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WORDS AND USAGE

時間:2016-12-02 03:15:07來源:大公網

Gazette (verb)

●To announce or publish (something) in an official gazette.(刊憲)   

Examples:

1.This is the same Minister who sacks boards of trustees without gazetting it.

2.We will need to gazette the bill if a decision cannot be reached imminently.  

Pigs might fly (idiom)

●Something that you say which means you think there is no chance at all of something happening.

(不可能發生的事,太陽從西邊出來)

Examples:

1.Tom gives up smoking? Yes , and pigs might fly!

2.I'll have finished it by tomorrow." "And pigs might fly!"

In keeping with sth (idiom)

●Conforming to something; in harmony with something.(與…一致,符合…)

Examples:  

1.In keeping with tradition, they always have turkey on Christmas Day.  

2.His actions are not in keeping with his words.

Alarmist (adj.)

●Intentionally showing only the bad and dangerous things in a situation, and so worrying people.

(危言聳聽,大驚小怪的)

Examples:  

1.The government has dismissed newspaper reports of 200 dead as being alarmist.  

2.Some people have worried that parts of the series were overly alarmist.

Sit/stand idly by (idiom)

●To remain indifferent, doing nothing to help.

  (坐視不理)

Examples:

1.I do not intend to stand idly by while my children need my help.  

2.The wealthy man sat idly by while the poor people starved.

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