http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/67880595.html

这个星期三的口译课

听第二个Talk show ：

（这个我听不明白，我一直理解成是公司的意思，哎哟，第一印象错了，真的很麻烦啊！）

Who drove for miles and … waving homemade signs…　

（这个我也是听不明白，我一直听成是science，哎）

Time 1:55 To the veterans, to the childhood friends, the New Yorkers and Arkansans, …

（我这么准就被叫到复述这句。我只听到yorkers，老师就提醒我说，这个yorkers　simply doesn't make sense嘛。对咯！）

Time 2:22 women…born before women could vote　（昨天才说，圣经里西方女人的卑微！）

3:30 …that made up the fabric of our lives.（很喜欢这个形容。好像嵌满许多马赛克片段的布匹吗？）

3: 58 Women and men, young and old, Latino and Asian, African American and Caucasian, rich, poor and middle-class, gay and straight, you are…（今天才知道这个名词，我还以为是gay and stray天！）

7: 41 I’ve stood on the stage and gone toe-to-toe with him in 22 debates.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/toe-to-toe

http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/viewthread.php?tid=555509：

“低头看看你的脚趾头，就知道什么叫toe to toe了。是不是很紧？就是竞争者差距很小，形容竞争激烈”

“我认为toe-to-toe有"face-to-face"(面对面)\针锋相对的意思.所以，将"compete toe-to-toe "翻译为"针锋相对的竞争"。”

face to face" ....in person, looking in the face
This is an intimate meeting but does not require friendship.
- A face to face meeting.
-Talk face to face.

"toe to toe"....in person, facing each other, in competition or confrontation
-The wrestlers stood toe to toe, staring at each other.
-Meeting someone through e-mail is easy, but standing toe to toe with the other person can be a real eye-opener.

"face to face and toe to toe" facing each other, very close, in direct confrontation
-For men, talking to someone face-to-face, toe-to-toe implies confrontation. For women, the same positioning suggests connection.　 （http://www.italki.com/answers/question/49108.htm）

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concession

在这里我找到什么叫做concession

从上次在出席那场拉丁文讲座之后吗？

还是知道美食叫作gourmet开始？

我开始发觉，字源很重要

所以今天当我重新进入merriam-webster的字典时，

我以从来没有过的感觉去喜欢这本字典！

啊哈哈，细细想起这个转变的前因后果时，

忍不住认为自己在某一个英文知识的点上，又更上一层楼啦！！嗬嗬。