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WORDS AND USAGE

時間:2023-01-30 04:24:36來源:大公报

•Divorce (verb) –

To separate or dissociate something from something else, typically with an undesirable effect.(分割,脫離)

Examples:  

1.  Religion cannot be divorced from morality. 

2. Good management in the police cannot be divorced from accountability.

•Factor sth in/into (phrasal verb) -

to include something when you are doing a calculation, or when you are trying to understand something. (把…因素考慮在內)

Examples:  

1.You must factor insurance payments into the cost of maintaining a car. 

2.Total spending was virtually the same in real terms after factoring in inflation.

•Nine times out of ten/ninety-nine times out of a hundred (idiom) -

Usually; almost always. (十有八九,幾乎總是)

Examples:  

1.Nine times out of ten our opponents will beat us. We just hope this is the one in ten. 

2.Ninety-nine times out of a hundred when people say "I know how you feel", they are lying.

•Out of date (idiom) -

Laws, systems, processes, etc. that are out of date are no longer useful or correct because they are not based on recent changes or developments.(失效的,不合時宜的)

Examples:  

1.Current regulations in this regard are out of date. 

2.The technology being used in some employment agencies is hopelessly out of date.

•Gini Coefficient (noun) -

堅尼系數(內地譯為「基尼系數」),由意大利統計學家科拉多·堅尼(Corrado Gini,1884 – 1965)於1910年代首次提出,用於量度社會收入分布不平均的程度。該系數的數值介乎0(收入人人相同)與1(收入全歸某一個人)之間,數值越高,表示社會上收入分布不平均的程度越大。

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