Thur 10/28 Flashcards
Impersonal
沒有人情味的；冷漠的
Carbohydrate
碳水化合物
Give sb. a slap/
slap sb. in the face/
Slap the ears
賞巴掌/
打耳光
Extrapolate
You can’t really extrapolate a trend from such a small sample.
外推；推斷（to guess or think about what might happen using information that is already known）
House plant
Plastic plant
居家植物
塑膠植物
Defeat the object
Has the opposite effect from what’s intended
Gardening
園藝
Lattice
格子
A trend for house plants
居家植物的趨勢
Give sth away
送給別人
Swiss cheese plant
= Monstera plant
龜背芋
Getting out of control
逐漸失控
There’s no sign of this popularity decreasing
沒有退流行的跡象
A spider plant
Chlorophytum
吊蘭
Latin name
Foliage
葉子 leaf
Repotting
翻盆、移植
Customer service
客服
Poor Atrocious Terrible Unprofessional Horrendous Appalling Unacceptable Shocking Lousy Sub-par Disappointing Inadequate Mediocre
很差的（服務）（多個形容詞）
The internet site breaks down or hang (so you can’t get in)
網站當機
Atrocious
Exceptionally bad
Food is cold and lumpy
結成塊狀的
It certainly doesn’t taste as it’s described on the menu.
絕對不像菜單上形容得好吃
Complain about the food
抱怨食物
It seems like a lifetime before the food arrives.
等食物來之前，像過了一生
The plates has half dropped in front of you.
盤子半丟在桌上
Fill in the form that they often leave on the table
填那個經常放在桌上要填的表格
Tick the box
方框裡打勾
Overall
總的來說
Professional
Unprofessional
Really tight and accurate, very good 專業的
不專業
Get your account finalised
完成帳戶
Horrendous
Appalling
糟糕的
（service, weather that doesn’t meet your expectations)
Try to get their manager
叫老闆出來
Express checkout
快速結帳
Renew your passport
更新護照
There’s a delay expected of 6-8 weeks
有6-8週的延誤
Log on to the site
登上網站
A pop up
彈出式廣告
Someplace to ring
有地方可以致電
Shocking
It’s shocking service.
令人吃驚（非常英式）
Get up my nose
His jokes are really beginning to get up my nose.
I bet that really gets up your nose that I’ve been so successful.
To annoy or irritate (British)
Lousy
Crap
The bus service/ public services is lousy/crappy
非常糟的（服務、公共服務）
A classic situation
經典場景
They never have enough buses.
公車從來不夠
You look around the corner
看了一眼角落
Two buses are coming together.
The same number was hold up somewhere.
兩台公車一起來
同一號在某處滯留了
Make excuses that…
找藉口
Many people in cars
路上太多車
Sun-par
低於標準的
Below what’s expected; when a service doesn’t meet your requirements
Par 高爾夫球術語
Describe sth as a lousy service
描述…像…（idiom)
Books that are slightly out of print
快要絕版的書
I didn’t start read the book bc they’d be out of sequence.
我還沒看那本書，因為這樣就沒有照集數看了
Mediocre
How was the performance like?
Ah, mediocre
普通的、中庸的 (nothing great or bad)
A service that is just about acceptable
Nothing to write home about
沒什麼可寫的
沒什麼特別可以紀錄的
Middle-of-the-road
平凡、普通的（片語）
People are getting a bit edgy
An edgy person (someone who is constantly annoyed)
大家有點不爽了
Having sharp or pointed corners or being irritable, or being unconventional.
Would you not ring them again?
你不再打給他們一次嗎
Tap your fingers under the table and look at your watch as looks your mobile phone
不耐煩
Refer to a bad service
指一個壞的服務
