用法学习: 1. insulate [ˈɪnsəˌleɪt] 隔热 I. to cover something in order to prevent heat, cold, noise, or electricity from passing through it. II. to protect someone from unpleasant knowledge or harmful experiences. The president was insulated from the pressure of public opinion. insulated [ˈɪnsjuleɪtɪd] 隔离层 adj. I. protected by interposing material that prevents the loss of heat or the intrusion of sound. "an insulated loft". II. covered in non-conducting material to prevent the passage of electricity. "insulated wire". insinuate [ɪnˈsɪnjʊeɪt] v. I. 暗示 [disapproval] suggest or hint (something bad) in an indirect and unpleasant way. If you say that someone insinuates that something bad is the case, you mean that they say it in an indirect way. to suggest, without being direct, that something unpleasant is true: The libel claim followed an article which insinuated that the President was lying. Are you insinuating that I smell? He speaks with rage of insinuations that there's a 'gay mafia' in Hollywood. I just don't think it's right to bring a good man down by rumour and insinuation. "he was insinuating that I had no self-control". II. slide (oneself or a thing) slowly and smoothly into a particular place. "I insinuated my shoulder in the gap". III. [disapproval] If you say that someone insinuates themselves into a particular situation, you mean that they manage very cleverly, and perhaps dishonestly, to get into that situation. to use clever, secret, and often unpleasant methods to gradually become part of something: Over the years she insinuated herself into 一点点打进去 the great man's life. He gradually insinuated himself into 混进去 her life. 2. A gigolo ([ˈdʒɪɡəˌloʊ, ˈʒɪɡ-] 被包养的男人, kept man) is a male escort or social companion who is supported by a woman in a continuing relationship, often living in her residence or having to be present at her beck and call. The term gigolo usually implies a man who adopts a lifestyle consisting of a number of such relationships serially rather than having other means of support. The gigolo is expected to provide companionship, to serve as a consistent escort with good manners and social skills, and often to serve as a dancing partner as required by the woman in exchange for the support. Many gifts, such as expensive clothing and an automobile to drive, may be lavished upon him. The relationship may include sexual services as well, and he also can be referred to as a "kept man." 3. Ashton Kutcher 谈继女: "We don't hang out," said The Ranch star, who is now married to actress Mila Kunis and shares son Dimitri, three, and daughter Wyatt, five. "I make a really conscious effort 主动的, 特别的, 专门的, 特意的 ( conscious effort/decision/attempt etc an effort etc that is deliberate and intended. Vivien had made a conscious effort to be friendly.) to stay in touch with the girls." Residents riled up over Trump's glaring Super Bowl error Deletes tweet that proves lack of basic knowledge: Minutes after the Kansas City Chiefs won their first Super Bowl in 50 years, President Donald Trump sent a congratulatory 祝贺的 tweet to the team's fans and the state of Kansas. 4. 法官法庭遇到初中同学: That has been his downfall 人生下坡路, 堕落. He is not a violent person and has not hurt anyone but to feed 满足 his addictions he always needed money and it was easier to steal. 'He has been the architect of his own downfall 一手造成的 and made a lot of mistakes. More than 35 years ago prison wasn't on the horizon 不可能的事 when Booth was handpicked to attend Nautilus Middle School after achieving outstanding grades at the William J. Bryant elementary school. People tried to get him help but it was a downward spiral. He needed money to pay for drugs and he could only get that from dealing or stealing. 5. Health experts say they were encouraged by the steady rise in the number of recoveries and took it as evidence that the treatments meted out ( To mete out a punishment means to order that someone should be punished in a certain way. This provided an illustrative example of how justice was meted out to the local population at the time. ) have been effective and showed that the virus does not appear to be as deadly as SARS. spruik [spruk] 推销, 提倡, 吹嘘 to try to persuade someone to do or buy something, often in a dishonest or exaggerated way. to speak in public (used esp of a showman or salesman). To promote a thing or idea to another person. Going "gift-free" has been spruiked in the pages of the Oprah magazine and advocated by Mennonite Christians as a way to rediscover the reason for the season. spook [spuːk] verb If people are spooked, something has scared them or made them nervous. But was it the wind that spooked her? Investors were spooked by slowing economies. spook noun I. A spook is a ghost. II. A spook is a spy. [US, informal] ...as a U.S. intelligence spook said yesterday. precipitate [prɪˈsɪpɪteɪt] I. INTRANSITIVE/TRANSITIVE FORMAL to make something happen or begin to exist suddenly and quickly, especially something bad. If something precipitates an event or situation, usually a bad one, it causes it to happen suddenly or sooner than normal. The recent killings have precipitated the worst crisis yet. A slight mistake could precipitate a disaster. Such headaches can be precipitated by certain foods as well as stress. Recent rain and subsequent hot weather in New South Wales has precipitated 触发, 导致, 引发 a boom in populations of the deadly arachnid. II. INTRANSITIVE/ TRANSITIVE CHEMISTRY if a solid substance precipitates, or if something precipitates it, it becomes separate from the liquid that it is in and drops to the bottom of the container. III. INTRANSITIVE/ TRANSITIVE FORMAL to fall or be thrown forwards quickly in a particular direction, or to make someone do this. IV. INTRANSITIVE SCIENCE to rain, snow, hail etc. adj. A precipitate action or decision happens or is made more quickly or suddenly than most people think is sensible. Somebody hired from another country is not likely to resign precipitately. He hurried precipitately away. I don't think we should make precipitate decisions. Many of our current problems have been caused by precipitate policy making in the past. precipitous [prɪˈsɪpɪtəs] I. 陡峭的. 断崖式下滑, 非常陡的. very high and steep. A precipitous slope or drop is very steep and often dangerous. The town is perched on the edge of a steep, precipitous cliff. The ground beyond the road fell away precipitously. the precipitous hillside. II. happening more quickly than expected. A precipitous change is sudden and unpleasant. Australia made a precipitous drop in the rankings, losing eight points on last year. The stock market's precipitous drop frightened foreign investors. Meryl's health started a precipitous decline. The company has seen its profits fall precipitously 严重下滑, 严重下跌 over the past few years. a precipitous decline in population. III. done too quickly and without enough thought. A precipitous action happens very quickly and often without being planned. ...a precipitous decision. They've got to act precipitously to make the deals. 6. cred [krɛd] 自己人的特质, 江湖名声, 江湖名望, 江湖声望 another term for street credibility. a quality that makes you likely to be accepted by ordinary young people who live in towns and cities because you have the same fashions, styles, interests, culture, or opinions: Many celebrities develop a working class accent to increase their street credibility. He was the first person to really bring street cred to white rap. "a few tales here and there could wreck my cred completely!" If someone says that you have street cred, they mean that ordinary young people would approve of you and consider you to be part of their culture, usually because you share their sense of fashion or their views. [British, informal, approval] At 16, she oozes street cred. She wears black, talks cool and looks 18. Having children was the quickest way to lose your street cred. At the peak of her mid-2000's stardom, Paris Hilton lent her celebrity cred to fledgling series Veronica Mars. 7. troglodyte [ˈtrɒɡlədʌɪt] 老派人物 I. (especially in prehistoric times) 山顶洞人(caveman). a person who lived in a cave. a hermit. a person who is regarded as being deliberately ignorant or old-fashioned. II. If you refer to someone as a troglodyte, you mean that they are unsophisticated and do not know very much about anything. [disapproval] He dismissed advocates of a completely free market as economic troglodytes 与世隔绝的人, 白痴, 头脑简单的人, 无知, 愚昧. III. an insulting word for someone who is stupid or does not know how to behave correctly in social situations. vocabulary: A troglodyte is a person who lives all alone, in seclusion. You could call this type a "hermit" or a "recluse," but it's more fun to say troglodyte. Troglodyte is formed from the Greek words trogle, "hole", and dyein, "to dive into." The word translates to mean "he who dwells in caves." While a troglodyte can be what we think of as a pre-historic caveman, it also means someone who lives in any sort of tiny, unkempt house. Nowadays, a troglodyte generally refers to someone who lives alone, like a hermit. If you don't mind having a dirty hole for a home, then perhaps you are a troglodyte. pedestrian adj. lacking inspiration or excitement; dull. "disenchantment with their pedestrian lives". If you describe something as pedestrian, you mean that it is ordinary and not at all interesting. His style is so pedestrian that the book becomes a real bore. I drove home contemplating my own more pedestrian lifestyle.
Big Bang Theory: 1. Shall I come back at a better time? PENNY: Get in here! Hurry! Don't you dare knock. Hello. I slipped in the shower. I think I dislocated my shoulder. Not surprising. You have no safety mat 防滑垫, 安全垫 or adhesive stickers to allow for purchase ( I. something that you buy Her latest purchase was a long black coat. make a purchase: The statement lists all the purchases made with your card. II. uncountable the process of buying something. Parents donated money for the purchase of new computer equipment. gain/get a purchase on something 抓不死, 抓不牢, 不抓地 to get a firm hold on something. If you get a purchase on something, you manage to get a firm grip on it. I got a purchase on the rope and pulled. I couldn't get any purchase with the screwdriver on the damn screws. The rear wheels of the truck spun, trying to gain a purchase in the mud. hire purchase the installment plan. ) on a surface with a low coefficient of static friction. What? Tubs are slippery. I know. I slipped. I have a series of whimsical ( [ˈhwɪmzɪk(ə)l] I. made or done for fun, not seriously. A whimsical person or idea is unusual, playful, and unpredictable, rather than serious and practical. McGrath remembers his offbeat sense of humor, his whimsical side. His graphic art became slighter and more whimsical. a whimsical 不是严肃认真的, 好玩的, 图好玩的, 用来好玩的 design. II. slightly strange or old-fashioned. his whimsical smile. whimsy = whimsey [hwɪmzi] Whimsy is behaviour which is unusual, playful, and unpredictable, rather than having any serious reason or purpose behind it. What's life 人生还有何意趣 without whimsy? whim 一时兴起, 没有特别的原因, 没有什么目的, 图好玩的 A whim is a wish to do or have something which seems to have no serious reason or purpose behind it, and often occurs suddenly. We decided, more or less on a whim, to sail to Morocco. The premium can increase at the whim of the insurers. [+ of] Lately, the president has been sacking and picking new ministers at whim. ) duck stickers on the bottom of my tub. Whatever. Will you just turn the water off and help me up? SHELDON: They're holding umbrellas 举着雨伞的. Unh. What? The ducks in my tub. Unh. Uh-huh. They're whimsical, because ducks have neither a need for nor the ability to use umbrellas. Oh, my God. I gotta go to the emergency room. Assuming you're correct that your humerus is no longer seated in the glenoid socket, I would think so. Can you drive me? I don't drive. Well, I can't drive. Well, it seems we've reached an impasse. Ow! I could call you a cab or an ambulance. No, no, no, I can't wait that long. You gotta help me. Please? All right. Let it never be said 永远不要让人说 ( never let it be said that 不要让人说嘴 used for emphasizing the opposite of a statement. 'Never let it be said that I arrive empty-handed!' she said, handing him some bread and cheese. ) that Sheldon Lee Cooper ignored the pleas of a damsel [ˈdæmz(ə)l] in distress. No one's saying that. Let's go. It does seem rather ironic that for want of 因为缺少, 因为没有 ( because someone lacks something She could not make the trip for want of money. ) 99-cent adhesive ducks we both might die in a fiery 惨烈的 (fierce debate, feisty) car crash. 2. I wish Penny didn't have to work. She loves camping. That would've been great. You and Penny having sex in the tent while I sit out here and watch Howard hump a cactus. Okay, the best I can tell, there are eight other campsites nearby. Mostly science nerds like us, but just over yon ridge are two not unattractive middle-school teachers who reek of desperation. Wonderful. How old are they? I don't know, 50, 55? Oh, menopause. Heh. Nature's birth control. Come on. You guys can't be that hard up ( be hard up (for sth) 缺, 饥渴, 缺, 渴望 to not have enough of something important or valuable: If you're so hard up for friends, why don't you join a club? if you are hard up, you do not have much money I‘m a bit hard up at the moment. not having something that you want or need 'How about a date with Tom?' 'No, thanks, I'm not that hard up.' hard up for The media are obviously hard up for stories. ). I am. Yeah, me too. 3. According to the inexplicably [ˌɪnɪkˈsplɪkəb(ə)l] 不明原因的, 莫名其妙的 irritable ( irritable [ˈɪrɪtəb(ə)l] 易怒的, 容易发火的, 心情不好的, 臭脾气的 likely to become easily annoyed or impatient. If you are irritable, you are easily annoyed. He had been waiting for over an hour and was beginning to feel irritable. 'Why are you whispering?' he asked irritably. The judge shook his head irritably and Juicks hushed. Patients usually suffer from increased irritability. She seems a little irritable this morning. irritated 生气里的, 不高兴的, 心情不好的 [ˈɪrɪteɪtɪd] showing or feeling slight anger; annoyed. "the irritated look on Alec's face". ) nurse behind the desk you're after the man who claims to be having a heart attack but appears to be well enough to play Doodle Jump on his iPhone. We have to fill these out. "Describe illness or injury." I dislocated my shoulder. All right. And "how did the accident occur?" You already know that. Cause of accident: lack of adhesive ducks. Okay, medical history. Have you been diagnosed with diabetes? No. Kidney disease? No. Migraines? Getting one. Are you currently pregnant? No. Are you sure? You look a bit puffy 肿肿的. Change migraine to "yes." "When was your last menstrual period?" Oh, next question. I'll put "in progress 进行中." 4. Sheldon has to get me into bed. Bet you never thought I'd say that. Ha-ha-ha. Yes. The charm of your drug-addled ( drug-addled (of a person) mentally mixed-up or confused due to the usage of mind-bending drugs. addled 迷迷糊糊的, 分不清东南西北的, 意识模糊的, 意识不清的, 恍恍惚惚中, 精神恍惚的 adj not able to think clearly In my addled state I couldn't remember for a minute whose house I was in. mind-bending 让人产生幻觉的 mind-bending drugs make you see or hear things that are not real. addle If something addles someone's mind or brain, they become confused and unable to think properly. I suppose the shock had addled his poor old brain. deranged [dɪˈreɪndʒd]. trance [trɑːns] I. 精神恍惚的状态.
恍恍惚惚的. [countable] [usually singular] a state caused by hypnosis in
which someone can move and speak but is not conscious in a normal way. put someone in/into a trance: Her psychiatrist put her into a deep hypnotic trance. a. a state in which you are awake but not really conscious of where you are because you are thinking about something else. He came out of his trance and greeted me. II. [uncountable] music a type of dance music with fast regular beats and electronic sounds that developed from techno in the early 1990s. delirious [dɪˈlɪrɪəs] adj I. 精神恍惚的.
意识模糊的. 不清醒的. in an acutely disturbed state of mind characterized by
restlessness, illusions, and incoherence; affected by delirium. unable to think or speak clearly because of fever or mental confusion: She had a high temperature and was delirious. "he became delirious and couldn't recognize people". II. in a state of wild excitement or ecstasy. extremely happy or excited: The team arrived home to a delirious receptionfrom its fans. "there was a great roar from the delirious crowd". ) candor ( = candour [kændər] honesty, even when the truth is not pleasant. Candor is the quality of speaking honestly and openly about things. ...a brash, forceful man, noted both for his candor and his quick temper. ) knows no bounds. You know, people think you're this weird robot man who's so annoying all the time, and you totally are. But then it's like that movie Wall-E at the end. You're so full of love and you can save a plant and get fat people out of the floaty chairs. That's a fairly labored metaphor 比喻 ( I. If someone's breathing is labored, it is slow and seems to take a lot of effort. She could hear Max's harsh, labored breathing. II. 太刻意, 太牵强的. If something such as someone's writing or speech is labored, they have put too much effort into it so it seems awkward and unnatural. ...his characters' labored musings about love and death and morality.), but I appreciate the sentiment behind it. Sing "Soft Kitty" to me. "Soft Kitty" is for when you're sick. You're not sick. Injured and drugged is a kind of sick. Soft kitty, warm kitty Little ball of fur Wait, wait. Let's sing it as a round 多声部, 分声部 ( A round in music is a song which can be sung by two or more groups of people. One group starts off and the next group start to sing the same song a bit later. ... When a group gets to the end of the song they start again. They can go round and round, singing it several times.). I'll start. Soft kitty, warm kitty Little ball of fur. See, that's where you come in. I'll start over. 5. Why are you back from your date so early? Well, in romance, as in show business, always leave them wanting more. What exactly does that mean? He struck out ( I. If you strike out, you begin to do something different, often because you want to become more independent. She wanted me to strike out on my own, buy a business. ...a desire to make changes and to strike out in new directions. II. If you strike out at someone, you hit, attack, or speak angrily to them. He seemed always ready to strike out at anyone and for any cause. Frampton struck out blindly, hitting not Waddington, but an elderly man. III. If you strike out in a particular direction, you start travelling in that direction. They left the car and struck out along the muddy track. His team were the first to strike out for the mountain's summit. IV. In baseball, if a pitcher strikes out a batter or if a batter strikes out, the batter fails to hit three balls thrown properly by the pitcher, and is out. He struck out ten batters, and allowed only two runs. Canseco, nursing a back injury, struck out. V. If someone strikes out, they fail. [US, informal] He was the firm's second lawyer. The first one had struck out completely. ). Hey, did you know that three dates with the same woman is the threshold for sex? Actually, I've never had three dates with the same woman. With Penny and me, it took two years. But now that I think about it, that was three dates. Okay, well, before you and Penny hooked up did she ask for any kind of commitment? No, she was pretty clear about wanting to keep her options open. I have something to announce, but out of respect for convention I will wait for you to finish your conversation. 6. Now, if MA equals MG what does that imply 说明了什么? I don't know. How can you not know? I just told you. Have you suffered a recent blow to the head? Hey, you don't have to be so mean. I'm sorry. Have you suffered a recent blow to the head? No. You just suck at teaching. Really? Of those two explanations, which one seems the most likely? Oh, God. Sheldon, look, I'm trying to understand but you're going too fast. Can you just back up 回退, 往回一点 a little bit? All right. It's a warm summer evening in ancient Greece. Not that far back. Okay, at what point did you begin to feel lost? I don't know. Where were we looking up at the night sky? Greece. Damn it. Look, there's no need to get frustrated. People learn at different rates 学习速度不同, 个人学习的速度不同. 7. Come on, Sheldon, this is important to me. This would be a massive undertaking and my time is both limited and valuable. You're sitting here playing video games all day. Okay, point ( I. an idea or opinion among a number of others. I disagree with you on a couple of important points. point by point 逐点的, 逐一的 (=looking at each part separately): Let's go over the plan point by point. II. the reason for something What is the point of your visit? see/get the point (=understand the reason): I'm sorry – I just don't see the point of doing this. not any/no point: I see no point in discussing this any further. III. an aspect or feature. someone's strong/weak points: Subtlety is not one of his strong points. the finer points (=the details): He spent his spare time coaching youngsters on the finer points of soccer. it has its points (=it has some good qualities): I complain about working different hours from everyone else, but it has its points. IV. I see/take your point = point taken used for saying that you understand what someone is trying to say, especially when you disagree with it. I see your point, but I don't think there's anything we can do at the moment. to the point that used to to talk about something that changes slowly, until it finally turns into something else. At first I was nervous, but as time went on I got more and more comfortable, to the point that now I actually enjoy it. His behavior has gotten worse and worse, to the point that now we’re thinking about pulling him out of regular school to homeschool him.). What sort of foundation 打基础, 学习基础 do you have? Did you take any science classes in school? Sure. I did the one with the frogs. The one with the frogs. 8. It's just my moth-- -If I could interject 打断, 插话 again. Leonard comes from a remarkably high-achieving family who have all chosen high-achieving partners. He probably feels that it's doubtful that his mother will be overly impressed with his dating a woman whose most significant achievement. Hey, it's a big menu. There's two pages just for desserts. I know. And those specials, they change every day. Okay, it's lame when I say it, it's ridiculous when you pile on 应和, 帮腔 . Okay. Sorry. What did she say when you told her we were going out? LEONARD: Um. You didn't tell her we were going out, did you? LEONARD: Um. 9. That is fascinating. I'm noticing an immediate lowering of my inhibitions. For example, I'm seriously considering asking that busboy to ravish me ( ravish [ˈrævɪʃ] I. to rape a woman (=force her to have sex). She'll never know how close she came to being dragged off and ravished. II. to make someone feel great pleasure He was ravished by the music. Big bang theory: What can I do for you ladies? You have something we want. Oh, dear. My mother warned me this is what happens to pretty boys in the big city. No, we just want information. Oh. Oh, I've got that in spades. Ravage me. in spades to a great degree, or in large amounts. Owen had talent in spades but barely any experience. Ravage 肆虐 to destroy something or damage it very badly. a body ravaged by disease. Fifteen years of civil war had ravaged the country.
A town, country, or economy that has been ravaged is one that has been
damaged so much that it is almost completely destroyed. For
two decades the country has been ravaged by civil war and foreign
intervention. [be VERB-ed] The camerawork makes the ravaged streets of
New Orleans look exquisite. [VERB-ed] ...Nicaragua's ravaged economy. ) in the alleyway while I eat cheesecake. What do you think? Well, we are known for our cheesecake. Hit us again. Yes. If a little is good, more must be better. Ha, ha. Hey, Bev, guess what? What? I'm sleeping with your son. Really? Which one? The one from whom I live across the hall from. Oh, well, that's convenient. How did his penis turn out? Oh, Beverly, I can't talk to my boyfriend's mother about his penis. 10. Thanks for coming with me. Thanks for giving me your limited edition Green Lantern lantern. Did you really have to bring it with you? What if evil strikes 来袭, 袭击 and my power ring runs low? Come on, let's get a drink. I don't drink. Well, I do. And when my wingman is carrying a Green Lantern lantern, I drink a lot. I'll have a screwdriver, please. And don't be chintzy ( [ˈtʃɪntsi] I. 吝啬的, 吝啬鬼的 American informal someone who is chintzy does not like to spend money or give things to people. You can describe someone as chintzy if they are mean and seem to spend very little money compared with other people. [US, informal, disapproval] I knew I couldn't afford one of their fabled handbags on my chintzy budget. II. 廉价的 American informal inexpensive and badly made. If you describe something as chintzy, you mean that it is showy and looks cheap. [mainly US, disapproval] ...a chintzy table lamp. chintzy furniture. III. covered or decorated with chintz a range of chintzy fabrics. a. too colorful and in poor taste. ) with the screw. I would like a root-beer float. Sheldon, they don't have ice cream. They don't? Well, apparently these people and I differ greatly on the definition of "party." He'll have a Shirley Temple. And don't be chintzy with the Shirley. Okay, let's check out the females. All right. There's a female. That's Professor Wilkinson's wife. She's like 80. But she's female. Isn't that the game? No. I'm looking for a hookup. Oh, yes. So the point of this exercise is for you to find someone to copulate with? Not so loud. But ideally, yes. And what is my function as wingman? You help me run my game. Okay. And what is your game? When I lie through my teeth to a woman 红口白牙的撒谎, you nod and agree 打掩护, 应和着. Hey, that's pretty cool. What is it? It's a limited edition Green Lantern lantern. My friend is looking for someone to copulate with. You're very funny. 11. What's going on? We scored ( I. If you score a particular number or amount, for example as a mark in a test, you achieve that number or amount. Kelly had scored an average of 147 on three separate IQ tests. Congress as an institution scores low in public opinion polls. II. If you score a success, a victory, or a hit, you are successful in what you are doing. His abiding passion was ocean racing, at which he scored 获得成功, 获得胜利 many successes. In recent months, the rebels have scored some significant victories. Soldiers using a multiple rocket launcher scored a direct hit on the steeple of a church. III. If you score a piece of music, you write it or arrange it for specific instruments or voices. Strauss spent much of 1941 scoring his last opera, Capriccio. He wrote and scored a piece for a chamber music ensemble. IV. 划痕 If you score a surface with something sharp, you cut a line or number of lines in it. Lightly score the surface of the steaks with a knife. V. If someone scores drugs, they buy them illegally. Me and my mate went to score a kilo of amphetamine. ). I'm the wingman. Had a great night last night. I don't like to kiss and tell, but somebody made it to eighth base. What the hell is eighth base? Seventh base with shirt off. Well, my shirt. How'd things go with Penny? Oh, couldn't be better. 12. I was gonna try to squeeze in a little more mocking before lunch but I can come back when you don't have a high-powered weapon. How can I go out with a woman who believes in psychics? Hey, I once dated a girl who believed she was abducted by aliens. And that didn't bother you? Au contraire (on the contrary.), it meant she was gullible and open to a little probing ( probe I. If a doctor or dentist probes 戳, he or she uses a long instrument to examine part of a patient's body. The surgeon would pick up his instruments, probe, repair and stitch up again. Dr Amid probed around the sensitive area. A doctor probed deep in his shoulder wound for shrapnel. II. If you probe a place, you search it in order to find someone or something that you are looking for. A flashlight beam probed the underbrush only yards away from their hiding place. I probed around for some time in the bushes. III. If you probe into something, you ask questions or try to discover facts about it. The more they probed into 查问, 深入 his background, the more inflamed their suspicions would become. For three years, I have probed for understanding. The Office of Fair Trading has been probing banking practices. The form asks probing questions. ...a federal grand-jury probe into corruption within the FDA. If he remains here, he'll be away from the press and their probings. IV. 试探 [journalism] In a conflict such as a war, if one side probes another side's defences, they try to find their weaknesses, for example by attacking them in specific areas using a small number of troops. He probes the enemy's weak positions, ignoring his strongholds. Squads of prison officers have been probing the rioters' defences. Small probes would give the allied armies some combat experience. noun 探测器 A space probe is a spacecraft which travels into space with no people in it, usually in order to study the planets and send information about them back to earth. Its rings were discovered by telescope from Earth, but space probes later found that spectacular rings surround some other planets. The Pioneer probes have on board ultra-violet instruments which are measuring light that we can't measure on the earth. ). What am I supposed to do? Pretend I believe something I don't when I'm with Penny? Hey, I'm sure Penny fakes all kinds of things when she's with you. Do me a favor. Lean over, put your head right here. Let me show you another way to look at this 从另一个角度看. Here we have the universe of all women. Okay, these are the ones you wanna sleep with. These are the women who believe exactly what you believe. These are the women who would be willing to sleep with you. And right there, in the little triple intersection is your ideal mate. Odds are she's a short physicist with low self-esteem who lives in a government research facility in China. What's your point? To keep having a sexual relationship with Penny I have to give up everything I believe in? My intellectual integrity? The very nature of who I am? I can't do that, Howard. I respect that. 13. This game is called Traitors. I will name three historical figures put them in order of the heinousness 恶心程度 ( heinous [heɪnəs] adj If you describe something such as a crime as heinous, you mean that it is extremely evil or horrible. Her life has been permanently blighted by his heinous crime. They are capable of the most heinous acts. ) of their betrayal: Benedict Arnold, Judas, Dr. Leonard Hofstadter. You really think I belong with 一伙的, 同一类人, 一样的, 一类人, 一丘之貉 Benedict Arnold and Judas? You're right. Judas had the decency to ( have the decency to If you say that someone did not have the decency to do something, you are criticizing them because there was a particular action which they did not do but which you believe they ought to have done. Nobody had the decency to inform me of what was planned. She didn't even have the decency to apologize. the decencies UK old-fashioned the acceptable or expected ways of doing something: I hate going to funerals, but you must observe the decencies (= it is something you should do). ) hang himself after what he did. Can't you at least try to understand how much this means to me? Round two: Leonard Hofstadter, Darth Vader, Rupert Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch? He owns Fox and they cancelled Firefly.
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用法学习: 1. Terror suspect shot dead during London stabbing attack: He was under police surveillance at the time of the attack, which police believe was an Islamist-inspired incident. He had a hoax ( [həʊks] a trick in which someone deliberately tells people that something bad is going to happen or that something is true when it is not. A hoax is a trick in which someone tells people a lie, for example that there is a bomb somewhere when there is not, or that a picture is genuine when it is not. A series of bomb hoaxes has disrupted Christmas shopping in the city centre. He denied making the hoax call but was convicted after a short trial.) explosives device strapped to his body 绑在身体上, investigators say. Video from the scene appeared to show three undercover police officers in an unmarked car making a quick stop and emerging with weapons. Former deputy assistant police commissioner Stephen Roberts said police would quickly try to search the suspect's residence and seize any computer devices to scour 查询, 搜寻 ( [skaʊr] I. to search a place or document thoroughly for something. scour something for something: Jake scoured auction sales for the furniture they needed. II. to clean something thoroughly by rubbing it hard with something rough. I scoured the sink. III. to form a passage or hole in something by moving continuously over it. a valley scoured out by a glacier. ) his internet records. Investigators are researching the man's background to learn more about the attack and any possible co-conspirators 同谋, 共犯, Mr Roberts said. Gulled Bulhan, a 19-year-old student from the neighbourhood, told Britain's Press Association that he witnessed the attack. "I was crossing the road when I saw a man with a machete and silver canisters 气罐 on his chest being chased by what I assume was an undercover police officer – as they were in civilian 平民衣服 clothing 便衣 (plain clothes) (mufti [ˈmʌfti] 便服 an expert on Islamic religious law. in mufti wearing ordinary clothes instead of your uniform. civilian [sɪˈvɪljən] I. (非军人的)平民. 老百姓. someone who does not belong to the military or the police. In a military situation, a civilian is anyone who is not a member of the armed forces. The safety of civilians caught up in the fighting must be guaranteed. The safety of civilians caught up in the fighting must be guaranteed. ...the country's civilian population. ...civilian casualties. ...a soldier in civilian clothes. Over 700 civilians died as a direct result of the bombings. II. humorousa term 路人. 大众. 平民. 普通民众. used by famous people, especially actors, to refer to people who are not famous. The Hollywood star revealed that he was glad he had married a civilian. civil [ˈsɪvəl] I. polite, especially in a formal way and without being friendly. He could barely bring himself to be civil 友好的 to them. II. 民事的. usually before noun relating to private legal disagreements between people, not criminal law. You use civil to describe the rights that people have within a society. ...a United Nations covenant on civil and political rights. I intend to sue him in civil court. He will begin civil proceedings this week. III. only before noun relating to the people of a country, especially when they are protesting or fighting about something. You use civil to describe events that happen within a country and that involve the different groups of people in it. Reports of civil unrest 民间的 continue to come in from the northern provinces. IV. 世俗的 only before noun relating to or done by the state, instead of by religious authorities. You use civil to describe things that are connected with the state rather than with a religion. They were married on August 9 in a civil ceremony in Venice. ...Jewish civil and religious law. We were married in a simple civil ceremony 非宗教的. V. usually before noun relating to or involving ordinary people, not the military. You use civil to describe people or things in a country that are not connected with its armed forces. ...the U.S. civil aviation 民用的 industry. civil aviation. rotary I. Rotary means turning or able to turn round a fixed point. ...turning linear into rotary motion. ...heavy-duty rotary blades. II. Rotary is used in the names of some machines that have parts that turn round a fixed point. ...a rotary engine. rotary = roundabout 环岛:
a circular area where three or more roads meet that you have to drive
around in one direction in order to get onto another road. The British
word is roundabout. Rotary Club 扶轮社. 扶轮俱乐部: a local club that is part of Rotary International, a charity whose members are business and professional people. wiki: Rotary International
is an international service organization whose stated purpose is to
bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide
humanitarian service and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.
It is a non-political and non-sectarian organization (non-partisan 无党派的, non-sectarian 无宗教派系差别的, 无宗教派别的 organization)
open to all people regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender,
or political preference. Rotarians usually gather weekly for breakfast,
lunch, or dinner to fulfill their first guiding principle to develop
friendships as an opportunity for service. "It is the duty of all
Rotarians," states their Manual of Procedure, "outside their clubs, to
be active as individuals in as many legally constituted groups and
organizations as possible to promote, not only in words but through
exemplary dedication, awareness of the dignity of all people and the
respect of the consequent human rights of the individual." The
Rotarian's primary motto is "Service Above Self"; its secondary motto is
"One profits most who serves best." secular [ˈsekjələr] 世俗的, 非宗教的 not religious, or not connected with religion. You use secular to describe things that have no connection with religion. He spoke about preserving the country as a secular state. ...secular and religious education. He was the first of the country’s secular rulers. religious and secular matters. They (jehovah's witness) consider secular 界外人士, 世俗的人 society ( [ˈsekjələr] not religious, or not connected with religion. He was the first of the country's secular rulers. religious and secular matters. ) to be morally corrupt and under the influence of Satan, and most limit their social interaction with non-Witnesses. sectarian [sekˈteriən] 宗教派系的, 宗教间的, 宗教争端的, 宗教方面的
I. caused by disagreements among people from different religious
groups. Sectarian means resulting from the differences between different
religions. He was the fifth person to
be killed in sectarian violence. The police said the murder was
sectarian. ...both sides of the sectarian divide. sectarian violence/killing/hatred etc.: Sectarian violence poses a real threat to the stability of the country. II. taking one side of an argument or disagreement and not seriously considering any other. The pattern of voting was purely sectarian.),'' he said. clothes [kləʊðz; sometimes: kləʊz 等于close的发音] 衣服 VS clothing [ˈkləʊðɪŋ] 服饰, 衣物: 'Clothes' is a plural noun, used to refer to the garments that you wear. Trousers, shirts, dresses and socks are all clothes. 'Clothing' is an uncountable noun that has the same meaning as 'clothes', but it is used in more general and less personal contexts, such as business and industry. For example, you might say that someone works 'in the clothing industry', or that people in a disaster zone urgently need medicine, food and clothing. Clothing is more formal than clothes and is used especially to mean 'a particular type of clothes'. There is no singular form of clothes or clothing: a piece/an item/an article of clothing is used to talk about one thing that you wear such as a dress or shirt. I think they're pretty much interchangeable these days, and you're not necessarily incorrect whichever you choose. But typically "clothes" is used to refer to specific items while "clothing" refers to garments in general. I'd say "I packed my clothes," or "She's wearing her new clothes," but "Your clothing should always be appropriate." My husband, on the other hand, would say "clothing" for all three. That's just his habit. 2. savage [sævɪdʒ] adj. 野蛮的 Someone or something that is savage is extremely cruel, violent, and uncontrolled. This was a savage attack on a defenceless young girl. ...the savage wave of violence that swept the country in November 1987. ...a savage dog lunging at the end of a chain. noun. 野蛮人. If you refer to people as savages, you dislike them because you think that they do not have an advanced society and are violent. [disapproval] ...their conviction that the area was a frozen desert peopled with uncouth savages. verb. I. If someone is savaged by a dog or other animal, the animal attacks them violently. The animal then turned on him and he was savaged 疯咬 to death. II. If someone or something that they have done is savaged by another person, that person criticizes them severely. The show had already been savaged by critics. Speakers called for clearer direction and savaged 批评 the Chancellor. salvage [sælvɪdʒ] verb I. 抢救. 抢救出. If something is salvaged, someone manages to save it, for example from a ship that has sunk, or from a building that has been damaged. The team's first task was to decide what equipment could be salvaged. The investigators studied flight recorders salvaged from the wreckage. II. If you manage to salvage a difficult situation, you manage to get something useful from it so that it is not a complete failure. Officials tried to salvage the situation 挽回局势. Diplomats are still hoping to salvage something from the meeting. III. If you salvage something such as your pride or your reputation 挽回脸面, 挽回名声, you manage to keep it even though it seems likely you will lose it, or you get it back after losing it. We definitely wanted to salvage some pride for British tennis. She was lucky to be able to salvage her career. noun. I. The salvage from somewhere such as a damaged ship or building is the things that are saved from it. They climbed up on the rock with their salvage. II. Salvage is the act of salvaging things from somewhere such as a damaged ship or building. The salvage operation went on. ...the cost of salvage.
Big Bang Theory: Howard, come back! Victory! Son of a bitch. You're a sucky friend, you know that? A sucky, sucky friend. What was I supposed to do? She gave me that come-hither look. If she gave you any look at all, it was a you-suck look. I would've caught up to 追上, 赶上 her if I hadn't pulled a hammy ( pulled a hamstring = hamstring strain A man loses a competition and says as an excuse : "this one doesn't count, my real partner pulled a hammie (or "hammy", I'm not sure"). 大腿肌肉拉伤: The hamstrings are a collection of three muscles located in the back of the thigh that are responsible for bending, or flexing, the knee. A pulled hamstring 大腿筋 is a strain of one or more of the hamstring muscles. Muscle fibers of the hamstring can become strained or torn during running, kicking, or even walking down steps. When a hamstring muscle is pulled, the muscle fibers are abruptly stretched. Depending on the severity of the strain injury, the muscle can actually tear and many people can hear and feel an audible "pop" when the muscle is damaged. The hamstring pull may occur anywhere along the muscle tendon 肌腱 (ligament 韧带) anatomy, however it most commonly occurs in the middle of the hamstring muscle. ). Oh, please, you weigh 80 pounds, you don't have a hammy. So Penny doesn't want me around her friends. I embarrass her. What else? Well, her actions could be out of concern for your feelings. Perhaps she's excluded you from these gatherings because she's scouting 寻找 for 搜寻 a new mate and doesn't wanna do it in front of you. Oh, how kind of her. Agreed. Most primates don't show that sort of discretion [ dɪˈskreʃ(ə)n] (I. careful and sensitive behavior that does not upset or offend people. The investigation will be carried out with the utmost discretion. II. the right or ability to make a judgment or decision. exercise/use discretion: Teachers must be allowed to exercise their own discretion in choosing suitable classroom materials. at someone's discretion (=according to someone's judgment or decision): Stores will exchange unwanted goods entirely at their discretion.). A female bonobo will copulate with a new male in front of the old one without so much as a, "How do you do?" You always do this. Ditch me for a woman you don't have a shot 没可能的, 没机会的 with. 2. Looking left, he's got nothing. He drops off a screen, out of bounds--Okay, a completed pass. First down, New England. I think I'm starting to get this 开始理解, 开始明白, 开始掌握. Really? The only thing I've learned is that American men love drinking beer, pee too often, and have trouble getting erections. Focus on the game, not the commercials, Raj. If people cut back on the beer, you could get out the bathroom and satisfy your women without pharmaceutical help. Raj, what are you doing here? You were supposed to help me pimp out my Vespa. Are you under the impression that we're still friends? Ugh. Come on, you're not still grinding on 还没好气, 还在生气 the kite thing( grind on 没玩没了的, 无休无止的 continue for a long time in a wearying or tedious way. if something boring or unpleasant grinds on, it continues happening for a long period of time. If you say that something grinds on, you disapprove of the fact that it continues to happen in the same way for a long time. The war has been grinding on for years."the rail talks grind on". ), are you? It's not just the kite thing. Every time we go someplace, you dump me whenever someone pretty comes even though you don't have a shot. I had a shot with that jogger. 3. What're you doing here? This is a restaurant. It's lunchtime. I'd think as a waitress you'd be familiar with the paradigm ( I. formal a set of ideas that are used for understanding or explaining something, especially in a particular subject. a cultural/scientific paradigm. II. formal a typical example or model of something. The West used to be the paradigm 典型 of economic success. III. linguistics the complete set of the different forms of a word, for example student, student's, students, and students'. ). Is Leonard coming? No. I believe Leonard is waiting for you to come back to him and apologize. Well, that's not gonna happen. I assumed that. Hence my true purpose in coming here. Which is? I want you to crawl back to him and apologize. I'm busy. Excuse me, miss. I'd like to order lunch. Fine. What do you want? I have a few questions. First, I notice that you offer soup and a half sandwich. Yes. Where exactly does the half-sandwich come from? Are you giving me half of someone else's sandwich? Or do I have to wait for someone else to order the other half? No. Sheldon, they just make a half sandwich. You can't make a half sandwich. If it's not half of a whole sandwich, it's just a small sandwich. Okay, fine. It's soup and a small sandwich. Is that what you want? Of course not. I'll have my usual 通常的. Great. Aren't you gonna ask if I want a beverage? Usually lemonade? Yes. Want lemonade? Yes. 4. cogent [ˈkəʊdʒ(ə)nt] 有说服力的, 有理有据的 adj. (of an argument or case) clear, logical, and convincing. a cogent argument is reasonable and sensible. A cogent reason, argument, or example is strong and convincing. There were perfectly cogent 说得通的, 有理的 reasons why Julian Cavendish should be told of the Major's impending return. The film makes its points with cogency and force. The authors argue cogently that it is high time the church lost its obsession with the subject. "they put forward cogent arguments for British membership". How may I help you? I've reconsidered your offer to let me work with you. For me. Yes, for you. I do, however, have a few conditions. First, at all times, I am to be treated as a colleague and an equal. Second, my contributions shall be noted in published materials. Third, you are never allowed to lecture me on Hinduism or my Indian culture. I'm impressed, Raj. Those are very cogent and reasonable 说理的, 合理的, 有道理的, 讲理的 conditions. Thank you. I reject them all. 5. I usually go back to Nebraska for Thanksgiving. This year, they're calling it off on account of my brother's trial. What's he on trial for? Oh, just a big misunderstanding. You know, you'd like my brother. He's kind of a chemist. I was thinking I'd have Thanksgiving here. And you are all invited. Oh, I'll be there. Will you be serving cranberry jelly or cranberry sauce? I guess I could serve both. You guess? You don't seem to have much of a handle on this( have/get a handle on something to understand something well I soon began to get a handle on the new software. ). Yeah, I really wish I could, Penny, but every year my mother has all the relatives over and cooks up her famous tur-briska-fil. Tur-briska-fil? A turkey stuffed with a brisket stuffed with gefilte fish. It's not as good as it sounds. 6. Kites ho! Kites ho! Kites ho! [IN UNISON 齐声说.] Kites ho! Excuse me. You're misusing the word "ho. " It's an interjection used to call attention to a destination, not an object. As in, uh, "Land ho! (land, ho! used on a ship for saying that you have seen land. ho I. something you say to get someone's attention. II. used for showing that you think something is surprising or slightly funny. Ho, what happened there? III. an exclamation used to attract attention, announce a destination, etc. what ho! land ho! westward ho!)" or, uh, "Westward ho!" Kites ho! Hey, guys. What are you doing? Going out to discover electricity? If you refer to 如果你说的是, 如果你是指, 如果你想说的是 the work of Benjamin Franklin, he did not discover electricity. He merely used a kite to determine that lightning consists of electricity. He also invented the Franklin stove, bifocals and the flexible urinary catheter. Kites ho. We're heading out for some kite fighting. Kite fighting? Oh, yeah. It's an extremely competitive, cutthroat sport. Well, actually, the risk of throat-cutting is very low. On the other hand, severe string burn 勒手, 勒到手 ( A friction burn is a form of abrasion 擦伤 caused by the friction of skin rubbing against a surface. A friction burn may also be referred to as skinning, chafing [tʃeɪf], or a term named for the surface causing the burn such as rope burn, string burn, carpet burn or rug burn. Because friction generates heat, extreme cases of chafing may result in genuine burning of the outer layers of skin. A person's own skin (or the skin of another person) may be sufficient to act as an abrasive surface to cause friction burn. More commonly, friction with abrasive surfaces, including clothing, carpet, or rope, can lead to a friction burn. Common places at which skin-to-skin chafing can occur are between the thighs and under the armpits. Friction burns are very common with clothing such as trousers on the knees caused by playing sport or sliding on wooden surfaces. Less dangerous friction burns can occur frequently on sensitive skin surfaces such as the genitals, such as during sexual intercourse or masturbation. A rope burn is a type of friction burn. It's caused by the rapid or repeated movement of coarse rope rubbing against skin. This abrades the skin, resulting in: redness, irritation blisters. bleeding. Rope burns can be superficial, meaning they only affect the top layers of skin. Though less likely, they can be deep, going through the dermis layer and exposing bone.) is a real and ever-present 永远存在的 danger. Uh, you wanna come watch? Oh, gee, ha, sounds amazing. But, um, I've got some friends coming over. We're just gonna watch the Nebraska game. Oh, football, sure. Good guess. I would've invited you, but you're not a fan. No. No, I'm not. So, great. You've got plans doing something you like I've got plans doing something I like, so it's good. Maybe we'll hang out after everybody's gone. cut-throat 竞争激烈, 竞争残酷 a cut-throat activity or business involves people competing with each other in an unpleasant way. If you describe a situation as cut-throat, you mean that the people or companies involved all want success and do not care if they harm each other in getting it. competing in a strong and unfair way, without considering any harm caused to others: a cut-throat business/market/world. Scrapping of price fixing legislation led to a cut-throat battle for supermarket customers. Many firms have fallen victim to cut-throat competition. ...cut-throat competition. ...the cut-throat world of international finance. Cut-throat competition is keeping prices low. the cut-throat world of advertising. "Cut throat competition is a door to cut throats to the root". used to describe the reason for consumer protection regulation, labour law, and enforcement of competition law or antitrust, in the late 19th and early 20th century. In economics, cut throat competition is also referred to as ruinous ( [ˈruːɪnəs] I. causing severe damage or loss. The repair costs were potentially ruinous. II.formal severely damaged a ruinous castle. I. If you describe the cost of something as ruinous, you mean that it costs far more money than you can afford or than is reasonable. Many Britons will still fear the potentially ruinous costs of their legal system. ...a ruinously expensive court case. II. A ruinous process or course of action is one that is likely to lead to ruin. The economy of the state is experiencing the ruinous effects of the conflict.), excessive or unfettered 没有禁锢的, 没有禁忌的, 百无禁忌的, 随心所欲的, 没底线的. 没有限制的 ( [ʌnˈfetərd] without limits or controls. If you describe something as unfettered, you mean that it is not controlled or limited by anyone or anything. ...unfettered free trade. Unfettered by the bounds of reality, my imagination flourished. He demanded unfettered access to a new nuclear facility. fetter 被限制 verb If you say that you are fettered by something, you dislike it because it prevents you from behaving or moving in a free and natural way. [literary, disapproval] ...a private trust which would not be fettered by bureaucracy. The black mud fettered her movements. fetter 禁锢 束缚, noun I. You can use fetters to refer to things such as rules, traditions, or responsibilities that you dislike because they prevent you from behaving in the way you want. [literary, disapproval] ...the fetters of social convention. II. Especially in former times, fetters were chains for a prisoner's feet. He saw a boy in fetters in the dungeons. ) competition. More generally, cut throat competition is also subsumed ( subsume [səbˈsum] 归纳为 to include something in a larger group and cause it to lose its own individual character. The new treaty subsumes all past agreements. be subsumed by/under/within/into something: Art courses have been subsumed under the Humanities Department. If something is subsumed within a larger group or class, it is included within it, rather than being considered as something separate. Small family firms were subsumed into the huge investment banks. ...years of repression in which civil society was subsumed by the State.) under the term "destructive 破坏性竞争 competition". 7. Buying me something pretty isn't gonna make our problem just go away. Look, I admit I haven't always been the best friend I could be. You've been a sucky friend. A sucky, sucky friend. Stipulated. And you do it all the time. Last week, we were looking for a phone with giant numbers for your mother and I realize you're not even there. I know. And where were you? Getting shot down by the girl at Hot Dog on a Stick. But in my defense, she was gorgeous. And working that squeezer to make the lemonade going up and down and up and down. It was like a free pole dance right in the middle of the food court. You're impossible. Hey, at least I can talk to women without being drunk. Excuse me, I have selective mutism, a recognized medical disorder. You're just a douche. stipulate 注明, 说明, 明说 To stipulate something means to demand that it be part of an agreement. So when you make a contract or deal, you can stipulate that a certain condition must be met. Anytime you draw up a legal agreement, you can stipulate a requirement that has to be met for that agreement to be complete. This stipulation might put some sort of limit on the agreement. For example, if you run a fencing company and offer a sale, you can stipulate that to get the sale price, the fence must be ordered by a certain date. Your customer, in turn, might stipulate that the work must be finished before the ground freezes. If you stipulate a condition or stipulate that something must be done, you say clearly that it must be done. She could have stipulated that she would pay when she collected the computer. International rules stipulate the number of foreign entrants. Clifford's only stipulation is that his clients obey his advice. The regulations stipulate the maximum number of children allowed in a class. The constitution stipulates that a new President must be elected every four years. We sometimes need to complete work in stipulated time. 8. That's intentional 故意的 grounding. Totally. Yeah. That completely was a forward pass which they threw intentionally incomplete to avoid loss of yardage or to conserve time 浪费时间. I can't believe they're not penalized with the loss of a down and by having to move the line of scrimmage back to the spot of the foul. penalize [ˈpiːn(ə)lʌɪz] I. subject to a penalty or punishment. "high-spending councils will be penalized". II. put at an unfair disadvantage. "if the bill is not amended genuine claimants will be penalized". to punish someone for breaking a rule or law penalize someone for (doing) something: The company could be penalized $10,000 for each environmental violation. a. to punish a sports team or player by giving an advantage to the other team or player. III. to treat someone in an unfair way and make them have a disadvantage. penalize someone for (doing) something: Women should not be penalized financially for looking after their children. If a person or group is penalized for something, they are made to suffer in some way because of it. Some of the players may, on occasion, break the rules and be penalized. Use of the car is penalized by increasing the fares of parking lots. Bad teaching is not penalized in a formal way.
Big Bang Theory: Howard, come back! Victory! Son of a bitch. You're a sucky friend, you know that? A sucky, sucky friend. What was I supposed to do? She gave me that come-hither look. If she gave you any look at all, it was a you-suck look. I would've caught up to 追上, 赶上 her if I hadn't pulled a hammy ( pulled a hamstring = hamstring strain A man loses a competition and says as an excuse : "this one doesn't count, my real partner pulled a hammie (or "hammy", I'm not sure"). 大腿肌肉拉伤: The hamstrings are a collection of three muscles located in the back of the thigh that are responsible for bending, or flexing, the knee. A pulled hamstring 大腿筋 is a strain of one or more of the hamstring muscles. Muscle fibers of the hamstring can become strained or torn during running, kicking, or even walking down steps. When a hamstring muscle is pulled, the muscle fibers are abruptly stretched. Depending on the severity of the strain injury, the muscle can actually tear and many people can hear and feel an audible "pop" when the muscle is damaged. The hamstring pull may occur anywhere along the muscle tendon 肌腱 (ligament 韧带) anatomy, however it most commonly occurs in the middle of the hamstring muscle. ). Oh, please, you weigh 80 pounds, you don't have a hammy. So Penny doesn't want me around her friends. I embarrass her. What else? Well, her actions could be out of concern for your feelings. Perhaps she's excluded you from these gatherings because she's scouting 寻找 for 搜寻 a new mate and doesn't wanna do it in front of you. Oh, how kind of her. Agreed. Most primates don't show that sort of discretion [ dɪˈskreʃ(ə)n] (I. careful and sensitive behavior that does not upset or offend people. The investigation will be carried out with the utmost discretion. II. the right or ability to make a judgment or decision. exercise/use discretion: Teachers must be allowed to exercise their own discretion in choosing suitable classroom materials. at someone's discretion (=according to someone's judgment or decision): Stores will exchange unwanted goods entirely at their discretion.). A female bonobo will copulate with a new male in front of the old one without so much as a, "How do you do?" You always do this. Ditch me for a woman you don't have a shot 没可能的, 没机会的 with. 2. Looking left, he's got nothing. He drops off a screen, out of bounds--Okay, a completed pass. First down, New England. I think I'm starting to get this 开始理解, 开始明白, 开始掌握. Really? The only thing I've learned is that American men love drinking beer, pee too often, and have trouble getting erections. Focus on the game, not the commercials, Raj. If people cut back on the beer, you could get out the bathroom and satisfy your women without pharmaceutical help. Raj, what are you doing here? You were supposed to help me pimp out my Vespa. Are you under the impression that we're still friends? Ugh. Come on, you're not still grinding on 还没好气, 还在生气 the kite thing( grind on 没玩没了的, 无休无止的 continue for a long time in a wearying or tedious way. if something boring or unpleasant grinds on, it continues happening for a long period of time. If you say that something grinds on, you disapprove of the fact that it continues to happen in the same way for a long time. The war has been grinding on for years."the rail talks grind on". ), are you? It's not just the kite thing. Every time we go someplace, you dump me whenever someone pretty comes even though you don't have a shot. I had a shot with that jogger. 3. What're you doing here? This is a restaurant. It's lunchtime. I'd think as a waitress you'd be familiar with the paradigm ( I. formal a set of ideas that are used for understanding or explaining something, especially in a particular subject. a cultural/scientific paradigm. II. formal a typical example or model of something. The West used to be the paradigm 典型 of economic success. III. linguistics the complete set of the different forms of a word, for example student, student's, students, and students'. ). Is Leonard coming? No. I believe Leonard is waiting for you to come back to him and apologize. Well, that's not gonna happen. I assumed that. Hence my true purpose in coming here. Which is? I want you to crawl back to him and apologize. I'm busy. Excuse me, miss. I'd like to order lunch. Fine. What do you want? I have a few questions. First, I notice that you offer soup and a half sandwich. Yes. Where exactly does the half-sandwich come from? Are you giving me half of someone else's sandwich? Or do I have to wait for someone else to order the other half? No. Sheldon, they just make a half sandwich. You can't make a half sandwich. If it's not half of a whole sandwich, it's just a small sandwich. Okay, fine. It's soup and a small sandwich. Is that what you want? Of course not. I'll have my usual 通常的. Great. Aren't you gonna ask if I want a beverage? Usually lemonade? Yes. Want lemonade? Yes. 4. cogent [ˈkəʊdʒ(ə)nt] 有说服力的, 有理有据的 adj. (of an argument or case) clear, logical, and convincing. a cogent argument is reasonable and sensible. A cogent reason, argument, or example is strong and convincing. There were perfectly cogent 说得通的, 有理的 reasons why Julian Cavendish should be told of the Major's impending return. The film makes its points with cogency and force. The authors argue cogently that it is high time the church lost its obsession with the subject. "they put forward cogent arguments for British membership". How may I help you? I've reconsidered your offer to let me work with you. For me. Yes, for you. I do, however, have a few conditions. First, at all times, I am to be treated as a colleague and an equal. Second, my contributions shall be noted in published materials. Third, you are never allowed to lecture me on Hinduism or my Indian culture. I'm impressed, Raj. Those are very cogent and reasonable 说理的, 合理的, 有道理的, 讲理的 conditions. Thank you. I reject them all. 5. I usually go back to Nebraska for Thanksgiving. This year, they're calling it off on account of my brother's trial. What's he on trial for? Oh, just a big misunderstanding. You know, you'd like my brother. He's kind of a chemist. I was thinking I'd have Thanksgiving here. And you are all invited. Oh, I'll be there. Will you be serving cranberry jelly or cranberry sauce? I guess I could serve both. You guess? You don't seem to have much of a handle on this( have/get a handle on something to understand something well I soon began to get a handle on the new software. ). Yeah, I really wish I could, Penny, but every year my mother has all the relatives over and cooks up her famous tur-briska-fil. Tur-briska-fil? A turkey stuffed with a brisket stuffed with gefilte fish. It's not as good as it sounds. 6. Kites ho! Kites ho! Kites ho! [IN UNISON 齐声说.] Kites ho! Excuse me. You're misusing the word "ho. " It's an interjection used to call attention to a destination, not an object. As in, uh, "Land ho! (land, ho! used on a ship for saying that you have seen land. ho I. something you say to get someone's attention. II. used for showing that you think something is surprising or slightly funny. Ho, what happened there? III. an exclamation used to attract attention, announce a destination, etc. what ho! land ho! westward ho!)" or, uh, "Westward ho!" Kites ho! Hey, guys. What are you doing? Going out to discover electricity? If you refer to 如果你说的是, 如果你是指, 如果你想说的是 the work of Benjamin Franklin, he did not discover electricity. He merely used a kite to determine that lightning consists of electricity. He also invented the Franklin stove, bifocals and the flexible urinary catheter. Kites ho. We're heading out for some kite fighting. Kite fighting? Oh, yeah. It's an extremely competitive, cutthroat sport. Well, actually, the risk of throat-cutting is very low. On the other hand, severe string burn 勒手, 勒到手 ( A friction burn is a form of abrasion 擦伤 caused by the friction of skin rubbing against a surface. A friction burn may also be referred to as skinning, chafing [tʃeɪf], or a term named for the surface causing the burn such as rope burn, string burn, carpet burn or rug burn. Because friction generates heat, extreme cases of chafing may result in genuine burning of the outer layers of skin. A person's own skin (or the skin of another person) may be sufficient to act as an abrasive surface to cause friction burn. More commonly, friction with abrasive surfaces, including clothing, carpet, or rope, can lead to a friction burn. Common places at which skin-to-skin chafing can occur are between the thighs and under the armpits. Friction burns are very common with clothing such as trousers on the knees caused by playing sport or sliding on wooden surfaces. Less dangerous friction burns can occur frequently on sensitive skin surfaces such as the genitals, such as during sexual intercourse or masturbation. A rope burn is a type of friction burn. It's caused by the rapid or repeated movement of coarse rope rubbing against skin. This abrades the skin, resulting in: redness, irritation blisters. bleeding. Rope burns can be superficial, meaning they only affect the top layers of skin. Though less likely, they can be deep, going through the dermis layer and exposing bone.) is a real and ever-present 永远存在的 danger. Uh, you wanna come watch? Oh, gee, ha, sounds amazing. But, um, I've got some friends coming over. We're just gonna watch the Nebraska game. Oh, football, sure. Good guess. I would've invited you, but you're not a fan. No. No, I'm not. So, great. You've got plans doing something you like I've got plans doing something I like, so it's good. Maybe we'll hang out after everybody's gone. cut-throat 竞争激烈, 竞争残酷 a cut-throat activity or business involves people competing with each other in an unpleasant way. If you describe a situation as cut-throat, you mean that the people or companies involved all want success and do not care if they harm each other in getting it. competing in a strong and unfair way, without considering any harm caused to others: a cut-throat business/market/world. Scrapping of price fixing legislation led to a cut-throat battle for supermarket customers. Many firms have fallen victim to cut-throat competition. ...cut-throat competition. ...the cut-throat world of international finance. Cut-throat competition is keeping prices low. the cut-throat world of advertising. "Cut throat competition is a door to cut throats to the root". used to describe the reason for consumer protection regulation, labour law, and enforcement of competition law or antitrust, in the late 19th and early 20th century. In economics, cut throat competition is also referred to as ruinous ( [ˈruːɪnəs] I. causing severe damage or loss. The repair costs were potentially ruinous. II.formal severely damaged a ruinous castle. I. If you describe the cost of something as ruinous, you mean that it costs far more money than you can afford or than is reasonable. Many Britons will still fear the potentially ruinous costs of their legal system. ...a ruinously expensive court case. II. A ruinous process or course of action is one that is likely to lead to ruin. The economy of the state is experiencing the ruinous effects of the conflict.), excessive or unfettered 没有禁锢的, 没有禁忌的, 百无禁忌的, 随心所欲的, 没底线的. 没有限制的 ( [ʌnˈfetərd] without limits or controls. If you describe something as unfettered, you mean that it is not controlled or limited by anyone or anything. ...unfettered free trade. Unfettered by the bounds of reality, my imagination flourished. He demanded unfettered access to a new nuclear facility. fetter 被限制 verb If you say that you are fettered by something, you dislike it because it prevents you from behaving or moving in a free and natural way. [literary, disapproval] ...a private trust which would not be fettered by bureaucracy. The black mud fettered her movements. fetter 禁锢 束缚, noun I. You can use fetters to refer to things such as rules, traditions, or responsibilities that you dislike because they prevent you from behaving in the way you want. [literary, disapproval] ...the fetters of social convention. II. Especially in former times, fetters were chains for a prisoner's feet. He saw a boy in fetters in the dungeons. ) competition. More generally, cut throat competition is also subsumed ( subsume [səbˈsum] 归纳为 to include something in a larger group and cause it to lose its own individual character. The new treaty subsumes all past agreements. be subsumed by/under/within/into something: Art courses have been subsumed under the Humanities Department. If something is subsumed within a larger group or class, it is included within it, rather than being considered as something separate. Small family firms were subsumed into the huge investment banks. ...years of repression in which civil society was subsumed by the State.) under the term "destructive 破坏性竞争 competition". 7. Buying me something pretty isn't gonna make our problem just go away. Look, I admit I haven't always been the best friend I could be. You've been a sucky friend. A sucky, sucky friend. Stipulated. And you do it all the time. Last week, we were looking for a phone with giant numbers for your mother and I realize you're not even there. I know. And where were you? Getting shot down by the girl at Hot Dog on a Stick. But in my defense, she was gorgeous. And working that squeezer to make the lemonade going up and down and up and down. It was like a free pole dance right in the middle of the food court. You're impossible. Hey, at least I can talk to women without being drunk. Excuse me, I have selective mutism, a recognized medical disorder. You're just a douche. stipulate 注明, 说明, 明说 To stipulate something means to demand that it be part of an agreement. So when you make a contract or deal, you can stipulate that a certain condition must be met. Anytime you draw up a legal agreement, you can stipulate a requirement that has to be met for that agreement to be complete. This stipulation might put some sort of limit on the agreement. For example, if you run a fencing company and offer a sale, you can stipulate that to get the sale price, the fence must be ordered by a certain date. Your customer, in turn, might stipulate that the work must be finished before the ground freezes. If you stipulate a condition or stipulate that something must be done, you say clearly that it must be done. She could have stipulated that she would pay when she collected the computer. International rules stipulate the number of foreign entrants. Clifford's only stipulation is that his clients obey his advice. The regulations stipulate the maximum number of children allowed in a class. The constitution stipulates that a new President must be elected every four years. We sometimes need to complete work in stipulated time. 8. That's intentional 故意的 grounding. Totally. Yeah. That completely was a forward pass which they threw intentionally incomplete to avoid loss of yardage or to conserve time 浪费时间. I can't believe they're not penalized with the loss of a down and by having to move the line of scrimmage back to the spot of the foul. penalize [ˈpiːn(ə)lʌɪz] I. subject to a penalty or punishment. "high-spending councils will be penalized". II. put at an unfair disadvantage. "if the bill is not amended genuine claimants will be penalized". to punish someone for breaking a rule or law penalize someone for (doing) something: The company could be penalized $10,000 for each environmental violation. a. to punish a sports team or player by giving an advantage to the other team or player. III. to treat someone in an unfair way and make them have a disadvantage. penalize someone for (doing) something: Women should not be penalized financially for looking after their children. If a person or group is penalized for something, they are made to suffer in some way because of it. Some of the players may, on occasion, break the rules and be penalized. Use of the car is penalized by increasing the fares of parking lots. Bad teaching is not penalized in a formal way.
Saturday, 1 February 2020
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用法学习: 1. Dixie Chicks: Lipton, who had signed on as full sponsor of the Dixie Chicks tour, was barraged with complaints from consumers threatening to boycott their products (along with those of their parent co-sponsors, Unilever and Pepsi). Lipton fully honored ( I. to show your respect or admiration for someone, especially by giving them a prize or title, or by praising them publicly. She will be honored for her work in promoting friendship between the two countries. We are here today to honor the men and women who gave their lives for their country. II. to do what you said you would do or what you promised to do. honor a promise/pledge/commitment: The government will honor its promise to give this land back to the Native Americans. honor a contract/agreement: Once a contract has been signed, it has to be honored. honor a check/credit card if a bank honors a check or a store honors a credit card, they accept the check or credit card as if it were money. dignify 长脸 to make something or someone seem more important than they really are. If you say that a particular reaction or description dignifies something you have a low opinion of, you mean that it makes it appear acceptable. I'm not going to dignify that with a response 懒得理你, 懒得回答. We won't dignify this kind of speculation with a comment. It was a technique later dignified by the term 'info-tainment'. I won't dignify his abuse by reacting to it. have the decency to
If you say that someone did not have the decency to do something, you
are criticizing them because there was a particular action which they
did not do but which you believe they ought to have done. Nobody had the decency to inform me of what was planned. She didn't even have the decency to apologize. the decencies UK old-fashioned the acceptable or expected ways of doing something: I hate going to funerals, but you must observe the decencies (= it is something you should do). glory [ˈɡlɔri] I. admiration and praise that you get because you have done something impressive. He is at the height of his fame and glory. bask in the glory of something (=enjoy it): The studio is still basking in the glory of its 14 Oscar nominations. reflected glory (=glory because of someone else's success): She enjoyed the reflected glory of her daughter's fame. get (all) the glory: I did the hard work and someone else got all the glory. II. a good quality that makes you admire someone or something. glory of: The town meeting is one of the glories of New England. III. great beauty. It will cost millions of dollars to restore the mansion to its former glory. IV. praise that you give when you worship God. in all its/their etc. glory looking very beautiful or impressive. The road to the west reveals the forest in all its glory. glorify [ˈɡlɔrəˌfaɪ] I. to make someone or something seem more impressive than they really are. Politicians have complained that the media constantly glorify drugs. II. literary to praise someone. Her sole purpose in life was to honor and glorify God. ) its sponsorship and financial commitment to the Dixie Chicks, but had to readjust specific local aspects of the sponsorship activation where research polls determined that public sentiment was particularly damaging. In one famous anti-Dixie Chicks display, former fans were encouraged to bring their CDs to a demonstration at which they would be crushed by a bulldozer. One exception to the list of Dixie Chicks opponents 对手, 敌手 was country musician and vociferous ( [voʊˈsɪfərəs] I. someone who is vociferous expresses their opinion loudly and with force. II. a vociferous opinion, reply, protest, etc. is expressed loudly and with force. ) Iraq war opponent Merle Haggard, who in the summer of 2003 released a song critical of U.S. media coverage of the Iraq War. On July 25, 2003, the Associated Press reported him saying: I don't even know the Dixie Chicks, but I find it an insult for all the men and women who fought and died in past wars when almost the majority of America jumped down their throats for simply voicing an opinion. It was like a verbal witch-hunt and lynching. jump down someone's throat to suddenly speak very angrily to someone, in a way that seems unfair. to react angrily to something that someone says or does: I made the mildest of criticisms and he jumped down my throat. 2. a figment of your imagination something that you have imagined or invented and therefore does not really exist. If you say that something is a figment of someone's imagination, you mean that it does not really exist and that they are just imagining it. The attack wasn't just a figment of my imagination. Otherwise, it's lonely up there. Even the man she says she's seeing is a figment in this movie, cropped from images, a hand-holding blur, a ghost. perturbed [pərˈtɜrbd] worried or upset by something. If someone is perturbed by something, they are worried by it. He apparently was not perturbed by the prospect of a police officer coming to call. She was really quite perturbed at the prospect. William looked more than a little perturbed at the suggestion. On Grammy nomination day in the winter of 2018, a camera watches from a low angle as Swift sits in sweats alone on a sofa and hears from her publicist that her perturbed sixth album, "Reputation," has been omitted from three of the big categories. She's stoic = stoical 逆来顺受的 ( [ˈstoʊɪk] someone who accepts things without complaining. If you say that someone is a stoic, you approve of them because they do not complain or show they are upset in bad situations. They tried to be as stoic as their parents in this tragic situation.). She's almost palpably hurt. But Swift's songwriting treats hurt as an elastic instrument, and she resolves in that moment of snubbing, "I just need to make a better record." And the movie watches as she writes and records "Lover," another album eventually rejected by the string-pullers at the Grammys. Along the way, Swift does a lot of ruminating 反思, 沉思 ( [ˈrumɪˌneɪt] I. formal to think about or discuss something very carefully. He ruminated on the terrible wastage that typified American life. Obsessional personalities commonly ruminate excessively about death. ruminate on something: In the article, Alex Ross ruminates on the differences between live and studio recordings. II. 反刍 biology if an animal ruminates, it brings food back from its stomach into its mouth and chews it (=breaks it into small pieces with its teeth) a second time. ) and recounting, a lot of arguing and apologizing on her own behalf. She's rueful 遗憾地, 后悔地, 懊悔的 ( [ˈruf(ə)l] showing that you are sorry about something. If someone is rueful, they feel or express regret or sorrow in a quiet and gentle way. He shook his head and gave me a rueful smile. 'Our marriage was a mistake,' she said, looking rueful. ) about sitting out the 2016 presidential election and failing to mobilize her millions of fans and followers against Donald Trump's candidacy. So "Miss Americana" is also about an apolitical star waking up to herself 觉醒 as a woman and a citizen. She wants to spend her "good girl" credit to decry the scorched-earth-conservative Senate campaign that Marsha Blackburn was running in Tennessee, Swift's adopted home. Her management team deems this unwise. The team, at that symbolic point, is two slouchy ( slouchy lazy. slouch [slaʊtʃ] to sit, walk, or stand with your shoulders bent forward and your head low so that you look lazy. Don't slouch – stand up straight. be no slouch to be very good at something She was a great swimmer and no slouch on the tennis court.), old white men who counter their client's raging passion with financial and prehistoric umbrage ( [ˈʌmbrɪdʒ] take umbrage (at something) to be offended by something. If you say that a person takes umbrage, you mean that they are upset or offended by something that someone says or does to them, often without much reason. He takes umbrage against anyone who criticises him. They're liable to take umbrage if we don't invite them.). Bob Hope and Bing wouldn't let their politics dent ticket sales 50 percent. It's part of strong stretch of the movie that argues that Swift's own experience with a handsy (and consequently litigious 爱起诉的, 动不动就起诉的 ( [lɪˈtɪdʒəs] always ready to deal with disagreements by suing (=starting a legal case) rather than by discussion). litigate [lɪtɪgeɪt] 起诉 To litigate means to take legal action. ...the cost of litigating personal injury claims in the county court. If we have to litigate, we will. litigation [lɪtɪgeɪʃən] Litigation is the process of fighting or defending a case in a civil court of law. The settlement ends more than four years of litigation on behalf of the residents. vexatious litigant 起诉人 [vekˌseɪʃəs ˈlɪtɪɡənt] in England and Wales, someone who has often taken people to court in the past for no reason other than to cause annoyance. A person classified as a vexatious litigant has to get permission from a judge to start a new legal action. ) radio personality helped push her off the fence — a passage that culminates with the most stressful sending of an Instagram post you're likely to see from a star. vexation [vekseɪʃən] Vexation is a feeling of being annoyed, puzzled, and frustrated. He kicked the broken machine in vexation. And all she did that night was win. It‘s the winning, of course, that vexes 惹恼人, 惹火, 恼怒. vexatious [vekˈseɪʃəs] I. vexing. making you feel annoyed, confused, or worried. II. LEGAL vexatious legal action has no purpose other than to cause annoyance. 3. This guy adore her so much that they need her as an unwitting (unknowingly, being completely blindsided 没有被告知, 毫不知情) ( I. 无端被卷进来的, 无端卷入的. not conscious or deliberate. If you describe a person or their actions as unwitting, you mean that the person does something or is involved in something without realizing it. We're unwitting victims of the system. It had been an unwitting blunder on the Prime Minister's part. He was unwittingly caught up in the confrontation. II. used about someone who becomes involved in something without intending to. ) accessory to their surprise marriage proposal. We're supposed to call these people fans. But the ones who turn up here tend toward the most disturbing adulation ( [ˌædʒəˈleɪʃ(ə)n] great praise or admiration, especially for someone who is famous. Adulation is uncritical admiration and praise of someone or something. The book was received with adulation by critics. adulate [ˈædjʊˌleɪt] 无条件无底线的吹捧 to flatter or praise obsequiously. obsequious [əbˈsikwiəs] 溜须拍马的, 谄媚的 too eager to please someone, in a way that does not seem sincere. If you describe someone as obsequious, you are criticizing them because they are too eager to help or agree with someone more important than them. Perhaps your mother was very obsequious to doctors. He smiled and bowed obsequiously to Winger. His tone quickly changed from obsequiousness to outright anger. obsequious waiters. ). She tells the singer Brendon Urie that a man broke into her apartment and slept in her bed. Her departure that day from her fan-barnacled 沾满, 挂满 building leads her to ruminate, minutes later, about the toll that level of attention has taken on her psyche. 4. skol (UK) = skull (US) 一口干 It seems that when Tony Abbott downed a glass of beer in a Sydney pub, he triggered a discussion on the rights and wrongs of seeing our prime minister apparently encouraging binge drinking. A second conversation followed as to whether he had skolled or sculled his beer. In the 1980s the scull spelling would have been regarded as an ignorant respelling of skol based on pronunciation, but it appears to have settled in to the extent where most people would use the word to mean 'to consume (a drink) at one draught', as a synonym for knocking back a drink or chug-a-lugging it. While not exactly regarding it as a formal word, because the activity is inherently informal, they would not think that there was any problem with the scull spelling, or indeed necessarily relate it to skol. 5. calling card 名片. hepatitis [hepəˈtaɪtɪs] 肝炎 an infectious disease of the liver that can be very serious. tonsillitis [ˌtɑns(ə)lˈaɪtɪs] 扁桃体炎 an illness in which your tonsils become infected, swollen, and painful. trailer trash poor, lower-class white people, typified as living in mobile homes. Some people use trailer trash to refer to poor people who live in trailer parks and who they think are vulgar or worthless. This use could cause offence. "their parenting style has moved the family from upper-middle-class suburban to trailer trash in one generation". 通缉犯网上对于自己被通缉照片的评论: Let's calm down on the comments guys, it's not every day I look like trailer trash. Let's just say it wasn't a good angle. basket case I. someone who is extremely nervous or anxious and is therefore unable to organize their life. If you describe someone as a basket case, you think that they are insane. You're going to think I'm a basket case when I tell you this. By the end of the course I was a complete basket case. II. a country or company that is very unsuccessful financially. If someone describes a country or organization as a basket case, they mean that its economy or finances are in a seriously bad state. The country is an economic basket case with chronic unemployment and rampant 肆虐丛生的 crime. 20 years ago the country was an economic basket case. things are looking any better on the sprite. 6. What are you looking at him for? Hey, you think I could get that Sprite, Sean? Sure. Oh, I get it. You're the good cop. How about a meatball sub while you're at it? I ain't your bitch, Dave. Looks like you'll have to wait. Yeah, but you're someone's bitch, aren't you, Sean? The blood on your front seat, Dave. Answer the sergeant. We got a chainlink fence in our back yard. Me and my kid play Wiffle Ball every afternoon after school. He's getting good, so most of the balls are on the other side of the fence. So I climb it. Except I slip... ...slice 划破, 划伤 myself where the links curl in, right here. Bled like hell. Ten minutes later, I gotta pick up Michael at school. Probably was still bleeding when I got in the front seat. What blood type are you? B-negative. Things looking any better on 有没有进展 the Sprite, Sean? 7. Mystic River: 'Raymond Matthew Harris, born 9-6, 1957. First child, Brendan Seamus, born 1983.' Same year that Just Ray is indicted in a scam to embezzle 侵吞 subway tokens. Charges are dropped, and he's fired. Does odd jobs 零工, 散工 ( a casual or isolated piece of work, especially one of a routine domestic or manual nature. "he takes odd jobs, but nothing that would lead to a career") after that, including clerking at Looney Liquors. Questioned in that robbery. Questioned in another, same year, Blanchard Liquors... ...released on lack of evidence again. Beginning to become known, though. He's getting popular. 'A known associate, one Edmund Reese, fingers Raymond... ...in the 1985 heist of a rare comic-book collection.' Comic books? You go, Ray. Hey, excuse me, $150,000 worth of comic books. Oh, excuse me. 'Raymond returned said literature unharmed 完好无损的, 安然无恙的, 毫发无损的.' Does a year solid inside. Comes out with a chemical-dependency problem. Gets honest work 真正的工作, 正经的工作 to support the habit, though? Evidently not. Picked up in a joint MCU-FBI sting operation... ...trafficking stolen goods across state lines. Stole a truckload of cigarettes. The boy's got style 有范 ( It goes it's own way. Style is democratic. It's about each person creating their own unique identity in how they carry themselves, how they groom and what they put on. ... It shows others that you're a person of interest and that life is worth making the effort forBut you can't have style without taking risks. 例子: In Jeffery Archer's new mystery, "False Impression," there was the following conversation between senior FBI agent, Jack Delaney and his subordinate, Tom Crasanti, both of whom are pursuing after the heroine, Anne Petrescu who took a priceless "self-portrait of Van Gogh without an ear" out of the Art Location of the custom house of Heathrow Air Port, and ran away: "Where's Petrescu?" was Jack's first question. "She landed in Bucharest." "And the painting?" "She wheeled it out of customs on a baggage trolley," said Tom. "That woman's got style 好有范." "Agreed," said Tom, "but then perhaps she has no idea what's she's up against." "She has style" is a complementary idiom that usually means the woman did something "in her own unique way" or "in an unexpected way."). Got a boatload of grief too. Stole the truck in Rhode Island, drove it into Massachusetts. Hence, the federal interstate rap. Hence, they got him by the balls, but... ...he does no time. He rolled on someone 告发(rat someone out). Looks that way. After that, he's clean. August 1989, he disappears. One, he's dead, two, in Witness Protection. Three, he goes deep underground, then pops back up... ...to murder his son's 19-year-old girlfriend? We got nothing. A prime suspect in a robbery 18 years ago, during which the murder weapon was used. The guy's son dated the victim. I say we got a lot. Anything about Just Ray's known associates? Let's take a look. 8. So did Harris ever testify in open court? Never went. Markum dummied up on ( dummy up 拒绝交代, 装聋作哑, 只字未提, 没有供出 I. to say nothing. keep quiet; give no information. To suddenly stop talking; shut up. To suddenly stop talking or refuse to speak, typically due to a particular reason. Naturally, everyone dummied up as soon as the check came. Our usual informant dummied up when he realized there was a mole in the department. When he couldn't think of any more good lies, he just dummied up. Everyone was discussing the new teacher, but when she entered the room they all dummied up. II. To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality. The carpenters dummied up a set of simple props for the rehearsals.) the guys he was working with... ...DA was afraid he wouldn't be able to convict. So he cut a deal 达成交易. Two years inside, couple more suspended. So Jimmy Markum never knew that Ray Harris ratted him out? Ray Harris disappeared about two months... ...after Markum rotated back into the free world. What's that tell you? 9. you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar = honey catches more flies than vinegar It is easier to persuade others with polite requests and a positive attitude rather than with rude demands and negativity. You can win people to your side more easily by gentle persuasion and flattery than by hostile confrontation. 10. assiduous [əˈsɪdjʊəs] 工作认真细致的, 工作辛苦勤奋的 hard-working and thorough. Someone who is assiduous works hard or does things very thoroughly. ...an assiduous student. Podulski had been assiduous in learning his adopted language. They planned their careers and worked assiduously to see them achieved. imposing [ɪmˈpoʊzɪŋ] 惹人注意的, 吸引眼球的, 耀眼, 醒目的 large and impressive He was an imposing figure on stage. an imposing building. disarm I. to take weapons away from someone, or to give up weapons or armies: With one movement, she disarmed the man and pinned him against the wall. Many politicians argued that this was no time to disarm (= give up the country's weapons and army). Experts successfully managed to disarm the bomb 拆弹, 拆线 (= stop it from exploding). II. to make someone like you, especially when they had not expected to: His frankness completely disarmed 失去警惕, 放下警惕心, 放下戒心 her. to make someone feel less angry or unfriendly because of the way you behave or talk to them Interviewers are disarmed by her straightforward approach. mercurial [mərˈkjʊriəl] = moody, fickle = capricious = flighty 情绪多变的, 情绪化的, 一会儿一个样的 adj likely to change your mood or opinion unexpectedly. petty I. 微不足道的. 不值一提的. usually before nounnot important and not worth worrying about. He could be furious about the prettiest thing I'm not interested in their petty squabbles. Village life is full of gossip and petty jealousies. II. unpleasant to someone because you care too much about something that is not really important. It was a bit petty 睚眦必报的, 小家子气. 不大气, 不大方, 心胸狭小的, 心胸狭窄的 to make me apologize to everyone. III. only before noun minor. petty bureaucrats/officials. a petty criminal/thief/offender. 11. 致死率, 死亡率: death rate, fatality rate, mortality rate. The Wuhan coronavirus seems to have a low fatality rate, and most patients make full recoveries. Experts reveal why it's causing panic anyway. The pneumonia like virus, which originated in Wuhan, China, has infected more than 9,700 people and killed 213. So far, the virus does not seem to be as deadly as SARS, which killed 774 people from 2002 to 2003. SARS had a mortality rate of 9.6%, whereas about 2% of people infected with the new coronavirus have died. But the number of people infected after one month has already surpassed the SARS outbreak's eight-month total. Public-health experts say that for the most part, panic over the Wuhan coronavirus outside of China is unproductive and unwarranted. The public should take precautions to avoid getting sick, but the most effective preventative measures are everyday actions like increased handwashing and not touching your face. 12. Dog-whistle politics is political messaging employing coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has an additional, different, or more specific resonance for a targeted subgroup. The analogy is to a dog whistle, whose ultrasonic tone is heard by dogs but inaudible to humans. dog whistle used for referring to political messages that are aimed at particular groups and will only be fully understood by them. He's playing dog whistle politics and stoking irrational fears of government repression. He should apologize for his dog whistle racism. Archipelago [ɑrkɪˈpeləɡoʊ] 列岛, 群岛 I. a large group of small islands. II. a sea or area of ocean with many islands in it. arraign [əˈreɪn] to order someone to go to a court of law, to be formally charged with a crime. A 52-year-old Detroit man has been arraigned on charges of murder. If someone is arraigned on a particular charge, they are brought before a court of law to answer that charge. She was arraigned today on charges of assault and kidnapping. He was arraigned for criminally abetting a traitor. abet [əˈbet] I. to help or encourage someone to do something immoral or illegal. If one person abets another, they help or encourage them to do something criminal or wrong. Abet is often used in the legal expression ' aid and abet 怂恿, 撺掇'. His wife was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for aiding and abetting him. II. To abet something, especially something bad or undesirable, means to make it possible. The media have also abetted 帮凶 the feeling of unreality.
The Man Who Stole Bird Feathers: In June 2009, Edwin Rist, a 20-year-old American flutist studying at the Royal Academy of Music, smashed a window at the Museum of Natural History in Tring, near London, and pulled off one of the more bizarre robberies of recent decades. Under the nose of 在眼皮底下 a hapless security guard( a hapless 倒霉的 person is someone who you feel sorry for because bad things have happened to them. haphazard [hapˈhazəd] 乱糟糟的, 无组织, 无纪律的 adj. lacking any obvious principle of organization. done in a way that does not seem to be carefully planned or organized. If you describe something as haphazard, you are critical of it because it is not at all organized or is not arranged according to a plan. The investigation does seem haphazard. He had never seen such a haphazard approach to filmmaking as Roberto's. She looked at the books jammed haphazardly in the shelves. "the music business works in a haphazard fashion". ), Rist ransacked storage drawers and absconded 逃跑 with the preserved skins of 299 tropical birds, including specimens collected by the legendary naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the mid-19th century. He intended to fence 销赃 the birds' extravagantly colored plumage at high prices to fellow aficionados = aficionado 爱好者, 同好 ( [əˌfɪʃiəˈnɑdoʊ] someone who is very interested in something and knows a lot about it. If someone is an aficionado of something, they like it and know a lot about it. I happen to be an aficionado of the opera, and I love art museums. ...a jazz aficionado. The wine and opera afficionado owns two Hunter Valley vineyards and last year hosted an exclusive soiree for opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa at his home. ) in hopes of raising enough cash to support both his musical career and his parents' struggling Labradoodle-breeding business in the Hudson Valley. Kirk Wallace Johnson's "The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century" recounts Rist's odd crime and its even more curious aftermath. Johnson, a former U.S.A.I.D. employee in Falluja, Iraq, and the founder of the List Project (a nonprofit organization that resettles Iraqis marked for death after working with the American military), first heard about Rist's robbery during a trout-fishing holiday in New Mexico: "I don't know if it was Edwin's Victorian sounding name, the sheer weirdness of the story or the fact that I was in desperate need of a new direction in life, but I became obsessed with the crime within moments." So he set out to learn all he could about Rist, unspooling 敞开, 打开 a complex tale of greed, deception and ornithological sabotage. Rist's feather obsession turns out to have rich antecedents ( [ˌæntɪˈsid(ə)nt] I. something that happened or existed before something else and is similar to it in some way. II. antecedents the members of your family who lived a long time ago. III. the antecedent of a word is the noun or phrase nearer the beginning of the sentence that it refers to. In the sentence "I threw the keys to him and he caught them," "keys" is the antecedent of "them." ). Johnson describes Wallace's 1854 expedition through the Malaysian jungle in pursuit of the Bird of Paradise, which "had an otherworldly beauty. … From its tail emerged two wiry feathers that spiraled tightly into two glittering emerald coins." Walter Rothschild, the eccentric scion 富家子, 富家公子 ( [ˈsaɪən] I. literary a young member of a rich or important family. II. biology a part that is cut from a plant and attached to another plant in order to grow there. ) of the banking family, eagerly took in the specimens from the expedition and assembled the largest private collection of bird skins in the world at his Tring mansion, which later became a branch of the Natural History Museum. At around the same time, an insatiable demand for feathers among fashion-conscious Europeans and Americans set off a mass killing of birds for profit. This "slaughter of innocents," as one activist described it in 1875, led to the banning of the feather trade and the birth of the animal conservation movement. Decades later, the pursuit of rare feathers, by legal or illegal means, was taken up by salmon fly-tying experts( fly I. a common small insect with wings. Flies eat food, are often found near garbage, and are responsible for spreading many diseases. A trapped fly buzzed against the window pane. a new spray to kill flies and mosquitoes. a swarm/cloud/plague of flies: There were clouds of small flies over the river. II. the opening at the front of a pair of pants that is fastened with buttons or a zipper. The British word is flies. Your fly is open! III. 鱼饵. a small hook made to look like an insect, fixed to the end of a fishing line and used for catching fish. IV. a flysheet for a tent. ), whose creations have become ever more esoteric ( [ˌesəˈterɪk] known about or understood by very few people. a rather esoteric debate about European tax rules. ) and elaborate. One master, Paul Schmookle, according to a 1990 profile cited by Johnson, "will use up to 150 different materials, ranging from polar bear and mink fur to the feathers of wild turkeys, golden and Reeves pheasants, the African speckled bustard and the Brazilian blue chatterer." Rist became adept at tying flies as a teenager, but as a criminal he proved less successful. He made no effort to cover his internet footprint, and the British police busted him about a year after the robbery. In court, his lawyer argued that he suffered from Asperger's syndrome and had trouble distinguishing right from wrong 没有对错观念, 分不清对错, a dubious defense that the judge nevertheless accepted, handing Rist a one-year suspended sentence. Soon after the trial, Johnson embarked on a quest to track down Rist, identify his network of buyers and recover for the museum thousands of still-missing feathers, vital tools for DNA extraction and other important zoological research. Johnson draws a fascinating portrait of Rist as a self-rationalizing con man and exposes the culture of secrecy and opportunism that marks his fellow fly-tiers. Still, Johnson's self-aggrandizing ( Self aggrandizement [əˈɡrændɪzmənt] 自我英雄化 is defined as exaggerating one's own importance or power. An example of self aggrandizement is a candidate stretching the truth about his accomplishments to win the position. aggrandize [əˈɡrændaɪz] 自吹自擂. to increase the power or importance of someone or something when this is not deserved or reasonable. They use religion to aggrandize themselves. self-aggrandizing nonsense. ) pronouncements ( [prəˈnaʊnsmənt] an official public statement. ) ("no one else was going to hunt them down but me") can be grating 烦人的, 恼人的( noun. a metal frame with bars across it, used for covering a hole or window. adj. a grating voice, laugh, or sound is unpleasant and annoying. ), as is his tendency to lapse into pumped-up, cliché-ridden prose. "I hopped in my car and bombed up the I-95 to Boston, the revelation setting my imagination on fire," he writes after uncovering the identity of one of Rist's possible accomplices, a Norwegian fly-tier known as Goku. In the end, Johnson fails to make much headway in ( make headway to begin to succeed: Has the city made any headway in attracting new businesses? ) recovering the dispersed treasures. "We're a tightknit community, fly-tiers," one man tells him as he is digging into the crime, "and you do not want to piss us off." Beneath their artistry and collegiality 同事情谊 ( [kəˌlidʒiˈæləti] the quality of being relaxed, friendly, and cooperative, as is typical among a group of close colleagues. The regular meeting schedule builds a sense of collegiality among the teachers. ), Johnson suggests, many of these craftsmen seem primarily interested in feathering their own nests ( to feather one's nest If you say that someone is feathering their nest, you mean that they are getting a lot of money out of something, so that they can lead a comfortable life. to make yourself rich, especially in a way that is unfair or dishonest. To achieve benefits, especially financial ones, by taking advantage of the opportunities with which one is presented; to amass a comfortable amount of personal wealth. Mary's much more interested in doing things for other people than feathering her own nest.). outdoorsy [aʊtˈdɔrzi] adjective enjoying outdoor activities like camping and walking kid. indoorsy 足不出户的, 宅在家里的, 不爱出门的 (informal) Favouring, or pertaining to, indoor life. flush adj with I. Lit. even with something; sharing a surface with something. The edge of the sink is flush with the counter. The wood flooring is flush with the carpet so people won't trip. Fitting snugly or evenly next to something else. The drywall isn't flush with the jamb, that's why you're having trouble opening the door all the way. II. 有钱. having a lot of money. If you are flush with money, you have a lot of it, usually only for a short time. He's still young, not flush with cash to buy beautiful but expensive feathers. At that time, many developing countries were flush with dollars earned from exports. If we're feeling flush we'll probably give them champagne. I've just been paid so I'm feeling flush. flush VERB I. [of a face] 脸红. red with anger, embarrassment, rage, etc. When you flush, you become red in the face, especially as a result of strong emotions, heat, or alcohol. Mark flushed with annoyance, but said nothing. someone's face/cheeks flush (with something): Her cheeks flushed with embarrassment. She flushed with pleasure as she accepted the prize. The champagne had caused his face to flush. He faced the woman he had dreamed about all his life. His face flushed with recognition and his heart pounded. Ellen's face flushed with embarrassment. II. If you flush a toilet, or if a toilet flushes, its contents empty and it fills with water again: My children never flush the toilet after them. I can't get the toilet to flush. flush sth down the toilet to get rid of something by putting it in the toilet and operating the toilet: I tend to flush old medicines down the toilet. III. If you flush a part of your body, you clean it or make it healthier by using a large amount of liquid to get rid of dirt or harmful substances. Flush 冲刷, 冲洗 the eye with clean cold water for at least 15 minutes. Water is ideal to flush the kidneys and the urinary tract. ...an 'alternative' therapy that gently flushes out the colon to remove toxins. IV. If you flush dirt or a harmful substance out of a place, you get rid of it by using a large amount of liquid. That won't flush all the sewage out, but it should unclog some stinking drains. V. If you flush people or animals out of a place where they are hiding, you find or capture them by forcing them to come out of that place. They flushed them out of their hiding places. Police conduct raids to flush out illegal traders. break faith with If you break faith with someone you made a promise to or something you believed in, you stop acting in a way that supports them. If we don't, we're breaking faith with our people! case = scope out 勘察, 勘查, 考察, 侦查, 查看 if a criminal cases a place, such as a bank, they watch it and look around it to help them plan their crime. He saw McVeigh casing the Oklahoma City federal building before it was bombed. He went to the museum to case it.
Big Bang Theory: 1. I don't like bugs, okay? They freak me out. Interesting. You're afraid of insects and women. Ladybugs must render you catatonic. It was a joke. I made it to lessen your discomfort. 2. Don't knock. Just walk in. Why be polite to the world's leading expert on the dung beetle? Excuse me, are you Professor Crawley? Who wants to know? I'm Dr. Cooper, from the Physics Department. Couldn't wait, huh? I'm sorry? I haven't even packed yet and you're already measuring my lab for one of your godless laser machines. No, you don't understand. We just wanna ask you a question. Let me ask you one first. What's a world-renowned entomologist ( entomology [ˌentəˈmɑlədʒi] 昆虫学家 the scientific study of insects.) with a doctorate and 20 years of experience, to do with his life when the university cuts off the funding for his lab, huh? Ask rhetorical questions that make people uncomfortable? What's your deal? Are they planning to outsource my job to Bangalore? I'm from New Delhi. We should find another entomologist. Toby, what did you do in a past life to be so disgusting now? His name isn't Toby. Toby is an absurd name for a cricket. 3. Flashlight went out. I need some batteries. Fellas? Hello? It's really dark down here. Oh, sweetie, you really can't hold your liquor 不胜酒力, 不能喝酒, can you? I'm okay. Just a little mouthwash and then I'm gonna rock your world. 4. Sheldon, you can't train my girlfriend like a lab rat. Actually, it turns out I can. Well, you shouldn't. Oh, ugh. There's just no pleasing you 难以取悦, 难伺候, is there? You weren't happy with my approach with her so I decided to employ operant conditioning techniques building on the works of Thorndike and B.F. Skinner. Next week, I believe I can have her jumping out of a pool balancing a beach ball on her nose. No, this has to stop now. I'm not suggesting we really make her jump out of a pool. I thought the "buzzinga" was implied 不言而喻的, 不言自明的. I'm just tweaking her personality, sanding off 磨掉, 打磨掉, 去掉 the rough edges, if you will. No, you're not sanding Penny. Are you saying that I am forbidden from applying a harmless scientifically valid protocol that will make our lives better? Yes, you're forbidden. Bad Leonard. 5. What could she possibly be talking about for so long? Obviously, waitressing at the Cheesecake Factory is a complex socio-economic activity that requires a great deal of analysis and planning. Buzzinga. You know, using positive reinforcement techniques I could train that behavior out of her in a week. No. If you let me use negative reinforcement I can get it done before we go to bed. You're not squirting 喷水 ( I. to make a liquid move with a lot of force. Nick squirted 挤出来 a few blobs of ketchup onto his burger. a. transitive to make someone or something wet by squirting a liquid. squirt someone/something with something 喷射, 扫射: He's just squirted us with the hose! b. intransitive if a line of liquid squirts somewhere, it moves somewhere with a lot of force. Juice squirted onto his shirt as he bit into the pear. ) her in the face with water. No, of course not. We're talking very mild electric shocks. No tissue damage whatsoever. Forget it. Oh, come on. You can't tell me that you're not intrigued about the possibility of building a better girlfriend. I'm not. Penny's qualities, both good and bad, are what make her who she is. You mean like that high-pitched irritating laugh? Yes. You wouldn't prefer a throaty chuckle? You're not changing how Penny laughs. No, that would be incongruous ( [ɪnˈkɑŋɡruəs] 不和谐的. 不协调的. strange because of being very different from other things that happen or exist in the same situation. Someone or something that is incongruous seems strange when considered together with other aspects of a situation. This seemed both incongruous and irritating against a background of severe poverty. The Indian temple is an incongruous sight in the Welsh border country. ...buildings perched incongruously 突兀的 in a high green valley. ). I was going to lower the whole voice to a more pleasing register. Ugh, sorry, guys. 6. I'm leaving too. Not that anyone cares. When we tell this story, let's end it differently. What are you thinking, maybe a big musical number? Well, I'm going to make some warm milk and then turn in. I trust if you two are planning on engaging in amorous activities you'll keep the decibel level to a minimum. Of course.
The Man Who Stole Bird Feathers: In June 2009, Edwin Rist, a 20-year-old American flutist studying at the Royal Academy of Music, smashed a window at the Museum of Natural History in Tring, near London, and pulled off one of the more bizarre robberies of recent decades. Under the nose of 在眼皮底下 a hapless security guard( a hapless 倒霉的 person is someone who you feel sorry for because bad things have happened to them. haphazard [hapˈhazəd] 乱糟糟的, 无组织, 无纪律的 adj. lacking any obvious principle of organization. done in a way that does not seem to be carefully planned or organized. If you describe something as haphazard, you are critical of it because it is not at all organized or is not arranged according to a plan. The investigation does seem haphazard. He had never seen such a haphazard approach to filmmaking as Roberto's. She looked at the books jammed haphazardly in the shelves. "the music business works in a haphazard fashion". ), Rist ransacked storage drawers and absconded 逃跑 with the preserved skins of 299 tropical birds, including specimens collected by the legendary naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the mid-19th century. He intended to fence 销赃 the birds' extravagantly colored plumage at high prices to fellow aficionados = aficionado 爱好者, 同好 ( [əˌfɪʃiəˈnɑdoʊ] someone who is very interested in something and knows a lot about it. If someone is an aficionado of something, they like it and know a lot about it. I happen to be an aficionado of the opera, and I love art museums. ...a jazz aficionado. The wine and opera afficionado owns two Hunter Valley vineyards and last year hosted an exclusive soiree for opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa at his home. ) in hopes of raising enough cash to support both his musical career and his parents' struggling Labradoodle-breeding business in the Hudson Valley. Kirk Wallace Johnson's "The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century" recounts Rist's odd crime and its even more curious aftermath. Johnson, a former U.S.A.I.D. employee in Falluja, Iraq, and the founder of the List Project (a nonprofit organization that resettles Iraqis marked for death after working with the American military), first heard about Rist's robbery during a trout-fishing holiday in New Mexico: "I don't know if it was Edwin's Victorian sounding name, the sheer weirdness of the story or the fact that I was in desperate need of a new direction in life, but I became obsessed with the crime within moments." So he set out to learn all he could about Rist, unspooling 敞开, 打开 a complex tale of greed, deception and ornithological sabotage. Rist's feather obsession turns out to have rich antecedents ( [ˌæntɪˈsid(ə)nt] I. something that happened or existed before something else and is similar to it in some way. II. antecedents the members of your family who lived a long time ago. III. the antecedent of a word is the noun or phrase nearer the beginning of the sentence that it refers to. In the sentence "I threw the keys to him and he caught them," "keys" is the antecedent of "them." ). Johnson describes Wallace's 1854 expedition through the Malaysian jungle in pursuit of the Bird of Paradise, which "had an otherworldly beauty. … From its tail emerged two wiry feathers that spiraled tightly into two glittering emerald coins." Walter Rothschild, the eccentric scion 富家子, 富家公子 ( [ˈsaɪən] I. literary a young member of a rich or important family. II. biology a part that is cut from a plant and attached to another plant in order to grow there. ) of the banking family, eagerly took in the specimens from the expedition and assembled the largest private collection of bird skins in the world at his Tring mansion, which later became a branch of the Natural History Museum. At around the same time, an insatiable demand for feathers among fashion-conscious Europeans and Americans set off a mass killing of birds for profit. This "slaughter of innocents," as one activist described it in 1875, led to the banning of the feather trade and the birth of the animal conservation movement. Decades later, the pursuit of rare feathers, by legal or illegal means, was taken up by salmon fly-tying experts( fly I. a common small insect with wings. Flies eat food, are often found near garbage, and are responsible for spreading many diseases. A trapped fly buzzed against the window pane. a new spray to kill flies and mosquitoes. a swarm/cloud/plague of flies: There were clouds of small flies over the river. II. the opening at the front of a pair of pants that is fastened with buttons or a zipper. The British word is flies. Your fly is open! III. 鱼饵. a small hook made to look like an insect, fixed to the end of a fishing line and used for catching fish. IV. a flysheet for a tent. ), whose creations have become ever more esoteric ( [ˌesəˈterɪk] known about or understood by very few people. a rather esoteric debate about European tax rules. ) and elaborate. One master, Paul Schmookle, according to a 1990 profile cited by Johnson, "will use up to 150 different materials, ranging from polar bear and mink fur to the feathers of wild turkeys, golden and Reeves pheasants, the African speckled bustard and the Brazilian blue chatterer." Rist became adept at tying flies as a teenager, but as a criminal he proved less successful. He made no effort to cover his internet footprint, and the British police busted him about a year after the robbery. In court, his lawyer argued that he suffered from Asperger's syndrome and had trouble distinguishing right from wrong 没有对错观念, 分不清对错, a dubious defense that the judge nevertheless accepted, handing Rist a one-year suspended sentence. Soon after the trial, Johnson embarked on a quest to track down Rist, identify his network of buyers and recover for the museum thousands of still-missing feathers, vital tools for DNA extraction and other important zoological research. Johnson draws a fascinating portrait of Rist as a self-rationalizing con man and exposes the culture of secrecy and opportunism that marks his fellow fly-tiers. Still, Johnson's self-aggrandizing ( Self aggrandizement [əˈɡrændɪzmənt] 自我英雄化 is defined as exaggerating one's own importance or power. An example of self aggrandizement is a candidate stretching the truth about his accomplishments to win the position. aggrandize [əˈɡrændaɪz] 自吹自擂. to increase the power or importance of someone or something when this is not deserved or reasonable. They use religion to aggrandize themselves. self-aggrandizing nonsense. ) pronouncements ( [prəˈnaʊnsmənt] an official public statement. ) ("no one else was going to hunt them down but me") can be grating 烦人的, 恼人的( noun. a metal frame with bars across it, used for covering a hole or window. adj. a grating voice, laugh, or sound is unpleasant and annoying. ), as is his tendency to lapse into pumped-up, cliché-ridden prose. "I hopped in my car and bombed up the I-95 to Boston, the revelation setting my imagination on fire," he writes after uncovering the identity of one of Rist's possible accomplices, a Norwegian fly-tier known as Goku. In the end, Johnson fails to make much headway in ( make headway to begin to succeed: Has the city made any headway in attracting new businesses? ) recovering the dispersed treasures. "We're a tightknit community, fly-tiers," one man tells him as he is digging into the crime, "and you do not want to piss us off." Beneath their artistry and collegiality 同事情谊 ( [kəˌlidʒiˈæləti] the quality of being relaxed, friendly, and cooperative, as is typical among a group of close colleagues. The regular meeting schedule builds a sense of collegiality among the teachers. ), Johnson suggests, many of these craftsmen seem primarily interested in feathering their own nests ( to feather one's nest If you say that someone is feathering their nest, you mean that they are getting a lot of money out of something, so that they can lead a comfortable life. to make yourself rich, especially in a way that is unfair or dishonest. To achieve benefits, especially financial ones, by taking advantage of the opportunities with which one is presented; to amass a comfortable amount of personal wealth. Mary's much more interested in doing things for other people than feathering her own nest.). outdoorsy [aʊtˈdɔrzi] adjective enjoying outdoor activities like camping and walking kid. indoorsy 足不出户的, 宅在家里的, 不爱出门的 (informal) Favouring, or pertaining to, indoor life. flush adj with I. Lit. even with something; sharing a surface with something. The edge of the sink is flush with the counter. The wood flooring is flush with the carpet so people won't trip. Fitting snugly or evenly next to something else. The drywall isn't flush with the jamb, that's why you're having trouble opening the door all the way. II. 有钱. having a lot of money. If you are flush with money, you have a lot of it, usually only for a short time. He's still young, not flush with cash to buy beautiful but expensive feathers. At that time, many developing countries were flush with dollars earned from exports. If we're feeling flush we'll probably give them champagne. I've just been paid so I'm feeling flush. flush VERB I. [of a face] 脸红. red with anger, embarrassment, rage, etc. When you flush, you become red in the face, especially as a result of strong emotions, heat, or alcohol. Mark flushed with annoyance, but said nothing. someone's face/cheeks flush (with something): Her cheeks flushed with embarrassment. She flushed with pleasure as she accepted the prize. The champagne had caused his face to flush. He faced the woman he had dreamed about all his life. His face flushed with recognition and his heart pounded. Ellen's face flushed with embarrassment. II. If you flush a toilet, or if a toilet flushes, its contents empty and it fills with water again: My children never flush the toilet after them. I can't get the toilet to flush. flush sth down the toilet to get rid of something by putting it in the toilet and operating the toilet: I tend to flush old medicines down the toilet. III. If you flush a part of your body, you clean it or make it healthier by using a large amount of liquid to get rid of dirt or harmful substances. Flush 冲刷, 冲洗 the eye with clean cold water for at least 15 minutes. Water is ideal to flush the kidneys and the urinary tract. ...an 'alternative' therapy that gently flushes out the colon to remove toxins. IV. If you flush dirt or a harmful substance out of a place, you get rid of it by using a large amount of liquid. That won't flush all the sewage out, but it should unclog some stinking drains. V. If you flush people or animals out of a place where they are hiding, you find or capture them by forcing them to come out of that place. They flushed them out of their hiding places. Police conduct raids to flush out illegal traders. break faith with If you break faith with someone you made a promise to or something you believed in, you stop acting in a way that supports them. If we don't, we're breaking faith with our people! case = scope out 勘察, 勘查, 考察, 侦查, 查看 if a criminal cases a place, such as a bank, they watch it and look around it to help them plan their crime. He saw McVeigh casing the Oklahoma City federal building before it was bombed. He went to the museum to case it.
Big Bang Theory: 1. I don't like bugs, okay? They freak me out. Interesting. You're afraid of insects and women. Ladybugs must render you catatonic. It was a joke. I made it to lessen your discomfort. 2. Don't knock. Just walk in. Why be polite to the world's leading expert on the dung beetle? Excuse me, are you Professor Crawley? Who wants to know? I'm Dr. Cooper, from the Physics Department. Couldn't wait, huh? I'm sorry? I haven't even packed yet and you're already measuring my lab for one of your godless laser machines. No, you don't understand. We just wanna ask you a question. Let me ask you one first. What's a world-renowned entomologist ( entomology [ˌentəˈmɑlədʒi] 昆虫学家 the scientific study of insects.) with a doctorate and 20 years of experience, to do with his life when the university cuts off the funding for his lab, huh? Ask rhetorical questions that make people uncomfortable? What's your deal? Are they planning to outsource my job to Bangalore? I'm from New Delhi. We should find another entomologist. Toby, what did you do in a past life to be so disgusting now? His name isn't Toby. Toby is an absurd name for a cricket. 3. Flashlight went out. I need some batteries. Fellas? Hello? It's really dark down here. Oh, sweetie, you really can't hold your liquor 不胜酒力, 不能喝酒, can you? I'm okay. Just a little mouthwash and then I'm gonna rock your world. 4. Sheldon, you can't train my girlfriend like a lab rat. Actually, it turns out I can. Well, you shouldn't. Oh, ugh. There's just no pleasing you 难以取悦, 难伺候, is there? You weren't happy with my approach with her so I decided to employ operant conditioning techniques building on the works of Thorndike and B.F. Skinner. Next week, I believe I can have her jumping out of a pool balancing a beach ball on her nose. No, this has to stop now. I'm not suggesting we really make her jump out of a pool. I thought the "buzzinga" was implied 不言而喻的, 不言自明的. I'm just tweaking her personality, sanding off 磨掉, 打磨掉, 去掉 the rough edges, if you will. No, you're not sanding Penny. Are you saying that I am forbidden from applying a harmless scientifically valid protocol that will make our lives better? Yes, you're forbidden. Bad Leonard. 5. What could she possibly be talking about for so long? Obviously, waitressing at the Cheesecake Factory is a complex socio-economic activity that requires a great deal of analysis and planning. Buzzinga. You know, using positive reinforcement techniques I could train that behavior out of her in a week. No. If you let me use negative reinforcement I can get it done before we go to bed. You're not squirting 喷水 ( I. to make a liquid move with a lot of force. Nick squirted 挤出来 a few blobs of ketchup onto his burger. a. transitive to make someone or something wet by squirting a liquid. squirt someone/something with something 喷射, 扫射: He's just squirted us with the hose! b. intransitive if a line of liquid squirts somewhere, it moves somewhere with a lot of force. Juice squirted onto his shirt as he bit into the pear. ) her in the face with water. No, of course not. We're talking very mild electric shocks. No tissue damage whatsoever. Forget it. Oh, come on. You can't tell me that you're not intrigued about the possibility of building a better girlfriend. I'm not. Penny's qualities, both good and bad, are what make her who she is. You mean like that high-pitched irritating laugh? Yes. You wouldn't prefer a throaty chuckle? You're not changing how Penny laughs. No, that would be incongruous ( [ɪnˈkɑŋɡruəs] 不和谐的. 不协调的. strange because of being very different from other things that happen or exist in the same situation. Someone or something that is incongruous seems strange when considered together with other aspects of a situation. This seemed both incongruous and irritating against a background of severe poverty. The Indian temple is an incongruous sight in the Welsh border country. ...buildings perched incongruously 突兀的 in a high green valley. ). I was going to lower the whole voice to a more pleasing register. Ugh, sorry, guys. 6. I'm leaving too. Not that anyone cares. When we tell this story, let's end it differently. What are you thinking, maybe a big musical number? Well, I'm going to make some warm milk and then turn in. I trust if you two are planning on engaging in amorous activities you'll keep the decibel level to a minimum. Of course.
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