名詞
前夫現任的太太;現任丈夫的前妻。
例句:
"We never really knew what to call each other," Ms. Oxhorn-Ringwood said. "When Evan was a kid, I would call Louise my ex-husband's new wife, but after 10 years I couldn't do that anymore. We came up with stepwives to describe the relationship between ex-wives and current wives." (The New York Times,紐約時報)
亦寫成 step-wife。在 stepwife 出現後,以 step- 為首、用來表示「繼父」、「繼母」、「異父異母兄弟姊妹」或「夫與前妻或妻與前夫所生之小孩」等等意思的... [查看更多]
形容詞
教導學生基本社交技巧的課程或班級的
例句:
The Yerrabi Pathway social-skilling program had also been a great success, giving students basic understanding of how to listen and sit still in class. (The Canberra Times,坎培拉時報 _澳洲) [查看更多]
社會企業家 (利用商業方式成立和經營專門從事慈善事業或社會服務目的之公司的人士)。
例句:
Kelly is one of 25 social entrepreneurs — do-gooders with business savvy as well as compassion. (The Denver Post,丹佛郵報) [查看更多]
Every potter praises his own pot.
Explanation:
people are loath to refer to defects in their possessions or their family members
Example:
he said that his teacher considered his work brilliant, but I would rather hear it from his teacher’s own mouth. Every potter praises his own pot [查看更多]
What are the odds so long as you are happy.
Explanation:
what does anything else matter if a person is happy.
Example:
you complain so much, but you have a good family, parents, health, and money. What’s the odd so long as you’re happy. [查看更多]
What you lose on the swings you get back on the roundabouts.
Explanation:
a rough way of starting a law of average; if you have bad luck on one day you have good on another; if one venture results in loss try a fresh one---it may succeed.
Example:
he may always possess merits which make up for everything; if he loses on the swings, he may win on the roundabouts. [查看更多]
Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
Explanation:
one can not act wisely when one is angry or in a hurry.
Example: you should calm down before you decide the next move. Anger and haste hinder good counsel. [查看更多]
All lay load on the willing horse.
Explanation:
a willing horse is someone who is always doing things for others. Very often the implication is that others impose on him.
Examples:
the trouble is you're too good-natured and people take advantage of it. all lay load on the willing horse. You will have to learn to refuse people who ask too much. [查看更多]
After praising the wine they sell us vinegar.
Explanation: to offer to give or sell something that is inferior to what you claim it to be.
Example: that fellow completely misled us about what he was capable of doing. After praising the wine, he sold us vinegar. [查看更多]
連續企業家 (接二連三創立新公司的企業家)。
例句: I asked 15 or so well-connected people in the local tech community to talk about what trends, people and companies we should watch in 2001...Trends: There will be more serial entrepreneurs. Despite the carnage, some people can't help but start companies again. And again. (The Washington Post,華盛頓郵報) [查看更多]
破產的,倒閉的。
例句:
"More than 200 dot-coms have already gone sneakers-up," said Roger McNamee, a general partner at venture capital firm Integral Capital Partners in January, "and my guess is that it will be a small multiple of that this year." (The National Post,全國郵報 -- 加拿大)
這個字來自另一意思相同的字 belly-up;它們幾乎都是與 "go" 連用,形成 "go sneakers-up" 和 "go belly-up (or belly up)" 等片語,與大家熟悉的 "go bankrupt" 同義。... [查看更多]