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Frequently Used English Words
parody(滑稽地模仿, 拙劣地模仿)
After Crowder uploaded it on his Twitter account on February 18, 2018, the
photograph quickly became a means for others to change the signs about different
situations, often mocking and parodying Crowder.
progressive disclosure(渐进式展现,如表单隐藏字段)
By disclosing information progressively, we reveal only the essentials and help
users manage the complexity only when they need to.
fogy(顽固守旧的人)
I felt like the project was being controlled by a bunch of old fogies who didn't
understand how to think about the needs of most users and only think about their
own habits.
baseless speculations(毫无根据的猜测)
Prettier is heavily used in Facebook, the company that created JSX. If you could
stop writing baseless speculations like that, that'd be great. Thanks.
above-the-hold (页面打开之后无需滚动就可见区域)
The idea of critical path rendering takes a look at CSS performance from a
different angle. Instead of optimizing for size, it optimizes for render order and
emphasizes above-the-fold CSS.
of little consequence(后果不严重)
running nose(流鼻涕)
To avoid spreading and picking up germs, wash your hands well and use tissues
instead of a hankies, when you have running nose.
on behalf of(代表)
by the bye(顺便说起,附带地)
By the bye, Charles, are you really serious in meditating a dance at Netherfield?
put upon(欺骗,利用)
screw up eyes(咪起眼睛)
He screwed up his eyes, trying to see what it was.
break forth(喷发,突发)
They broke forth into singing.(他们突然唱起歌来。)
upon my soul(说实话,平心而论)
rest assured(放心)
superior air(傲气)
Austin looked around with a superior air.(奥斯汀态度傲慢地环顾着四周)
crow over(吹嘘)
We mustn't crow. We may be next.(可别幸灾乐祸 下个可能轮到我们了呢)
in one's charge 由 xx 负责
I put the children in your charge.(我把孩子委托你照顾)
splat operator(*号操作符)
A parameter with the splat operator allows us to work with an undefined number of
arguments
hiccup(打嗝;暂时性的小问题,短暂的停顿)
I checked the audio for “el huevo” but didn’t find any problems. Sometimes Memrise
has a hiccup and doesn’t play audio when it should. That’s probably what happened
here but let us know if the problem persists.
bikeshedding(主次不分,本末倒置。意思是在自行车车架还没弄好的情况下就去讨论车的颜色,意指过于关
心细节和边缘的问题,而忽视主要问题)
If we're going to add more options, this feels like a good case. It's not just bike
shedding about some minor detail.
brittleness(脆弱性)
This reduces the brittleness of your view and makes your code easier to understand.
underdog(失败者,loser)
The understatement of the year comes from Brodie Van Wagenen, general manager of
the hapless Mets. “We view ourselves as the underdogs.”
throw hat in the ring (throw/toss one's hat in/into the ring, to become a
participant in a contest, especially to declare one's candidacy for political
office: His friends are urging him to throw his hat in the ring.)
Throwing my hat in the ring too, agreeing with @hanyu-natsu, @evankennedy, @gitlab-
winnie, and thank you @aboyton for reporting this in the first place.
in flux(连续的改变;不稳定的状态)
Luca has already prototyped some things to play around with them and see how it
feels. But everything is still very much in flux.
false positives(A false positive error, or in short false positive, commonly called
a "false alarm", is a result that indicates a given condition has been fulfilled,
when it actually has not been fulfilled.)
Fix false positives for maps and double-slash comments in indentation.
resonate 共鸣;共振
Alongside dry-rb, Piotr has a database toolkit named ROM. Once again, this is an
approach that is different to what I usually use, ActiveRecord. However, the
approach resonates with me. I’m excited to explore this more in 2019.
well-rounded 面面俱到的;多才多艺的
There’s a lot to learn from other programming languages and approaches. As I learn
about these different techniques, I feel that I’m becoming a more well-rounded
developer.
nitty-gritty 事实真相,本质,背后底层
So we can focus on what our Person class does, instead of having to look at the
nitty-gritty details of how exactly we encrypt things.
spec-compliant 遵从规范的
All Vue.js templates are valid HTML that can be parsed by spec-compliant browsers
and HTML parsers.
get the go-ahead(To receive permission to proceed with some action or task)
So, we got the go ahead for the new option after much deliberation and a post from
Evan You, only to be successfully hijacked by a change to the whole request. Back
to square one. Wow.
square one(The very first stage of something; the initial starting point)
I guess I'm back to square one yet again! 我觉得我又回到原点了!
tournament 锦标赛,联赛
cheerleading 啦啦队
skew 歪斜,斜交
allowance 零花钱
bear a hand 出力
be cornered 被逼到绝境
haul up 拖上来(如船)
take in hand 接管
turn to account 利用
hoot 汽车鸣笛
pore over 凝视
prop up 维持,支撑,支持(如支撑自我形象)
plung (an act of jumping or diving into water, push or thrust quickly)
our little daughters whooped as they plunged into the sea
breath-snatching 心旷神怡的,大口呼吸的(如果海景)
peg 衣服挂钩,夹子(两片木头中间有铁丝)
gain on 逼近,超过
well-stout 厚重的
But there were doors in the hall as well—stout oaken comfortable-looking doors.
(But there were doors in the hall as well—stout oaken comfortable-looking doors.
)
down-at-heel 不整洁的,邋遢的,衣衫褴褛的
His boots were patched down at heel.(他的靴子七拼八补,后跟已坐了下去。)
clothespin 衣服夹(两个厚木片中间有铁丝撑开,一端是尖的)
taekwondo 跆拳道
synmetry 对称
compliant 顺服的,遵从的
Since Object Spread defines new properties and Object.assign just sets them, Babel
has changed the default behavior to be more spec compliant.
affectionately 被亲切地(比如起昵称)
Someone with a Ph.D. then comes along and says, "No, my young friend, this fish is
actually Salmo salar, affectionately known as a salmon."
indiscriminantly 不加区别的
Babel 6's transformations for ES6 modules ran indiscriminantly on whatever files it
was told to process, never taking into account if the file actually had ES6
imports/exports in them.
histogram 柱状图,直方图
A visual representation of data like this is called a histogram.
haul 拖
James hauled 33 boxes from the living room to the bedroom.
snap 轻而易举,小事一桩
Converting between strings and symbols is a snap.
shade in 涂色,如画画涂色
gauge 计量,度量
redact (to remove words or information from a text before it is printed or made
available to the public)
Officers' names are routinely redacted from any publicly released reports.
stumbling-block 绊脚石
The second stumbling block has been bad luck.(第二个障碍物可归结为接踵而来的霉运。)
in tandem 一前一后地,协调地
It helps to think about unit tests in tandem with the ‘do one thing well’ mantra.
full-fledged 羽毛生齐的,成熟的
Vue might have started as a small project driven by developer needs of its creator,
Evan You, but it has matured considerably over the years—becoming a full-fledged
framework with a grownup ecosystem and developer tooling.
bringing-up 教养
Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set
of values – and witnesses.(正确的引导,一整套价值观和观察,能使你容易的抵制诱惑。)
toss head 扬起头
Buckbeak pawed the ground(脚爪抓地), tossing his sharp head.
rove over 漂泊
She followed you to rove all over the world, why do not you marry her?(她跟随了你在
全世界漂泊于,为什么你不与她结婚?)
hit on 搭讪,勾搭
You already hit on me an hour ago.(你一个小时前就来搭讪过了。)
own up 坦白,承认
This is your fault. Own up to it.
hitch up 套上(衣服,栓犁)
Can you hitch up the plough or whatever it is I'm dragging?
in the nick of time 及时,最佳时期
As far as I'm concerned, it's just in the nick of time.
do justice 公平对待...
I have sworn to do justice; and justice I shall do.(我发过誓要公正,我必须做到公正。)
say prayer 祷告
preserve 腌制
preserve eggs in salt(腌蛋)
tack on 附加
I'll tack on an extra 10 minutes.
tree/cloud ear 木耳
scores of 许多,大量
Scores of students scored perfect scores in the math exam.
creakily 拟声词,断断续续地,叽叽喳喳地
Filch seemed to be in an extremely good mood; he hummed creakily under his breath
as they climbed the marble staircase.(费尔奇心情似乎特别好。他们走上大理石楼梯时,他断断续
续地小声哼着歌。)
low brow(Lowbrow, relating to, or suitable for a person with little taste or
intellectual interest)
Harry is just as keen on low-brow Latin as he is on the high-brow stuff he’s just
mentioned.
non sequitur (出人意料,没逻辑)
That is one hell of a non sequitur.(那可真是出人意料。)
hardcore(强烈)
Wow, you’re hardcore. How many tutees have stayed with you, Harry?
conflate 合并,异文合并,糅合,混淆
Unfortunately, the industry has conflated the idea of Testing with TDD, and thus
there is no standard term for code that is written by the developer alongside the
production code.
jut out 突出
The San Qing Pavilion, which jut out from the steep cliff wall, were built in the
Yuan Dynasty as part of a summer resort for the royal family.(三清亭,突出于陡崖壁上,
鉴于元朝,作为皇家避暑胜地的一部分。)
into the bargain(in addition to what has already been mentioned or was expected)
I am now tired and extremely hungry—with a headache into the bargain.
crop up 发生,出现,浮现
Test, test, test. If you don’t, an issue is bound to crop up in production sooner
or later.
ease-of-mind 轻松的心态
the programmers have ease-of-mind because they can quickly find the causes of bugs;
dip down 下降
He said the economy will dip down into negative GDP growth soon, necessitating a
second stimulus program.
tip over 打翻
"Oops!" Alice said as she tipped over the jury box with her skirt.
double up 弯曲,蜷缩
Flint was doubled up, hanging onto his new broomstick for support.(笑得直不起腰,用扫
帚做支撑)
hand round 拿出
" Don't panic! " said Owl, handing round notes he'd written.
game 打猎的猎物
chance to 偶然(发生,看见,遇见...)
Until the other day when I chanced to be reading an Internet message board, I never
realized something very silly about it.
go to law 对簿公堂,打官司
well-conducted 有序进行的,有效开展的,品行端正的
merciful goodness
satin-smooth 丝绸般光滑
Each cup size has unique shape and padding to feel custom-made just for you. All-
over smooth satin.(每个罩杯尺寸形状独一无二,如同只为你订身量做,如缎子般光滑。)
locks 头发(诗歌用语)
high seas 公海
besetting 困扰的,不断侵袭的
linked poverty and unemployment to the social unrest besetting the city.(把使城市陷
入困境的社会骚乱与贫困失业联系起来。)
pin-tucked 车褶,有褶子的(衣服上一条一条叠起来)
to my knowledge 据我所知
put (one's) hand to the plough (To set to work; to begin or get busy working.)
We've spent a long time planning our business model and strategy for success; now
it's time to put our hand to the plough and get things moving.
box ears 抽耳光
When Reason preaches, if you won't hear her she'll box your Ears.
wrap (one's) head around: To comprehend something that one considers challenging,
confusing, or a foreign concept.
Kate is willing to pay full price for an expensive handbag, but I just can't wrap
my head around that.
fire 解雇
take up residence 住下
air 样子,神态,姿态
goof(s) 穿帮(电影,电视剧)
salivate 流口水,分泌唾液
“American firms may not profit from a trade war with China, but both Airbus and
Brazilian farmers have to be salivating at the prospect,”
technocrat 技术专家
And because of debt concerns, Chinese technocrats are losing the ability to create
growth by investing.
fine-grained
You can even choose to take a more hands-on approach and use Compass’ sprite
helpers for more fine-grained control over how your sprite CSS is generated.
shrink
The use of background-size shrinks the 2x image down to the dimensions of the 1x
sprite, giving it a higher pixel density.
commit sucide
Automation
Automation tools are not just exclusive to Ember.
perspective
This should also give you a perspective why I am not using Yeoman.
ever-growing
An unfortunate consequence of the ever-growing number of women joining the labor
force and working side by side with men is the increasing number of sexual
harassment cases.
overkill
so then it's fair to say that for some people, Ember's approach is overkill
reasonably
For my last project, I ended up just completely redefining Backbone.sync, which is
very powerful, but I needed to write a lot of boilerplate to make it work
reasonably.
heuristically(启发式地)
over the long haul Ember will be able to heuristically decide how bulky to update
hand-wavy
I'm doing a very kind of hand-wavy explanation here
p.s. a hand-wavy explanation means a brief explanation missing important details or
logical steps
lopsided
Unfortunately this was my tendency when using Backbone. I hate reinventing the
wheel. Especially if it's kind of lopsided.
mid-to-low
That said, Backbone is fantastic for mid-to-low complexity applications that want
to maintain structured code.
Final thoughts
Final thoughts (Backbone)
boon
However, just having these modules that are designed to work together is a boon for
serious application developers.
disingenuous
Ember is not yet 2 years old. How did you achieve this? By being disingenous.
BUSTED
head across
Due to budget constraints and criticism from the European Union that the program
itself was encouraging migrants to head across the Mediterranean
put aside
As frontend web developers, we are living in a world of evergrowing complexity.
What once was a relatively easy thing to do (putting aside browsers
inconsistencies) has grown into a very complex, dynamic, everchanging reality.
perspective
channel: Can someone please followup on this
https://youlun.tpondemand.com/entity/5327 ? From the dev perspective.
pending
var pending = true;
$.ajax() //balabala
success: pending = false;
clear
stay clear boys, this is my dad!
That said
That said, performance gains of more specific selectors can be minimal, especially
when compared to reducing HTTP requests and optimizing images.
stirring 激动人心的
When building or updating websites, there is often a stirring excitement to
(finally) build it “the right way.” Even with those aspirations, unmaintainable,
fragile code happens.
rub 摩擦,问题的症结
But before instituting specific policies, we must find out the reasons why China's
forex reserve has been increasing so rapidly in order to get where the rub is.
little to no
The goal became keeping the HTML pure, using little to no classes or ids, and
traversing the DOM tree in the CSS selectors to apply styles.
steer away 偏离
The funny thing is, now that we have all these fancy new selectors, we are steering
away from using them. Is the lesson there “Be careful what you wish for?”
a la 按某种方式
Depending on the complexity of the site, it might be beneficial to break out a
module’s theme, a la SMACSS.
Pitfalls
Pitfalls to Avoid
to be blunt 要直说(生硬的说)的话,坦白说,坦率地说
Well, to be blunt: Not at the event.
poise 准备,摆好姿势
The Pentagon is poised to begin, as soon as this week
digress 离题
you can also see that I have good taste in music, but I digress
overarching 首要的,支配地位的
To understand how that screen is rendered, it’s time to introduce another
overarching Ember design principle
in sync
(in other words, when the user types text into it) the newName property on the
controller will be kept in sync.
leverage
The bigger the system, the more leverage we gain from the ‘single source of truth’
principle.
error-prone 易于出错的
They make typical computed properties more succinct and less error-prone (to
write).
opinionated 固执己见的;武断的
These guidelines are opinionated, but they have been repeatedly tried, tested,
stressed, refined, broken, reworked, and revisited over a number of years on
projects of all sizes.
discrete 离散的,不连续的
Even if not using a preprocessor, it is a good idea to split discrete chunks of
code into their own files, which are concatenated during a build step.
freak out
Guys, I'm freaking out, we have 5 stories in the current iteration that didn't even
pass review yet!
entitlement
Legally, under these licences, that is their entitlement;
ethically
Legally, under these licences, that is their entitlement; ethically, they are in
the wrong.
forthcoming
I’m waiting for an opportunity to embrace Traceur or 6to5 on a forthcoming project
before I can properly evaluate them.
uncritically
I don’t uncritically endorse any single one of these projects, but they are good
starting points for initial investigation.
slimmed-down
jQuery: from version 2.0 onwards, it is now possible to build your own jQuery
component-based library; this leaves open the possibility of creating a slimmed-
down AJAX-centred version.
time-consuming
Running an open/free software project can be extremely time-consuming,
burnt-out
and although many start out with the best of intentions, most quickly become burnt-
out and disillusioned.
disillusioned
and although many start out with the best of intentions, most quickly become burnt-
out and disillusioned.
recap (扼要重述,概言之)
To recap: write JavaScript, not somebody else’s interpretation of what JavaScript
should be; use non-proprietary software, but give back what you take;
publicity
be very, very suspicious of the “next big thing” receiving publicity on Twitter;
aim for
aim for simplicity, avoiding unnecessary complexity;
withhold
Really like the Manifesto. In my organization, we withheld using a framework for
all the reasons stated above. Great Read.
profound
This is a profound truth about performance.
judicious
As well as indentation, we can provide a lot of information through liberal and
judicious use of whitespace between rulesets.
at a glance
This allows developers to spot separate parts of the DOM at a glance,
stand a chance
Remembering your own classes, rules, objects, and helpers is manageable to an
extent, but anyone inheriting CSS barely stands a chance.
Oftentimes
Oftentimes we want to comment on specific declarations (i.e. lines) in a ruleset.
inertia
Yeah it was somehow from the inertia of releasing package list app.
sole
Here we can see that .person {} is the Block; it is the sole root of a discrete
entity.
self-contained
Your Block context starts at the most logical, self-contained, discrete location.
urban myth
I must say that I agree with Ric Szopa that Romanian being more similar to Latin is
an urban myth. It is starting to be a very popular urban myth, though.
spot
I couldn't spot which script is making this error yet.
open-minded
But Xiao’s parents were open-minded and supported his dream of going abroad for
college.
vanguard 先锋,前卫
Xiao didn’t know it at the time, but he was part of a new Chinese undergraduate
vanguard.
groundbreaking 开创性的
Truly groundbreaking.
bother
but why bother? 为何要自找麻烦呢?
self-contained
Recall our description of a process or thread as a self-contained set of
instructions that the operating system can schedule to run on a CPU core.
Well said.
A: I like this. Much prefer pragmatism over dogma ;) Might not please the purists
but it make real life easier.
B: Well said.
shrink
@maxz: The issue still happens when you shrink the window to tablet size.
specificity
By commenting out the leading element, we can still leave it to be read, but avoid
qualifying and increasing the specificity of the selector.
Quasi-
Quasi-Qualified Selectors
eg: /*ul*/.nav {}
plague
I won’t comment on the former claim here, but the latter has plagued me for years.
circumstance
By using slightly more ambiguous names, we can increase our ability to reuse these
components in different circumstances.
pragmatic
The debate surrounding semantics has raged for years, but it is important that we
adopt a more pragmatic, sensible approach to naming things in order to work more
efficiently and effectively.
risk
Nicely abstracted, very portable, doesn’t risk becoming out of date.
strike a balance
It is important to strike a balance between names that do not literally describe
the style that the class brings,
at first glance
The following selector might appear to be highly performant at first glance.
far reaching
The problem with this selector is that the key selector (*) is very, very far
reaching.
pose
and are only ever getting faster, and it is only on notable edge cases that
inefficient selectors would be likely to pose a problem.
long-running
Focussing on these points will keep your selectors a lot more sane and easy to work
with on changing and long-running projects.
money talks
“Like anywhere else, money talks,
far-fetched 牵强附会的
Sometimes the analogy is a little far-fetched, but I find it works for almost all
senses of the words.
nigh 近于
We have a very detailed class which would be nigh on impossible to reuse or
reassign!
tablature 五线谱,奏法记谱法
In tablature, the six horizontal lines represent the six strings of the guitar,
with the first string on the top and sixth on the bottom.
over-exploited 过渡渲染的
hold back 隐瞒
They don't hold back their need for enjoyment.
blindly 盲目地
Don't blindly over-nest
and so forth 等等
Think of the notes as the letters, the measures as the words, the phrases as the
sentences and so forth.
count on 指望
I count on you to organize the daily scrum then.
confuse
/* Do not confuse this with background-size: auto auto */
in one go
Reversing is often more descriptive than hard-coding the URLs. More importantly, it
allows you to change URLs in one go, without having to remember to change URLs all
over the place.
no brainer 不需对其动脑筋的事物
Seriously, if you’re writing OOCSS, CSS preprocessors and this method in particular
are a no brainer.
small-talk 寒暄,聊天
They always small-talked after supper.
all-too-human 太人性的
The existence, or even the possibility, of natural justice justifies our human,
all-too-human partisanship.
pixel-perfect
I want to make my work pixel-perfect.
assumption
I might be wrong in my assumptions,
auto-logoff
It also means that you might always want to use an iframe to check the login status
and auto-logoff users.
make sb mad
He makes me mad.
at my expense 由我出钱
mount horse 上马
cutting edge
Always run the cutting edge latest kernel.
summarize
so to summarize: 所以,总结起来:
man-in-the-middle(中间人)
one-off
This have never happened before, I think we can treat it as one-off anomaly.
sky-high(天一样高)
Why airfare is still sky-high as fuel prices drop?
meh 表示漠不关心的,打酱油的
In the show Bart and Lisa use “Meh” to express indifference when their father Homer
suggests a day trip .
在《辛普森一家》中当父亲 homer 建议去出去玩一天时,Bart 和 Lisa 用“meh”来表达自己的漠不关心。
home turf 家乡
The Sunday contest was viewed by many as a referendum on Chancellor Angela Merkel's
immigration policy, and her party suffered a significant defeat on Merkel's home
turf.
peddler
wacky
The last time President Barack Obama took questions from reporters abroad, he
dismissed Donald Trump as an "unqualified" peddler of "wacky ideas,"
by-product
although this is an important by-product
side with(站在。。一边,支持。。。)
I’d side with Django here as I believe this decision avoids (accidental) bad
design and unexpected situations.
shine (发光,耀眼,突出)
and RoR’s conventions really shine here by making the development of controllers
short and sweet.
manhole(井盖)
Why are manhole covers round?
tabloid
The Global Times, a provocative but state-sanctioned tabloid, said that "unless
Washington plans to wage a large-scale war in the South China Sea, any other
approaches to prevent Chinese access to the islands will be foolish."
hard liquor 白酒
(二锅头)It's the most widely drunk hard liquor in the world but it's rarely found on
cocktail menus.
carry a byline 署名
"Lotte stands to lose Chinese customers and the Chinese market. That would be a
very large slice out of their business pie," said the commentary, which did not
carry a byline.
passive-aggressiveness 放浪形骸,以退为进,被动防御。。。
and in response, has said: “I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going
to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics, and backstabbing,
the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Because THAT is what 'acting
professionally' results in.”
impotent 阳痿的,有气无力的,虚弱的
Outgoing California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton performed the only action
left to an impotent, leftist, cadre head in a lawful society. He shouted.
listening-impaired 听觉障碍的
Specifically, he invited the listening-impaired translators onto the stage Saturday
at the California’s Democratic Party convention in Sacramento to “thank them,”
commuter
The attack was the deadliest in Britain since four suicide bombers killed 52 London
commuters on subway trains and a bus in 2005.