barrel, barrel bomb, barrel roll, swallow, "hook, line and sinker" , "Lock, stock and barrel" ,

At least 71 people have been killed in Syria's northern Aleppo province by barrel bombs dropped from government helicopters, activists sayhttp://bbc.in/1PUMNoK

Syria crisis: 'Barrel bomb strikes kill 71' in Aleppo province - BBC News

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英語中用釣具和槍械等的主要部品來表示全部(The whole thing)的方式為
"hook, line and sinker" 和 "Lock, stock and barrel" 。前者多偏向受騙等。


Never argue with someone who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton.

馬克吐溫講過一句話：「千萬別跟那些整桶整桶買墨水的人吵架」，「整桶買墨水的人」指的是報紙，這句話是勸政治人物千萬別跟媒體為敵。

 barrel roll

barrel roll

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NOUN

An aerobatic manoeuvre in which an aircraft follows a single turn of a spiral while rolling once about its longitudinal axis.

バレルロール (マニューバ)

バレルロール

バレルロール（barrel roll）とは、航空機（戦闘機やアクロバット機）が空中で行う機動（マニューバ）の一つ。

横転（ロール）と機首上げ（ピッチアップ）を同時に行うもので、仮想の樽の胴（バレル）をなぞるように螺旋を描くことからその名がある。緩やかに操縦桿を引き、横に倒し、結果斜め手前に倒すことにより行う。敵機の背後をとるために有効とされる機動の一つである。

進行方向と高度は変わらず位置だけが左右にずれるので、簡単に言うと飛行機の側転にあたる。人間にたとえるなら、動く歩道に乗って（幅は無視して）進行方向と直角に側転する状態が近い。この場合、体の向きや進行方向はそのままで人の位置が変わるわけであるが、飛行機の場合重力や揚力にしたがって落ちたり上がったりするので、最初に斜め上に向かいながら回る必要がある。正面から見ると半円（円の上半分）を描くような軌跡。

barrel Line breaks: bar¦rel

Pronunciation: /ˈbar(ə)l /

NOUN

1A cylindrical container bulging out in the middle, traditionally made of wooden staves with metal hoops round them:the wine is then matured in old barrels

1.1A barrel together with its contents:a barrel of beer

1.2A measure of capacity used for oil and beer, usually equal to 36 imperial gallons for beer and 35 imperial gallons or 42 US gallons (roughly 159 litres) for oil:the well was producing 10,000 barrels a day

2

A cylindrical tube forming part of an object such as a gun or a pen:a gun barrel

3The belly and loins of a four-legged animal such as a horse:a Welsh mountain pony with a barrel like a butt of wine

VERB (barrels, barrelling, barrelled; North Americanbarrels, barreling, barreled)

21[NO OBJECT, WITH ADVERBIAL OF DIRECTION] INFORMAL , chieflyNorth American Drive or move in a way that is so fast as to almost be out of control:they shot him and then barreled away in the truck

[WITH OBJECT] Put into a barrel or barrels:

when the young spirit is barrelled, it absorbs some of this flavour

Origin

Middle English: from Old French baril, from medieval Latin barriclus 'small cask'.

swallow (ACCEPT)
verb [T] INFORMAL
to accept something without question or without expressing disagreement:
Not surprisingly, this excuse was too much for them to swallow.
He swallowed her story whole.
She swallowed his sales pitch line hook, line and sinker (= believed it completely).

fall for sth hook, line and sinker
to completely believe something that someone tells you which is not true:
She told him she needed the money for her baby and he fell for it hook, line and sinker.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)


sinker
 n.
1.    One that sinks, as a weight used for sinking fishing lines or nets. （釣糸などの）おもり
2.    Slang. A doughnut. 〔米俗〕 ドーナツ;
Baseball. A sinkerball.【野】シンカー.

Sinker有兩種解釋：其中廣義解釋是指所有會有下沉動作的球路，但是這樣的解釋過於籠統，因為只要是縱向變化幅度大於橫向變化在美國的廣義定義都可被稱為沉球。其二是日本細分出來的一種下墜球種，專門指的是一種往右打者內角下沈，而且速度較慢的變化球，

-----比較
Lock, stock and barrel
Meaning
The whole thing.

It isn't until 1842 though, in William Thompson's collection of humourous letter 'Major Jones' Courtship', that we see the phrase as we now use it:
"All moved, lock, stock, and barrel."
Rudyard Kipling came close to giving us a definition of the term in 1891, in 'Light That Failed':
"The whole thing, lock, stock, and barrel, isn't worth one big yellow sea-poppy."
Why and how the change from 'stock, lock and barrel' was made we don't know now. It's possible that 'lock, stock and barrel' just has a better ring to it.


桶裝炸彈（Barrel bomb），或譯「桶炸彈」、「油桶炸彈」。是指一種簡易形式的無誘導炸彈，或稱飛行式IED（簡易爆炸裝置），屬於土製炸彈的一種。這種炸彈通常裝在大型的油桶或桶狀的金屬容器，內有高爆炸藥、榴霰彈、油或化學武器，使用飛機或直升機投擲落下後爆炸^[1]。由於這種炸彈使用了大量炸藥，但精度相當差，且又被濫用於包括難民營在內的人口群居處，其所產生的爆炸是毀滅性的^[2][3][4]。批評者認為此種炸彈的特性等同恐怖武器，且根據國際公約，使用這種炸彈是違法的^[5]。

apron, have one's day in court, tied to apron strings

Lady Gaga has her day in Taiwan

Lady Gaga is presented with the key to Taichung city during her visit to Taiwan, where the mayor announced July 3 as "Lady Gaga Day. " (July 4)

"The first time I went to Mogadishu there were soldiers on the roof of the airport terminal and a crashed cargo plane on the apron with a rocket-sized hole in its fuselage. I wore body armour pretty much all the time, was woken by explosions at night and ducked rifle fire by day," writes AFP's Tristan McConnell. "That was five years ago. I was back again recently and went out for a pizza, at night." Read more:http://u.afp.com/pizza AFP Photo: Carl de Souza

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have one's day in court
Have an opportunity to be heard, as in By asking Rob for an explanation the professor showed he was willing to let him have his day in court. This expression transfers the idea of a hearing in a court of law to more general use.

Pakistan's Spies Tied to Slaying of a Journalist

By JANE PERLEZ and ERIC SCHMITT

Intelligence showed that senior officials of the spy agency directed the attack on a journalist in an effort to silence criticism, two senior administration officials said.

機坪，又稱停機坪（ramp或apron），指的是機場內供飛機停放的平地，用以上下旅客或貨物、清掃、加油、簡易的檢修等，在航空展時還會擴充為飛機的展示場及飛行表演的觀眾席。

The airport apron is the area of an airport where aircraft are parked, unloaded or loaded, refueled, or boarded.^[1] Although the use of the apron is covered by regulations, such as lighting on vehicles, it is typically more accessible to users than the runway or taxiway. However, the apron is not usually open to the general public and a license may be required to gain access.

The use of the apron may be controlled by the apron management service (apron controlor apron advisory) to provide coordination between the users.

The apron is designated by the ICAO as not being part of the maneuvering area. All vehicles, aircraft and people using the apron are referred to as apron traffic.

tied to apron strings
Wholly dependent on or controlled by a woman, especially one's mother or wife. For example, At 25, he was still too tied to her apron strings to get an apartment of his own. This expression, dating from the early 1800s, probably alluded to apron-string tenure, a 17th-century law that allowed a husband to control his wife's and her family's property during her lifetime.

leaning, predilection, taxing

Republican-leaning groups have been buying far more TV ads in support of their candidates than Democratic groups have.

Supreme Court justices’ decisions have increasingly been regarded as falling along ideological lines. But since justices are not representatives of any political party, it confuses matters to identify them in nakedly partisan terms. As we await big decisions on gay marriage and the fate of Obamacare, it is encouraging to see signs that the justices are not always captive to their predilectionshttp://econ.st/1K8rZmz

A taxing decision

IN THE 15 years since the nine members of the Supreme Court effectively picked the nation’s 43rd president in Bush v Gore, the justices’ decisions have...

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predilection

See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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Pronunciation: /ˌpriːdɪˈlɛkʃ(ə)n/ 

Definition of predilection in English:

noun

A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favour of something:your predilection for pretty girls

leaning
n.
An inclination, a tendency, or a preference. See synonyms at predilection.

“ultras”,to avoid incidents, shown the red card

Football, like politics, arouses strong passions in Egypt. The league was cancelled in 2012 after a brawl at a match in Port Said left 74 dead. Matches are now played behind closed doors, without fans, to avoid incidents. Even so, Egypt’s hard-core fans, known as “ultras” were recently banned by a court in Cairo. Why were they shown the red card? http://econ.st/1F8rW60

pull something off, feat, dredge, huff, storm off

A look at three entrepreneurs who have pulled off the feat of balancing business and lifestyle, and how they deal with the problems and rewards along the way.

How to Build a Business That Fits Your Lifestyle

For these entrepreneurs, the priority wasn’t just profits, but how they wanted to live.

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"The Latvian woman dressed as a sex aid got more points than us. The Lithuanian incest twins got more points than us. The Hungarian woman who had only just realised that war is bad got more points than us."

Is it time the UK stormed off the Eurovision stage in a huff?

Eurovision 2015: is it time for Brexit?

Should the UK avoid the annual humiliation and bow out of the contest? Or perhaps start entering songs that don’t sound like a malfunctioning dentist’s drill?

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 storm

[NO OBJECT, WITH ADVERBIAL OF DIRECTION] Move angrily orforcefully in a specified direction:she burst into tears and stormed offhe stormed out of the house

Definition of huff in English:

verb

1[NO OBJECT] Blow out air loudly on account of exertion:he was huffing under a heavy loadI was huffing and puffing to keep up with him

2Express one’s feeling of petty annoyance:[WITH DIRECT SPEECH]: ‘Huh!’ Nanny huffed

pull something off

5

informal Succeed in achieving or winning somethingdifficult:he pulled off a brilliant first round win

Line breaks: dredge

Pronunciation: /drɛdʒ/

verb

[WITH OBJECT]

1Clear the bed of (a harbour, river, or other area of water) by scooping out mud, weeds, and rubbish with a dredge:the lower stretch of the river had been dredged(as noun dredging) the dredging and deepening of the canal

MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES

1.1Bring up or clear (something) from a river, harbour, or other area of water with a dredge:mud was dredged out of the harbour[NO OBJECT]: they start to dredge for oysters in November

1.2(dredge something up) Bring somethingunwelcome and forgotten or obscure to people’sattention:I don’t understand why you had to dredge up thisstory

noun

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An apparatus for bringing up objects or mud from a river or seabed by scooping or dragging.

In this clip, former GE CEO Jack Welch talks to Bill Moyers in 2002 about why he believes cleaning up PCBs from the Hudson River "is just nuts." GE, which legally dumped PCBs into the Hudson over many years, claimed that the dredging would take decades. But, as of 2015, GE is about to complete its sixth and last year of removing PCBs, although environmental advocacy groups say the corporation should expand its work and more thoroughly cleanup the river.