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- City of toys
- Overtourism
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- Syrian refugee found new life in Canada
- Does an hour of sleep matter?
- Huge costs of warming impact
- The shop where it's ok to be different
- EU bans single-use plastics
- Legalization of Cannabis in Canada
- Getting to know your new HKID card
- Euthanasia
- Foreign language hits
- Populism
- Escape the corset
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Change of political landscape
最新一屆立法會投票創新高,到底給我們什麼啟示?
不少傘後組織及社運人獲選,反而好些多次連任的泛民議員出局,會否為立法會帶來新氣象?
signal 信號
(noun 名詞)
例子:When she gave the signal, they all cheered.
她發出信號後,他們都歡呼起來。
例子:The signal for a race to start is often the firing of a gun.
賽跑常以發令槍響作爲開始的信號
電腦常用字必定包括 install,在此有不一樣的意思:
install
(verb 動詞)
1. 安裝
例子:The plumber is coming tomorrow to install the new washing machine.
水管工明天來安裝新的洗衣機。
2. 正式任命
例子:He has installed a couple of young academics as her advisers.
他任用幾名年輕的大學教師作為顧問。
generation (社會或家庭的)一代(人),同代人,同輩人
(noun 名詞)
例子:The younger generation smokes less than their parents did.
年輕一代比他們父母這代人少吸煙。
例子:This painting has been in the family for generations.
這幅畫已被該家族收藏了數代之久。
activist 激進主義分子,行動主義分子;積極分子
(noun 名詞)
activisit不一定激進,但一定積極,熱心提倡他們的主張。
例子:He's been a trade union/party activist for many years.
他多年來都是工會/黨的積極分子。
cut their teeth 初試啼聲
例子:The brothers cut their professional teeth at a fast food store before starting their own restaurant.
sideline
(noun 名詞)
1. 副業,兼職工作
例子:Peter works in a bank, but teaches French in the evenings as a sideline.
彼德在銀行工作,晚上兼職教法語。
2. (尤指欖球場上的)邊線
例子:The ball fell just inside/on/outside the sideline.
球正好落在了邊線內/上/外。
除了以上意思,文中sideline其實有「被排除在外」的意味。
veteran
(noun 名詞)
1. 經驗豐富的人,老手
例子:He is 30-year veteran of the New York Police Department.
他是位在紐約警署任職30年的老警員。
2. 老兵,退伍軍人
例子:a Vietnam veteran 越戰退伍軍人
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