2012.08.16

trail

homogeneous
heterogeneous

place settings

half-assed
=>A half-assed idea or plan is stupid or has not been considered carefully enough
I don’t want to buy something half-assed.

Dream on!

pilot program

come up against
we might come up against some resistance from the community.

pave the way
=>If something paves the way for/to something else, it makes the other thing possible
When you’re paving the way, you’re always going to have skeptics and dissenters.

skeptic
dissenter
持异议者

at stake
=>If something that is valuable is at stake, it is in a situation where it might be lost
Thousands of lives will be at stake if emergency aid does not arrive in the city soon.
but there’s a lot at stake.

scrap
=>[T] to not continue with a system or plan
They're considering scrapping the tax and raising the money in other ways.
We scrapped our plans for a trip to France.

From your lips to God’s ears!
=>I hope it's true.

IIRC
=>internet abbreviation for if I remember correctly