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詞組積累
1. take stock
If you take stock, you pause to think about all the aspects of a situation or event before deciding what to do next.估量
例：It was time to take stock of the situation.
是估量形式的時候了。
2. rail against/at
To complain about sth/sb in a very angry way 怒斥；責罵；抱怨
例：She railed against the injustice of it all
她大罵此事太不公平
3. upwardly mobile
moving towards a higher social position, usually in which you become richer 走向上層社會的；走向富裕的；步步高升的
例：Upwardly mobile immigrant groups
步步高升的移民群體
An upwardly mobile lifestyle
日益闊綽的生活方式
詞彙積累
slog / slɑːɡ/:
Verb: ①[intransitive , transitive ] to work hard and steadily at sth, especially sth that takes a long time and is boring or difficult 埋頭苦幹；堅持不懈地做
slog(away) (at sth)
例：He's been slogging away at that piece of music for weeks.
他苦練那段樂曲已有好幾個星期了。
slog(through sth)
例：The teacher made us slog through long lists of vocabulary.
老師讓我們下苦功記住一些長長的詞彙表。
~ your way through sth
例：She slogged her way through four piles of ironing.
她辛辛苦苦一連熨了四堆衣服。
②[intransitive , transitive ] to walk or travel somewhere steadily, with great effort or difficulty 頑強地走；奮力前行；艱難行進
+ adv./prep.
例：I've been slogging around the streets of London all day.
整整一天，我一直在倫敦街頭走來走去。
~ your way through sth
例：He started to slog his way through the undergrowth.
他踏上了穿越林莽的艱難徵程。
Noun: uncountable , countable , usually singular ] a period of hard work or effort 一段時間的艱苦工作（或努力）
例：Writing the book took ten months of hard slog.
這本書是苦熬十個月寫出來的。
It was a long slog to the top of the mountain.
到山頂的路漫長而艱難。
watchdog/ ˈwɑːtʃdɔːɡ/：
a person or group of people whose job is to check that companies are not doing anything illegal or ignoring people's rights （監督公司活動及監護人們權利的）監察人，監察團體
例：...an anti-crime watchdog group funded by New York businesses.由紐約商界資助的反犯罪監察團體
gullible / ˈɡʌləbl /:
too willing to believe or accept what other people tell you and therefore easily tricked 輕信的；易受騙的；易上當的
例：What point is there in admitting that the stories fed to the gullible public were false?
承認向輕信媒體的公眾提供了不實報導有何意義呢？
I'm so gullible I would have believed him.
我很容易上當，可能會相信他的話。
fleeting / ˈfliːtɪŋ /
[usually before noun ] lasting only a short time 短暫的；閃現的
例：a fleeting glimpse/smile 短暫的一瞥；一閃即逝的微笑
a fleeting momentof happiness
轉瞬即逝的幸福時刻
We paid a fleeting visitto Paris.
我們短暫遊覽了巴黎。
impassive/ ɪmˈpæsɪv/
not showing any feeling or emotion 無表情的；無動於衷的；不動聲色的
例：her impassive expression/face
她冷漠的表情╱面容
assiduous/ əˈsɪdʒuəs/
( formal) working very hard and taking great care that everything is done as well as it can be 兢兢業業的；勤勤懇懇的
例：...an assiduous student...勤勉的學生
Podulski had been assiduous in learning his adopted language.
波多斯基一直很努力地學習外語。
CATTI英語筆譯綜合詞彙學習 74
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