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edith921

咋有时候五条有时候十条

dorin

原帖由 edith921 于 2009-12-30 20:29 发表
咋有时候五条有时候十条

因为我看十条新闻，但有的新闻简单，没有笔记要做。

dorin

1. US steps up military, economic aid to Yemen

2. Blame game starts as crews mop up Toodyay blaze
mop up  擦去，消灭，结束

3. Toad Busters up in arms after conservation bosses tell them it's inhumane to gas the feral amphibians.
up in arms  adj. 起来进行武装斗争(感到愤怒)
The whole village is up in arms about the proposal to build an airport nearby.  全村强烈反对在附近修建机场的计划.
gas vt. 使吸入毒气,死,给...加汽油
feral amphibians ['fiərəl]野生的两栖动物

4. The former archbishop of Argentina's Santa Fe province has been sentenced to eight years in prison for "aggravated sexual abuse" against a seminarian, a court source said.
aggravated： made more severe or intense especially in law

5. Hostage released after two-year Iraq ordeal [ɔ:'di:l, ɔ:'di:əl]
The hostages emerged from their ordeal unscathed.
人质经受磨难而平安生还.

6. A British hostage has been freed after more than two-and-a-half years in captivity in Iraq.
captivity [kæp'tiviti] n. 囚禁, 被俘虏
Pandas rarely mate (with each other) in captivity.
猫熊在豢养环境中很少(彼此)交配.

7. Markets on Wall Street have closed steady after a patchy night's trade.
Wall Street  华尔街
patchy: irregular or uneven in quality, texture, etc.

bulaohu

aka 墙街，花儿街

dorin

Asians see the United States losing its undisputed international influence in 50 years to possibly China amid waning trust in Washington to act responsibly in the world, a poll showed.

这句的意思是：一项调查显示：亚洲人日渐对美国政府失去信心，他们认为，在未来50年，中国有可能取代美国无可争议的国际影响力。

但是红线部分我怎么也串不起来啊。

dorin

1. Melbourne coin collector Bruce Mansfield lined up for 18 hours to be first person to strike the new coin.
这个词不懂，请版主机器猫一下。

2. An Israeli illusionist gave an icy reception to the New Year, emerging at midnight from 66 hours in an 8-tonne block of ice, breaking the record of American magician David Blaine.
都是魔术师的意思。他们怎么这么玩命啊？

3. Some 200 onlookers celebrated the arrival of the new decade with Dean
旁观者。

4. The Federal Government says another boat carrying asylum seekers has been intercepted in Australia's northern waters.
intercepte n. 截取,妨碍 vt. 拦截,阻止,截取
我原先还以为是accept的意思呢。

5. Refugee Council of Australia up in arms over Tony Abbott's call to turn away seaborne asylum seekers.
up in arms 咦，昨天才学到这个词，今天就又看到一次了。愤怒的意思。
turn away 打发走
How can you turn away from a soldier who was wounded?
你怎么能对一个受伤的战士不闻不问呢？

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-1-1 20:29 编辑 ]

jasonliu234

原帖由 dorin 于 2009-12-31 19:51 发表
Asians see the United States losing its undisputed international influence in 50 years to possibly China amid waning trust in Washington to act responsibly in the world, a poll showed.

这句的意思是 ...

Asians see the United States losing its undisputed international influence in 50 years to possibly China amid waning trust in Washington to act responsibly in the world, a poll showed.

A lose 。。。 to B

a 输给b

一份调查显示，亚洲对华盛顿在全球行为负责的信任 不断萎缩， 见证着美国相对于中国，正失去未来50年中无可争议的国际影响力，

[ 本帖最后由 jasonliu234 于 2010-1-1 22:12 编辑 ]

dorin

1. Somali pirates seize Indonesian chemical tanker
Somali [səu'mɑ:li]索马里人。这个单词要记住，因为爸爸在索马里待了两年。

2. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has denounced the suicide car bombing in Pakistan.
Secretary of State 国务卿
denounce 谴责

3. This was not what I'd wanted at all and had caught me little off guard to say the least。
我根本没想到会这样，退一步讲，我也放松了警惕。

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-1-2 18:32 编辑 ]

bulaohu

谴责

USX

支持lz的坚持不懈(monkey15)
这几天节假日也没有“偷懒”(monkey38)

edith921

3号4号的呢~

小豹子

挨二毛妈抓到了， Dorin 由于身体不适，笔记暂停几天。。。。

edith921

小豹子替补

Errand

note-taking不容易的，楼主加油！

tinading79

收藏，我也来参加

linger

Ronny

坚持不易啊，收藏并跟踪ing
加分慰问dorin

小豹子

替 Dorin 问问题：

这两段看不懂，有哪位可以解释一下？谢谢！

Meanwhile White House spokesman Robert Gibbs has been defending the decision to deal with this alleged terrorist in the US criminal system, rather than putting him in the military system and sending him to Guantanamo Bay, for example.


EXCERPT FROM TIMES NOW REPORT: Those are the facts Mr Crean. All documented facts. Perhaps the real truth is too much for you to handle. Perhaps if you were to let go of your ostrich-like attitude, you might not daunt and call the murder, the racist murder, of Indians in your country as hysteria.

Errand

金山词霸一下？

dorin

If it claims that nothing untoward took place are accurate, then it will be the beneficiary, it will be vindicated.

请问这句如何翻译

thelady

back it up

behere99

不错不错，好信息～

dorin

Olympics Begin in Style; Swimmer Takes 1st Gold
奥运盛妆开幕泳将喜夺首金

新闻报道中还有一些约定俗成的套语，如according to sources concerned （据有关方面报道），cited as saying（援引…的话）。

WB（world bank世界银行）, ASP（American selling price美国销售价）, biz （business商业）等。

新闻词汇  普通词汇
ban       prohibition
clash     disgreement
curb      decrease
cut       reduction
round     a serious of action
shock     astonishment
boost     rise/increase

She heads off full steam in front of it and miscalculates.

Last July, four executives from the Shanghai office of mining giant Rio Tinto were detained by agents from China's State Security Bureau.

inciting subversion of state power

The Code Red warning means people in fire prone areas are supposed to go somewhere safer, but there's already evidence people are choosing to risk it and stay put.

Paul says that the banter and rapport is fantastic.
Jean: Banter 就是开玩笑，闲聊，rapport 在这儿的意思就是指和顾客有沟通，有
默契。

He’ll knock a few pence off here and there. To knock something off here means to reduce the price by a certain amount.  
Jean: 就是把价格减下几个便士to knock off a few pence.

If someone did try to sell someone else’s product, then that’s considered cheeky and not acceptable.
Jean: Cheeky很厚脸皮的

外面被炸脆了crisp on the outside, 里面是松松的土豆。
Fluffy 这个形容词就是松松的，泡泡的意思。

Probably because people love the sharp and tangy taste of vinegar.
Feifei: 那种酸酸的味道往往被形容为sharp and tangy. 在这儿提一下，说到调料的
时候，英语里有固定的表达，一般会把盐放在第一位，比如盐和醋salt and
vinegar, 还有盐和胡椒 salt and pepper. 英国人不会反过来说 pepper and
salt, 或是 vinegar and salt.

很多人都喜欢番茄酱ketchup， 还有蛋黄酱mayonnaise。不过有些人的口味
比较奇特, 喜欢吃薯条的时候蘸咖喱汁 curry sauce 或者是绿豆泥mushy
peas


That’s right, we do think of chips as fattening, because the image of
them being fried in oil, and in the old days, most chips were deep
fried in lard.  
Feifei: 猪油lard, 以前薯条都是用猪油炸出来的，那肯定不能算是健康食品。

Helen: I agree with Keith, anything in moderation is fine.  
意思是凡事只要不过，只要适量就可以了。大家是有自控能力的，不会完全不考
虑后果，猛吃薯条 to gorge oneself on chips.

four great inventions
printing press, the compass 指南针，gunpowder 火药，and paper 纸

Everybody’s in great form – 每个人都精神焕发，十分快乐。

It’ll come in handy – 方便的，有用的。

In Chinese 塞翁失马，焉知非福。A blessing in disguise.

To reinvent your life 再创新生活。

Internship 实习；见习。 Apprenticeship 做学徒工。They are usually low-paid 低薪的or unpaid 没有薪水的。

This way, he says, you can attach yourself to people in another kind of trade or occupation or profession and learn a completely new skill.
Trade一般来说是指需要技巧而非高深学问的职业或手艺。Occupation指一个人经常做的工作和职业。Profession作 “职业” 解释时，通常指那些必须
受到特殊教育及训练才可胜任带有专业性质的工作，多为创造性的脑力劳动。

Did you get the answer? Charles said no, don't go and blow that lump sum on a holiday.
To blow money means挥霍浪费金钱。

Yvonne took voluntary redundancy. Voluntary就是主动自愿的。其反义词是被迫的，强制的。
The opposite is compulsory.

A: I’m afraid your work this morning has not been good enough. You’ve made too many mistakes.
B: Sorry, I’m not really on the ball today.

So to be on the ball means to be able to react quickly to things. There's also another phrase: 'to keep your eye on the ball'. 这个短语意思是在一个变化无常的环境下你必须要保持精神集中不走神儿。

A: That new guy’s great.
B: Yes, well you have to keep your eye on the ball in investment banking.

dorin

The Code Red warning means people in fire prone areas are supposed to go somewhere safer, but there's already evidence people are choosing to risk it and stay put.

we feel in a way that the Government has passed the responsibility of warning people on to the industry, and we could well suffer for it.

卡落琳0000

unreliable
[5Qnri5laiEbl]
adj.
不可靠的

unreliable
un.re.li.a.ble
AHD:[¾n”r¹-lº“…-b…l]
D.J.[7(nri6lai*b*l]
K.K.[7(nr!6la!*b*l]
adj.（形容词）
Marked by or exhibiting a lack of reliability.
不可靠的：以缺乏可靠性为特征的或显示出缺乏可靠性的

un”reli”abil“ity 或
un”reli“ableness
n.（名词）
un”reli“ably
adv.（副词）

unreliable
un- 不＋ reliable可靠的

shaonainai

前人载树，我乘凉了，谢谢啊！

dorin

1. As the countdown to the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games begins, police and government officials there are trying to round up tens of thousands of beggars.
round up 赶拢，使集中

2. It's a kind of window dressing or it's a kind of white washing activity before the Commonwealth Games.
white washing 粉饰，掩盖真相，掩饰，美化

3. There are dozens of websites that offer essay writing services. For a couple of hundred pounds you can have an essay written especially for you and you can pass it off as your own.  
you can pass it off as your own 把别人写的东西给抄下来，当成是自己的。


4. So that’s Danny’s advice: don’t take any chances. If you get caught
you will be thrown out of the university. 开除

5. Most academics would expect about 10% of the work that’s submitted by students is not their own work. Of course, it’s more common in some disciplines than in others. So for example, in business and in computing, it’s much more common.
Disciplines 在这儿的意思就是学科。

6. I must say that I couldn't agree more here, learning is definitely not a spectator sport. You must think and do it yourself.
A spectator sport 旁观者的项目。

7.  But with plagiarism, the students are cutting corners.
cutting corners 投机取巧。

8. A lot of foreign students who have problems articulating their
thoughts in English.
Articulating, expressing. 就是把他们的想法，表达成文章。

9. you can ask for a skeleton argument or an outline.  
A skeleton argument 就是一个提纲。

10. You can also ask for a certain part of the question to be addressed.
To be addressed 解答。

11. The solutions she suggested include using assessment and exams more judiciously. 谨慎的，明智的。

12. and that should always worry you when a fully furnished piece of work comes in from a student, especially an important one like a dissertation, that you have never see being generated, being produced along the way.
Fully furnished work. 被加工得完美无缺的作业。
Dissertation. 毕业论文

13. 续集电影 sequel films

14. she’s not into sequels.
这个女孩儿对续集电影根本不感兴趣

15. 原创剧本 original scripts

16. First-time buyers feel like it's now or never. 机会难得，时不再来的意思

17. Utility bills. 日常家庭开支。主要只水电等方面的开支。

18. In their case, all the costs are split among the three of them. They
are using this as a stepping stone to move up the property ladder.
三个人平均分担所有的开支。在他们看来这更像是一个帮助他们爬上购房梯子的一块垫脚石。

19. Credit history and credit rating.
信用记录和信用等级。

20. He sounds just like a male chauvinistic pig.
Male chauvinism 就是大男子主义，可是刚才 Helen 在后面在加上一个 pig, 意思就更厉害了，大男子主义沙猪。

21. That’s disgraceful.
可耻的，不光彩的

22. So, in Paul’s house, his wife does more housework than him. And he
says that’s because his wife is pathologically tidy, that means his wife is extremely obsessed with tidiness, it’s almost like an illness.
病态的 pathological. Paul 的妻子对清洁房间简直着了迷。
obsessed 着迷

23. Dean is on bail despite being charged with the sexual abuse of boys at an orphanage.
on bail  保释

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-1-19 16:23 编辑 ]

dorin

the best value retailers have really upped the ante massively in terms of their fashion content.
提高竞争水准

you have to be quite discerning if you're going to buy something that you'll only wear for two weeks.
得有好眼光

I do buy designer labels if I buy a suit for example for work but just casually I just buy run of the mill jeans and tops.
Run-of-the-mill 就是一般般.

I used to buy an awful lot of designer clothes but then I discovered percentage mark up on them and that put me right off them.
Percentage 百分比 mark-up 就是标价。她后来发现，原来有些大名牌的衣服，实际上制造得非常廉价，但是卖的确是非常贵。

take off: to achieve wide use or popularity 被广泛使用，受欢迎（a new movie that took off 一部很受欢迎的新电影）

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-1-19 16:13 编辑 ]

dorin

1. He is a man of principle. 他是个有原则的人。

2. Experts: Cold snap doesn't disprove global warming
Cold snap 寒流

3. The cold spell broke yesterday.
寒流昨天就结束了。

4. But in the eastern United States, like some other unlucky parts of the globe, Arctic air is swooping down from the north.
swoop down: to dive or plunge downward 俯冲

5. this air flow has become bent into a pronounced zigzag pattern。
走之字型。

6. The Arctic air has really turned itself loose on us.
turn sb./sth. lose: to give up control of someone or something, so they can do what they want 放开，释放；听凭，放纵
北极空气真的向我们发威了。

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-1-19 16:16 编辑 ]

dorin

1. “We understand the first response is critical to serve the immediate needs of countless people who are now displaced from their homes, are suffering trauma, and most require urgent care.”
流离失所

2. the disaster rocked the poverty-stricken island nation on Tuesday.
poverty-stricken 为贫穷所困恼的, 非常贫穷的

3. Since the film opened three weeks ago, hundreds of blog posts, newspaper articles, tweets and YouTube videos have said things such as the film is 'a fantasy about race told from the point of view of white people' and that it reinforces 'the white Messiah fable'."
自影片上映三周以来，有关该片的博客、新闻报道、微博以及Youtube视频铺天盖地，有人说该片“以白人视角叙述种族幻想”，有意强调了“白人救世的神话”。

4. Prince William has a packed diary in New Zealand.
日程安排很紧密