用法学习: 1. burnish 提升(形象) to rub metal until it is smooth and shiny. If you burnish something such as your public image, you take action to improve it and make it more attractive. To burnish the image of someone or something means to improve their image. It was a move that has burnished Mr Hu's populist credentials. The company is currently trying to burnish its socially responsible image. There is nothing surprising about Albanese’s choices – assuming they are honest, and not chosen to burnish the everyman credentials of a man who grew up in public housing and is now the happy owner of multiple homes. burnished adj I. 磨得闪亮的. smooth and shiny, usually because of being polished (= rubbed): The case is burnished aluminium. burnished mahogany doors. II. (of a colour) shining in a warm way: Their children have burnished olive skin. III. having had improvements made to it: Nothing in political prose has been so burnished as his acceptance speech. 2. The reminiscence bump 回忆杀 is the tendency for adults over forty to have increased or enhanced recollection for events that occurred during their adolescence and early adulthood. It was identified through the study of autobiographical memory and the subsequent plotting of the age of encoding of memories to form the lifespan retrieval curve. The reminiscence bump is a phenomenon in autobiographical memory where older adults tend to recall a disproportionately large number of memories from their adolescence and early adulthood (roughly between the ages of 10 and 30). This occurs despite the fact that these individuals have lived through other periods of life with equally significant events. Albo's song list: Not that there's anything wrong with his choices, either. There's a fair body of research behind the "reminiscence bump" theory that the music we fall in love with in our youth – when we're developing our sense of self and identity – is the music that ends up staying with us for life. The reminiscence bump is mostly strongly felt towards music heard between the ages of about 10 to 30. And nostalgia is a hell of a drug, which is why most people remain slaves to the conceit(The phrase "slaves to the conceit" refers to individuals who are excessively devoted to or controlled by their own vanity, pride, or inflated sense of self-importance. It implies that their actions and decisions are driven by this conceit, rather than by reason or a more balanced perspective. The term "conceit" in this context means an overly high opinion of oneself, often manifested as arrogance or vanity.) that the music of their generation was the greatest ever made. 3. death ray 死死地盯着, 杀气腾腾的看着 a weapon that generates an intense beam of particles or radiation by which it destroys its target. an imaginary ray capable of killing. She was shooting death ray at 杀气腾腾的看着我 me. keep watch 小心看着 保持警惕 stay on the lookout for danger or trouble. to watch to make sure that no one is coming. If someone keeps watch, they look and listen all the time, while other people are asleep or doing something else, so that they can warn them of danger or an attack. Jose, as usual, had climbed a tree to keep watch. She kept watch outside while the others robbed the bank. "at the mouth of the stream, two young sentries kept watch". keep a watch out for to regularly check to see if someone has arrived or if something has appeared or happened. She asked him to keep a watch out for the delivery truck. condemnation 瞧不上 看不起 [ˌkɒn.dəmˈneɪ.ʃən] the act of condemning something or someone: The shooting of the police officer has received universal condemnation. Condemnation is the act of saying that something or someone is very bad and unacceptable. The violence received widespread condemnation from politicians and senior police officers. There was widespread condemnation of Saturday's killings. The raids have drawn a strong condemnation from the United Nations Security Council. vocabulary: Condemnation is the act of declaring something awful or evil. If your little brother does something unspeakably awful, express your condemnation so he will learn not to do it again. Condemnation comes from the verb condemn, "to strongly disapprove." You might criticize something that you still think is worthwhile, but if you express condemnation, that's laying a heavy moral blame. Condemnation is used in law, and means the same thing as sentencing; you might have heard a judge say "I condemn you to ten years of hard labor." Also, a very dangerous building will be sealed up and deemed uninhabitable by an act of condemnation. 4. Foreign leaders' visits to the White House used to be occasions for face-to-face diplomacy, allied backslapping ( Backslapping is noisy, cheerful behavior which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other. a noisy expression of happiness and positive feelings, usually showing admiration for a shared success: There was a party after the ceremony where much drinking and backslapping went on. to slap (someone) on the back in congratulation It was poor taste to applaud and backslap a tackle which left an opponent injured. ) and polite photo ops. But President Donald Trump's public pillorying of(pillory [ˈpɪləri] 枷锁 ( 欧式的站着把脑袋伸进去似的那种枷锁)( Stocks 脚镣 are feet restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation. The stocks, pillory, and pranger ( The pranger
is a German physical punishment device related to the stocks and the
pillory. The Middle Low German word means "something that pinches
badly". The pranger chained the victim's neck to a pair of leg
restraints fastened around the ankles. Often the chain was short so that
the offender was placed in an uncomfortable half-kneeling position. In
another type of pranger, the condemned person was tied to a column that
stood in the town center for public view. The pranger was only used for
public humiliation as punishment, not for painful interrogation or
coercion. In German the word was also used for the scold's bridle. )
each consist of large wooden boards with hinges; however, the stocks
are distinguished by their restraint of the feet. The stocks consist of
placing boards around the ankles and wrists, whereas with the pillory,
the boards are fixed to a pole and placed around the arms and neck,
forcing the punished to stand.) verb. If someone is pilloried 当众羞辱, a lot of people, especially journalists, criticize them and make them look stupid. A man has been forced to resign as a result of being pilloried by some of the press. attack or ridicule publicly. "he found himself pilloried by members of his own party". noun.
A pillory is a wooden frame with holes for the head and hands. In
Europe in former times criminals were sometimes locked in a pillory as a
form of punishment. a wooden framework with holes for the head and
hands, in which offenders were formerly imprisoned and exposed to public
abuse.) Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in February has upended Oval Office norms, sparking panic among some foreign leaders. Since January, allies and foes alike have been subjected to unprecedented tariffs and the ignominy (ignominy [ˈɪɡnəˌmɪni] 羞辱, 耻辱 a situation where you feel embarrassed and lose other people's respect. public embarrassment. Ignominy is shame or public disgrace. ...the ignominy of being made redundant. If they were caught, she would be thrown out in disgrace, dismissed with ignominy. The incumbent party experienced the ignominy of total defeat in the last election. The army suffered the ignominy of a quick and decisive defeat. Ignominy is shame or public disgrace. ...the
ignominy of being made redundant. If they were caught, she
would be thrown out in disgrace, dismissed with ignominy. ignominious [ˌɪɡ.nəˈmɪn.i.əs] Marked by great disgrace, dishonour, humiliation, or shame; disgraceful, shameful. If you describe an experience or action as ignominious, you mean it is embarrassing because it shows a great lack of success. (especially of events or behaviour) embarrassing because of being a complete failure: an ignominious defeat/failure/retreat. ...their ignominious defeat. Many thought that he was doomed to ignominious failure. Their soldiers had to retreat ignominiously after losing hundreds of lives. The time when the pseudovirtuous men and women die a painful and ignominious death has yet to come. ) of placating Trump for preferable trade terms. Glitzed out (glitz [ɡlɪts]
the quality of being exciting and attractive, but often in a way that
has no real worth. the showy quality of something. You use glitz to
refer to something that is exciting and attractive in a showy way. ...the glitz of Beverly Hills. Pile on the sequins and add some glitz to your look. the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. glitz and glamour 光鲜亮丽, 华丽绚烂 razzle-dazzle, glitz Being the daughter of an A-list celebrity, she grew up in a world of glitz and glamour. The
party's electoral message may be obscured by the glitz and glamour of
its presentation. The extraordinary thing about Cannes is that despite
the surface glitz, most people get up early and work. glitzy [ˈɡlɪt·si] a glitzy restaurant. razzle-dazzle Glitz, glamor/glamour, showiness, or pizazz. The big musical number at the end didn't have quite the razzle-dazzle they had hoped.) in gold details, the Oval Office exudes Trump, its walls reflecting his particular vision of US history. His office is as much showplace as workplace. 5. that will show someone 够是个教训了, 让他们知道谁做主, 谁是老大, 这下他们就知道了, 让他们尝尝我的厉害 informal said of an action that you intend as a punishment for someone who has done something wrong: The next time she's late home, I'll throw her dinner away. That'll show her! I'll show him/them etc 我让他知道知道 spoken used to say that you will prove to someone that you are better, more effective etc than they think you are. You can say 'I'll show you' to threaten or warn someone that you are going to make them admit that they are wrong. She shook her fist. 'I'll show you,' she said. I'll show him, leave it to me. that'll teach someone 给个教训, 以后长心眼了, 这下 该知道...后果了, 这下该知道(不应做某事了)… used to say that a person should avoid doing something bad in the future thanks to the experience of the effects of their actions: that'll teach someone to do something So Roger spent the night in a freezing garage, did he? That'll teach him to (= show him that he should not) go out without his house keys! show (someone) (one's) stuff 露一手, 露几手 To demonstrate or display one's ability (to do something) in front of or for the benefit of someone. to show someone how well one can do something. We'll audition Kate now. Okay, Kate, show us your stuff. I've been training really hard all year, so I can't wait to go to tryouts and show the coaches my stuff. We're very excited to see what you have in store for us, Jen. Whenever you're ready, go ahead and show us your stuff! 6. munted [ˈmʌntɪd] I. New Zealand slang (of an object) destroyed or ruined. II. New Zealand slang (of a person) abnormal or peculiar. III. drunk or intoxicated. IV. INFORMAL BRITISH under the influence or alcohol or drugs. "they have constant issues with drivers turning up munted". V. INFORMAL NEW ZEALAND badly damaged; ruined. "work to remove the munted footbridge—an icon of the Canterbury earthquakes—is to begin this week". 7. Waterfront: Heads up 事先告知. It's about to get real busy in here. Uh, open bar on the well drinks. And how about a two-second pour instead of the regular four? Yes, ma'am. Did you know the sheriff well? All my life. I'm sorry for your loss. It's okay, Shawn. If you get in the weeds 忙不过来, holler. I'll be right back to help you, okay? Thank you very much. I haven't said anything yet. Timing kind of sucks 时机不好, 时机不对. Thank you. I didn't even know he was into vintage cars, did you? I just knew him as a sheriff. Imagine your head crushed under a Chevy Chevelle. One way to kill a hobby. I'll get us a table 找一张桌子. A two-second pour 倒两秒, in the context of free pouring with a spout, generally corresponds to a volume of 20 mL or 2/3 of an ounce, according to Überbartools. This is based on a common method of estimating amounts by counting while pouring. A two-second pour is a standard technique used by bartenders to pour accurately without measuring tools. Free Pouring and Counting: Counting: Bartenders often use a counting method to free pour, with each count representing a specific amount of liquid. Four-Count: A common method is a "four-count," where each count is approximately 1/2 ounce. Two-Second Pour: In this method, the bartender counts to two while pouring, which typically results in a 2/3 ounce (20 mL) pour, says Überbartools. open bar 酒水免费 I. a bar at a reception that serves drinks whose cost has been borne by the host, an admission charge, a sponsor, etc. a bar at a special function at which the drinks have been paid for by the host or are prepaid through the admission fee. Before the banquet there will be an open bar from 5 to 7 p.m. II. a bar at an occasion such as a wedding, where drinks are served free. cash bar A cash bar is a bar at a party or similar event where guests can buy drinks. At 6 p.m. there will be a reception and cash bar. Well drinks, also known as rail drinks, are mixed alcoholic beverages made with the bar's less expensive, house liquors. They are typically made with basic ingredients and are considered the standard, lower-cost option when ordering a mixed drink at a bar. Lower cost: Well drinks use the bar's least expensive liquors, often referred to as "well liquor" or "rail liquor". Basic ingredients: They usually consist of a spirit combined with a simple mixer like soda, juice, or cola. Easily accessible: The liquors used for well drinks are typically kept within easy reach of the bartender, often in a designated "well" or "speed rail". Not specified: When ordering a well drink, you don't specify a particular brand of liquor; you're essentially asking for a basic mixed drink with the bar's house spirits. A well drink or rail drink is an alcoholic beverage or mixed drink made using the lower-cost liquors stored within easy reach of the bartender in the bar's "speed rail", "speed rack", or "well", a rack or shelf at a lower level than the bar that the bartender uses to prepare drinks. In any given establishment, the rail/well liquors available may also be known as the "house pours", "house brands", "house spirits", "pour brands", or "proprietary spirits". Well drinks differ from "call" drinks in that the former are offered when a customer does not specify a particular brand of liquor when ordering a mixed drink. The actual liquors used by a drinking establishment will vary. The most common well liquors are vodka and blended whiskey. Common well drinks include at least one variety each of gin, rum, whiskey, vodka, bourbon, tequila, triple sec, and vermouth. Some establishments that cater to higher-end clientele or wish to project an aura of luxury choose premium brands to be their well liquors (thus offering a "premium well"). holler [ˈhɒl.ər] 招呼一声 to shout loudly. If you holler, you shout loudly. I hollered out the names. I heard him holler out, 'Somebody bombed the Church.' The audience whooped and hollered. 'Watch out!' he hollered. In a minute he'll be hollering at me for coming in late. Cal hollered for help. Nick hollered for her to pick up her orders. He was hollering something about seeing a snake. a loud shout. A yell, shout. 大喊一声: Their performance was met with whoops and hollers. let out a holler He let out a holler as he fell. I heard a holler from over the fence. (by extension, colloquial) Whoops and hollers came from the predominantly female audience. Any communication to get somebody's attention. If you need anything, just give me a holler. 8. flip the script 翻转 INFORMAL NORTH AMERICAN reverse the usual or existing positions in a situation; do something unexpected or revolutionary. to do something completely differently or in the opposite way from the way it is usually done: "Campbell flips the script on the old beauty-and-the-beast formula". This president's tweets and the way he spoke flipped the script. The artist explains how she wanted to flip the script, starting with working on a black rather than a white surface. In a nation where celebrities become politicians, here is one man who has flipped the script. flip the script on They have combined a gospel choir and dance music to create a song that flips the script on everything. These photographs flip the script on stereotypes of what it means to be British. on the trail of 跟踪, 紧紧跟着, 亦步亦趋的跟着, 努力查房, 努力查找 If you are on the trail of a person or thing, you are trying hard to find them or find out about them. to be searching for someone or something by examining information you find about where they went: The police were hot on his trail. There was a newspaper on the trail of the story. The three men went to the Bahamas, on the trail of a sunken 17th-century galleon full of treasure. Wednesday's show joins the actor on the trail of mountain gorillas in Rwanda. They've been on the trail of some stolen paintings. Walker stars as a Chicago cop on the trail of a serial killer. He plays the part of an ex-police officer who's on the trail of a multi-millionaire who disappeared in mysterious circumstances. 9. preamble [ˈpriːambl] 序论, 导言, 开场白 I. a preliminary or preparatory statement; an introduction. something that happens before or leads to something else. A preamble is an introduction that comes before something you say or write. The controversy has arisen over the text of the preamble to the unification treaty. 'I would like you to return to the villa as soon as possible,' she said without preamble. The agreement between the warring parties to talk may be a preamble to peace. "he could tell that what she said was by way of a preamble". Anthony Albanese has whipped out 甩出, 亮出 his Medicare card as he gives his preamble reminding Tasmanian voters of Labor's record on health. II. the introductory part of a statute or deed, stating its purpose, aims, and justification. III. an introduction to a speech or piece of writing: the preamble to the Constitution. precinct [ˈpriː.sɪŋkt] I. a part of a city or a town in which vehicles are not allowed, used for a special purpose, such as shopping. an area of a town or city where there are a lot of shops, and where traffic is not allowed: a shopping precinct 购物区. a pedestrian precinct 步行街区. II. 区域. the area that surrounds a building or place, especially one with a wall around it: A tunnel entrance was found within the precincts of the prison camp. A river separates the hotel from the cathedral precinct. Please walk quietly in these sacred precincts. Police moved traders out of the temple precincts. The precincts of the building were entered by a gateway. The precincts of a place are the areas that surround it, esp. when enclosed: the private precincts of the university 校区. III. US 选区(Constituency: UK 选区 (议员代表区域). The term constituency is commonly used to refer to an electoral district, especially in British English, but it can also refer to the body of eligible voters or all the residents of the represented area or only those who voted for a certain candidate. Electoral district: 通用用语. In Canadian English, the term electoral district is used officially, but are colloquially known as a riding or constituency. In some parts of Canada, constituency is used for provincial districts and riding for federal districts. Congressional district: 美国众议院选区. Voting district: 地方选举的一般性表达. Electorate: 选区内的选民总称, 非地理概念. In Australian and New Zealander English, electoral districts are called electorates, while the term electorate 选民 refers specifically to the entire body of voters. An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provide the voters therein with representation in a legislature or other polity. Precinct: In the United States, a precinct is the smallest electoral district used for organizing elections and administering voting. In the US, a precinct is the smallest unit of electoral district used primarily for local elections and the administration of voting. A precinct (also called a voting precinct or election precinct) is a local-level subdivision of a larger electoral district, such as a congressional district, county, or city. ). a division of a city or a town, especially an area protected by a particular unit of the police or a division used for voting purposes. a division of a city or town, esp. an area protected by one police station, or a division used for elections. a division of a city or a town, especially an area protected by a particular group of police or a division used for voting purposes: The voter turnout in the precinct was low compared to the rest of the county. a precinct captain/commander. precinct caucuses/voters. The voter turnout in most precincts is expected to be high. 10. memetic [miːˈmɛtɪk] adj. of or relating to a meme. relating to or constituting an element of a culture or system of behaviour that is passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means. "the book shows various memetic lines of transmission". do a runner 吃霸王餐, 消费完就跑, 零元购 ( loot, ransack ) to run away in order to escape trouble or to avoid paying for something If people leave a restaurant without paying, they do a runner. dine and dash 吃霸王餐 US informal to eat a meal in a restaurant and then leave without paying: If you dine and dash, the restaurant can call the police on you. I had a feeling that the waiter thought we were going to dine and dash. What sort of people dine and dash in a nice little family-run restaurant like this? I once witnessed a couple dine and dash. For a second, I thought he was suggesting we dine and dash. 零元购报道 - California looters now face 'hard-charging' consequences after blue state abandoned soft-on-crime approach: Amid the continuing unrest and flash mob-style looting incidents in Los Angeles, California is making a significant pivot toward tougher criminal enforcement. Criminal defense attorney David Wohl told Fox News Digital that the legal consequences are no longer a slap on the wrist for looters following the reversal of Proposition 47, which notably did not criminalize theft under $950. "Now we have a very conservative, hard-charging (determined and often forceful in doing a job: She is a hard-charging attorney. People who've worked with the new superintendent used words like "hard-charging" and "driven" to describe him.) DA in Los Angeles," Wohl said. "He's adding up what is stolen by each individual co-defendant, and if that's over $950, everybody's getting charged with felonies." In a city once known for turning a blind eye to petty theft and soft prosecution, looters who are taking advantage of protests over federal immigration operations now face stricter penalties. In 2014, California voters approved Proposition 47, a ballot initiative that reclassified several nonviolent felonies, including shoplifting, theft and drug possession, as misdemeanors if the value involved was $950 or less. Critics argued that it contributed to a noticeable increase in retail theft and emboldened looters. In 2024, voters voiced their concerns and overwhelmingly chose a sharp course correction 纠偏, 纠正方向, 纠错 from the progressive reforms that Proposition 47 implemented and voted in favor of Proposition 36. Prop 36 restored the ability to file felony charges against repeat offenders, regardless of whether their latest crime falls under the $950 limit. It also enhances 加重处罚 penalties for group theft and organized looting, which had previously fallen into legal gray zones under Prop 47. "Looting and violence have always been illegal, even in California," Jacobson told Fox News Digital. "Unfortunately, California's lax enforcement of the criminal laws, including the former decriminalization of shoplifting, has created a culture of criminality that has played out in numerous riots over the years." "The current riots against immigration enforcement and violence targeting both ICE and the community are part of the California political ecosystem," he said. Several stores across downtown Los Angeles were hit by looters in the early morning hours as anti-ICE riots continued. On Monday night, looters took to the streets and ransacked 洗劫 a series of storefronts, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed with Fox News Digital. Apple and Adidas were among the stores hit by thieves, as well as several mom-and-pop shops. Other photos showed ransackers disappearing into the night with stolen goods after a smash-and-grab in Compton, a city south of Los Angeles. It was unclear if the thieves were participating in the ongoing anti-ICE protests or if they were being opportunistic of the city's unrest. On Tuesday and Wednesday, after continued protests, other businesses set out to protect their stores. Fox News Digital saw a T-Mobile store on the corner of 3rd Street and Broadway boarding up ahead of likely another night of protests in the city. Attorney General Pam Bondi offered a blunt message to would-be robbers and looters in the deep-blue city on "Fox & Friends" Tuesday. "If you loot a business in California during this, we're charging you with robbery under the Hobbs Act. No longer are the days of non-prosecution for looting. It's a criminal act," she said. The administration is also determined to crack down on those who inflict harm on law enforcement. "We've all made over 190 arrests, [and] more [are] coming. If you hit a police officer, you assault a police officer, state or federal, we are coming after you.". 11. Wrought iron 熟铁, 锻铁, 工业纯铁 has less than 0.2% carbon and a mix of silicate impurities. It is made by smelting ore into a spongy bloom, which is then welded and drawn repeatedly to squeeze out much of the impurities as slag. From this comes the name- wrought iron. Later manufacture would switch to a process known as puddling, a direct ancestor of open hearth steelmaking. The iron would be heated again in an oxidizing fire and stirred with flux to burn out some of the carbon and impurities before rolling into bars. Cast iron 铸铁 is an iron with more than 2.2% carbon. It cannot be forged 锻造, but if the purity is good it can be used for cast components such as engine parts. This mostly comes from the blast furnace. Pig iron is just a cast iron with a lot of impurities in it, intended to be a low grade feedstock for another process such as steelmaking 制钢. It can be used in low strain parts like wood stove bodies. The name comes from how ingots were made with the leftovers from each tapping of the furnace- a central trench or sow from which branches or pigs were fed. French ironworks often made their triangular instead of square off, these were known as sluts. Pig iron (crude iron 生铁 produced in a blast furnace and poured into moulds in preparation for making wrought iron, steels, alloys, etc. ) is a brittle, high-carbon iron produced by smelting iron ore in a blast furnace.
It's an intermediate product used in the production of steel and other
iron-based materials. The name "pig iron" comes from the shape of the
ingots, which historically resembled piglets suckling from a sow. 11. In the eight years since Miller rose to fame and became an outsized antagonist on the American left, his Santa Monica villain origin story has been exhaustively documented, picked over and reanalyzed.
Stephen Miller finally gets his revenge on L.A.: On a palm tree-lined bluff ( bluff verb I. to deceive someone by making them think either that you are going to do something when you really have no intention of doing it, or that you have knowledge that you do not really have, or that you are someone else: bluff someone into something/doing something She bluffed the doorman into thinking that she was a reporter. Is he going to jump or is he only bluffing? Tony seems to know a lot about music, but sometimes I think he's only bluffing. bluff your way into/out of something If you bluff your way into or out of a situation, you get yourself into or out of it by deceiving people: How did Mina manage to bluff her way into that job? noun. I. an attempt to bluff: When she said she was leaving him, he thought it was only a bluff. II. 悬崖峭壁, a cliff or very steep bank. ) overlooking the Pacific Ocean, thousands of people rallied against the Trump administration in one of many "No Kings Day" protests around the country last month. Amid the false accusations and acrid clashes(acrid [ˈækrɪd] I. an acrid smell or taste 刺鼻的 is very strong, bitter, and unpleasant in your nose and throat. stinging, acrid fumes of burning rubber. II. an acrid remark expresses criticism in a cruel way. vocabulary:
Acrid is almost always used to describe a smell, and it ain't a pretty
one. Acrid is the nasty sting that you feel in your nose when you walk
by a building that just burned down — it's sulfur mixed with smoke. You can also use acrid to describe someone's tone or general demeanor when they are being nasty. Someone about to do something evil might first give an acrid sneer, or speak in a chillingly acrid tone of voice, or even shudder as if they'd just bit into something with an acrid taste.) of President Trump's inner circle, few acolytes (acolyte [ækəlaɪt] 随从, 帮凶, 打手 I. An acolyte is a follower or assistant of an important person. Richard Brome, an acolyte of Ben Jonson's, wrote 'The Jovial Crew' in 1641. To his acolytes, he is known simply as 'the Boss'.
II. An acolyte is someone who assists a priest in performing certain
religious services. anyone who follows or helps another person, or
someone who helps a priest in some religious ceremonies When the barge reached the shrine, acolytes removed the pall. henchman
someone who does unpleasant or illegal things for a powerful person. a
person who is loyal to and works for someone in a position of authority
and is willing to help that person even by hurting others or by
committing crimes: Although the president kept himself above the fray, his henchmen were blaming everyone. Like other dictators, he tried to distance himself from the dirty deeds carried out by his henchmen.) have survived longer than Miller. The 39-year-old has remained essential through Trump's second term, piloting an immigration platform that has sowed fear across wide swaths of the country — nowhere more so than greater Los Angeles, where federal agents have mounted a relentless assault on immigrants, sweeping up thousands in deportation raids. In the long shadow of his policies, local and national observers alike are paying renewed attention to Miller's upbringing in the famously liberal enclave once dubbed "the People's Republic of Santa Monica." Some are also questioning whether the administration's focus on Los Angeles is a form of revenge on Miller's spurned hometown. When rumors of ICE agents seizing nannies at a Santa Monica park frantically flashed 刷屏, 刷遍 across social networks, Justin Gordon, who went to Hebrew school and high school with Miller, immediately thought his classmate must have personally directed the raid on their local park. The reports proved spurious 似是而非的, 假的, but Gordon still saw an emotional truth. "In the back of my mind, I've always thought, 'This is Stephen Miller getting back at the city of Los Angeles,' " Gordon said. In the eight years since Miller rose to fame and became an outsized ( I. 过大的. outsized clothing is larger than the usual size: outsized trousers/shoes. II. outsized profits, payments 大笔的, etc. are extremely large and are considered too large by many people: Companies can't just ramp up their production capacity and expect to earn outsized profits. They gained praise from institutions in their acquisition funds after generating outsized returns by well-timed sales of companies they control. ) antagonist on the American left, his Santa Monica villain origin story has been exhaustively documented, picked over and reanalyzed. At the far edge of the American west, a brash adolescent came of age in a coastal community 海边城市 where the establishment prided itself on being antiestablishment 反传统, 反建制, 反成规( against the establishment or established authority. "they are anti-establishment and eccentric, with a wilful disregard for convention". ). What choice would a young reactionary iconoclast [aɪˈkɒn.ə.klæst] 不墨守成规者, 愤世嫉俗者 ( a person who strongly opposes generally accepted beliefs and traditions. If you describe someone as an iconoclast, you mean that they often criticize beliefs and things that are generally accepted by society. An iconoclast is a person who challenges or overthrows traditional beliefs, customs, and institutions. They are often seen as rebels who disrupt the status quo and question established norms, sometimes through the destruction of symbols or images associated with those norms. They often identify as outsiders, as iconoclasts, as someone who doesn't quite fit. Rogers, an iconoclast in architecture, is sometimes described as putting the insides of buildings on the outside.) have but to veer right? Santa Monica was a town in flux = in a (constant) state of flux 不确定, 千变万化(Apt to change or fluctuate; prone to instability. Well, all of our vacation plans are in flux now that Sheila's broken her ankle. The country's political structure has been in flux ever since the revolution. A: "No, their wedding plans are still in flux." B: "Wow, I wonder if they'll actually make it down the aisle.") when Miller was in high school at the turn of the millennium: a Berkeley meets Beverly Hills where haughty affluence was rapidly eclipsing the Birkenstocks and counterculture bumper stickers. It was also a tale of two cities, with moguls and the upper middle class north of Montana, and pockets of poverty and gang violence in the southern end of town. Nowhere was this more evident than at Santa Monica High School, where the academics were nationally renowned, the student body resembled a United Colors of Benetton ad and a '90s strain of "Free to Be ... You and Me" liberalism reigned supreme. The parade of cultural affinity clubs, diversity events and policies that sought to make the school more equitable nauseated Miller. And the teenage provocateur 找事者, 滋事者 made no secret of that revulsion, loudly belittling his fellow students. His bitter shtick (schtick [ʃtɪk] I. 一贯的伎俩. 惯用伎俩. 一贯的招数. a gimmick, comic routine, style of performance, etc. associated with a particular person. An entertainer's schtick is a series of funny or entertaining things that they say or do. Such stories are all part of his schtick. "there are many great comics who have based their stand-up shtick on observational comedy". II. 专长. a person's special talent, interest, or area of activity. "movies about ordinary women who do extraordinary things—that's my shtick". ) offered a prescient ( prescient [ˈpreʃənt] 预知的, 有预知能力的, 有先见之明的, 预言性质的 knowing or behaving as if you know what will happen in the
future. If you say that someone or something was prescient, you mean
that they were able to know or predict what was going to happen in the
future. ...'Bob Roberts', an eerily prescient comedy about a populist multimillionaire political candidate. a prescient warning. prescience [ˈpres.i.əns] the ability to know or correctly suggest what will happen in the future: the prescience of her remarks. He can claim an uncanny prescience in his career moves.) preview of the grievance politics(The politics of resentment, sometimes called grievance politics, is a form of politics which is based on resentment of some other group of people. Jason Manning and Bradley Campbell draw on the work of sociologist Donald Black on conflict and on cross-cultural studies of conflict and morality to argue that the contemporary culture wars resemble tactics described by scholars in which an aggrieved party or group seeks the support of third parties. They argue that grievance-based conflicts have led to large-scale moral change in which an emergent victimhood culture is clashing with and replacing older honor and dignity cultures. Political commentator E. J. Dionne has written that culture war is an electoral technique to exploit differences and grievances, remarking that the real cultural division is "between those who want to have a culture war and those who don't.".) that would fuel his future boss into power. Miller has said his years in high school were the hardest of his life, filled with pushback for his "vitriolic viewpoints," according to Jean Guerrero, a former Times columnist and author of the 2020 Miller biography "Hatemonger." "And for whatever reason, he's had this grievance 怀恨在心, 心怀不满 about that ever since, and he's been trying through various means, to have what I see as a form of revenge on the communities that rejected him in Los Angeles," Guerrero said. "I will say and I will do things that no one else in their right mind would say or do," Miller told the crowd, according to a video obtained by Univision. "Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up our trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?" Students jeered 嘲讽 and booed as Miller was escorted off the stage, according to several attendees. He lost that student government election. "The only compliment I think I've ever come up with for Stephen is that there are plenty of conservatives and far-right wing conspiracy theorists and hate mongers that spout 喷射 ( spout [spaʊt] I. disapproving to speak a lot, in a way that is boring or annoying for other people: He spouts a load of pretentious nonsense and people are stupid enough to believe him! I really don't want to listen to Mike spouting on/off all afternoon. II. to flow or send out liquid or flames quickly and with force, in a straight line: Flames spouted (out) from the oil wells. The gash was spouting blood. noun. I. a tube-shaped opening that allows liquids to be poured out of a container. II. a stream of liquid coming out of something with some force: A spout of water shot out of the geyser. spew I. When something spews out a substance or when a substance spews from something, the substance flows out quickly in large quantities. The volcano spewed out more scorching volcanic ashes, gases and rocks. Leaking oil spewed from the tanker. An oil tanker spewed its cargo into the sea. II. If someone spews or spews up, they vomit. III. To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading. IV. (intransitive) To be written or spoken voluminously. The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on one of the UN's top advocates for Palestinian rights, Francesca Albanese, accusing her of "spewing unabashed antisemitism". ) what he spouted from behind a computer screen. I have not in my life before or after seen someone do it in an amphitheater = UK amphitheatre [ˈamfɪθɪətə] ( I. 圆形剧场. a circular or oval area of ground around which rows of seats are arranged on a steep slope, for watching plays, sports, etc. outside. a circular or oval area around which rows of seats are arranged on a steep slope, esp. for watching the performance of plays and musical entertainment outside. II. a large hall for lectures in which the rows of seats are arranged on a slope. ) full of their high school colleagues," said Miller's classmate Kesha Ram Hinsdale, now majority leader of the Vermont state Senate. Santa Monica High was a hothouse of political engagement, where students — the children of entertainment executives, bankers and lawyers, as well as nannies, day laborers and wait staff — were finding their footing 立足点, 位置, 定位 as activists. Despite the kumbaya vibes ( "Kum ba yah 你好我好大家都好" ("Come by here") is an African-American spiritual of disputed origin, known to have been sung in the Gullah culture of the islands off South Carolina and Georgia, with ties to enslaved Central Africans. Originally an appeal to God to come to the aid of those in need, the song is thought to have spread from the islands to other Southern states and the North, as well as to other places outside the United States. In American politics, the song title gave rise to the phrase "sing Kumbaya", a thought-terminating cliché depicting peaceful goals as compromises that leave other concerns ignored. ), Santa Monica High was hardly a post-racial ( denoting or relating to a period or society in which racial prejudice and discrimination no longer exist. "a post-racial era".) utopia [juːˈtəʊpɪə]. Students often self-segregated, and the school's academic sheen 光鲜, 学术上的光鲜 ( a bright, smooth surface. If something has a sheen, it has a smooth and gentle brightness on its surface. The carpet had a silvery sheen to it. The conditioner gives hair a beautiful soft sheen. The polished floor had a beautiful sheen 柔软, 丝滑的感觉 to it. ) was riven ( [ˈrɪv.ən] violently divided. If a country or organization is riven by conflict, it is damaged or destroyed by violent disagreements. The four provinces are riven by deep family and tribal conflicts. The party was riven with factional fighting. It was a community/nation/family riven by hatred. torn apart; damaged. Fire belched from its riven summit. that empty, riven city you visited. His heart was riven with sorrow as he saw how small Amanda looked in the bed. The four provinces are riven by deep tribal conflicts. rive [raɪv ] I. to cut something apart with great force: It may thus be seen that the riving of the heart by the sword symbolises the final rupture of Daughter from Mother. II. to divide people: Such conclusions have begun a debate that has increasingly riven archaeologists. ) by racial division. Puckish ( puckish 爱捉弄人的, 爱开玩笑的 liking to make jokes about other people and play silly tricks on them. If you describe someone as puckish, you mean that they play tricks on people or tease them. He had a puckish sense of humour. a puckish grin. She has a puckish attitude. He has a puckish grin. They are so puckish for their love of practical jokes. ), clad in a suit and preternaturally ( preternaturally [ˌpriː.təˈnætʃ.ər.əl.i] 超自然地, 异常地, 异于寻常的, 超乎寻常的, 异乎寻常的 ( preter- beyond, more than, or exceeding ) in a way that is not usual or natural: The house seemed preternaturally silent. She has an almost preternaturally calm manner. Preternatural abilities, qualities, or events are very unusual in a way that might make you think that unknown forces are involved. Parents had an almost preternatural ability to understand what was going on in their children's minds. It was suddenly preternaturally quiet. ) confident, a teenage Miller was a regular presence at school board meetings. He argued for an English-only school district, decried the board's focus on equity and generally sought to puncture progressive ideals and push buttons. Reactionary conservatism(Reactionary conservatism, also known as reactionism, is a political ideology that opposes social change and seeks to restore society to a previous, idealized state. It is a form of conservatism that is particularly resistant to modernity and often characterized by a desire to return to a perceived "golden age". In politics, a reactionary 觉的过去好的 is a person who favors a return to a previous state of society which they believe possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary. As a descriptor term, reactionary derives from the ideological context of the left–right political spectrum. As an adjective, the word reactionary describes points of view and policies meant to restore a status quo ante 回到过去 ( The state of things as they were before; a preexisting state of affairs.). As an ideology, reactionism is a tradition in right-wing politics; the reactionary stance opposes policies for the social transformation of society, whereas conservatives seek to preserve the socio-economic structure and order that exists in the present. In popular usage, reactionary refers to a strong traditionalist conservative political perspective of a person opposed to social, political, and economic change. In the 20th century, reactionary politics was associated with restoring values such as discipline, hierarchy and respect for authority and privilege. ) didn't become a defining aspect of Miller's persona until he started high school, according to Jason Islas, one of his best friends in middle school. The friendship dissolved 终结, 结束, 解散 the summer before they started at Samohi when, in Islas' telling, Miller called and announced that they would no longer be hanging out. Miller delivered the news brusquely ( brusque [brʌsk] 直截了当的 quick and rude in manner or speech. quick and direct in manner or speech, and often not polite: As the president's chief of staff, he offended many with his brusque manner. His secretary was a little brusque with me.), citing Islas' lack of confidence, his teenage acne and his Latino heritage in a "businesslike tone 公事公办." Captivated by right-wing radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Larry Elder, Miller was a frequent guest on Elder's show as a teenager, complaining about other perceived liberal excesses of his high school. After graduating in 2003, Miller went to Duke University before landing on Capitol Hill, where he threaded his way up the far-right thicket ( I. an area of trees and bushes growing closely together. A thicket is a small group of trees or bushes which are growing closely together. ...a bamboo thicket. II. If you refer to a thicket 错综复杂的, 纷繁的, 繁杂的 of ideas or events, you mean that there a lot of them together, and often that they are confusing or difficult to identify. The novel is a thicket of literary references. To try to open a foreign-owned business is to enter a thicket of regulations. ) with then-Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and then-Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama. Many of his grievance-fueled Samohi talking points found their way into the first Trump campaign, where Miller had a mind-meld ( mind-meld 思想交融, 思想融合 colloquial A reference to a technique in the science fiction program Star Trek, in which two or more minds undergo a psychic fusion in order to allow for a total and unrestricted exchange of thoughts. I. noun A process of exchanging and combining two or more people's ideas or thought processes; a brainstorm. I think each department should get to work individually, then we'll all meet back up for a mind-meld next month. II. noun A combination of ideas or thought processes with those of another person or group. I couldn't believe Paul was in such total agreement with me about the direction the project needs to take. It's like we had a mind-meld or something. Since when does Penny like such weird experimental music? Has she had a mind-meld with these new friends of hers? III. verb 交融. 融会贯通. To engage in such an exchange or combination; to brainstorm. We need to start mind-melding if we're going to achieve results that satisfy everyone involved. ) of sorts with the future leader of the free world. Ari Rosmarin, a civil rights lawyer who also attended Santa Monica High, said Miller has always had a keen eye 眼光精准, 有眼力, 眼力毒 for picking fights that would generate maximum hate, outrage and attention. It's the through line 贯穿始终的一条线, 一条脉络 ( a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc. a common or consistent element or theme shared by items in a series or by parts of a whole. But Kent's latest nonetheless reveals a fascinating through line in her work, which centers on, as she puts it, "disrespect for the feminine"—and the inciting power of female rage. Vang was born in a refugee camp in Thailand, and came to the United States in the late 1980s. For him and his family, food was the throughline keeping them connected to their culture, wherever they were. Perverse moments like these are a throughline in Decker's work. The Texas native specializes in "bad" desires—awkward wants that tend to go unexpressed, or which otherwise seem too compromising to confess even to oneself. Unlike Tokyo's great shopping thoroughfares, which have a certain logical through-line (if not aesthetic, at least socioeconomic), Osaka's arcades are mismatched, high-low jumbles of retail diversions. ) connecting his youthful theatrics with the current assault on Los Angeles, Rosmarin said. "He knows L.A. — knows that it's home to both a super, super diverse and beautiful immigrant community, but also home to tons of media, cultural capital, financial capital," Rosmarin said. "I think in those ways, it's a particularly attractive site for a battle if your goal is not just a policy outcome, but a political and cultural attack."
flood 汹涌而至 VS slow drip 一点点的来: "Slow drip" and "flood" irrigation are two distinct methods of watering plants, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. Slow drip irrigation delivers water slowly and precisely to plant roots, while flood irrigation involves saturating the entire soil surface. I would rather have a flood than slow drip.
corrode VS erode. smelt VS melt: corrode [kəˈrəʊd] 化学侵蚀, 化学腐蚀 verb I. destroy or damage (metal, stone, or other materials) slowly by chemical action. to destroy or be destroyed, esp. by acid or rust, usually over a long period of time: Rain water corroded the metal pipes. "acid rain poisons fish and corrodes buildings". If metal corrodes, or if something corrodes it, it is slowly damaged by something such as rain or water: Steel tends to corrode faster in a salty atmosphere. II. destroy or weaken (something) gradually. "the self-centred climate corrodes ideals and concerns about social justice". corrosion These alloys protect against corrosion. corrosive [kəˈroʊ·sɪv] highly corrosive acid. erode 自然侵蚀, 自然腐蚀 I. (of wind, water, or other natural agents) gradually wear away (soil, rock, or land). "the cliffs on this coast have been eroded by the sea". II. (of soil, rock, or land) be gradually worn away by natural agents. "soft sedimentary rocks have eroded away". III. gradually destroy or be gradually destroyed. to rub or be rubbed away gradually. to slowly reduce or destroy something. If a natural feature or physical object erodes, it is damaged by the effect of weather. His behaviour over the last few months has eroded my confidence in his judgment. Wind and rain have eroded the statues into shapeless lumps of stone. The cliffs are eroding several feet a year. "this humiliation has eroded what confidence Jean has". to weaken or damage something by taking away parts of it gradually, or to become weaker in this way: Budget cuts could further erode the benefit package provided for by the contract. erode value/profits/margins. Sudden movements in exchange and interest rates can erode profit margins. erode confidence/support. The retail industry is struggling with eroding consumer confidence and a weakening sales trend. smelt 冶炼, 提炼, 炼取 [smelt] I. to get a metal from rock by heating it to a very high temperature, or to melt objects made from metal in order to use the metal to make something new: Large amounts of electricity are needed to smelt metals. Aluminium is smelted from an oxide called alumina. II. a type of small fish found in seas, rivers, and lakes: It is a popular fishing area for smelt. Fishing for smelts is allowed on the lake between the time ice forms on the lake until March 15. smelting the act or process of getting a metal from rock by heating it to a very high temperature, or of melting objects made from metal in order to use the metal to make something new: Iron mining and smelting reached their peak during the second half of the nineteenth century. The mining and smelting released lead and other dangerous metals into the river basin.
Australia's Federal Court clarifies: Anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic: In a landmark judgment, Justice Angus Stewart of the Federal Court of Australia ruled that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. The ruling comes after a Sydney-based Muslim cleric, Wissam Haddad, was sued by two senior members of Australia's peak Jewish body, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), over a series of lectures he gave at the Al Madina Dawah Centre in Bankstown in November 2023. It was subsequently posted online. The complainants told the court that Haddad used "overtly dehumanising" language about Jewish people and that he revelled in being "deliberately provocative and inflammatory". The court found that he had maligned 诋毁 Jewish people and instructed Haddad not to make similar addresses again. Consequently, Haddad was also ordered to take down a series of speeches posted online. However, while Stewart acknowledged that his statements were problematic, he ruled that other criticisms of the state of Israel and its military did not breach the Racial Discrimination Act. He concluded that it is not inherently antisemitic to criticise Israel. "I do not consider that the ordinary, reasonable listener would understand Mr Haddad in these passages, either in isolation or in the context of the sermon as a whole, to be saying anything about Jews generally or about all Jews. He is quite specific in the sermon. He is critical of Israel, the IDF and Zionists." "As mentioned, Jews are only mentioned in relation to the Holocaust, and not in a critical or disparaging way. It is only if the ordinary, reasonable listener heard the sermon in the knowledge of what Mr Haddad had said in Speech A that they might conclude that the references to Zionists was a reference to all Jews because of what he says about Zionists in Speech A. But that is not how Speech B is to be understood. The ordinary, reasonable listener would understand that not all Jews are Zionists or support the actions of Israel in Gaza and that disparagement of Zionism constitutes 构成 disparagement of a philosophy or ideology and not a race or ethnic group. In his ruling, Stewart cited a local case. "Needless to say, political criticism of Israel, however inflammatory or adversarial, is not by its nature criticism of Jews in general or based on Jewish racial or ethnic identity: see South African Human Rights Commission on behalf of South African Jewish Board of Deputies v Masuku [2022] ZACC 5; 2022 (4) SA 1 (CC) at [41-[6] and [161]-[166] per Khampepe J for the Court. Indeed, the applicants did not submit that it is. The conclusion that it is not antisemitic to criticise Israel is the corollary of ( corollary [kəˈrɒl.ər.i] something that results from something else: corollary of ...结果 A corollary of something is an idea, argument, or fact that results directly from it. The number of prisoners increased as a corollary of the government's determination to combat violent crime. Unfortunately, violence is the inevitable corollary of such a revolutionary change in society. ) the conclusion that to blame Jews for the actions of Israel is antisemitic; the one flows from the other 互通的(flow I. a regular and quite large number of something: steady flow There's been a steady flow of visitors. flow of 人流, 车流 They are worried that the flow of tourists could swell into an unmanageable torrent if there are no controls. II. a situation in which something is produced or moved continuously: the flow of ideas/information. a situation in which a large amount of money or goods moves from one company, organization, or place to another: Portfolio investment flows generally equate to high interest rates. a steady/constant flow of sth The company is in the enviable position of having no debt and a steady flow of revenue. the flow of money/goods/resources State authorities welcome the flow of money from those seeking city contracts. III. a pleasant state in which someone is giving their attention completely to what they are doing, not thinking about anything else, and doing it skilfully and easily: Flow is sometimes referred to as "being in the zone". state of flow 漂浮状态 He believes that a person is at their happiest in a state of flow. flow state 悬浮状态 When I play music I sometimes go into this flow state where I am not aware of time passing. IV. a man's long hair, especially that of an athlete: His blond locks give him some incredible flow, making him one of the most recognizable players in the league. V. a situation in which information and ideas are exchanged between companies or organizations: Improving the flow of information 信息流 between buyers and sellers makes markets more efficient. a flow of sth A shared sense of commitment to a project leads to a free flow of ideas and information. verb. I. if discussions or ideas flow, people talk and exchange information in a relaxed way: Ideas flow more easily in an atmosphere of trust. II. 顺畅. 流畅. To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.). Haddad's defence contended that the lectures were delivered for educational purposes and argued that they could not be deemed to have breached section 18C, as they were not public but rather addressed to a private audience. "The court has found that the series of lectures, titled 'The Jews of Al Madina', conveys disparaging imputations ( imputation [ˌɪm.pjuˈteɪ.ʃən] I. a suggestion that someone is guilty of something or has a particular bad quality. a suggestion that someone is guilty of something, or that something is the cause of something else: an imputation against sb/sth Nothing in the report carried any imputations against the company. an imputation of sth There was no evidence to support the imputation of embezzlement of funds. imputations of dishonesty. II. a way of calculating something when you do not have the full or correct data: cost/data imputation. impute I. If you impute something such as blame or a crime to someone, you say that they are responsible for it or are the cause of it. to say that someone is responsible for something that has happened, especially something bad, or that something is the cause of something else: For purposes of the company's violations, the conduct of its officials and employees may be imputed to the firm. It is grossly unfair to impute blame to the United Nations. II. 粗略计算. 估算. to calculate something when you do not have exact information, by comparing it to something similar: imputed costs/data/income. The Treasury imputes a notional income from such interest-free loans of 8% a year. ) against Jewish people that, in all the circumstances, were reasonably likely to offend, insult, humiliate and intimidate Jews in Australia. "The imputations include age-old tropes 伎俩 against Jewish people that are fundamentally racist and antisemitic; they make perverse generalisations against Jewish people as a group." In his lectures, Haddad quoted and offered interpretation of ayat from the Qur'an and Hadith, and described Jewish people as "mischievous", "treacherous" and "vile". His defence told the court the speeches concerned historical writings about Jewish people in Medina in the seventh-century CE, at the time of the prophet Muhammad.
