Nov 10th: in shape

After the conference, I failed to keep in shape during weekends.
I slept whole day today, and now I'm back in shape now.

in shape: in good physical condition.

Nov 9: BoF

There was a BoF section in SOSP 2013.

BoF is from "Birds of a feather flock together".


BoF

• A BoF session, an informal meeting at conferences, where the attendees group together based on a shared interest and carry out discussions without any pre-planned agenda.
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some words

1. In this manner (이런 식으로)
2. in effect(사실상, 실제로는, in actual practice, in fact)

* Paper
ex) In this manner, the knowledge base in effect becomes naturally embedded in the network management and operations system itself.

ex) Huge volumes of unstructured monitoring data is received in this manner.

* dictionary
1) Do it in this manner
2) We have to finish this work in a timely manner (fashion) - 적시에
3) In effect, the two systems are identical.
4) His wife had, in effect, run the government for the past six months.



3. make use of something/somebody
- use somebody/something for your own advantage

* Paper
1) State-of-the-art event correlation systems make use of service specific temporal and spatial models.

* Dictionary
1) We could make better use of our resources.


4. allow for (somebody/something)
- To include something when you are calculating something or planning something

1) It will take about an hour to get there, allowing for traffic delays.
2) All these factors must be allowed for.
3) Add an extra ten minutes to your journey time to allow for the traffic.


My sentences.
* We should make better use of the advantage of staying America.
* It will take about 25 hours to get to Korea since we allow for the stopover.

Serve as

1. Serve as/for something
- to be used instead of something else when there is nothing better available.

* in the paper
ex) Provider service design documents typically serve as input to software system domain experts.

* in a dictionary
ex) An old box served as a table.
ex) Small temporary buildings had to serve for offices

Nov 4th, as follows

ex) The remainder of this document is organized as follows.
ex) The rest of this paper is organized as follows.

as follows ( 다음과 같이, 이 follows는 비인칭 동사로 항상 ...s를 취한다.)

Nov 2nd: chicken out

A: I didn't call off the engagement.
B: What happened? Did you just chicken out?


Chicken out: to manage to get out of something, usually because of fear or cowardice

Nov 2. In the presence of

1. in the presence of ( = with somebody/something in the same place )

ex) The knowledge plane needs to make judgments in the presence of partial or conflicting information.

ex) How can the algorithms of the KP protect themselves, filter out bad information, and reach valid conclusions in the presence of uncertainty and misrepresentation?


I will post the word or phrase which use the most frequently in the paper and I think we can use this in daily life.

Nov 1st: have bigger fish to fry

A: You wanna play soccer today?
B: No! I have bigger fish to fry.

have bigger fish to fry: to have more important things to do

Oct 30th: strawman solution

strawman is

Strawman solution is a solution which is very weak, vulnerable, easy to break.

Oct 29th: break my leg

A: I have a interview today.
B: Oh, break my leg!


Break my leg: Good luck! (A special theatrical way of wishing a performer good luck. Saying good luck is considered to be a jinx.)

Oct 28th: suave

Girl: Every time you looked at me and said those suave little things you said, you lied to me!

A girl found out that a man (her boyfriend) has a child. So she came to him and said the above sentence.

suave: (esp. of a man) charming, confident, and elegant.


One more thing. This is from apple.

"if everyone is busy making everything how anyone perfect anything?

Oct 27th: wall-to-wall

When you go to the party with a lot of foods,
you can say "It's wall-to-wall food here".

Or, if there are a lot of girls,
"It's wall to wall girls here". haha.

wall-to-wall: covered with something in all places

Oct 26th: hit the road

It'll take 4 hours to get the arches national park.

We have to hit the road early in the morning.

hit the road: set out on a journey

Oct 25th: cut out

Whenever I cook, the taste is not good.
Maybe I'm not cut out for cooking.

cut out: To suit or fit by nature

Oct 24th: goof around

For the first two days of fall break, I was just goofing around.

goof around: do nothing

Oct 23rd: butterflies in one's stomach

I did have a test yesterday.
I had butterflies in my stomach before the test!!

butterflies in one's stomach: nervous

Oct 22nd: water cooler

MAN: You and me working under the same roof, gossiping by the water cooler.
WOMAN: Yeah, or being gossiped about.

water cooler talks: gossips

I think we had similar idiom in ESL... do you remember? 

Oct 21st: The feeling is mutual

A: I guess I just don't like you very much.
B: The feeling is mutual.


Or this is the better example.

A: I like you so much! You are gorgeous!
B: The feeling is mutual :)

Oct 20th: juggle around

A man called and said. "I'll come to you this weekend!"

A woman said.
"
Oh, that a short notice!
I'll just have to juggle some things around.
I'm working this weekend.
"


juggle around: "to alter the position or sequence of someone or something"

Oct 19th: back on one's feet

Rest, fluids, some Antibiotics and you will be back on your feet in no time.

When you catch a cold, the doctor can say 
"Rest, fluids, some antibiotics and you will be back on your feet in no time"

back on one's feet: recovered from an illness and out of one's sickbed.