(名詞) 明星或藝人經紀公司 (talent agency)。

引句中的 UTA 是比佛利山莊 (Beverly Hills) 著名的「聯合明星經紀公司 (United Talent Agency)」。

引句：
Reflecting UTA’s long tradition of growing agents from the mailroom to the top echelons of the tenpercentery, Burns and Hansen each got their start there.
—Elizabeth Guider, “UTA ups two agents to partner,” Hollywood Reporter, June 3, 2010

Author Nick Hornby, an Oscar nominee this year for adapted screenplay for “An Education,” has signed with WME for representation in film and TV. … Hornby has not previously signed with a tenpercentery on this side of the pond.
—Cynthia Littleton, “WME signs Hornby,” Variety, March 9, 2010

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英譯：
forewarned is forearmed

例句：
Let me know when the Department Required Test (DRT) is given; forewarned is forearmed. (通知我什麼時候舉行指考；凡事豫則立)

Check the temperature before you go outside. Forewarned is forearmed. (外出前要看看氣溫。預先知道，才能有準備)

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(名詞) 銀幕戀情。

這是指演員在戲劇表演中上演的戀情，表演結束後，戀情也隨之終結。根據 Urban Dictionary，這個詞最初出現於劇院表演，後來適用範圍擴展到電影、電視劇以及真人實境秀電視節目。現在這個詞亦可用來描述任何形式的虛假戀情。

例句：
Allen: I didn’t know Anthony and Mary were dating. (我不知道安東尼和瑪麗在談戀愛啊)

Bill: It’s just a showmance, Mary is just dating Anthony just to make John jealous. (那只不過是銀幕戀情而已，瑪麗跟安東尼約會就是要讓約翰嫉妒)

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(名詞) 植物營養愛好者；植物營養主義人士 — 根據微營養素 (micronutrients) 或植物營養素 (phytonutrients) 含量來選擇食物的人。
—nutritarianism (名詞)：植物營養主義。

Phytonutrients (植物營養素) 與引句中的 phytochemicals (植物化學物質) 同義。

引句：
Vegetarians are defined by what they shun — meat. Vegans, who reject all food from animals, take it even further. There are flexitarians, who eat a little bit of meat, and pescatarians, who skip meat but consume seafood. Raw foodists don’t believe in cooking. And now come the nutritarians. Central to nutritarianism is the understanding that fruits and vegetables contain thousands of vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals — substances they believe are not found in any other food source.
—Douglas Brown, “Nutrition ambitions: “Nutritarian” diet is easy; just try to eat a rainbow,” The Denver Post, June 7, 2010

Linda Sellers, a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator at St. Anthony’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, says vegetarian or vegan (no animal products, including eggs and dairy) diets similar to Fuhrman’s “are generally nutritional, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.” That includes lowering blood pressure and reducing the risk of diabetes and cancer. (Fuhrman has coined the term “nutritarian,” since his “life plan” does allow some animal products.) —Judy Stark, “‘Eat to Live’ author Joel Fuhrman speaking in Clearwater on Sunday,” St. Petersburg Times, February 27, 2010

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pull away
(車輛或司機) 開走，駛出 (某地方)
Just as I was pulling away from the parking place, another car crashed into mine.

pull * back +
扳回 (在足球比賽中落後時進球)
They were two-nil down until five minutes before the end, when they pulled back a goal.

pull * back +
(軍隊) 撤退，撤回
They have pulled the troops back from the front line.

pull back
決定不做
They pulled back from the deal.

pull back
躲開；閃避
She pulled back when he tried to kiss her.

pull * down +
賺得
He pulls down about $300,000 a year.

pull * down +
拆除，拆掉
They pulled the old cinema down to build a new shopping mall.

pull * down +
使 (某人) 沮喪
Losing her job pulled her down.

pull for +
支持
Who will you be pulling for in the final?

pull in
(火車) 進站，到站
The train pulled in and we rushed to meet her as she got off.

pull in
(駛向路邊或建築物旁邊) 停車
Mark pulled in too quickly and crashed into the wall.
I pulled in to let the passengers out.

pull * in +
吸引
The program pulled in 3.6 million viewers.

pull * in +
逮捕 (某人) 或將 (某人) 帶回警局偵訊
The police pulled them in after the trouble.

pull * off +
成功做成 (某件困難或棘手的事)
No one thought that she would be able to do it, but she pulled it off in the end.

pull off
(車、船等) 駛離
When the lights turned green, the car pulled off.
The boat pulled off from the shore.

pull * on +
(尤指迅速地) 穿上，戴上
I pulled on a jumper when the sun went in.

pull out
(火車) 離站
Our train pulls out at 8:00, so don’t be late.
The train was pulling out when I got there.

pull out
(車輛或司機) 開出；(車輛) 超車開到或插在 (別車) 前面
The traffic was so bad that it took me ages to pull out.
She just pulled out in front of me without indicating.

pull out
退出；擺脫
The project was going badly and they decided to pull out.

pull * out +
(軍隊) 撤退，撤離
People want the government to pull the troops out.

pull * over +
(車輛或司機) 停靠 (在路邊)
The police pulled the car over.

pull * over +
(警察命令駕駛人把車) 開到路邊
The police pulled the car over and tested the driver for alcohol.

pull through
從 (疾病、負傷等) 康復；恢復健康
I didn’t think she was going to make it, but she pulled through in the end.
Don’t worry. Your dad’s going to pull through.

pull * through +
使度過難關
He said the support of his fans had pulled him through.
A gift of money from the government pulled the theater company through their money troubles.

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例句：
(英) I caught him peeping at my letter. / She took a peep at the letter.
(美) They caught him peeking through the keyhole at what was going on in the room. / He took a peek at the list.

解釋：
(英) peep (v.; n.)：窺視，偷看。
(美) peek (v.; n.)：窺視，偷看。

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(動名詞/現在分詞) 線上從事慈善工作。
—virtual volunteer (名詞)：線上志工；網路志工。

Virtual volunteering 亦叫做 micro-volunteering (有時寫成 microvolunteering) 及 e-volunteering (有時寫成 evolunteering)。

引句：
Virtual volunteering can be an efficient and cost-effective way to help organizations, said Gordon Mayer, vice president of Community Media Workshop, which provides communications training for Chicago-area nonprofits. … Some organizations have found that virtual volunteering lets them harness the talents of people who have only a few intermittent hours to give.
—Pam DeFiglio, “Virtual volunteering carries real benefits,” Chicago Tribune, December 11, 2009

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(名詞) (十字路口的) 腳踏車停等區。

引句：
Located at the entrance of the intersection, a bike box is a demarcated area that straddles the bike lane plus one or two vehicle lanes, and is basically designed to give cyclists a head start when the light turns green. Well-used in Europe, bike boxes can’t work without right-on-red restrictions.
—John Lorinc, “Toronto’s worst intersection?,” The Globe and Mail, June 13, 2010

A few days earlier, the Republican state representative from Whitewater had threatened legislation to ban the European-style, made-with-tape pavement markers the city has installed at the intersection where John Nolen Drive meets Williamson, Wilson and Blair streets. Nass denounced the “bike boxes” — intended to minimize conflict between drivers and bicyclists — as the product of Madison’s anti-car culture.
—Paul Fanlund, “Firing back at Madison’s critics a capital idea,” The Capital Times, June 9, 2010

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英譯：
walk tall

例句：
If you depend too much upon others you will never be able to walk tall. (如果你過份依賴別人，你就永遠挺不起腰桿來)

We walk tall and the voice is more powerful. (我們理直氣壯，聲音更強有力)

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(名詞) 睡覺中從事性行為的睡眠疾病。顯然地，這個字是由 sex 和 insomnia (失眠症) 拼綴而成。
—sexsomniac (名詞)：睡覺中從事性行為的睡眠疾病患者。Cf. insomniac (名詞)：失眠症患者。

有人對於 sexsomnia 的中文解釋「睡覺中從事性行為的睡眠疾病」可能無法完全瞭解其真正的意思，甚至可能質疑睡覺時要怎麼做愛呢? 誠然，這裡所謂的睡覺中其實是指患者處於夢遊狀態。根據研究人員所拍攝的實境影片，患者白天一切正常，毫無異狀，但當他們或她們睡著後，他們或她們經常變成「性瘋狂」或「性飢渴」的怪獸，以粗暴的方式撕破太太、先生或同居人的衣物，霸王硬上弓。然而，每天睡醒後，患者對於他們或她們所做過的事卻一點都不記得。

引句：
The phenomenon, called sexsomnia, is a form of parasomnia, a disorder in which people who are asleep but in a state of semi-arousal engage in behaviors they are not conscious of. Sexsomnia is defined by the International Classification of Sleep Disorders and may take place during a sleepwalking episode.
—Roni Caryn Rabin, “No Sex, Please: You’re Sleeping,” The New York Times, June 8, 2010

It’s hard to believe, but sexsomnia — making advances and performing sexual acts while in the grip of sleep — appears to be more common than once thought. Researchers have found almost 8 per cent of patients at a Toronto sleep clinic reported they initiated or engaged in sexual activity with a partner while asleep. The prevalence of sexsomnia was almost three times higher in men (11 per cent) than in women (4 per cent).
—”Sexsomnia found more often in men,” The Hamilton Spectator, June 7, 2010

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