poop

poop: (in child-speak)
n. feces /f'is,iz/, faeces
[a waste product from an animal's digestive tract expelled through the anus or cloaca...]

v. to defecate.

* pooped out: tired out, exhausted, worn out

* party pooper: a person who spoils the social enjoyment of others, typically by being gloomy; a killjoy. 掃興之人, 破壞氣氛者



[ref]
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/43/messages/972.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feces

sleep tight

sleep tight == sleep well == wish you a nice sleep
== good night == don't let the bedbugs bite

[ref] http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/sleep%20tight.html

leeway, dire credit crunch,

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123296893687515123.html?mod=yahoo_hs&ru=yahoo
"...
Blue-chip Pfizer was down almost 7% after announcing plans to buy rival Wyeth for $68 billion in cash and stock.

Wyeth shares climbed 2%, while the New York-listed shares of Crucell were down 10% as Wyeth pulled out of talks to buy the Dutch biotech.

However, most market participants focused on the Pfizer deal that did get done – a merger that's been anticipated since rumors of it began circulating last week.

After months of a dire credit crunch, a merger of such magnitude could signal that other industries may have leeway to begin making deals of their own.
..."

piss off

piss : (n,v) 尿
piss off 喝斥走開,滾蛋;惹惱,精疲力竭

How to Piss off a Geek
How to Piss off a Telemarketer
How to piss off credit card companies
How to piss off the salesman

Ponzi scheme, Pyramid scheme

Ponzi scheme is named after Charles Ponzi.
It is re-notorious due to Madoff's scam.

We can also call it "Madoff scheme" after Bernard Madoff, the former chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange, perpetrating what may be the largest investor fraud ever committed.


//=== pyramid scheme
Pyramid scheme is analogous to Ponzi scheme.
Ponzi scheme used primarily in the United States.
Pyramid scheme is a more general term than Ponzi can may be translated into chinese as "老鼠會".


*** perpetrate, phony, fraudulence, fraudulent,
preposterous, siphon, ponzi



"... Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays
returns to investors out of the money paid by subsequent investors
..."

[ref]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff

失業率

失業率
jobless rate
unemployment rate

臨時工, 兼職工作
派遣工作, 契約工作

part-time job,

contract vacancy

emergency medical dispatching jobs?
public safety dispatching jobs?

DGA finalists

DGA: Directors Guild/gild/ of America
guild
公會, 行業協會

DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2008 are:

DANNY BOYLE — SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
DAVID FINCHER — THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
RON HOWARD — FROST/NIXON
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN — THE DARK KNIGHT
GUS VAN SANT — MILK


[ref] http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/?8dpc

suffix -ache

/ek/
headache 頭痛
stomachache 胃痛
bellyache 肚子痛
boneache 股痛

minddache 心痛

/ae sh/
How about cache? --> read as "cash"

文案 文稿 文章

[Q] 文案 文稿 文章的不同?
各自對應的英文單字為何?

[Q] 公文 函稿 簽呈 英文要怎麼講?

truth and truce

truce: 停火 休戰 停戰

Gaza truce: 加薩走廊停火協議

Israel and Hamas

The truth behind the truce is truely truant.

桶裝瓦斯的英文

[Q] 桶裝瓦斯的英文怎麼講?

[try]
gas 瓦斯 天然氣
natural gas 天然氣
Russia stops natural gas deliveries to Europe via Ukraine.

gasoline 汽油

桶裝瓦斯也就是液化石油氣，英文縮寫為LPG (liquified petroleum gas)
LPG Australia

petroleum 石油
crude oil 原油

food and energy prices increase

LPG also belongs to "food and energy", doesn't it?

stave off

(v) stave off :
to prevent the occurrence of; to prevent from happening;
to keep or hold off; to repel;
to delay (something) for a short time;

to stave off this ultimate threat of war
to stave off the job loss crisis

(n) stave == stanza
五線譜?
比賽中的一節?