2018-07-17 旗袍

Day9 An American woman wearing a Chinese dress is notcultural appropriation

· harangue sb about sth

He stood on the street corner, haranguing passers-by about the stupidity of the forthcoming war.

他站在街角向路人慷慨陈词，说这场即将爆发的战争是如何荒唐。

· landed her in hot water“使她遭遇大麻烦”

e.g. Last April, Google found itself in hot water after it was discovered that its GoogleStreet View cars had inadvertently gathered personal information from WiFi networksas it canvassed streets. 

去年四月，由于街景扫描车在扫描街景时无意间通过WiFi 搜集个人信息，谷歌公司处于水深火热之中。

· Vintage: adj .typical of a period in the past and of high quality; the best work of the particular person (过去某个时期)典型的,优质的；(某人的)最佳作品的:

a collection of vintage designs  优秀设计选编

vintage TV drama 最佳电视剧

· 之前已经介绍了很多提示文意转折的关键词，今天这个大家族又迎来了新句：if anything 甚至可以这么说/如果有……的话（参与已经提及的情况相反）、

· strand. one of the different parts of an idea, a plan, a story, etc. (观点、计划、故事等的)部份,方面:

We heard every strand of political opinion. 

各派的政治观点我们都听到了。

· When cultures meet and mingle, they inform and enrich each other.