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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Category: Alan’s Notes
You are easy on the eyes 中文
動物名也是動詞 的單字
有其父必有其子 英文
我沒有錢, 英文
flat tire 英文
flat tire當然是爆胎, 但今天在看電影Glass Onion時, 畫面上完全沒有車子, 輪胎, 怎麼flat tire?
flat tire在俚語是當一個人的鞋被另一個人踩到, 鞋子掉了.
ex. When I gave him a flat tire, everyone laughed.
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對…有興趣 英文
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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偷偷地
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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