笔记: go to town 尽心尽力、不遗余力地做某事 *其它跟town相关的短语:on the town 在城里作乐; get out of town 别逗了 It's really hard to pick one job and go to town for the rest of your life. 选一个工作然后拼命干到老是一件很难的事。 When they give parties, they really go to town. 他们举办派对的时候都会精心操持。 street photography 街拍 也可以用street snap 或 street snapshot 表示。 He turned street photography into art. 他把街拍变成了艺术。 This image represents my style of street photography. 这张照片代表了我街拍的风格。
笔记: poem /ˈpəʊɪm//ˈpoʊəm/n. 诗,诗歌 英音读作poem /ˈpəʊɪm/ ;而美音就是[ˈpəʊəm/; 而诗人就是 poet. Choir of Chinese Poems was produced in 2017, and up to now it has only 6 episodes. 《中国诗歌合唱团》制作于2017年,至今只有6集。 The poems are sung in the animation. 这些诗歌在动画中被唱了出来。 lovesickness n. 相思;苦恋 Lovesick 按照字面意思去记忆,可以理解为是因为爱情生病了,所以翻译为相思的,苦恋的。 No herb will cure lovesickness. 相思无药可医。 The girl is lovesick. 这女孩患了相思病。
笔记: stage name /steɪdʒ neɪm/ 艺名 stage 表示“舞台”,在舞台上的名字 也就是指“艺名”了。 We know most celebrities have stage names. 我们知道很多明星都是用艺名的。 这些英文名千万别取: 1、stripper name stripper 表示脱衣舞娘,下面这些名字翻译成汉语听上去很可爱,但是现实是,在英语系国家里,它们通常是跳脱衣舞和钢管舞的妹子会取的名字。下面这些是常见的stripper names,尽量避免哦。 2、特殊人物的名字 这类名字乍一听觉得很气派,不过对于外国人来说,你叫这个名字,就有点像我们中国的玉皇大帝、如来佛祖,葫芦娃、孙悟空的感觉。 Zeus 宙斯 Athena 雅典娜 Cupid 丘比特 Apollo 阿波罗 Harry Porter 哈利波特 Sherlock Holmes 夏洛克·福尔摩斯
笔记: be stood up 被放鸽子 To fail to meet someone for a date, meeting, or appointment, especially without telling them. I'm sorry I stood you up, but I had a family emergency last night. 我很抱歉放了你的鸽子,但我昨晚有家里出了紧急情况。 He was supposed to be here at seven, so by seven thirty I began to think that he stood me up. 他应该在七点来的,所以到了七点半,我开始觉得他放我鸽子了。 swindler 骗子 诈骗犯 /'swɪndlə(r)/ Swindle是诈骗行为的意思,在后面加上后缀-er, swindler也就是骗子。 I've been had by that swindler. 我被那个骗子骗了。 It is easy to see who the biggest swindlers are. 很容易看出谁是最大的诈骗者。 swipe 滑 /swaɪp/ Users "swipe right" to like or "swipe left" to dislike other users'. 用户"向右滑 "表示喜欢,"向左滑 "表示不喜欢其用户。 I swiped right, but sadly for me, she swiped left 我向右滑了,但不幸的是,她向左滑了。
笔记: 1、单词 rejoice [rɪ'dʒɔɪs] v.(使)高兴 plight [plaɪt] n.困境;苦境 housewares ['haʊswɛrz] n. 家用器皿 2、句子 The international Women's movement that we celebrate today on 8th of March every year dates back to 28th February 1909 when the first National Women's day was observed in United States. 我们现在庆祝的3.8妇女节,可以追溯到 1909年2月28日,是在美国诞生这个节日的。 It was in 1975 that United Nations started celebrating March 8 as International Women's Day. 后来是在1975年,联合国改成了三月八号。 For over a century, women's day has been being celebrated around the world to rejoice the achievements and plight of women。 过了一个世纪之后,现在这个节日主要是为赞美女性作出的成就,和安慰她们曾经受到的苦难。 Kraft foods is the second-largest food company in the world and she has been leading the company in perfect business terms since decades. 卡夫食品公司是世界第二大的食品公司。她也很好的带领这个公司发展数十年了。 She draws an annual salary of $16.2 million and brought 72% increase in profits since 2001. In 2011, Forbes named her as world's fourth most powerful woman. 她年薪1620万美元,她更厉害的是在2001年给百事带来了利润百分之72的增长。在2011年,美国财经杂志《福布斯》公布了全球最具影响力的100名女性名单,百事公司执行长努伊名列第四。
笔记: Tangmo was a famous TV star, she had starred in countless dramas and advertisements in her nearly 20-year career, living in the limelight since childhood. Tangmo是一位著名的电视明星,她从童年起就生活在聚光灯下。 在她近20年的职业生涯中,她出演了无数的电视剧和广告, limelight /ˈlaɪmlaɪt/ n. 公众注意的中心 limelight原意是指 「(舞台照明用的)石灰光,石灰光灯」,后来引申为「 焦点,目光的中心」,常用搭配是 in the limelight Tony has now been thrust into the limelight, with a high-profile job. 托尼有一份很好的工作,现在已成为人们关注的焦点。 Jack is in the limelight now, right? Jack现在大出风头了,是吧? 近义表达(公众注意的中心): spotlight glare of publicity public eye The lifeless body of Tangmo was found by rescuers in a River on February 26 after a 38-hour search. 2月26日,经过38小时的搜救,救援人员在河中发现了Tangmo的尸体。 lifeless /ˈlaɪfləs/ adj. 无生命的;死气沉沉的 life 作名词可以表示 「生命」,后面加上形容词后缀less,lifeless 也就是 「无生命的」,lifeless body 也就是表示「尸体」。 You don't have a dream, you lifeless creatures. 你甚至都没有梦想,你这个行尸走肉。 His lifeless body was taken from the river. 他的尸体被打捞上岸。
笔记: influencer /ˈɪnfluənsɜːr/ n. 网红 influence 是影响,网红是有影响力的人,所以用这个词 influencer. 网红也可以说 online celebrity. An influencer Oli London said he's received hate and death threats for claiming to be "transracial." 一名网红Oli London 说他因为宣称自己是"跨种族的",收到了仇恨和死亡威胁。 plastic surgery 整容 plastic 本意是指的塑料,除此之外,还可以表示「可塑的,有可塑性的」,surgery 指的是手术,所以整容就是 plastic surgery. 还有个同义词表达是 cosmetic surgery. A controversial British influencer Oli London went viral last year for getting plastic surgery to look like a member of K-pop band. 一名很有争议的英国网红Oli London,去年因为照着一名韩国男团成员的样子整容火了起来。
笔记: catfishing n. 网络自夸 这个词的引申义最早出现于2010年,源于Ariel Schulman的纪录片《鲶鱼》(Catfish),讲述的是一个网络欺骗的故事。Catfishing 就是用来指在网络环境中对自己的情况有所隐瞒,通常精心编造一个优质的网络身份,目的是为了给他人留下深刻印象,尤其是为了吸引某人与其发展恋爱关系,我们可称之为“网络自夸”。 There are many cases of catfishing on social media platforms and online dating websites nowadays. 如今,在社交媒体平台和在线约会网站上有很多网络自夸的案例。 He was catfished. 他被网络欺骗了。 dupe /duːp/vt. 欺骗;愚弄 常见的搭配是 dupe sb (into doing sth) 诈骗,欺骗某人做某件事; 同义词有: trick or cheat. 作名词,a dupe 也可以表示一个上当受骗的人。 A woman who was duped for a decade by a 'man' who was actually her female cousin. 一名女子被一个“男人”欺骗了十年,而这个“男人”实际上是她的堂妹。 He was duped into giving them his credit card. 他上当受骗把信用卡交给了他们。
笔记: sibling 兄弟姐妹 /ˋsɪblɪŋ/ sibling是一个中性词,指兄弟姐妹,brother or sister. A male sibling is a brother and a female sibling is a sister. A person with no siblings is an only child. She is one of 13 siblings who escaped a house of horrors where her parents kept them locked away. 她是逃离了她父母囚禁他们恐怖屋的13 个兄弟姐妹之一。 He was simply helping out his sibling. 他只是在帮助他的兄弟姐妹。 lock sb. away 把某人关起来囚禁 lock这个单词是锁的意思,lock sth away就是把某物锁好藏起来的说意思,但如果是lock sb. away 就是说把某人关起来囚禁的意思。 Because they were locked up, they didn't even have the chance to go to school. 因为被关起来,连上学的机会都没有。 The jewels were locked away inside the safe. 珠宝被锁在保险箱里。
笔记: Jean-Luc Brunel is said to have trafficked more than 1,000 girls and women, but he was able to keep up the cat and mouse game with the police for decades until eventually being put in prison. 据说,Jean-Luc Brunel贩卖了1000多名女孩和妇女,但在最终入狱之前的几十年,他一直逃脱法律的制裁,让法国警察都束手无策。 traffic /ˈtræfɪk/ v. 非法交易,贩卖 作名词的意思是交通,而作动词的时候可以表示非法交易, deal or trade in something illegal. 动词的过去式和过去分词,都会先加上 k 再加上 ed 后缀;而 human trafficking , 就是指的的人口贩卖了。 He had made a fortune by trafficking young women. 他靠贩卖年轻妇女发了财。 We must do everthing to prohibit human trafficking. 我们必须尽一切努力禁止人口贩卖。 For his alleged victims, they would never have their day in court. After years of fighting for justice, they wouldn't be able to face him in a final trial to hold him accountable. 对于那些可能而未被证实的的受害者们来说,他们永远不会有上法庭的机会。多年来,他们为了正义而战斗,但他们将无法在最终审判中直面他,追究他的责任。 alleged /əˈledʒd/ adj. (未经证实而)声称的,所谓的 Alleged, meaning something said without proof, 表示某件事情声称真实存在,或者发生了,尽管你没有证据。比如 alleged criminals, 意思就是被指控的罪犯。 The alleged victim made the complaint at a police station in York. 声称的受害者向约克郡的警察局提出了投诉。
笔记: trampoline /ˈtræmpəlɪn/ n. 蹦床 *发音上注意重音放在第一个音节。 虽然Trampoline也可以作动词,但在表示“在蹦床上蹦”时常使用短语 jump on a trampoline. Have you ever jumped on a trampoline? 你有没有蹦过蹦床? He sprained his ankle on the trampoline. 他在蹦床上崴了脚。 staple /ˈsteɪpl/ n. 主要部分,重要内容;主食 *the staple of sth 即某物的主要部分,引申到食物上,staple 就表示主食。 It even becomes a backyard staple for many families. 它甚至成了很多家庭的后院必备。 Rice is a staple in the diet of Chinese people. 米饭是中国人饮食中的主食。 scenario /səˈnærioʊ/ n. 设想; 可能的情况 *短语补充:a possible scenario 可能出现的情况;a worst-case scenario 最坏的情况;a nightmare scenario 噩梦般的情况; dream scenario 理想的情况 Let me suggest a possible scenario. 我来设想一种可能出现的情况。 In worst-case scenarios, kids can end up paralyzed. 最坏的情况下,孩子们可能会瘫痪。
笔记: suspend /səˈspend/v. 暂停;中止 这个词的本意是指悬挂;吊着这个意思,那如果一个东西被吊了起来,也就是被暂停了,所以这个词也有暂停、中止、暂缓的意思。 The show was on for 13 years, but then it was suspended. 这个节目播了13年,后来停播了。 cargo /ˈkɑːrɡoʊ/ n. 货物 cargo 表示船或者飞机上搭载的货物,和 freight 是同义词。常见的搭配有 cargo ship 货船,cargo plane 货机;如果是拉货的三轮车,就在三轮车 tricycle 前面加上 cargo,所以是 cargo tricycle. He was stopped when he was spotted standing on the back of a cargo tricycle. 他被发现站在拉货三轮车后面的时候,被拦了下来。
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