預產期什麼時候?
When is the baby due?
When are you due?
effeminate(-)
girlish(-)
sissy(-)
feminine(neutral)
feminine可形容女生也可形容男生
rise to fame = become famous
pick on somebody = tease/bully/harass somebody
Stop harassing me! 別煩我!
a wholesome person (人一旦長大就不可能wholesome了)
-means the person is healthy, honest, naive...
Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free?
(此句用來形容婚姻,為什麼結婚?如果情侶同居,和結婚沒什麼兩樣)
drench 濕透
We were caught in the rain and we got drenched.
She drenched herself in perfume.
toll booth收費站
interviewee受面試者
interviewer面談者
weave princess織女
quack 庸醫
the right words at the right time
take pleasure in something = indulge in something
ballerina 芭蕾舞中的女主角
luscious 甘美多汁的,美味的
delicious
savory
frivolous 輕浮的
silly
shallow
clown fish
tuna 鮪魚
sea anemone 海葵
shark
stingray 黃貂魚
turtles
jelly fish
sponge
globefish 河豚
tropical fish
A school's campus is the buildings plus the grounds.
A shuttle bus is free.
面試
It went well.
It went badly.
工作面試失敗不用fail
I fail the interview. (X)
I don't get the job. (O)
如果不只一次面試
I got a
second interview.
A gymnastic contestant = A gymnast (n.)
An M.C. 一般主持人
host, presenter 大場面的主持人 (ex. Oscar)
Nothing special has happened yet today.
Nothing special has happened so far.
co-signer
My mom is my co-signer.
A cosigner is a person of the age of majority who agrees to pay the borrower's debt if the borrower is unable to.
如果中午,但是到早餐店吃午餐不說吃breakfast,而是breakfast food,breakfast這個字的重點在時間而非吃的東西。
Sth. is on the rocks: Sth. has problems.
ex. Their relationship is on the rocks.
The advent of sth. ~的出現,到來 ( the first appearance)
ex. The advent of computers makes students' life easier.
descendant 子孫 ancestor 祖先
→ You don't know who they are.
不說自己的孩子是自己子孫,
或是自己阿公阿罵是自己的祖先,
descendant 和 ancestor指的是
很久很久以後與很久很久很久以前。
eke out an existence
= barely stay alive
catastrophic(a.) = very damaging
soundly = completely
soundly win/beat