6月14日商務英語

alarmist [?'lɑ:mist]

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危言聳聽者，喜歡咋呼的人（名詞）

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(noun) A person who intentionally alarms others by inventing or exaggerating rumors of future catastrophe.

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EXAMPLE: My cynical brother is well-known in our family as an alarmist who always predicts disasters at weddings and celebrations.

在我們家里，我那玩世不恭的兄弟出了名地喜歡咋呼，總是預言婚禮和慶典上要發生災難。

a world apart

天壤之別

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Collocation describing a condition, environment, or circumstance that is extremely different from normal life.

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EXAMPLE: When he arrived at his new university, the young student who had worked in grim factories for years, found that his new life was a world apart.

這位青年學生曾在冷血工廠做了幾年，來到新大學后，他發現新生活與過去有天壤之別。