affair/əˈfeə(r)/ n 事件;事情;公共事務;風流韻事
world/international/business affairs 世界、國際、商務事務
an expert on foreign affairs外事專家(外交事務)
The newspapers exaggerated the whole affair wildly(exaggerate[ɪɡˈzædʒəreɪtɪd]
:誇張,誇大。wildly adv 極其,非常)
She is having an affair with her boss暧昧關系
affair
對比:accident、incident 和 affair 的差別?
accident更加強調“意外事故”,車禍,火災等;incident是指事件,可以經過策劃的,特定的時間也可以表示意外的事故;affair如果在指個人感情、生活方面更加常用。
scandal/ˈskændl/ n 醜聞
記憶:(這)厮幹的!可以聯想指認西門慶的現場!
a series of sex scandals 一系列醜聞
newspapers full of scandal充斥醜聞的報紙
An exaggerated devotion is the scandal of our sex.過分的虔誠是我們女人的醜行(devotion,來自devote v 奉獻,緻力于)
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anecdote/ˈænɪkdəʊt/ n 奇聞轶事
記憶:哎你可(真)逗!當你聽到别人講的故事,被裡面精巧的設計所感染,拍大腿稱贊别人:哎!你可真逗。a-ne-c-do-te
amusing anecdotes about his brief career as an actor趣聞轶事(amusing來自amuse:使···娛樂,消遣)
This research is based on anecdote not fact.(research來自search,re-反複搜尋,就是調查了)
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