2020年2月16日 星期日

built-in, walk-in wardrobe, spur, yell







"Hiding bad news is a built-in feature of dictatorial regimes."

In the U.S.S.R. in 1986, as in China today, a public health disaster exposed the limits of dictatorial rule

WSJ.COM|作者:YAROSLAV TROFIMOV

From Chernobyl to the Coronavirus


A record player with a built-in whiskey bar is all you really need in life
The Luno EGB2 is a beautiful mid-century record player with AirPlay…

THEVERGE.COM|作者:MICAH SINGLETON

Those spurs are, I must say, a provocative addition to your wardrobe

First violent hate crime linked to virus is reported to British authorities


built-in 

Pronunciation: /bɪltˈɪn/ 


ADJECTIVE

1Forming an integral part of a structure:worktop with a built-in cooker
1.1(Of a characteristic) inherentinnate:the system has a built-in resistance to change

spur



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━━ n. 拍車; 刺激 ((to, for)); 激励; (鳥の)けづめ; 木の根; (岩・山の)突出部; (鉄道などの)支線.


wardrobe

noun
1 [C or U] a tall cupboard in which you hang your clothes, or all of the clothes that a person owns:
She was showing me her new built-in/UK fitted wardrobes.
I sometimes feel that my summer wardrobe is rather lacking (= I don't have many clothes for summer).

2 [U] a department in a theatre, film company, etc. who are in charge of the clothes that the actors wear on stage, making certain that they are clean, repairing them and sometimes making them:
He's in charge of wardrobe at the local amateur theatre.

ward・robe



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━━ n. 洋服だんす; 衣装部屋; ((集合的)) 舞台衣装; (ある季節用の)衣類.
wardrobe bed 引き出しベッド.
wardrobe master [mistress] (劇団の)衣装係の男性[女性].
wardrobe trunk (立てるとたんすの用をする)衣装トランク.




walk-in
(NOT ARRANGED BEFORE)
adjective [before noun] MAINLY US
describes a place that you can go to without having already made an arrangement:
It's a walk-in dental clinic - the sign outside said 'Walk-in patients welcome'.
It's official, I would rather die of the flu than visit another walk-in clinic. I know that benefitting from the Canadian health care system and expecting to leave satisfied is kind of like a beggar asking to choose, but I give up.
From now on I'll just Google my symptoms. Yeah the Internet's risky, but so is marinating yourself in the slurry of diseases waiting for you in the walk-in waiting room.

━━ a., n. 人が入れるほど大きい; (勝利など)楽な; 楽勝 (walk-in victory); (アパートが玄関を共有せずに)直接各自の部屋に入れる; 大型冷蔵庫.

walk-in (STORAGE) Show phonetics
adjective [before noun]
describes a storage space that is large enough for a person to enter and walk around in:
a walk-in wardrobe
US a walk-in closet
AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH a walk-in cupboard


yell
v.yelledyell·ingyellsv.intr.
To cry out loudly, as in pain, fright, surprise, or enthusiasm.

v.tr.
To utter or express with a loud cry. See synonyms at shout.

n.
  1. A loud cry; a shout.
  2. A rhythmic cheer uttered or chanted in unison.
[Middle English yellen, from Old English giellan, gellan.]
yeller yell'er n.

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