1. Gained a new lease of life. 獲重生..
2.lapping it up :趨之若鶩...
3.I sicken at his dilly-dallying：我討厭他----吊兒郎當(dāng)?shù)?-浪費(fèi)時(shí)間.
4.In parallel:平行的；并連的 ：并行的；與此同時(shí)的？？
5.Be calculated to:目的在于....
6.with a pinch of salt..
7.sneak out/ incognito /in search of /unadulterated information
8.Five-yearly congress :五年一次的人大？?
9.Nothing ventured , nothing gained:
10.per se :本身，自身
He said he was not against war per se, just this one, and he was booed by the crowd.
他說他反對的不是戰(zhàn)爭本身，而是反對這場戰(zhàn)爭，因此他受到了現(xiàn)場群眾的唾棄。
11.will be laid bare
12.Ecce Homo : 你們看這個(gè)人，看那個(gè)人， 瞧！這個(gè)人
13.Black and white :筆寫的，印刷的，黑白混合的
That is not, of course, irrefutable proof of discrimination.
當(dāng)然，這并非是存在歧視的不可辯駁的證明。
14.rubbish strewn streets: 遍地垃圾的街道
15.on the beach :失業(yè)的，潦倒的， 退休的，在海邊
16.snapped from behind ：從后面 拍快照......
17.off the map : fell off the map ? wipe off the map?
a small fry
18.high horse:
19.their shared fondness for puerile, obscene word games
20.no-holds-barred
21. should be a corker
shuffle off this mortal coil
22.to shuffle to the right or edge to the left
23.shore up
24.bit the dust= bite the dust
25.bear the brunt
26.get stuck in
Most scavengers work bare-handed, as maggots from the rubbish can get stuck in the tips of rubber gloves.
大部分拾荒者/清道夫 都是徒手工作的，因?yàn)?/span>垃圾里的蛆會(huì)很快地進(jìn)入橡膠手套的末端。
27.across the board
In their manifesto they wrote that in Sweden, “standards have risen across the board as every school does its best to satisfy parents”.
他們在宣言、聲明，告示中寫道，在瑞典，“由于每所學(xué)校都盡力滿足家長的要求，行業(yè)水準(zhǔn)得到全面提高”。
27.Get on with it?。?/span>
28.accounts for more than a quarter of all spending
29. better-off
30.carve out of
31. head count
Only if we let it.
如果我們讓它這么做的話。
32.not least /////////
not in the least
not the least
33.tinkering with
34.gas emissions
35.some offsetting rise should be inflicted on the well-off
36.stick with some of Labour’s tax hikes
37.socially prominent resident
38.settled into his new home
39.Bird's eye view of Chicago in 1913, the third largest city in the U.S.
40.sparsely populated state east of the Mississippi
41.seaside resort
resort
42.by the back door
43.Quite the opposite
44. associated with
45.IN THE long run
46.undoubtedly
47.lived up to the pre-launch publicity
48.lived up to expectations--------- fail to live up to expectations
Sales have not lived up to expectations this year.
銷售額今年還沒有達(dá)到預(yù)期目標(biāo)。
49.chancellor of the exchequer
50..the bulk of
