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[usually passive]
If someone is excused from a duty or responsibility, they are told that they do not have to carry it out.
使免除责任、义务等
*She is usually excused from her duties during the school holidays.
在学校放假期间，她通常不必担负职责。
*She was excused duties on Saturday.
星期六她不用工作。
shoo
[ʃuː]
-
v.
shoo sb away
If you shoo an animal or a person away, you make them go away by waving your handsor arms at them.
（挥手）赶走
*
You'd better shoo him away.
你最好把他赶走。
*I shooed him out ofthe room.
我把他赶出了房间。
-
exclamation.
You say 'shoo!' to an animal when you want it to go away.
（赶动物走的声音）嘘！去！走！
*Shoo, bird, shoo.
嘘！小鸟，嘘！
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period
[ˈpɪəriəd] n.
the flow of blood that comes from a woman's body each month
月经，经期
⇒
menstrual period
*I was twelve years old when I started my periods.
我十二岁月经初潮。
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get through sth
If you get through a difficult or unpleasant period of time, you manage to live through it.
度过，熬过困难或不快的时期
*It is hard to see how people will get through the winter.
难以想象人们将怎样熬过这个冬天。
*We couldn't get through a day without arguing.
我们没有一天不拌嘴的。
"
我立刻过去让她下班休息。
"
当时在该公司担任总监的拜克斯特说，
"
她很尴尬，把我拉到一边说：
'
我只是来例假了，我能挺得住。
'"
Up until then, Baxter hadn’t even considered whether her former employer, a Bristol
-based
firm called Coexist that creates community spaces in South West England, had a corporate ‘period policy’.
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1.
if a person or business is based in a particular place, that is where they live or work, or where the work of the business is done
在
...
居住
/
工作；基地
/
总部在
...
*a Chicago-based company
总部设在芝加哥的公司
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2.
containing sth as an important part or feature
以
…
为重要部份
(
或特征
)
；以
…
为主
*lead-based paints
铅基涂料
*a class-based society
以阶级为特征的社会
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[
扩展
]
网络远程教育可以说：
internet-based
distance learning
，传统的实体教室中的教育可以说：
classroom-based education
当时，拜克斯特在布里斯托的这家名叫
Coexist
的公司工作，公司的业务是在英格兰西南部创建社区空间，在那之前，拜克斯特根本没有考虑过公司是否制定了
"
例假政策
"
。
But in that moment, she says, she thought about basic human rights — that a standard biological process should never be shameful.
但她表示，她当时想到的是基本人权——这样一个常规的生理过程绝不应令人感到羞愧。
Menstrual leave, a policy that
affords
women suffering extreme period pain one or twodays
off
work, already exists in several countries around the world, but has
been widely criticised as
counterproductive
, often
reinforcing negative stereotypes
of female workers.
