2022-07

Hostile - 敵對的 (hostile audience)

Monumental - 龐大的 or 不朽的 (It's been a monumental effort)

Stay intact - 保持原樣

Prosecute - 起訴

From the get go - 從一開始

Monkey branch - 騎驢找馬的更換伴侶

Chime in - 幫腔 or 加入討論 

Vent - 發洩 (He had come to vent his rage and despair)

Disguise - 偽裝 (We took elaborate measures to disguise ourselves as locals)

*Serenity - 寧靜

*Loathe - 厭惡 (She loathed him on sight)

*Knee jerk reaction - 膝跳反應

*Predicament - 困境

*In the nutshell - 簡而言之

*Amicably - 友好地

*Indifferent - 冷漠

*Apathetic - 麻木不仁

*Hypocrisies - 虛偽 or 假仁假義

*Mantra - 咒語 or 真言

*Advertorial - 廣告文案

*Hypertrophy - 肥大 (肌肉)

*Miniscule - 微小的

*Hissy fit - 發病, 大多泛指女性發瘋行為 (She threw a hissy fit when she found out the last pair of shoes had been sold.)

*Cremation - 火葬, 火化

*Altruistic - 利他主義 

*Deviate - 偏離 (You must not deviate from the agreed route)

*Pragmatic - 務實

*Semblance - 表象的

*Animosity - 敵意 (he no longer felt any animosity toward her)

*Adamantly - 堅決地

*Getting duped - 上當受騙

*Sterilization - 消毒 or 絕育手術 (She had three children and had undergone sterilization)

*Light headed - 頭暈

*Malpractice - 瀆職

*Elaborate - 精心製作的

Good Usages

• *Whatever floats your boat - 做任何你所想做的事
• Something didn't move her boat - 不合某人的意
• *Different way to skin a cat - 同一件事有不同做法
• *You hit the nail exactly on the head - 說 or 做某事精確到位
• *It is just a figure of speech - an expression or word that is used with a metaphorical rather than a literal meaning, 僅是比喻而非真的去做
• *Benefit of the doubt - 無罪推定
• One of the thing I have been "stressing" to people - 向人強調某事
• Put a dent in the universe - 為世界留下正向的影響力