2018年7月13日 星期五

Barron's 800 essential words for the GRE (701-800)


1.      stanch (v.) 制止;止住(尤指出血)
The country's asylum laws were amended to stanch the flow/flood of economic migrants.
該國修訂避難法,阻止經濟移民的洪流。
Mike pressed hard on the wound and stanched the flow of blood.
麥克使勁壓住傷口,止住了出血。
2.      stentorian (a.) 大聲的;(嗓音)洪亮的
a stentorian preacher 聲若洪鐘的牧師
Suddenly a stentorian voice boomed across the room. 突然,從房間那頭傳來洪亮的聲音。

Barron's 800 essential words for the GRE (601-700)


1.      profound (a.) (1)強烈的;深沉的;極度的 (2) 造詣深的;思想深邃的
His mother's death when he was aged six had a very profound effect on him.
他六歲時母親的過世對他的影響很大。
The invention of the contraceptive pill brought about profound changes in the lives of women.
避孕藥的發明為女性的生活帶來了重大變化。
Those two lines of poetry express perfectly the profound sadness of loss.
那兩行詩貼切表達了失去親人的深切悲痛。
My grandfather has a profound mistrust of anything new or foreign.
我祖父對任何新生或外來事物有一種根深柢固的不信任。
There was a note of profound irritation in his voice. 他的語氣中帶有強烈惱怒。
profound truths/wisdom 深奧的真理/博大的智慧
The review that I read said that it was 'a thoughtful and profound film'.
我看過的評論說它是一部「有創意、有深度的電影」。
"Dying is easy - it's living that's the problem." "That was very profound of you, Steven."
「死很容易——活下去才是難題。」「史蒂文,你的話真深奧!」
2.      prohibitive (a.) (費用)高得負擔不起的,(價格等)使人望之卻步的
Hotel prices in the major cities are high but not prohibitive.
大城市裡的旅館費用昂貴,但還能負擔得起。
Property in the area tends to be prohibitively expensive (= so expensive that you cannot buy it).
該地區的房產日趨昂貴,真有點負擔不起。

Barron's 800 essential words for the GRE (501-600)

1.      miscellany (n.) (1) 混合物,大雜燴 (2) 雜記
The museum houses a fascinating miscellany of nautical treasures. 這家博物館收藏了一批令人著迷的各式航海珍寶。
She's just finished editing "A Miscellany of English Cookery".
她剛剛完成了《英國烹飪術》一書的編輯工作。
2.      miscreant (n.) 惡棍,無賴;歹徒
We need tougher penalties to discourage miscreants. 我們需要更嚴厲的刑罰來懲戒無賴之徒。

Barron's 800 essential words for the GRE (401-500)


1.      inadvertently (adv.) 非故意地,無意地
He inadvertently deleted the file. 他不小心把檔案刪除了。
All authors need to be wary of inadvertent copying of other people's ideas.
所有作者都需注意不要在無意中抄襲了他人的觀點。
2.      incarnate (a.) 化身的;人體化的
One survivor described his torturers as devils incarnate.
一名生還者形容拷打他的那些人是魔鬼的化身。

Barron's 800 essential words for the GRE (301-400)


1.      expiate (v.) 贖(罪);補償;彌補
to expiate a crime/sin 抵罪/贖罪
the expiation of a sin贖罪
2.      explicate (v.) 詳細解釋,詳細分析(作品或思想)
This is a book which clearly explicates Marx's later writings. 這本書詳細解讀了馬克思的晚期著作。

Barron's 800 essential words for the GRE (201-300)


1.      deride (v.) 嘲笑,譏笑
He derided my singing as pathetic. 他嘲笑說我的歌聲不堪入耳。
This building, once derided by critics, is now a major tourist attraction.
這座曾被評論家嘲笑的建築如今已成為一個主要的旅遊景點。
2.      derivative (a.) 缺乏獨創性的;模仿的 (n.) 衍生物,派生物;派生詞
His painting/style is terribly derivative. 他的油畫/風格有很重的模仿痕跡。
'Detestable' is a derivative of 'detest'. 生字 detestable 是從 detest 派生而來的。

Barron's 800 essential words for the GRE (101-200)


1.      bucolic (a.)田園的,鄉村的
The painting shows a typically bucolic scene with peasants harvesting crops in a field.
這幅畫描繪了農夫們在田裡收割莊稼的情形,展現了典型的田園風光。
2.      burgeon (v.) 迅速發展;快速生長
Love burgeoned between them. 他們雙雙迅速墜入愛河。
The company hoped to profit from the burgeoning communications industry.
公司希望能從迅速發展的通訊業中獲利。

Barron's 800 essential words for the GRE (1-100)

1.      abate (v.)減少;減弱;減輕;減退
The storm/wind/rain has started to abate. 暴風雨/風/雨開始減弱了。
The fighting in the area shows no sign of abating. 這個地區的戰事沒有任何緩和的跡象。
2.      abdicate (v.) 遜位;退(位),讓(位),正式放棄(王位)
King Edward VIII abdicated (the British throne) in 1936 so that he could marry Mrs Simpson, a divorced woman. 為了和離過婚的辛普森夫人結婚,英王愛德華八世在1936年退位(放棄英國王位)。
The council denied that their decision represented any abdication of responsibility.
議會否認他們的決議有任何放棄責任的意味。

2018年7月8日 星期日

[轉載] Ham it up 可不是請人幫你加片火腿

 [轉載] Ham it up 可不是請人幫你加片火腿
文/凌婕芸
Source: http://www.eisland.com.tw/Main.php?stat=a_vL05yEC

公司承接活動,Kim和外國同事一起到現場監場,看著台上的橋段,同事說了一句“ They are hamming it up.”Kim摸不著頭腦,火腿?在哪?

ham可以用來指稱演技拙劣的演員,變成動詞,用來描述某人表演的舉止過於誇張,過多情感而顯得做作,有時也可以是為了製造笑點而刻意做的表演方式。

我們談過 be cheesed off 是感到煩躁、挫敗、butter someone up是拍某人馬屁,這些用法讓英文有道地感,也讓句子生動,來看看其他從食物延伸的動詞片語。

1. egg someone on 慫恿、鼓動某人鼓勵別人去做某件事情,尤其用在那些不想做的、或可能帶來不好結果的事。
He's egging you on. But I suggest you think twice. It's not a small investment.
(他在催促你下決定,但我建議你再想想,這可不是小額投資。)