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ohnosecond
ohnosecondAn ohnosecond is that very short moment in time during which you realize that you have pressed the wrong key and deleted hours, days, or weeks of work.[@more@]In a broader sense, it may also refer to that minuscule fraction of time it takes your brain to realize that you've just made a GIGANTIC mistake and reconcile the fact that it is too late.
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let's go primitive
go primitive:To go primitive means instead of keyboarding or texting a long and detailed story someone suggests a phone call as a more direct way to have the conversation. go primitive就是采用原始的方式...[@more@]good lenses, bad frames: 人不可貌相;真人不露相。i.e.: Dr. Bruce is a spaz, but he's one of the best doctors I know. You wouldn't know it by looking at him...good lenses, bad frames.
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fiddle face
Similar to: have face as long as a fiddle -- 愁眉苦脸as fine as a fiddle: 精神饱满, 身体极好[@more@]fiddlen.小提琴, 无意识而不停地拨弄vt.虚度时光, 拉小提琴vi.拉小提琴, 瞎搞
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tip-off
n. Informal 1. A piece of confidential, advance, or inside information.2. An indication of an otherwise unknown fact or probability.i.e.: The judge called for a pitcher of water, a tip-off that the session would be long.[@more@]pitchern.(带柄和倾口的)大水罐, (棒球)投手
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go bananas
go bananas发疯, 神经错乱[@more@]go crazy, go mad, out of one's mind.
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inadvertently
adv. 1. 漫不经心地；疏忽地2. 无意地；不经意地[@more@]i.e.:Inadvertently the recovery model of auditdb was FULL and not SIMPLE (which is the standard).
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spike
If you specify the value too large, you risk missing the workload spikes(峰值).[@more@]spike [spaik] n. 长钉，尖状物，钉鞋，峰值n. 穗，穗状花vt. 以大钉钉牢，使 ... 失效，用尖物刺伤
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bury the hatchet
bury the hatchet v. 休战，埋掉战斧，和解，讲和，妥协[@more@] bury the hatchet 捐弃前嫌. Business is business 公事公办 After their long argument the two brothers have at last buried the hatchet. 长期争吵之后,兄弟俩终于和解了。
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pay through the nose
Pay through the nose:To pay a high price, especially an exorbitant or excessive amount, either in money or in some other mannervi. 付出过高的价钱，被敲竹杠,付出惊人的巨款，付出很大代价[@more@]pay up 付清 pay as you earn 所得税制度
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Sleep
sleep in: to sleep until after the time you usually get up in the morning 迟起；睡过头；睡懒觉shuteye: informal term for sleep 睡眠tease apart: to pull something gently apart into separate pieces 梳理shift-workerall-nighter: a time when you stay awake all night studying 通宵学习；开通宵夜车[@more@]ramification: one of the large number of complicated and unexpected results that follow an action or a decision （众多复杂而又难以预料的）结果，后果weeknight: any night except those on Saturday and Sun
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IMAX
Image Maximum -- IMAX3D -- Three demensionsStereo glassesbox office: 票房[@more@]
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opaque
opaque [əuˈpeik]a.不透明的，不透光的；难理解的，晦涩的[@more@]i.e.: This is an opaque cup.
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state of the art
n. The highest level of development, as of a device, technique, or scientific field, achieved at a particular time...[@more@]Patr used this word to decribe the newly go-live system :-). Interesting...
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refrain from caffeine
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jujube
n.枣 red jujube -- 红枣蜜枣: glace dateblack date - 黑枣[@more@]pineapple 凤梨 watermelon 西瓜 papaya 木瓜 betelnut 槟榔 chestnut 栗子 coconut 椰子 ponkan 碰柑 tangerine 橘子 mandarin orange橘 sugar-cane 甘蔗 muskmelon 香瓜 shaddock 文旦 juice peach 水蜜桃 pear 梨子 peach 桃子 carambola 杨桃
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Dress Rehearsal
A dress rehearsal is a rehearsal or series of rehearsals in which the ensemble dresses as they will dress at the performance for the audience. The entire performance will be run from beginning to end, exactly as the real performances will be, including pauses for intermissions. An open dress is a dress rehearsal to which specific individuals have been invited to attend as audience members. They may include patrons, family and friends of the ensemble, or reviewers from the media. The dress rehear
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OPPS
OPPS - Ouro Preto Pedra Sabão [@more@]Opps! We're Very Sorry, but crumpledpapers.com is currently undergoing maintanence. Thank you for your patience during this period. In the meantime crumpledpapers archives can be found here. Please note: archives are subject to both broken links and images.1 pop song: Opps I did it again.
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spoony
spoony adj. 1 : silly, foolish; especially : unduly sentimental 2 : being sentimentally in love[@more@]Example sentence: It was Valentine's Day and spoony couples were enjoying romantic candlelit dinners at the city's many fine restaurants.
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radical
radical adj 1.concerning the most basic and important parts of sth; thorough and complete: the need for radical changes in education ◆ demands for radical reform of the law ◆ radical differences between the sexes 2.new, different and likely to have a great effect: radical ideas ◆ a radical solution to the problem ◆ radical proposals / measures 3. in favour of thorough and complete political or social change: the radical wing of the party ◆ radical politicians / students / writers (AmE, s
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taser
竟让是在那样的新闻里知道这个字的，如果youtube的视频是事实，那个黑人实在是冤枉啊。"There have been unconfirmed reports that Mehserle may have mistook his gun for a Taser."[@more@]Wiki says "A Taser is an electroshock weapon that uses Electro-Muscular Disruption (EMD) technology to cause neuromuscular incapacitation (NMI) and strong muscle contractions through the involuntary stimulation of both the sensory nerves and the motor nerves. The Taser is not dependent on pain compliance m
