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标题: Build up vocabulary from the news [打印本页]

作者: hedgehog 时间: 6-10-2012 20:31
标题: Build up vocabulary from the news
这个帖子的目的是为了促进我（以及愿意和我一起学习的坛友）扩展词汇量。词汇是思想的基石，没有基石，就没有上面的大厦。

如果不去有意识地扩展词汇，你的词汇量在未来12个月可能会增加25至50个。如果有意识地去努力，你可能能够增加数千个。

记住词汇的一个好方法是将这个词的意思与我们生活中的具体事件联系起来，读新闻就是一个好办法。

帖子中的词汇可以分为两类：第一类是完全不认识的生词，第二类是虽然在阅读中认识、但是如果遇到需要使用它的场合又可能想不起来它的那种“消极词汇”，通过这些帖子，我希望把消极词汇转换成积极词汇。

帖子中没有特别生僻的词，如果你经常阅读期刊报纸，所有这些词汇都很有可能在未来的两星期或一个月内再次与你不期而遇。

Enjoy vocabulary building!

[ 本帖最后由 hedgehog 于 13-10-2012 13:54 编辑 ]

作者: yearshappy 时间: 6-10-2012 21:46
I've been to Lismore, not far away from Brisbane.
There wouldn't be any school staff on duty on weekends.

作者: hedgehog 时间: 7-10-2012 10:18
标题: ectopic = [妊娠]异位的，子宫外的
Nicole Kidman: "but I’ve had an ectopic pregnancy, miscarriages and I’ve had fertility treatments"
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ente ... rf96x-1226486792892

[ 本帖最后由 hedgehog 于 13-10-2012 00:27 编辑 ]

作者: hedgehog 时间: 7-10-2012 13:53
标题: ride on Australia's coattails
Tobacco products complying with the world’s first plain-packaging laws started arriving in Australia’s stores around Oct. 1, when the country’s A$10 billion ($10.37 billion) tobacco industry was hit with strict constraints on how it can package and sell cigarettes. Similar regulations, backed by the World Health Organization, are being weighed in the U.K., New Zealand, Turkey, and the EU. “With so many countries lined up to ride on Australia’s coattails, what we hope to see is a domino effect for the good of public health,” Margaret Chan, the WHO’s director general, said in a statement.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... tte-warnings#r=read

coattails : 本意：男上衣后摆；引申：沾...的光；利用...的成果

作者: hedgehog 时间: 7-10-2012 14:13
标题: psychopath
psychopath
精神变态者
变态人格者
Psychotherapist John Clarke has told the Tasmanian Work Health & Safety Conference that psychopaths are more common than people think, and between 1 and 3 per cent of the adult population is a psychopath.
Dr Clarke told the conference that while most people think of psychopaths as serial killers and rapists, workplace psychopaths try to undermine and “mentally destroy” their co-workers, the ABC reported.

http://www.news.com.au/business/ ... rfm9r-1226486606625

作者: hedgehog 时间: 7-10-2012 14:49
标题: laxative 通便剂
A laxative is something which you eat or drink that relieves constipation by making you defecate.轻泻剂，通便剂

Fisher, 49, yesterday admitted stealing $73.62 worth of fruit, fish and laxatives from Coles at West Lakes in June.

http://www.news.com.au/national/ ... o4dzn-1226487295182

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作者: yearshappy 时间: 7-10-2012 21:48

原帖由 hedgehog 于 7-10-2012 13:13 发表

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psychopath
精神变态者
变态人格者
Psychotherapist John Clarke has told the Tasmanian Work Health & Safety Conference that psychopaths are more common than people think, and between 1 and 3 per cent ...

People often talk about horror movies and psycho

. That's how I learned the word 'Psycho'.

作者: johnny800 时间: 7-10-2012 22:25

作者: hedgehog 时间: 7-10-2012 22:45
标题: thieves filch copper 贼偷铜
filch: to steal sth, especially sth small or not very valuable. 偷
thieves filching copper for its scrap value

本文中还用了另一个词 cop 偷
one person who had adopted a vocation copping copper cashed checks totaling $78,000

kleptomania偷窃狂；偷窃癖

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012 ... ch-freeport-shares/

[ 本帖最后由 hedgehog 于 8-10-2012 07:13 编辑 ]

作者: hedgehog 时间: 7-10-2012 23:06
标题: standoffish 冷淡的，冷漠的
standoffish, not friendly towards other people 冷淡的，冷漠的，不友好的 = aloof; reserved,

Robert Patinson and Kristen Steward Not Planning 'Secret Wedding'
“When they first dated, Kristen was standoffish — she didn’t want to get engaged or married,”

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/e ... an-secret-wedding-0

作者: hedgehog 时间: 8-10-2012 01:50
标题: miscreant 道德败坏的，邪恶的，卑劣的
a. behaving badly or unlawfully.
n.a person who has done sth wrong or illegal.缺德的人；不法之徒

Rooting out miscreant cops

http://www.commercialappeal.com/ ... ruits-to-have-a-is/

作者: hedgehog 时间: 8-10-2012 02:04
标题: Schadenfreude 幸灾乐祸
a feeling of pleasure at the bad things that happen to other people.

Israeli and western media are filled with stories about the collapse of Iran’s currency over the past week. The articles contain a strong element of Schadenfreude, gloating at the suffering of others. Specifically when those others are the Iranian “enemy.”

http://www.eurasiareview.com/021 ... nde-overthrow-oped/

作者: hedgehog 时间: 8-10-2012 07:53
标题: inveigh against 猛烈抨击；痛骂；强烈抗议（抱怨）；激烈反对
strongly criticize, attack, rail (at, against, about).

Libyan human rights groups and civil society organisations inveigh against the lack of security in the country and decry the Libyan government's decision to retain some of the armed militias.

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1116/re6.htm

作者: hedgehog 时间: 8-10-2012 08:22
标题: cataclysm 大灾难
a sudden disaster or a violent event that causes change, for example, a flood or a war. 大灾难，大灾变，大动乱 cataclysmic

New rules aim to head off another economic cataclysm but come with costs

几个在此处使用很形象的词：
The 2008 financial crisis roiled the banking system and swamped the global economy, leaving millions of Americans jobless, underemployed or facing foreclosure. In its wake, Congress set out to overhaul how the government oversees Wall Street. The result was a sprawling law, the Dodd-Frank Act, which aims to prevent future crises by giving the government new tools and restricting banks' activities. The law may make future crises less likely, but it increases costs for companies, especially banks, and their customers.

http://www.newser.com/article/da ... ome-with-costs.html

作者: hedgehog 时间: 8-10-2012 14:07
标题: groundswell 迅速高涨
the sudden increase of a particular feeling among a group of people.

'Bullying' crusade turns off ads on Alan Jones show

the response from the Australian public has been a genuine groundswell of disgust to this appalling kind of behaviour

Mr Tate has said nothing that indicates Macquarie is going to take any action to address the pattern of hate and vitriol (very cruel and bitter comments or criticism 尖刻无情、伤人、恶毒的话语 that has been a feature of Alan Jones’ program.

This campaign has been about calling for civility and decency in public debate and we have gone to great strides to ensure that discourse（谈话，交谈） is conducted appropriately

http://www.news.com.au/national/ ... o4bst-1226490204349

作者: hedgehog 时间: 9-10-2012 01:16
标题: Rookie freelancer cut her teeth
cut tooth本意是小孩长牙，比如The baby's crying because he's cutting a new tooth(=a new one is coming through)。
cue (one's) teeth on的引申意思是 to learn or do as a beginner or at the start of one's career. 新手学习，试手

Foley has spent the last three months freelancing from Syria, mostly in the besieged city of Aleppo, working with photographer Nicole Tung, 26, who also cut her teeth in Libya last year.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/new ... he-arab-spring.html

作者: hedgehog 时间: 9-10-2012 11:07
标题: 喝液氮导致胃穿孔，不得不切除胃来救命
A TEENAGER nearly died and had her stomach removed in hospital after drinking a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen.

She first felt breathless, then developed severe stomach pain and was taken to Lancaster Royal Infirmary, where doctors diagnosed a perforated stomach.

Ms Scanlan was rushed to surgery where her stomach was removed in order to save her life.

Local director of public health Dr John Aston said Ms Scanlan was the victim of an "irresponsible alcohol industry that's now competing on gimmicks（噱头）."

Nitrogen takes liquid form at 196 degrees below zero Centigrade. Thanks to the 'Liedenfrost Effect', people will survive brief contact with liquid nitrogen unscathed. But longer exposures will cause 'cryogenic burns'（低温冻伤） and kill unprotected flesh in the same way as frostbite.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle ... uzlbd-1226491688124

作者: hedgehog 时间: 9-10-2012 12:25
标题: 顺势疗法可以治疗自闭症和过敏性休克？
SOME Australian homeopaths（顺势疗法医生） claim they can treat anything from autism（自闭症；孤独症） to deadly infections to violence, including domestic violence.
Sydney clinic Homeopathy Plus, for example, promotes the use of homeopathy（顺势疗法） for potentially fatal anaphylactic shock（过敏性休克） and post-childbirth infections and director Fran Sheffield said homeopathy can treat “excesses of human behaviour” including domestic violence.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle ... uzlbd-1226491738872

作者: hedgehog 时间: 9-10-2012 18:11
标题: proselytize 使归附；使改变宗教信仰
v. to try to persuade other people to accept your beliefs, especially about religion or politics.

Muslim emperors ruled over large non-Muslim populations while Muslim preachers and Sufi mystics worked to proselytize and win converts to Islam

http://newsweekpakistan.com/features/1895

作者: hedgehog 时间: 9-10-2012 21:51
标题: 继续得到观众喜爱
in the grace of （得到）宠爱（或喜爱、善意、恩惠、体谅、眷顾）

Despite recent tabloid reports, Ziyi Zhang remains in the good graces of Chinese and Western audiences.

http://www.watoday.com.au/entert ... 20121006-275iy.html

作者: hedgehog 时间: 9-10-2012 22:01
标题: 五角大楼让他闭上臭嘴
Pentagon to McChrystal: Put a sock in it（an impolite way of telling someone to be quiet）

The Pentagon security clearance office has forced General McChrystal to delay publication of his memoir, which was supposed to come out next month. No word on how long the delay will be.

http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/p ... al_put_a_sock_in_it

作者: yearshappy 时间: 10-10-2012 18:11

原帖由 hedgehog 于 9-10-2012 12:25 发表

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SOME Australian homeopaths（顺势疗法医生） claim they can treat anything from autism（自闭症；孤独症） to deadly infections to violence, including domestic violence.
Sydney clinic Homeopathy Plus, f ...

autism　的中文解释　　
总感觉与平时人们谈论的ASD （Autism Spectrum Disorder），　误导太大
这个病的特征绝然不是自闭，孤独那么简单划一　http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_spectrum　

作者: yearshappy 时间: 10-10-2012 18:13
常常来跟ＬＺ学习　

作者: hedgehog 时间: 10-10-2012 20:22
标题: 必然结论：智力是吃出来的，不是爹妈给的
The ineluctable（unavoidable无可避免的）conclusion was that intellect depends on diet, not heredity.

http://www.fx-mm.com/19121/tradi ... s-conference-today/

[ 本帖最后由 hedgehog 于 10-10-2012 20:27 编辑 ]

作者: hedgehog 时间: 12-10-2012 00:20
标题: a photo that causes customs officials to do a double-take
rigmarole = a long and complicated process that is annoying and seems unncecessary (不必要的）冗长复杂的手续

do a double take = wen you do a double take, you wait for a moment before you react to sth that has happened, because it is very surprising 愣了一会儿才恍然大悟的反应

Any parent who has had to go through the rigmarole of getting a passport baby photo will appreciate these hilarious photos. Actually, make that anyone who's stuck with a wince-making photo that causes customs officials to do a double-take or start sniggering.

http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012 ... rt-photos-go-viral/

[ 本帖最后由 hedgehog 于 13-10-2012 00:30 编辑 ]

作者: hedgehog 时间: 12-10-2012 08:15
标题: raison d'etre
存在的理由 the most important reason or purpose for someone or somthing's existence

Emissions in Australia and across the world will keep going up, even with the carbon tax in place, even under the government’s own modelling. The fundamental raison d’être for this tax is just not achieved.

http://www.news.com.au/news/carb ... pjsb4-1226488222704

作者: hedgehog 时间: 12-10-2012 11:55
标题: 表明观点，澄清立场
Industry fears homeowner panic as flood agreement expiration approaches

Brokers in high flood-risk areas have accused the Association of British Insurers of failing to "nail its colours to the mast" amid growing concern over the lack of a long-term replacement for the Statement of Principles.

Elvin, who is also the British Insurance Brokers' Association chair for Yorkshire and Northern England, said: "The ABI has been cautious at best. It is not nailing its colours to the mast, but it needs to because people will start panicking.

http://www.postonline.co.uk/post ... piration-approaches

http://linguaspectrum.com/lesson ... 0Idioms/page_18.htm

作者: hedgehog 时间: 12-10-2012 16:10
标题: 真相，重要事实
the low-down on sb./sth, （口语）the true facts about sb/sth, especially those considered most important to know

As I was leaving the Johnson Center the other day, I overheard a girl ask, “Should I get a flu shot?” to who I am guessing was her mother on the phone.

Wondering the same thing, I called up University Health Service. Clinical chief Dr. Ann Hays gave me the lowdown on (告诉我真实情况）flu season.

http://kykernel.com/2012/10/12/q ... vices-on-flu-shots/

作者: hedgehog 时间: 12-10-2012 16:44
标题: nebbish 怯懦的人，无能的人
So from the beginning, the GOP refused to do. Then, it used the resultant gridlock to blame the president for divisiveness and ineptitude. It was a cynical strategy of legislative malpractice that left Obama looking not unlike Peter Parker pre-spider bite, a hapless nebbish figuratively shoved into his locker, metaphorically robbed of his lunch money.

http://www.clarionledger.com/art ... &nclick_check=1

作者: mason00 时间: 12-10-2012 16:48
great post

作者: hedgehog 时间: 12-10-2012 20:58
标题: 受人驱使的人，奴才，走狗
CHINESE dissidents have assailed Mo Yan's Nobel literature prize as a disgraceful vindication of the Communist Party's control of creative expression, accusing the author of being a stooge（奴才，走狗） of officialdom.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/ ... rg6so-1226494653857

作者: hedgehog 时间: 12-10-2012 23:23
标题: 成功预见到从阿富汗撤军
Rupee News has predicted that NATO and ISAF will leave Afghanistan ahead of the 2014 announced deadline. Our prescient(有先见之明的) prediction is coming true.
......
After more than a decade of fruitless war, Australian combat operations in Afghanistan are set to all but end by December.

According to Australian news sources “The surprise announcement – that all four Afghan infantry battalions in Oruzgan are expected to begin operating independently by December – was made by the Defence Minister, Stephen Smith, at a NATO conference in Brussels this week.

prescient = knowing or appearing to know about things before they happen 预知的，先觉的
http://rupeenews.com/2012/10/in- ... fghanistan-in-2012/

[ 本帖最后由 hedgehog 于 12-10-2012 23:25 编辑 ]

作者: KYLIE2008 时间: 12-10-2012 23:48
楼主，你的帖子太好啦。。。

学习学习再学习

作者: hedgehog 时间: 13-10-2012 00:01
标题: 印度被中国打败是因为没有为军事冲突这种可能性做好准备
India lost the 1962 war with China as it was not prepared for such an eventuality（可能性）and armed forces were neither ready nor equipped for it, former Army Chief General V K Singh said.
......
He also underlined the growing economic and military capability of China to be kept in mind to deal with any eventuality（可能发生的事情）.

eventuality = something that may possibly happen especially sth unpleasant 可能发生的事情，可能出现的结果，

http://www.indianexpress.com/new ... -v-k-singh/1007558/

[ 本帖最后由 hedgehog 于 13-10-2012 00:02 编辑 ]

作者: hedgehog 时间: 13-10-2012 02:13
标题: 我个人对吉拉德从没有敌意
animus = 仇恨；愤怒；敌意 a strong feeling of opposition, anger or hatred.

''I have never had any personal animus against her. I was never involved in any conflict with her during my time at the firm until these matters emerged. And then there was no, I still don't believe there was any sort of open conflict between us,'' he says.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/the- ... 20121012-27i27.html

作者: hedgehog 时间: 13-10-2012 09:05
标题: 不确定的，无把握的，很难说的，吉凶未卜
touch-and-go = a. used to say that the result of a situation is uncertain and that there is a possibility that sth bad or unpleasant will happen. 不确定的，无把握的，很难说的，吉凶未卜

Dear Aunty B,

I’m really panicking. I’ve got enough cash to make payroll this month, but the next month is looking very touch and go.

My problem is a few key customers are shocking payers. The money comes eventually, but it takes forever. In the last few weeks there have been even more delays than normal and things are getting stretched to breaking point.

What do I do? I’ve harassed the accounts payable people at my key customers, but I’m worried that if I shake the tree too hard I’m going to damage the relationships. And then I’ll be in more trouble.

I need some advice Aunty, and I need it fast.

Hanging by a thread,

Brisbane

http://www.smartcompany.com.au/a ... ext-month-help.html

作者: hedgehog 时间: 13-10-2012 13:18
标题: 埃及内斗
CAIRO—Dozens were injured in clashes between secular-leaning and Islamist activists in the heart of Egypt's capital Friday in the first such internecine political violence since the country's Muslim Brotherhood-backed president took office in late June.

But like the other violent spats that have rattled Egypt's hard-won political stability, it remained unclear whether Friday's riots reflected a broader political standoff or a catharsis（宣泄） for embittered youth.

internecin = （团体、国家、组织）内部发生的，内讧的 happening between memebers of the same group, country or orgnization
。（两败俱伤的）内部斗争的，自相残杀的

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 52590265855944.html

[ 本帖最后由 hedgehog 于 13-10-2012 13:27 编辑 ]

作者: hedgehog 时间: 13-10-2012 13:48
标题: CVs are an an advertisement not a biography
willy-nilly = in a careless way without planning

Don’t just fire off your resumé willy-nilly（随意地，乱糟糟地）, take time to find out how best to make an impact on realistic targets, says Metro's job expert John Lees.

http://www.metro.co.uk/lifestyle ... ent-not-a-biography

作者: hedgehog 时间: 13-10-2012 22:32
标题: 醉闹狂欢 carouse v.
Still, kudos to Harry for stepping up when his country asked him to. He could opt for the playboy lifestyle, carousing in the south of France like his brother William and Kate Middleton. However, he chose to serve as an Apache helicopter pilot in probably the worst place on the globe.

http://news.gather.com/viewArtic ... eId=281474981699048

carouse = 痛饮狂欢，狂欢作乐 to spend time drinking alcohol, laughing and enjoying yourself in a noisy way with other people.

作者: hedgehog 时间: 13-10-2012 22:53
标题: Grasping the Chinese growth juggernaut
In terms of total power and heft, in terms of unstoppable force, in terms of the likelihood staying solidly on course, would you prefer to be travelling in the slipstream of a Torana SLR 5000 or the Chinese juggernaut?

juggernaut = 1.重型卡车 a large, heavy vehicle, especially an articulated lorry. 2. 不可抗拒的强大力量；无法控制的强大机构 a huge, powerful, and overwhelming force

http://www.smh.com.au/business/g ... 20121010-27cmg.html

作者: yearshappy 时间: 13-10-2012 23:16

so much to learn

作者: hedgehog 时间: 13-10-2012 23:50
标题: Did Katrina throw a fit when asked to emote 'seductively'?
Kat is the brand ambassador of the soap company and was shooting for a new commercial. Our source says, “Since it was a soap ad, Katrina was required to shoot for her scenes inside a bath tub. Despite giving several shots, the director didn’t think Kat was emoting the right ‘seductive’ expressions. He requested her to try once more.”

All hell broke lose after that with the actress even apparently issuing a warning to the director to not “push the envelope”. The source adds, “Kat was cordial with everyone on the sets. However, after the director made his request, Kat lost it.” Post this, the crew decided to stay mum （=keep quiet) on the issue and proceeded to wrap up the shoot at the earliest.

emote = v. (especially of an actor) portray emotion in a theatrical manner. （演戏、拍电影时）强烈地表现感情；过火表演

push the envelope = if someone pushes the envelope, they do something to a greater degree or in a more extreme way than it has ever been done before.

http://www.mid-day.com/entertain ... ote-seductively.htm

作者: hedgehog 时间: 14-10-2012 13:50
标题: linchpin 关键人物/事物
But besides these indigenous ills, for which no one is to blame but Pakistanis themselves, there’s no question that the country has paid a huge price for playing patsy to American machinations in Afghanistan.

Pakistan was the linchpin（关键） of the Afghan resistance against the Soviet occupation (1980-88).

[ linchpin = n. a person or thing that is the most important part of an organization, a plan, etc., because everything else depends on them or it (组织、计划等的）关键人物，关键事物]

Another military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, was rewarded for siding with the U.S. But the nation he was presiding over was not the one Zia had lorded over（指挥，支配）.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1269186--the-afghanization-of-pakistan

作者: hedgehog 时间: 14-10-2012 19:46
标题: China starts a new gambit in east Asia
gambit = ploy, manoeuvre，精心策划的一着；（常带有风险的）策略，开场白，开局

http://articles.timesofindia.ind ... tory-diaoyu-islands

作者: hedgehog 时间: 14-10-2012 20:22
标题: The Perpetual Failure to Understand Obama's Double Consciousness
To be both successful in mainstream America and black-identified is a delicate business. Commonly, the way people wangle the equipoise is to maintain a visceral kind of allegiance to in-group folkways and concerns while building most of one’s life around a more mainstream essence.

wangle = to get sth that you or another person wants by persuading sb or by a clever plan 靠耍手腕或劝诱获得，计取；搞到手

equipoise = a state of balance 平衡；均势

visceral = resulting from strong feelings rather than careful thought （未经过认真思考而）发自内心的，发自肺腑的

http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/10 ... uble-consciousness#

作者: hedgehog 时间: 14-10-2012 20:51
标题: jingoistic 发出侵略叫嚣的；鼓吹沙文主义的
This week’s push for “rational patriotism,” mirrored also in commercial media like Guangzhou’s Southern Metropolis Daily, is a reminder once again of the razor’s edge China’s Communist Party leadership has walked in mobilizing jingoistic（好战的） nationalism to legitimize its power, in the process creating further sources of domestic unrest that can be difficult to manage politically.

jingoistic = something that is jingoistic shows enthusiastic and unreasonable belief in the superiority of a particular country, especially in support of a war against another country.

http://cmp.hku.hk/2012/09/17/27162/

For all the jingoistic talk（好战叫嚣）, the marches have been largely free of violence. China has far more to lose than gain by going to war. And yet the country’s conflicts with Japan and other Asian neighbors are a reminder of the potential dangers posed by China’s rise to global power.

http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... -kind-of-superpower

[ 本帖最后由 hedgehog 于 14-10-2012 21:02 编辑 ]

作者: hedgehog 时间: 14-10-2012 21:53
标题: importune 向...强求
“We are confident that no Chinese company has ever cooperated as comprehensively as ZTE has with any U.S. congressional inquiry,” ZTE wrote in a letter it sent the House committee in late September and that the Chinese company released on Oct. 8. “ZTE profoundly disagrees with any suggestion that the company is directed or controlled by China’s government. And ZTE categorically rejects any suggestion that ZTE could be importuned by anyone to undermine our customers’ telecom infrastructure networks.” Added spokesperson David Dai in an e-mail statement on Oct. 8: “ZTE’s equipment is safe.”

译文：有人认为中兴通讯可能会因屈服于任何人（此处暗指中国政府-译者）的压力而做出不利于我们客户（此处指美国）的电讯基础网络安全的事情，中兴公司对这种观点完全不能同意。......中兴通讯的设备是安全的。

importune =harass (someone) persistently for or to do something 向......强求，对......胡搅蛮缠(for)；迫使

http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... -in-the-u-dot-s-dot

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作者: hedgehog 时间: 15-10-2012 10:57
标题: SEXISM is institutionalised in the Australian Parliament
''The community wants the Parliament to respect the institution, get on with the job of governing the country, and lift the game. Lift the standards and let's get back to clever and intelligent repartee(巧辩) rather than just plain, personal derogatory remarks,'' she said.

repartee = 机智而又巧妙的应对（或回答） clever and amusing comments and replies that are made quickly

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/po ... 20121014-27kqa.html

作者: hedgehog 时间: 16-10-2012 21:39
标题: 不要鼓励孩子打小报告 Refuse to engage a tattler
You are ready for this problem. Amy loves to tattle on other kids. She gets this righteous look on her face; you can almost see her halo glowing when she tries to involve you in solving her problem.

When a child tattles it is because they want to get another kid in trouble, look good in the eyes of the adult or have an adult solve the problem. You can often tell simply by their demeanour and they will often follow their description of the problem by saying, "What are you going to do to her?"

The best way to handle a tattler is to refuse to engage. If this is the first time she has tattled just let her know that she is tattling and you don't want to deal with that.

tattle = to tell sb, especially sb in authority, about sth bad that sb else has done. 向当权者告发；打小报告
其他解释：闲谈，聊天，谈论他人私事或隐私

http://www.nsnews.com/Refuse+engage+tattler/7366931/story.html

作者: hedgehog 时间: 18-10-2012 07:05
标题: vicarious
Soon, space won't be just a vicarious（间接感受到的） pursuit: it'll be a place people will visit in their thousands.

vicarious = felt or experienced by watching or reading about sb else doing sth, rather than by doing it yourself. 由共鸣感受到的；从他人的经验中间接获得的

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/ ... 20121016-27o43.html

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作者: yearshappy 时间: 18-10-2012 17:50

原帖由 hedgehog 于 18-10-2012 07:05 发表

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Soon, space won't be just a vicarious（间接感受到的） pursuit: it'll be a place people will visit in their thousands.

vicarious = felt or experienced by watching or reading about sb else doing sth ...

This one is easy to remember.
Most of us have known, v i c a r 牧师, 中间传达的。。

作者: hedgehog 时间: 19-10-2012 11:50
标题: 马尔萨斯认为食品产量按算术级增长，人口按几何级数增长
Long ago, Thomas Malthus argued that, although humans might be able to outpace nature's carrying capacity in the short-term, in the long run the mathematics of population growth would precipitate(使...突然降临) disaster. According to Malthus' original predictions, widespread starvation was inevitable due to the fact that food production could only increase arithmetically, whereas population growth was exponential.

precipitate = to make sth, especially sth bad happen suddenly or sooner than it shoud 加速（坏事的发生）

exponential = 1, of or shown by an exponent;指数的，幂的，由指数表示的；2(of a rate of increase) becoming faster and faster （增长率）越来越快的

http://www.opednews.com/articles ... gan-121017-584.html

作者: hedgehog 时间: 19-10-2012 17:39
标题: 内省，反省，自省
introspection = the careful examination of your own thoughts, feelings and reasons for behaving in a particular way.

Cotto: Many believe that mental functions are best studied using introspective methods. Cognitive psychology begs to differ. Why is this?

Dr. Sternberg: Our introspections are often wrong. Much of our thinking is below our conscious awareness, and we simply don't have access to it. So when we introspect, we only look at the conscious part and may draw conclusions that are incorrect. Also, much of our thinking happens very quickly, in milliseconds, and we cannot access it because it was just too fast.

There are mental operations, for example, that take 30 milliseconds. They are not available to conscious introspection. That said, introspection can be helpful in certain cases, for example, in asking ourselves why we did something we did that was thought through over a longer period of time.

http://communities.washingtontim ... o-most-us-rely-fee/

作者: hedgehog 时间: 19-10-2012 17:49
标题: in retrospect
The announcement on Friday that this year's Nobel Prize for Peace was being awarded to the European Union was another invitation to retrospection.
...
He knows that the EU will not be saved by a two-week exercise in crisis management – exhilarating though the Cuba Crisis might seem in retrospect and impressive though President Kennedy's performance was.

retrospect = n. a survey or review of a past course of events or period of time. 回顾；回想. v.
retrospection = n. thinking about past events or situations.回顾，回忆

http://www.europeanvoice.com/art ... learned-/75430.aspx

作者: hedgehog 时间: 19-10-2012 18:01
标题: metamorphose
He revealed that his group had implored monks, who hold tremendous sway over the Buddhist-majority nation, to join the protests that later metamorphosed（变形，变化，发生质变） into a “saffron（藏红花色的，橘黄的） revolution,” triggering yet another bloody military crackdown.

metamorphose = v. to change or make sth/sb change into sth completely different, espcially over a period of time.

http://blogs.afp.com/corresponde ... tays-in-the-shadows

作者: hedgehog 时间: 19-10-2012 22:31
标题: 黎巴嫩人掠夺这个接收他们的国家
“If ever there was a clear example that Lebanese males in their vast numbers not only hate our country and our heritage, this was it,” Mr Jones had said. “They simply rape, pillage and plunder a nation that’s taken them in.”

pillage = plunder, to steal things from a place or region, especially in a war, using violence 抢劫；劫掠；掠夺

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgr ... -muslim-immigrants/

作者: hedgehog 时间: 21-10-2012 19:12
标题: artifice
artifice = the clever use of tricks to cheat sb. cunning, 奸计，诡计；狡诈，欺骗，虚伪行为；巧妙办法；灵巧，巧妙

When passing new laws to resurrect offshore processing of asylum seekers, the government used the artifice of introducing amendments to an already existing bill so as to avoid the need for providing a statement of compatibility and so as to keep the contested legislation away from the parliamentary committee.

http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=33687

作者: hedgehog 时间: 21-10-2012 19:28
标题: bruit
bruit = v. to spread a piece of news widely. 传播；散播（信息）；宣扬；传颂. This rumour has been bruited about for years.

What’s especially frustrating when we hear the blind support for digital technology bruited in government white papers and the mass media today is the refusal to acknowledge the substantial empirical research over the last 15 years that questions the value of such technology.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/e ... e-digital-classroom

作者: hedgehog 时间: 21-10-2012 19:54
标题: stilted, sangfroid
stilted = (of a way of speaking or writing) not natural or relaxed; too formal 生硬的；不自然的
sangfroid = the ability to remain calm in a difficult or dangerous situation. 镇定；沉着

A migrant worker that the video refers to as Miao Cuihua (苗翠花) exhibits admirable sang-froid throughout her staged four-minute appeal, which mixes plain and forceful language with purposefully stilted bureaucratic jargon.

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作者: hedgehog 时间: 27-10-2012 19:35
有紧急任务要在11月2日完成。所以最近看新闻要放一放了。

作者: yearshappy 时间: 28-10-2012 20:30

原帖由 hedgehog 于 27-10-2012 19:35 发表

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有紧急任务要在11月2日完成。所以最近看新闻要放一放了。

Alright.

Now I can try to catch up.

[ 本帖最后由 yearshappy 于 3-12-2012 15:39 编辑 ]

作者: hedgehog 时间: 3-11-2012 23:53
标题: 党的精英的腐败证明其现代化高调是虚假的
venal= prepared to do dishonest or immoral things in return for money. 腐败的，贪赃枉法的，见利忘义的
belie=证明（或显示）...为虚假的；与...抵触，违背。to show that sth cannot be true or correct.

悉尼晨报：The new China looks too much like the old one

The venal actions of the party elite belie all the talk of modernisation.

ON THE cusp of next month's 18th congress of the Chinese Communist Party, the carefully crafted theme song trumpeting reform and modernisation has been suddenly replaced by the old anthem of corruption and venality.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/po ... 20121029-28dqk.html

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作者: hedgehog 时间: 4-11-2012 00:29
标题: 总统辩论：诀窍是：又好斗又保持潇洒、风度翩翩
Presidential debate: The trick is to be pugnacious and personable

pugnacious=having a strong desire to argue or fight with other people. 爱争执的；好斗的；爱滋事的 pugnacity

personable=(of a person)attractive to other people because of having a pleasant appeearance and character. 英俊潇洒，讨人喜欢

http://www.latimes.com/news/opin ... ial-debate-20121015,0,7340043.story

作者: hedgehog 时间: 4-11-2012 00:43
标题: Chinese actresses get short shrift in new Hollywood epics
short shrift =1. rapid and unsympathetic dismissal, curt treatment; 淡漠的对待，草率的处理；2. little time between condemnation and execution or punishment.（临刑前给死刑犯的）短暂忏悔时间

The latest sign of a Chinese invasion in Hollywood is a string of performances so short, you'll miss them if you blink.

Chinese actresses, many of whom are superstars in China, are appearing in big-budget Hollywood movies, but in roles that are more decorative than groundbreaking.

The driving force behind these Chinese beauties' Hollywood debut is Chinese capital, which has found its way into productions of international box-office clout.

http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/ ... ontent_15793105.htm

作者: hedgehog 时间: 4-11-2012 01:33
标题: 社交网站是福还是祸？ boon or bane
Now comes the big question: Is social networking as beneficial as netizens claim it to be, or is it actually harmful? Is it a boon, or a bane?

bane = a cause of great distress or annoyance 祸因，祸根, 造成困惑或不快的事物

boon = something that is very helpful and makes life easier for you. 非常有用的东西；益处

http://opinion.inquirer.net/39714/boon-or-bane-2

作者: 半颗牙齿 时间: 4-11-2012 09:35
mark.......

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作者: hedgehog 时间: 6-11-2012 00:57
标题: As quick as you can
AS far as the Australian public is concerned there are now 39 very good reasons for bringing the troops home from Afghanistan post-haste（with great speed or immediacy, 尽快，从速）.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news ... rf7jo-1226501044402

作者: hedgehog 时间: 6-11-2012 07:39
标题: Japan's cultural milieu conducive to new technology development
ROBOTS in rapidly ageing Japan are moving from the realm of science fiction and technology fairs to practical use, helping the elderly with rehabilitation and performing daily tasks.

Robots are also tightly woven into the cultural fabric in Japan, regularly cropping up in manga（日本漫画） and anime（日本动画片，常以科幻为主题） going back to the birth of Astro Boy in 1952. Japanese engineers who grew up in this cultural milieu will keep pumping out new designs, but in the present economic slump their ideas will have to meet far tighter standards for adoption and profitability than in the past.

milieu = the social environment that you live or work in 社会环境；社会背景

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/ ... rg6so-1226494698495

[ 本帖最后由 hedgehog 于 6-11-2012 07:40 编辑 ]

作者: hedgehog 时间: 6-11-2012 07:50
标题: 民主国家互不打仗，这是不言自明的
Australia's bid for Security Council is good for democracy
......
Unless these governments can effectively address poverty, their legitimacy will be undermined and political instability will be associated with the rise of extreme views and intolerance. It is a truism that democracies do not go to war with each other, and as Harvard Professor Amartya Sen has highlighted, democracies do not have famines.

truism = 不言而喻的道理；自明之理；老生常谈 a statement that is clearly true and does not therefore add anything interesting or important to a discussion

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/po ... 20121016-27ozt.html

作者: hedgehog 时间: 6-11-2012 13:29
标题: declaim
"It's a patent that should never have been issued, because it's anticipated by all sorts of prior art, but you have a right to that patent, and you are going to declaim loudly to the world that these are your patents, you own this space, and you are going to bully anybody and everybody into submission."

declaim = 慷慨陈词；大声疾呼；高声朗诵， to say sth loudly; to speak dramatically, as if you were acting in a theatre.

http://management.fortune.cnn.co ... i-vac-patent-fight/

作者: hedgehog 时间: 24-11-2012 23:33
标题: scurrilous
scurrilous = very rude and insulting, and intended to damage sb's reputation. 恶意诽谤的；用污言秽语谩骂的；辱骂的

In a profound irony, the list of people responsible for the Newsnight debacle reads like a roll-call of Leveson cheerleaders, of self-styled experts and hacks who have spent the past year calling for the punishment of scurrilous journalism and the celebration of their own, apparently serious journalism.

In short, the BIJ, producer of perhaps the most fact-free, scurrilous and sensationalist reports in British journalism this year, is overseen and backed by the very people who want the tabloids punished by Leveson for being fact-free, scurrilous and sensationalist.

The lesson of the BBC scandal is that we should not let one group of moralistic journalists sit in judgement on another, as has been happening in Britain over the past year. Instead, give full freedom to publish to all of them, broadsheet and tabloid, and let the public make up their minds about what is serious and what is scurrilous.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/ ... rg99o-1226519094233

作者: hedgehog 时间: 25-11-2012 22:04
标题: get a bead on
bead = a small knob forming the foresight of a gun. （枪的）圆形准星

例句：He has a bead on everyting that goes on here. 他严密注意这这儿发生的一切。

一个偷车贼偷了中餐馆的送餐车之后，开着这辆车给顾客送饭。在送完一客之后，得到报告的警察在下一个顾客那里抓到了他

It was then, the paper reports, cops were able to get a bead on the car thief delivering food.

http://www.inquisitr.com/404487/ ... ps-change-cops-say/

作者: atoz 时间: 25-11-2012 22:12
好帖，谢谢楼主

作者: hedgehog 时间: 26-11-2012 08:13
标题: Cruel online dating con has cost one OAP his heart..and 70k pounds
The penny dropped = When the penny drops, someone belatedly understands something that everyone else has long since understood. 终于明白了别人早已明白的事

It was only when we were able to use an online image search to prove that the pictures he thought were of his beloved "Crystal" were actually of a porn star calling herself Kayla Banks - who had nothing to do with the scam - that the penny dropped at last.

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/invest ... ing-con-has-co.html

[ 本帖最后由 hedgehog 于 26-11-2012 08:18 编辑 ]

作者: hedgehog 时间: 26-11-2012 08:26
标题: moral turpitude
turpitude = very immoral behaviour, wicked and unacceptable. 卑鄙行为，恶劣行为，堕落，邪恶

He faces a number of charges including, corruption, moral turpitude and attempts to protect his wife Gu Kailai from investigations into the murder of British Businessman Neil Heywood in November last year.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/int ... /article4037496.ece

作者: hedgehog 时间: 2-12-2012 10:05
标题: insouciant
insouciant = an insouciant action or quality shows a lack of concern; 漠不关心的；漫不经心的；无忧无虑的

He has gone from a Cold Warrior to a superhero in a tuxedo, from a minimalist assassin to a gadget guru and back again. His relationships with women have gotten shallower, then deeper, then complicated. His attitude has bounced from insouciant to sarcastic to surly.

He's still Bond. But he's not the Bond he used to be.

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/ ... ll_50_years_of.html

作者: hedgehog 时间: 2-12-2012 10:40
标题: non sequitur
non sequitur = a statement that does not seem to follow what has just been said in any natural or logical way. 不根据前提的推理；不合逻辑的推论；前后不连贯（毫无逻辑联系）的陈述（或回答）

Maybe it would have helped had I prefaced it with non-sequiturs and deep-sounding-but-actually-totally-meaningless phrases the way you do in the script that was apparently written using the tried-and-true kidnapper-ransom-note technique of clipping random words out of a magazine.

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-a ... oofy-chanel-ad-ripe

作者: hedgehog 时间: 3-12-2012 11:14
标题: putative 被公认的；一般认定的
putative = believed to be the person or thing mentioned. 推定的；认定的；公认的 Syn: presumed.
The putative father of this child. 这孩子的推定的父亲。

There are fresh hopes that putative President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang will lead China in a different direction.

The first is commonly known as the ‘princelings’, so called because they are from the families of veteran revolutionaries and high-ranking officials. Notable princelings include putative president Xi Jinping, who is known to be a protégé of former president Jiang Zemin.

Putative premier Li Keqiang has recently mentioned the importance of supporting the private domestic sector as one of his reform priorities.

http://www.businessspectator.com ... ocument&src=rss

作者: hedgehog 时间: 4-12-2012 10:14
I just finished reading Stephen King's novel "11.22.63". This is a gripping tale of a secondary school teacher from 2010 who travels back in time to 1958 and waits till 1963 to save President Kennedy from assacination.

If you enjoy reading thrillers, this is a good book to pass time with. And you will encounter many of the words introduced in this thread and the other thread about learning new words through pictures.

If anybody who follows this thread is an avid reader, I'd like to hear from you. Maybe we can start a book lovers' club or something if there are enough number of like-minded people.

作者: yearshappy 时间: 6-12-2012 11:07

原帖由 hedgehog 于 4-12-2012 10:14 发表

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I just finished reading Stephen King's novel "11.22.63". This is a gripping tale of a secondary school teacher from 2010 who travels back in time to 1958 and waits till 1963 to save President Kennedy ...

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