Gd2 Flashcards
Back issue of periodicals have been weeded by the library
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All the hard work will be undone
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It is high time that
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It goes without saying that
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It occurs to me that
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It turns out that
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It makes no difference that
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It is just as well that
幸好
It stands to reason that
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It happens to be
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It makes headline all over the world
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No contest
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By trial and error
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Years of hard work down to drain
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Come/follow hard/hot on the heels of sth
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Consider favourably
積極考慮
Call a truce
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Silence all your inner critics
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Don’t let angry feeling taint the precious time you have to spend
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A fresh bouquet of flowers
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Looking for a needle in a haystack
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Stuck out
冒出
A tall order
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Cut oneself completely free from sth
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Sever all unethical links
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Stem the tide
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Counter the influx of
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Play hardball
採取強硬態度
Be that as it may
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Any discernible legal provisions
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Substantiate our claim
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Caught unprepared
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Devise a plan
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This will prove to be pivotal
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Call for application
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Build up your academic capital
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Enhance our prestige and raise our profile
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It appears that
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Come to the fore
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Come of age
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Have their fingers on the pulse of the world
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Set sb. apart
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Starkly different from
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Seep into
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More often than not
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Grave concern
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Was embroiled in controversy
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Keep sb. at bay
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Loomed large
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Strike a chord with
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Hinge on
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Have been brutally trampled underfoot
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The tenacious hold of power
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Drawing a line between those within and those without
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Run the risk of
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Watch it dissolve without a trace
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The erasure of differences might entail a loss of individuality
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A place where we will be laid to rest one day
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Stand at one remove
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A state of anarchy
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Fall short of the expectations
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Stir up fierce controversy
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Trigger off an exodus of the Hong Kong population
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The population are sparse
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The final tally was 51 dead, 800 injured and 90 arrested
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Be in full swing
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Allay the fear of the eclipse of Hong Kong identity
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Come into force
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But… go the other way
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The incubus of… come back to haunt…
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Create ripples across the territory
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A take-it-or-leave-it option
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The society was enveloped insecurity and ambivalence
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Dampen the heat in
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As an antidote
作為對抗手段，矯正方法
Send the whole country into mourning
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Hongkongers were bitterly disillusioned by the crackdown
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Safe haven
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The acrimonious debate
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Perch on a tree branch
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Kowtow to Beijing
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Remain in flux
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They had no choice but to
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As the new millennium dawned,
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To antagonize China could be costly
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Sneak out of my seat
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I was punished for my naughty deed
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To fish in trouble waters
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Try to take advantage of a confused situation
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Strike while the iron is hot
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Go to great length to
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… , making up x% of the total number
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From its inception in 1999 to the year 2004
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Are put in the limelight
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Appear in the mass media to plug the title
宣傳
Beat sb by a narrow margin
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A sprinkling of sth
稀稀落落的
Alongside a large number of respected names
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Sth far outstripped sth
遠勝
Make the passage of time
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Is clawing its way to
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Keep … in check = keep … in control
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Guard against the overwhelming dominance
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Avant-garde
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An apt metaphor
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Fall out of scope of the present research
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Consciously or subconsciously
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Followed, deviated from or subverted
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Galvanised… into action
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Was given a strong boost
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Was low on his list of priorities
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They are independent, sometimes in competition, sometimes in harmony
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Biosphere of sth
生態
He is adamant that his productions should not pander to the taste of the masses
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On account of
Because of
A dearth of
A lack of
Sth is a reasonable way out
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Rule of thumb
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To put it simply
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As sb put it,
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Break free from the constraints of
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A slow sparrow should make an early start
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Pay out of your own pocket
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Carry on bag
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All work and no work make jack a dull boy
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Career-minded
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Break my rhythm
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Call in sick
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Punch in/ out
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If only…
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You keep sticking your nose where it doesn’t belong
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A hotshot college graduate
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What kind of food do you fancy
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I don’t mean to boast but
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New cars hit the street
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It is unjust to judge a book by its cover
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In view of the shortfall of funding,
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Deliver service
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Be subject to further scrutiny
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Don’t talk me out of it
別說服我打消這念頭
Sneaky
偷偷摸摸
Start fresh
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It tears me up
很傷心
I am done with you
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He came by to see me
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Wheel me off
推我走
I just ended it for good
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It means a whole lot to sb
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Make a tacit admission of
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To stall the plan
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Funeral parlor
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To be carried out in presence of sb
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During his formative year
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