奥运越来越近，每天都有机会接触和运动相关的英语。今天又学到一个：nosebleed section。
From Wikipedia:
The phrase nosebleed section is applied tongue-in-cheek to those seats of a public arena, usually an athletic stadium or gymnasium, that are highest and, usually, farthest from the desired activity. A common reference to having seats at the upper tiers of a stadium is “sitting in the nosebleed section” or “nosebleed seats.”
The reference […]
在看EW的American Idol recap时，注意到这么一句话：
I mean, Simon even did an air rimshot after one of Carrey’s on-air jokes, a move I thought was limited to American parents out to embarrass their kids.
我的第一反应：Simon did a what?
赶紧查字典，居然没有rimshot这个词。接着google，找到了一篇让我大笑的文章，因为作者和我对rimshot的“误解”完全一样。推荐大家阅读全文： WTF
My initial reaction was a mix of shock and intrigue…WTF?! Cue the rim shot? We hadn’t even kissed yet. He didn’t […]
熟悉北京的朋友一定会对这篇文章深有感触：Beijing’s Olympic Quest: Turn Smoggy Sky Blue
Beijing is like an athlete trying to get into shape by walking on a treadmill yet eating double cheeseburgers at the same time.
很有趣的比喻。
有空可以读一下整个Choking on Growth的系列报道。纽约时报确实强。
Bonus video: Ari Gold featuring Sasha Allen - Where the Music Takes You
看到不少用“Geek专用视力检查表”作标题的文章都指向了我这里。好奇心作祟，点过去瞧瞧是咋回事儿，结果发现一张很有趣的图。
一看图我就知道了，肯定是第一位作者在解释第5行的内容时给了这里的链接。其他转载的各位也就都链过来了。
我发觉这图我全部都能看懂，包括最底下一行小字。我还一向非常不喜欢1337的呢。OMG! WTF?
Bonus video: Jordin Sparks - Tattoo
偶然间看到100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know，一声叹息。至少有一半的词我完全不认识。
The editors of the American Heritage® dictionaries have compiled a list of 100 words they recommend every high school graduate should know.
The following is the entire list of 100 words:
abjure
abrogate
abstemious
acumen
antebellum
auspicious
belie
bellicose
bowdlerize
chicanery
chromosome
churlish
circumlocution
circumnavigate
deciduous
deleterious
diffident
enervate
enfranchise
epiphany
equinox
euro
evanescent
expurgate
facetious
fatuous
feckless
fiduciary
filibuster
gamete
gauche
gerrymander
hegemony
hemoglobin
homogeneous
hubris
hypotenuse
impeach
incognito
incontrovertible
inculcate
infrastructure
interpolate
irony
jejune
kinetic
kowtow
laissez faire
lexicon
loquacious
lugubrious
metamorphosis
mitosis
moiety
nanotechnology
nihilism
nomenclature
nonsectarian
notarize
obsequious
oligarchy
omnipotent
orthography
oxidize
parabola
paradigm
parameter
pecuniary
photosynthesis
plagiarize
plasma
polymer
precipitous
quasar
quotidian
recapitulate
reciprocal
reparation
respiration
sanguine
soliloquy
subjugate
suffragist
supercilious
tautology
taxonomy
tectonic
tempestuous
thermodynamics
totalitarian
unctuous
usurp
vacuous
vehement
vortex
winnow
wrought
xenophobe
yeoman
ziggurat
如果你跟我一样想寻求安慰，看看几则国外网友的留言：
Well, in my second year of college, I haven’t used/heard about 67% of those words.
I think this is […]
谢谢各位的关心。本人一切安好，因为无穷无尽的spam和一些其他原因，已经不想再写blog。本来打算一直懒下去，结果发现YouTube在国内又可以正常访问了，一高兴，就决定开始继续更新，嘿嘿。
先分享个前段时间看到的好玩的东东。加*号的是我没有看懂个中奥妙的句子，谁琢磨出来了望不吝赐教。
I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all right now.
To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
When fish are in schools, they sometimes take debate.
The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at […]