Tuesday 26 March 2024

adulation 阿谀奉承

flattery, excessive admiration or praise.

e.g. He found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans.

Saturday 9 March 2024

calisthenic 保健操

calisthenics is a form of exercise that uses a person's body weiht and requires little to no equipment. Examples of calisthenic exercises include pushups, crunches and burpees.

Sunday 3 March 2024

slapdash 草率

adj. done too hurriedly and carelessly.

Examples:

he gave a slapdash performance

He had a slapdash way of working

Wednesday 29 November 2023

rife 盛行的,普遍的

adjective. (especially of something undesirable) of common occurrence; widespread.

adverb. in an unchecked or widespread manner.

Examples:

speculation ran rife that he was an arms dealer

bullying is rife regardless of sex but is more prevalent in white British populations

Sunday 26 November 2023

diaspora 侨居,移民,离散

diaspora /dʌɪˈasp(ə)rə

the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland

Examples:

the Latin American diaspora has spread across the United States

migration and diaspora

Chinese diaspora 华侨

Wednesday 22 November 2023

bigotry 偏见

unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

"the difficulties of combating prejudice and bigotry"

"It allows us to talk about issues such as transphobia without the potential for seriously upsetting trans kids who play the game, as they can be shown the topic of bigotry through people writing dragons off as beasts who just want to burn villages instead of any real transphobic comments they may already be dealing with in their real life."

Thursday 18 August 2022

misnomer 用词不当

A misnomer is a name that is incorrectly applied to something. For example, the name of French fries is a misnomer, and that they should actually be called Belgian fries.

adulation 阿谀奉承

flattery, excessive admiration or praise. e.g. He found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans.