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Thursday Mar 29, 2007

|蒸蒸日上|private notes(2)-for memorizing

If you give, you better get; otherwise, there will be no end to the giving. 如果你要给予，你最好得到回报；否则，你会无止境地付出。

have been turned on its head 本末倒置

status quo 拉丁语意为“现状”

reciprocity--give and take, esp. the interchange of pricileges between countries and organizations

withdrawal without reciprocity: 单方面撤军

deterrence 威慑

galore--adv. in abundance (placed after noun)

leave problems galore: 遗留大量难题

nowhere to go and nothing to lose 没有出路，无所顾忌

adage 谚语；格言

street-smart 熟悉都市生活方式的

underscore 强调；加强

flurry 混乱；不安

exacerbete 加剧；使恶化

the departure point 出发点

aversion 厌恶；反感

bombshell 出人意料的事；引起轰动（或震惊）的事

comtemplate 考虑；打算；计议

interlotutor 对话者；参加谈话者

evacuation 清除；撤离

annexation 吞并；合并

disengagement 撤军；放弃

initiative 行动

rough-and-tumble 吵闹纷争

inextricably 分不开地；无法摆脱地

predicament 困境；尴尬的处境

arsenal 军火库

theft 偷窃

sabotage 蓄意破坏

inertia [ ]　n. 惯性, 惰性, 迟钝【化】惯性【医】惰性, 不活动, 无力

I hope that dynamic leaders within national goverments, international institutions and civil society will step forward with the vision, the integrity and the will to reverse the inertia of fear and insecurity.

start anew 重新开始

starting life anew in a fresh place 到一个新地方开始新的生活

I hope we can all agree to sit down together, and to start anew.

Cannes 戛纳[法国东南部港市]

The 53rd Cannes Film Festival 第53届戛纳电影节

go there for the invalid's health 去那儿养病

bash (俚语)社交聚会，活动

Barcelona n. 巴塞罗纳(西班牙东北部港市)

fatalistic adj. 宿命论的

Joan, after the first bitter reproaches for the mad disobedience of her repeated injunctions of secrecy, treats the affair with her usual fatalistic light-heartedness;

琼先是痛骂女儿愚蠢，不听从她不可泄漏秘密的一再告诫，然后又采取听天由命、漫不经心的态度来对待这件事。

Finally her father's death, resulting in the eviction of her family from their home, precipitates Tess's doom, and as a last desperate reparation to her helpless mother and sisters she yields, with a fatalistic calm, to the inevitable.

最后，父亲的去世，全家被逐出家门，这件事终于决定了苔丝的命运。作为对无依无靠的母亲和妹妹们的最后无可挽救的补偿，她屈服了，以平静地听天由命的心情，走上了不可避免的道路。

An Iranian earthquake specialist said in October that earthquake education in Iran was very poor, making people fatalistic about taking precautions.

disoriented adj. 分不清方向或目标的, 无判断力的

A confused, disoriented state of mind.

晕头转向心境的混乱、迷失方向的状态

cause to be lost or disoriented.

致使迷惑或者失去判断力。

They became deeply intoxicated and totally disoriented.

他们酩酊大醉，东南西北全然不辨。

The condition of being confused or disoriented.

困惑处于迷惑或迷失方向的状况

The victim of the traffic accident was disoriented.

出车祸的人已丧失判断力。

I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway; the anesthetic left her completely disoriented.

每当走出地铁的时候，我常常会感觉迷失了方向；麻醉剂使她完全失去了知觉。

Saddam was later described as resigned and submissive, bewildered and disoriented.

consign vt. 交付, 储蓄, 委托, 寄存【经】托卖, 寄存, 寄销

consign sb. to a stay somewhere

sprawling

adjective

1. spreading out carelessly (as if wandering) in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair"

noun

1. an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about

     e.g. sprawling,chaotic unibersitiesrepulse

repulse –verb (used with object)

1. to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.

2. to repel with denial, discourtesy, or the like; refuse or reject.

3. to cause feelings of repulsion in: The scenes of violence in the film may repulse some viewers.

    e.g. I was both interested and repulsed by your cober story on plastic surgery.

ethanol 乙醇, 酒精--the active ingredient of booze

shrapnel n. 榴散弹

     suffer severe shrapnel wounds

grenade n.手榴弹

      throw away a grenade

toss into vt.把...随意扔进,在...中插嘴

Toss in one's sleep.    翻来覆去睡不着

credence n.信任

         A can find credence in B

         All the people here refuse credence to the story. 这儿所有的人们都不相信这番话。

        They attached no credence to the government's latest statements.他们不相信政府最近的声明。

         This sudden storm lends credence to the weatherman's warning.突来的暴风雨看来证实了气象员的警报。

         The newspapers are giving no credence to the government's latest statements.报纸没有证实政府的最新声明。

         How can people give credence to the materials provided by such a person for the purpose of slandering China's welfare institutions? 以这样的人提供的所谓材料对中国福利院状况进行指责，怎么能叫人相信呢?

To shoot the breeze

    "On Friday nights I usually go to a movie. But it was raining so hard last night I just stayed in the dorm to sit around and shoot the breeze with a couple of friends."

   “一般来说,星期五晚上我总是去看电影的。可是,昨晚上雨下得好大呀，所以我就呆在宿舍里和两个朋友一起聊天。”

    "One thing I enjoy about shooting the breeze -- you can relax and say anything you want to. You're among friends and nobody takes things seriously."

   “我很喜欢聊天，因为你可以很放松，想说什么都行。你是和朋友在一起，没有人会很认真的。”

as crooked as a dog's hind leg   [美俚]极不老实的, 极不正直的