If there is a Netflix series at the end of this year that has received a lot of attention and is still a "black and red" trend, it must be the second season of "Emily in Paris". Colorful costumes and beautiful street scenes in Paris are ridiculed to reproduce the dog blood plot of the classic bridge section of "Little Times", and the exaggerated but funny portrayal of French culture. Casually bring out a topic point, can properly dominate the hot search.
Putting aside its own controversy and eye-catching places, this drama still has many highlights. First of all, pleasing to the eye and related to fashion topics can already soothe many audiences who are tired of reality, and secondly, a large number of workplace vocabulary and life scenes can enrich our daily vocabulary.
Even if the rating of the second season is low, the third season has been successfully renewed, so the lively and bright plot tone is also very suitable for the New Year, everyone might as well enjoy while learning!
1. showcase
As an American girl, Emily was able to travel to her dream fashion capital of Paris to take charge of the social media strategy of a luxury marketing company, so it is foreseeable that the play is indispensable to workplace-related vocabulary. In fact, if the context is in a museum, the showcase is most likely the kind of glass display cabinet that stores expensive items, but in professional life, the showcase is basically "full display; the opportunity to show the advantages".
For example, if the museum has an exhibition that aims to fully display the style of European architecture, then it can actually be said: The main aim of the exhibition at the museum is toshowcaseEuropean architecture. By analogy, when the company boss says that something or project needs to be showcased, most of them are fully displayed, and the corners and corners are introduced to the rest of the team to understand
At the same time, showcase can also be understood as a noun, usually refers to the most suitable opportunity or occasion to show the advantages of a thing, for a film, the most suitable place to show themselves is the film festival, if you want to introduce more specifically, for example, the excellent display occasion of Italian films is the Venice Film Festival, you can say that The Venice Film Festival has always been theshowcase of Italian cinema.
I hope that after learning this vocabulary, everyone will not encounter the situation of hearing the showcase but not knowing what it means in the workplace in the new year!
2. tacky
Since it is related to fashion luxury goods, there will be a lot of adjectives in the play to evaluate clothing or luxury goods, most of which have been seen, tacky is a relatively new one, it means "inferior quality; aesthetic tacky", in short, no matter which meaning, basically has nothing to do with praise.
In some gift shops, souvenirs sold are somewhat cheap and not very good-looking, so to speak: The shop soldtackysouvenirs and ornaments. The little brother in the play is also commenting that this suitcase is very tacky, so he used tacky. It is recommended that when you are in front of others, try not to use this word as an evaluation.
3. renovation
In the play, the handsome French chef's restaurant is doing new decorations, and many people are invited to experience the menu, and the owner said in the introduction, we are renovating, this renovation and renovation is renovation, doing a totalrenovation is a complete renovation.
In fact, its verb form renovate is also worth learning, for example, if someone comes to visit your beautiful home that you have renovated, you can say at the introduction: The house/kitchen/living room wasrenovateda couple of months ago.
You may also hear that many people make money by renovating old houses and then increasing the price by a certain percentage of the price, and if you learn the word, you can describe it more professionally: He/Sherenovatesold houses and sells them at a profit.
4. calculated
I believe that the word calculate is familiar to everyone, know that it is the meaning of calculation, more neutral and objective, but in fact, the meaning of the adjective calculated from it is relatively less neutral.
Its first meaning is "deliberate", which is more commonly paired with relatively vicious events, such as calculated attacks. In some cases, you will also hear people say that this is a crime that is unjustified and deliberately planned, at which point we say: It was a cruel, calculated crimewith absolutely no justification.
Calculated also means "planned", or there are some carefully planned meanings in it, such as when it comes to election time, a candidate's strategy is not so easy to win so many votes for him, a very authentic expression is: It's a policy that was hardlycalculated to(= will not) win votes.
5. protocol
As a native American, the heroine and her French friends went to a massage bath shop, and after entering, she didn't know what to do and wasn't sure how to greet other people in compliance, so she would say I don't know yourprotocol. This is actually a good inspiration, everyone goes to a foreign country to avoid jokes, you can ask the host in advance What's theprotocol?
In most cases, however, protocols can be used to denote very formal etiquette and decency, such as diplomatic etiquette is diplomaticprotocol, and violations of royal etiquette are a breach of Royalprotocol, and it is highly recommended to replace politeness in formal contexts.
6. bungle
In American colloquialism, a very common phrase is mess up, often used to mean to mess up something, I messed it up is I screwed things up, here bungle can actually be regarded as a synonym for mess up, it means "mess up, clumsily mess things up".
For example, if the company runs a campaign, but the whole process is a bit messed up, it can be said: He/Shebungledbadly in the campaign. Whether it's a specific job or an interview event, if you mess up, you can just say bungle:He/Shebungledthe job/interview.
7. get back at
Usually when it comes to revenge, everyone may think of revenge, but in fact, revenge as the meaning of revenge, is much heavier than the context of our daily life, so there is an excellent phrase to use at this time: get back at, which means to retaliate against someone (followed by specific people).
Let's start with the example of the workplace, there may be a colleague who is outspoken and says something he shouldn't have said at the conference, hated by a colleague who can't get over the face, and is retaliated against in the open and in the dark, which can be said: I think he's trying toget back ather for those remarks she made in the meeting.
In various sitcoms, the male and female protagonists sometimes fight for the wind and jealousy, and they also commit such unwise retaliation, and the protagonist can often be heard asking: Are you trying to get back at me? Or I'll get you back for this, just you wait! You can also use it as appropriate when you have a daily quarrel.
8.Parisian
Everyone knows that Paris in English (in fact, in French) is Paris, according to the suffix law that -ian can mean "Parisian", and it is worth noting that the formal character P needs to be capitalized. However, it does not simply mean Parisians, it also often means "Parisian-related, Parisian-specific", such as She's got that Parisian chic. That is to say, she has that Kind of Parisian fashion.
The heroine's good friend said in the play, Parisian dinner party, probably the kind that can be imagined, dressed in fancy clothes on the romantic street, enjoy the happiness of French food and wine.
9.sublime
For intermediate English scholars, the lack of adjectives is sometimes a significant problem, and it seems that there are not too many praise words except for the amazing extraordinary, and today's sublime can expand everyone's vocabulary, which means "excellent, extremely pleasant". For example, stunning beauty is sublime beauty, and if you see particularly good passages in books or film and television works, you can also say: The book has sublime descriptive passages.
Here I would like to add a phrase to you, from the sublime to the ridiculous, which means from noble to absurd / from sublime to vulgar, for example, the works on fashion exhibitions are uneven, good and bad, you can say: The dresses in the fashion show went/ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous.
10.footing
Footing from the root of the word foot, in fact, the meaning is not difficult to guess, indicating "standing firm", which is quite a bit of a Chinese meaning of standing firm. So the heroine's speech at the birthday party I'm still getting my footing can be understood as "I haven't established myself yet". In everyday expressions it can also refer to maintaining balance in the literal sense, such as I lost/missed my footing and fell.
Of course, it can also refer to the double meaning of literal and extended meaning, for example, someone says that it was a struggle just to keep my footing. It may be that it is difficult to maintain his or her position in a certain situation, or it may be that he is at a stage of struggle in his life.
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