冷卷每日英语积累

2021年1月7日发(作者：古华)
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每日英语积累
1. The list of Most Influential Celebrities 最具影响力名人排行榜
2. Prime-time ratings 黄金时段的收视率
3. mainstream scientists 主流科学家
4. measure a celebrity’s “marketing effectiveness” by combining awareness, appeal and other
factors. 结合知名度、吸引力和其他要素衡量名人的“市场号召力”
5. notable difference 显著的不同；值得注意的不同
6. She is an extremely likeable and impressive person.。她非常可爱，而且令人印象深刻。
7. Fraught with uncertainty or doubt. 充满了不确定性或者疑问。
8. It was a time fraught with difficulties and frustration. 这是一个充满困难和挫折的时期。
9. Any further moves would be fraught with danger. 任何进一步的行动都将充满危险。
9. the nations that make up the BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
10. 商业作秀，通过制造热 点事件，博取人们的眼球的做法，应该有基本的道德底线，
不应该颠覆人们的同情心，破坏真善美，否则 其效果必定适得其反。
The commercial speculation should not go so far as to deviate from the moral bottom line
no matter how you want to hype up a hot event to catch people’s eyeballs. You can not
mercilessly trade on the compassion to deceive or mislead us into taking the masquerade of
virtue for granted, or otherwise, it won’t pay off as expected but backfire on you.
11. 商业炒作： Commercial hype
12. ‘Leftover’ women and their eagerness for love 剩女们渴望的春天
Baidu, one of the renowned searching engines in China, defines leftover women as a group of
women who in general have reached marrying age under the social cognition, but still stay single.
In Japan, they are called women of 3S - single, seventies (most of them born in seventies),and
stuck.
百度，中国最有名的搜索引擎之一，将“剩女”定义为在社会认知的情况下，已 达适婚年龄，
却仍然单身的女性。在日本，他们将其称为“3s”--单身，70年代（大多数出生于7 0年代），被
卡住。
Single, highly-educated and well-paid as they may be, they are the ones who are left behind. In
this time of desperation, in what way are Chinese women struggling for love?
也许这群单身女青年受过高等教育，领取高薪，但她们还是被剩下了。当陷入此种绝境时，
中国 剩女们会怎样寻找爱情呢？
Blind date events, titled “dating the rich”, raise loads of public concern recently. From Beijing to
Shenzhen, “dating the rich” events were held one after another, which was considered a great

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opportunity for “grassroot” beauties to find wealthy husbands.
最近一些打着“富豪相亲”招牌的相亲节目，引起了四面八方的公众关注。从北京到深圳，“富
豪相亲节目”应接不暇，这也为草根美女们带来了寻觅金龟婿的大好机会。
The blind dates take the form of auditions, where beauties compete and show off the best side of
themselves. Will they make their dreams come true, and finally live a wealthy life?
这类相亲节目以 面试的方式进行，其间佳丽们相互竞争并展现出最美的一面。那么她们会得
偿所愿，最终飞上枝头做凤凰 吗？
According to some agents, most of the rich men in the events are already married. Even if some
are unmarried, what they really want is to find some young and pretty mistresses. Cruel but real,
not many rich men would find future spouse in this way.
据一些中介透露，多数来参加相亲活动的富豪已经结婚。 即使有人未婚，他们真正要找的也
只是年轻美丽的情人罢了。残酷的现实是，很少会有富豪会利用这种方 式寻找未来的配偶。
It is a good thing for people to find their beloved ones through blind dates, however, when love
connects with money, the dates grow into a vanity fair where rich people have privileges.
通过相亲来寻找真爱本身是件好事，但当爱情与金钱挂钩时，这场 约会就成了有钱人掌握特
权的名利场了。
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hang off our arms 挽着手臂 future soulmate 未来的灵魂伴侣

14. Life does not wait for anyone, and your life isn’t later. Your life is right now.
人生不会等待任何人，你也不生活在“以后”。你就活在现在。
15. 酒后驾车是drunk driving; 警察示意路边停车是pull someone over; 倒霉，运气差，是have
a tough break; party结束后专门负责开车送大家回家的人是the designated driver. designate
v.指定、指派 /adi.指定的、选定的
16. “啤酒肚” beer belly / keg；六块腹肌 six-pack abs；仰卧起坐 sit-ups
17. win the lottery 中彩票
18. 山寨版的假名牌是knockoff; 山寨明星脸是lookalike(e.g. You're a Zhang Ziyi lookalike! );
山寨的艺术作品是spoof。
19. 第一，爆冷门叫 upset,重音在前面（e.g. It means an unexpected win.）；
第二，赛前被看好的一方叫 favorite (e.g. The law school team was the favorite to win the
game. 法学院足球队本来是被看好的热门球队 )
第三，赛前不被看好的一方叫 underdog. （e.g. The team was expected to lose as the
underdog. ）
20. 第一，情侣分手是 break up；第二，劈腿，对伴侣不忠，是 cheat on someone；第三，
说俩人一刀两断叫 cut their ties!
21. 第一，吓死了是 scared to death；第二，吓得毛发倒立是 to make one's hair stand on end；

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第三：吓得浑身冰凉是 to make one's blood run cold.
22. 第一，“爽约，没来” no-show (e.g. Who was this no-show? ); 第二，放别人鸽子， stand
someone up; 被别人放鸽子，someone got stood up; 第三，“相亲” blind date!
23. 第一，宅男宅女叫 homebody, 或者 shut-in; 第二，一天到晚坐在沙发上看电视的人叫
couch potato; 第三，说脑子要发霉了，就是Your brain will rot!
24. 第一“赘肉”在美语里叫 extra meat on the bones; 第二，形容腰上的赘肉，可以说 spare
tire; 第三，腰间肥肉的另外一种说法是 love handles.
25. 第一，注重打扮的“花美男”是 metrosexual men； 第二，紧跟流行时尚是 be up-to-date on
the hottest fashion； 第三，领导时尚的潮人叫 trend setter!
26. Here are the signs of smart people:
下面是聪明人的10大信号：
1. They don't talk as much as you, because they know they got smart by listening.
他们不会说太多，因为他们知道多听才能变聪明。
2. They know lots of things other than what they're specialised in. Theirs is the gift of a broad
mind, constantly fed with the stimulant of being interested in what everyone else is doing. < br>除去专业知识之外，他们知道的很多。他们的天赋就是思维活跃，总是对其他人在做的事情
充满好 奇和兴趣。
3. They juggle home, work and personal interests with dexterity and never fall back on the tired
old refrain about “work life balance”. And when they're juggling, they somehow manage to seem
100% engaged with what they're doing, on all fronts simultaneously, even though you know
they're taking appropriate steps behind the scenes to make sure their lives are perfectly, serenely
balanced.
他们把家庭、工作和个人兴 趣完美平衡，从来不会为“平衡工作和生活”这样的事情伤脑筋。
当他们玩的时候，似乎会全身心的投入 在这件事上面，他们面面俱到，虽然你很清楚，其实
背后他们努力的走好每一步来让生活更加完美、更加 平衡。
4. They probably do social media. Not always, but probably. It is not only another chance to listen,
but one they use to ensure they can feed their brains with things they otherwise wouldn't have
come across.
也许他们会 涉足社交媒体。不是一贯如此，只是有可能而已。这也是另外一个倾听的机会，
但他们往往关注的是那些 从没有经历过的事情。
5. Even when things go very badly wrong, they'll be smiling. Smart people never get ruffled
because their smart brains present them with alternatives faster than the bad stuff can happen.
即使事情发展很糟糕，他们也会面带微笑。聪明的人永远不会被打倒，他们的 大脑永远都会
在坏事发生之前，火速想好其他的解决方案。