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1. wolf down   狼吞虎咽

wolf: to eat greedily. (devour)

2. a stab of   一阵

a stab of regret/pain/jealousy/fear

3. savor: taste and enjoy

4. cut loose: free from control/act without restraint

5. thump: My head is thumping.

6. out of the blue: completely unexpectedly

7. boondoggle: unnecessary or wasteful project or activity.

8. fork out: pay money for something, especially reluctantly.

9. swell-What a swell idea!

swell: excellent/wonderful

10. Our sense of carpe diem was heightened by the fact that the world was coming to an end.

超级熟悉的carpe diem.

This Latin phrase, which literally means "pluck the day," was used by the Roman poet Horace to express the idea that we should enjoy life while we can. His full injunction, "carpe diem quam minimum credula postero,” can be translated as “pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one,” but carpe diem alone has come to be used as shorthand for this entire idea, which is more widely known as "seize the day."

The 1989 movie Dead Poets Society introduced late-20th-century audiences to the phrase, but the sentiment has been expressed in many literatures, perhaps most famously in 16th- and 17th-century English poetry. One of the best-known examples (and an example featured prominently in Dead Poets Society) is in the first stanza of Robert Herrick's 1648 "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time":