Build up vocabulary from the news

hedgehog

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 ]

yearshappy

I've been to Lismore, not far away from Brisbane.
There wouldn't be any school staff on duty on weekends.

hedgehog

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 ]

hedgehog

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

hedgehog

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

hedgehog

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

[ 本帖最后由 hedgehog 于 8-10-2012 07:14 编辑 ]

yearshappy

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'.

johnny800

hedgehog

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 ]

hedgehog

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

hedgehog

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/

hedgehog

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/

hedgehog

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

hedgehog

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

hedgehog

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

hedgehog

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

hedgehog

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

hedgehog

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

hedgehog

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

hedgehog

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

hedgehog

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

yearshappy

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　

yearshappy

常常来跟ＬＺ学习　

hedgehog

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 ]

hedgehog

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 ]

hedgehog

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

hedgehog

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

hedgehog

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/

hedgehog

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

mason00

great post