Loving and Heating New York.pptVIP

Loving and Heating New York Para6 enery,contention and striving articulate: —(of a person) able to express ones ideas clearly in words （指人）能用词语把意思表达清楚的: Shes unusually articulate for a ten-year-old. 对一个十岁的孩子来说, 她异乎寻常地能说会道. —(of speech) clearly pronounced （指讲话）发音清晰的. —having joints 有关节的. articulate loser: a person who is treated badly and makes a funs about it, expressing his/ her dissatisfaction loudly put-down something you say that is intended to make someone feel stupid or unimportant (令人难堪的话） She was tired of his put-downs. Whaddya gonna do? What are you going to do? Connoting a cool lack of concern; indifference; nonchalance.那你会咋办？ foothold a secure position from which it is difficult to be dislodged立足点，据点 a better address a house in a better residential area Billing the position, especially an important one, that sb. is advertised or described as having in a show. (演员表上的)排名； 演员名次 to have top/star billing 领衔主演；有明星演员 larger billing: a bigger and better advertisement, report or notice 大出风头 jostle vtvi to push or knock against someone in a crowd, especially so that you can get somewhere or do something before other people 推挤 jostle for The visiting president was jostled by the angry demonstrators 到访的总统受到了愤怒的人群的推搡 to compete for something such as attention or a reward 争夺 A thousand thoughts were jostling around inside my mind. proximity: the state or quality of being near；nearness in space，time，etc．最近；接近；(地方，时间等)最接近 in proximity to Families are no longer in close proximity to each other. 各家不再像以前一样比邻而居。 Paraphrase: And since it contains its share of articulate losers，also about mockery，the put-down，the loser’s shrug（Whaddya gonna do?） -—It also contains people who make a fuss about losing in life, which attract the scorn and rejections of the locals. “ To win in New York is to be uneasy; to lose is to live in jostling proximity to the frustrated majority.” — A person who wins in New York is constantly disturbed by fear and anxiety ( because h