Category: Eng-Voca

忘了在那裏學到這個字(handsy), 但它很好記, 剛好有hand, 再加個sy就是毛手毛腳 handsy

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up to scratch是說達到標準。比如說ChatGPT的回答沒有達到你的標準： the response was not exactly what you expected, or, indeed, up to scratch.

scratch golf是比一個人平均可以達到標準桿。18洞的標準桿是72.

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在一篇WSJ的文章(This Department-Store Stocks Has Trounced Apple, Amazon and Tesla)中講到Dillard’s的股價如何在這幾年打敗科技大咖

• Dillard’s是一家百貨公司

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在這篇WSJ講為什麼人們不再喜歡Merlot，它認為電影Sideways對Merlot的負評有很大的影響。

After the drubbing Merlot received in the movie “Sideways”….

drubbing: a beating

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很多賣房的廣告都會說那房子或社區緊鄰大商圏或大公園之類的。用abutting

East of Elliston Place and abutting the university, Centennial Park is his house. 他的房子緊鄰該大學和千禧公園

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interested…in

make overtures: To express a willingness, openness, or eagerness to pursue something, such as a relationship or an intended course of action.

在WSJ一篇報導加州一個小鎮,Nipton,的鎮長打算把她的小鎮賣掉, 一家馬戲團的公司有興趣買:

That is perhaps why, when a circus made an overture, she didn’t find the offer strange.

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大眾的用法是quietly. He quietly sits behind her.

高級的字是surreptitiously. A Russian merchant ship whose owner has allegedly carried weapons for the Kremlin turned off its transponder last month before surreptitiously docking at South Africa’s largest naval base. 一艘俄羅斯據信載著武器的商船偷偷地停泊在南非最大的海軍基地

也可用furtively:

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有些字就是用影音解釋最快, 最好. 開頭的那一段就是riff

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穿著很少的. e.g. scantily-clad women

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Glamping是Glamorous和Camping 兩個字合成出來的, 是豪奢露營.

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