英语学习笔记:2017-05-14

trans woman

看到关于 Chelsea Manning 的新闻,用的 she,但是我一直觉得 Manning 是男性,怎么突然变成女性了呢?查下来原来 Manning 是 trans woman

The term trans woman originates from the use of the Latin prefix “trans” meaning “across, beyond, through, on the other side of, to go beyond” and the word woman meaning “senses referring to an adult female human being”. However, this word was first used in Leslie Feinbergs’s book, Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman in 1996. The book describes a trans woman as “a male-to-female transgender or transsexual person." This definition is widely accepted and used in the Oxford English Dictionary.

trumphole

一种对 Trump 支持者的鄙视性称呼,源自 asshole 这个词

smol

有翻译成「萌」,但是「萌」不一定很小

something extremely small and cute

smol bean: someone who is innocent and/or adorable most commonly used in fandoms

salsa

辣番茄酱,国内好像不怎么见到

Albinism and Melanism

白化病和黑化病

Albinism in humans is a congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes. Albinism is associated with a number of vision defects, such as photophobia, nystagmus, and amblyopia. Lack of skin pigmentation makes for more susceptibility to sunburn and skin cancers. In rare cases such as Chédiak–Higashi syndrome, albinism may be associated with deficiencies in the transportation of melanin granules. This also affects essential granules present in immune cells leading to increased susceptibility to infection.

Melanism is a development of the dark-colored pigment melanin in the skin or its appendages and is the opposite of albinism. Historically, it was also the medical term for black jaundice.

the night is young

形容开始不久,后面时间充裕

It's not very late (at night) and there's plenty of time.
it means it's still early in whatever you have. if you think about it literally then it's easier to get if you go to a movie and when you get out it's like 11ish and you wanna do something but you don't know what to do. if someone says the night is young that means that it's still early in the night or the night is just starting. he's saying you've got a lot ahead of you still and there is a lot more to come

ish

看到一个单词:11ish,表示11点左右的意思,可以用在任何词后面,表示 kind of

  1. kind of, sort of.
  2. Give or take a time period

That's what I meant to say... ish.
Come over at 12-ish. (give or take an hour)
Come over at 12:30-ish (give or take half hour)
Come over at 11:10-ish (your choice; five minutes or ten)

it can be used with any word and it's applied at the end to make the word into meaning "kind of".
me = "how are you feeling today?"
you = "i am feeling okay-ish"

haptic

手机设置里面有一项叫做:sounds & Haptics,声音和触觉

这是一篇有意思的论文,运用触觉的实时反馈,修正人的行为,比如在跑步的时候保持正确的步态和摇摆姿势(确实对自己蛮狠的~)
《Haptic Motion Training: Exploring Learning Environments for a Portable Gait Retraining System》:
http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/pub/Haptics/HCI-CS376/finalPaper.pdf

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