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0Q: Are there any positive benefits of laziness and procrastination? 问:懒惰和拖延症有任何积极作用吗? Answered by Karthik Venkatesh Karthik Venkatesh 回答: Let me tell you my story. 我来讲一个我自己的故事吧。 I have a 29 character password for my facebook and twitter. When I have to work, I just log off from these. So, whenever I feel like taking a break and using facebook, I am just too lazy to type my password. Eventually, owing to my laziness, I go back to work and have a really productive day. 我的脸书和推特账号的密码都有29个字符。当我
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0The British in particular are becoming more creative. 尤其是英国人,正在变得越来越有创造性。 注释: in particular表示“尤其,特别”,强调特指你所说的某个人或者某个物品。如果你想说,没什么重要的、没什么特别的,就可以说nothing/nobody in particular。 我们也可以用particularly或者especially来表示“尤其,特别,格外”,那么,这几个词之间有什么区别呢? 在表示“尤其,特别”的时候,particularly的意思和in particular更接近,均指所述尤其适用于某一样事物,其
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0The latest issue of the magazine will come out next Monday. 最新一期的杂志将于下周一出版。 注释: issue在本句中指报刊、杂志的“期,号,版次”,表示最近一期可以说the latest issue,“五月刊”则可说the May issue。做动词时,issue也可表示“发表,发布”。 需要注意的是,想表示“月刊”的话应该用monthly,半月刊是semimonthly。在英式英语中,半月刊还可以用fortnightly来表示,指“每两周一次的,隔周发行的”,美语中则用biweekly。 杂志的出刊周期大都分为:周刊
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0He's bulked up quite a bit since he's been going to the gym. 由于一直去健身房健身,他长壮实了很多。 注释: bulk up指身体变得强壮,尤其是指健身增加肌肉量。除此以外,bulk up还可指“增加,积累”,尤其指增加厚度,如,“Proper citation of referenced materials can ‘bulk up’ a short paper.”这里用bulk out也是可以的。 If someone or something bulks up or bulks out, they become bigger or heavier. If someone bulks up or if they bulk up their body, they put on weight in the form of extra muscle. quite a bit指“很
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0No sooner had it stopped raining than a beautiful rainbow appeared. 雨刚停,天空中就出现了一道美丽的彩虹。 注释: no sooner ... than指“一……就……”,表示后者紧跟前者发生。no sooner部分为主句,常用过去完成时,than引导时间状语从句,常用一般过去时。在原句中,no sooner位于句首,表强调,主句部分必须倒装,而than后面的部分不用倒装。原句还可以换一种说法,即: It had no sooner stopped raining than a beautiful rainbow appeared. 与no sooner ... than用法、释义类似的还有har