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期末考試，考出真功夫！不過，有學生卻把心思放在作弊奇招，恐有本末倒置之虞：

There have been online cheating videos created by high school and college students which demonstrate elaborate techniques designed to boost examination scores.

 

elaborate

(adjective 形容詞)

 

1. 詳盡的

2. 精心製作的；精巧的

例子：They made elaborate costumes for the drama show.  

          他們為這齣話劇精心製作服裝。

 

elaborate 詳盡說明; 闡述

(verb 動詞)

 

例子：I don’t understand what you are saying. Can you elaborate?

 

boost 激勵,鼓舞; 增加,改進

(verb 動詞)

 

► boost 激勵,鼓舞; 增加,改進

(noun 名詞)

 

例子：The victory was a boost to the team .   這勝利對團隊是一個很大的鼓舞。

 

► give sbd/sth a boost

 

例子：If you cannot reach the top, I can give you a boost you (up) a bit.

 

那些影片都說什麼？ What do the videos show?

In these cheating videos, the students demonstrated that they understood the procedures of their own educational institutions and had learned a different approach to the sequences of operations involved in the minutiae of test-taking – an approach that might guarantee higher scoring success.

 

minutiae 微小細節

(noun 名詞)

= very small and exact but unimportant details (讀音：mɪˈnjuːʃɪˌiː)

 

例子：His research is concerned with the minutiae of rural life.

 

「成功」在英語的各種詞性該怎麼用？試看下列例句：

success

(noun 名詞)

例子：His business is a great success.

 

succeed

(verb 動詞)

例子：He has succeeded in his business.

 

successful

(adjective 形容詞)

例子：His business is successful.

 

同學們奇招盡出，幾乎所有文具都改裝成「出貓」道具，著實「苦心」：

The videos show, step by step, how to create fake drink bottle labels in Photoshop to hide formulae, how to stuff pen shafts with answer scrolls, and how to write detailed foreign-language conjugations on stretched-out rubber bands.

 

stuff 塞(入；滿)

(verb 動詞)

 

stuffed 飽 (passive 被動式) 

 

例子：I’m stuffed.

 

► stuff (虛指) 東西

(noun 名詞)

 

例子：What’s that stuff?

例子：I’ve got so much stuff to do.

例子：Stuff like that.

 

Kevin 教室

你記得，你忘記；使用remember和forget時英文語法的細微差別，意思大為不同，隨時記得變失憶！

 

Grammar: Verb-ing  vs.  To verb

remember + verb-ing  vs.  remember + to verb

例子：Do you remember reading the textbook?　你記得看過這本教科書嗎？

例子：Remember to read the textbook.　記著要讀課本。

 

forget + verb-ing  vs.  forget + to verb

例子：Don’t forget to lock the door!

例子：Don’t forget locking the door!

 

 

   
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