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Cruise Terminal

 

Kai Tak cruise terminal 啓德郵輪碼頭

例子：The soft launch in mid June of the HK$8.2 billion new cruise terminal at the old Kai Tak airport site appears to have passed the opening test.

 

soft launch非正式啟用

 

terminal vs. terminus

 

terminal 和 terminus 貌似相同，意思卻不大一樣！Terminal 是「站」，terminus 則是「總站」。

 

terminal   ► a big building where people wait to get onto the vehicles

terminus  ► the station or stop at the end of a railway or bus line

 

Soft launch 指非正式啟用，用意不外乎是試試水溫，生活中有不少用語都用上 soft，讓我們一起看看吧！

 

  • soft copy 電腦副本
  • soft drink 汽水
  • soft focus (攝影的) 柔焦
  • soft fruit (僅英式英語) 體積小的生果
  • soft landing 軟著陸  (反義詞：crash landing)

 

cruise ship/ vessel/ liner 郵輪

例子：The 3,000-passenger cruise ship docked at the Kai Tak cruise terminal.

 

docked 停泊

 

More on “cruise”:

 

cruise 郵輪假期  

(noun 名詞)

例子：Our family has decided to go on a Mediterranean cruise this summer.

 

cruise (優哉悠哉地)漫遊

(verb 動詞)

例子：We were cruising around the Caribbean all winter.

 

cruise 車輛保持速度前行

(verb 動詞)

例子：We were cruising along at 60 km/hr.

 

cruise 遊車河

(verb 動詞)

例子：He didn’t feel happy and cruised up and down the coast road.

 

cruise 到酒吧或其他公眾地方尋找性伴侶

(verb 動詞)

例子：Some of my colleagues love to go cruising the singles bars every day after work. 

 

berth 郵輪泊位

例子：There are two berths at the Kai Tak cruise terminal.

 

More on “berth”:

 

to give sb/sth a wide berth  俾個大位佢泊 = 退避三舍

(idiom 慣用語)

例子：I have been giving my revision a wide berth though the exam is drawing near.

 

tonnage 郵輪排水量

例子：The Kai Tak cruise terminal has two alongside berths and are well equipped with supporting facilities to accommodate the concurrent berthing of two mega cruise vessels with gross tonnage of up to 220,000 tonnes.

 

More on “mega”:

 

mega   ► very big and impressive or enjoyable

(adjective 形容詞)

例子：The song “Skyfall” by Adele was a mega hit.

 

mega-   ► a million, extremely, very big

(prefix)

例子：megabyte (Mb) ► one million bytes

例子：megarich  ► extremely rich

例子：megastar  ► very famous star

例子：megastore  ► very big store

 

infrastructure project 基建項目

例子：Although there were teething problems such as leakage on the roof and grumbles about transport connections, given time and better co-ordination, the new cruise terminal is well positioned to become another infrastructure project we can be proud of.

 

teething problems 必經的小問題

 

嬰兒出牙，少不免不適和哭鬧，英語是 teething。萬事起頭難，人們便把 teething problems 引申為必經階段的小問題，過了就好，確是智慧之言！

 

More on “grumble”:

 

grumble + at/about sth. 埋怨／發牢騷

(verb 動詞)

例子：Customers have kept grumbling about the poor services of this restaurant.

 

grumpy 脾氣暴躁的

(adjective 形容詞)

例子：Many bosses are grumpy in the morning for no reasons.

   
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