
華人熟悉的egg roll(蛋捲)及spring roll(春捲)
共同字roll代表「捲餅」。
roll第二種用法代表「名單,名冊」,
call the roll代表「點名」的動詞片語。
例如:The coach is calling the roll.

華人熟悉的egg roll(蛋捲)及spring roll(春捲)
共同字roll代表「捲餅」。
roll第二種用法代表「名單,名冊」,
call the roll代表「點名」的動詞片語。
例如:The coach is calling the roll.

谷歌公司美國加州總部所在英文為Googleplex
是因為英文complex代表「(統一規劃過的)一群建築物」的意思
例如:an apartment complex住商「綜合」公寓「大樓」
在日常生活中我們熟悉complex有「構造複雜的」的用法。
例如:A successful entrepreneur has a complex personality.

TOEIC(多益)藍色證照(730-855分)考生,平時可以自主性閱讀歐美知名媒體財經報導。
每日閱讀一篇(中)高階英文原文,是累積TOEIC金色證照(860-990分)詞彙量及增進閱讀實力的不二法門。
例如:以下新聞內容擷取於今日Bloomberg(彭博社)新聞網站。
It’s been quite a journey for the US economy over the past several years, from pandemic supply chain upheaval to the Federal Reserve’s hyper-focused battle against inflation. Consumers have kept spending, and the job market has proven perpetually robust, with predictions of recession regularly falling flat. Now, the central bank’s aggressive interest rate-hike campaign is bearing fruit as the red-hot labor landscape begins to cool, with employers slowing hiring in October and the unemployment rate rising slightly to a still low 3.9%. Employees do remain in a position of power, securing record-breaking wage hikes and contract wins, not the least of which was the victory notched by striking United Auto Workers against the Big Three automakers.
(美國經濟在過去幾年裡經歷了一個相當漫長的旅程,從全球流行病的供應鏈劇變到美國聯邦儲備銀行對通貨膨脹的超級關注。消費者持續消費,就業市場一直表現強勁,預測經濟衰退的預測經常落空。現在,中央銀行積極的加息行動正在取得成果,因為火熱的勞動市場開始降溫,十月份雇主招聘減緩,失業率略微上升至仍然較低的3.9%。員工仍處於有權力的地位,獲得破紀錄的工資漲幅和合同勝利,其中之一是聯合汽車工人對抗三大汽車製造廠商所取得的勝利。)

「消毒劑,除菌劑」英文為disinfectant,
是因為英文字根fect代表「做」的意思。
平時我們熟悉perfect(完美的)及
imperfect(不完美的)兩個口語英文字彙
表達對人事物是否滿意的程度

當你閱讀以下the Associated Press(美聯社)標題時,
“At least 16 dead in Maine shootings as suspect remains at large”
是否對於at large英文片語有丈二金剛弄不清意思的無力感?
但當你繼續閱讀標題下第一完整句子後,
“The person of interest in a mass shooting in Maine is a firearms instructor and remains at large, officials say.”

excursion →n.一日遊旅行;遠足
字源:ex外面+cur跑+ion行為、結果
口訣:「在外面跑的行為」→n.遠足;一日遊旅行
例句:International tourists are fond of going on an excursion to Zurich.
(國際觀光客喜歡到蘇黎世一日遊。)

當你背誦expel及repel兩個易混淆動詞時,可以用字根、拆字、口訣、助記片語四大方法,讓你深入學習expel及repel不同處。
🌷方法一:字根
共同字根pel代表push(驅使),drive(駕駛)
expel→v.驅逐,趕走;把…除名;開除
repel→v.擊退,驅除;排斥,抵制;使厭惡,使反感

中英文是截然不同的語系,當華人在背誦infringe動詞,代表「侵犯、違反」時,不如用「字根、拆字、口訣」方法,幫助自己深入學習fringe、infringe、infringement三個高階(時事英文)閱讀生字。
🌷方法一:字根
fringe→n.(地區或群體的)邊緣,周邊;穗,緣飾,流蘇
My new job is on thefringe of the city, making my commute a bit longer.
(我的新工作在城市的邊緣,使我的通勤時間變得更長。)