Words and phrases
1活尊,The unemployment rate for young black men post-apartheid shot up, sometimes as high as 50 percent.
shoot up?猛漲
例如:Outside, the temperature, which had been below freezing for the past week, had shot up to the fifties.室外的溫度在過(guò)去一星期里一直在零下隶校,但那天卻猛升到零上十多度。
我收集了一些表示“上升下降”的單詞 分享在這里
表示“上升”的單詞:? increase 蛹锰、rise 惠况、grow ,up 、swell 宁仔、climb 稠屠、escalate逐步增強(qiáng) 、multiply 翎苫、snowball权埠、mushroom 、mount up 煎谍、hike up 攘蔽、jack up 、spiral 呐粘、step up 满俗、scale up 转捕、bump up
還有一部分詞專(zhuān)門(mén)強(qiáng)調(diào)“突然上升”、“激增”唆垃、“大幅上升”的意思
jump 五芝、leap 、shoot up , spike,? leapfrog辕万、skyrocket 枢步、soar ,zoom , surge, balloon
例如:Sales shot up by 9% last month.
rally 回升
pick up (貿(mào)易或經(jīng)濟(jì))好轉(zhuǎn)渐尿,改善 If trade or the economy of a country picks up, it improves.
關(guān)于“下降”的單詞:? ?fall ,decrease醉途、reduce 、down? ,dump,? decline , shed,? sink, ,lower,? slash砖茸、drop 隘擎、slide、slip 凉夯、shrink 、dip 恍涂、curtail 植榕、dwindle , diminish, descend
還有一些詞表示“劇烈的”下降。 plummet尊残、dive 炒瘸、plunge 、slump 寝衫、tumble
2顷扩,You can get by on next to nothing.
get by? 勉強(qiáng)過(guò)活慰毅;勉強(qiáng)應(yīng)付
例如:I'm a survivor. I'll get by.我挺過(guò)來(lái)了,我能應(yīng)付下去汹胃。
3婶芭,It was all crap he was boosting from people’s luggage.
boost? 偷竊
NAmE, informal, becoming old-fashioned) to steal sth
4,The color scheme is cinder block and corrugated iron, gray and dark gray, punctuated by bright splashes of color.
cinder? 煤渣着饥;灰燼
punctuate? 這里是強(qiáng)調(diào)的意思犀农;其他意思,加標(biāo)點(diǎn)于呵哨;不時(shí)打斷
例如:He made gestures to punctuate his speech.他打手勢(shì)來(lái)強(qiáng)調(diào)他的講話。
Thoughts
It’s easy to be judgmental about crime when you live in a world wealthy enough to be removed from it. But the hood taught me that everyone has different notions of right and wrong, different definitions of what constitutes crime, and what level of crime they’re willing to participate in.
在貧窮的大環(huán)境下孟害,他們根本無(wú)法真正的評(píng)價(jià)crime,因?yàn)楹芏嗳硕际且源藖?lái)維持生活纹坐,甚至有時(shí)候根本不知道買(mǎi)到的更便宜的東西是不是偷來(lái)的。Trevor那時(shí)也和周?chē)娜艘粯右詾?When white people lose stuff they get money, just another nice perk of being white. 貧窮最可怕的地方耘子,不是物質(zhì)的枯窘,而是精神上的窘迫谷誓,在無(wú)知無(wú)奈的情況下艱難謀生。你得謀生捍歪,你不得不做一些你自己有時(shí)都認(rèn)為不對(duì)的事情。知識(shí)的匱乏才是最根本的貧窮庐镐。