Affirm (verb)

　　● To state something as true.（肯定，確認）

　　Examples:　　

　　1.She affirmed her intention to apply for the post.　　

　　2.They affirmed that policies were to be judged by their contribution to social justice.

　　Be obsessed with sb/sth (idiom)

　　●Preoccupied with someone or something; unable to stop thinking about something.

　　（痴迷於…，執著於…，鬼迷心竅）

　　Examples:　　

　　1.Mankind has always been obsessed by power.　　

　　2.She is obsessed with personal hygiene.

　　Rather than (idiom)

　　●Used for saying that one thing is preferred to another or happens instead of another.

　　（而不是…）

　　Examples:　　

　　1.Rather than criticising your brother, why not find out if there's something wrong?　　

　　2.We want the matter settled sooner rather than later.

　　In this/that connection (idiom)

　　●You say in this connection or in that connection to indicate that what you are talking about is related to what you have just mentioned.

　　 （在這方面，在這一點上）

　　Examples:　　

　　1.The police has registered a case in this connection.　　

　　2.Five people have been arrested in that connection.

　　Nowadays (adverb)

　　●At the present time, in comparison to the past.

（如今，時下）

　　Examples:　　

　　1.Who remembers those movies nowadays?　　

　　2.Children challenge their parents' authority far more nowadays than they did in the past.