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*interminable - 沒完沒了的

*exerting - 使出/用力

*speculation - 投機

*convex - 凸的

*ethos - 風氣

heuristics - 啟發式

mediterranean - 地中海

martyrs - 烈士

inflammatory - 發炎的

difficult customer - 奧客

Eroded - 侵蝕

resonance - 共振

intervene - 干預

fathom - 捉摸/預測

omertà - 黑手黨的義氣/默契

tradcon - A person of traditionalist conservative politics.


Good Usages

  • Take matters in the merits - 就事論事

  • Live from paycheck to paycheck - 月光族

  • Kick rocks - 叫人滾

  • Holy grail - something that you want very much but that is very hard to get or achieve. (Finding a cure for cancer is the holy grail of medical researchers.)


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