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Early bird: 早起者
In the business world, remember: the early bird gets the worm. 身在商業界,切記:早起的鳥兒有蟲吃.
He's quite an early bird. 他是個早起者.
Warm-up: a short practice or a series of gentle exercises that you do to prepare yourself for doing a particular sport or activity (體育運動等前的)適應性活動,準備活動;熱身練習
He swam ten lengths of the pool as a warm-up. 他在游泳池里游了五個來回作為熱身活動.
warm-up exercises 熱身練習
admission: the amount of money that you pay to go into a building or to an event 入場費;門票費
admission charges/prices 入場費／票價
£5 admission 入場費 5 英鎊
What's the admission? 門票多少錢?
Alternate: to make things or people follow one after the other in a repeated pattern 使交替;使輪流
Alternate cubes of meat and slices of red pepper. 交替放置肉丁和紅辣椒片.
Alternate cubes of meat with slices of red pepper. 交替放置肉丁和紅辣椒片.
Idle: to spend time doing nothing important 混時間;閑蕩;無所事事
They idled the days away, talking and watching television. 他們天天在閑聊和看電視中消磨時光.
They idled along by the river(= walked slowly and with no particular purpose). 他們沿著河邊閑逛.
Unfit: not capable of doing something, for example because of illness (因病等)不能做某事,不宜做事
He's still unfit for work. 他還不宜工作.
The company's doctor found that she was unfit to carry out her normal work. 公司的醫生認為,她不宜從事正常工作.
pass something↔up: to choose not to make use of a chance, an opportunity, etc. 放棄,不要(機會)
Imagine passing up an offer like that! 真想不到居然放棄人家提供的大好機會!
