•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•Out of date (idiom) -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 that are out of date are no longer useful or correct because they are not based on recent changes or developments.(失效的,不合時宜的)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1.Current regulations in this regard are out of date.
2.The technology being used in some employment agencies is hopelessly out of date.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。