用法学习: 1. 瑞典式抗疫: A week ago Sweden's approach was drawing praise from conservative commentators around the world. "If the COVID-19 pandemic tails off in a few weeks, months before the alarmists 吓唬人的 ( [əˈlɑrmɪst] someone who makes other people frightened or worried in an unnecessary way. ) claim it will, they will probably pivot ( I. to turn or balance on a central point, or to make something do this. II. intransitive to turn around quickly on your feet. III. to drastically change the way in which something is presented. They have already pivoted the story to make him appear in a better light.) immediately and pat themselves on the back for the brilliant social-distancing controls that they imposed on the world," the National Review wrote. "They will claim that their heroic recommendations averted 避免了, 避开了 total calamity 天灾人祸 ( [kəˈlæməti] an event that causes serious damage, or causes a lot of people to suffer, for example a flood or fire. a. used humorously about something that is annoying but not really serious. ). Unfortunately, they will be wrong; and Sweden, which has done almost no mandated social distancing, will probably prove them wrong." 2. flange [flændʒ] I. 法兰. an edge that sticks out on a wheel so that it stays in the correct position. A flange is a projecting edge on an object. Its purpose is to strengthen the object or to connect it to another object. A flange is an external or internal ridge, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam such as an I-beam or a T-beam; or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc., or on the lens mount of a camera; or for a flange of a rail car or tram wheel. II. (vulgar slang) A vulva. moot (noun) (短音u):
Vagina - slang word originating possibly in Australia (it has been used
there for at least 20 years or more). Pronounced like the "foot" at the
end of your leg. Etymology: Possible origins from the English slang "Mott" of the same meaning. I'd like to see her moot. Flash your moot, babe. A kumquat is an edible, orange-like fruit that is native to Southeast Asia. Though the citrus fruit resembles an orange in shape and color, it's actually quite small—about the size of an olive. Typically, kumquats are round 圆形 or oblong ( [ˈɒblɒŋ] 长方形 I. a shape with four straight sides and four 90º angles. Two of the parallel sides are longer than the other two sides. II. a shape that is longer than it is wide. ). 3. The film employs artistic licence 艺术再加工, 艺术再创作 with the real-life events. The visual blog Information is Beautiful deduced that, while taking creative licence into account, the film was 70.9% accurate when compared to real-life events due to "the (understandable) dramatic insertion of journalist Martin Sixsmith into the main plot line and big liberties with what Philomena actually knew and didn't know about her lost son". The final scene in which a wheelchair-bound McNulty chastises 批评, 指责 Philomena for carnality ( carnal [ˈkɑrn(ə)l] relating to or involving sex or the body. Carnal feelings and desires are sexual and physical, without any spiritual element. Their ruling passion is that of carnal love. ) is also artistic licence. Sister Julie Rose, the order's assistant congregational leader, said: "We do feel that the film, even though it is not a documentary, does not tell the whole truth and in many ways is very misleading," Sixsmith has said that Coogan's portrayal of him shared his "intolerance of injustice in all walks of life", and his admiration for a woman like Philomena who has the strength to rise above this. However, he is less angry than his on-screen version and is an agnostic rather than an atheist. Artistic license (alongside more contextually specific derivative terms such as poetic license, historical license, dramatic license, narrative license, and creative license) refers to deviation from fact or form for artistic purposes. It can include alteration of the conventions of grammar or language, or the rewording of pre-existing text. 4. big shot 重量级的, 很厉害的 A big shot is an important and powerful person in a group or organization. He's a big shot in Chilean politics. He's a big-shot lawyer. a person or an organization with a lot of power or influence: He is trying to become a big shot in the mortgage business. doorstep [ˈdɔːstɛp] noun. I. a step leading up to the outer door of a house. "he put his foot on the doorstep of the cottage". II. informal British a thick slice of bread. "doorstep sandwiches". verb. 直接登门. 硬闯. (of a journalist) wait uninvited outside the home of (someone) in order to obtain an interview or photograph. "he was being doorstepped by the tabloids". dying wish 遗愿: the last thing a person wants before dying It was her dying wish to see them married. hit one/something out of the ballpark/park I. (baseball) To hit a fair ball so well that the ball flies over all of the spectators' seats and lands outside the stadium. II. (idiomatic, by extension) To produce a spectacular achievement. To do or perform something extraordinarily well; to produce or earn an exceptional achievement. An allusion to hitting a home run in baseball that lands outside the stadium. Great job on that report, Jacobs—you really hit it out of the park! I'm pretty sure I hit that test out of the ballpark. swing for the fences I. (US, baseball, softball) To swing at the ball as hard as possible, with the aim of getting a home run, increasing the chance of missing the ball. Don't swing for the fences unless it's an easy ball; be content with running part way. II. (US, idiomatic) To do something extremely ambitious, especially rashly. I'm not going to swing for the fences tomorrow, but I'm hoping my speech will be warmly received. run for the roses I. A college football game or series of games played with the ultimate goal of qualifying for the championship Rose Bowl game. II. (idiomatic, by extension) A hard-fought competition or demanding challenge of any kind. shoot for the moon I. To hit the moon, with a rocket or by other means. II. (figuratively, by extension) To attain great heights, a high value, or a numerically high measurement. 5. kegger [ˈkɛɡə] I. a party at which beer is served, typically from kegs. I went to a fraternity kegger. II. a keg of beer. "they buy keggers for their parties". powder keg I. a barrel of gunpowder. II. a dangerous or volatile situation. If you describe a situation or a place as a powder keg, you mean that it could easily become very dangerous. Unless these questions are solved, the region will remain a powder keg. "the place had been a powder keg since the uprising". a situation or a place that could easily become extremely dangerous: The build-up of forces in the region is creating a powder keg. The new tax is a political powder keg which could result in widespread violence. mosh [mɒʃ] If people at a rock concert mosh, they jump up and down together in front of the stage, often pushing each other. to dance to rock music in a way that involves using a lot of movement and energy. Moshing down the front crushed against the stage is all part of the gig experience. mush [mʌʃ] I. a soft, wet, pulpy mass. a thick soft substance. mushed-up potato 土豆泥. (Mashed potatoes). mushed carrots. mushed-up potato and cauliflower. The potatoes will turn to mush if they are overcooked. "red lentils cook quickly and soon turn to mush". II. 煽情. feeble or cloying sentimentality. something that is romantic in a way that seems silly and not
sincere. something that is romantic in a way that seems silly and not
sincere. If you describe something such as a film or book as mush, you
mean that it is very sentimental. "the film's not just romantic mush". He calls the film "a trite, sentimental puddle of mush." IV. a thick food made by boiling cornmeal with water or milk, eaten at breakfast. Mush is a thick, soft paste. The brown mush in the fridge is some veg soup left over. marsh [mɑrʃ] 湿地 (swamp)(bayou [ˈbaɪˌu] a large area of water that flows very slowly and has a lot of water plants and animals living in it. A bayou is a slow-moving, marshy area of water in the southern United States, especially Louisiana.) an area of soft wet land. In film and television, a meet cute is a scene in which the two people who will form a future romantic couple meet for the first time, typically under unusual, humorous, or "cute" circumstances. This type of scene is a staple of romantic comedies. 关于湿地: Wetlands occur naturally on every continent. The main wetland types are swamp 树沼, marsh 草沼, bog 酸性泥炭沼泽, and fen 碱性泥炭沼泽( A swamp is a forested wetland. Swamps are considered to be transition zones because both land and water play a role in creating this environment. A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species. Marshes can often be found at the edges of lakes and streams, where they form a transition between the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. They are often dominated by grasses, rushes or reeds. If woody plants are present they tend to be low-growing shrubs, and then sometimes called carrs. This form of vegetation is what differentiates marshes from other types of wetland such as swamps, which are dominated by trees, and mires, which are wetlands that have accumulated deposits of acidic peat. A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material—often mosses, and in a majority of cases, sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, quagmire, and muskeg; alkaline mires are called fens. They are frequently covered in ericaceous shrubs rooted in the sphagnum moss and peat. The gradual accumulation of decayed plant material in a bog functions as a carbon sink.); sub-types include mangrove forest, carr, pocosin, floodplains, mire, vernal pool, sink, and many others. Many peatlands ( peatland [ˈpiːtland] land consisting largely of peat or peat bogs. Peat ([piːt]), also known as turf ([tɜːrf]), is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs.) are wetlands. The water in wetlands is either freshwater, brackish (Brackish water is water having more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater with fresh water together, as in estuaries, or it may occur in brackish fossil aquifers. ), or saltwater. Wetlands can be tidal (inundated by tides) or non-tidal. The largest wetlands include the Amazon River basin, the West Siberian Plain, the Pantanal in South America, and the Sundarbans in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta. 6. dipshit [ˈdɪpˌʃɪt] a contemptible or inept person. a stupid or annoying person. a very stupid or unpleasant person. How can you leave me for that dipshit! that dipshit son of hers. mulligan [ˈmʌlɪɡ(ə)n] 不算数的 I. a stew made from odds and ends of food. II. (in informal golf) an extra stroke allowed after a poor shot, not counted on the scorecard. An unpenalized chance to re-take a stroke that went awry. If you lose your drive in the water, take a mulligan and try again. III. A second chance. Don't do poorly in your first interview; you won't get a mulligan. felch To suck semen out of a sexual partner's vagina or anus. to suck semen from the vagina or anus of (a sexual partner). Felching is a sexual practice involving the act of orally sucking semen out of the anus of one's partner. The act of sucking semen out of a vagina is known as creampie eating. A facial 颜射 is a sexual activity in which a man ejaculates semen onto the face of one or more sexual partners. A facial is a form of non-penetrative sex, though it is generally performed after some other means of sexual stimulation, such as vaginal sex, anal sex, oral sex or masturbation. Facials are currently regularly portrayed in pornographic films and videos, often as a way to close a scene. The performance of a facial is typically preceded by activities that result in the sexual arousal and stimulation of the ejaculating participant. After the prerequisite level of sexual stimulation has been achieved, and ejaculation becomes imminent, the male will position his penis so that the semen discharged will be deposited onto his partner's face. neurotic [nʊˈrɑtɪk] 过于害怕, 过于担心的, 杞人忧天的 I. suffering from neurosis. II. extremely worried about something unimportant in a way that does not seem reasonable to other people. If you say that someone is neurotic, you mean that they are always frightened or worried about things that you consider unimportant. He was almost neurotic about being followed. There are also unpleasant brain effects such as anxiety and neurotic behaviour. He's just a deeply neurotic person. noun. A neurotic is someone who is neurotic. 7. unbecoming adj. I. 不合适的. 不应该的. formal behavior that is unbecoming is inappropriate for a particular type of person. If you describe a person's behaviour or remarks as unbecoming, you mean that they are shocking and unsuitable for that person. His conduct was totally unbecoming to an officer in the British armed services. Those involved had performed acts unbecoming of university students. Rockwood was charged with conduct unbecoming to an officer. II. old-fashioned not attractive in style or color. If you describe things such as clothes as unbecoming, you mean that they look unattractive. ...the unbecoming dress hurriedly stitched from cheap cloth. 8. heat map: I. a representation of data in the form of a map or diagram in which data values are represented as colours. a picture or map that uses colours to show different levels of an activity, or values of something in different places: a simple heat map of the world showing public debt per capita. "he created one of the earliest online heat maps of crime data". The stores' scores on each metric 每一个项目, 每一项得分项 are fed into the heat map, which is a geographic illustration of the United States peppered with red spots to indicate high-risk Whole Foods stores. The heat map reveals how Whole Foods is using technology and data to help manage its vast workforce of more than 95,000 employees. It also provides a rare look into corporate labour-tracking activities, a common practice among large companies but one rarely discussed publicly. A statement on the map describes its purpose as specific to monitoring unionization among its employees, which the company calls team members. This early identification enables resources to be funneled to the highest need locations, with the goal of mitigating risk by addressing challenges early before they become problematic. II. an image or map representing the varying temperature or infrared radiation recorded over an area or during a period of time. a picture of an area, body, or object that shows the temperature of different parts as different colours: Detailed heat maps of the lunar surface revealed the south pole is warmer than previously thought. "if it's hot outside, the heat map of the face could look very different from when the person is cool". A rising tide lifts all boats 水涨船高 (Swim against the tide, Swim with the tide, Ride with the tide) A truly good outcome benefits all. The aphorism "a rising tide lifts all boats" is associated with the idea that an improved economy will benefit all participants, and that economic policy, particularly government economic policy, should therefore focus on broad economic efforts. his idiom, coined by John F Kennedy, describes the idea that when an economy is performing well, all people will benefit from it. stethoscope [ˈsteθəˌskoʊp] 听诊器 a medical instrument for listening to the action of someone's heart or breathing, typically having a small disc-shaped resonator that is placed against the chest, and two tubes connected to earpieces. a piece of equipment used by doctors for listening to someone's heart or breathing.
How to overthrow a prime minister: Malcolm Turnbull claims 'double-gaming control freak' Scott Morrison worked behind the scenes to have him booted out as leader: Mr Turnbull - who was deposed ( depose [dɪpoʊz] 被篡位, 下野, 篡权, 驱逐 to force a political leader or a king or queen out of their position of power. If a ruler or political leader is deposed, they are forced to give up their position. Mr Ben Bella was deposed in a coup in 1965. ...the deposed dictator. ) as PM as part of a Liberal Party leadership spill in August 2018 - claims in his new memoir that his successor Mr Morrison 'was playing a double game' to force him out of office. In an excerpt from the new book, A Bigger Picture, serialised 连载 in the Sydney Morning Herald, Mr Turnbull sets the scene as Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton sought to usurp 篡夺 ( [juˈzɜrp] to take a job or position that belongs to someone else without having the right to do this. Ingham resented anyone who might try to usurp his authority. If you say that someone usurps a job, role, title, or position, they take it from someone when they have no right to do this. Did she usurp his place in his mother's heart? The Congress wants to reverse the reforms and usurp the power of the presidency. ) him as leader of the party. The former MP for Wentworth said he initially believed Mr Morrison wasn't actively working against him as he battled Mr Dutton for the leadership, but thought the then-Treasurer's supporters were not on his side. And while Mr Turnbull beat Mr Dutton and retained the leadership by 48 to 35 votes, he felt 'at least half a dozen of Scott's closest allies' had backed his rival. 'The idea that they did this without his knowledge is fanciful 糊弄傻小子的, 糊弄人的, 谁也骗不了的 ( I. 做梦似的, 虚幻的. 痴人说梦的. If you describe an idea as fanciful, you disapprove of it because you think it comes from someone's imagination, and is therefore unrealistic or unlikely to be true. not serious or sensible. What a fanciful suggestion! ...fanciful ideas about Martian life. Designing silicon chips to mimic human organs sounds fanciful. II. unusual and complicated rather than plain and practical. If you describe the appearance of something as fanciful, you mean that it is unusual and elaborate rather than plain and simple. The new fanciful 华丽的 styles of architecture. The economic gloom of the early 1980s was relieved by fanciful architecture.),' Mr Turnbull writes. 'Scott is a control freak and I'd seen before ... how he'd publicly vote one way while ensuring his supporters voted the other way. 'I've come to conclude Scott was playing a double game: professing public loyalty 宣誓效忠 to me while at the same time allowing his supporters to undermine me.' Despite winning the first spill, several ministers resigned in the coming days and Mr Turnbull faced another challenge on August 24. This time Mr Turnbull lost a spill motion and immediately resigned as leader of the Liberals, paving the way for a three-way vote between Mr Morrison, Mr Dutton and Julie Bishop. Ms Bishop received just 11 votes in the first ballot - including those of herself and Mr Turnbull - and dropped out 出局. Mr Morrison - who came second to Mr Dutton by two votes in the first run-off 第一轮对战 - won the second vote by 45 to 40 and subsequently became prime minister.
一句话引用: 1. This might come as a bit of shock to you but I wasn't a virgin when we met and I haven't like imprinted on you or something. virgin adj. in a natural or original state. Alaska is still mostly virgin wilderness. the virgin forest. virgin territory an activity or situation that you have never experienced or that you know nothing about. imprint (verb [ɪmˈprɪnt] noun [ˈɪmˌprɪnt]) I. to leave a mark on a surface by pressing an object onto it. a. to decorate something with a design that is printed or pressed on. If a surface is imprinted with a mark or design, that mark or design is printed on the surface or pressed into it. Stationery can be imprinted with your message or logo. They also left a card, imprinted with the name Sean Lynch. ...a racket with the club's badge imprinted on the strings. II. to make something have a strong and permanent influence on someone or something. When something is imprinted on your memory, it is firmly fixed in your memory so that you will not forget it. The skyline of domes and minarets was imprinted on my memory. He repeated the names, as if to imprint them in his mind. He could not dislodge the images imprinted on his brain. Dave had tried to imprint his personality on the office. be imprinted on your mind/memory/brain: It was an extraordinary sight that will remain imprinted on my memory. If something leaves an imprint on a place or on your mind, it has a strong and lasting effect on it. The city bears the imprint of Japanese investment. Both King and Gandhi were tremendously brave men whose unique form of courage left a lasting imprint 印迹 on their nations' histories. 2. There's no answer 没人接电话. 无人应答. 3. I'm just following orders 是你叫我做的, 我是在听你的命令. 3. character flaw 性格缺陷. lumberjack 伐木工人 someone whose job is to cut down trees for wood. ethnic group 民族 a community or population made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent. "the largest of six ethnic groups inhabiting the area of northern Sumatra".
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用法学习: 1. 昆州租房新政 - Landlords should oppose Queensland Government's planned protections for COVID-19 tenants, says REIQ: The measures, announced by Queensland Housing Minister Mick de Brenni last week, included a six-month freeze on evictions, a waiver on rental payments, and a ban on non-essential inspections and maintenance. Ms Mercorella said it appeared the Queensland Government was "going down a very unique route" with the way it was responding to the issue. "We knew that an eviction moratorium ( [ˌmɔrəˈtɔriəm] an official agreement to stop an activity temporarily. A moratorium on a particular activity or process is the stopping of it for a fixed period of time, usually as a result of an official agreement. ...a moratorium on talking to the press until the dispute is settled. ) was being proposed — the Federal Government told us that many weeks ago," she said. "We also understood the key principle was to ensure that tenants who were being financially impacted by COVID-19 would not be booted from their homes, and that if they could not afford to pay full rent, that they could negotiate reductions — and just to be really clear, we supported that model and that framework." 2. stipend [ˈstʌɪpɛnd] 固定工资 a fixed regular sum paid as a salary or as expenses to a clergyman, teacher, or public official. money paid regularly to someone, especially a priest. A stipend is a sum of money that is paid regularly, especially to a magistrate or a member of the clergy, as a salary or for their living expenses. 3. milieu US [milˈju] UK [ˈmiːljɜ] 社交圈子, 朋友圈子 noun. the particular people and society that surround you and influence the way in which you behave. Your milieu is the group of people or activities that you live among or are familiar with. They stayed, safe and happy, within their own social milieu. His natural milieu is that of the arts. the particular people and society that surround you and influence the way in which you behave. the people, physical, and social conditions and events that provide the environment in which someone acts or lives: It is a study of the social and cultural milieu in which Michelangelo lived and worked. Proust's work reflected his own social and cultural milieu. She never felt happy in a student milieu. 3. midstream 半路, 中途, 到一半 noun & adv I. the middle part of a river, where the current is usually the strongest. Someone or something that is in midstream is in the middle of a river, where the current is strongest. Their boat had capsized in midstream. Some of them got caught midstream by the tide. II. 话说到一半. If someone who has been doing something such as talking stops or pauses in midstream, they stop doing it, often before continuing. I was cut off in midstream. The most difficult thing in a fast game of rugby is to change course midstream (adv) 中途转向. I tried to say take it easy, then changed to have a good one midstream. That's why it came out as take it good one. in midstream 正当时 in the middle of doing something. Try not to interrupt the speaker in midstream. change horses in midstream 半路换帅, 中途换马 to change your mind about something in the middle of doing it. unattainable 得不到的, 实现不了的 impossible to achieve or obtain. If you say that something is unattainable, you mean that it cannot be achieved or is not available. There are those who argue that true independent advice is unattainable. ...an unattainable 无法实现的 dream. That story make me seem charmingly flawed and unattainable. attain I. to succeed at achieving something, especially after much effort. Not all athletes attain this standard of physical fitness. If you attain something, you gain it or achieve it, often after a lot of effort. Jim is halfway to attaining his pilot's licence. If you attain a particular state or condition, you may reach it as a result of natural development or work hard to attain this state. ...attaining a state of 达到某种状态, 达到某种心境 calmness and confidence. II. to reach a particular age, amount, or level. On attaining the age of 20 达到 she will inherit the remainder of the estate. The adult female attains a length of four inches. charade US [ʃəˈreɪd] UK [ʃəˈrɑːd] I. 假象. an attempt to pretend that a situation is good or satisfactory, when in fact it is not. I wish they'd drop this pathetic charade of pretending nothing's the matter. The election was condemned as "an empty charade." If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone. I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade. The U.N. at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality. II. Charades is a game for teams of players in which one team acts a word or phrase, syllable by syllable, until other players guess the whole word or phrase. She and her three brothers played charades. facade I. the front of a building, especially one that is large or impressive. II. a false appearance or way of behaving that hides what someone or something is really like. All that jollity is just a facade 假象, 表象. A facade is an outward appearance which is deliberately false and gives you a wrong impression about someone or something. They hid the troubles plaguing their marriage behind a facade of family togetherness. 4. You're a trip it's essentially a slang phrase that friends may say to each other- "you're such a trip!" meaning "You're crazy!" (crazy in this context meaning funny). Meaning you are funny, amusing, and abnormal in a positive way. A comparison of the positives of a trip such as the adventure, fun, memories, and being taken away from your comfort zone. Oh my goodness Cameron! You're a trip. She seems like a trip. She keeps dropping things on purpose so she has to bend over and pick 'em up. Oh yuck, shield you eyes 合上眼, 挡住眼, 别看她. You are a hoot: A hoot is defined as someone or something that is funny and entertaining. An example of a hoot is a child who tells silly jokes. The definition of a hoot is defined as not much, the littlest bit. An example of a hoot is the expression, "I don't give a hoot." Hoot means the sound of an owl or a similar tone. radiator 暖气片 [ˈreɪdiˌeɪtər] I. a large metal object on a wall that is used for heating a room. A radiator is a hollow metal device, usually connected by pipes to a central heating system, that is used to heat a room. II. 散热器. the part of an engine that keeps it from getting too hot.The radiator in a car is the part of the engine which is filled with water in order to cool the engine. a hard/tough act to follow 难以超越 someone or something that has been so successful that it is very difficult for the person or thing coming next to be as good. to be so good that it is not likely that anyone or anything that comes after will be as good: His presidency was very successful - it'll be a hard act to follow. Yesterday's thrilling victory will be a tough act to follow. get/have one's way = get/have one's own way 想干什么都行, 想干什么就干什么 If someone gets their way or has their way, nobody stops them doing what they want to do. You can also say that someone gets their own way or has their own way. She is very good at using her charm to get her way. 5. counter-intuitive 违背常理的, 违背常规的, 非常规的, 不合常规的 counter to what intuition would lead one to expect. Contrary to what intuition or common sense would indicate: "Scientists
made clear what may at first seem counterintuitive, that the capacity
to be pleasant toward a fellow creature is ... hard work" (Natalie Angier). wiki: Counterintuitive means contrary to what seems intuitively right or correct. A counterintuitive proposition is one that does not seem likely to be true when assessed using intuition or gut feelings. Scientifically discovered, objective truths 客观事实 are often called counterintuitive when intuition, emotions, and other cognitive processes 认知过程 outside of deductive rationality
interpret them to be wrong. However, the subjective nature of intuition
limits the objectivity of what to call counterintuitive because what is counter-intuitive for one may be intuitive for another.
This might occur in instances where intuition changes with knowledge.
For instance, many aspects of quantum mechanics may sound
counterintuitive to a layman, while they may be intuitive to a particle
physicist. Flawed understanding of a problem
may lead to counter-productive behavior with undesirable outcomes. In
some such cases, counterintuitive policies may then produce a more
desirable outcome. 6. jolly [ˈdʒɑli] 乐呵呵的, 笑嘻嘻的 I. friendly and cheerful. Someone who is jolly is happy and cheerful in their appearance or behaviour. She was a jolly, kindhearted woman. Her teacher was a jolly lady. II. old-fashioned lively and enjoyable. A jolly event is lively and enjoyable. I was looking forward to a jolly party. She had a very jolly time in Korea. a jolly conversation. III. Jolly is sometimes used to emphasize an adjective or adverb. She was jolly good at jigsaws. It was jolly hard work, but I loved it. jolly well Jolly well is sometimes used to emphasize an opinion or intention, and to express annoyance or anger. We can hardly just tell him what we jolly well think of him can we? She was jolly well not going to let them get away with it. jollity [ˈdʒɑləti] the state or feeling of being happy. ...the singing and jollity of the celebration. furtive [ˈfɜrtɪv] 偷偷的 done quickly and secretly to avoid being noticed. If you describe someone's behaviour as furtive, you disapprove of them behaving as if they want to keep something secret or hidden. With a furtive glance over 偷瞄 her shoulder, she unlocked the door and entered the house. He walked towards the summerhouse, at first furtively 偷偷摸摸的, then with more confidence. a furtive glance. I slept with a quaterback once in High school. Oh yeah, how was that. Furtive. escape plan 借口 a plan for escaping from a place. Some of his fellow inmates have an escape plan. In a minute, I'm going to get a phone call. I arranged for a phone call in case I needed a escape plan. 8. Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or strengthens one's prior personal beliefs or hypotheses. It is a type of cognitive bias. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for desired outcomes, for emotionally charged issues, and for deeply entrenched beliefs. People also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. Biased search, interpretation and memory have been invoked to explain attitude polarization (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence), belief perseverance (when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false), the irrational primacy effect (a greater reliance on information encountered early in a series) and illusory correlation (when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations). 9. negative Nancy A person who is considered excessively and disagreeably pessimistic. a word used to describe someone who is a total downer to be around. "quit being such a negative nancy. you're bringing me down." Shakshuka (中东食物 Shakshouka is a dish of eggs poached in a sauce of tomatoes, olive oil, peppers, onion and garlic, and commonly spiced with cumin, paprika, cayenne pepper and nutmeg. The dish has existed in Mediterranean cultures for centuries.) doesn't keep very well 放放就不好吃了, 不能长放. cabal [kə'bæl] 秘密集团 If you refer to a group of politicians or other people as a cabal, you are criticizing them because they meet and decide things secretly. He had been chosen by a cabal of fellow senators. ...a secret government cabal. a small group of people who secretly work together to get power for themselves. on the hook (idiomatic, often followed by for) in a dangerous or difficult situation. In debt; obligated to pay or provide; liable; responsible or blamed. My roommate hasn't paid his rent for two months, now I'm on the hook for it 成我的责任了. off the hook I. If you leave the phone off the hook, you do not put it back correctly and it will not ring. II. If you are off the hook, you have escaped from a difficult situation: John's agreed to go to the meeting in my place so that gets/lets me off the hook. superlative [sʊˈpɜrlətɪv] 最高级的 adj. I. If you describe something as superlative, you mean that it is extremely good. extremely good. a superlative performance. Some superlative cheeses are made in this region. The Regent hotel has a superlative view of Hong Kong island. II. In grammar, the superlative form of an adjective or adverb is the form that indicates that something has more of a quality than anything else in a group. For example, ' biggest' is the superlative form of 'big'. Compare comparative. Superlative is also a noun. ...his tendency towards superlatives and exaggeration. noun. If someone uses superlatives to describe something, they use adjectives and expressions which indicate that it is extremely good. ...a spectacle which has critics world-wide reaching for superlatives. bon mot [bɒn moʊ] 俏皮话 A bon mot is a clever, witty remark. ...a cheeky bon mot. a funny clever remark. live for something to enjoy something more than anything else that you do: My son lives for sports. living proof 活证据, 活着的证明, 活生生的例子 If you say that someone is living proof of something, you mean that their actions or personal qualities show that a particular fact is true or that a particular quality exists. He is living proof that some players just get better with age. the living worst 活着的最烂的. How was you day? I don't know, fine, inarticulably 难以言说的, 说不出来的 (Not articulable; incapable of being articulated. unspeakable thing 说不出口的事情. inarticulate 不善言辞的 adj. If someone is inarticulate, they are unable to express themselves easily or well in speech. Inarticulate and rather shy, he had always dreaded speaking in public. Kempton made an inarticulate noise at the back of his throat as if he were about to choke. ) grim? How is everything? Everything is fine, can we just trouble you for some silverware and water please? gorilla [ɡəˈrɪlə] 大猩猩. guerilla = guerrilla [ɡəˈrɪlə] I. 游击队员. a member of a military group that is not official and usually wants to change a political situation. Their main method is to make unexpected attacks in small groups. II. only before noun using unexpected methods of attack to surprise the enemy. guerrilla groups/fighters/leaders. guerrilla warfare 游击战: The enemy avoided direct confrontation and concentrated on guerrilla warfare.
Donald Trump has lost his coronavirus approval polling bump ( approval rating 认可度, 认可率). That may explain this week's antics: In a week when 2,500 Americans are dying every day from COVID-19, US President Donald Trump has launched his plan for ending the nationwide lockdowns. The branding king has also given the strategy a catchy title with familiar cadence (cadence [keɪdəns] I. The cadence of someone's voice 韵律, 抑扬顿挫 is the way their voice gets higher and lower as they speak. the way in which someone's voice gets higher or lower as they speak, especially the fall of their voice at the end of a sentence. He recognized the Polish cadences 调调儿 in her voice. He is not attempting necessarily to reproduce the cadence of speech. II. A cadence is the phrase that ends a section of music or a complete piece of music. III. how often a scheduled thing happens. Feedback and discussing performance needs to happen with a regular cadence 经常性.): Opening Up America Again. "We'll be the comeback kids 杀回来, all of us," Trump said this week. Right now, the number of daily deaths is horrific. But, looking at the data, the US President may be right about America being "past the peak" of new coronavirus cases. Nationwide, the number of new infections and intensive care admissions is declining. The number of daily deaths has flattened, albeit at a devastating level. For now, there are enough ventilators to go around, frontline health workers are getting more access to protective equipment and the temporary hospitals set up in COVID-19 hotspots are nowhere near capacity 饱和. The frenzied early days of this rolling calamity have morphed into 蜕变为 a grimly ( grim I. grim news, situations, or events are unpleasant and make you feel upset and worried. The future looks pretty grim. the grim reality of unemployment. A situation or piece of information that is grim is unpleasant, depressing, and difficult to accept. They painted a grim picture of growing crime. There was further grim economic news yesterday. The mood could not have been grimmer. ...an unrelenting grimness of tone. II. very serious and unfriendly. If a person or their behaviour is grim, they are very serious, usually because they are worried about something. She was a grim woman with a turned-down mouth. Her expression was grim and unpleasant. 'It's too late now to stop him,' Harris said grimly. His face was set in a grim expression. a. angry and pleased about something at the same time. "Exactly what I expected," he said with grim satisfaction. b. very determined to do something. a grim determination to do God's will. III. a grim place is ugly and unpleasant. A place that is grim is unattractive and depressing in appearance. The city might be grim at first, but there is a vibrancy and excitement. ...the tower blocks on the city's grim edges. The house was lonely and rather grim. IV. mainly British informal not very enjoyable, usually because it is of bad quality. The game was a bit grim. V. informal sick I started to feel grim about an hour after lunch. hold on like grim death to hold something very tightly. paint/draw/present a grim picture to describe a situation in a way that shows how bad it is. The report paints a grim picture of children's homes. ) calm rhythm of morbidity. Now a new, more hopeful phase is beginning and the President is doing everything possible to put himself at the centre of it. He's promising "new heights of greatness and glory" for America. At first glance, the cautious, data-driven 靠数据支撑的 approach to opening up the economy makes sense. It's a far cry from what Mr Trump was proposing a few weeks ago when he spoke of "packed churches" on Easter. It's a three-phase plan, to be carried out on a "community-by-community, city-by-city, state-by-state" basis. If a region can show the number of infections have been declining for 14 days and its healthcare facilities are running smoothly, it can move on to the next phase. If infections rise, restrictions are put in place again. Trump reportedly suggested some states, like Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota, could move to phase one "literally tomorrow because they've met all the guidelines 满足了所有条件". The continued rapid expansion of testing, which remains inadequate in many hotspots, will be crucial to the success of the strategy. Importantly, the onus ( [oʊnəs] If you say that the onus is on someone to do something, you mean it is their duty or responsibility to do it. If you ordered something, then the onus is on you to pay for it. The onus of proof is reversed in libel actions and placed firmly on the defender. ) will be on individual governors to make the decisions that best suit their populations, with coordination and guidance from the Federal Government. If only such care and competence was available at the front end of the crisis, when governors of the worst-affected states had to make the tough decisions on their own while the Commander-in-Chief played down the risk. A month ago today, Trump released his strict guidelines for slowing the spread of COVID-19. By then, states like New York, California and Washington had already taken matters into their own hands. Still, in the days after his announcement, Trump's approval ratings got a noticeable bump. It's normal for voters the world over to rally around their leader in times of crisis. In the past month, presidents and prime ministers globally — including Scott Morrison — have seen a surge in support. In historical context, Trump's four-point bump was nothing to sing about 没什么好神气的, 没什么好骄傲的, 不是什么了不起的事. But even those small gains have since evaporated. RealClearPolitics shows approval of Trump's handling of the crisis rising steeply through March, then falling just as fast since the start of April. He tried to shift the narrative [ˈnærətɪv] 引导舆论, 改变舆论 by attacking the media. This week, the Commander-in-Chief started to look like a man under pressure, responding in the best way he knows how: by picking fights. At least when it comes to the blame-game, Mr Trump is ahead of the curve 领先所有人. On Monday, he ramped up his attack on the "fake news" media, using his daily crisis briefing from the White House to play a campaign style video to the millions who tuned in at home for the latest coronavirus information. Highly selective, it featured clips of journalists who "minimised the risks" contrasting against a timeline of the President's most decisive moments and complete with an inspiring sound track. By the White House's own measure 用他自己的话, 照他自己的说法 ( have/get/take the measure of sb/sth 算准了, 握在掌心, 看穿了, 看透了某人 to understand what someone or something is like and to know how to deal with him, her, or it: I don't think she's under any illusions about her husband - she has the measure of him. to understand what someone is really like so that you can decide how to deal with them or defeat them. She seems to have got the measure of the champion. measure somebody/something against somebody/something to judge someone or something by comparing them with another person or thing. Bridget did not think she had to measure herself against some ideal standard. Measured against our budget last year, $2.7 million seems small. ), the only action taken in that month was on February 6: "CDC ships first testing kits". Even to this day, the US continues to have major shortages of testing kits. Then he picked a fight with the WHO. He accused the United Nations body of "severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus" and promised to halt its funding while an investigation was conducted. The WHO hasn't covered itself in glory since the first signs of a possible pandemic. In mid-January, it publicly supported China's claims that human-to-human transmission had not been proven. Even now, the WHO remains unopposed to the reopening of China's so-called wet markets ( A wet market is a marketplace selling fresh meat, fish, produce, and other perishable goods as distinguished from "dry markets" that sell durable goods such as fabric and electronics. ), where the coronavirus is thought to have originated. But if the WHO is to blame for America's coronavirus woes, why does every other country on earth seem to be doing so much better than the US? After all, every country made its own decisions based on the same information from the WHO. Trump's doing what he does best: picking fights with his perceived enemies. But it's the WHO's opposition to travel bans that have upset Mr Trump the most. The President spent the better part of the week taunting 讥笑, 嘲讽, 嘲笑 state governors, claiming the Federal Government had "absolute power" to force them to lift social-distancing restrictions. "When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total," he told reporters in the West Wing on Monday. By Thursday, he had reverted to his original position, that it was up to the governors to decide what sort of social-distancing restrictions were right for their states. But for the better part of four days, Trump projected an image of a president fighting for ownership of the politically rewarding task of reopening the economy. His name will even be printed on the bailout cheques being sent to millions of Americans, the first time a president's name has appeared on an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) disbursement. It's quite a turnaround from four weeks ago when he said: "I don't take responsibility at all."
磕了药的 drugged, 下了药的drugged, spiked/laced/tainted/doped, doctored. 下药的 dope one's drink, slip something into one's drink: 1. dope noun. I. [informal] Dope is a drug, usually an illegal drug such as marijuana or cocaine. an illegal drug, especially marijuana. a dope dealer. A man asked them if they wanted to buy some dope. He has failed a dope test for cocaine. You get dope dealers on every corner. II. [informal, disapproval] If someone calls a person a dope, they think that the person is stupid. I'm more comfortable with them. I don't feel I'm such a dope. III. Dope is information which you have been given illegally or secretly. all the information or latest news about someone or something. dope 实锤 on: What's the dope on Kate's new boyfriend? The government had plenty of dope on him. verb. If someone dopes a person or animal or dopes their food, they put drugs into their food or force them to take drugs. Anyone could have got in and doped the wine 下药. I'd been doped with Somnolin. They've got him doped to the eyeballs. ...recent cases of horse doping. adj. I. very good. You were dope, everything you did was like super mega fresh. II. cool, in-style. Whoa, those sunglasses are dope! dopey I. stupid. If you describe someone as dopey, you mean that they are rather stupid. He's a really dopey kid. II. feeling tired and not able to think quickly, especially because you have been given drugs to take away your pain or to make you sleep. Someone who is dopey is sleepy, as though they have been drugged. The medicine always made him feel dopey and unable to concentrate. He had the operation this morning, so he's still feeling a little dopey. 2. wasted 喝醉了的, 醉酒了的, 磕了药的 I. informal someone who is wasted is very drunk or has taken a lot of drugs. II. a wasted arm, leg, or other part of someone's body looks extremely thin and weak, especially because they are ill. be wasted on someone if something is wasted on someone, they do not understand it or do not realize how good or valuable it is. Don't give the smoked salmon to the children – it'd just be wasted on them. 3. drugged I. 磕了药的. under the influence of sedatives or narcotics. Distressed and drugged patients are rarely able to pay close attention to changes in their emotions and behaviour harvesting organs from a drugged tourist. It didn't matter if he was drugged or just drunk. I had her arrested because she was drugged out of her mind. II. (of sleep) brought about by drugs. He grew tired, and drifted off into a drugged sleep. III. (of food or drink) having had a substance added to it in order to stupefy or poison the person consuming it. A tourist was robbed after being given a drugged 下药了的, 下了药的 orange. The victim has told police she thought she may have been drugged 被下药了 at the time and could not remember the attack well enough to report the incident. 4. What if he slips something in your drink下药 ( laced with, spiked with, tainted ) and then rapes your ass when you're passed out?" I was slipped a roofie ( 迷幻药, 迷药, 迷魂药. 安眠药. 被下药 A tablet of the sedative flunitrazepam. Term for Rohypnol, a sedative that was made in the early 1970s by Roche and was used in hospitals only for deep sedation. It is now a fairly infamous date-rape drug. Has also been known to be used recreationally. He slipped a roofie in her drink and she passed out. ) and raped. 5. spike I. 大钉子. A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward. II. An ear of grain, as of wheat 麦穗, 玉米棒. ear: The seed-bearing spike of a cereal plant, such as corn. III. (in plural spikes; informal) 钉子鞋 Running shoes with spikes in the soles. A sharp peak in a graph. hang up one's spurs (A short spike or spiked wheel that attaches to the heel of a rider's boot and is used to urge a horse forward.) To retire from something. Lola was the only stripper over thirty at the club. I told her it was time to finally "Hang up your spurs". hang up one's spikes 挂靴, 挂战靴. 退役. IV. 扣球. (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block. V. 骤增 a. A sharp rise followed by a sharp decline in a graph or in the tracing of a scientific instrument. b. A sharp momentary increase in voltage or electric current. a surge in power(surge只强调猛增, spike强调是一个猛增然后猛减, 形成一个尖峰 As favorable reviews came out, interest in the software surged. The fans surged forward to see the movie star. a surge of anger). c. A sudden steep increase in prices. VI. (slang) The casual ward of a workhouse. vt. I. 下药的. 加了调剂品的, 混入, 偷偷加入, 偷加了的 To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance in a drink that previously did not contain such substances. Informal a. To add alcoholic liquor to: spiked the punch with rum. b. To add a poison or other chemical to: a drink spiked with barbituates. c. To add flavor or spice to: "several herb vinegars, including one . . . spiked with colorful chive blossoms". d. 调剂性的 To add excitement or vitality to: spiked the speech with many jokes. II. To add a small amount of one substance to another. The water sample to be tested has been spiked with arsenic, antimony, mercury, and lead in quantities commonly found in industrial effluents. III. (military) To render ( a muzzleloading gun ) unusable [useless] by driving a metal spike into its touch hole. IV. (journalism) To decide not to publish or make public. V. To put an end to; terminate: spike a rumor. VI. To manifest (a sharp increase in body temperature): spike a high fever. to spike someone's guns to thwart (someone's) purpose. To frustrate a person's efforts or designs; to undercut, to render helpless. to spoil someone's plans. Usage notes: In the past, soldiers put spikes (= thin, pointed pieces of metal) into their enemies' guns in order to stop them working. The African runner spiked her guns, overtaking her in the final minute. 6. doctor I. 修图. to change something, especially facts or numbers, in order to make people believe something that is not true. Experts suspected that the company's report had been doctored. II. 下药. to add a substance to food or drink, especially a harmful substance. doctor something with something: There were worries that the horse's feed had been doctored with drugs. III. 阉割. informal to remove the sexual organs of an animal so that it cannot produce babies. witch-doctor 巫医 a man who uses magic powers to try to cure people who are ill. just what the doctor ordered something that is exactly what you need or want. Our holiday in Tahiti was just what the doctor ordered. Differences between British and American English: In the UK, a doctor who works in a local community, not in a hospital, is called a GP or a general practitioner (or sometimes a family doctor), and has the title Dr: Could I have an appointment with Dr Jones, please? But surgeons (=doctors who perform operations on people), dentists (=doctors who look after people’s teeth), and vets (=doctors who look after animals) are all referred to by the titles Mr, Mrs, or Miss. In the US, however, all of these doctors use the title Dr..
Donald Trump has lost his coronavirus approval polling bump ( approval rating 认可度, 认可率). That may explain this week's antics: In a week when 2,500 Americans are dying every day from COVID-19, US President Donald Trump has launched his plan for ending the nationwide lockdowns. The branding king has also given the strategy a catchy title with familiar cadence (cadence [keɪdəns] I. The cadence of someone's voice 韵律, 抑扬顿挫 is the way their voice gets higher and lower as they speak. the way in which someone's voice gets higher or lower as they speak, especially the fall of their voice at the end of a sentence. He recognized the Polish cadences 调调儿 in her voice. He is not attempting necessarily to reproduce the cadence of speech. II. A cadence is the phrase that ends a section of music or a complete piece of music. III. how often a scheduled thing happens. Feedback and discussing performance needs to happen with a regular cadence 经常性.): Opening Up America Again. "We'll be the comeback kids 杀回来, all of us," Trump said this week. Right now, the number of daily deaths is horrific. But, looking at the data, the US President may be right about America being "past the peak" of new coronavirus cases. Nationwide, the number of new infections and intensive care admissions is declining. The number of daily deaths has flattened, albeit at a devastating level. For now, there are enough ventilators to go around, frontline health workers are getting more access to protective equipment and the temporary hospitals set up in COVID-19 hotspots are nowhere near capacity 饱和. The frenzied early days of this rolling calamity have morphed into 蜕变为 a grimly ( grim I. grim news, situations, or events are unpleasant and make you feel upset and worried. The future looks pretty grim. the grim reality of unemployment. A situation or piece of information that is grim is unpleasant, depressing, and difficult to accept. They painted a grim picture of growing crime. There was further grim economic news yesterday. The mood could not have been grimmer. ...an unrelenting grimness of tone. II. very serious and unfriendly. If a person or their behaviour is grim, they are very serious, usually because they are worried about something. She was a grim woman with a turned-down mouth. Her expression was grim and unpleasant. 'It's too late now to stop him,' Harris said grimly. His face was set in a grim expression. a. angry and pleased about something at the same time. "Exactly what I expected," he said with grim satisfaction. b. very determined to do something. a grim determination to do God's will. III. a grim place is ugly and unpleasant. A place that is grim is unattractive and depressing in appearance. The city might be grim at first, but there is a vibrancy and excitement. ...the tower blocks on the city's grim edges. The house was lonely and rather grim. IV. mainly British informal not very enjoyable, usually because it is of bad quality. The game was a bit grim. V. informal sick I started to feel grim about an hour after lunch. hold on like grim death to hold something very tightly. paint/draw/present a grim picture to describe a situation in a way that shows how bad it is. The report paints a grim picture of children's homes. ) calm rhythm of morbidity. Now a new, more hopeful phase is beginning and the President is doing everything possible to put himself at the centre of it. He's promising "new heights of greatness and glory" for America. At first glance, the cautious, data-driven 靠数据支撑的 approach to opening up the economy makes sense. It's a far cry from what Mr Trump was proposing a few weeks ago when he spoke of "packed churches" on Easter. It's a three-phase plan, to be carried out on a "community-by-community, city-by-city, state-by-state" basis. If a region can show the number of infections have been declining for 14 days and its healthcare facilities are running smoothly, it can move on to the next phase. If infections rise, restrictions are put in place again. Trump reportedly suggested some states, like Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota, could move to phase one "literally tomorrow because they've met all the guidelines 满足了所有条件". The continued rapid expansion of testing, which remains inadequate in many hotspots, will be crucial to the success of the strategy. Importantly, the onus ( [oʊnəs] If you say that the onus is on someone to do something, you mean it is their duty or responsibility to do it. If you ordered something, then the onus is on you to pay for it. The onus of proof is reversed in libel actions and placed firmly on the defender. ) will be on individual governors to make the decisions that best suit their populations, with coordination and guidance from the Federal Government. If only such care and competence was available at the front end of the crisis, when governors of the worst-affected states had to make the tough decisions on their own while the Commander-in-Chief played down the risk. A month ago today, Trump released his strict guidelines for slowing the spread of COVID-19. By then, states like New York, California and Washington had already taken matters into their own hands. Still, in the days after his announcement, Trump's approval ratings got a noticeable bump. It's normal for voters the world over to rally around their leader in times of crisis. In the past month, presidents and prime ministers globally — including Scott Morrison — have seen a surge in support. In historical context, Trump's four-point bump was nothing to sing about 没什么好神气的, 没什么好骄傲的, 不是什么了不起的事. But even those small gains have since evaporated. RealClearPolitics shows approval of Trump's handling of the crisis rising steeply through March, then falling just as fast since the start of April. He tried to shift the narrative [ˈnærətɪv] 引导舆论, 改变舆论 by attacking the media. This week, the Commander-in-Chief started to look like a man under pressure, responding in the best way he knows how: by picking fights. At least when it comes to the blame-game, Mr Trump is ahead of the curve 领先所有人. On Monday, he ramped up his attack on the "fake news" media, using his daily crisis briefing from the White House to play a campaign style video to the millions who tuned in at home for the latest coronavirus information. Highly selective, it featured clips of journalists who "minimised the risks" contrasting against a timeline of the President's most decisive moments and complete with an inspiring sound track. By the White House's own measure 用他自己的话, 照他自己的说法 ( have/get/take the measure of sb/sth 算准了, 握在掌心, 看穿了, 看透了某人 to understand what someone or something is like and to know how to deal with him, her, or it: I don't think she's under any illusions about her husband - she has the measure of him. to understand what someone is really like so that you can decide how to deal with them or defeat them. She seems to have got the measure of the champion. measure somebody/something against somebody/something to judge someone or something by comparing them with another person or thing. Bridget did not think she had to measure herself against some ideal standard. Measured against our budget last year, $2.7 million seems small. ), the only action taken in that month was on February 6: "CDC ships first testing kits". Even to this day, the US continues to have major shortages of testing kits. Then he picked a fight with the WHO. He accused the United Nations body of "severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus" and promised to halt its funding while an investigation was conducted. The WHO hasn't covered itself in glory since the first signs of a possible pandemic. In mid-January, it publicly supported China's claims that human-to-human transmission had not been proven. Even now, the WHO remains unopposed to the reopening of China's so-called wet markets ( A wet market is a marketplace selling fresh meat, fish, produce, and other perishable goods as distinguished from "dry markets" that sell durable goods such as fabric and electronics. ), where the coronavirus is thought to have originated. But if the WHO is to blame for America's coronavirus woes, why does every other country on earth seem to be doing so much better than the US? After all, every country made its own decisions based on the same information from the WHO. Trump's doing what he does best: picking fights with his perceived enemies. But it's the WHO's opposition to travel bans that have upset Mr Trump the most. The President spent the better part of the week taunting 讥笑, 嘲讽, 嘲笑 state governors, claiming the Federal Government had "absolute power" to force them to lift social-distancing restrictions. "When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total," he told reporters in the West Wing on Monday. By Thursday, he had reverted to his original position, that it was up to the governors to decide what sort of social-distancing restrictions were right for their states. But for the better part of four days, Trump projected an image of a president fighting for ownership of the politically rewarding task of reopening the economy. His name will even be printed on the bailout cheques being sent to millions of Americans, the first time a president's name has appeared on an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) disbursement. It's quite a turnaround from four weeks ago when he said: "I don't take responsibility at all."
磕了药的 drugged, 下了药的drugged, spiked/laced/tainted/doped, doctored. 下药的 dope one's drink, slip something into one's drink: 1. dope noun. I. [informal] Dope is a drug, usually an illegal drug such as marijuana or cocaine. an illegal drug, especially marijuana. a dope dealer. A man asked them if they wanted to buy some dope. He has failed a dope test for cocaine. You get dope dealers on every corner. II. [informal, disapproval] If someone calls a person a dope, they think that the person is stupid. I'm more comfortable with them. I don't feel I'm such a dope. III. Dope is information which you have been given illegally or secretly. all the information or latest news about someone or something. dope 实锤 on: What's the dope on Kate's new boyfriend? The government had plenty of dope on him. verb. If someone dopes a person or animal or dopes their food, they put drugs into their food or force them to take drugs. Anyone could have got in and doped the wine 下药. I'd been doped with Somnolin. They've got him doped to the eyeballs. ...recent cases of horse doping. adj. I. very good. You were dope, everything you did was like super mega fresh. II. cool, in-style. Whoa, those sunglasses are dope! dopey I. stupid. If you describe someone as dopey, you mean that they are rather stupid. He's a really dopey kid. II. feeling tired and not able to think quickly, especially because you have been given drugs to take away your pain or to make you sleep. Someone who is dopey is sleepy, as though they have been drugged. The medicine always made him feel dopey and unable to concentrate. He had the operation this morning, so he's still feeling a little dopey. 2. wasted 喝醉了的, 醉酒了的, 磕了药的 I. informal someone who is wasted is very drunk or has taken a lot of drugs. II. a wasted arm, leg, or other part of someone's body looks extremely thin and weak, especially because they are ill. be wasted on someone if something is wasted on someone, they do not understand it or do not realize how good or valuable it is. Don't give the smoked salmon to the children – it'd just be wasted on them. 3. drugged I. 磕了药的. under the influence of sedatives or narcotics. Distressed and drugged patients are rarely able to pay close attention to changes in their emotions and behaviour harvesting organs from a drugged tourist. It didn't matter if he was drugged or just drunk. I had her arrested because she was drugged out of her mind. II. (of sleep) brought about by drugs. He grew tired, and drifted off into a drugged sleep. III. (of food or drink) having had a substance added to it in order to stupefy or poison the person consuming it. A tourist was robbed after being given a drugged 下药了的, 下了药的 orange. The victim has told police she thought she may have been drugged 被下药了 at the time and could not remember the attack well enough to report the incident. 4. What if he slips something in your drink下药 ( laced with, spiked with, tainted ) and then rapes your ass when you're passed out?" I was slipped a roofie ( 迷幻药, 迷药, 迷魂药. 安眠药. 被下药 A tablet of the sedative flunitrazepam. Term for Rohypnol, a sedative that was made in the early 1970s by Roche and was used in hospitals only for deep sedation. It is now a fairly infamous date-rape drug. Has also been known to be used recreationally. He slipped a roofie in her drink and she passed out. ) and raped. 5. spike I. 大钉子. A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward. II. An ear of grain, as of wheat 麦穗, 玉米棒. ear: The seed-bearing spike of a cereal plant, such as corn. III. (in plural spikes; informal) 钉子鞋 Running shoes with spikes in the soles. A sharp peak in a graph. hang up one's spurs (A short spike or spiked wheel that attaches to the heel of a rider's boot and is used to urge a horse forward.) To retire from something. Lola was the only stripper over thirty at the club. I told her it was time to finally "Hang up your spurs". hang up one's spikes 挂靴, 挂战靴. 退役. IV. 扣球. (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block. V. 骤增 a. A sharp rise followed by a sharp decline in a graph or in the tracing of a scientific instrument. b. A sharp momentary increase in voltage or electric current. a surge in power(surge只强调猛增, spike强调是一个猛增然后猛减, 形成一个尖峰 As favorable reviews came out, interest in the software surged. The fans surged forward to see the movie star. a surge of anger). c. A sudden steep increase in prices. VI. (slang) The casual ward of a workhouse. vt. I. 下药的. 加了调剂品的, 混入, 偷偷加入, 偷加了的 To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance in a drink that previously did not contain such substances. Informal a. To add alcoholic liquor to: spiked the punch with rum. b. To add a poison or other chemical to: a drink spiked with barbituates. c. To add flavor or spice to: "several herb vinegars, including one . . . spiked with colorful chive blossoms". d. 调剂性的 To add excitement or vitality to: spiked the speech with many jokes. II. To add a small amount of one substance to another. The water sample to be tested has been spiked with arsenic, antimony, mercury, and lead in quantities commonly found in industrial effluents. III. (military) To render ( a muzzleloading gun ) unusable [useless] by driving a metal spike into its touch hole. IV. (journalism) To decide not to publish or make public. V. To put an end to; terminate: spike a rumor. VI. To manifest (a sharp increase in body temperature): spike a high fever. to spike someone's guns to thwart (someone's) purpose. To frustrate a person's efforts or designs; to undercut, to render helpless. to spoil someone's plans. Usage notes: In the past, soldiers put spikes (= thin, pointed pieces of metal) into their enemies' guns in order to stop them working. The African runner spiked her guns, overtaking her in the final minute. 6. doctor I. 修图. to change something, especially facts or numbers, in order to make people believe something that is not true. Experts suspected that the company's report had been doctored. II. 下药. to add a substance to food or drink, especially a harmful substance. doctor something with something: There were worries that the horse's feed had been doctored with drugs. III. 阉割. informal to remove the sexual organs of an animal so that it cannot produce babies. witch-doctor 巫医 a man who uses magic powers to try to cure people who are ill. just what the doctor ordered something that is exactly what you need or want. Our holiday in Tahiti was just what the doctor ordered. Differences between British and American English: In the UK, a doctor who works in a local community, not in a hospital, is called a GP or a general practitioner (or sometimes a family doctor), and has the title Dr: Could I have an appointment with Dr Jones, please? But surgeons (=doctors who perform operations on people), dentists (=doctors who look after people’s teeth), and vets (=doctors who look after animals) are all referred to by the titles Mr, Mrs, or Miss. In the US, however, all of these doctors use the title Dr..
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
抢购; Ted Kaczynski
用法学习: 1. double-barrelled = US double-barreled I. 双管的. A double-barrelled gun has two barrels. ...a double-barrelled shotgun. II. A double-barrelled surname has two parts which are joined by a hyphen, for example ' Miss J. Heydon-Smith'. III. Double-barrelled is used to describe something such as a plan which has two main parts. The company announced a double-barreled investment and management-compensation plan. double-acting I. (of a reciprocating engine or pump) having a piston or pistons that are pressurized alternately on opposite sides. single-acting. II. (of a hinge, door, etc) having complementary actions in opposed directions. A double acting door 双向开的门, also known as a double swinging door or impact traffic door, is a single door or a pair of doors in which the door(s) is able to swing in both directions. A double-acting door is one that swings in and out, often used in high-traffic locations like a restaurant kitchen. wiki: A single-acting cylinder in a reciprocating engine is a cylinder in which the working fluid acts on one side of the piston 活塞 only. A single-acting cylinder relies on the load, springs, other cylinders, or the momentum of a flywheel, to push the piston back in the other direction. Single-acting cylinders are found in most kinds of reciprocating engine. They are almost universal in internal combustion engines 内燃引擎 (e.g. petrol and diesel engines) and are also used in many external combustion engines such as Stirling engines and some steam engines. They are also found in pumps and hydraulic rams. A two-stroke (or two-cycle) engine 双冲程 is a type of internal combustion engine which completes a power cycle with two strokes (up and down movements) of the piston during only one crankshaft revolution. This is in contrast to a "four-stroke engine", which requires four strokes of the piston to complete a power cycle during two crankshaft revolutions. In a two-stroke engine, the end of the combustion stroke and the beginning of the compression stroke happen simultaneously, with the intake and exhaust (or scavenging) functions occurring at the same time. Two-stroke engines often have a high power-to-weight ratio, power being available in a narrow range of rotational speeds called the "power band". Compared to four-stroke engines, two-stroke engines have a greatly reduced number of moving parts. 2. Anteater [ˈantiːtə] 食蚁兽 is a common name for the four extant mammal species of the suborder Vermilingua (meaning "worm tongue") commonly known for eating ants and termites. The individual species have other names in English and other languages. Together with the sloths, they are within the order Pilosa. The name "anteater" is also colloquially applied to the unrelated aardvark, numbat, echidnas, pangolins and some members of the Oecobiidae. Pangolins [paŋˈɡə(ʊ)lɪn] 穿山甲, or scaly anteaters, are mammals of the order Pholidota (from Ancient Greek φολῐ́ς, "horny scale"). Pangolins have large, protective keratin scales covering their skin; they are the only known mammals with this feature. They live in hollow trees or burrows, depending on the species. Pangolins are nocturnal, and their diet consists of mainly ants and termites, which they capture using their long tongues. They tend to be solitary animals, meeting only to mate and produce a litter of one to three offspring, which they raise for about two years. Echidnas ([ɪˈkɪdnə]) 针鼹yǎn, sometimes known as spiny anteaters, belong to the family Tachyglossidae in the monotreme order of egg-laying mammals. The four extant species of echidnas and the platypus are the only living mammals that lay eggs and the only surviving members of the order Monotremata. The diet of some species consists of ants and termites, but they are not closely related to the true anteaters of the Americas, which are xenarthrans, along with sloths and armadillos. Echidnas live in Australia and New Guinea. The echidnas are named after Echidna, a creature from Greek mythology who was half-woman, half-snake, as the animal was perceived to have qualities of both mammals and reptiles. Sloths [sloʊθ] or [sloθ] 树懒 of the present day are arboreal mammals noted for slowness of movement and for spending most of their lives hanging upside down in the trees of the tropical rain forests of South America and Central America. The six species are in two families: two-toed sloths and three-toed sloths. Despite this traditional naming, all sloths actually have three toes on each rear limb, although two-toed sloths have only two digits on each forelimb. The sloth is so named because of its very low metabolism and deliberate movements, sloth being related to the word slow. This supports their low-energy diet of leaves and avoids detection by predatory hawks and cats that hunt by sight. Sloths are almost helpless on the ground but are able to swim. The shaggy coat has grooved hair that is host to symbiotic green algae which camouflages the animal in the trees and provides it nutrients. The algae also nourishes sloth moths, some species of which exist solely on sloths. 3. forlorn [fərˈlɔrn] I. If someone is forlorn, they feel alone and unhappy. One of the demonstrators, a young woman, sat forlorn on the pavement. He looked a forlorn figure as he limped off after 26 minutes. A Dutch newspaper photographed the president waiting forlornly in the rain. II. If a place is forlorn, it is deserted and not cared for, or has little in it. They headed inland on a forlorn road that was rutted and pocked. The once glorious palaces stood empty and forlorn. It is stranded somewhat forlornly in the middle of the plain. III. A forlorn hope or attempt 徒劳的, 徒劳无功的 is one that you think has no chance of success. Peasants have left the land in the forlorn hope of finding a better life in cities. ...a forlorn effort to keep from losing my mind. His father forlornly hoped someone might have seen them. floozy = flusy [ˈfluːzi] noun. a usually young woman of loose morals. a girl or a woman who has many casual sexual encounters or relationships. "they were attacked for canoodling with floozies in nightclubs". If someone refers to a woman as a floozy, they disapprove of her because she has many casual sexual relationships. Sorry to disturb you 打搅你, 打扰你.
抢购 snap up sth; raid up sth. a run on sth. scare buy = panic buy; stampede into a place; throng to = flock to = crowd into a place: 1. a run on something I. a situation in which a lot of people want to buy something at the same time. As managing director of five fuel, food and grocery outlets across the state, he found himself calling 15 different suppliers when there was a run on eggs. There's always a run on sunglasses 抢着买, 抢购, 销售高峰 at this time of year. The contamination sparked a run on bottled water by panicked residents. Later on there'll be a run on clothes, too. II. a time when a lot of people take their money out of a bank at the same time. III. a situation in which a lot of people sell a particular currency (=dollars, pounds, yen etc) with the result that its value falls. run on something or someone in the sense of dwell on My thoughts ran on my losses. 2. snap up 抢购, 迅速拿下 To buy quickly, usually because the item is a bargain or in short supply or something one has been searching for. When I saw the penny black missing from my collection in the shop window, I just went in and snapped it up. The treasures were snapped up by collectors at high prices. snap up用例: a. RESERVE Bank documents released last week under Freedom of Information laws indicate as many as 34 central banks around the world, from Kazakhstan to Peru, have been snapping up Australian securities to bolster their foreign exchange reserves. The documents also show foreign government demand for Australian assets has underpinned ( I. (transitive) To support from below with props or masonry. You should underpin the mine roof to prevent further collapse. II. (transitive, figuratively) To give support to; to corroborate. Public confidence in politicians must underpin our democracy. ) the Australian dollar's value, which the Reserve Bank said was between 4 to 15 per cent higher than it should be. b. Shoppers crowded into downtown stores, snapping up once-rationed consumer goods. 3. Trina would arrive breathless from her raids upon the bargain counters. There was a great scurry ( verb. I. to move fast with small quick steps. To go with light running steps; scamper. When people or small animals scurry somewhere, they move there quickly and hurriedly, especially because they are frightened. The attack began, sending residents scurrying for cover. [+ for] The rats scurry around, searching for scraps of food in the rubbish. scurry about/around/off etc.: They were scurrying around like ants. II. To flurry or swirl about. III. to hurry to do something or to get something. If people scurry to do something, they do it as soon as they can. Pictures of starving children have sent many people scurrying to donate money. The animals scurried for shelter.) for bargains. Companies, dreaming of similar leaps in sales through the new medium, rushed to buy commercial time. Late last year, three Chinese shoppers trampled to death in a supermarket scuffle over ( I. To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters. If people scuffle 混战, 乱成一团, 乱成一锅粥 they fight for a short time in a disorganized way. Police scuffled with some of the protesters. He and Hannah had been scuffling in the yard outside his house. II. To shuffle. scuffle with someone 蜂拥着, 争着抢着 to struggle or have a fight with someone. The two prisoners scuffled with each other a little till a guard came along and saw them. The cowboys scuffled with the deputies when they came out of the saloon. noun. A scuffle is a short, disorganized fight or struggle. Violent scuffles broke out between rival groups demonstrating for and against independence. ) cooking oil. 4. There's a great demand for our new product. There's been a big rush for it lately. He spent a lot of money in the Christmas rush 疯狂采购, 大采购. 5. In SARS period, a few day's panic buying emptied the shelves. A dejected woman in the crowd who scare buy (=panic buy) new share. If there are any bargains going, she'll snap them up 迅速拿下. 6. Spiraling 扶摇而上, 扶摇直上 food prices have already triggered stampedes ( [stæm'pi:d] I. headlong rush of a crowd. 蜂拥而至 a stampede of shoppers. II. an impulsive headlong rush of startled cattle or horses. II. A mass impulsive action: a stampede of support for the candidate. stampede in(to some place) [for a crowd of people or other creatures] to move rapidly into a place, as if in panic. The shoppers stampeded into the store the minute the doors opened. The doors opened and the shoppers stampeded in. stampede out of some place [for a crowd of people or other creatures] to move rapidly out of a place, as if in panic. The patrons stampeded out of the smoky theater. The cattle stampeded out of the corral. ) at supermarkets for discounted goods. 7. People thronged to蜂拥 buy the new computer game. Still, despite the warnings, young Beijingers are flocking to 蜂拥 shops to pick up the cosmetic lenses. A crowd of housewives crowded into the store when the goods were on sale. At this moment, we must keep rational and not be involved in the stamped of buying. Rumor spread the prices would go up, many people stampeded into a wave of panic buying. He plumped his money down ( plump something down I. to drop a heavy load of something. She plumped the load of groceries onto the bench and looked through her purse for the keys. Jill plumped down her packages. II. to drop something as if it were a heavy load. He plumped the potatoes down on each plate, making a loud noise each time. Dave plumped down a huge slab of meat onto the grill.) to secure one of the few remaining tickets.
Ted Kaczynski: Theodore John Kaczynski ([kəˈzɪnski]; born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber ([ˈjuːnəbɒmər]), is an American domestic terrorist, anarchist, and former mathematics professor. He was a mathematics prodigy 天才, but he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a more primitive 原始的生活, 原生态的生活方式 lifestyle. Between 1978 and 1995, he killed three people and injured 23 others in an attempt to start a revolution by conducting a nationwide bombing campaign targeting people involved with modern technology. Theodore John Kaczynski was born on May 22, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois, to working-class, second-generation Polish Americans, Wanda Theresa (née Dombek) and Theodore Richard Kaczynski, a sausage maker. His parents told his younger brother, David Kaczynski, that Ted had been a happy baby until severe hives forced him into hospital isolation with limited contact with others, after which he "showed little emotion for months". Wanda recalled Ted recoiling 退缩, 抽缩 from a picture of himself as an infant being held down by physicians examining his hives (荨麻疹). She said he showed sympathy to animals who were in cages or otherwise helpless, which she speculated stemmed from his experience in hospital isolation. From first to fourth grade, Kaczynski attended Sherman Elementary School in Chicago, where administrators described him as "healthy" and "well-adjusted". In 1952, three years after David was born, the family moved to southwest suburban Evergreen Park, Illinois; Ted transferred to Evergreen Park Central Junior High School. After testing scored his IQ at 167, he skipped the sixth grade. Kaczynski later described this as a pivotal event 转折性的: previously he had socialized with his peers and was even a leader, but after skipping ahead he felt he did not fit in with the older children and was bullied. In 1996, a former classmate said: "He was never really seen as a person, as an individual personality ... He was always regarded as a walking brain, so to speak." During this period, Kaczynski became intensely interested in mathematics, spending hours studying and solving advanced problems. He became associated with 打交道, 认识 a group of likeminded boys interested in science and mathematics, known as the "briefcase boys" for their penchant for carrying briefcases. One member of this group recalled Kaczynski as "the smartest kid in the class ... just quiet and shy until you got to know him. Once he knew you, he could talk and talk." Throughout high school, Kaczynski was ahead of his classmates academically. Placed in a more advanced mathematics class, he soon mastered the material. He skipped the eleventh grade, and by attending summer school he graduated at age 15. He was one of his school's five National Merit finalists, and was encouraged to apply to Harvard College. He entered Harvard on a scholarship in 1958 at the age of 16. A classmate later said that Kaczynski was emotionally unprepared: "They packed him up and sent him to Harvard before he was ready ... He didn't even have a driver's license." During his first year at Harvard, Kaczynski lived at 8 Prescott Street, which was designed to accommodate the youngest, most precocious freshmen in a small, intimate living space. For the next three years he lived at Eliot House. One of his suitemates there recalled that he avoided contact with others and "would just rush through the suite, go into his room, and slam the door." Another said Kaczynski was reserved, but regarded him as a genius: "It's just an opinion – but Ted was brilliant." Other students stated Kaczynski was less socially averse than these descriptions imply; an Eliot House resident who dined with Kaczynski at times called him "very quiet, but personable ... He would enter into the discussions maybe a little less so than most [but] he was certainly friendly." Kaczynski earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Harvard in 1962. He finished with a 3.12 GPA, but had been expected to perform better. As a sophomore, Kaczynski participated in a study described by author Alston Chase as a "purposely 故意的, 特意的 brutalizing psychological experiment" led by Harvard psychologist Henry Murray. Subjects were told they would be debating personal philosophy with a fellow student, and were asked to write essays detailing their personal beliefs and aspirations. The essays were turned over to an anonymous attorney, who in a later session would confront and belittle the subject – making "vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive" attacks – using the content of the essays as ammunition, while electrodes monitored the subject's physiological reactions. These encounters were filmed, and subjects' expressions of anger and rage were later played back to them repeatedly. The experiment lasted three years, with someone verbally abusing and humiliating Kaczynski each week. Kaczynski spent 200 hours as part of the study. Kaczynski's lawyers later attributed his hostility towards mind control techniques to his participation in Murray's study. Neighbors in Evergreen Park later described the Kaczynski family as "civic-minded folks", with one stating that the parents "sacrificed everything they had for their children". Both Ted and David were intelligent, but Ted stood out in particular. One neighbor said she had "never known anyone who had a brain like he did", while another said that Ted was "strictly a loner" who "didn't play ... an old man before his time." His mother recalled Ted as a shy child who would become unresponsive if pressured into a social situation. At one point she was so worried about Ted's social development that she considered entering him in a study for autistic children led by Bruno Bettelheim. She decided against it after observing Bettelheim's abrupt and cold manner. In 1990, Ted's father Theodore, suffering from terminal cancer, committed suicide. In 1971, Kaczynski moved to a remote cabin without electricity or running water near Lincoln, Montana, where he lived as a recluse 隐士 while learning survival skills in an attempt to become self-sufficient. He witnessed the destruction of the wilderness surrounding his cabin and concluded that living in nature was untenable ( An argument, theory, or position that is untenable cannot be defended successfully against criticism or attack. This argument is untenable from an intellectual, moral and practical standpoint. He claimed the charges against him were untenable. a. 难以为继的. impossible to continue because of serious problems, opposition, or criticism. She left, saying her job had become untenable. b. 难以抗争的. impossible to defend as fair, appropriate, or true. Their actions are untenable.); he began his bombing campaign in 1978. In 1979, an FBI-led task force 工作组, 特别行动队 that included 125 agents from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), and U.S. Postal Inspection Service was formed. The task force grew to more than 150 full-time personnel, but minute analysis of recovered components of the bombs and the investigation into the lives of the victims proved of little use in identifying the suspect, who built his bombs primarily from scrap materials available almost anywhere. The victims, investigators later learned, were chosen irregularly from library research. Before the publication of Industrial Society and Its Future, Ted's brother, David Kaczynski, was encouraged by his wife to follow up on suspicions that Ted was the Unabomber. David was dismissive at first, but he began to take the likelihood more seriously after reading the manifesto a week after it was published in September 1995. He searched through old family papers and found letters dating to the 1970s that Ted had sent to newspapers to protest the abuses of technology using phrasing similar to the manifesto. David later hired Washington, D.C. attorney Tony Bisceglie to organize the evidence acquired by Swanson and make contact with the FBI, given the presumed difficulty of attracting the FBI's attention. David wanted to protect his brother from the danger of an FBI raid, such as the Ruby Ridge or the Waco Siege, since he feared a violent outcome from any attempt by the FBI to contact his brother. In February 1996, Bisceglie gave a copy of the 1971 essay written by Ted Kaczynski to Molly Flynn at the FBI. She forwarded the essay to the San Francisco-based task force. FBI Profiler James R. Fitzgerald recognized similarities in the writings using linguistic analysis and determined that the author of the essays and the manifesto were almost certainly the same. Combined with facts gleaned 收集到的 from the bombings and Kaczynski's life, the analysis provided the basis for a search warrant signed by Terry Turchie, the head of the entire investigation. David Kaczynski had tried to remain anonymous, but he was soon identified, and within a few days an FBI agent team was dispatched to interview David and his wife with their attorney in Washington, D.C. At this and subsequent meetings, David provided letters written by his brother in their original envelopes, allowing the FBI task force to use the postmark dates to add more detail to their timeline of Ted's activities. David developed a respectful relationship with behavioral analysis Special Agent Kathleen M. Puckett, whom he met many times in Washington, D.C., Texas, Chicago, and Schenectady, New York, over the nearly two months before the federal search warrant was served on Kaczynski's cabin. David had once admired and emulated his older brother but later decided to leave the survivalist lifestyle behind. He had received assurances from the FBI that he would remain anonymous and that his brother would not learn who had turned him in, but his identity was leaked to CBS News in early April 1996. CBS anchorman Dan Rather called FBI director Louis Freeh, who requested 24 hours before CBS broke the story on the evening news. The FBI scrambled to finish the search warrant and have it issued by a federal judge in Montana; afterwards, an internal leak investigation was conducted by the FBI, but the source of the leak was never identified. FBI officials were not unanimous in identifying Ted as the author of the manifesto. The search warrant noted that numerous experts believed the manifesto had been written by another individual.
抢购 snap up sth; raid up sth. a run on sth. scare buy = panic buy; stampede into a place; throng to = flock to = crowd into a place: 1. a run on something I. a situation in which a lot of people want to buy something at the same time. As managing director of five fuel, food and grocery outlets across the state, he found himself calling 15 different suppliers when there was a run on eggs. There's always a run on sunglasses 抢着买, 抢购, 销售高峰 at this time of year. The contamination sparked a run on bottled water by panicked residents. Later on there'll be a run on clothes, too. II. a time when a lot of people take their money out of a bank at the same time. III. a situation in which a lot of people sell a particular currency (=dollars, pounds, yen etc) with the result that its value falls. run on something or someone in the sense of dwell on My thoughts ran on my losses. 2. snap up 抢购, 迅速拿下 To buy quickly, usually because the item is a bargain or in short supply or something one has been searching for. When I saw the penny black missing from my collection in the shop window, I just went in and snapped it up. The treasures were snapped up by collectors at high prices. snap up用例: a. RESERVE Bank documents released last week under Freedom of Information laws indicate as many as 34 central banks around the world, from Kazakhstan to Peru, have been snapping up Australian securities to bolster their foreign exchange reserves. The documents also show foreign government demand for Australian assets has underpinned ( I. (transitive) To support from below with props or masonry. You should underpin the mine roof to prevent further collapse. II. (transitive, figuratively) To give support to; to corroborate. Public confidence in politicians must underpin our democracy. ) the Australian dollar's value, which the Reserve Bank said was between 4 to 15 per cent higher than it should be. b. Shoppers crowded into downtown stores, snapping up once-rationed consumer goods. 3. Trina would arrive breathless from her raids upon the bargain counters. There was a great scurry ( verb. I. to move fast with small quick steps. To go with light running steps; scamper. When people or small animals scurry somewhere, they move there quickly and hurriedly, especially because they are frightened. The attack began, sending residents scurrying for cover. [+ for] The rats scurry around, searching for scraps of food in the rubbish. scurry about/around/off etc.: They were scurrying around like ants. II. To flurry or swirl about. III. to hurry to do something or to get something. If people scurry to do something, they do it as soon as they can. Pictures of starving children have sent many people scurrying to donate money. The animals scurried for shelter.) for bargains. Companies, dreaming of similar leaps in sales through the new medium, rushed to buy commercial time. Late last year, three Chinese shoppers trampled to death in a supermarket scuffle over ( I. To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters. If people scuffle 混战, 乱成一团, 乱成一锅粥 they fight for a short time in a disorganized way. Police scuffled with some of the protesters. He and Hannah had been scuffling in the yard outside his house. II. To shuffle. scuffle with someone 蜂拥着, 争着抢着 to struggle or have a fight with someone. The two prisoners scuffled with each other a little till a guard came along and saw them. The cowboys scuffled with the deputies when they came out of the saloon. noun. A scuffle is a short, disorganized fight or struggle. Violent scuffles broke out between rival groups demonstrating for and against independence. ) cooking oil. 4. There's a great demand for our new product. There's been a big rush for it lately. He spent a lot of money in the Christmas rush 疯狂采购, 大采购. 5. In SARS period, a few day's panic buying emptied the shelves. A dejected woman in the crowd who scare buy (=panic buy) new share. If there are any bargains going, she'll snap them up 迅速拿下. 6. Spiraling 扶摇而上, 扶摇直上 food prices have already triggered stampedes ( [stæm'pi:d] I. headlong rush of a crowd. 蜂拥而至 a stampede of shoppers. II. an impulsive headlong rush of startled cattle or horses. II. A mass impulsive action: a stampede of support for the candidate. stampede in(to some place) [for a crowd of people or other creatures] to move rapidly into a place, as if in panic. The shoppers stampeded into the store the minute the doors opened. The doors opened and the shoppers stampeded in. stampede out of some place [for a crowd of people or other creatures] to move rapidly out of a place, as if in panic. The patrons stampeded out of the smoky theater. The cattle stampeded out of the corral. ) at supermarkets for discounted goods. 7. People thronged to蜂拥 buy the new computer game. Still, despite the warnings, young Beijingers are flocking to 蜂拥 shops to pick up the cosmetic lenses. A crowd of housewives crowded into the store when the goods were on sale. At this moment, we must keep rational and not be involved in the stamped of buying. Rumor spread the prices would go up, many people stampeded into a wave of panic buying. He plumped his money down ( plump something down I. to drop a heavy load of something. She plumped the load of groceries onto the bench and looked through her purse for the keys. Jill plumped down her packages. II. to drop something as if it were a heavy load. He plumped the potatoes down on each plate, making a loud noise each time. Dave plumped down a huge slab of meat onto the grill.) to secure one of the few remaining tickets.
Ted Kaczynski: Theodore John Kaczynski ([kəˈzɪnski]; born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber ([ˈjuːnəbɒmər]), is an American domestic terrorist, anarchist, and former mathematics professor. He was a mathematics prodigy 天才, but he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a more primitive 原始的生活, 原生态的生活方式 lifestyle. Between 1978 and 1995, he killed three people and injured 23 others in an attempt to start a revolution by conducting a nationwide bombing campaign targeting people involved with modern technology. Theodore John Kaczynski was born on May 22, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois, to working-class, second-generation Polish Americans, Wanda Theresa (née Dombek) and Theodore Richard Kaczynski, a sausage maker. His parents told his younger brother, David Kaczynski, that Ted had been a happy baby until severe hives forced him into hospital isolation with limited contact with others, after which he "showed little emotion for months". Wanda recalled Ted recoiling 退缩, 抽缩 from a picture of himself as an infant being held down by physicians examining his hives (荨麻疹). She said he showed sympathy to animals who were in cages or otherwise helpless, which she speculated stemmed from his experience in hospital isolation. From first to fourth grade, Kaczynski attended Sherman Elementary School in Chicago, where administrators described him as "healthy" and "well-adjusted". In 1952, three years after David was born, the family moved to southwest suburban Evergreen Park, Illinois; Ted transferred to Evergreen Park Central Junior High School. After testing scored his IQ at 167, he skipped the sixth grade. Kaczynski later described this as a pivotal event 转折性的: previously he had socialized with his peers and was even a leader, but after skipping ahead he felt he did not fit in with the older children and was bullied. In 1996, a former classmate said: "He was never really seen as a person, as an individual personality ... He was always regarded as a walking brain, so to speak." During this period, Kaczynski became intensely interested in mathematics, spending hours studying and solving advanced problems. He became associated with 打交道, 认识 a group of likeminded boys interested in science and mathematics, known as the "briefcase boys" for their penchant for carrying briefcases. One member of this group recalled Kaczynski as "the smartest kid in the class ... just quiet and shy until you got to know him. Once he knew you, he could talk and talk." Throughout high school, Kaczynski was ahead of his classmates academically. Placed in a more advanced mathematics class, he soon mastered the material. He skipped the eleventh grade, and by attending summer school he graduated at age 15. He was one of his school's five National Merit finalists, and was encouraged to apply to Harvard College. He entered Harvard on a scholarship in 1958 at the age of 16. A classmate later said that Kaczynski was emotionally unprepared: "They packed him up and sent him to Harvard before he was ready ... He didn't even have a driver's license." During his first year at Harvard, Kaczynski lived at 8 Prescott Street, which was designed to accommodate the youngest, most precocious freshmen in a small, intimate living space. For the next three years he lived at Eliot House. One of his suitemates there recalled that he avoided contact with others and "would just rush through the suite, go into his room, and slam the door." Another said Kaczynski was reserved, but regarded him as a genius: "It's just an opinion – but Ted was brilliant." Other students stated Kaczynski was less socially averse than these descriptions imply; an Eliot House resident who dined with Kaczynski at times called him "very quiet, but personable ... He would enter into the discussions maybe a little less so than most [but] he was certainly friendly." Kaczynski earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Harvard in 1962. He finished with a 3.12 GPA, but had been expected to perform better. As a sophomore, Kaczynski participated in a study described by author Alston Chase as a "purposely 故意的, 特意的 brutalizing psychological experiment" led by Harvard psychologist Henry Murray. Subjects were told they would be debating personal philosophy with a fellow student, and were asked to write essays detailing their personal beliefs and aspirations. The essays were turned over to an anonymous attorney, who in a later session would confront and belittle the subject – making "vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive" attacks – using the content of the essays as ammunition, while electrodes monitored the subject's physiological reactions. These encounters were filmed, and subjects' expressions of anger and rage were later played back to them repeatedly. The experiment lasted three years, with someone verbally abusing and humiliating Kaczynski each week. Kaczynski spent 200 hours as part of the study. Kaczynski's lawyers later attributed his hostility towards mind control techniques to his participation in Murray's study. Neighbors in Evergreen Park later described the Kaczynski family as "civic-minded folks", with one stating that the parents "sacrificed everything they had for their children". Both Ted and David were intelligent, but Ted stood out in particular. One neighbor said she had "never known anyone who had a brain like he did", while another said that Ted was "strictly a loner" who "didn't play ... an old man before his time." His mother recalled Ted as a shy child who would become unresponsive if pressured into a social situation. At one point she was so worried about Ted's social development that she considered entering him in a study for autistic children led by Bruno Bettelheim. She decided against it after observing Bettelheim's abrupt and cold manner. In 1990, Ted's father Theodore, suffering from terminal cancer, committed suicide. In 1971, Kaczynski moved to a remote cabin without electricity or running water near Lincoln, Montana, where he lived as a recluse 隐士 while learning survival skills in an attempt to become self-sufficient. He witnessed the destruction of the wilderness surrounding his cabin and concluded that living in nature was untenable ( An argument, theory, or position that is untenable cannot be defended successfully against criticism or attack. This argument is untenable from an intellectual, moral and practical standpoint. He claimed the charges against him were untenable. a. 难以为继的. impossible to continue because of serious problems, opposition, or criticism. She left, saying her job had become untenable. b. 难以抗争的. impossible to defend as fair, appropriate, or true. Their actions are untenable.); he began his bombing campaign in 1978. In 1979, an FBI-led task force 工作组, 特别行动队 that included 125 agents from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), and U.S. Postal Inspection Service was formed. The task force grew to more than 150 full-time personnel, but minute analysis of recovered components of the bombs and the investigation into the lives of the victims proved of little use in identifying the suspect, who built his bombs primarily from scrap materials available almost anywhere. The victims, investigators later learned, were chosen irregularly from library research. Before the publication of Industrial Society and Its Future, Ted's brother, David Kaczynski, was encouraged by his wife to follow up on suspicions that Ted was the Unabomber. David was dismissive at first, but he began to take the likelihood more seriously after reading the manifesto a week after it was published in September 1995. He searched through old family papers and found letters dating to the 1970s that Ted had sent to newspapers to protest the abuses of technology using phrasing similar to the manifesto. David later hired Washington, D.C. attorney Tony Bisceglie to organize the evidence acquired by Swanson and make contact with the FBI, given the presumed difficulty of attracting the FBI's attention. David wanted to protect his brother from the danger of an FBI raid, such as the Ruby Ridge or the Waco Siege, since he feared a violent outcome from any attempt by the FBI to contact his brother. In February 1996, Bisceglie gave a copy of the 1971 essay written by Ted Kaczynski to Molly Flynn at the FBI. She forwarded the essay to the San Francisco-based task force. FBI Profiler James R. Fitzgerald recognized similarities in the writings using linguistic analysis and determined that the author of the essays and the manifesto were almost certainly the same. Combined with facts gleaned 收集到的 from the bombings and Kaczynski's life, the analysis provided the basis for a search warrant signed by Terry Turchie, the head of the entire investigation. David Kaczynski had tried to remain anonymous, but he was soon identified, and within a few days an FBI agent team was dispatched to interview David and his wife with their attorney in Washington, D.C. At this and subsequent meetings, David provided letters written by his brother in their original envelopes, allowing the FBI task force to use the postmark dates to add more detail to their timeline of Ted's activities. David developed a respectful relationship with behavioral analysis Special Agent Kathleen M. Puckett, whom he met many times in Washington, D.C., Texas, Chicago, and Schenectady, New York, over the nearly two months before the federal search warrant was served on Kaczynski's cabin. David had once admired and emulated his older brother but later decided to leave the survivalist lifestyle behind. He had received assurances from the FBI that he would remain anonymous and that his brother would not learn who had turned him in, but his identity was leaked to CBS News in early April 1996. CBS anchorman Dan Rather called FBI director Louis Freeh, who requested 24 hours before CBS broke the story on the evening news. The FBI scrambled to finish the search warrant and have it issued by a federal judge in Montana; afterwards, an internal leak investigation was conducted by the FBI, but the source of the leak was never identified. FBI officials were not unanimous in identifying Ted as the author of the manifesto. The search warrant noted that numerous experts believed the manifesto had been written by another individual.
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