman, such as informality, spontaneity, humor and passion. The marriage with Princess Helen collapsed completely in the wake of Carol's affair with Elena "Magda" Lupescu, the Roman Catholic daughter of a Jewish pharmacist and his Roman Catholic wife. Magda Lupescu formerly had been the wife of the army officer Ion Tâmpeanu. As a result of her husband's open infidelity, Helen divorced Carol in 1928.

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用法学习: 1. cool customer informal someone who stays calm and does not show their emotions, even in a difficult situation. Someone who remains even-tempered, especially in stressful situations. Brad is such a cool customer. Nothing ever seems to bother him. cool hunter 流行趋势发现 British a person who is employed to identify future trends, esp in fashion or the media. prowl 寻找猎物, 盘桓, 逡巡 If you move stealthily — like you're looking for something to prey on — then you prowl. Your cat might prowl around the room and pounce on your feet, which is cute if you're awake, but annoying when you're asleep. The noun prowl means the act of moving as if to capture prey. You could take a prowl through the music shop and try to find your favorite vintage album. Prowl is also used in the phrase "on the prowl," which implies that the person doing the prowling is looking for a romantic partner. Your idea of a fun Saturday night might be staying home while your friends go on the prowl at the dance club. prowler [ˈpraʊlə] a person who moves stealthily about or loiters near a place with a view to 试图想, 想着, 打算着 committing a crime. A prowler is someone who secretly follows people or hides near their houses, especially at night, in order to steal something, frighten them, or perhaps harm them. 2. Are clubs still using hand stamps that enables people to leave the club and then re-enter (without extra charge ofcourse): I was able to get hand stamped for re entry into Subliminal, so id imagine that would be the case with all parties there. pass-out: parks/stadiums/concerts/festivals/ 重新进去, 重新进门, 门禁, 门卡, 门票... would usually mean a system where you can leave the venue and re-enter without paying again. You might get a stamp on your hand, a wristband or a pass to wear, or somehow else get marked to show that you are a valid ticket holder. Sometimes the gate/entrance/door/area where this service is available might be called a pass-out as well. I hear this commonly in everyday conversation so I don't think this is particularly non-UK. 3. Jennifer Pan 买凶杀父母: Jennifer Pan is a Vietnamese-Canadian woman convicted of a 2010 kill-for-hire 买凶杀人 attack targeting both of her immigrant parents, in response to alleged severe abusive "tiger parenting" by her parents into her mid-20s. Jeremy Grimaldi, a journalist of the Markham Economist & Sun and the author of A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story, stated that the affair "captivated many, if for nothing else than the sheer intrigue of a case involving matricide 弑母, 弑父, a rarity in Canada." Jennifer and her friends reportedly regarded this upbringing as restricting and greatly oppressive 压抑的. When Jennifer failed calculus class in her senior year of high school, Ryerson University rescinded [rɪˈsɪnd] 撤回, 收回 her early admission. As she could not bear to be perceived as a failure, she began to lie to those she knew, including her parents, and pretended she was attending university. By the time that Jennifer was 24, Wong had grown weary of trying to pursue a relationship with her. As Jennifer was so daunted and restricted 看得紧, 限制的死死的 by her parents that she lived at home and only met him in secret, Wong began to date another young woman whom he soon fell in love with. Pan and Wong were back in contact at this time and, according to police, came up with a plan to hire a professional hit man 杀手 for $10,000 to kill her parents, calculating that she would then inherit $500,000. They planned to move in together. Wong connected Pan with a man, Lenford Roy Crawford, a man of Jamaican ancestry, whom he called Homeboy, and gave her a SIM card and an iPhone so that she could contact Crawford without using her usual cell phone. After demanding all the money in the house, and ransacking the main bedroom, they took Bich and Hann to the basement where they were shot multiple times; Bich was killed but Hann would survive his wounds. The three men then took all the cash that was in the house (including $2,000 from Pan) and left. Pan claimed that they tied her up, but that she managed to free her hands and dial 9-1-1. 4. conjecture [kənˈdʒɛktʃə] I. 瞎猜. 推测. 猜测. an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information. an opinion or judgment that is not based on proof; a guess: There's been a lot of conjecture in the media recently about themarriage. What lay behind the decision is open to conjecture. "conjectures about the newcomer were many and varied". v. form an opinion or supposition about (something) on the basis of incomplete information. "many conjectured that she had a second husband in mind". "I conjectured that the game was about to end". to guess, based on the appearance of a situation and not on proof: We'll never know exactly how shedied; we can only conjecture. He conjectured that the company would soon be in financial trouble. pit someone/something against someone/something 自相残杀, 同室操戈, 互相竞争, 互为较劲, 对立面 to make someonecompete or fight against someone or something else Coach Fox finds his team pitted against a teamcoached by his longtime friend and mentor. if you pit your skills, knowledge, or ability against someone, you use all your skill in order to deal successfully or compete with them Small businesses are having to pit their wits against the giant companies. 关于mental health: Nicki Minaj replied with a number of heart emojis on the post. She then tweeted, "We can be so insensitive. God bless Kanye & Pete. Being flippant ( 轻慢的, 无所顾忌的, 轻率的, 不负责任的, 轻佻的, 不当一回事的. 乱开玩笑的, 不严肃认真的. If you describe a person or what they say as flippant, you are criticizing them because you think they are not taking something as seriously as they should. [disapproval] Don't be flippant, damn it! This is serious! He now dismisses that as a flippant comment. facetious 不恰当的, 不当的, 轻佻的, 不严肃的 [fəˈsi:ʃəs] trying to be funny in a way that is not suitable. I wasn't being facetious. facetious comments. Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant. Robbie's joke about Heather's appearance was just him being facetious. cavalier [ˌkævəˈlɪr] adj. 不认真对待的, 满不在乎的. 不在乎的. 不严肃, 不认真的. 不当回事的. not caring about other people's feelings or about the seriousness of a situation. a cavalier attitude. If you describe a person or their behaviour as cavalier, you are criticizing them because you think that they do not consider other people's feelings or take account of the seriousness of a situation. [disapproval] The Editor takes a cavalier attitude to the concept of fact checking. n. I. historical a supporter of King Charles I in the English Civil War. II. archaic a courtly gentleman, especially one acting as a lady's escort. frivolous [ˈfrɪvələs] I. 轻慢的, 轻佻的. 不严肃的. behaving in a silly way in situations where you should be behaving in a serious or sensible way. If you describe someone as frivolous, you mean they behave in a silly or light-hearted way, rather than being serious and sensible. I just decided I was a bit too frivolous to be a doctor. II. lacking any real purpose or importance. If you describe an activity as frivolous, you disapprove of it because it is not useful and wastes time or money. [disapproval] The group wants politicians to stop wasting public money on what it believes are frivolous projects. frivolous complaints. ) about mental illness speaks more about you than them. Stop saying the word love & live it. Love is an action." 5. How you take your PrEP depends on: how far in advance 提前多长时间, 打出多少提前量 you plan on having sex. how regularly you have sex. It does not necessarily depend on how much sex you have. Switching between dosing options: There are slightly different recommendations for anal sex and vaginal or frontal sex. We recommend daily PrEP for all trans people using hormone treatment as we don't have sufficient data to support other dosing options. Switching between dosing options 用药量 to match your sexual activity and patterns is totally OK. You can adjust your PrEP regime to best suit you as your situation changes. Remember that: On Demand dosing (or Event Based Dosing) and 4 pills per week are methods suitable only for anal sex. Daily PrEP and Holiday PrEP are the only methods of taking PrEP that are suitable for both anal and vaginal or frontal sex. We know that a minimum of 6 pills per week is required for adequate protection for vaginal or frontal sex.

 Questions remain about whether 'Honeymoon Killer' Gabe Watson was let off the hook over the death of his wife Tina Watson: AS a memorial is held for a bride who died on a honeymoon dive ten years ago, we ask, did her husband dodge the law 躲过了法律制裁? Watson, a bubble wrap salesman and standout high school basketballer, remarried before serving his prison term in Queensland. A HONEYMOON cut short by the bride's mysterious death. Two trials that left police and the victim's family feeling robbed. And a book from two Melbourne experts asks the question: Are we too cheap for justice? THE case of the "honeymoon killer" gripped (captivate 吸引注意力, 抓住了心房 ) the nation and made headlines around the world. At first her death off the coast of Townsville, Queensland, appeared to be a tragic accident, but suspicion soon shifted to her husband, Gabe Watson. With a mountain of evidence compiled, Watson was charged twice with murdering his wife, but never faced a jury. The bubble-wrap salesman was an experienced diver with rescue accreditation, but was seemingly unable to help save his wife. The mountain of collected evidence was presented to a coronial inquest in 2008, and Watson, who had returned to the US, was committed to stand trial in Queensland for murder. But at this point, the wheels of justice began to slip from their tracks. Despite police and the coroner's confidence Watson could be found guilty, he would never face a jury. Instead, he returned to Australia and struck a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter. "We believe Gabe Watson murdered our daughter,'' he said outside court. "This is in no way, shape or form a beginning to get justice for my daughter. "What has happened is ludicrous 荒谬绝伦的 ... an embarrassment.'' Senior Queensland investigators shared the Thomas famil's anger, including Det-Constable Kevin Gehringer, whom Flynn and Fitz-Gibbon interview in their book. "The justice system has let us down," he told them. Flynn and Fitz-Gibbon's book examines Queensland’s justice system at the time, and what they find is a basket case ( I. an insulting word for someone who is unable to do anything because they are too nervous or upset. II. 财政困难, 严重财务问题. 资金困难. a country or organization that has serious financial problems. If someone describes a country or organization as a basket case, they mean that its economy or finances are in a seriously bad state.[informal] The country is an economic basket case with chronic unemployment and rampant crime.). Courts were falling well behind national efficiency standards, while horrendously overworked prosecutors were lumbered with an average of 79 cases a year. Their interstate counterparts were handling just 27. The courts were further strained by two other expensive and lengthy trials, including manslaughter charges against notorious Bundaberg Hospital doctor Jayant Patel. Flynn and Fitz-Gibbon's research suggests the decision to accept a plea deal instead of running a full murder trial saved the Queensland Government up to $2 million. They conclude: "This saving appears to have been a substantial motivation underpinning the Queensland ODPP's (Office of the Director of Public Prosecution) decision to bargain its way out of prosecuting Gabe for Tina's murder." Police, already gutted by Watson not facing a murder trial, also felt the conditions of the plea bargain were unacceptable. As part of the deal, a summary of facts was agreed on by the prosecution and defence teams, which the judge used to decide on a sentence. Fitz-Gibbon said police were not consulted during this process, and thought the agreed set of facts did not illustrate the full extent of Watson's culpability (culprit)(culpable [kʌlpəbəl] If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened. Their decision to do nothing makes them culpable. ...manslaughter resulting from culpable negligence.). "The police felt all the inaccuracies and inconsistencies in Gabe's story they indentified in their investigation weren't reflected 没有体现出来, 没有反应出来 in the summary of facts, and as a result, the sentence imposed wasn't reflective of what is should have been," she said. In October 2010, while Gabe Watson was seeing out 送走, 迎来 the final month of his sentence in Borallon Correctional Centre, William Thomas was pursuing justice for his dead daughter on home soil. In Birmingham, Alabama, Mr Thomas and Assistant Attorney-General Don Valeska presented evidence to a grand jury to indict Watson for Tina's murder. Within five hours, the jury had agreed, and indicted Watson on charges of capital murder for pecuniary gain, and capital murder by kidnapping. But as in Queensland, financial constraints would rob Tina's family of justice. Prosecutors could not afford to produce key witnesses from Australia, and were unable to present key evidence painstakingly constructed 构建起来的 by police. Three pieces of evidence in particular damaged the prosecutors' case. First, police had videoed a re-enactment of the dive with the advice of local oceanographers. The video cast doubt over Watson's account of events, but the judge refused to allow it to be admitted as evidence because the Queensland scientists who worked on the re-enactment were unable to be cross-examined. With the prosecution hamstrung ( 抽去脚筋. hamstring n. A hamstring is a length of tissue or tendon behind your knee which joins the muscles of your thigh to the bones of your lower leg. Webster has not played since suffering a hamstring injury in the opening game. v. If you hamstring someone, you make it very difficult for them to take any action. If he becomes the major opposition leader, he could hamstring a conservative-led coalition. ), the judge decided there was not enough evidence to continue proceedings and threw the case out. Watson was acquitted on all charges and would never face a jury over Tina's death, an enduring cause of angst for investigators and the dead woman's family. "From the Thomas family perspective, they felt cheated by not having the opportunity for the jury to have made a decision on Gabe's guilt or innocence," Flynn said. The two academics hope their book will act as a warning of how belt-tightening can undermine justice systems. Major criminal cases in the Victorian Supreme Court were put on hold this year because a funding shortfall has restricted Victorian Legal Aid's ability to provide defence lawyers. Flynn said this was an example of the creeping threat that financial restraints posed to justice. While Watson was serving his term in Australia, authorities in Alabama flagged an intention 表明 to charge him with murder at a later date. After his release, he was deported to Alabama on the condition that he would not be sentenced to death if found guilty of murder. After being informed by her family that flowers and gifts were repeatedly being vandalized or disappearing from the grave site, even when chained down, police surveillance videos showed Watson removing them with bolt cutters and throwing them in trash cans. Watson later said he removed them because they were "big, gaudy [gɔːdi] 艳丽的, 俗艳的, 俗气的 (corny, daggy) ( If something is gaudy, it is very brightly-coloured and showy. [disapproval] ...her gaudy orange-and-purple floral hat.), plastic arrangements". Her grave was unmarked until 2009, when Watson provided a foot marker, prompting her father to request her body be returned for reburial.

 East Area Rapist: In the Sacramento area he was known as the East Area Rapist, and was linked by modus operandi 犯罪行为 (MO) to additional attacks in Contra Costa County, Stockton, and Modesto. He was later known for his southern California crimes as the Original Night Stalker. He is suspected to have begun as a burglar (the Visalia Ransacker) before moving to the Sacramento area, based on a similar MO and circumstantial evidence. It was long suspected that the training ground 练手的地方 of the criminal who would become the Golden State Killer was Visalia, California (although the earlier crimes sprees of the 'Cordova Catburgler' or the 'Exeter Ransacker' are now suspected to be linked as well). Most of the Ransacker's activities involved breaking into houses, rifling through 乱翻, 翻来翻去 (or vandalizing) the owner's possessions, scattering women's underclothing, stealing coins and low-value or personal items, while often ignoring banknotes and other valuable items in plain sight. Most victims had seen (or heard) a prowler on their property before the attacks, and many had experienced break-ins (Burglary, also called breaking and entering and sometimes housebreaking, is an unlawful entry into a building or other location for the purposes of committing an offence. Usually that offence is theft, but most jurisdictions include others within the ambit of burglary. To engage in the act of burglary is to burgle in British English, a term back-formed from the word burglar, or to burglarize in American English. ). Police believed that the offender had a pattern of conducting extensive reconnaissance [rɪˈkɒnɪsəns]侦查 on several homes in a targeted neighborhood before selecting one for attack. As part of his surveillance, he was known to look in the windows of future victims and prowl in the yards of homes for several nights before attacking. On a few occasions, it is believed that in the run-up to 之前 attacks the offender entered the homes of future victims to unlock windows, unload guns and plant ligatures ( [ˈlɪɡətʃər] I. formal a piece of rope or string that you tie around something. II. medical a thread or wire that doctors tie around a blood vessel to stop someone from losing blood. ) for later use. He frequently called them before the attack, sometimes for months in advance, to learn their daily routines; he would sometimes hang up, pretend to have the wrong number, or (in calls after the attack) threaten to harm the victims again. Although he originally targeted women alone in their homes or with children, the offender eventually preferred attacking couples. His MO was to break in through a window or sliding glass door and awaken the sleeping occupants with a flashlight, threatening them with a handgun.Victims were then bound 捆绑起来 with ligatures (often shoelaces) which he found or brought with him, blindfolded and gagged with towels which he had ripped into strips 撕成布条. The female victim was usually forced to tie up her male companion before she was bound. The bindings were often so tight that the victims' hands were numb for hours after being untied. He then separated the couple, often stacking dishes on the man's back and threatening to kill everyone in the house if he heard them rattle. He moved the woman to the living room and often raped her repeatedly, sometimes for several hours. The offender sometimes spent hours in the home ransacking 翻找 (rummage) closets and drawers, eating food in the kitchen, drinking beer, raping the female again or making additional threats. Victims sometimes thought he had left the house before he "jump[ed] from the darkness." The offender typically stole items, often personal objects and items of little value but occasionally cash and firearms. He then crept away, leaving victims uncertain if he had left. The offender was believed to escape on foot through a series of yards and then use a bicycle to go home or to a car, making extensive use of parks, schoolyards, creek beds and other open spaces which kept him off the street. The Maggiores fled after a confrontation ([ˌkɒnfrʌnˈteɪʃn̩] confront [kənˈfrʌnt]) in the street, but were chased down and shot dead. Offerman's bindings were untied 解开, indicating that he had lunged at the attacker. Neighbors heard gunshots but failed to respond, saying that they thought the shots were innocuous. Paw prints of a large dog were found at the scene, leading to speculation that the killer may have brought one with him. The killer also broke into the vacant adjoining residence and stole a bicycle, later found abandoned on a street north of the scene, from a third residence in the complex. Charlene Smith had been raped. A log from a woodpile on the side of the house was used to bludgeon the victims to death. Their wrists and ankles had been bound with drapery (A curtain (sometimes known as a drape, mainly in the United States) is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light, or drafts, or (in the case of a shower curtain) water.[1] A curtain is also the movable screen or drape in a theater that separates the stage from the auditorium or that serves as a backdrop.) cord.

关于眼睛度数. 问视力度数: How strong/powerful are your glasses? What's the power/ strength of your glasses? "What diopter do you use?" or "What diopter are they?" Or "What's your prescription?"  diopter (Dioptre BrE) (屈光度a unit of measure of the power of a lens, equal to the power of a lens with a focal length of one meter. 回答的时候: I'm -5 for left eye, or I have -5 in my left eye.) 表示度数, -4.5 D 代表近视 450 度. 读作: minus four point five diopters. +2.0 D 代表远视 200 度. 读作: plus 2 diopters. I'm -5.25 for my right eye and -5.00 for my left. The majority of young people with good vision will have approximately the same diopter in both eyes. Not perfectly, but not enough difference to make a difference in an optical prescription. Normally this will change as the person gets older. I used to have the same reading prescription for both eyes, but no longer. They are about a half diopter different lately. It will probably get worse over time. I would probably use: What prescription are your glasses? And if that's not understood, perhaps use an example: "What prescription are your glasses? I'm +1.75 for my right eye and +1.25 for my left." I suppose you could even say, "What prescription number are your glasses?" Remember that this is very general, for myopia and hyperopia, I believe. Once you get into astigmatism, there may be a different system. I'm sure someone can expand on that. You have to be sure that you have -1 D in your eye by cycloplegic refraction. If confirmed then only option is surgical correction. If you're asking about how strong their prescription is, we'd say "What's your eyesight?" [it's understood that a) this refers to their uncorrected visual acuity and b) this is over 20, with 20/20 being perfect - you can see from 20 feet away what someone with normal eyesight can at that distance; the person would answer, for example, "20/90"or 20/200"] I believe you're always 20 (the number on the left) and the person with perfect vision is on the right. So 20/100 vision would mean that I have to be at 20 feet to see what someone with perfect vision can see at 100 feet. . I am nearsighted with 6.5 diopters in both eyes. I have 2 diopter of farsightedness. In general, the further away from zero the number on your prescription, the worse your eyesight and the more vision correction (stronger prescription) you need.  A "plus" (+)  sign in front of the number means you are farsighted, and a "minus" (-) sign means you are nearsighted. These numbers represent diopters, the unit used to measure the correction, or focusing power, of the lens your eye requires. Diopter is often abbreviated "D." For example, if your prescription says -1.00, you have one diopter of nearsightedness. This is a fairly mild amount of nearsightedness. If you are -4.25, that means you have 4 and 1/4 diopters of nearsightedness. This is more nearsighted than -1.00, and requires stronger (thicker) lenses. Similarly, +1.00 would be a small amount of farsightedness and +5 would be more. For people who have astigmatism, there will be three numbers in your prescription. The general form for writing these numbers is S x C x Axis. The S refers to the "spherical" portion of the prescription, which is the degree of nearsightedness or farsightedness discussed above. The C refers to the "cylinder" or astigmatism, and can be a negative or a positive number. It measures in diopters the degree of astigmatism that you have. The bigger this number, the more astigmatism you have. Astigmatism most often is caused by a cornea that is shaped more like a football than a basketball. The Axis is a number anywhere between 0 and 180 degrees. It reveals the orientation of the astigmatism. It is not enough to specify how much astigmatism there is; you have to know where the difference in curvature is taking place. Eye chart 视力表. Eyestrain 眼疲劳 is a common condition that occurs when your eyes get tired from intense use. A Snellen chart is an eye chart that can be used to measure visual acuity. Snellen charts are named after the Dutch ophthalmologist Herman Snellen, who developed the chart in 1862. Many ophthalmologists and vision scientists now use an improved chart known as the LogMAR chart. 20/20 vision is a term used to express normal visual acuity (the clarity or sharpness of vision) measured at a distance of 20 feet. If you have 20/20 vision, you can see clearly at 20 feet what should normally be seen at that distance. If you have 20/100 vision, it means that you must be as close as 20 feet to see what a person with normal vision can see at 100 feet. Having 20/20 vision does not necessarily mean you have perfect vision. 20/20 vision only indicates the sharpness or clarity of vision at a distance. Other important vision skills, including peripheral awareness or side vision, eye coordination, depth perception, focusing ability and color vision, contribute to your overall visual ability.

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用法学习: 1. A Bedspread usually denotes pre-filled bed covers intended for use as the top layer on a bed. Comforters, quilts and coverlets are all bedspreads. They can be both decorative and warming, thick or lighter weight, in a variety of fabrics. So confusing, isn't it? Hopefully this breakdown helps a bit: A Comforter differs from a quilt in that colors are generally dyed and patterns are not embroidered. Thick and (sometimes) quilted. Comforters are filled with layers of material including polyester batting (a synthetic fiber), down feathers, wool or silk. The loft (thickness) of the filling determines the weight as well as the level of insulation. Comforters are stitched or quilted to secure the filling and ensure that it is evenly distributed. They are intended to be the bedspread, sitting on top of sheets... A Quilt consists of a woven cloth top, a layer of batting and a woven back, all stitched together in decorative patterns. Different from other forms of bed covers because they are generally pieced together with many pieces of cloth. A Duvet is a soft flat bag filled with down, feathers or a synthetic alternative. usually put inside a removable cover, sort of like a pillow/pillowcase. Duvets and duvet covers are meant to be used without sheets  because the removable cover can be laundered. Many people use them with sheets anyway. Many people like duvets because it is a single covering instead of using a combo of bed sheets, blankets, quilts and other bed covers. 2. police state 专制国家 a totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens' activities.Police state is a term denoting a government that exercises power arbitrarily through the power of the police force. Originally, the term designated a state regulated by a civil administration, but since the beginning of the 20th century it has "taken on an emotional and derogatory meaning" by describing an undesirable state of living characterized by the overbearing presence of the civil authorities. The inhabitants of a police state may experience restrictions on their mobility, or on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. traverse 比travel更明确的走来走去 to move or travel through an area. If someone or something traverses an area of land or water, they go across it. Well traversed. I traversed the narrow pedestrian bridge. It took several weeks to traverse the desert. ...a steep-sided valley traversed by streams. Stanley traversed the continent from west to east. Bounded on the east by Lake Winnebago, the county is traversed by the Wolf and Fox rivers. pace I. [intransitive/transitive] to walk with regular steps around a small area, because you are worried, nervous, or impatient. pace up and down: He paced up and down between the kitchen and the living room. pace around: She was pacing restlessly around the room as she talked. II. [transitive] to establish a speed for another runner in a race. III. [transitive] [usually passive] to make the story in a book, movie, etc. develop in a particular way. His movies were always paced so as to create maximum suspense. transverse [ˌtrænzˈvɜrs] Transverse is used to describe something that is at right angles to something else. placed sideways or at an angle across something. a transverse arch. travel VS traverse: The specific motion of an object or being in a limited frame of reference is what exactly is traversing. Travel is a more commonly used word, it being generic. Traverse is used much less as it is, lets say a specific sort of travel, or travel within in a boundary. Travel means going, or coming, or both, you will not know from where, how, which direction etc., I meant to say the specifics if you use travel alone. Lets take an example: People usually walk in circles in a closed space, say a room or corridor back and forth or repeatedly , when lost in thoughts. It would not be correct if you say, He was travelling the room or corridor, lost in thought. But, if you say, "he was traversing the room/corridor, lost in thought", it is perfect. Imagine the motion of a bee in a garden or a fly in a room, the more appropriate term is traversing here. So traverse specifically stands for going/coming from one side to other, or going back and forth, moving repeatedly etc. If you want to convey someone is familiar with a place, you can used both well traveled and well traversed 走过很多次的. But in general, you cannot say that a person is well traversed. Also travel can be intransitive as well, where as traverse can only be transitive. 3. misadventure [mɪsədˈvɛntʃə] 意外事故, 遭遇不幸 I. ENGLISH LAW death caused by a person accidentally while performing a legal act without negligence or intent to harm. A misadventure is an unfortunate incident. [formal] ...a series of misadventures. A verdict of death by misadventure was recorded. "the coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure". Her death was not misadventure," an angry Dale Lapthorne told the Sunday Herald Sun. "I am eagerly awaiting an autopsy report … That should reveal what happened to Britt. I do not want this swept under the carpet." II. an unfortunate incident; a mishap. "the petty misdemeanours and misadventures of childhood". make it one's mission to do something 矢志, 立志, 发誓, 下决心. headstrong 顽固不化的, 下定决心不动摇 determined to do what you want even if other people warn you not to do it. If you refer to someone as headstrong, you are slightly critical of the fact that they are determined to do what they want. He's young, very headstrong, but he's a good man underneath. get itchy feet 渴望旅行, 心痒痒 informal to start to want to travel or do something different: After three years in the job she began to get itchy feet. I am starting to get itchy feet after reading her travel blog. It's been five years since I travelled abroad – I'm getting itchy feet. It is normal that employees get itchy feet if they stay in the same role for too long. chuck I. to throw something. Someone had chucked a brick through their window. chuck someone something: Chuck me the ball, would you? a. 丢. 随手丢. to put something somewhere in a careless way. She came in, chucked her books on the table, and went straight to her room. II. chuck out = chuck away to get rid of something you do not want. This is the pile of things we need, and over here is the pile of things we can chuck out. III. British to end a relationship with someone. If your girlfriend or boyfriend chucks you, they end the relationship. [informal] There wasn't a great fuss when I chucked her. After two years she chucked her boyfriend. IV. chuck = chuck in = chuck up If you chuck your job or some other activity, you stop doing it. [informal] Almost half the British public think about chucking in their jobs and doing their own thing at least once a month. Last summer, he chucked his 10-year career as a London stockbroker and headed for the mountains. be chucking it down to be raining very hard. 4. spark 引起, 引发 or spark off I. [transitive] mainly journalism to make something happen, especially something involving violence or angry feelings. The protests were sparked by the firing of two restaurant employees. The trial sparked off widespread rioting in London. a. to make someone feel, think of, or remember something. Their growing reputation had sparked interest from other moviemakers. Your article sparked off happy memories for me. II. [transitive] to start a fire or explosion. A faulty electric blanket sparked a fire in one of the bedrooms. n. I. [countable] a very small piece of burning material. A log fell, sending a shower of sparks up the chimney. a. [countable] a flash of light caused by electricity. an electric spark. II. [singular/uncountable] the quality of being lively and original. The performance was short on spark and creativity. III. [singular] a short feeling or expression of something. A tiny spark of anger flared within her. IV. [singular] mainly journalism something that starts a series of events or a process. tan (one's) hide = have someone's hide To spank one. to spank someone. Billy's mother said she'd tan Billy's hide if he ever did that again. "I'll tan your hide if you're late!" said Tom's father. Young lady, I will tan your hide if you disobey me again! .Dad said he'd tan Billy's hide if he caught him smoking, or I'll have your hide if you take something without paying for it. This term uses hidein the sense of "skin." The allusion in the first expression is to a spanking that will change one's skin just as chemicals tan animal hide (convert it into leather). have the hide of an elephant/rhinoceros to be very difficult to upset because you do not care what people say about you. have the hide to do something 没胆, 有胆做某事 to be brave enough or rude enough to do something. have not seen hide nor hair of someone to have definitely not seen someone. I haven't seen hide nor hair of him for a week. save your/someone's hide to save yourself or someone else from being punished or from suffering. live something down 摆脱不掉的阴影, 摆脱不掉的耻辱, 忘记不掉的尴尬 succeed in making others forget something embarrassing that has happened. to make people forget that you made a big mistake or did something very embarrassing in the past: If you show up with green hair, your parents will never let you live it down. never live sth down to be unable to stop feeling embarrassed about something you have done: I wish I'd never opened my mouth in the meeting - I'm never going to live it down! thingamabob [ˈθɪŋəməbɒb] = thingamajig = thingumajig = thingummy[ˈθɪŋəmi] INFORMAL a person or thing whose name one has forgotten, does not know, or does not wish to mention. "one of those thingummies for keeping all the fire tools together". Used to refer to or address a person or thing whose name one has forgotten, does not know, or does not wish to mention. 5. 下小雨: Here in the U.S. you could also say "it's sprinkling." A drizzle 毛毛雨, 毛毛细雨, to my mind, is small drops close together, falling steadily. When it's sprinkling, the drops are farther apart and less regular. light rain If you want a modifying adjective, 'a light drizzle' works too (as do 'little drizzle' and 'fine drizzle' mentioned earlier). Sometimes, we also talk about 'a mist of rain', where the rain seems to be always in the air and not settle. Anyone care for a brief shower? It's certainly a happier rain than a drizzle, for me. "light showers" are also conceivable. Some people say mizzle rather than drizzle, a sort of misty rain, but I think that is quite regional, so drizzle is your best option. concerned I. worried about something. Concerned parents held a meeting to discuss the issue. concerned about: The police said they were very concerned about the boy's safety. concerned that: She was concerned that her address might be broadcast over the radio. II. [never before noun] involved in something, or affected by something. I suggest you have a quick word with the person concerned 相关的, 有关的. It was a difficult time for all concerned (=for everyone who was involved). concerned with: This is a company that is directly concerned with the defense industry. III. caring about what happens to someone. concerned about: I think she's genuinely concerned about you. concerned for: He was truly concerned for her happiness. IV. [never before noun] giving your attention to something because you think it is important. concerned with: He's more concerned with what people think about him than anything else. concerned to do something: The government is chiefly concerned to regain control of the economy. V. [never before noun] dealing with a particular subject. concerned with: The report is concerned with the relationship between politics and the law. presumptuous [prɪzʌmptʃuəs] If you describe someone or their behaviour as presumptuous, you disapprove of them because they are doing something that they have no right or authority to do. showing too much confidence and not enough respect. (of a person or their behavior) failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate. "I hope I won't be considered presumptuous if I offer some advice". It would be presumptuous of me to decide what she wants. It would be presumptuous to judge what the outcome will be. Is it presumptuous or OK to ask her to stay overnight on first date? 6. The Mail on Sunday says that as early as last Christmas, months head of the May nuptials, the American TV star had complained that not all members of the royal family had made her feel welcome.

 subordinate VS subsidiary VS subsidize VS subside: 1. subordinate 下属: I. If someone is your subordinate, they have a less important position than you in the organization that you both work for. An employee ranked below another employee in terms of seniority or office hierarchy. Haig tended not to seek guidance from subordinates. Nearly all her subordinates adored her. II. Someone who is subordinate to you has a less important position than you and has to obey you. Sixty of his subordinate 附属品 officers followed his example. Some people still regard women as subordinate to men. adj. Something that is subordinate to something else is less important than the other thing. It was an art in which words were subordinate to images. [+ to]. v. If you subordinate something to another thing, you regard it or treat it as less important than the other thing. He was both willing and able to subordinate all else to this aim. ...the social subordination of women. [+ of]. They want to end the country's subordination to foreign economic interests. 屈服于, 臣服于, 顺从于. to subordinate means to place or rank one thing below another. "We subordinate our desire for popcorn to our desire to keep watching the movie." 下属企业: A subordinate organization is one that is under control of the central organization. "A subordinate organization is a chapter, local, post or unit of a central organization. A central organization may be a subordinate itself, such as a state organization that has subordinate units and is itself affiliated with a national (central) organization." A subordinate organization may or may not be incorporated ( Incorporated is used after a company's name to show that it is a legally established company in the United States. to form a corporation (=a company that can raise money by selling shares) The company's doing so well, we've decided to incorporate. ...MCA Incorporated. incorporate I. If one thing incorporates another thing, it includes the other thing. [formal]. to add or include something as a part of something else, for example as a part of an arrangement or a document. incorporate something into/in something: Congress incorporated this principle into the 1977 clean-air Amendments. The new cars will incorporate加入, 引入 a number of major improvements. a. to include something as a part or as a quality. The course incorporates a strong German language element. Our electrical equipment incorporates all the latest safety features. II. If someone or something is incorporated into a large group, system, or area, they become a part of it. [formal]. business to form a corporation (=a company that can raise money by selling shares). The company’s doing so well, we’ve decided to incorporate. The agreement would allow the rebels to be incorporated into a new national police force. The party vowed to incorporate environmental considerations into all its policies. ), but it must have an organizing document. A subordinate that is organized and operated in a foreign country may not be included in a Group Exemption Letter (GEL). 2. subsidiary [səbˈsɪdɪəri] adj less important than but related or supplementary to something. "a subsidiary flue of the main chimney". n. 被控股公司. a company controlled by a holding company. "a subsidiary of Cable and Wireless". "he is a director of the company's two major subsidiaries". A holding company is a company that owns other companies' outstanding stock. A holding company usually does not produce goods or services itself; rather, its purpose is to own shares of other companies to form a corporate group. Holding companies allow the reduction of risk for the owners and can allow the ownership and control of a number of different companies. Subsidiary company, Subordinate company, parent company 母公司, holding company 控股公司: A subsidiary company is a company owned and controlled by another company. The owning company is called a parent company or sometimes a holding company. A subsidiary's parent company may be the sole owner or one of several owners. If a parent company or holding company owns 100% of another company, that company is called a "wholly owned subsidiary." There is a difference between a parent company and a holding company in terms of operations. A holding company has no operations of its own; it owns a controlling share of stock and holds assets of other companies (the subsidiary companies). A parent company is simply a company that runs a business and that owns another business — the subsidiary. The parent company has operations of its own, and the subsidiary may carry on a related business. For example, the subsidiary might own and manage property assets of the parent company, to keep the liability from those assets separate. A corporation or S corporation is owned by shareholders. In this case, the parent company typically holds 50% or more of the stock of the subsidiary. An LLC is owned by members, whose ownership percentage is controlled by an operating agreement. An LLC can own another LLC. A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company 子公司 is a company that is owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company, parent, or holding company. The subsidiary can be a company, corporation 法人团体, 法人集团, or limited liability company. In some cases it is a government or state-owned enterprise. In some cases, particularly in the music and book publishing industries, subsidiaries are referred to as imprints. In the United States railroad industry, an operating subsidiary is a company that is a subsidiary but operates with its own identity, locomotives and rolling stock. In contrast, a non-operating subsidiary would exist on paper only (i.e., stocks, bonds, articles of incorporation) and would use the identity of the parent company. 3. subsidize [ˈsʌbsɪdʌɪz] 政府补助, 补贴, 资助 vt. 资助. 给与奖助金. 向…行贿. 补助. 补贴. I. If a government or other authority subsidizes something, they pay part of the cost of it. Around the world, governments have subsidized the housing of middle and upper-income groups. At the moment they are existing on pensions that are subsidised by the government. ...heavily subsidized prices for housing, bread, and meat. ...the subsidising of alternative energy sources. ...the federal government's subsidisation of poorer parts of the country. II. If a government subsidizes an industry, they provide money so that the industry can continue. The government continues to subsidize the production of eggs. ...a government decision to subsidise coal mining. ...Scotland's subsidised theatre. ...the subsidization of agriculture. subsidization the act by a government, organization, or other group of paying part of the cost of something: Some people oppose government subsidization of a baseball stadium. The Institute has taken the position that subsidization distorts markets and should be eliminated. subside [səbˈsaɪd] I. 缓解. 变弱. to become weaker, less violent, or less severe. If a feeling or noise subsides, it becomes less strong or loud. The pain had subsided during the night. Catherine's sobs finally subsided. The pain should subside in an hour or two. By morning the storm had subsided. If fighting subsides, it becomes less intense or general. Violence has subsided following two days of riots. II. if the level of flood water subsides, it becomes lower. If a level of water, especially flood water, subsides, it goes down. Local officials say the flood waters have subsided. a. if land subsides, it sinks to a lower level. III. 下沉. if a building subsides, it becomes damaged because the land it is on has sunk. If the ground or a building is subsiding, it is very slowly sinking to a lower level. Does that mean the whole house is subsiding?

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用法学习: 1. window ledge: a narrow horizontal surface resembling a shelf and projecting from the bottom of a window, either on the inside or outside. She was kneeling on the sofa, her elbows up on the window ledge. The pigeon on the window ledge had been joined by four others. A window sill is the surface at the bottom of a window. A dictionary of architecture categorically defined the characteristics of a windowsill as: The lowest form of window casement. Windowsills hold pieces in place and slope downward to drain water. two wrongs don't make a right said to emphasize that it is not acceptable to do something bad to someone just because they did something bad to you first. two wrongs don't make a right Seeking retribution or revenge for a hurtful or deceitful action is not an appropriate way to resolve a conflict. Just because he insulted you doesn't mean it's OK for you to start a rumor about him—two wrongs don't make a right. Someone else may do something bad and not be punished, but that does not mean you are allowed to do bad things. Jill: I'd really like to humiliate Fred, after he made fun of me in front of everyone at lunch. Jane: Now, now, Jill. Two wrongs don't make a right. 2. Some people believe that a hallmark of love or intimacy is the freedom to be exactly who you really are, with no disguises or behavioral modifications. These are people who will be blunt to the point of rudeness with spouses and family members, because, they figure, these people know who they really are. "I don't have to pretend to be anything I'm not with my spouse," they will reason with you. The right of reply generally means the right to defend oneself against public criticism in the same venue where it was published. In some countries, such as Brazil, it is a legal or even constitutional right. In other countries, it is not a legal right as such, but a right which certain media outlets and publications choose to grant to people who have been severely criticised by them, as a matter of editorial policy. The Australasian Journal of Philosophy's editorial policy says: [A]uthors of the materials being commented on may be given a right of reply (subject to the usual refereeing), on the understanding that timely publication of the Note will take priority over the desirability of including both Note and Reply in the same issue of the Journal. 新闻: After an interview in which they discussed Mel's new autobiography Brutally Honest, Reid said: "It's been lovely to talk to you. We have to read a right of reply. Mr Belafonte has told us there are new litigation plans and he will be answering the allegations in full, which he denies." As she read out the statement, the star could be heard off camera gasping: "Oh god. Don't want to hear that." Mel B added: "You shouldn't do the right of reply. He shouldn't have a platform to do that." Morgan suggested: "Well when he replies, you can reply again." Mel said: "No! Why would I? Why would I get into a spat like that?" Morgan said: "Unfortunately we had to do that, whether we wanted to or not. And I didn't want to. I'm with you on this. Team Mel. Team Scary." 3. height Man: A height man is a friend of some sort, who will always back you up in any situation, to emphasize everything you do so as to make you seem better than you are. To heighten you. As he schooled the challenger, his height man was right there cheering him on and talking as much smack as possible. slutdrop: Slutdrop is the name of a dance move. The move involves squatting as quickly and as low as possible and immediately popping back up. A hand is often put straight up to steady oneself, and the move is often performed whilst grinding a dance partner that the dropper is trying to impress. 4. outman [ˌaʊtˈmæn] I. to surpass in manpower. To exceed in manpower; outnumber: The country's army was outmanned and outgunned. Our team was outmanned six to one. II. to surpass in manliness. III. Outnumber. outgunned 装备更精良的 and outmanned armies. outgun I. have better or more weaponry than. In a battle, if one army is outgunned, they are in a very weak position because the opposing army has more or better weapons. First Airborne Division was heavily outgunned by German forces. "the gangs have carved up the city and easily outgun the police". II. shoot better than. "the correspondents proudly outgunned the army sharpshooters". III. surpass in power or strength. If you are outgunned in a contest, you are beaten because your rival is stronger or better than you. Clearly, the BBC is being outgunned by ITV's original drama. He soon hit top speed to outgun all his rivals in the opening qualifying session. "the team were outgunned by the joint title favourites". sharpshooter 神枪手 A sharpshooter is a person who can fire a gun very accurately. 5. neurotic
[njʊərɒtɪk , US nʊr-] 整天心惊胆战的, 杞人忧天的 adj. If you say that someone is neurotic, you mean that they are always frightened or worried about things that you consider unimportant. [disapproval] He was almost neurotic about being followed. [+ about] There are also unpleasant brain effects such as anxiety and neurotic behaviour. n. A neurotic is someone who is neurotic. a person who has a neurosis or who tends to be emotionally unstable or unusually anxious. These patients are not neurotics. neurosis [njuərousɪs , US nʊr-] 杞人忧天 = psychoneurosis Neurosis is a mental condition which causes people to have unreasonable fears and worries over a long period of time. a relatively mild mental disorder, characterized by symptoms such as hysteria, anxiety, depression, or obsessive behaviour. He was anxious to the point of neurosis. She got a neurosis about chemicals and imagined them everywhere doing her harm. necrosis [nekroʊsɪs] 肌体坏死 Necrosis is the death of part of someone's body, for example because it is not getting enough blood.  the death of one or more cells in the body, usually within a localized area, as from an interruption of the blood supply to that part. ...liver necrosis. 6. 孤独症儿子: He needs a purpose built "robust" home after he destroyed his last house causing $250,000 dollars damage during repeat violent outbursts. Mrs Parkinson said her son is going backwards and has regressed 蜕化, 退化 to the point that he never wants to leave his room and hasn't seen the sun in weeks. Mrs O'Connor said Mr Parkinson isn't meeting his NDIS goals. "It's an extremely sad state of affairs and more so because it's unnecessary," she said. Department of Communities Assistant Director General Marion Hailes-Macdonald said Mr Parkinson's case has been front of mind( front of mind = top of mind I. if a brand, product, or company is front of mind, it is the first one that people think of when they are considering buying something: We need advertising that will keep the brand front of mind and help reinforce brand values. II. considered very important and usually thought of first by people: Food safety issues affect everyone and are becoming increasingly front of mind with consumers today. turn of mind If someone is of a particular turn of mind, they have that kind of mind or character. She was of a rational turn of mind. habit of mind 思维定型, 思维定式 If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way. Deference was a deeply ingrained habit of mind.) for many years and the intention is to build him his own "robust" [rəʊˈbʌst] 结实的, 坚固耐用的 home that he can't destroy( sturdy Someone or something that is sturdy looks strong and is unlikely to be easily injured or damaged. She was a short, sturdy woman in her early sixties. The camera was mounted on a sturdy tripod. It was a good table too, sturdily constructed of elm. robust [roubʌst] I. Someone or something that is robust is very strong or healthy. More women than men go to the doctor. Perhaps men are more robust or worry less? We've always specialised in making very robust, simply designed machinery. He became robustly healthy. ...the robustness of diesel engines. a robust system or organization is strong and successful. a robust 强劲有力的 economy. a robust object is strong and unlikely to break. a robust engine. II. Robust views or opinions are strongly held and forcefully expressed. A British Foreign Office minister has made a robust defence of the agreement. He has the keen eye and robust 坚定的, 一旦决定不回头的, 有决心的 approach needed. In the decisions we have to make about Europe, we have to defend our position very robustly indeed. ...a prominent industrialist renowned for the robustness of his right-wing views. firm and determined. a robust approach. III. robust food or drink has a lot of flavor. a keen eye for something 眼光刁, 有眼光 an ability to notice and recognize something. My friend's a tireless shopper with a keen eye for a bargain. solid ( solidity [səˈlɪdəti] ) I. A solid substance or object stays the same shape whether it is in a container or not. ...the potential of greatly reducing our solid waste problem. He did not eat solid food for several weeks. A solid is a substance that stays the same shape whether it is in a container or not. Solids 固体 turn to liquids at certain temperatures. ...the decomposition of solids. II. 坚硬的. A substance that is solid is very hard or firm. The snow had melted, but the lake was still frozen solid. The concrete will stay as solid as a rock. III. A solid object or mass does not have a space inside it, or holes or gaps in it. ...a tunnel carved through 50ft of solid rock. ...a solid wall of multicoloured trees. ...a solid mass of colour. The car park was absolutely packed solid with people. IV. If an object is made of solid gold or solid wood, for example, it is made of gold or wood all the way through, rather than just on the outside. The taps appeared to be made of solid gold纯金. ...solid wood 实木 doors. ...solid pine furniture. V. 结构坚固的. A structure that is solid is strong and is not likely to collapse or fall over. Banks are built to look solid to reassure their customers. The car feels very solid. Their house, which was solidly built, resisted the main shock. ...the solidity of walls and floors. [+ of]. VI. If you describe someone as solid, you mean that they are very reliable and respectable. [approval] You want a partner who is solid and stable. Mr Zuma had a solid reputation as a grass roots organiser. Graham is so solidly consistent. He had the proverbial solidity of the English. VII. 牢不可破的. Solid evidence or information is reliable because it is based on facts. We don't have good solid information on where the people are. Some solid evidence was what was required. He has a solid alibi. You use solid to describe something such as advice or a piece of work which is useful and reliable. The CIU provides churches with solid advice on a wide range of subjects. All I am looking for is a good solid performance. I've always felt that solid experience would stand me in good stead. She's played solidly throughout the spring. VIII. You use solid to describe something such as the basis for a policy or support for an organization when it is strong, because it has been developed carefully and slowly. I am determined to build on this solid foundation. ...a nominee with solid support within the party. ...Washington's attempt to build a solid international coalition. This district is solidly Republican. So far, majority public opinion is solidly behind the government. ...a society based solidly on trust and understanding. ...doubts over the solidity of European backing for the American approach. [+ of]. IX. If you do something for a solid period of time, you do it without any pause or interruption throughout that time. We had worked together for two solid years. Dan has worked solidly at his music since his teens. rock-solid I. Something that is rock-solid is extremely hard. Freeze it only until firm but not rock solid. II. If you describe someone or something as rock-solid, you approve of them because they are extremely reliable or unlikely to change. [approval] Mayhew is a man of rock-solid integrity. I'll need rock solid proof. The firm is rock-solid financially. He has a rock-solid alibi backed up by dozens of witnesses. ). "We can design a program of support and program of services together with a built environment that will enabled (Reece) to live his best life," she said. Mrs O'Connor, however, said Mr Parkinson isn't receiving the help he needs and the treatment equates to a violation of his human rights. "I think for managers to have a better grounding for what it takes to meet the needs of people with very complex needs I think they need extra training, and I think they really need to be consulting their own documents written by their own organisation to how to go about this," she said. "To me, this is a human rights issue." 7. cabin bag 手提行李: You can take ONE cabin bag per person on board. That’s just enough space for a couple of nights away. There’s no weight limit but we do ask that you are able to lift it into the overhead locker. Hold luggage 托运行李: Each customer including children and infants can buy up to three hold bags. A standard hold bag is 23kg (for new bookings made from 15 November 2017). You can buy extra weight in 3kgs units, up to a maximum of 32kg per bag. If you're travelling with family or friends on the same flight and booking, you can pool your total weight allowance. If baggage is too heavy, customers will have to check it in to go into the hold, where it will count towards their luggage weight limit. Virgin Australia said cabin crew have been injured by passengers cramming "everything but the kitchen sink" into overhead lockers and flights can also be delayed as luggage is moved around. "We're seeing injuries to our cabin crew caused by closing overhead lockers full of heavy baggage, shifting 挪来挪去(moving around) bags in overhead lockers to assist guests finding space and assisting passengers with lifting their bags into the overhead compartments," Virgin Australia general manager of ground operations Paul Woosnam said. "This is preventable if all passengers adhered to the baggage limits and guidelines, and from the customers we've spoken to, we know they're in favour of our renewed focus on cabin baggage.". keep/ hold somebody/something in check keep someone or something under control. You must learn to keep your emotions in check. attempts to keep global warming in check  He made an effort to hold himself in check.

 电话信号不好: 1. Your phone is dropping out. 2. you're breaking up Commonly heard in cell phone conversations, it does not mean the end of a relationship. It means, "I can't hear you because there is static on the line.". "Your voice is breaking up" is perfectly fine in terms of manners. (You can even add in, "Can *you* hear *me*?"). 3. 礼貌的说法, 比如客服: I'm sorry, but I'm having a hard time hearing you. I think there's a bad connection. 4. 搞笑的: You're coming in broken and stupid" - meaning, your transmission is breaking up and it's not making much sense. 5. 随便的说法: I had this happen this afternoon with a tech trying to troubleshoot my nearly-dead Internet connection. His cell phone was awful. What I said to him was, "I can barely hear you—it sounds like you're a million miles away. I think we have a bad phone connection." He came back with, "Well, the signal does have to go to outer space and back." (Old joke, I know.). 6. What I'd avoid is accusatory language like "Something's wrong with your phone" or "with your connection," unless you know the person well enough to be sure it's them and to be sure that being called out won't bother them. Some people are embarrassed by their phone service behaving badly, as if it's a reflection on them personally. That's why I said to the tech "I think *we* have a bad connection." No accusation 不要指责, after all it could possibly have been me, but then everybody knows and you don't have to hide how difficult hearing the other person is. 7. Can you speak up please. Your voice isn't audible. Your voice is breaking. The line isn't good. Can you please repeat it.