1. 這是個(gè)什么詞？
詞：hybrid
英英釋義：something that consists of or comes from a mixture of two or more other things
例句：Sushiritto is a hybrid based on Mexican and Japanese cuisines.
2. 為什么選這個(gè)詞才顿？
“hybrid”可以是形容詞可以是名詞笔喉，作名詞它的意思是“混合體”嘹狞。我們生活中有很多東西其實(shí)是兩種或多種東西結(jié)合的產(chǎn)物志膀，這些東西我們都可以用 hybrid慨灭。下面我們通過幾個(gè)例子掌握它的用法陆馁。
舊金山有一家健康快餐店岖免，叫 Sushirrito, 食品和名字一樣岳颇，都是 sushi 和 burrito 的結(jié)合，我們就可以說：
Sushiritto is a hybrid based on Mexican and Japanese cuisines.
秘魯有一種菜叫 Chifa颅湘，在傳統(tǒng)秘魯菜的基礎(chǔ)上吸收了粵菜的元素话侧，可以說：
Chifa is a Peruvian culinary hybrid taking in Chinese Cantonese elements.
類似地，越南法棍（Bánh mì ）是傳統(tǒng)法棍基礎(chǔ)上的變種闯参；鴛鴦咖啡是奶茶加咖啡瞻鹏，描述這些食物時(shí)就可以用到 hybrid。 有的音樂兼具多種風(fēng)格鹿寨，很難簡(jiǎn)單粗暴地歸類新博，我們就可以用 hybrid：
This song feels like a unique hybrid of blues, country, and pop.
這家公司和其他公司都不太一樣，兼具創(chuàng)業(yè)公司的靈活性和大公司的戰(zhàn)略性脚草，可以說：
This company is sort of a hybird: it has the flexibility of startups and the strategy of corporations.
下面來看《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》中的幾個(gè)例子：
1）Even compared with other such open-source projects, Mozilla remains an unusual hybrid. It boasts a volunteer workforce of nearly 23,000 that contributes about half of the company’s computer code in exchange for little more than recognition from their peers and the satisfaction of chipping in to a project they believe in. But it also has 1,100 paid employees, two-thirds of them programmers.
2）There is a tendency, however, to refer to motors supplied only by batteries as “pure” electric systems, whereas those that employ both batteries and an on-board generator are known as hybrids.
3）America is less exceptional—because, like baseball, more of a European-accented hybrid—than it often considers itself to be.
4）It is China’s most admired and valuable firm, worth a cool $400bn. For the past five years it has also been a hybrid that straddles the superpowers, because its shares are listed only in America. Now it is considering a $20bn flotation in Hong Kong, according to Bloomberg.（這里說的是阿里巴巴）
3. 怎樣學(xué)會(huì)使用這個(gè)詞赫悄？
1）翻譯下面的句子：
這座建筑兼具東西方風(fēng)格。
This building is a hybrid of Western and Eastern architectural aesthetics.
（參考翻譯：This building is a hybrid of Western and Eastern architectural aesthetics.)
2）結(jié)合自己的生活馏慨、學(xué)習(xí)埂淮、工作、興趣等写隶，想象在什么語境下會(huì)用到這個(gè)表達(dá)倔撞。先簡(jiǎn)要描述這個(gè)場(chǎng)景，再造句慕趴。
例子： 上海是一座兼具東西方文化的城市痪蝇。
場(chǎng)景：Shanghai is a hybrid of Western and Eastern cultural city.
