February, 2025 Flashcards

(65 cards)

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当时
非常流行

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Was very much in vogue at the time

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反复无尽

无穷无尽

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Ad nauseam

Ad Infinitum

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没有任何道德上的忌惮

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Have no moral qualms

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都在一个地方

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All in one establishment

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骤减

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Fall off the cliff

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注意力粉碎器

两极分化

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the attention- pulverizing Tiktok

We blame the Internet for polarizing politics and shredding attention spans, but those tendencies actually pull in opposite directions.

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在网上兴风作浪

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She’s been raising hell online since age fifteen.

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侥幸心理

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Thinking I can get away with it

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非常居民区

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it is very residential

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怀念过去的时光

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Do you get nostalgic about our time together?

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法官已经气到冒烟

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Steam is coming out of the judge’s ear

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你可以看到他懂了

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You can see the light goes off

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巨大、超级无敌大

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ginormous

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14
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帅死了

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drop-dead gorgeous

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加快 减速

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Slow-play this

Fast-track this

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樱花花期很短

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cherry blossom is really temperamental

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自由女神屹立……

在华盛顿特区最高,因为没有什么比自由更高。

她面朝东方,让太阳永远从自由的面庞上升起,永不落下。

圆形大厅 = 圆顶穹窿

用喷砂(打磨)的方式将它们刻入石头

无顶双层巴士

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The lady freedom stands 10 feet tall …

Tallest in DC b/c nothing is higher than freedom

Facing east so that the sun always rises on the face of freedom and never sets on the face of freedom.

Rotanda = round dome

Sand-blasted the names into stones

Korean memorials -
Running out of space - 19*2 - reflections

27/50 have their own police department - Secret Service FBI NSA homeland security

Open double-deckers

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你不要给我讲讲吧

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I think I’ve been here before but why don’t you give me the run-down

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最惨的

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It is far from the hardest-hit victim of the tariffs that America has implemented as of April 9th:

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丧钟已鸣

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But make no mistake, the death knell of the post-war trading order has been rung.

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便衣警察

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by having plainclothes officers grab them on the street and push them into unmarked cars

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沉重的打击

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Federal research grants account for a double-digit share of the revenue of most prestigious private universities, so losing them permanently would be a body-blow for any of them.

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23
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离谱

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Kafkaesque

nightmarish

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煎鸡蛋

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swirl the oil around to coat the surface evenly
slide the egg into the pan
flip the egg with a wooden spatula
turn off the stove
lift the egg out of the pan and place it on a plate

sunny side up egg/over-easy/over-medium over-hard

soft-boiled【溏心】/hard-boiled egg
omelet

poached egg

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在两者间徘徊
oscillate between Democrats and republicans
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堕落版的自己 在沙漠中漫步
Degenerate version of me Being single is like wandering aimlessly in a desert
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不太容易听腻
Doesn’t get old/stale easily More stale-proof/stale-resistant Has lasting appeal the song gets jaded The song has hit a point for me
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惊险片 悬疑片 恐怖片
thriller suspense horror
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有点躲人
I was being reclusive. Avoidant
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Bad fashion
i hope this trend dies sooner rather than later Hate it with passion / a real passion of hate Has no semblance of matching or anything No one will ever be able to convince me that they look good On a slight chance that someone may look good in them, it has to be a matching pair,
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阿拉伯超市
Arab market Hand sanitizer Pita Comradery
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LA楼很矮
LA’s buildings are all quite low-rise. Most of the buildings in LA are not very tall.”
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仔细看
Look at this with a fine-toothed comb
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降低标准
I am not trying to dip the standard for our firm
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窗帘 更衣室
Curtains/blinds binders locker room
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还没定
It’s still in flux Everything is kinda in flux
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停车指示
It would roll through stop signs Two-way stop Four-way stop Come to a complete stop
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当傀儡
He is a stooge for the powerful the fall guy The patsy
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细致入微的分析
A fine-grained analysis
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完全不一样
screamingly different
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屈服
kowtow to Trump “won’t kneel down” Capitulate to
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一刀切
China’s leader, will wait to reap the benefits of Donald Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to alliances Very indiscriminate tariff Does not discriminate between friends or foes
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藐视法庭
Finally, judges and lawyers warn that Ms Dugan’s arrest is further evidence of Mr Trump’s disdain for the judiciary.
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用药麻痹自己 玩乐和致命之间只差一步 再加上酒精,就是在拿命开玩笑 晚上用来放松
Use drug to numb out The line between fun and lethal is razor thin Mixing it with alcohol, you are really stacking the odds against yourself. Take the edge off at night
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大发雷霆 全副武装 紧张的抓紧椅子 书记员放声大笑
Judge had a crash out - are you engaging in judge shopping? Do you think we are not busy enough? Everyone is gripping their seat/I was gripping my seat the whole time of the movie The security guard was armed to their teeth The clerk starts cracking up and said you can go.
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死乞白赖地讨好别人来换取别人对你的好感
fawn over people to get them to like you back people-pleaser
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非常紧张 神经兮兮
why is he so jumpy Very high-strung
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专心学习
I was in a monogamous relationship with my textbooks during high school
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今天练什么? 你的训练计划是什么? 时间定的很好 你要一块练吗 你介意一块练吗
what are you hitting today?I am hitting my legs, pecs or abs or backs. What’s your workout split? Push pull leg/four day split The clock setting really works Do you wanna work in? Do you mind if I work in with you on this
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我们承担费用
This is just like my firm is stuck with a subpoena, so we're basically eating the costs.
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暖洋洋的感觉
warm glow
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越活越清醒
aging is a very sobering process
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抽象事物发挥优势 人发挥优势
Press advantage while you are ahead /China presses advantage in South Africa Play to your strength
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人山人海
That place is overrun by tourists
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高端健身房
It has a high-end finish
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在过去
In the olden days,
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害怕
shaking in their boots
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永远都是这样
It will be forever thus
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逼你 催你 吓唬你 被裹挟
So Paul may not put your feet to the fire. He's probably gonna continue to put our feet to the fire. 所以保罗也许不会逼你太紧,但他很可能还会继续逼我们。 Light the fire under it Even people who don’t want to use social media are co-opted into it—because otherwise, how else can they connect, stay informed, or be seen?” Exposure to drug use long enough, and eventually you get co-opted into it I don’t want to get co-opted into things that are not of my choosing. browbeat the kid into d
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动机
attorney's fees is a carrot for some of these folks is, you know, they they incentivize to bring lawsuits, not just put information, but also for attorneys fees so.
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下级法院还在消化上级法院的决定 下级法院判的乱七八糟 上级法院需要统一下级法院的判决
The decision is till **percolating through** the court system. The lower courts are **all over the map** Perhaps more than twenty years after Daubert, the Supreme Court will need to take up the issue directly if it wishes for lower courts to **coalesce around one approach**. But even that may be part of a futile effort “to domesticate expert evidence”
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说出声 没说出声
I said it audibly/I literally audibly gasped on the subway I just mouthed it
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底部开始、一直延伸到下一页
Starts at the bottom of the document and rolls over to the next page
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没有问 沉默
I didn’t pry He’s been reticent about it
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幻听
Phantom objection