好多生词; menorah犹太烛台, candelabrum = candelabrum, candlestick; maize smut, necrosis, anthracnose, blight;

用法学习: 1. to have egg on your face = have egg all over one's face 显得傻, 丢人, 丢脸, 尴尬 If someone has egg on their face or has egg all over their face, they have been made to look foolish. If you have egg on your face, you look stupid because of something that you have done: This latest scandal has left the government with egg on its face. If they take this game lightly they could end up with egg on their faces. with egg on one's face appearing foolish usually because something one said would happen has not happened The unexpected election result left a lot of journalists with egg on their faces. scallywag = US usually scalawag [ˈskalɪwaɡ] 淘气包, 坏孩子 I. [informal, old-fashioned] a person, typically a child, who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal. someone, especially a child, who has behaved badly but who is still liked. If you call someone a scallywag, you mean that they behave badly but you like them, so you find it difficult to be really angry with them. It's his idea of a joke, I suppose, the scallywag. "that scallywag of a son of yours". II. US English a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during the post-Civil War reconstruction period. Wikipedia: In United States history, scalawag (sometimes spelled scallawag or scallywag) was a pejorative slur that referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War. As with the term carpetbagger, the word has a long history of use as a slur in Southern partisan debates. The post-Civil War opponents of the scalawags claimed they were disloyal to traditional values and white supremacy. Scalawags were particularly hated by 1860s–1870s Southern Democrats, who called Scalawags traitors to their region, which was long known for its widespread chattel slavery of Black people. Before the American Civil War, most Scalawags had opposed southern states' declared secession from the United States to form the Confederate States of America. The term is commonly used in historical studies as a descriptor of Reconstruction Era, Southern white Republicans, although some historians have discarded the term due to its history of pejorative use. 2. Turducken 火鸭鸡(三鸟烤) is a dish associated with Louisiana, consisting of a deboned chicken stuffed (shovel) into a deboned 去骨头的 duck, further stuffed into a deboned turkey. Outside North America it is known as a three-bird roast. Gooducken is an English variant, replacing turkey with goose. The term turducken is a portmanteau of turkey, duck, and chicken. The dish is a form of engastration, which is a recipe method in which one animal is stuffed inside the gastric passage of another—twofold in this instance. 雪堆: Snowdrift - a large pile of snow formed by the wind. a hill of snow created by the wind: There were some snowdrifts as high as twenty feet. After the blizzard, there were large snowdrifts blocking the road. spindrift 扬雪 small drops of water or snow, or small pieces of sand, carried in the wind: You can see snow whipping off the far mountain peaks as spindrift. At the pier the wind was gusting to sixty or seventy knots with spindrift flying everywhere. To stand still in the cold was generous. To talk while icy spindrift 扬雪 needled her legs and snow smothered her head was a sign of just how worried people here are about Trump's rhetoric. pile of snow = snow pile = snowbank: A snowbank is a mound or pile of snow, often formed by wind blowing snow into drifts or from snow plowed/shoveled off roads and sidewalks, acting as a barrier or accumulation point, and can refer to a physical accumulation or even a cryptocurrency. The children played on a big pile of snow near the parking lot. He shoveled the snow into a snow pile at the edge of the yard. 3. Despite having to work from a position of antipathy [anˈtɪpəθi] 不被喜欢, 不被接受 不待见, 不喜欢 ( a feeling of strong dislike, opposition, or anger. strong dislike or opposition: His letters show a deep and intense antipathy toward workers. Despite the deep antipathies between them, the two sides have managed to negotiate an agreement. Declarations of racial antipathy against ethnic minorities will not be tolerated. He is a private man with a deep antipathyto/towards the press. Antipathy is a strong feeling of dislike or hostility towards someone or something. She'd often spoken of her antipathy towards London. ), constrained by his own former words, in Washington, and amid ceaseless carping from ( carp 发牢骚, 抱怨 [disapproval] to complain about unimportant matters. to complain all the time about matters that are not important. If you say that someone is carping, you mean that they keep criticizing or complaining about someone or something, especially in a way you think is unnecessary or annoying. He cannot understand why she's constantly carping at him. This was the man whom other trainers love to carp about. She was in no mood to put up with Blanche's carping. However much people carp about junk mail, many of them read it. I can't stand the way he's always carping. harp on 反复说, 翻来覆去的说, 没完没了, 说个没完 = harp on about sth If you say that someone harps on a subject, or harps on about it, you mean that they. to talk or complain about something many times. keep on talking about it in a way that other people find annoying. Jones harps on this theme more than on any other. She concentrated on the good parts of her trip instead of harping on about the bad. He's always harping on our lack of discipline. bellyache [belieɪk] noun. Bellyache is a pain inside your abdomen, especially in your stomach. They may complain of diarrhea or bellyache. verb. If you say that someone is bellyaching, you mean they complain loudly and frequently about something and you think this is unreasonable or unjustified. ...belly-aching about recession. Stop bellyaching and just get on with the job. ) the opposition and sections of the media at home, Rudd has left the bilateral relationship between the US and Australia in good shape. machismo [məˈtʃɪz.məʊ] 男子汉气概 often disapproving male behaviour that is strong and forceful, and shows very traditional ideas about how men and women should behave. strong pride in behaving in a way that is thought to be typically male, esp. by showing strength and power. Trump will go to China possibly still flushed with the sort of "greatest power on earth" machismo he demonstrated in the press conference after the US military raid that seized the head of another sovereign state, Venezuela. 4. Theocracy [θiˈɒkrəsi] or ethiocracy 神权政治 is a form of autocracy 独裁, 专制, 专政 or oligarchy 寡头政治 in which one or more deities are recognized as supreme ruling authorities giving divine guidance to human intermediaries with executive, legislative or judicial power who manage the government's daily affairs. theocratic [θɪəˈkratɪk] 神权政治 relating to or denoting a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. "a theocratic state". Iranians are increasingly angry about the country's economy and alleged corruption and mismanagement from its theocratic government. 4. Havana Syndrome: Some current and former CIA officers have raised concerns that the agency soft-pedaled ( soft pedal 软处理, 冷处理 noun. a pedal on a piano that can be pressed to make the tone softer. the part on a piano that you press with your foot in order to make the notes sound quieter: The soft pedal was fully engaged, creating a hushed sound. This section was too loud - it seemed as if the soft pedal wasn't used as marked. verb. refrain from emphasizing the more unpleasant aspects of; play down. to make something seem less important or less bad than it really is. to treat something unpleasant as less important, because you want to avoid angering or hurting people: The movie soft-pedals the more sensational aspects of his life. This is a sensitive issue - I think we'd better soft-pedal it for the moment. "the administration's decision to soft-pedal the missile program". If you soft-pedal something, you deliberately reduce the amount of activity or pressure that you have been using to get something done or seen. He refused to soft-pedal an investigation into the scandal. ) its investigation, CNN has previously reported. The acquisition of the device has reignited a painful and contentious debate within the US government about Havana Syndrome, known officially as "anomalous ( anomalous [əˈnɒmələs] 不正常的, 异类的, 异样的, 异常的 (anomaly) adj. deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected. different from what is usual, or not in agreement with something else and therefore not satisfactory: In a multicultural society is it not anomalous to have a blasphemy law that only protects one religious faith? The experiment yielded anomalous results. "an anomalous situation". ) health episodes." 5. subfreezing 零下的 adj. being or marked by temperature below the freezing point (as of water). Colder than the freezing point of water; below zero degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit. The arctic cold front brought subfreezing temperatures, snow, freezing rain and treacherous driving conditions. subfreezing weather. menorah [mɪˈnɔːrə] 犹太烛台 ( candelabrum [kandɪˈlɑːbrəm] pl: candelabra: 装饰性烛台(一般可以放多个蜡烛). a type of candlestick which has multiple branches to hold several candles as opposed to only one. "Candelabra" can be used to describe a variety of candle holders including chandeliers. However, candelabra can also be distinguished as branched candle holders that are placed on a surface such as the floor, stand, or tabletop. The chandeliers, on the other hand, are hung from the ceiling. A candlestick (or candleholder) 烛台 is a device used to hold a candle upright in place. Most candlesticks have a cup, a spike (called a "pricket"), or both to secure the candle. Before the widespread adoption of electricity, candles were carried between rooms using a chamberstick—a short candlestick with a pan to catch dripping wax 蜡油. Although electric lighting has largely replaced candles in daily use, candlesticks and candelabras remain common as decorative objects or for creating ambience during special occasions such as dinners, religious ceremonies, and commemorations.) I. a candelabrum used in Jewish worship, especially one with eight branches and a central socket used at Hanukkah. a candelabra with seven or nine lights that is used in Jewish worship. a base with seven branches for holding candles that is a symbol of the Jewish people, or one with nine branches used during the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah. II. a sacred candelabrum with seven branches used in the ancient temple in Jerusalem. Last week it moved a giant menorah commissioned by the council as part of Hanukkah celebrations from Dover Heights to Archer Park, where the targeted Jewish celebration took place on December 14. The sculpture by artist Joel Adler serves as a memorial to the 15 innocent lives taken until something permanent can be agreed upon. The timeline for consultation is yet to be worked out, but the process is expected to be slow. 6. Trump administration pauses immigrant visa processing for 75 countries: "The State Department will use its long-standing authority to deem ineligible potential immigrants who would become a public charge ( "public charge 公众包袱, 社会包袱, 社会负担" refers to a U.S. immigration rule assessing if a visa or green card applicant is likely to become primarily dependent on the government for subsistence, using factors like age, health, income, and skills, with stricter 2025 guidance expanding considered conditions and family factors, potentially impacting processing for many countries. While defined by cash assistance (SSI, TANF) and long-term institutional care as primary indicators, recent State Dept. guidance broadens negative health conditions (diabetes, asthma, etc.) and family health, creating uncertainty and leading to temporary processing suspensions for some nations. ) on the United States and exploit the generosity of the American people," said Tommy Pigott, Principal Deputy spokesperson for the US State Department. The department, led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, will pause the visa processing while it reassesses its procedures "to prevent the entry of foreign nationals who would take welfare and public benefits", Piggott added. According to the Associated Press, the State Department has instructed consular officers to halt immigrant visa applications from the affected countries. But the suspension will not apply to non-immigrant, temporary tourist, or business visas. 7. frazzled [ˈfraz(ə)ld] (Uneasy. Nervous) 累瘫的, 精疲力尽, 精疲力竭, 疲惫不堪 adj. I. showing the effects of exhaustion or strain. If you are frazzled, or if your nerves are frazzled, you feel mentally and physically exhausted. worn-out; fatigued. a party that left us frazzled. ...a place to calm the most frazzled tourist. I need to rest my frazzled nerves. "a long line of a screaming children and frazzled parents". II. damaged by burning or exposure to heat. "a leave-in conditioner for repairing frazzled 毛草草的, 毛躁躁的 hair". go/turn green 脸色苍白, 脸色不好 to look pale and ill as if you are going to vomit. ashen [ˈæʃ.ən] 脸色不好的, 脸色苍白, 面色苍白的, 面无血色的 adj. without colour, or pale grey in colour. (of a person's face) looking pale and gray from illness, shock, or fear. Someone who is ashen looks very pale, especially because they are ill, shocked, or frightened. He was ashen and trembling. He fell back, shocked, his face ashen.  ashen-faced. Julie walked in, ashen-faced with shock. She was thin and her face was ashen. His & Hers: Right now, anesthetic's numbing the pain, but the root's fractured. That's causing an infection. Two options. One, antibiotics. Maybe save the tooth. Two, pull it. If it were me, I'd pull it, but I wouldn't have gone a year between appointments 我不会一年不来的. Give me the pills. politicking ['pɒlɪtɪkɪŋ] 政治化操作, 政治化行为 [disapproval] If you describe someone's political activity as politicking, you think that they are engaged in it to gain votes or personal advantage for themselves. The act of engaging in politics, or in political campaigning. The politicking at Westminster is extremely intense. the action or practice of engaging in political activity. "news of this unseemly politicking invariably leaks into the press". 8. stalking horse I. 幌子 a false pretext concealing someone's real intentions. If you describe something as a stalking horse, you mean that it is being used to obtain a temporary advantage so that someone can get what they really want. I think the development is a stalking horse for exploitation of the surrounding countryside. "you have used me simply as a stalking horse for some of your more outrageous views". II. a screen traditionally made in the shape of a horse behind which a hunter can stay concealed when stalking prey. III. 试探的人, 打前哨的人. 打前站的政客. 诱饵. In politics, a stalking horse is someone who runs against a leader in order to see how strong the opposition is. The stalking horse then withdraws in favor of a stronger challenger. in politics, someone who competes for a position that they have no chance of winning, in order to divide the opposition to a particular group or to take attention away from another person who that group really wants to win. The possibility of another stalking horse challenge this fall cannot be ruled out. IV. A stalking horse is a figure used to test a concept or mount a challenge on behalf of a third party. If the idea proves viable or popular, the third party can then declare its interest and advance the concept with little risk of failure. If the concept fails, the third party will not be tainted by association with the failed concept and can either drop the idea completely or bide its time and wait until a better moment to launch an attack. The relationship between the stalking horse and third party is usually, but not always, hidden from the public. In many cases, the scheme is one-sided, with only one party aware of the arrangement. 9. Jean shorts or jorts 牛仔短裤 are shorts made out of denim. They may be cutoffs, which are made by cutting jeans, or store-bought jorts. The word "jorts" sometimes refers specifically to oversized denim shorts popularly worn by men. The word is often used humorously, and the style has been associated with uncool or "dad" fashion. 10. industrious 辛勤的, 勤勉的, 勤勤恳恳的 diligent and hard-working. someone who works hard, diligently, and persistently, showing a strong work ethic and focus to achieve goals, meaning they are energetic, dedicated, and not lazy in their tasks or endeavors. It's a positive trait linked to being industriousness, suggesting a conscientious and committed approach to work or projects, often involving consistent effort. "an industrious people striving to make their country prosperous". 11. gazump [ɡəˈzʌmp] 截胡 I. informal British English make a higher offer for a house than (someone whose offer has already been accepted by the seller) and thus succeed in acquiring the property. to refuse to sell a house that you own to someone you have agreed to sell it to, and to sell it instead to someone who offers to pay more for it: Sally's offer for the house has been accepted, but she's worried she might be gazumped."the trio are fuming after they were gazumped by a property speculator". Brazil beats Australia to the punch in delivering its own China market quota management plan - BRAZIL has evidently gazumped discussions in Australia to establish a self-managed China quota management plan, designed to avoid triggering China's recently-imposed 55 percent tariff on out-of-quota exports for the next three years. II. swindle (someone). "I gazumped a friend of mine with complete success last night". kiln [kɪln] 土窑 a type of large oven used for making bricks and clay objects hard after they have been shaped. a type of large oven (= box in which things are cooked or heated) used for making bricks and clay objects hard after they have been shaped. 12. suave [swɑːv] 彬彬有礼的 adj. charming, confident, and elegant, though possibly insincere (typically used of a man). A suave man is very polite, pleasant, and usually attractive, often in a way that is slightly false: He's very suave and sophisticated. "all the waiters were suave and deferential". deferential [ˌdɛfəˈrɛnʃl] 尊敬有嘉的 adj. showing deference; respectful. polite and showing respect: She is always extremely deferential towards anyone in authority. "people were always deferential to him".  They like five-star hotels and deferential treatment. We have become less deferential to authority. The old man spoke deferentially. self-absorbed 自以为是的, 以自我为中心的, 自我的 [ˌsɛlfəbˈzɔːbd] adj. preoccupied with one's own feelings, interests, or situation. only interested in yourself and your own activities. Someone who is self-absorbed thinks so much about things concerning themselves that they do not notice other people or the things around them. They would think he was distant or self-absorbed. "they are too self-absorbed to listen carefully to others". spike I. 拒绝出版. 拒绝发表. to decide not to publish an article in a newspaper: The story was deemed too controversial and so they spiked 打回, 没过审 it. '60 Minutes' is set to finally air the shelved 'Inside CECOT' segment tonight:  As Alfonsi wrote in her Dec. 21 internal memo claiming 'corporate censorship," the piece had been fact-checked and legally vetted; it had even been shipped off to the Canadian network that re-airs "60 Minutes," which is how a bootlegged copy got online, further embarrassing CBS.  The process to get to this point has been exasperating. After all, the other people involved in the production thought the piece was done before Christmas. Weiss said she would personally book an interview, two sources told CNN. So "60 Minutes" producers flew to DC from New York, and Alfonsi flew in from Texas. But the promised interview did not materialize. Everyone went home empty-handed. It's understandable where Weiss was coming from. As news chief, she was trying to ensure that CBS had exhausted every avenue for comment from the Trump administration.  Alfonsi had warned about this in her December memo: "Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a 'kill switch' for any reporting they find inconvenient."  I first heard about the DC trip when I asked around about the status of "Inside CECOT" last Thursday night. I was told in no uncertain terms that the piece was not airing this Sunday. "They keep making excuses" to hold the story, a person supporting Alfonsi said. Others dispute that. On Friday morning, two other sources said management was prioritizing a more timely 符合时宜的, 更时间相关的 story about ICE and Minneapolis for this Sunday's broadcast. I was about to report all of this in Friday morning's Reliable Sources newsletter when I got a call saying that something had changed. "Inside CECOT" was back in play for Sunday. II. 调味. to make a drink stronger by adding alcohol, or to add flavour or interest to something. spike someone's drink She claimed that someone had spiked her drink with whisky. (be) spiked with The pasta was served in a cream sauce spiked with black pepper. His writing is spiked with humour. III. 下药. to put a drug in someone's drink to make them unconscious, extremely tired, or unable to function normally. spike a drink The sedative has been used to spike drinks. be spiked I realized I'd been spiked. IV. to inject a drug into someone's body (= put it in using a needle) to make them unconscious, extremely tired, or unable to function normally: She ended up in hospital after being spiked with a needle in a nightclub. V. 扣球. in the sport of volleyball, to hit the ball so that it goes almost straight down on the other side of the net: He spiked within the 10 foot line - amazing. VI. in the sport of American football, to throw the ball straight down to the ground, especially after scoring a touchdown (= carrying or throwing the ball over the other team's goal line): He never spiked the ball after a touchdown, choosing to hand it to the official. He would always hand the ball to teammates to spike after his touchdowns. VII. 针刺. to push a sharp point into something or someone: She got badly spiked when one of the runners trod on her heel. VIII. to rise to a higher amount, price, or level, usually before going down again: spike to 激增, 升高, 陡升 The jobless rate in October spiked to a five-year high. 13. recourse 做法, 做事方法, 途径, 办法, 选项 I. The act or an instance of turning or applying to a person or thing for aid or security. a way of dealing with a difficult or unpleasant situation: If the company won't pay me, the only recourse left to me is to sue them. have recourse to the courts. II. 求助对象. 求援. 依靠. 依赖. One that is turned or applied to for aid or security. using something or someone as a way of getting help, especially in a difficult or dangerous situation. help, usually in the form of an official system or process, for someone in a difficult situation: a recourse for sb The Ombudsman is a recourse for homeowners who feel let down by their estate agent. At present, older workers have no legal recourse if they think they have suffered age discrimination. have recourse to sth Not everyone has recourse to expensive professional advice. sb's (only) recourse is to do sth Their only recourse is to file for an appeal before an administrative law judge. without/with no recourse to 求助于 We should be able to resolve these types of disputes without recourse to a public inquiry. provide/seek recourse The Patients' Bill of Rights provides recourse for patients wishing to sue for damages. It is hoped that the dispute will be settled without recourse to litigation. His only recourse was the police. have recourse to something to be able to use something for help; to be able to fall back on something. You will always have recourse to the money your grandfather left you. You will not have recourse to that money until you are over 21 years of age. Trump has repeatedly argued that Denmark did not have the capacity to protect Greenland from the likes of Russia and China. He has not ruled out taking the territory by force, but his administration has said its first recourse was to purchase the territory. III. the legal right of a lender to take assets belonging to the borrower in addition to the asset used to guarantee the loan, if the loan is not repaid. the legal right to demand payment from someone who has signed a cheque or bill of exchange if the money is not paid on the agreed date: The holder of the bill of exchange uses his or her right of recourse and submits the bill of exchange to someone connected with it. In a loan sale, a bank makes a loan and then sells the loan, without recourse, to a third party. a recourse agreement/loan/debt. non-recourse = nonrecourse used to describe a loan in which the lender has the right to take only the asset bought with the loan if it is not paid back, and does not have the right to take any other assets: non-recourse debt/loan/mortgage. They financed the $1.2 million purchase with a non-recourse loan. 14. bully pulpit [ˈbʊli pʊlpɪt] 公共平台, 主席讲台 noun. a public office or position of authority that provides its occupant with an opportunity to speak out on any issue. an important public position from which a person can let other people know his or her opinions on particular subjects: He intends to use his bully pulpit as state superintendent to bring attention to the issue. Over and over, he made use of the bully pulpit of the presidency, telling Americans he was doing the job they had elected him to do. "he could use the presidency as a bully pulpit to bring out the best in civic life". This is an opportunity to use what they call the bully pulpit to get in front of audiences to shape the political narrative, to shape this meaning in a way that aligns with the administration. note: pulpit is a raised platform in a church for sermons, but the term also refers to the popular Pulpit Rock lookout in Australia's Blue Mountains, known for stunning valley views and hiking. It can also metaphorically describe any platform for powerful speaking or preaching, from religious sermons to non-religious exhortations. Usage Note: A "bully pulpit" is a conspicuous position that provides an opportunity to speak out and be listened to. This term was coined by United States President Theodore Roosevelt, who referred to his office as a "bully pulpit", by which he meant a terrific platform from which to advocate an agenda. Roosevelt used the word bully as an adjective meaning "superb" or "wonderful", a more common usage at that time. 15. levity [ˈlev.ə.ti] 不严谨, 不认真, 不尊重, 不当回事, 戏谑, 轻佻, 轻松, 欢乐 ( frivolity; flippancy) noun. lack of respect or seriousness when you are dealing with something serious. humour or lack of seriousness, especially during a serious occasion. amusement or lack of seriousness. Levity is behaviour that shows a tendency to treat serious matters in a non-serious way. A lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters. At the time, Arnold had disapproved of such levity. a moment of levity. a brief moment of levity amid the solemn proceedings. There are going to be some folks who absolutely want to participate in all the historical, retrospective activities. There are other folks who want to focus on the fireworks and the [2026 FIFA] World Cup and all the kind of levity that comes with that. We are absolutely in sync and rowing in the same direction on how that's going to be implemented. tent pole = tentpole 大制作, 非常成功的电影, 造钱机, 摇钱树似的电影 informal US English I. a film that is expected to be very successful and so able to fund a range of related products or films. a film, event, business activity, etc. that is expected to make a lot of money, and also to help persuade people to spend money on products connected with it: The studio found itself in need of a summer tentpole. Armageddon was a successful tentpole in 1998. "this year's big tent-pole movie". a tentpole film, event, business activity, etc. is one that is expected to make a lot of money, and also to help persuade people to spend money on products connected with it: This is the time of the year that studios release their tentpole movie. Production costs for tentpole pictures now regularly exceed $100 million. II. a long pole that supports a tent and keeps it upright (= standing up): We stock both lightweight and traditional wooden tent poles. debase [dɪˈbeɪs] 贬低, 贬值, 贬身价 I. to make something less good or less valuable: Some argue that money has debased football. We debase language by using it inappropriately until it loses its meaning. ...the debasement of popular culture. II. to make someone morally worse or less deserving of respect: War debases those who take part in it. He would not debase himself 自贬身价 by entering such a popularity contest. How ridiculous, what a debasement of American history, or our understanding of the American story and American patriotism. debase the coinage/currency 货币贬值 to lower the value of money, for instance by making metal coins from a less valuable substance, borrowing too much against the current value of that money, etc. : The only way out of this is to debase the currency. 16. bump and grind 搔首弄姿, 摇头摆尾, 摇臀, 电臀舞蹈 I. (idiomatic) A sexually suggestive dance involving exaggerated hip movements, especially a striptease dance. A dance characterized by aggressive and overtly sexualized hip movements, either by a single dancer or between two dance partners. It was a little disconcerting to see teenagers doing the bump and grind at the prom. Your mom was a good girl in high school, unlike me. She probably didn't even know what the bump and grind was! A: "Any boy who wants to do the bump and grind with you at the dance only has one thing on his mind—and I think you know what that one thing is!" B: "OK, Mom, relax." II. (by extension) A combination of movements resembling such a dance, as in road racing, whitewater kayaking, or exercising; any activity involving prolonged jarring or shaking. Any series or combination of rough, jarring movements, especially as in whitewater kayaking or road racing. The bump and grind through those last rapids 湍流 gave me a headache! I hope you have a tight grip on the wheel because it looks like we're coming up to a real bump and grind! She's still a novice, so I was impressed with how well she handled the bump and grind of that track. verb. To dance in a manner characterized by aggressive and overtly sexualized hip movements, either by a single dancer or between two dance partners. It was a little disconcerting to see teenagers bumping and grinding at the prom. Girl, it's a club. Why are you surprised that people are bumping and grinding here? Get off of me, creep! I don't want to bump and grind with you! II. To perform any series or combination of rough, jarring movements, especially as in whitewater kayaking or road racing. We're going to have to bump and grind through this next section of the river. Can't we just paddle around a calm lake for once? I'm sick of bumping and grinding every time we go out. This stretch of highway isn't exactly smooth, so get ready to bump and grind through it. prime the pump 刺激增长 stimulate the growth or success of something by supplying it with money. To prime the pump means to do something to encourage the success or growth of something, especially the economy. To give something in order to create the conditions where others will give in return. ...the use of tax money to prime the pump of the state's economy. "the money was intended to prime the community care pump". pump-priming 培育, 培植, 扶持, 扶植 the activity of helping a business, programme, economy, etc. to develop by giving it money. the process of investing money in order to encourage the development of a business, economy, etc. After three years of careful pump priming, the industry is now up and running. The government is awarding small, pump-priming grants to single mothers who are starting their own businesses. note: "Prime pump" refers to pump priming, the essential process of filling a pump's casing and suction line with liquid (usually water) to remove air before operation, preventing damage and allowing it to create suction for proper flow. smut [smʌt] 手抄本, 色情小抄本, 色情刊物, 色情书籍, 淫秽作品, 色情内容 SEXUAL MATERIAL I. disapproving pictures, writing, language, or performances that deal with sex and are offensive. magazines, books, pictures, films or jokes that offend some people because they relate to sex: There's an awful lot of smut on television these days. It started as fan-fiction smut. Now everyone is talking about TV drama Heated Rivalry："I write sexually explicit queer romance novels about hockey players. You probably know this, but I'm saying it because it's something that I don't feel comfortable telling everyone." Rachel Reid wrote those words on her blog four months ago. Now, the adaptation of her self-described "smut" is the most talked-about show on TV: Heated Rivalry. Its stars have appeared at the Golden Globes, on major late-night talk shows and podcasts, and in a seemingly unending stream of social media fan edits - leaving Reid nowhere to hide. "I thought they were unadaptable (adapation改编)," Reid says frankly of her books, which she first published anonymously online, disguised as fan fiction. II. dirt or ash (= powder left when something has burned) that makes a mark on something. III. a plant disease that mainly affects grasses such as wheat Smut was destroying many of the crops. Some smuts can cause significant yield losses. note: 玉米黑穗菌, 玉米乌米、玉米蘑菇或墨西哥松露(Necrosis [nəˈkrəʊ.sɪs, nekˈroʊ.sɪs] 坏死病, 坏疽 Necrosis is the death of part of someone's body, for example because it is not getting enough blood. ...liver necrosis. Anthracnose 植物坏死病(叶子上有黑斑) is a common, destructive group of fungal diseases caused by Colletotrichum species, affecting a wide range of plants like trees, turf, fruits (mangoes, avocados, beans), and ornamentals, causing dark spots, blights, and leaf drop, especially in warm, humid, wet conditions. It spreads via water, wind, and contaminated tools, attacking leaves, stems, roots, or fruit, and is managed with good sanitation, proper watering (avoiding overhead), air circulation, fungicides, and removing infected plant parts to prevent severe damage. Plant blight is a rapid, destructive disease (fungal, bacterial, or water mold) causing quick browning, wilting, and death of plant tissues like leaves, stems, and fruit, appearing as burnt or necrotic areas, often in warm, humid conditions, with common types including Late Blight (potatoes/tomatoes) and Fire Blight (pome fruits). Prevention focuses on airflow (pruning, spacing), watering in mornings, keeping foliage dry, and removing infected parts, while treatments involve copper sprays or fungicides, though some blights are difficult to control. ): The smuts are multicellular fungi characterized by their large numbers of teliospores. The smuts get their name from a Germanic word for 'dirt' because of their dark, thick-walled, and dust-like teliospores. They are mostly Ustilaginomycetes (phylum Basidiomycota) and comprise seven of the 15 orders of the subphylum. Most described smuts belong to two orders, Ustilaginales and Tilletiales. The smuts are normally grouped with the other basidiomycetes because of their commonalities concerning sexual reproduction. They can cause plant disease and can infect a broad range of hosts in several monocot and dicot plant families. Smuts are cereal and crop pathogens that most notably affect members of the grass family (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae). Economically important hosts include maize, barley, wheat, oats, sugarcane, and forage grasses. They eventually hijack the plants' reproductive systems, forming galls which darken and burst, releasing fungal teliospores which infect other plants nearby. Before infection can occur, the smuts need to undergo a successful mating to form dikaryotic hyphae (two haploid cells fuse to form a dikaryon). Corn smut 玉米黑头病 (Ustilago maydis) infects maize. It grows in the ears of the crop and converts the kernels into black, powdery fungal tissues. The smut, called huitlacoche by Mexicans and formerly called cuitlacoche by the Aztecs, is a delicacy in Mexico sold in the markets for use in various dishes including soups, stews, steak sauces, and crepes, while in other parts of the world (including the United States) it is not accepted as a food. The amount of protein in corn smut is greater than that which was in the original corn, and also greater than that of oats and clover hay. 16. 日本大选: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi says she will dissolve parliament on Friday and call a snap ⁠election for February 8. The snap vote 紧急大选 will decide all ​465 seats in parliament’s lower house and mark Takaichi’s first electoral test since becoming Japan's first female premier in ‍October. It was an "extremely weighty decision" that would "determine Japan's course together with the people", Takaichi told a news conference. She also told voters to entrust her with running Japan. Ms Takaichi was appointed prime minister in October and her cabinet is riding high in the polls 高企, despite her party's flagging popularity. But her ruling bloc — which includes coalition partner Japan Innovation Party (JIP) — only has a slim majority in the powerful lower house of parliament. This could hamper the passage of her policy agenda, including "proactive" fiscal spending and boosting the defence budget. Calling an early election would allow her ⁠to capitalise on 利用, 借机 strong public support to tighten her grip on the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and shore ‌up 提升 her coalition's fragile majority 微弱多数. The election will test voter appetite for higher spending at a time when the ‍rising cost ⁠of living is the public's top concern. 17. The bazooka ([bəˈzuːkə]) 火箭炮, 火箭筒( armada [ɑːˈmɑː.də] 战舰群, 一群战舰, 军舰群 a large group of armed ships that fight wars at sea: The Spanish Armada was sent by the king of Spain to invade England in 1588.) (a portable tubular rocket-launcher that fires a projectile capable of piercing armour: used by infantrymen as a short-range antitank weapon.) is a man-portable recoilless anti-tank rocket launcher weapon, widely deployed by the United States Army, especially during World War II. Also referred to as the "stovepipe", the innovative bazooka was among the first generation of rocket-propelled anti-tank weapons used in infantry combat. The term "bazooka" still sees informal use as a generic term referring to any shoulder fired ground-to-ground/ground-to-air missile weapon (mainly rocket-propelled grenade launchers or recoilless rifles), and as an expression that heavy measures are being taken. The Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI), nicknamed the trade bazooka, is a regulation of the European Union proposed in December 2021, adopted in November 2023, and that entered into force on 27 December 2023. It aims to protect the EU and its member states from economic coercion by third countries and provides a framework for EU action, including examination, engagement, and the adoption of countermeasures. Combining security policy and trade policy, it is a defence and deterrence tool designed to prevent coercion by creating penalties for whichever country is performing the coercion. Analytically, one conference proceeding from 2025 introduces the term "geo-legality" to describe how the EU deploys its legal-normative authority, including the ACI, as leverage to counter external (economic) pressure. Among the coercive measures against which it could be used are boycotts and trade restrictions. In addition, an earlier version of the ACI contained proposed mechanisms for compensation to affected member states; the final Instrument, instead, provides a framework for seeking reparation from the coercing country. 18. ambulatory [ˈæmbjʊlətərɪ] (=  ambulant 能走路的) 生活能自理的, 能自理的, 能自己走路的, 能独立行走的 medical specialized relating to or describing people being treated for an injury or illness who are able to walk, and who, when treated in a hospital, are usually not staying for the night. (of people being treated for an injury or illness) able to walk, and, when treated in a hospital, usually not staying for the night in a bed: She is completely ambulatory and will be home today. an ambulatory surgery. We will be opening two new ambulatory care facilities for private patients in May. The actress playing the daughter has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and sometimes people with that syndrome are ambulatory wheelchair users. They use it when they need it. II. (of hospitals, clinics, etc.) serving patients who are able to walk and who can leave after treatment: We will soon be opening two new ambulatory care facilities. ham-fisted = ham-handed 拙手笨脚的, 蹩脚的, 拙劣的 笨拙的 clumsy; bungling. doing things in an awkward or unskilled way when using the hands or dealing with people: They can all be made in minutes by even the most ham-fisted of cooks. The report criticizes the ham-fisted way in which complaints were dealt with. "a ham-fisted attempt". 19. slobber 流口水 have saliva dripping copiously from the mouth. to allow saliva or food to run out of the mouth. To let saliva (= the liquid in the mouth) or other liquid run out of the mouth: No one likes to have a dog slobber on them. "Fido tended to slobber". slobber over someone 垂涎三尺 disapproving to show how much you admire and like someone, in a way that shows little control: Ted was slobbering over the pretty new assistant in marketing. noun. 口水. Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth. There was dried slobber on his coat lapel. slobbery adj. disapproving unpleasantly wet, and containing a lot of saliva (= the liquid produced in your mouth): a big, slobbery kiss. His slobbery bulldog is dozing and snoring loudly. slop verb. 洒出来. 流出来. to cause a liquid to flow over the edge of a container through not taking care or making a rough movement. (of a liquid) to fl ow or fall over the edge of a container, or to cause a liquid to do this. If liquid slops from a container or if you slop liquid somewhere, it comes out over the edge of the container, usually accidentally. A little cognac slopped over the edge of the glass. Refilling his cup, she slopped some tea into the saucer. The coffee slopped onto the tablecloth. Careful, you've just slopped coffee all over the carpet! Water slopped out of the bucket as he carried it up the stairs. noun. I. informal disapproving food that is more liquid than it should be and is therefore unpleasant: Have you tried the slop that they call stew in the canteen? II. You can use slop or slops to refer to liquid waste containing the remains of food. Breakfast plates were collected and the slops emptied. III. informal disapproving 垃圾内容. content on the internet that is of very low quality, especially when it is created by artificial intelligence: "Slop" is what you get when you put AI-generated material up on the internet for anyone to view. AI slop AI垃圾 AI slop is slowly killing the internet! The internet is going to be filled to the brim with low-effort AI slop. ... the mass-produced slop that comes out of Hollywood. waffle around (blathering, babbling, droning: speak tediously in a dull monotonous tone. "he reached for another beer while Jim droned on". ) I. To continue speaking wordily in a vague, aimless, or evasive manner. The politician kept waffling around 闪烁其词, 闪烁其辞, 不知所云 whenever a reporter asked him about the scandal. The professor has a bad habit of getting sidetracked and waffling around during her lectures. The funniest part to me is that without fail, Harlan Coben's  shows introduce the mystery, waffle around for 5-6 episodes giving you nothing of substance, and then the final 2 episodes just tell you what happened. You can skip to the end of every one of his stories and miss essentially nothing. II. 不知所措. 不知道怎么办. 无所适从. To be continually indecisive or ineffectual (about some issue). to be indecisive; to be wishy-washy about making a decision. Make up your mind. Stop waffling around. Now, don't waffle about. Make up your mind. We're never going to get this project finished if you keep waffling around instead of taking charge and making decisions! We waffled around for so long that they sold the house to someone else. III. To loiter or meander around (some place) in an idle or aimless manner. I hate customers who waffle around at their table after they've finished eating. We waffled around the mall for a few hours while we waited for Tom. wiki: Waffle is language without meaning; blathering, babbling, droning. Its usage varies, but it generally refers to speaking or writing in a vague, trivial, or nonsensical manner without making any clear or important points. This can occur during presentations, essays, or casual conversations, often to fill time or when the speaker lacks substantial material. 20. dumpy 矮胖的 (podgy UK informal disapproving = pudgy mainly US informal disapproving = roly-poly informal humorous = stumpy informal mainly disapproving = tubby informal) short and fat. If you describe someone as dumpy, you mean they are short and fat, and are usually implying they are unattractive. My figure used to be slim and petite but now it looks dumpy and square. Does this dress make me look dumpy?a dumpy little woman. Fraternization is the act of forming close, friendly, or intimate relationships between people in different social, rank, or organizational classes, often considered unprofessional, unethical, or against regulations, especially in structured environments like the military, law enforcement, or corporations, where it can compromise order, favoritism, and impartiality. While it can mean general friendly association, it usually implies inappropriate contact, such as between officers and enlisted personnel, managers and subordinates, or even enemies, leading to potential disciplinary action. fraternize 不正当关系 I. to meet someone socially, especially someone who belongs to an opposing army or team, or has a different social position: fraternize with 私通, 不当关系 Do the doctors fraternise much with the nurses here? The soldiers were accused of fraternizing with the enemy. Fraternization with the enemy was against the rules. Army regulations prohibit fraternization between men and women. I. (chiefly US, derogatory) any type of disallowed, supposedly unethical and unprofessional, social or intimate contact between employees, especially between different gender, class or rank. 21. swathe [sweɪð] = swath. swathe someone/something in something to completely cover someone or something with something. To swathe someone or something in cloth means to wrap them in it completely. She swathed her enormous body in thin black fabrics. His head was swathed in bandages made from a torn sheet. The moon was swathed in mist. noun. I. a long narrow piece of cloth, especially one that is wrapped around someone or something. ...swathes of white silk. II. a large number of people or things or a large area of something. The disease killed huge swaths of the population. Fully vaccinated adults are due to get a swathe of new freedoms from Monday — including being able to do things like eat at restaurants and go to the gym, which have been off limits in some areas for more than 100 days. NSW's premier-in-waiting Dominic Perrottet has not ruled out changing the state's COVID-19 roadmap, just one week before fully vaccinated people are due to get a swathe of new freedoms. III. 长条形地块 a large area of land, usually longer than it is wide. bevy 一大帮的, 一大堆的, 一大群的 I. a bevy of people is a group of people all together in one place. a large group of similar things or people: The lack of electricity in rural communities creates a bevy of problems. We were greeted by a bevy of excitable journalists. The city boasts a bevy of museums and entertainment options. They led lives of wealth and privilege, complete with big homes and bevies of domestic servants. ...a bevy of little girls. ...a bevy of bright young officers. "I would be in favor of keeping calm and trying to sit this out a bit, see what happens next. We're getting this bevy of messages and so on at the moment," senior Labour politician Emily Thornberry told the BBC.  II. a large group of a particular type of bird: A whirring bevy of quail swept past her. slew [sluː] 大量的. a large amount or number. A slew of things is a large number of them:  There have been a whole slew of shooting incidents. They dealt with a slew of other issues. The product inspired a whole slew of copycats. The bad weather could bring a slew of bankruptcies among farmers. verb. (of a vehicle) to turn or be turned round suddenly and awkwardly. If a vehicle slews or is slewed across a road, it slides across it. The bus slewed sideways. A seven-ton lorry slewed across their path. He slewed the car against the side of the building. The car hit a patch of ice and slewed around violently. He slewed the van 翻车 to the left to avoid the dog. Eventually the pilot managed to slew the aircraft round before it settled on all wheels on the runway. canard [kəˈnɑːd,ˈkanɑːd] I. 无稽之谈. 荒诞至极. 胡说八道. an unfounded rumour or story. a false report or piece of information that is intended to deceive people. A canard is an idea or a piece of information that is false, especially one that is spread deliberately in order to harm someone or their work. The charge that Harding was a political stooge may be a canard. "the old canard that LA is a cultural wasteland 文化沙漠, 文化荒漠". "I think it's a complete canard that the president will be doing this because of the Nobel prize," he said. "The president is looking at Greenland as a strategic asset for the United States." II. a small winglike projection attached to an aircraft forward of the main wing to provide extra stability or control, sometimes replacing the tail. intimate adj. I. having, or being likely to cause, a very close friendship or personal or sexual relationship. If you have an intimate friendship with someone, you know them very well and like them a lot. I discussed with my intimate friends 密友 whether I would immediately have a baby. He did not feel he had got to know them intimately. They are to have an autumn wedding, an intimate of the couple confides. intimate relationships. intimate atmosphere. The restaurant has a very intimate atmosphere. intimate with He's become very intimate with an actress. If you use intimate to describe an occasion or the atmosphere of a place, you like it because it is quiet and pleasant, and seems suitable for close conversations between friends. ...an intimate candlelit dinner for two. II. (of knowledge or understanding) detailed, and obtained from a lot of studying or experience. An intimate knowledge of something is a deep and detailed knowledge of it. He surprised me with his intimate knowledge of Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer. ...a golden age of musicians whose work she knew intimately. intimate knowledge 知道内情 She has intimate knowledge of Tuscany, where she has lived for 20 years. An intimate conversation or detail, for example, is very personal and private. He wrote about the intimate details of his family life. I hate to interrupt your intimate conversation but we do have an assignment to discuss. It was the first time they had attempted to talk intimately. III. 亲密关系. If two people are in an intimate relationship, they are involved with each other in a loving or sexual way. You have to be willing to get to know yourself and your partner intimately. I just won't discuss my intimate relationships. ...their intimate moments with their boyfriends. IV. An intimate connection between ideas or organizations, for example, is a very strong link between them. ...an intimate connection between madness and wisdom. France has kept the most intimate links with its former African territories. Property and equities are intimately connected in Hong Kong. noun. a friend you know very well: Intimates of the star say that he has been upset by the personal attacks on him that have appeared in the press recently. verb. to make clear what you think or want without saying it directly. If you intimate something, you say it in an indirect way. He went on to intimate that he was indeed contemplating a shake-up of the company. He had intimated to the French and Russians his readiness to come to a settlement. She has intimated that she will resign if she loses the vote. In his response, Mr Trump appeared to intimate one of the reasons he was keen to get "complete and total control" of the Arctic territory was because he'd been overlooked for the Nobel Peace Prize. 22. annotate [ˈænəuˌteit ˈænə-] 解读, 点评, 加注解, 加标注 to supply (a written work, such as an ancient text) with critical or explanatory notes. To furnish (a literary work) with critical commentary or explanatory notes; gloss. add notes to (a text or diagram) giving explanation or comment. If you annotate written work or a diagram, you add notes to it, especially in order to explain it. Historians annotate, check and interpret the diary selections. ...an annotated bibliography. Dissecting 剖析, 解读 Donald Trump's Greenland message to Norway's PM, line by line: Donald Trump's text to Norway's prime minister, annotated. I. To add a short explanation or opinion to a text or image: Annotated editions of Shakespeare's plays help readers to understand old words. an annotated bibliography/manuscript/edition. His great-granddaughter has painstakingly transcribed and annotated his wartime diaries. The students annotate their photos, saying why they are relevant. II. computing, language specialized to add a description or piece of information to data, for example a label saying whether a word is a noun, a verb, etc.: After the corpus was collected we annotated it. Textual or numerical data can be copied into databases, annotated, and linked to other data. offtake I. The removal of oil (or an industrial chemical) from a storage facility. the removal of oil from a reservoir or supply. II. the act of taking off, specifically relating to removing goods from a market by purchasing them. The US could also negotiate an "offtake" agreement 开采协议 for Greenland's vast yet largely untapped supplies of rare earth minerals, Cohn suggested. "You've got to give Donald Trump some credit for the successes he's had and he's many times tried to overreach to get something in a compromise situation," he said. "He has overreached in advertising something to end up getting what he actually wants. Maybe what he actually wants is a larger military presence and an offtake." While Cohn expressed reservations about some of the president's actions, he said the US administration had "various different motives" for what they were doing. He said Trump's decision to intervene in Venezuela was "a path" to disrupt the country's relationship with China, the biggest market for its oil, as well as Russia and Cuba. Developments in quantum computing and AI are seen as critical not just for the US economy and productivity, but for US strategic influence in the world. "IBM is dead centre in what's going on in quantum today. We have the largest amount of quantum computers in use today" Cohn said, highlighting that his company has put many of these computers into use across America in firms from the banking industry to medicine. "AI is going to be the backbone for data that feeds into quantum to solve problems we've never been able to solve", he added. jackknife 折叠刀 = pocket knife, folding knife, penknife verb. I. move one's body into a bent or doubled-up position. "she jackknifed into a sitting position". II. 拖挂折叠. (of an articulated vehicle) bend into a V-shape in an uncontrolled skidding movement. If a truck that has two parts jackknifes, one part moves around so far towards the other part that it cannot be driven. If a truck that is in two parts jackknifes, the back part swings around at a sharp angle to the front part in an uncontrolled way as the truck is moving. Traffic on the Pacific Highway near Yatala was delayed early yesterday after a semi-trailer jackknifed and left the road. The oil tanker jackknifed after skidding on the ice. "the accident happened when a lorry jackknifed". Over a hundred vehicles pile up on motorway after crash - Jack-knifed trucks 打滑的, 溜车的 were left strewn across the road after heavy snow in Ottawa Country, Michigan. III. (of a diver) perform a jackknife. note: A jackknife is an abdominal exercise. This exercise is also known as a "V-Up". Jackknife exercises are designed to strengthen the upper and lower abdominal muscles, particularly the transversus abdominis muscle. There are a number of variations of jackknife exercises that allow people of different ages and ability to work their abdominal muscles. This exercise can be modified by using an exercise ball. The jackknife can be done by lying flat on your back with your arms extended overhead and your feet raised slightly above the floor. The jackknife is completed by slowly bringing your straight arms toward your hips, and lifting your upper torso off the floor. 23. hypoallergenic [ˌhʌɪpəʊaləˈdʒɛnɪk] 防过敏的, 抗过敏的 adj. (especially of cosmetics and textiles) relatively unlikely to cause an allergic reaction. designed to be less likely to cause allergic reactions (= physical problems caused by particular substances) in people who use a product: hypoallergenic cosmetics/earrings. tumbleweed 尴尬的沉默, 突然的沉默, 尴尬的寂静, 无言的沉默, 空气安静 informal I. an uncomfortable silence when no one is answering a question or taking part in a conversation, often shown by typing the word "tumbleweed" into an online discussion. Someone responded with a tumbleweed because I didn't respond within half an hour. tumbleweed moment Did you ever experience a tumbleweed moment when absolutely no one reacted to something you said? note: Describing unwanted silence and inactivity. Often used of a situation when one makes a statement that is ignored or ill-received by one's audience, as the resultant silence is likened to that of a desolate desert with rolling tumbleweeds. A "tumbleweed moment" refers to an awkward, uncomfortable silence or a sudden lack of response after someone says something awkward, unfunny, or inappropriate, evoking the image of a tumbleweed rolling across a desolate landscape in a Western movie. It's that "dead air" when a question goes unanswered, a joke falls flat, or a statement is met with blank stares, leaving everyone feeling on edge and unsure how to proceed. II. a North American and Australian plant that breaks away from its roots near the ground when it dies, and forms large balls that are rolled around by the wind, or the balls that are formed in this way: On the edge of town, tumbleweed rolled past the skeletons of abandoned cars. The dead tumbleweed breaks off at the stem and, as it tumbles, it sheds thousands of seeds. On a windy day, litter blows across the parking lot like tumbleweed. They are now selling the property, where tumbleweeds blow across the courtyard like in some Wild West movie. pass the time 消磨时间, 消遣 If you do something to pass the time you do it because you have some time available and not because you really want to do it. to do something to keep busy while waiting: We passed the time in the airport playing cards. Without particular interest and just to pass the time, I read a story. During a lunch break, he and the buyer passed the time with some chitchat. come down in the last shower 从天而降 = someone didn't come down in the last shower (Australia, New Zealand) be born yesterday 天真无邪, 傻的要命, 傻子, 一无所知, 好骗 used to indicate that someone is not foolish or gullible. She didn't come down in the last shower; she knew exactly what she was doing. You fellas who lie in the train with your feet on the seat sipping out of an amber bottle in a paper bag: do you think we came down in the last shower? He described that Mr Cosgrave as someone "who hadn't come down in the last shower". 24. acted out of raw instinct 纯粹是出于本能.  famished 饿的要死 = starving If you are famished, you are very hungry. extremely hungry: Have some dinner with us - you must be famished! Isn't dinner ready? I'm famished. "Jimming 撬开 = jemming" usually means prying something open or loose with a lever, like forcing a door lock or window with a thin tool (a "jimmy"), often to gain entry, but it can also mean to spoil or damage something ("jim up") or refer to looking at the camera like the character Jim from. jimmy = jemmy = pry, prise to pry, to raise, move, or pull apart with or as if with a lever. to force a window or lock open with a jimmy. noun. a short, strong metal bar with a curved end, often used to force things open, for example by thieves to force open windows or doors. to prise (something) open with a jemmy. 

unhoused 无家可归的: The use of the term unhoused has grown exponentially in the last few years, and those who have adopted it say it emphasizes a lack of affordable housing. Beverly Graham was sitting in an executive leadership class in Seattle in 2006 when she first recalls using the word "unhoused". The director of OSL, a non-profit that provides meals to food-insecure Seattle residents, Graham hadn't planned on speaking up. But her classmates – two dozen regional business leaders – were discussing the number of homeless people in the area, and their perspective felt very different from the one she had gained after years of helping vulnerable Seattleites. She had to pipe up. “I said, ‘They’re unhoused,’” remembered Graham. “They have a home: Seattle is their home.” OSL has used the word ever since to describe people lacking a fixed abode 居无定所, 无固定住所, feeling that “homeless” had gained discriminatory, ugly connotations. The term caught on. Gradually it spread among west coast professionals working with or advocating for people living on the streets, and then it made its way across the US. Adam Aleksic, a Harvard linguistics graduate who started the Etymology Nerd blog, noted its apparent first appearance on Twitter as another word for homeless occurred in October 2008. Around 2020, the use of unhoused began growing exponentially, according to Google Trends. Today, in mainstream articles and conversations, it’s synonymous with – and for many people, preferable to – homeless. While governments don’t yet widely employ it, some grassroots groups and scholars use it exclusively. Critics have derided the new word as clunky and unfamiliar, potentially the product of woke virtue signaling. But those who have adopted it say it’s for the same reasons OSL originally did: to lessen stigma and to highlight that those lacking permanent roofs over their heads may still have communities or physical spaces they consider home. And with the country currently in the midst of an intractable housing crisis, there’s another reason for the popularity of unhoused: the word’s root emphasizes that the problem is a structural one linked to a lack of affordable housing, not a personal weakness. Unhoused is no neologism; it’s been around since the mid-16th century. The etymologist and linguistic consultant Jason Greenberg pointed out that Shakespeare used it to illustrate Othello’s love for Desdemona, though it had a slightly different meaning at the time:

    … for know, Iago,
    But that I love the gentle Desdemona,
    I would not my unhoused free condition
    Put into circumscription and confine
    For the sea’s worth.”

Homeless is an old word too, with origins in old English, said Greenberg. But historically it has referred to a lack of social and emotional connections, rather than the absence of a physical residence. In the 1980s, however, largely due to deep cuts in federal housing and welfare programs, increasing numbers of people began finding themselves without a place to live. Those numbers grew from roughly 100,000 people in 1980 to 600,000 in 1987, and journalists and analysts needed a word to describe the new denizens. Around the mid-80s, homeless became the term of choice. The popularity of unhoused could be tied to a similar shift in public life: the emergence of large tent communities in many big cities around the country. “I think I first heard [the word] maybe 10 years ago, when encampments became more prevalent,” said Maria Foscarinis, founder of the National Homelessness Law Center. While homelessness in the US has risen only slightly over the past few years, the proportion of unsheltered 没有遮风挡雨的地方 people – that is, those who don’t utilize overnight shelters but instead sleep outside or in vehicles – and the number of tent encampments have significantly increased, making the overall problem much more visible. Correspondingly, housing prices in many of those same cities have steeply risen over the past decade. The use of unhoused is an effort to humanize those residents. “It’s a powerful way to remind us that the issue is really a housing problem,” said Elizabeth Bowen, a professor of social work at the University of Buffalo. “I think that’s useful: there can be a tendency to think about homelessness in more individualistic ways, like it’s a person’s personal failing or the result of their life choices. When really the most important thing is that we just don’t have enough affordable housing in this country.” Some advocates think the newer word doesn’t go far enough. “Homeless, houseless, unhoused: they’re abstract and kind of euphemisms. I prefer ‘housing-deprived’, but it’s a mouthful,” said Jonathan Russell, chief strategy and impact officer at Bay Area Community Services. Still, asserted Mark Horvath, founder of the advocacy organization Invisible People and himself formerly unhoused, “most homeless people still say homeless.”

Story of India, India; sated, satiate, satiety, insatiable;

"You work here, wow!" I exclaimed with appreciable ( enough to be noticed or considered important. An appreciable amount or effect is large enough to be important or clearly noticed. It contains less than 1 per cent fat and an appreciable amount of protein. This has not had an appreciable effect on production. Travel had not mellowed him appreciably. Summer temperatures are appreciably more comfortable there. Her help on the project has made an appreciable difference. ) astonishment, "So, you didn't join your dad 子承父业, huh?" He shook his head silently. "Well, I always thought you'd do something like optometry or ophthalmology ( ophthalmologist 眼科医生 [ˌɑpθælˈmɑlədʒɪst, ˌɑfθælˈmɑlədʒɪst] a doctor who is an expert in illnesses of the eyes and who can perform operations on people's eyes.) and then join the family business 继承家业..." I remarked, without, of course, mentioning that I never really thought he'd do anything other than simply graduating with some meaningless college degree and joining his father... manning one of the chain of stores they had... boss over the staff. "You stay with colleagues?" I asked. He didn't reply, but I saw the flush deepen. "Alone?" I ventured. "Um, sort of..." he finally murmured as we reached the lounge. "Sort of?" I questioned looking at him. But he neither replied, nor elaborated as we walked on. "So, how do I get to town?" I asked, following him, enjoying myself. "We take the MRT," he answered, "it's in the basement..." The 'we' absolutely thrilled me, but I feigned incomprehension 装作不明白, 装没听懂, "But you said that that area is expensive... you know, where the office is located, where you stay..." It was a neat little house, the last one, in a mixed, lower middle-class neighbourhood, sitting 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 孤独的, 孤零零的, 无人照管的, 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 没有指望的 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. ) in its own little garden at the far end of an anonymous little lane 无名小巷 in another of those numerous residential colonies that had haphazardly ( [disapproval] done in a way that does not seem to be carefully planned or organized. If you describe something as haphazard, you are critical of it because it is not at all organized or is not arranged according to a plan. The investigation does seem haphazard. He had never seen such a haphazard approach to filmmaking as Roberto's. She looked at the books jammed haphazardly in the shelves. ) cropped up ( crop up I. 冒出来. to happen suddenly or unexpectedly Ben had to go back to work – a problem's cropped up (something has come up.). II. if a name or subject crops up, someone mentions it. Alice's name keeps cropping up in our conversations.) around the rapidly expanding city. It had lain vacant 闲置 for nearly a decade - an ancient caretaker in charge, the owner settled in the Gulf, never visiting. This vacant plot, as I soon found out, was the playground of the neighbourhood boys - evenings and weekends. But since I came home late on weekdays, and left early on weekends, I never really got to see them in action, simply catching an ocassional glimpse (when I did happen to return early) of the boys trooping out ( troop verb. to walk somewhere in a group. If people troop somewhere, they walk there in a group, often in a sad or tired way. They all trooped back to the house for a rest. The men trooped into work with resignation. The bell rings and they all troop into school. noun. I. Troops 军队 are soldiers, especially when they are in a large organized group doing a particular task. The operation will involve more than 35,000 troops from a dozen countries. There were reports of troop movements. II. A troop is a group of soldiers within a cavalry or armoured regiment. ...a troop of enemy cavalry trotting towards the Dutch right flank. III. A troop of scouts is a local group of them that meets regularly. ...a Scout troop. IV. A troop of people or animals is a group of them. Amy was aware of the little troop of travellers watching the two of them. Out of beams and cracks came troops of beetles, ants and spiders. ), or having a last minute chat near the locked gate before parting for the day. The neighbours mostly left me alone, their curiosity probably sated ( sated [seɪtɪd] adj. be sated (with something) 足够了, 满足了 to have had enough, or more than enough, of something. If you are sated with something, you have had more of it than you can enjoy at one time. ...children happily sated with ice cream. satiate [ˈseɪʃiˌeɪt] verb. If something such as food or pleasure satiates you, you have all that you need or all that you want of it, often so much that you become tired of it. to satisfy a need or desire completely, sometimes in a way that makes you feel as though you have had too much. Nothing seems to satiate people's need for gossip. The dinner was enough to satiate the gourmets. The festival offers enough choice to satiate most appetites. She finished the meal and sat back with a satiated sigh. satiety [səˈtʌɪɪti] ( = satiation) 心满意足, 志得意满 满足 the feeling or state of being sated. a molecule that seems to regulate satiety". I smiled over my shoulder at him, watching his chest heave while his eyes registered satiety and a little bit of shock. Wanting him to know how much I was still enjoying his cock, I ground 摩擦, 磨着, 研磨 my ass against his pubic mane (很多的毛发, 浓密的毛发) and let out a guttural moan. His eyes softened and he smiled back at me, then he puckered his lips and blew me a kiss. I batted my eyes 眨巴眼 and changed the motion of my hips, working them back and forth in a fucking motion while he licked his lips and nodded, giving me silent approval to have my way. insatiable [ɪnˈseɪʃəb(ə)l] always wanting more and never feeling satisfied. The public seems to have an insatiable appetite for celebrity gossip. mane [meɪn] (mace 王杖, 权杖 sceptre) 马和狮子头上的毛发 I. the long hair on the neck of a horse or lion. The mane on a horse or lion is the long thick hair that grows from its neck. II. ​mainly literary someone's long thick hair. If you refer to a person's hair as their mane, you mean that they have a lot of hair. He had a great mane of white hair. She has a rich mane of black hair. ) by whatever gossip the old caretaker might have carried to them, and the boys paid me nothing more than a cursory glance... and after the first two weeks I had become another regular fixture in their collective life, as interesting, or as invisible, as any of the various other featureless clutter of the colony. Though, a few of the more familiar faces did grace me with ( grace something/ somebody with your presence to bring honour to an occasion or group of people by coming to something – said humorously when someone comes late or does not often come to meetings etc Ah, so you've decided to grace us with your presence! grace with (something) I. To bring renown or cachet to something, often by one's mere presence. If that famous professor graces us with his presence, the local news will definitely want to cover our event. Do you think Sara will grace us with her presence today? It's already one in the afternoon. II. To embellish or ornament something with something. The artisan graced that frame with a fine gold leaf. ) an occasional smile or a perfunctory nod ( perfunctory [pərˈfʌŋkt(ə)ri] adj. 应付式的, 心不在焉的, 简单的, 随随便便的, 满不在乎的, 不在意的 A perfunctory action is done quickly and carelessly, and shows a lack of interest in what you are doing. They give their new employees a day or two of perfunctory orientation. ...a one-day orientation session. She gave the list only a perfunctory glance 不认真的, 随便扫了一眼, 简单看了一眼(a cursory glance). ...a perfunctory handshake. Our interest was purely perfunctory. Melina was perfunctorily introduced to the men. done without much effort or interest. Officers made a perfunctory search of the room. She gave her mother a perfunctory kiss on the cheek. vocabulary: Perfunctory means done as part of a routine or duty 兴趣了了的, 只是习惯性的, 不经心的. If you give someone a gift and they look at it like it's roadkill and say nothing but a perfunctory "thank you," you might not be giving them another one anytime soon. (roadkill = road kill 路上被压死的小动物 an animal or bird that has been killed by a vehicle and is lying in the road. Roadkill is the remains of an animal or animals that have been killed on the road by cars or other vehicles. On average, two crocodiles a year end up as road kill on Florida's Highway 1. I don't feel good about seeing roadkill. ) A person who does something in a perfunctory way shows little enthusiasm or interest in what they are doing. Many of our everyday greetings are perfunctory. For example, when we say "Hello" and "How are you?", we usually do so out of habit. Perfunctory is from Latin perfunctus, from perfungi, "to get through with, perform," formed from the Latin prefix per-, "completely," plus fungi, "to perform." )... the younger kids more forthcoming 直来直去的 as they greeted me with a broader smile, or even a shy 'hello'. But once schools closed for summer, about three weeks after I'd moved in, the ground exploded with youthful exuberance 青春活力 ( exuberant [ɪɡˈzjubərənt] 活力满满的 青春洋溢的 I. happy, excited, and full of energy. If you are exuberant, you are full of energy, excitement, and cheerfulness. ...an exuberant young girl who decided to become a screen actress. They both laughed exuberantly. an exuberant crowd. II. showing happiness, excitement, and energy. If you describe something as exuberant, you like it because it is lively, exciting, and full of energy and life. This is bold and exuberant cooking. ...exuberantly decorated. exuberant designs by a local artist. exuberance I. Exuberance is behaviour which is energetic, excited, and cheerful. Her burst of exuberance and her brightness overwhelmed me. II. If you talk about the exuberance of something, you like it because it is lively, exciting, and full of energy and life. The sheer exuberance of the sculpture was exhilarating. )... and from early morning to late in the evening, after the last rays of light had faded, it was the battle ground for the teens - mostly fourteens to eighteens - unruly roisterers ( roister verb. I. to engage in noisy merrymaking; revel. II. to brag, bluster, or swagger. ) on the cusp [kʌsp] of manhood, loud and boisterous. Constantly engaged in altercations, taunts, and even an occasional scuffle as they indulged in their obstreperous play( obstreperous [ɑbˈstrepərəs] 肆意的, 任性而为的, 不被束缚的, 不拘束的, 难以束缚的. 难管束的, 难以控制的. refusing to behave in a reasonable way and sometimes protesting loudly. If you say that someone is obstreperous, you think that they are noisy and difficult to control. You know I have no intention of being awkward and obstreperous. obstreperous customers/patients/neighbors. a. Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous. b. Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control, whether in a noisy manner or not. vocabulary: Obstreperous means boisterous, noisy, aggressive, defiant. You've probably seen an obstreperous child in the grocery store, pulling away from her mother, screaming at the top of her lungs. If you've been to a large concert where the band doesn't come on stage for hours, you might have been part of an obstreperous crowd: increasingly impatient, with fights breaking out, things thrown up onto the stage, and demands being shouted, "Give us some music before the night is out!" Some people are kind and gentle with strangers, but around their own family turn obstreperous, shouting "You never loved me!" at their mom when she gives them the smaller of two cookies. vociferous [voʊˈsɪfərəs] 大声地, 不加掩饰的 I. someone who is vociferous expresses their opinion loudly and with force. If you describe someone as vociferous, you mean that they speak with great energy and determination, because they want their views to be heard. He was a vociferous opponent of Conservatism. His resentment of her behaviour was becoming more vociferous. He vociferously opposed the state of emergency imposed by the government. II. a vociferous opinion, reply, protest, etc. is expressed loudly and with force. vocabulary: Vociferous describes loudmouths, such as the vociferous mob at the soccer game. Vociferous is from the Latin vociferari, meaning "to shout, yell." If you break it down to the first part, take vox, meaning "voice" and add it to ferre, meaning "to carry," then vociferous describes voices that carry; you can hear a vociferous person from across the room at a dance party. Vociferous isn't just loud, but annoying, too, like when the vociferous fans of the opposing team chant insults in unison. Try yanking a cookie out of a little kid's hand if you want to hear a vociferous reaction. tumultuous [tuˈmʌltʃʊəs] I. noisy and excited. A tumultuous reaction to something is very noisy, because the people involved are very happy or excited. A tumultuous welcome from a 2,000 strong crowd greeted the champion. Delegates greeted the news with tumultuous applause. tumultuous applause. II. involving a lot of noise, excitement, activity, or violence. A tumultuous event or period of time involves many exciting and confusing events or feelings. ...the tumultuous changes in the war-torn region. Shares were 1 per cent down after another tumultuous day at the bank. Scotland's tumultuous history. ). Mocking, mischievous and impish ( impish [ˈɪmpɪʃ] 坏坏的, 青春肆意的 looking or behaving as though you are doing something slightly bad that people think is funny. If you describe someone or their behaviour as impish, you mean that they are rather disrespectful or naughty in a playful way. Gillespie is well known for his impish sense of humour. He smiled at me impishly. an impish smile 坏笑. vocabulary: If you know someone who's playful and mischievous, you can describe them as impish. Your impish little brother probably gets away with all kinds of pranks because he's so cute. If you're impish, you might play practical jokes on people, tease them, tickle them, or be otherwise cheerfully annoying. The troublemaker in a kindergarten class is likely to be fairly impish, naughty and a little silly. The adjective impish comes from imp, a mythological creature that's similar to a fairy but known in folklore for its jokes and pranks. )... rambunctious in their adolescent celebration of vernal ( vernal [ˈvɜrn(ə)l] 春日的, 春天的 (hibernal [hʌɪˈbəːn(ə)l] 冬天的, aestival [ˈiːstɪv(ə)l] 夏日的, and autumnal 秋日的) happening or appearing in spring. of or occurring in spring the vernal equinox. ) life! And standing out in that crowd of teens was a boy - aggressively arrogant and belligerently antagonistic... loud and noisomely ( noisome [ˈnɔɪsəm] 烦人的, 讨人厌的 extremely unpleasant, especially because of being very dirty or having a bad smell. If you describe something or someone as noisome, you mean that you find them extremely unpleasant. Noisome vapours arise from the mud left in the docks. His noisome reputation for corruption had already begun to spread. ) domineering! Foul-mouthed 爱说脏话的 and abrasively ( abrasive I. 粗鲁的. behaving in way that seems rude to other people, because you say what you think even if it is not nice. Someone who has an abrasive manner is unkind and rude. His abrasive manner has won him an unenviable notoriety. Pamela was unrepentant about her strong language and abrasive remarks. an abrasive manner. II. 粗糙的. 剌手的. 划手的. having a rough surface that can be used to rub and clean other surfaces. An abrasive substance is rough and can be used to clean hard surfaces. ...a new all-purpose, non-abrasive cleaner. ) blustery ( [ˈblʌst(ə)ri] I. 风大的 with strong winds. Blustery weather is rough, windy, and often rainy, with the wind often changing in strength or direction. It's a cold night here, with intermittent rain showers and a blustery wind. ...a cool, blustery day. blustery conditions. II. blowing strongly. blustery winds. bluster 虚张声势的说, 嚣张的说 (whimper (痛, 害怕, 伤心)呻吟, bluster 嚣张, 虚张声势的说, splutter哼唧. 嘟囔, babbling 呓语 sass 硬气的说 ) angry or threatening talk or behavior from someone who wants to hide their fear or nervousness. Despite all the bluster from the Premier and Transport Minister, the government didn't actually oppose the RTBU's (Rail, Tram and Bus Union) move to ask the FWC (Fair Work Commission) to approve the workers' right to turn off Opal machines in the future. verb. If you say that someone is blustering, you mean that they are speaking aggressively but without authority, often because they are angry or offended. 'That's lunacy,' he blustered. He was still blustering, but there was panic in his eyes. ...the bluster of the party's campaign. ), the tyke 小孩子 ( [informal, approval] a small child. You can refer to a child, especially a naughty or playful one, as a tyke when you want to show affection for them. ) was simply unable to open his mouth without some filth popping out - his every sentence peppered with flavourful invectives ( invective [ɪnˈvektɪv] 骂人话, 脏话 insulting language or swearing. Invective is rude and unpleasant things that people shout at people they hate or are angry with. A woman had hurled racist invective at the family. Crowley maintained a stream of invective and abuse against Waite. ), and interspersed with 夹杂着 (tinged with, laced with, colored with, with a hint/trace of, peppered with) graphic expletives [ˈeksplətɪv]... all of it embellished with 装点着, 修饰着 suggestive gesticulations 暗示性的动作 ( gesticulate [dʒəˈstɪkjəˌleɪt] 连说再比划, 张牙舞爪, 手舞足蹈 to make movements with your hands and arms when you are talking, usually because you want to emphasize what you are saying or because you are excited. If you gesticulate, you make movements with your arms or hands, often while you are describing something that is difficult to express in words. A man with a paper hat upon his head was gesticulating wildly. The architect was gesticulating at a hole in the ground. We communicated mainly by signs, gesticulation and mime. ) that were markedly obscene... Strutting around with a chesty confidence( chesty adj. I. If you have a chesty cough, you have a lot of mucus in your lungs. suffering from or caused by an infection in the lungs a chesty cough. II. offensive a chesty woman has large breasts. ) and a grandiose [ˈɡrændiˌoʊs] image of the self( grandiose [ˈɡrændiˌoʊs] I. [disapproval] 夸张的. 暴发户似的, 土财主似的 designed to look very impressive, but really looking artificial or silly. If you describe something as grandiose, you mean it is bigger or more elaborate than necessary. Not one of Kim's grandiose plans has even begun. a grandiose building. II. intended to achieve something important or difficult, but unlikely to be successful because of not being sensible. grandiose illusions about wielding power. ), replete with ( replete with [rɪˈpliːt] I. literary full of something. replete with 充满, 满是, 到处是: To be replete with something means to be full of it. The Harbor was replete with boats. History is replete with examples of populations out of control. For him, the city was replete with memories. II. old-fashioned 吃饱喝足的. feeling that you do not want anything more to eat or drink. If you are replete, you are pleasantly full of food and drink. Replete, guests can then retire to the modern conservatory for coffee. expletive-laden [ˈeksplətɪv] 脏话连篇的. An expletive is a rude word or expression such as 'Damn!' which you say when you are annoyed, excited, or in pain. deplete [dɪˈplit] 穷尽, 耗尽, 用尽 verb. To deplete a stock or amount of something means to reduce it. to reduce the amount of something or the number of things Wars in the region have depleted the country’s food supplies. ozone-depleting substances. ...substances that deplete the ozone layer. They fired in long bursts, which depleted their ammunition. Most native mammal species have been severely depleted. ...Robert E. Lee's worn and depleted army. ...the problem of ozone depletion....the depletion of underground water supplies. ) a sense of superiority; disdainfully irreverent [ɪˈrevrənt] 天不怕地不怕的, 大无畏的, 不畏权贵的, 不畏世俗的, 桀骜不驯的, 无畏世俗的 ( [approval] If you describe someone as irreverent, you mean that they do not show respect for people or things that are generally respected. showing no respect for traditions, the rules of society, or religious beliefs irreverent humor. an irreverent attitude. She's irreverent, fun and hugely popular. Taylor combined great knowledge with an irreverent attitude to history. His irreverence for authority marks him out as a troublemaker. 'Jobs for the boys,' said Crosby irreverently. ), as he arrogated ( arrogate [ˈærəˌɡeɪt] 篡权, 专权, 擅权 [formal, disapproval] to take power that is not legally yours. If someone arrogates to themselves something such as a responsibility or privilege, they claim or take it even though they have no right to do so. The assembly arrogated to itself the right to make changes. He arrogated the privilege to himself alone. ) the role of leadership to himself... constantly obtruding ( obtrude [ɑbˈtrud] I. to be noticeable, or to attract attention to something, in a way that is not pleasant or welcome. When something obtrudes or when you obtrude it, it becomes noticeable in an undesirable way. A 40 watt bulb would be quite sufficient and would not obtrude 惹眼, 扎眼, 太显眼. Gertrude now clearly felt that she had obtruded her sorrow. He didn't want to obtrude on her privacy. (especially of something unwanted) to make something or to become too noticeable, especially by interrupting: I don't want to obtrude upon/on her privacy. II. impose or force (something) on someone in an unwelcome or intrusive way. "I felt unable to obtrude my private sorrow upon anyone". ), bossing over the other boys as they meekly yielded 温顺地服从, silently acquiesced(acquiesce [ˌækwiˈes] (爱亏爱死) 无奈接受, 认命, 服从大局 to agree to something or to accept something, although you do not want to. If you acquiesce in something, you agree to do what someone wants or to accept what they do even though you may not agree with it. Steve seemed to acquiesce in the decision. He has gradually acquiesced to the demands of the opposition. When her mother suggested that she stay, Alice willingly acquiesced. acquiesce in/to: Despite acquiescing in the board's decision, he had never really changed his own view.)! And he caught my eyes almost instantly... fascinating me... and yes, titillating ( titillate [ˈtɪtɪlˌeɪt] ( tantalize [ˈtænt(ə)lˌaɪz]) 让人垂涎欲滴 让人心痒难耐的. 惹火的, 让人欲罢不能. If something titillates someone, it pleases and excites them, especially in a sexual way. to produce feelings of interest, pleasure, or sexual excitement in someone. The pictures were not meant to titillate audiences. ...food to titillate the most jaded of palates. ...deliberately titillating lyrics. tantalize verb. to make someone feel excited by showing or offering them something that they want, often with no intention of giving it to them. If someone or something tantalizes you, they make you feel hopeful and excited about getting what you want, usually before disappointing you by not letting you have what they appeared to offer. The boy would come into the room and tantalize the dog with his feed. ...the dreams of democracy that have so tantalized them. A tantalising aroma of roast chicken fills the air. She went away disappointed after getting tantalisingly close to breaking the record. A political settlement remains tantalisingly out of reach. ) me! Fiercely vociferous ( vociferous [voʊˈsɪfərəs] 有什么说什么的, 大声疾呼的, 大声叫喊的, 喧嚷的. 不扭扭捏捏的, 敢说话的, 讲话大声的, 讲话铿锵有力的, 勇敢表达自己意见的 I. someone who is vociferous expresses their opinion loudly and with force. If you describe someone as vociferous, you mean that they speak with great energy and determination, because they want their views to be heard. He was a vociferous opponent of Conservatism. His resentment of her behaviour was becoming more vociferous. He vociferously opposed the state of emergency imposed by the government. II. a vociferous opinion, reply, protest, etc. is expressed loudly and with force.), and shamelessly belligerent [bəˈlɪdʒ(ə)rənt] as they battle it out, in fair weather or foul 天气好也罢坏也罢 - under the scorching summer sun, or the driving rain - with scant regard for residents, pedestrians, or even traffic! But, despite the shortfall in numbers 人数不够, they never allowed the slightly younger kids to play with them, no matter how much they pleaded with the older boys... and these kids in turn played their game in the narrow lane... regularly hitting the ball into gardens and courtyards... smashing no small number of window panes 窗玻璃... and then running away as the owner rushed out, screaming and cursing... But soon back at their play... all innocent and guileless ( guileless [ˈɡaɪlləs] 诚实可信的, 童叟无欺的. [written, approval] always behaving honestly and expecting other people to be honest. If you describe someone as guileless, you mean that they behave openly and truthfully and do not try to deceive people. Daphne was so guileless that Claire had no option but to believe her. ); virtuously ignorant as to who had been batting when the glass got broken! I felt my passion boil and bubble 沸腾... but since I had neither seen, nor encountered anyone around my age in the whole colony (everyone seemed to be a kid or a teen... their parents... and much older, retired couples!), I simply watched the boys from my terrace - as I got ready for work, and during Sundays, since I was done with my 'exploring', and the heat was too blistering 热气太(blistering I. Blistering heat is very great heat. .We went out in the blistering heat. ..a blistering 酷热的 summer day 酷暑. II. A blistering remark expresses great anger or dislike. extremely angry and unkind: blistering remarks/sarcasm. The president responded to this with a blistering attack on his critics. very strong and severe: The vice president launched a blistering attack on Senate Republicans. III. 快到飞起的. 快如闪电的. Blistering is used to describe actions in sport to emphasize that they are done with great speed or force. extremely fast: The runners set off at a blistering pace. David set a blistering pace at first. blister 水泡的 noun. a painful swelling on the skin that contains liquid, caused usually by continuous rubbing, especially on your foot, or by burning: New shoes always give me blisters. verb. 磨出泡. 水泡. to get blisters or cause blisters: Grace's feet were blistered and numb with cold. The sun blistered the paintwork. I burned my shoulders over the weekend and they're starting to blister. blistered 起泡的, 起水泡的, 磨出水泡的 I. If skin is blistered, it has one or more painful swellings that contain liquid, caused usually by continuous rubbing or by burning: Despite badly blistered feet, he finished the race. I played that bass guitar until my thumb was blistered and bleeding. II. having hollow rounded swellings on the surface: Roast the peppers until the skins are blistered. We sanded down the old blistered paint. ) for aimless wanderings. Just watched - their boisterous 喧嚣的 games... and their camaraderie (despite the scuffle ( a small fight that lasts for a short time and is not very violent. A scuffle is a short, disorganized fight or struggle. Violent scuffles broke out between rival groups demonstrating for and against independence. verb. If people scuffle, 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. kerfuffle [kərˈfʌf(ə)l] 争吵, 口角 [British, informal] a lot of talk, activity, or worry about something that is not important. A kerfuffle is a lot of argument, noisy activity, or fuss. A disorderly outburst, disturbance, commotion, or tumult. There was a bit of a kerfuffle during the race when a dog impeded the leading runners. Dutch soilder shot at and killed in US: According to Mayor Joe Hogsett, the police have "a good idea" of what happened. "As I understand it, there was a scuffle — a kerfuffle — at a bar, and the Dutch guardsmen had returned back to their hotel. What they were doing outside, I'm not altogether sure, but I'm told the alleged perpetrators did a drive-by shooting, and ultimately three were victimized by that shooting," Hogsett said. ) and fisticuffs 拳头相向 ( [ˈfɪstiˌkʌfs] a fight in which the opponents hit each other with their fists. ) that erupted periodically)... the loud gaffaws ( guffaw [ɡəˈfɔ] [gʌ'fɔː] 大笑 noun. A guffaw is a very loud laugh. He bursts into a loud guffaw. verb. to laugh very loudly. To guffaw means to laugh loudly. As they guffawed loudly, the ticket collector arrived. 'Ha, ha,' everyone guffawed. 'It's one of Viv's shock tactics.'), brags and bravados... the joshing ( josh 取笑, 开玩笑 to make jokes. to tease (someone) in a bantering way. ) and the hazing ( the bullying of a student in school. jones [dʒəʊnz] verb. to have a very strong feeling of wanting something. jones for: By 1 pm I was starving and seriously jonesing for noodles. be jonesing to do something: I had just had my first child and I was jonesing to work. noun. informal US verb. have a fixation on; be addicted to. a jones for​ a very strong desire for or addiction to If you have a jones for the sweet and frozen, sorbet is the better choice. "Palmer was jonesing for some coke again". jonesing A strong desire or craving. haze noun. I. Haze is light mist, caused by particles of water or dust in the air, which prevents you from seeing distant objects clearly. Haze often forms in hot weather. They vanished into the haze near the horizon. The sun smouldered through a thin summer haze. ...the shimmering heat haze. II. If there is a haze of something such as smoke or steam, you cannot see clearly through it. Dan smiled at him through a haze of smoke and steaming coffee. A thick haze of acrid smoke hung in the air. III. If someone is in a haze, they are not thinking clearly or not really noticing what is happening around them. His mind was a haze of fear and confusion. ...asking people to recollect a vanished past through a nostalgic haze. acrid [ˈækrɪd] I. an acrid smell or taste is very strong, bitter, and unpleasant in your nose and throat. An acrid smell or taste is strong and sharp, and usually unpleasant. The room filled with the acrid smell of tobacco. The plant has an unpleasant odour and an acrid taste. stinging, acrid fumes of burning rubber. II. an acrid remark expresses criticism in a cruel way. )... the constantly shifting alliances and kinship 今天你和我他, 明天又和他好了... and the quicksilver ( adj. 瞬息万变的. changing often in ways that you do not expect. Quicksilver movements or changes are very fast and unpredictable. ...her quicksilver changes of mood. noun. mercury. ) fallouts, which then lasted just as briefly! And I specially watched Sohail... that arrogant, self-appointed leader of boys - I had become aware of practically every single kid, and could match individual face with name. Watching his every move... his every action, as he went about the ground clapping his hands and barking out orders... hustling his team around... instructing and placing his fielders... setting a smart field against the opponent - a good batsman, and an astute 精明强干的 captain. I honestly don't know how obvious my fascination was, but on several occasion I caught him looking at me, turning away with a silent laugh as our eyes met... And when he was nearer to my end of the ground, I even fancied that I could perceive a mischievous glint in those eyes(glint (gleam) in (one's) eye(s) I. A brief and subtle expression in one's eye(s) indicating a hidden or secret emotion, agenda, idea, plan, etc. She said that she was happy for both of them, but I knew by the glint 坏水, 小狡黠 in her eye that she despised Mark's new girlfriend. My father, with a glint in his eyes, told me that I would get the best present after the party was over. I can see a glint of evilness in his eyes. II. A person or thing that has been planned or discussed but has not yet come into being. Jonathan says he's going to write the great American novel, but it's just a glint in his eye at this point. I knew your parents back when you were just a glint in their eyes. a gleam in your eye an expression in your eyes that shows that you are amused or that you have a secret: "I can't tell you that yet, but I will soon," Grandpa said with a gleam in his eye. a full, good, thick, etc. head of hair 满头浓发 a lot of hair: Even as a tiny baby, she had a thick head of hair. glint verb. I. If something glints, it produces or reflects a quick flash of light. The sea glinted in the sun. Sunlight glinted on his spectacles. ...the glinting ripples of water. II. If someone's eyes glint, they shine and express a particular emotion. When someone's eyes glint, they look bright, expressing a strong emotion: She smiled at him, her eyes glinting with mischief. Her eyes glinted wildly. A mischievous spark glinted in his eyes. noun. I. A glint is a quick flash of light. ...a glint of silver. ...glints of sunlight. II. A glint in someone's eyes is a brightness that expresses a particular emotion. He came up to me with the glint of triumph in his eye. an occasion when something glints: the glint of a knife. a mischievous glint in his eye. A glint can also be a brief expression in someone's eyes that tells you how that person is really thinking or feeling: a glint of pride in his eye.)... a silent dare - as if he knew... was aware - not only of my fascination, but also the cause of that attraction! The kid was actually cute, enticingly 诱人的 so... of medium height, and a stocky built... smooth, with a glowing complexion, and a pout that was maddening - the lips, full and luscious [ˈlʌʃəs] 鲜艳欲滴的, 秀色可餐的 ( I. very attractive in a sexual way. If you describe a person or something about them as luscious, you mean that you find them or this thing sexually attractive. ...a luscious young blonde. What I like most about Gabby is her luscious lips! luscious lips. II. luscious food looks, smells, and tastes especially good. Luscious food is juicy and very good to eat. ...a small apricot tree which bore luscious fruit.), forever stretched in a disdainful sneer over a mouth full of teeth - almost a snarling ( snarl [snɑrl] 怒吼 I. intransitive ︎if an animal such as a dog or a lion snarls, it makes an angry sound in its throat and shows its teeth. When an animal snarls, it makes a fierce, rough sound in its throat while showing its teeth. He raced ahead up into the bush, barking and snarling. The dogs snarled at the intruders. With a snarl, the second dog made a dive for his heel. II. intransitive/transitive to speak in an unpleasant angry way. If you snarl something, you say it in a fierce, angry way. 'Let go of me,' he snarled. I vaguely remember snarling at someone who stepped on my foot. 'Aubrey.' Hyde seemed almost to snarl the name. His eyes flashed, and his lips were drawn back in a furious snarl. "Be quiet!" he snarled. III. snarl up transitive to make something such as traffic unable to move. An accident snarled up the traffic for hours. IV. intransitive/transitive to become caught or twisted in something, or to make something do this. To snarl something up means to cause problems which prevent it continuing or making progress. The ensuing row snarled up the work of the joint peace. snarl-up I. a situation in which traffic coming from several different directions is prevented from moving. II. a situation in which a project is prevented from continuing. noun A snarl is a disorganized mass of things. She was tangled in a snarl of logs and branches. A radio-link automatically advises it of traffic snarls and plots a detour. ) serval ( The serval is a wild cat native to Africa. It is rare in North Africa and the Sahel, but widespread in sub-Saharan countries, except rainforest regions. Across its range, it occurs in protected areas, and hunting it is either prohibited or regulated in range countries. It is the sole member of the genus Leptailurus. )! And he had the most impossibly pronounced 说不出来的, 说不清道不明的 swagger, that invariably grabbed an onlooker's attention, forcibly drawing their gaze to that magnificent butt of his - a pair of large melons, full and firm... set delicately atop those powerful, muscular thighs... filling the seat of his flannel to capacity... the seam distinctly digging between... almost parting those plump cheeks 丰盈的 -- Bewitchingly sinful... Tantalisingly tempting 让人欲罢不能的! Flinging his bat to the ground Sohail ran across the field, right up to the wall and looking up, asked, "You deaf or what, huh?" I grinned down, "That was a stupendous ( stupendous [stuˈpendəs] 巨大的, 多到惊人的 very impressive, large, or surprising. Something that is stupendous is surprisingly impressive or large. He was a man of stupendous stamina and energy. This stupendous novel keeps you gripped to the end. ...a stupendous amount of money. He is a stupendously swift writer. a stupendous palace/view. ) shot, or should I say stupid? Now, jump over and get the ball yourself!" and immediately heard the tittering ( titter [ˈtɪtər] 讪笑, 尬笑, 哂笑. 尴尬的笑, 紧张的笑. to laugh quietly, especially because you are nervous or embarrassed. If someone titters, they give a short nervous laugh, especially when they are embarrassed about something. Mention sex therapy and most people will titter in embarrassment. Mollie gave an uneasy little titter. There was nervous tittering in the studio audience. ) behind him. His eyes blazed ( blaze [bleɪz] I. 熊熊燃烧. to burn strongly and brightly.  Three people died as wreckage blazed, and rescuers fought to release trapped drivers. The log fire was blazing merrily. ...a blazing fire. A log fire blazed in the fireplace. The following morning the building was still blazing. A blaze 大火 is a large fire which is difficult to control and which destroys a lot of things. Two firefighters were hurt in a blaze which swept through a tower block last night. II. if the sun blazes, it is very bright and hot. blaze down: The afternoon sun blazed down on us as we walked. III. to shine very brightly. A car roared toward them with its headlights blazing. IV. to show a very bright color. She smiled, but her cheeks blazed red. blaze with: If something blazes with light or colour, it is extremely bright. The gardens blazed with colour. I wanted the front garden to be a blaze of colour. The rainbow blazed with color. VI. if someone's eyes blaze, they show a sudden strong emotion, especially anger. If someone's eyes are blazing with an emotion, or if an emotion is blazing in their eyes 眼里冒着怒火, their eyes look very bright because they are feeling that emotion so strongly. He got to his feet and his dark eyes were blazing with anger. Eva stood up and indignation blazed in her eyes. His eyes blazed intently into mine. Miss Turner turned blazing eyes on the victim. blaze with: Her eyes blazed with fury. VII. blaze away 枪突突突的开着 if guns blaze or blaze away, they continue firing for a long time. If guns blaze, or blaze away, they fire continuously, making a lot of noise. Guns were blazing, flares going up and the sky was lit up all around. She took the gun and blazed away with calm and deadly accuracy.  The artillery blazed without a pause throughout the battle. blaze a trail 开山辟路, 闯出一条路 to be the first to do something new and important a great pioneer who blazed a trail for others to follow. with [all] guns blazing If you come out with guns blazing or with all guns blazing, you put all your effort and energy into trying to achieve something. The company came out with guns blazing. noun. I. A blaze of publicity or attention is a great amount of it. He was arrested in a blaze of publicity. ...the sporting career that began in a blaze of glory. ), but he silently 默默地 went across to the gate and climbed over... running down the couple yards before jumping over the low wall and entering the garden below. I saw him look around the various flowering plants before spotting the ball and taking it. He then looked up and very slowly raised his left hand, unfurling the middle finger at me, giving a crooked smile ( = lopsided smile ) and was gone...  Well, I ignored that look... but I couldn't ignore him.... He had failed to subdue ( [səbˈdʒuː] I. to reduce the force of something, or to prevent something from existing or developing: The fire burned for eight hours before the fire crews could subdue it. He criticized the school for trying to subdue individual expression. II. 制服. 降服. to bring a person or group under control by using force: Police say they have a range of methods available to them to subdue a person during a confrontation. Their aim was to subdue security guards and cut the paintings from their frames. As one rebellion is subdued, the conditions for another are forming elsewhere.) me (as he had, the other boys) with his arrogance, but his hubris ( Hubris 傲慢, 自大[ˈhjuːbrɪs]) describes a personality quality of extreme or foolish pride 骄傲, 傲娇 or dangerous over confidence, often in combination with (or synonymous with) arrogance. In its ancient Greek context, it typically describes behavior that defies the norms of behavior or challenges the gods, and which in turn brings about the downfall, or nemesis, of the perpetrator of hubris. The adjectival form of the noun hubris is "hubristic". Hubris is usually perceived as a characteristic of an individual rather than a group, although the group the offender belongs to may suffer collateral consequences from the wrongful act. Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence, accomplishments or capabilities. hubris I. 过度自信, 过度骄傲. 极度傲慢, 过度自负, 太过自以为是: Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance. excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance. "There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris". II. Hubris (also hybris; ['hju:bris]) means extreme haughtiness or arrogance. Hubris often indicates being out of touch with reality and overestimating one's own competence or capabilities, especially for people in positions of power. Hubris appears in the terms "act of hubris自负行径," and "hubristic." In its modern usage, hubris denotes overconfident pride and arrogance; it is often associated with a lack of humility不谦逊, not always with the lack of knowledge. An accusation of hubris often implies that suffering or punishment will follow, similar to the occasional pairing of hubris and nemesis in the Greek world. The proverb "pride comes/goes before a fall 骄傲使人退步, 过度傲慢会导致跌倒" is thought to sum up the modern definition of hubris. If you're too conceited or self-important, something will happen to make you look foolish. It is also referred to as "pride that blinds 让人目空一切的傲慢, 遮住眼睛的傲慢", as it often causes someone accused of hubris to act in foolish ways that belie common sense. ) had ensnared 沦陷, 困住 ( [ɪnˈsner] I. if a bad situation ensnares someone, they are unable to escape from it. If an animal is ensnared, it is caught in a trap. The spider must wait for prey to be ensnared on its web. II. to trick someone in an unpleasant way and get control of them. If you ensnare someone, you gain power over them, especially by using dishonest or deceitful methods. Feminism is simply another device to ensnare women. We find ourselves ensnared in employment acts which do not help resolve industrial disputes. ) me... ensorcelled ( ensorcel [ɪnˈsɔːsəl] 着迷 enchanted; bewitched He is ensorcelled by his new companions. ) my every conscious moment... making me lust, yes, lust for him! It was around ten-thirty when the scorching sun finally drove us to seek shelter under the shadow of one of the trees 树荫下 that bordered the expansive ground, and we sat there, talking - the boys telling me about themselves, about school and home... and the other members of their group. Bursting with curiosity 忍不住好奇, wanting to know about me - my home, my work, and cricket. Tickled pink to know ( tickled pink 喜不自禁, 欣喜异常 informal very happy or amused. If you are tickled pink, you are extremely pleased about something. 'I'm tickled pink,' said Jimmy after his wife gave birth. I was tickled pink to see her. ) that I was the youngest, that this was my first sojourn ( sojourn UK: [ˈsɒdʒə(r)n] US: [ˈsoʊˌdʒɜrn] 暂住 a stay in a place that is longer than a vacation but not permanent. A sojourn is a short stay in a place that is not your home. ) outside home; openly admiring, much impressed with my game... gasping with excited wonder when I finally mentioned that I had played at both the university and State level. "And where's your leader?" I finally asked, curious to know more about Sohail, without being too obvious. "Leader?!" asked Paul, looking at me. "Oh, you mean Sohail-bhai?" grinned Junaid, his eyes twinkling, "He's busy today, um, they've invited some big film-star to inaugurate 开幕, 开业典礼 their latest store, and they'll have a big party later!" "What store?" I asked with a casual shrug. "Oh, they have a whole chain of optical stores, you know, eye-care..." informed little Junaid, "specs, shades, contacts... all branded and stuff, mostly imported and pricey!" "Ah!" I gave an appreciative gasp, and then questioned in all innocence, "You guys aren't going for the inauguration and the party?" "We weren't exactly invited..." Akram stated, the tone hurtful, though he did try to mask it 掩饰 with that nonchalant teen bravado. "Well, his dad doesn't exactly like his coming here, you know," explained Junaid with a faint smile 浅笑, "play with us..." Akram let out a grunt, but didn't add anything to that bit of information. I shook my head in incomprehension, and then quietly asked, "He doesn't live here, in this colony?" After almost two months, I was also, (besides matching faces with names), aware of the homes of most of the boys... but had never seen Sohail anywhere other than the ground. "NO!" exclaimed Junaid, once more ready to share every information he had, on anything I wanted to know, "He lives in one of those gated communities across the main thoroughfare. They're super rich, you know, and he's the only son!" "A-ha!" I nodded with the right amount of awe, before asking, "Then why doesn't he play with his own neighbourhood kids instead of coming here, especially if his dad disapproves?" "There aren't too many guys his age in their community," explained Anuj. I gave another nod of understanding, and with a sly smile gently dangled the bait, "That, or, because you guys allow him to boss over you?" "HUH!" Akram let out a snort instantly. "Well, not exactly," Anuj quickly interjected, "but he does buy the balls, and both set of kits are his..." "We couldn't afford a kit even if all of us contributed," shrugged Khalil, "and our dad would kick our butt if we asked for balls every week!" "Um, he's a good all-rounder 全能人才..." Julian, the silent one, observed with an almost apologetic smile. "Take a break, dude!" Akram interjected with a scornful simper ( simper 傻笑 verb. & noun. to smile in a way that looks silly and is not sincere. When someone simpers, they smile in a rather silly way. The maid lowered her chin and simpered. 'Thank you doctor,' said the nurse with a simper.), his eyes rolling. "Nothing like you, Zubair-bhai !" Junaid whispered promptly, patting my arm, giving me a cocky smile - a real smart cookie! Well, I noted with a shameful sense of satisfaction, the platoon was ripe for rebellion! Only Sohail remained impervious (impervious [ɪmˈpɜrviəs] 无动于衷的, 不为所动的 I. not affected by something or not seeming to notice it. If you are impervious to someone's actions, you are not affected or influenced by them. She seems almost impervious to the criticism from all sides. The political system there has been impervious to all suggestions of change. impervious to 置之不理的, 不为所动的, 无动于衷的, 不被干扰的: She continued to work, apparently impervious to the midday heat. He carried on talking, impervious to the effect his words were having. II. ​science something that is impervious to a substance does not let the substance pass through it. Something that is impervious to water, heat, or a particular object is able to resist it or stop it passing through it. The floorcovering you select will need to be impervious 戳不破的, 不漏水的, 不漏热的 穿不透的 to water. ...a layer of impervious rock. pervious 透水的, 透光的, 透热的 a pervious substance allows water to pass through; permeable. The top sheet is formed of a fluid pervious material, e.g., a fibrous material. a. able to be penetrated; permeable. b. receptive to new ideas; open-minded. vocabulary: An impervious surface is one that can't be penetrated. The word is often followed by "to," as in "His steely personality made him impervious to jokes about his awful haircut." Most of the sentences you'll run across using impervious will be followed by the word "to" and a noun. Things are often described as being impervious to physical assaults like heat, water, bullets, weather, and attack, but just as frequently to less tangible things, like reason, criticism, pain, and pressure. The word comes from Latin: in- + pervius, meaning "not letting things through." A common synonym is impermeable.) to my generous claps of appreciation, consistently ignoring me... his swagger a little more pronounced... jeering at the boys who showed any sign of being too 'friendly' towards me! The following Sunday they were at my front gate, inviting me to join them - "You said you'd play with us!" they chorused 齐声说. That day, the group 'appointed' me to lead one team... with Sohail, of course, retaining his captaincy of the other team - my bitter opponent! Problem arose however, when every boy wanted to be on my team... Sohail standing apart, under a distant tree, sulky and petulant 没好气的 ( [ˈpetʃələnt] annoyed and behaving in an unreasonable way because you cannot get what you want. Someone who is petulant is unreasonably angry and upset in a childish way. His critics say he's just being silly and petulant. He picked the pen up with a petulant gesture. 'I don't need help,' he said petulantly. a petulant child. petulance Petulance is unreasonable, childish bad temper over something unimportant. His petulance made her impatient. ), mostly ignoring the cacophonous ( [kə'kɒfənəs] If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant. ...the cacophonous beat of pop music. cacophony [kəˈkɑfəni] an unpleasant mixture of loud sounds. ) disputations of his companions, emitting an occasional snigger or a snort as he fiddled with a glove. He was incensed... progressively becoming more offensive with each defeat. Raging at his teammates for the merest falterings - a miss fielding or throw, a dropped catch, a loose ball, whatever - the tirades littered with all the juicy expletives that cluttered his vast arsenal of invectives. And since I refused to take his bait 不上钩, 不上当, he began showing his immaturity by becoming puerilely ( puerile [ˈpjʊrəl] 幼稚的 [disapproval] like a silly young person, or like something they would say or do. If you describe someone or something as puerile, you mean that they are silly and childish. Concert organisers branded the group's actions as puerile. The story is simple, even puerile. ...puerile, schoolboy humour. puerile nonsense.) lewd - thrusting out his pelvis as he polished the ball before passing it to the bowler, his eyes on me, steady, each time. Patting his crotch as he stood at Silly Point or Short Leg when I was batting, and then winking as I looked at him while scanning the field positions before the bowler began his run-up... letting out soft, suggestive moans each time, laughing mischievously as he turned away! It all happened within a blink, a fraction of a millisecond... and my hurried steps backward, my off-balanced manoeuvre at getting into the right spot, and the force of the ball, tipped me over... and as I fell, I curled myself, rolling on my side... the ball safe in my clutch, my hands still planted between my thighs... Everyone froze where they were, all eyes on me as they held their breath... In that silence rang Sohail's raucous cackle (raucous 高声的, 大声的, 吵闹的 ( [rɔːkəs] A raucous sound is loud, harsh, and rather unpleasant. rude, noisy, and violent a raucous gang of teenagers. They heard a bottle being smashed, then more raucous laughter. ...the raucous cries of the sea-birds. ...a raucous crowd of 25,000 delirious fans. They laughed together raucously. cackle I. 嘲笑. 讥笑. to laugh in a loud, unpleasant, and sometimes unkind way. If someone cackles, they laugh in a loud unpleasant way, often at something bad that happens to someone else. She cackled, pleased to have produced so dramatic a reaction. Newington threw his head back and cackled with laughter. He let out a brief cackle. II. intransitive/transitive to talk or say something in a loud high voice. III. intransitive when a chicken cackles, it makes a loud high sound. ) "Guys, I keep telling you but you never listen... buy your captain a good jock-strap and give him one of my guards!" I rolled over and raised my left hand in appeal, the ball firm in my grip... and the ground exploded! I stood up, throwing the ball high in the air, and the boys rushed over, thumping my back... his teammates too coming forward, everyone shaking hands in that typical gentlemanly cricketing end-of-game formality. And as they ran away, excitedly discussing the next day's match, Sohail walked past me, his bat slung over his shoulder, letting out an agonised groan 痛苦的呻吟 as he grabbed his crotch, and then grinned, "Chhote miya ko lagi nahi na?" winking before adding, "Hope I haven't damaged your jewels, huh, the way you keeled over!" (An innocuous query about my welfare, with obvious reference to my status as the youngest member of my family... but also, evident from his action, grin and the follow-up question, a not-so-subtle reference to the wellbeing of my 'member'.) I gave him a cold stare... seething! He let out another groan and was gone in a miasma of ( [miˈæzmə] I. a cloud of unpleasant gas or smoke. You can describe something bad or confused that seems to be in the air all around you as a miasma. His ambition to be part of the U.S. Supreme Court faded in a miasma of despair. II. a very unpleasant feeling or atmosphere. ) suppressed 憋住的笑声 giggles. Well, he may be at that stage in life when sexual awaking has set in, and there is that intense urge to discover and experiment... but he was a totally spoilt and pampered brat... utterly obscene, and a bloody tease... and someone needed to teach him a lesson! I'd do it... I'd fuck that kid, and I mean FUCK him, like the bitch in heat he was... whatever the means, whatever the method - fear, force or firewater ( I. High-proof 高度数的酒 alcohol, especially whiskey (especially in the context of its sale to or consumption by Native Americans). II. High-temperature hydraulic condensate discharged from industrial boilers. III. (manufacturing) Water for use in firefighting. ) - but fuck him! In the end I needed neither fear, nor force... and surely not the assistance of firewater... he simply succumbed to his own desire, the same way a mighty tree falls before the power of the raging wind! Well, I don't know what came over me 着了什么魔, I wasn't really thinking, simply responding to all that anger I had felt over the past two months... the lust I had endured, the desire I had suppressed... the spell now snapped by his touch. My hand shot up and grabbing his left arm, I jerked him forward... Caught unaware, he stumbled, losing his balance and falling over me... I quickly wrapped my free arm around him, drawing him close while swinging one leg over him, pinning him down... I released his arm and gripping his right hand placed it between my thighs, right over my cock! "Feel the heat?" I asked looking up at him. He gasped, totally stunned... desperately trying to pull away his hand, struggling to get out of my embrace - his face a bright red, the eyes wide with disbelief. "That's where the fever is," I said, keeping his hand pressed on my cock, while I held him tight. "Feel the temperature now?" That squirming, soft teen body slumped over me... the warmth... and his wriggling hand over my cock, struggling to pull away - only stimulated me further... and I began to grow hard rapidly as the blood gushed in, flooding the capillaries (A capillary 毛细血管, 微血管 is a small blood vessel, from 5 to 10 micrometres in diameter, and is part of the microcirculation system. Capillaries are microvessels and the smallest blood vessels in the body. They are composed of only the tunica intima (the innermost layer of an artery or vein), consisting of a thin wall of simple squamous endothelial cells. They are the site of the exchange of many substances from the surrounding interstitial fluid, and they convey blood from the smallest branches of the arteries (arterioles) to those of the veins (venules). Other substances which cross capillaries include water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, urea, glucose, uric acid, lactic acid and creatinine. Lymph capillaries connect with larger lymph vessels to drain lymphatic fluid collected in microcirculation. )... the shaft quickly swelling and lengthening. "Feel it?" I grinned up at him, force-fondling my throbbing hardness with his hand. "He isn't all that 'little' after all... pretty big, eh? You sure he'll fit into your tiny guard, huh?!" "Lemme go..." he pleaded, still struggling... all his self-assured cockiness, his abrasive arrogance gone. His face a beet red, his nostrils flared... and I could feel his heart thump wildly against my chest. "Why?" I laughed, holding him tighter, "You're always so concerned about the wellbeing of my 'chhote-miya', what happened, huh? Go on, check him out!" "Please... uh, please..." he whimpered, his eyes shut tight. I continued to rub his hand along the threshing length... increasing the pressure, "See how he flexes ( flex I. to move or bend a muscle or body part, usually in order to stretch or exercise it. If you flex your muscles or parts of your body, you bend, move, or stretch them for a short time in order to exercise them. He slowly flexed his muscles and tried to stand. II. 会适应. to approach flexibly, to adapt. If something flexes or is flexed, it adapts or is adapted to be more suitable for a particular situation. You learn to adapt, flex, improvise, try things. They can flex the curriculum a bit and change things such as the length of the term. Flex your day to work around your family commitments now that schools are closed in most countries. III. mainly American to show off Faye flexed her vocal prowess to deliver a haunting cover of Adele's Someone Like You. flex-fuel flex-fuel vehicles are able to use a mixture of petrol and ethanol. flex your muscles to show how powerful or strong you are, especially as a warning or threat to another person or country The union flexed its muscles in the usual run-up to wage negotiations. noun. I. (US: cord) 电缆 A flex is an electric cable containing two or more wires that is connected to an electrical appliance. ) and twitches ( I. 抽搐, 抽动 to make a sudden short movement. If something, especially a part of your body, twitches or if you twitch it, it makes a little jumping movement. When I stood up to her, her right cheek would begin to twitch. His left eyelid twitched involuntarily. As they turned to leave, they saw the curtains twitch in the house next door. Stern twitched his shoulders. He developed a nervous twitch and began to blink constantly.  One of the curtains twitched slightly. II. intransitive used about a sudden slight uncontrolled movement of your body. A muscle in her neck twitched. III. transitive to pull something with a sudden short movement. )," I whispered, "just like the convulsion one has with high temperature!" He buried his face in my shoulder, his body suddenly going limp 瘫软, the struggle out of him... "And next time you act too smart, or use any foul language, I'm gonna make you jerk me off in front of all your pals, and paint your face with my cum!" I said, abruptly releasing his hand and relinquishing my hold. He pulled away his hand, but remained as he was, unmoving for a while, before scrambling off me and out of bed... turning around and rushing out of the room! 'That will teach him a lesson!' I thought with a satisfied smile as I lazily caressed myself... wondering if I should lock the door and jerk off... I was painfully hard, and Sohail's warm hand had been so incredibly arousing!  But with the monsoon too setting in, there was hardly much play, and over the next month and half I barely got to see them - though I did hear them... splashing around in the rain, raucous (raucous ( [rɔːkəs] A raucous sound is loud, harsh, and rather unpleasant. rude, noisy, and violent a raucous gang of teenagers. They heard a bottle being smashed, then more raucous laughter. ...the raucous cries of the sea-birds. ...a raucous crowd of 25,000 delirious fans. They laughed together raucously.) as they celebrated the refreshing showers after the benumbing heat of summer! Sohail was there too, yes, still loud and boisterous, still leading the rambling rabble... but surprisingly devoid of his bluster ( 虚张声势的说, 嚣张的说 (whimper (痛, 害怕, 伤心)呻吟, bluster 嚣张, 虚张声势的说, splutter哼唧. 嘟囔, babbling 呓语 sass 硬气的说 ) angry or threatening talk or behavior from someone who wants to hide their fear or nervousness. verb. If you say that someone is blustering, you mean that they are speaking aggressively but without authority, often because they are angry or offended. 'That's lunacy,' he blustered. He was still blustering, but there was panic in his eyes. ...the bluster of the party's campaign. blustery [ˈblʌst(ə)ri] I. 风大的 with strong winds. Blustery weather is rough, windy, and often rainy, with the wind often changing in strength or direction. It's a cold night here, with intermittent rain showers and a blustery wind. ...a cool, blustery day. blustery conditions. II. blowing strongly. blustery winds..), and his bawdiness ( bawdy [bɔːdi] 色色的 adj. A bawdy story or joke contains humorous references to sex. We got arrested once, for singing bawdy songs in a cemetery. ). He wasn't baiting anyone, anymore; nor bustling around in his trademark hostile ways. Surprisingly friendly, as he laughed with the other boys! Refreshingly quiet and decent - no swagger, and absolutely no obscenity. Mostly avoiding me, though I did catch those furtive glances 偷瞄... surreptitious, quickly turning away, red-faced, when he realised that I was watching him! And he came to the bakery too, even mumbling a 'thank-you' when we parted... his eyes lowered as we shook hands... the face flushed. I didn't know what, and I didn't know why... but the boy looked absolutely ravishing( ravish to rape a woman (=force her to have sex). To ravish someone means to rape them. She'll never know how close she came to being dragged off and ravished. ravishing [ˈravɪʃɪŋ] adj. delightful; entrancing. "she looked ravishing". Sheldon: Not bad? It's horrible. I mean, you hear stories about this sort of thing, but you never think it'll happen to you. Leonard: So they steamed your dumplings, get over it. New topic, please. Howard: All right, Penny, let me take this opportunity to point out that you are looking particularly ravishing 赏心悦目的 today. Penny: Not with a thousand condoms, Howard. Howard: So, there is a number. Penny: Okay, new topic, please. Hey, did you hear the people upstairs in 5A are moving out?) that evening... Literally glowing, his eyes sparkling! He gave a coy, uncertain smile as he entered, his eyes quickly scanning the room, "Um, had your dinner?" Slipping in my tongue once more, I wrapped an arm around his waist, holding him... and reached lower with my other hand... between his thighs, seeking his adolescent manhood... covering his crotch with my palm, and almost laughing out loud as I felt the turgid ( [ˈtɜrdʒɪd] I. 晦涩难懂的 using language in a way that is complicated and difficult to understand. If you describe something such as a piece of writing or a film as turgid, you think it is boring and difficult to understand. He used to make extremely dull, turgid and frankly boring speeches. The rest of the arts scene looks increasingly turgid by comparison. II. ​literary 肿胀的, 肿大的, 膨大的, 鼓起来的, 涨起来, 鼓鼓的, 鼓囔囔的 swollen (tumid, turgid, rigid 坚硬, engorged). ) heat there... the swollen rigidity under the denim! He groaned, his pelvis jerking involuntarily... thrusting out as I pressed down. Sohail was raging hard... flexing painfully in that enclosed space that the restrictive clothing afforded! Slowly caressing his tumidity ( tumid [ˈtjuːmɪd] 涨大的的, 膨胀的, 肿胀的, 肿大的, 膨大的, 鼓起来的, 涨起来, 鼓鼓的, 鼓囔囔的, 鼓个包的 (tumid, turgid, rigid, engorged) adj I. (of an organ or part) enlarged or swollen. (of a part of the body) swollen, and larger in size than normal: He had coarse features, a blunt nose, and tumid and protruded lips. II. nulging or protuberant.  bulging or protuberant. ), I traced the clearly delineated outline 线条分明的, 线条清晰的 ( delineate [dɪˈlɪniˌeɪt] 清晰刻画 I. to describe something very exactly. If you delineate something such as an idea or situation, you describe it or define it, often in a lot of detail. Biography must to some extent delineate characters. The relationship between Church and State was delineated in a formal agreement. ...his razor-sharp delineation of ordinary life. II. to decide or show the exact limits of something. III. to show a line or border, for example on a map. ) of his twitching cock... reaching lower to fondle the bulge of his teen balls. He gasped, moaning out some unintelligible litany into my mouth, his pelvis swaying as his arms wrapped around me... for the first time, kissing back! I began to rub the throbbing hardness with my palm... up and down... up and down... and felt him squirm, his breath suddenly ragged... clinging on, his arms fiercely tight around me...  He almost slumped, his knees buckling... but then managed to steady himself against the wall... eyes still shut tight... mouth still open... sucking in air, noisily... and then he opened his eyes, briefly looking up at me... abruptly turning around and fleeing... stumbling as he tottered out into the dark night. Yes, I had the cake after dinner, and I also jerked off twice that night... thinking of him - his writhing 扭动的 ( writhe [raɪð] I. to make large twisting movements with the body. to make twisting movements with the body, esp. because you are feeling strong emotion: He writhed in agony at the thought. The pain was so unbearable that he was writhing in agony. She was writhing around/about on the ground. II. informal to experience a very difficult or unpleasant situation or emotion, such as extreme embarrassment: He and four other senators were writhing 扭动身体 in the glare of unfavourable publicity. ) body under me... his splayed thighs ( splay [spleɪ] 叉开的, 四散分开的 to stretch or spread something, especially your body or part of your body, in a way that often looks strange. If things splay or are splayed, their ends are spread out away from each other. He splayed his fingers across his face.His fingers splay out in a star shape. He was on his stomach, his legs splayed apart. She was splayed out across the couch. splayed spread out or turned out the splayed legs of a stool. He was on his stomach, his legs splayed apart. Tears flooded through his splayed fingers. The woman in the photo was wearing a long pleated skirt, one foot splayed out to the side. He was born with a hip deformity that caused severely splayed feet. bifurcate 分支, 两叉, 岔开, 分叉 [ˈbaɪfərˌkeɪt] to divide into two separate parts, especially parts that go in different directions. If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions. A single furrow may bifurcate and form a letter Y. ...the bifurcation between high art and popular culture.)... his parted buttocks. The scent of his fresh teen cum still strong in my nostrils...  Sohail parted his thighs wide, making space for me 让出点地方, 腾出点地方... his hand suddenly tighter around me, the fingers digging in... his hips already swaying, grinding 磨蹭着 his erect cock against my clothed groin. Relinquishing ( Relinquish [rəˈlɪŋkwɪʃ] 放弃 to give up your power, position, or an advantage, especially when you do not want to do this. She was forced to relinquish her leadership. relinquish your hold on something (=give up control of something): The company was not about to relinquish its hold on the market. Collocations: Nouns: control, position, post, power, responsibility, right, role. It soon became clear that the ruling class did not want to relinquish control. Verbs: be forced to, be reluctant to, refuse to He was reluctant to relinquish power. ) his lips, I kissed his forehead... his eyes and his nose... licking his face... nibbling 轻咬 轻轻的咬 his earlobes... and down his jawline, back to those moist lips... holding them between my teeth, biting them gently... and he cried out as his fingers curled in my hair, tugging... his naked legs wrapping around my waist. The boy was ready, and I could take him at any moment... but no, I'd make him beg for it... get my sweet revenge for all the torment( revenge is sweet Revenge is a potent source of satisfaction and pleasure. John had been bullying and humiliating us for the entire year, so a group of about 20 or so kids got together to peg him with dozens of rotten eggs at the senior prom. Revenge is sweet. Revenge was sweet for the team on Saturday, as they defeated their cross-town rivals for the first time in 10 years. He tormented me for being such a bookworm throughout high school. Now, I run a multi-billion-dollar company while he flips burgers at a fast food restaurant. Revenge is sweet, sometimes. Revenge is sweet. Prov. It is very pleasurable to revenge yourself on someone. Jill: Remember when Tom left me for another woman? Well, she just left him, and he asked me out on a date. I told him I had better things to do. Jane: Revenge is sweet, huh?) I had endured over the past nearly five months! Sohail was in the maddening throes 苦难, 困难, 痛苦 ( [θrəʊz] difficulties or pain. If someone is experiencing something very unpleasant or emotionally painful, you can say that they are in the throes of it, especially when it is in its final stages. ...when the country was going through the final throes of civil war. ...the agonising throes of transition. He was in the throes of despair after losing his job. in the throes of something experiencing or doing something that is difficult, unpleasant, or painful. If you are in the throes of doing or experiencing something, especially something difficult, you are busy doing it or are deeply involved in it. The country is in the throes of a general election. Despite being in the throes of school exams, Tamsin made the long trek from Liverpool. The country is presently in the throes of the worst recession since the Second World War. He's in the throes of a mid-life crisis that makes him pretty hard to live with. death throes I. the process of dying or ending in a very painful or unpleasant way. If a person or animal is in their death throes, they are dying and making violent, uncontrolled movements, usually because they are suffering great pain. in your/its death throes Mercutio, fatally stabbed, staggers round the stage in his death throes. The government was in its death throes. II. The death throes of something are its final stages, just before it fails completely or ends. Their work is a despairing metaphor for a society in its death throes. ...the death throes of the family empire. ) of arousal... babbling incoherently as I slowly moved lower, nibbling my way down to his tender boy tits... chewing on them like they were some delectable titbits... my hands caressing his quivering body all the while... the finger tips fluttering over the goose-bumped flesh from shoulder to thigh... With his right nipple still firmly between my teeth, I rolled off him and reaching between his spread thighs, took his flexing manhood in my firm grip... his pelvis instantly strutting up ( strut verb. [disapproval] 挺胸叠肚, 昂首挺胸. 器宇轩昂 Someone who struts walks in a proud way, with their head held high and their chest out, as if they are very important. to walk in a proud way trying to look important: The boys strutted around like peacocks, showing off to some girls nearby. The boys strutted around trying to get the attention of a group of girls who were nearby. He struts around town like he owns the place. noun. a strong rod, usually made from metal or wood, that helps to hold something such as a vehicle or building together. A strut is a piece of wood or metal which holds the weight of other pieces in a building or other structure. ...the struts of a suspension bridge. strut your stuff 卖弄地跳舞, 显露身手, 卖弄本领. 显身手, 露一手, 显露本事 I. informal mainly humorous to dance in a confident and usually sexually exciting way, especially trying to be noticed by other people: Hey baby, why don't you get out on the floor and strut your stuff? II. informal to show your abilities: Wimbledon is the opportunity for all the world's best tennis players to strut their stuff. ) as another loud groan escaped his open mouth. He was fiercely rigid 硬的不行了, 非常硬 ( frigid I. very cold in temperature. A snowstorm hit the West today, bringing with it frigid temperatures. The water was too frigid to allow him to remain submerged for long.  "the air was frigid, and spectators shivered against the cold". II. 冷淡的, 正式的. [disapproval] extremely formal and unfriendly. If you describe the atmosphere in a place or someone's behaviour as frigid, you mean that it is very formal and unfriendly. He presided at all councils of ministers, where the atmosphere could be frigid on occasions. her frigid tones. III. a frigid woman does not enjoy having sex. If someone, especially a woman, is described as frigid, they find it difficult to become sexually aroused. Frigid is often used to show disapproval. ), the teen cock engorged ( engorged [ɪnˈɡɔrdʒd] 膨大, 胀大, 鼓胀的, 臌胀的 (Tumid, turgid, rigid, engorged) swollen. Something that is engorged is swollen, usually because it has been filled with a particular fluid. The tissues become engorged with blood. ) beyond bursting point, searingly hot. Twitching insanely as I began to masturbate him - firm, long strokes - the tip oozing a steady stream of the clear dew of arousal. Gradually speeding up as I varied the strokes before settling for a short and quick, rhythmic beat... and he went crazy... his body twisting and turning, the moans louder, unrestrained! It took about three minutes, and as I lifted my face, looking down at him... I saw his head tilt back 后仰... the eyes tightly shut... mouth open in a silent cry... the handsome features contorted in the agony of passion. And as I watched, I saw him grip the sheet and tug... his stomach muscles suddenly crazed as they scrunched and flexed, the chest heaving... his ass lifting clear off the bed 屁股抬离了床 as his cock gave a violent twitch... He cried out, and his orgasm finally overtook him...  The first fiery spurt arched high, passing right over us... splashing against the wall - over six feet away! And then he shot another half dozen mighty fusillade ( fusillade[ˌfjuzɪˈleɪd] 一连串的射击 I. a series of shots fired from several guns at the same time. A fusillade of shots or objects is a large number of them fired or thrown at the same time. Both were killed in a fusillade of bullets fired at close range. II. a lot of complaints, criticisms, questions, etc. coming quickly one after another. ) of sizzling 滋滋有声的 teen cum - two hitting the headboard... quickly followed by three more landing on his chin, and high on his heaving chest... the final few salvos rising high before splattering down on his quaking belly... It was massive... it was powerful! He fell back, drained... gasping for air 喘着粗气, 大声呼吸着 as his cock began to wilt in my cum dripping hand. "Wow," I smiled at him, amazed, "do you always shoot such huge loads?!" He was still panting... his eyes shut, mouth open, breathing noisily... flushed... shimmering in his post-orgasmic lassitude ( lassitude [ˈlæsɪˌtud] 不想动, 懒怠, 懒怠动, 懒得动, 懒散, 疲惫, 懒洋洋, 兴趣缺缺, 不感兴趣 noun. tiredness and a lack of energy. Lassitude is a state of tiredness, laziness, or lack of interest. Shareholders are blaming the company's problems on the lassitude of the CEO. Symptoms of anaemia include general fatigue and lassitude. ...periods of lassitude and inactivity. ...periods of lassitude and inactivity. vocabulary: If you are feeling lassitude, you're weary and just can't be bothered. Couch potatoes make lassitude into an art form. Lassitude might sound like latitude, but the two words don't mean the same thing. Latitude describes the distance of a particular location from the equator. Lassitude is the weariness you'd experience after attempting to run a marathon around the equator. Lassitude can also describe a lack of interest, like deciding you'd rather lie on your couch than run that marathon along the equator. ) - ravishingly beautiful! But each day, I also perceived a sense of discontent in him... the look disappointed... his eyes questioning, almost pleading when I urged him to get dressed since it was getting late. Then on Friday, as I lay him down on the bed, sucking on his tender boy tits, he finally reached between my thighs, moaning as he frantically groped me... "You want him, huh?" I whispered, spreading my thighs... and then added with an encouraging smile, "Go on, take him out." He scrambled up and was kneeling between my legs in an instant, working the zipper open and pulling down my cargoes... groaning as he raised the waistband of my boxers and then tugged it off... seeing me for the first time - my semi-erect penis. His jaws dropped, his eyes nearly popping... wide with wonder... his hands shaking as he reached out and took me in his soft grasp, squeezing with both hands, making a weird noise in his throat. "Wanna suck?" I asked, and Sohail looked up, licking those puffed, reddened lips, his hands still caressing the now turgid 充血的 column( turgid [ˈtɜː.dʒɪd] adj. I. (of speech, writing, style, etc.) boring and too serious about its subject matter. If you describe something such as a piece of writing or a film as turgid, you think it is boring and difficult to understand. He used to make extremely dull, turgid and frankly boring speeches. The rest of the arts scene looks increasingly turgid by comparison. a couple of pages of turgid prose. II. (of water) 涨水的. not flowing easily. Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen: The river rolled darkly brown and turgid. III. (of an organ or living tissue) swollen or firm, usually because of being full of liquid. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force. I have a turgid 肿胀的, 肿起来的, 膨大的 limb. turgid rain clouds. turgidity [tɜːˈdʒɪd.ə.ti] noun. ). "Go ahead, kiss him..." I smiled, reaching out and patting his cheek... and as he lowered his face, I stroked his head, running my fingers through his hair, encouraging, "Yes, lick him..." He gagged, and he spluttered ( splutter [ˈsplʌtər] I. 嘟囔, 哼唧 (whimper (痛, 害怕, 伤心)呻吟, bluster 嚣张, 虚张声势的说, splutter哼唧. 嘟囔, babbling 呓语 sass 硬气的说). intransitive to make noises with your mouth because you suddenly cannot breathe or swallow normally. If someone splutters, they make short sounds and have difficulty speaking clearly, for example because they are embarrassed or angry. 'But it cannot be,' he spluttered. Molly leapt to her feet, spluttering and howling with rage. He gave a brief splutter of laughter. II. transitive to say something while you are spluttering. III. intransitive if something such as an engine splutters, it makes a series of short noises because it is not working well. If something splutters, it makes a series of short, sharp sounds. Suddenly the engine coughed, spluttered and died. sputter [ˈspʌtər] I. intransitive/transitive 喘着粗气说, 呼吸急促的说, 愤怒的说. to speak or say something in a confused way, often while taking short quick breaths, for example because you are shocked or angry. If you sputter, you speak with difficulty and make short sounds, especially because you are angry, shocked, or excited. Stunned, I sputtered, 'What do you mean?'. Our father's face had reddened with rage and he began to sputter. He began to sputter his reply. The prison guards delivered the final indignity of my disastrous day, shoving me into a grim cell and intentionally jerking the shackles around my ankles. I lost balance, went sprawling 摔趴在地, and banged my head and elbows on the concrete floor, causing me to grimace in pain. Looking up at the sneering guards, my temper flared for the umpteenth time and I sputtered, "You fucking assholes! I'm not gonna forget this!" II. intransitive 哒哒哒哒几下, 突突突突几下 if an engine sputters, it makes noises like small explosions and seems likely to stop. If something such as an engine or a flame sputters, it works or burns in an uneven way and makes a series of soft popping sounds. The truck sputtered and stopped. Engines sputtered to life again. The flame sputters out. ...the sputtering engine. All I could hear was the sputter of the fire. III. intransitive if an activity sputters, it continues with difficulty and seems likely to stop. If a process, action, or state of affairs sputters 走走停停的, 不顺利, it progresses slowly and unevenly or starts to end. The economy is already sputtering, with low or no growth. The battle sputtered to a halt in mid-October. The whole thing sputtered out. flutter [ˈflʌtər] I. intransitive/transitive to move up and down or from side to side with short, quick, light movements, or to make something move in this way. If something thin or light flutters, or if you flutter it, it moves up and down or from side to side with a lot of quick, light movements. Her chiffon skirt was fluttering 舞动, 挥动 in the night breeze. ...a butterfly fluttering its wings. ...the fluttering white lace handkerchief. ...a flutter of white cloth. Thousands of spectators fluttered Olympic and national flags. Alexandra's hands were fluttering around his head. If you say that someone flutters somewhere, you mean that they walk there with quick, light movements, often in a silly way or in a way which suggests that they are nervous. She'd been fluttering about 小步疾跑 in the kitchen. II. intransitive to move through the air with short, quick, light movements. III. intransitive/transitive if a bird or insect flutters its wings, or if its wings flutter, the wings make short, quick, light movements up and down. IV. intransitive if a bird or insect flutters somewhere, it moves by making short, quick, light movements with its wings. If something light such as a small bird or a piece of paper flutters 扑簇簇的抖动 somewhere, it moves through the air with small quick movements. The paper fluttered to the floor. The birds were active, whirring and fluttering among the trees. flutter around/from/against: Attracted by the light, moths fluttered against the windows. V. intransitive if your heart or pulse flutters, its regular movements suddenly become quicker because you are excited or nervous. If your heart or stomach flutters, you experience a strong feeling of excitement or anxiety. The look in his eyes made my heart flutter. VI. if your stomach flutters, you have an excited or nervous feeling in it. noun. [British, informal] If you have a flutter, you have a small bet on something such as a horse race. I had a flutter on five horses.)... but he persisted 没放弃... finally managing to take over a quarter of the thick length in his mouth... his jaws stretched wide... his eyes teary. "Careful with the teeth," I cautioned, as I got up on my elbows, slowly shifting around, reaching for those glorious teen globes... patting and caressing his buttocks for the first time... thrilled by the smooth warmth of those soft cheeks! He let out a nasal moan 鼻子里哼了一声 and shifted his knees, offering me his ass... I fondled and kneaded ( knead 揉搓, 揉弄, 搓弄 I. to prepare dough or clay by pressing it continuously. When you knead dough or other food, you press and squeeze it with your hands so that it becomes smooth and ready to cook. Lightly knead the mixture on a floured surface. Just how much kneading is required depends on the sort of flour. Knead the dough until smooth. II. to rub or press someone's muscles hard. If you knead a part of someone's body, you press or squeeze it with your fingers. She felt him knead the aching muscles. ) those plump cheeks 丰臀, 肥臀, finally, after five long months of lusting 垂涎... dragging my fingers along the cleft ( cleft [kleft] 鸡巴缝, 窄缝, 裂缝 noun. a narrow space in the surface of something, for example in a rock or in someone's chin. adj. divided by a narrow space. cleave [kliv] ( 过去式cleaved or clove, 过去分词cleaved, cloven, or cleft) to cut or break something into two parts with a lot of force. To cleave something means to split or divide it into two separate parts, often violently. They just cleave the stone along the cracks. cleave to (过去式和分词clove, cleaved) 坚持意见, 坚信 I. to stay very close to someone, or to stay close together. If someone cleaves to something or to someone else, they begin or continue to have strong feelings of loyalty towards them. She has cleaved to these principles all her life. He still clove to this ideal. II. to stick firmly to something. III. to keep believing an idea or following a tradition. ) - from the base of his spine, down to his dangling balls... cuddling the teen testicles... and then slowly pulled those cheeks apart... separating them... prying them open... And oh, in that deep, hairless cleft - so soft and smooth - nestled within its folds, carefully hidden like a pearl in the bosom of an oyster... lay his boy-treasure - so pink, so tiny... so delicate! I groaned with lust, totally amazed... feeling my cock twitch and flex in Sohail's oral clutch... suddenly gushing out 喷涌而出 a torrent of pre-cum! Bewitched, not just by the sheer beauty of Sohail's tender 娇嫩的 opening... but also by the incredible smallness of it - wondering how such a big boy, a grown teen, could possibly still have such a magnificently tiny boi-pussy! I let a finger slip in, brushing along the cleft... lightly fluttering ( flutter [ˈflʌtər] I. intransitive/transitive to move up and down or from side to side with short, quick, light movements, or to make something move in this way. If something thin or light flutters, or if you flutter it, it moves up and down or from side to side with a lot of quick, light movements. Her chiffon skirt was fluttering 舞动, 挥动 in the night breeze. ...a butterfly fluttering its wings. ...the fluttering white lace handkerchief. ...a flutter of white cloth. Thousands of spectators fluttered Olympic and national flags. Alexandra's hands were fluttering around his head. If you say that someone flutters somewhere, you mean that they walk there with quick, light movements, often in a silly way or in a way which suggests that they are nervous. She'd been fluttering about 小步疾跑 in the kitchen. II. intransitive to move through the air with short, quick, light movements. III. intransitive/transitive if a bird or insect flutters its wings, or if its wings flutter, the wings make short, quick, light movements up and down. IV. intransitive if a bird or insect flutters somewhere, it moves by making short, quick, light movements with its wings. If something light such as a small bird or a piece of paper flutters 扑簇簇的抖动 somewhere, it moves through the air with small quick movements. The paper fluttered to the floor. The birds were active, whirring and fluttering among the trees. flutter around/from/against: Attracted by the light, moths fluttered against the windows. V. intransitive if your heart or pulse flutters, its regular movements suddenly become quicker because you are excited or nervous. If your heart or stomach flutters, you experience a strong feeling of excitement or anxiety. The look in his eyes made my heart flutter. VI. if your stomach flutters, you have an excited or nervous feeling in it. noun. [British, informal] If you have a flutter, you have a small bet on something such as a horse race. I had a flutter on five horses. splutter [ˈsplʌtər] I. intransitive 哼唧. 嘟囔 (whimper (痛, 害怕, 伤心)呻吟, bluster 嚣张, 虚张声势的说, splutter哼唧. 嘟囔, babbling 呓语 sass 硬气的说) to make noises with your mouth because you suddenly cannot breathe or swallow normally. If someone splutters, they make short sounds and have difficulty speaking clearly, for example because they are embarrassed or angry. 'But it cannot be,' he spluttered. Molly leapt to her feet, spluttering and howling with rage. He gave a brief splutter of laughter. II. transitive to say something while you are spluttering. III. intransitive if something such as an engine splutters, it makes a series of short noises because it is not working well. If something splutters, it makes a series of short, sharp sounds. Suddenly the engine coughed, spluttered and died.) over the tightly shut 紧紧闭着的, 紧闭着的 opening, and he lifted his head, crying out, turning to stare at me... the eyes already glazed ( glaze [ɡleɪz] to put a smooth and shiny surface on something. When you glaze food such as bread or pastry, you spread a layer of beaten egg, milk, or other liquid onto it before you cook it in order to make its surface shine and look attractive. Glaze the pie with beaten egg. glaze over 失神, 失焦, 无神 intransitive if you or your eyes glaze over, you start to look bored or tired and it is obvious to other people that you have stopped listening. If your eyes glaze over, they become dull and lose all expression, usually because you are bored or are thinking about something else. ...movie actors whose eyes glaze over as soon as the subject wavers from themselves. I just glaze over as soon as anyone starts talking about cars.). I touched it once more... placing my thumb over the slit... gently pressing down 按了下去, 摁了下去... and he let out another wail, his ass cheeks flexing, his buttocks jerking back... the tiny orifice suddenly pushing out! "Unnh," he exhaled, dropping his head low, "please..." "What?" I asked. He lifted his head and looked at me, staring on in silence. "Tell me..." I whispered, tapping the twitching mouth lightly. He blushed a deep red, but said nothing... "Tell me, Sohail," I insisted. He lowered his head, burying his face in my groin, groaning, as he rotated his plump ass 摇屁股. I licked a finger and touched him again, circling around the fluttering orifice... before placing it over the mouth and slowly applying pressure... titillating, yet, not breaching. His head shot up, and he whimpered ( whimper 低声哀嚎, 呻吟 (whimper (痛, 害怕, 伤心)呻吟, bluster 嚣张, 虚张声势的说, splutter哼唧. 嘟囔, babbling 呓语 sass 硬气的说 ) I. to make small sounds of pain, fear, or sadness. If someone whimpers, they make quiet unhappy or frightened sounds, as if they are about to start crying. (especially of an animal) to make a series of small, weak sounds expressing pain or unhappiness: A half-starved dog lay in the corner, whimpering pathetically. I said she couldn't have an ice cream and she started to whimper. She lay at the bottom of the stairs, whimpering in pain. He made another pathetic whimpering sound. David's crying subsided to a whimper. II. transitive to say something in a voice that expresses pain, fear, or sadness. If someone whimpers something, they say it in an unhappy or frightened way. 'Let me go,' she whimpered. 'You're hurting me.' She whimpered something inaudible. "I want my mommy," the child whimpered. not with a bang but a whimper If you say that something happens not with a bang but a whimper, you mean that it is less effective or exciting than was expected or intended. He bowed out of world politics not with a bang but a whimper. The festival started with a whimper rather than a bang. ). "Say it, Sohail!" I urged, increasing the pressure. "Ah, fuck me!" he groaned, the voice husky, strained, "Please..." For the first time, since I had started fucking almost a decade ago, I had gone without sex for this long - five months! And now, after months of longing and lusting... months of suppressing my desires, I couldn't just pass up this chance, deny myself further... especially since I had the boy I wanted... and he was equally willing! Leaving his ass I got off the bed... and immediately Sohail lifted his head, staring back at me, the look mortified... probably wondering if he had somehow offended me! "Relax," I laughed, going over to the chest of drawers and opening the bottom one, "we need to get you ready first," I said, taking the squeeze tube, "or, that tight little pussy will tear if we don't lube it properly!" I returned to the bed with the lube and throwing away my t-shirt, climbed in behind Sohail, patting his ass. He understood and lay down flat, spreading his legs wide, burying his face in the pillow. God, that glorious teen ass - what amazing plump cheeks... soft and silken... two smooth mounds of flesh - peach and honey!  I caressed the twin globes... kneading and massaging his lovely ass... over and around... along the cleft and under the gluteal crease... gently rubbing his perineum... listening to his continuous groans of arousal... his ass swaying in response, bucking up 提起, 抬起, 撅起, 撅屁股 ( buck up I. [British, informal] If you buck someone up, 让某人开心, 提升士气, 提振士气, 振奋精神 or buck up their spirits, you say or do something to make them more cheerful. to try to make someone happier, or to become happier I took him out to lunch to try to buck him up. Anything anybody said to him to try and buck him up wouldn't sink in. The aim, it seemed, was to buck up their spirits in the face of the recession. II. [informal] If you tell someone to buck up or to buck up their ideas, you are telling them to start behaving in a more positive and efficient manner. used for telling someone to try harder People are saying if we don't buck up we'll be in trouble. Buck up your ideas or you'll get more of the same treatment. buck 尥蹶子 verb. if an animal such as a horse bucks, it kicks its back legs in the air or jumps off the ground in an uncontrolled way. If a horse bucks, it kicks both of its back legs wildly into the air, or jumps into the air wildly with all four feet off the ground. The stallion bucked as he fought against the reins holding him tightly in. ...cowboys riding bucking broncos. When a horse rears 尥蹶子, it moves the front part of its body upwards, so that its front legs are high in the air and it is standing on its back legs. The horse reared and threw off its rider. ...an army pony that didn't rear up at the sound of gunfire. noun. A buck is the male of various animals, including the deer, antelope, rabbit and kangaroo. buck the trend​/​system 逆潮流而动, 打破大趋势, 突破束缚, 摆脱束缚 to succeed in doing something, even though there is a general tendency for this not to happen. If you buck the trend, you obtain different results from others in the same area. If you buck the system, you get what you want by breaking or ignoring the rules. While other newspapers are losing circulation, we are bucking the trend. He wants to be the tough rebel who bucks the system. The company believes it is bucking the recession and says orders continue to be satisfactory. The auto industry bucked the trend with a 5% increase in exports. buck for something to try hard to get something, especially in your job I think she's bucking for a raise. get more bang for your buck to get more of something without using any extra money or effort. buck teeth 獠牙, 突牙 top front teeth that stick out more than the bottom teeth. If someone has buck teeth, their upper front teeth stick forward out of their mouth. buck naked not wearing any clothes. pass the buck to make someone else deal with something that you should take responsibility for. He accused the lawyers of trying to pass the buck on the case. the buck stops here/with me If you say 'The buck stops here' or 'The buck stops with me', you mean that you have to take responsibility for something and will not try to pass the responsibility on to someone else. The buck stops with him. He is ultimately responsible for every aspect of the broadcast. ) as I rotated my thumb along the root of his penis. I felt him gradually relax... the tautness (taut [tɔt] I. stretched tight. 紧绷, 抻紧, 抻开. 抻展 Check that the rope is taut before climbing. Something that is taut is stretched very tight. When muscles are taut or cold there is more chance of injury or strain. The clothes line is pulled taut and secured. a. a taut body 紧致的 is firm with strong muscles and little fat. If a person or their body is taut, they are very lean with firm muscles. That summer she had shed the weight gained during pregnancy, her body was trim and taut. taut muscles/legs. II. used about something such as a voice or expression that shows someone is nervous or angry. If someone has a taut expression, they look very worried and tense. Ben sat up quickly, his face taut and terrified. Little by little she lost the taut, strained air of perpetual anxiety. a taut reply. III. 紧凑的. If you describe a piece of writing or a film as taut, you mean that it is good because it is exciting and has no unnecessary details. ...Eric Rochant's 'Aux yeux du monde', a taut thriller about the kidnapping of a school bus. ) leave his thighs and ass... and then, slowly... holding my breath, I parted those cheeks once more... letting out a sigh as his treasure came into view 映入眼帘... a wrinkled little bump in that smooth valley... still tiny, but no longer cringing shut... quivering as it pouted out 撅起来... offering fleeting glimpses of his moist and pink innards! I flipped open the cap and squeezed out the clear gel, letting it pour directly into that parted cleft, and heard him gasp as the cool liquid touched his burning skin... rolling down... coating the cleavage. Setting the tube aside, I grabbed those cheeks once more... slathering抹 the gel liberally over his ass - both, the cheeks and the valley... slowly massaging the area, my thumb gently reaching in... sliding along the perineum, right up to the tip of his spine... nudging and prodding the anus as I crossed it. Taking another generous helping of the gel I placed my finger tip directly over the twitching opening and slowly pressed down... not forcing it in... just a persistent pressure. He groaned and his ass lifted... the tiny mouth pouting out, like the raised rim of a volcano... painfully fluttering for a moment before his sphincter finally parted... suddenly opening up and then equally quickly snapping shut around my lubed finger as it slipping in! While still sliding and rotating my twin digits in his rectum, going in right up to the third knuckle, I continued to pet his ass and toy his testicles with my other hand - caressing and squeezing... kneading and fondling... gently tugging his balls... He was babbling 呓语 ( babble 呓语, 絮叨, 唠叨 [ˈbæb(ə)l] I. intransitive/transitive to speak quickly in a way that other people cannot understand easily. If someone babbles, they talk in a confused or excited way. Momma babbled on and on about how he was ruining me. They all babbled simultaneously. 'Er, hello, viewers,' he babbled. He was babbling something about his mother. II. to talk for a long time about things that are not interesting or important. III. intransitive to make the gentle pleasant sound of water as it moves along in a river. If a stream babbles, it makes a low murmuring or bubbling sound. ...a brook babbling in the distance. a babbling 小溪潺潺, 潺潺流水声 brook 溪流. III. intransitive to make a sound like a baby who cannot talk yet. noun. You can refer to people's voices as a babble of sound when they are excited and confused, preventing you from understanding what they are saying. Kemp knocked loudly so as to be heard above the high babble of voices. They began to curse and shout in a babble of languages. ) now, some incoherent chatter, the innards flexing furiously as it tried to suck in my fingers deeper. I reached below, between his legs, and grabbed his cock - it was rigid beyond all possible limit... raging hot... throbbing in my grip as I slowly squeezed his dick... and his ass jerked, his pelvis swaying wildly as he began to fuck my fist... groaning as he tugged at the sheet... on the verge, waiting for that final, shuddering pulse that would send him over the edge... Yes, Sohail was as ready as he would ever be... now was the time, time to finally take him, bury my cock inside that churning 翻江倒海的 inferno! Lifting his legs I asked him to hold them, reaching for the discarded tube. He complied, raising his legs and holding his knees... pulling them close to his chest, his ass sticking up and out... the cheeks parting wide - his most intimate opening, on shameless display! Wa'lah, what a sight! All pink, smooth and soft... the hairless valley between those splayed thighs glistening with the lube... the tiny slit gaping as it pouted out, twitching furiously... like the hungry maw of a baby crying for a pacifier... impatient to be pierced! I poured a generous amount in the palm of my hand and scooping up with my fingertips, touched his quivering orifice... lubing my cock with the rest... "Have you done this before?" I asked as I caressed his hungry mouth, feeling him shudder. "Relax and let me in..." I smiled down at him as I began to rock my hips... slow and steady... persistent... gradually increasing the force of each thrust. And with each jab, he grimaced... glassy eyed as he stared back at me... the mouth still open, the tongue constantly licking those red lips. Short and sharp... I added a bit more pressure with each new thrust...and abruptly the mouth yawned open... greedily sucking in my cock head before snapping shut. Sohail threw back his head, his eyes widening in disbelief as his jaws dropped... but no sound escaped the cavity... his fingers digging in viciously as his whole body convulsed in the throes of torturous agony ( throes [θroʊz] If someone is experiencing something very unpleasant or emotionally painful, you can say that they are in the throes of it, especially when it is in its final stages. ...when the country was going through the final throes of civil war. ...the agonising throes of transition. the final​/​last​/​death throes of something I. the last stages of something, just before it ends, usually when it is ending badly. The death throes of something are its final stages, just before it fails completely or ends. the last throes of my career. Their work is a despairing metaphor for a society in its death throes. ...the death throes of the family empire. II. 穷凶极恶的垂死挣扎阶段. If a person or animal is in their death throes, they are dying and making violent, uncontrolled movements, usually because they are suffering great pain. in the throes of something 忙于应付, 专心应对 I. involved in a difficult or unpleasant situation or activity. If you are in the throes of doing or experiencing something, especially something difficult, you are busy doing it or are deeply involved in it. The country is in the throes of a general election. Despite being in the throes of school exams, Tamsin made the long trek from Liverpool. The country remains in the throes of a bitter conflict. II. if someone is in the throes of passion, they are having sex. III. if someone is in the throes of love, they are in love with someone She was in the throes of her first serious love affair. )! I paused, holding still... giving him time to adjust to the bulk... to the new feeling in his ass... and with just the tip of my cock lodged in his virgin ass, and his lifeless legs thrown over my shoulders, I cupped his face and kissed him... slow and passionate... murmuring sweet nothings as I whispered gentle words of encouragement... sensing the agonised flexingv 开合 of his sphincter, trapped as it was by my sulcul ridge. And that cry finally came - a long-drawn yowl of anguish, enwrapped in the exhilarating accomplishment of desire - a full-throated wail of torment, mingled with jubilation ( jubilation [ˌdʒubɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n] behavior that shows you are extremely happy because something good has happened. Jubilation is a feeling of great happiness and pleasure, because of a success. His resignation was greeted by jubilation on the streets of Sofia. ...cheers of jubilation. )... wrenched from the very pit of his teen soul! It was a raging inferno inside - furiously hot, and fiercely tight... but that's exactly where I wanted to be... deep inside that bubbling 蒸腾的, 热气腾腾的, cauldron 热锅沸腾 of ( cauldron = caldron [ˈkɔldrən] 热锅 I. A cauldron is a very large, round metal pot used for cooking over a fire. In stories and fairy tales, a cauldron is used by witches for their spells. II. If you describe a situation as a cauldron, you mean that it is unstable or dangerous. The Western banking system sank into a bubbling cauldron of toxic mortgages. ) boy flesh - savour 品味, 细品 each convulsion... relish every churn... wallow in that stifling heat! Sohail thrashed ( thrash I. transitive to defeat an opponent very easily in a game or competition. If one player or team thrashes another in a game or contest, they defeat them easily or by a large score. The team thrashed their opponents 5-nil. II. transitive to hit someone hard several times, especially as a punishment. If you thrash someone, you hit them several times as a punishment. The school has dismissed the teacher, who is said to have thrashed pupils with sticks. III. intransitive/transitive to move in a violent uncontrolled way, or to make part of your body move in this way. If someone thrashes about, or thrashes their arms or legs about, they move in a wild or violent way, often hitting against something. You can also say that someone's arms or legs thrash about. Many of the crew died a terrible death as they thrashed about in shark-infested waters. ...dreams so vivid that I thrash inside my sleeping bag and cry out. Jimmy collapsed on the floor, thrashing his legs about like an injured racehorse. III. If a person or thing thrashes something, or thrashes at something, they hit it continually in a violent or noisy way. ...a magnificent paddle-steamer on the mighty Mississippi, her huge wheel thrashing the muddy water. Three shaggy-haired men thrash tunelessly at their guitars. ...the thrash of the horses' hooves. thrash around/about: His body began to thrash around wildly. IV. intransitive/ transitive to thresh. thrash out to discuss something until you find a solution or reach an agreement. Both sides hope to thrash out an agreement by next week. beat​/​thrash someone (to) within an inch of their life to hit someone so hard that they almost die. ) under me, his belly heaving 起伏 as his innards mercilessly chewed on my glans, holding the shaft in its sizzling, velvety ( I. Velvety food and drink is very smooth: The pumpkin soup had the right velvety texture, with a touch of spice. We blended the ingredients until we had a smooth, velvety filling. II. soft, like velvet (= a cloth usually made from silk or cotton with a thick, soft surface): She patted the dog's velvety ears. The chocolate cosmos has velvety, deep-brown petals and even smells of chocolate. The cream left my skin feeling smooth and velvety. III. A velvety sound is smooth and pleasant to listen to: There is a velvety richness to every song. Her voice is velvety and lyrical. ) grip... gasping noisily as his hands flailed aimlessly - grabbing the pillow one moment, and then tugging 拉扯, 拉拽 at the sheet... before returning to hold my arms. I gave him a full minute and a half, and then slowly withdrew... finally commencing the merry dance of coition, fucking my boy in real earnest - pulling back all the way till Sohail's churning rectum retained just my twitching tip, trapped there, held in place by his fiercely tight, absolutely crazed sphincter... and then slamming in... plunging full length into his turbulent boy-belly with each mighty thrust! His head rolled on the pillow, the eyes tightly shut... his open mouth and drooling, groaning continuously... the voice tremulous, in perfect sync with the sway and jerk of his young body as it rocked with each of my powerful passados. And then, with a last kiss I raised myself... lowering my head to look down between us, to the point of our union - and tauba! that image is still ingrained in my mind's eye( mind's eye the mental faculty of conceiving imaginary or recollected scenes. used her mind's eye to create the story's setting. the mental picture so conceived. in your mind's eye in your imagination or memory. If you see something in your mind's eye, you imagine it and have a clear picture of it in your mind. In his mind's eye, he can imagine the effect he's having. In my mind's eye, she is still a little girl of six, although she's actually a grown woman.), even today! His cock, which had been raging since the time I had undressed him earlier that evening, was a tiny nub ( I. 小凸起 a small lump or protuberance. "he pressed down on the two nubs on top of the phone". II. the most important or basic part of something: What do you think is the nub of the problem? ). now... flopping lifelessly on the bed of his dark, matted ( matted [ˈmatɪd] I. (especially of hair, wool, or fur) tangled into a thick mass. "a cardigan of matted grey wool". II. covered or provided with mats. "the matted floor". ) pubes... his low-hanging balls, now a tight nut at the base... and beyond that... between his parted thighs was his tender pink ass mouth, stretched painfully wide... spread thin by sheer girth of my marauding ( marauding [məˈrɔdɪŋ] 横冲直撞的, 到处找茬生是非的人, 惹是生非的, 见人就砍的, 杀红眼的, 四处杀戮的 going from place to place in order to find people to attack or things to steal or destroy. If you talk about marauding groups of people or animals, you mean they are unpleasant and dangerous, because they wander around looking for opportunities to steal or kill. Marauding gangs of armed men have been looting food relief supplies. ...safe from danger, such as marauding wild animals. marauder 土匪, 盗贼 [mərɔːdər] If you describe a group of people or animals as marauders, you mean they are unpleasant and dangerous, because they wander around looking for opportunities to steal or kill. Numb with terror, she stared at the departing marauders. They were raided by roaming bands of marauders. Authorities in Texas are on the search for a bank robber they have dubbed the "Mummy Marauder." The suspect wrapped white gauze around his face and arms, the FBI said. He also wore a wig and baseball cap. No other information about the robbery was released. bandit 土匪 a thief who attacks travelers, usually with other thieves. Robbers are sometimes called bandits, especially if they are found in areas where the rule of law has broken down. This is real bandit country. one-armed bandit = a slot machine. ) phallus... desperately clinging to the glistening shaft as it slid along the throbbing length, a smarting red ( smart verb. I. to hurt with a sudden sharp pain. If a part of your body or a wound smarts, you feel a sharp stinging pain in it. My eyes smarted from the smoke. The smoke made my eyes smart. II. usually progressive to become very upset by something that has happened or that someone has said or done. smart from: If you are smarting from something such as criticism or failure, you feel upset about it. Wilder is still smarting from a 3-0 defeat the last time the teams met. He is still smarting over criticism of his victorious but clumsy performance. The senator was still smarting from his defeat in the vote. the smart money If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen. With England not playing, the smart money was on 聪明人 the Germans. A lot of smart money in Washington says that peace is nearly at hand. the smart set The smart set is a group of fashionable and wealthy people. It was a place to be noticed and to join the smart set. ), as I fucked him! With powerful strokes I plumbed his boy depths for over thirty minutes... thrilling every single moment... enjoying every burning inch of his delicious teen ass... churning up his bottom like nothing had ever done before... the tight chute squelching obscenely with each thrust and withdrawal! I shifted, drawing in my knees and realigning the angle of entry... and almost immediately Sohail let out a gurgle... his nails digging in... his ass suddenly alive as he slammed back at me... growling as I gradually speeded up... He was purring like a well tuned engine under the hood... his whole body vibrating from head to foot, the cry a muted plea now... his ass off the bed as he lunged back - slam for slam! And his cock, which had gone limp from the shock of entry, was soon starting to fill out again... rapidly growing turgid 变硬 as it lifted off his belly... throbbing and flexing... leaking a steady stream of clear slime that swayed in sticky threads... before breaking off and smearing his belly and chest! I considered taking him in my hand and jerking him off, but Sohail beat me... releasing my arm and reaching in, grabbing his cock... shamelessly flogging his meat like a crazed maniac... his hand a mere blur! Within minutes he was groaning, before suddenly letting out a sob, his body arching and going stiff as his cock exploded... spewing liquid lava... splashing the pillow, his hair and heaving chest (and also mine), with the powerful spurts of teen cum! And his ass, already intolerably tight, now went insane... unendurable as it literally tugged at my buried cock... as if ready to pull it off by the very root! In the past five months I may have jerked a maximum of half dozen times... and the long sexual starvation, added with my effort of the past, over forty minutes of breaching and then fucking the virgin boy, had already carried me close to the brink much before my usual time... and now, as I hovered precariously near the edge, his crazed ass tipped me over... sending me hurtling into oblivion... I groaned and ground in... unleashing my own pent up emotion... flooding Sohail's teen belly with five month's worth of my liquid passion! I slumped 瘫软, 瘫坐 over him, panting... completely drained! But Sohail was frantic under me... desperately squirming, and moaning... his fingers clawing my back. His still seething innards a liquified flame around my shrinking phallus... viciously squeezing and tugging at me as it bubbled along the still thick length with a savage urgency! He buried his face in the crook 臂弯 of my arm and slowly nodded. "Well, now you've got it," I lifted his face and kissed his mouth, "and you can come over whenever you want, okay?" He nodded once more, burying his face back in my chest, purring softly as I caressed and fondled those plump cheeks, his amazing teen ass. I had just finished reminiscing 回忆 when Sohail walked into the living-room... surprisingly conservatively dressed for an evening at home - not shorts and singlets, but a full pajama-kurta combo! All those sweet memories, those titillating recollections of the past, our year of togetherness... had already made my cock grow rigid, throbbing with lust...and now, seeing Sohail, so fresh from the shower, absolutely glowing... I could think of nothing else, but climbing into the nearest bed with him... fuck him once more! "Wait..." I cut in, "you mean, after college you got this job..." He nodded, "Campus recruitment... 校园招聘" "And your parents were against you taking the job and moving out of the country?!" "She's visiting home?" I asked. He nodded."And you went to drop her?" He nodded again, suddenly fidgeting uncomfortably. "And how come your parents agreed to let you be here, alone?" He was groaning with lust as he opened his mouth and sucked in my tongue... his fingers gripping my shoulders... slowly sliding back on the couch, pulling me over him... his pelvis desperately rubbing against my groin - no more reluctance, no hesitation... "You want to do it here?" I asked, breaking the kiss and lifting my head. He blinked open his eyes, staring blankly, and then silently disengaged, standing up... suddenly naked as the undone pajama slid off, revealing his manly arousal in all its turgid splendour; exposing his plump ass to my view... still awesomely full and firm - sinfully tempting, divinely delicious! Taking my hand he led me to the single bedroom, his bedroom... to his marriage bed! Turning me around once more, he finally dropped down on his haunches ( huanch [hɔntʃ] I. the upper part of an animal's or human's leg, including the hip and buttock. The haunches of an animal or person are the area of the body which includes the bottom, the hips, and the tops of the legs. II. the upper part of an animal's leg, used as meat. on one's haunches If you get down on your haunches, you lower yourself towards the ground so that your legs are bent under you and you are balancing on your feet. Edgar squatted on his haunches. Ferris was crouched down on his haunches. ), running his fingers through my trimmed pubes... his palms rubbing over the whole region... before gathering up my genitals in his hands... fondling my penis, and toying with my testicles... breathing noisily as he wrapped the fingers of both hands around my swollen column, squeezing and stroking the throbbing shaft... gurgling with joy as he kissed the tip... He flicked out his tongue, licking the head... and then, with broad sweeps of his moist tongue, slurped along the entire flexing length... licking from tip to base... all around, making me hiss as my hips swayed involuntarily! God, it felt so fucking awesome! Suddenly he lunged forward, opening his mouth wide and taking me in... famished ( famished [ˈfæmɪʃt] very hungry. Isn't dinner ready? I'm famished. ) as he let out a nasal groan. I gasped as the moist heat engulfed my penis... my pelvis strutting forward, feeding him my cock... my hands grabbing fistful of his hair as I tried to steady myself - it felt simply incredible! Sohail was ravenous (ravenous [ˈræv(ə)nəs] 饥渴的, 饥饿的 very hungry. extremely hungry: I'm ravenous - where's supper? Growing boys have ravenous appetites. She realized that she had eaten nothing since leaving home, and she was ravenous. ...a pack of ravenous animals. She began to eat ravenously. She emerged looking ravenously hungry.)... furiously bobbing his head as he noisily sucked me, one hand firm around the base, while the other grabbed my balls, gently squeezing the orchises... tugging the pair! I moaned, gently rocking my hips... stroking his head, murmuring sweet encouragements. He wanted more of me... and getting up on his knees he moved closer, trying to deep-throat me... and immediately gagged... gasping horribly as he drew back, shaken by a violent bout of coughing... Grabbing his shoulders I pulled him up, embracing him, patting his back as I whispered, "Don't, you never could take it completely." Caressing, I kissed his flushed, teary face all over... claiming his puffed lips once more... sucking those reddened baloops between my own... covering my mouth... and he moaned as he pressed himself to me, his arms tight around my neck. I kissed his mouth, chewing on those succulent 厚唇, 肉厚多汁的, 鲜嫩多汁的, 多汁的嘴唇 lips 丰唇(succulent [ˈsʌkjələnt] 多肉植物, 仙人掌类植物(cactus (复数 cacti [ˈkæktaɪ] )) I. succulent meat, fruit, etc. is full of juice and tastes good. Succulent food, especially meat or vegetables, is juicy and good to eat. Cook pieces of succulent 多汁的肉 chicken with ample garlic and a little sherry. ...succulent early vegetables. a succulent hamburger. II. ​biology succulent plants have thick stems or leaves that store a lot of water. Succulents or succulent plants are types of plants which have thick, fleshy leaves. His potted succulents were looking parched. wiki: In botany, succulent plants, also known as succulents, are plants with parts that are thickened, fleshy, and engorged, usually to retain water in arid climates or soil conditions. It is a characteristic that is not used scientifically for the definition of most families and genera of plants because it often can be used as an accurate characteristic only at the single species level.)... his chin... his eyes... licking his whole face and nibbling his earlobes... going down his gulping throat to his chest... moving on to his armpits, right and left... back and forth... my tongue playing with the silken strands there... flicking my way to his tender boy-tits and sucking on those engorged little nubs... till his whole chest was a deep blush, glistening with my saliva. Sohail twisted and turned... heaved and wriggled as my tongue fluttered over and across his tingling flesh, my hands unceasing as they caressed and fondled every inch of that shuddering frame... reaching every corner... into every fold... his fingers fierce in my hair, curling and tugging as he moaned a continuous string of meaningless jabber... calling out my name... hoarse with desire. Licking further down I tickled his navel, and then followed his trail... rifling through his still unruly pubes... and lapping along his groin... before finally gathering up his fiercely rigid cock in my grasp - pink and beautiful as ever... jutting out proudly from that dark and dense tangle... drooling his passion in an unbroken chain of sticky threads... throbbing and pulsing... I sucked him till he was thrashing around, blabbering incoherently... his cock flexing crazily... probably on the verge... but then, I didn't want him to cum yet, and so I drew back and patted his thigh, "Sohail, roll over 翻身..." He groaned, blinking down at me, the look blank... and then, as comprehension dawned, he rolled over... spreading his legs wide. I too groaned - at the sight of his glorious ass... that twin globe of prime flesh... still plump and smooth... soft and rounded... full and firm! I patted the pair... caressing and fondling as I stretched out between his legs, bringing my face down... kissing his ass cheeks for the first time... licking and nibbling the silken mounds, my hands kneading and massaging the pair. His ass was as glorious as ever... quivering and flexing as I lavished the pair with my undivided attention... kissing over and across... flicking my tongue along the cleft... and under the gluteal folds... And his tiny opening - that beautiful virgin orifice that I had once breached - still deliciously small... as tender, and as pink... now circled by a smattering of very fine dark curls... already twitching with anticipation! Wetting a finger I reached in... touching him... Sohail instantly moaned in reply, lifting his ass and pushing back at me... his legs jerking spasmodically as his buried his face back in the pillow! I slowly circled the quivering opening... gently caressing the mouth... and felt it push out... the tight ring pout out with want. Sohail's loud groans now a strangled cry as he gasped and ventilated... whimpering like a scared child in pain... once more calling out my name! I moved in... lashing out with my tongue, flicking my way up the still smooth perineum... and into the deep valley, licking the cleft, bathing the trench with my saliva... nudging at the crinkled mouth with my tongue tip till it blossomed like an unfolding bud... pushing high and opening up... as if begging to be taken once more... Holding the cheeks spread open, I ground my face in, puckering my lips as I kissed his pouting boi-hole... stabbing the orifice with my tongue. "Nnngh..." he wailed, his hands suddenly reaching back and grabbing fistful of my hair, sobbing, "please... ah, Zubair, please... take me... please!" I drew back, gasping for breath... my cock painfully hard, (had been that way for the past nearly thirty minutes), desperate to burrow into that moist boy-chute, Sohail's gripping innards... Mounting him 爬到身上, I placed my raging hardness between those parted cheeks... sliding it along the saliva drenched groove... and grabbing his hair I pulled up his head, turning him... lowering my face as I covered his mouth, kissing him.  "Hey, roll over," I said giving his amazing cheeks a sharp smack as I climbed in. He rolled over, quickly drawing up his legs and grabbing his knees... offering me his ass! "That's a good boy," I murmured as I flipped the cap open and poured out the gel... greasing his groove and lubing his tiny hole... Sohail moaned in reply, hugging himself as he tried to control the tremors that rocked his frame. Pouring some more, I lubed my own cock and slowly got into position... mounting him... taking and placing his legs over my shoulders. "Take it," I whispered as I looked down at him, into his glassy eyes, taking his hand and placing it on my cock, "guide me in..." He whimpered as his fingers curled around my thickness, barely able to encircle the girth... squeezing my shaft... and then he lifted his ass a little higher and tugged my cock closer, placing the tip over his already crazed ass mouth... With my cock in place - over that insanely twitching slit, and Sohail's shaking hand still holding me - I steadied my hips and summoning up my strength, shoved in... a single, powerful thrust! "Aaah..." he cried out throwing back his head, his ass jerking away as I stretched the recalcitrant ( recalcitrant [rɪˈkælsɪtrənt] 固执的, 强烈反抗的, 叛逆的, 不听话的, 不服管的 I. ​formal refusing to obey orders. having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline. If you describe someone or something as recalcitrant, you mean that they are unwilling to obey orders or are difficult to deal with. "a class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds" A world away from what he's used to, Carmy must balance the soul-crushing reality of trading in Michelin star restaurants for the small business' kitchen filled with strong-willed and recalcitrant staff and his strained familial relationships, all while grappling with the impact of his brother's suicide. The danger is that recalcitrant local authorities will reject their responsibilities. He had a knack for coaxing even the most recalcitrant engine to life. ...the government's recalcitrance 不愿意, 不乐意 over introducing even the smallest political reform. a recalcitrant child. II. 固执的, 不合作的. not operating or acting the way you want and therefore difficult to deal with. a recalcitrant computer. noun. a person with an obstinately uncooperative attitude. "a stiff-necked recalcitrant and troublemaker". vocabulary: If someone is so pig-headed that he won't budge on an issue, call him recalcitrant. Not that it will make a difference... Recalcitrant is from Latin calcitrare, meaning "to kick," so someone who is recalcitrant is kicking back against what's wanted of them. Synonyms are unruly, intractable, and refractory, all referring to what is difficult to manage or control. Writers are frequently referring to recalcitrant 自由主义的, 固执己见的 Democrats and Republicans, since many people are stubbornly loyal to their political parties and unwilling to change. recalcitrate [rɪˈkælsɪˌtreɪt] verb. I. to kick out or back, usually in a figurative sense. II. to be recalcitrant or to object strongly to something. pigheaded 猪脑袋的, 猪一样头硬的 [disapproval] not willing to change your opinions or intentions, even when it is obvious that they are not right. If you describe someone as pig-headed, you are critical of them because they refuse to change their mind about things, and you think they are unreasonable. She, in her pig-headed way, insists that she is right and that everyone else is wrong. I am not sure whether this was courage or pig-headedness. big-headed behaving in a way that shows that you think you are very important or intelligent. lightheaded 头重脚轻的 feeling as though you might fall down or become unconscious, for example because you are drunk. dickheaded stupid, irritating, or ridiculous Wow, what a dickheaded person you are! inveterate [ɪnˈvetərət] 改不掉的, 改不了的, 屡教不改的, 死不悔改的 always doing a particular thing, especially something bad, and unlikely to change. If you describe someone as, for example, an inveterate liar or smoker, you mean that they have lied or smoked for a long time and are not likely to stop doing it. ...an inveterate gambler. ...the inveterate laziness of these boys. an inveterate liar/gambler/critic. Over time I became an inveterate crotch watcher and cursed the social norm where a guy had to 'hide' his cock in carefully tailored trousers, while women could proudly flaunt her breasts... even with padded bras and other means of supports, stick their chest out as they walked. vocabulary: If you're an inveterate doodler, all your notebooks are covered with drawings. If you're an inveterate golf player, you probably get twitchy if you haven't been out on a course in a week. Inveterate comes from the Latin root for "old," and it describes old habits. In Middle English the word was associated with chronic disease. Now it simply refers to something that is a signature habit with a person. If you've loved books ever since you were a toddler, and you regularly check out big stacks from the library, you're an inveterate reader. And if you're an inveterate nail-biter, nothing can cure you of the habit. twitchy nervous and worried, sometimes showing this through sudden movements or movements that do not appear smooth or relaxed. If you are twitchy, you are behaving in a rather nervous way that shows you feel anxious and cannot relax. He was still twitchy and we awaited Ann's return anxiously. Afraid of bad publicity, the department had suddenly become very twitchy about journalists. On camera he appears twitchy and ill at ease. The president is getting twitchy about the fall in his popularity. 手痒: be itching to do something = have an itch to do something. have itchy fingers (负面的)手痒, 想偷东西, 想杀人, 想动手. venerate [ˈvenəˌreɪt] to respect or worship someone or something. If you venerate someone or something, you value them or feel great respect for them. My father venerated General Eisenhower. Jerusalem is Christianity's most venerated 受崇拜的 place. Churchill was held in near veneration during his lifetime. ) ring wide and bored in... but there was no escape for Sohail, no place to go... the bed stopped all further retreat, and his jerking legs thrown over my shoulders held him trapped in place! I lowered my face and covered his mouth, stopping his scream of agony, and taking advantage of his helpless position, quickly romped home ( romp [rɑmp] verb. if children or animals romp, they play or move around in a lively and often noisy way. When children or animals romp, they play noisily and happily. Dogs and little children romped happily in the garden. noun. I. a victory in a sport that is achieved very easily. II. countable an occasion on which children or animals play or move around in a lively and often noisy way. III. countable ​mainly journalism an occasion on which people have sex without intending to have a serious relationship. If two people have a romp, they have sex in a light-hearted and very casual way. Journalists sometimes refer to sex outside a serious relationship as a romp. ...a riveting, readable romp. IV. countable a movie, play, or book that is lively and enjoyable, and not intended to be serious. romp home​/​to victory 轻松获胜, 轻松胜出 mainly journalism to win something such as a race or competition very easily. Journalists use romp in expressions like romp home, romp in, or romp to victory, to say that a person or horse has won a race or competition very easily. Mr Foster romped home with 141 votes. romp ahead to start to win or increase quickly and easily. romp through something to do something quickly and easily. If you romp through something, you do it or deal with it quickly and easily. He had romped through the maze of questions with unexpected ease. )... tearing into his snug(I. (of a person) 舒适的. feeling warm, comfortable, and protected, or (of a place, especially a small place) giving feelings of warmth, comfort, and protection. warm, comfortable, and protected. If you feel snug or are in a snug place, you are very warm and comfortable, especially because you are protected from cold weather. They lay snug and warm amid the blankets. ...a snug log cabin. Wrap your baby snugly in a shawl or blanket. Are you nice and snug in that sleeping bag? We curled up in bed, all snug and warm, and listened to the storm outside. I bet your feet are nice and snug in your fur-lined boots! II. 仅仅裹着. fitting closely 贴身的, 紧身的, 合身. Something such as a piece of clothing that is snug fits very closely or tightly. ...a snug black T-shirt and skin-tight black jeans. Every dress is lined, ensuring a snug, firm fit. His jeans fit snugly. snug blue jeans. These shoes are a bit too snug 夹脚 - do you have them in a larger size? noun. = snuggery a small room or area in a pub where only a few people can sit. ) boi-hole, burying my entire length deep in his fiercely tight, seething colon... right to the root! I fucked the sobbing boy... oh, well, man, for almost an hour... till he had regained his erection and shot his seed, and gone limp again... the tip still drooling out a liquidy trail of smoky fluid - pre-cum mingled with the remnants of his semen still in the narrow passage. Fucked him till I came, inundating his ravaged, burning innards 内脏 (日常, 同时可用于机器的内脏) ( the organs inside a person or animal, or the inside parts of a machine. the inner organs of a person or animal, or the inside parts of a machine: the innards of radios. frogs' innards. entrails [ˈen.treɪlz] 内脏 (正式, 血淋淋, 医学, 恐怖小说) the intestines and other inside organs of an animal or person, when they are outside the body. The entrails of people or animals are their inside parts, especially their intestines. Open the belly lengthwise and remove all the entrails. pig entrails. figurative The sofa's entrails (= pieces of material from inside) were sticking out in places. viscera [ˈvɪs.ər.ə] 五脏六腑 the large organs inside the body, including the heart, stomach, lungs, and intestines. Viscera are the large organs inside the body, such as the heart, liver, and stomach. It was an examination of viscera and vertebra. ) with my soothing cum... flushing his bowel with my man-seed... groaning as I slumped over 瘫倒 him... Both panting with the exhilaration of completion, and exhaustion! Over the week I taught him everything he needed to know - about giving good head, and taking it up his butt in every conceivable position - feeding him my cum, and filling his belly with my seed! Sohail a good and willing learner, always eager for more as he looked at me with questioning eyes, mastering the art soon! His arms tight around my neck as he sat impaled on my cock while I carried him around the room... Writhing under me as I ploughed his barren furrow... Wrawling away as he wrapped his arms and legs around me, slamming his ass back... Jerking off, or simply shooting his forever bubbling teen cum without even touching himself!