陳國詩的英文分享平台

關鍵字彙：

alienate/ animosity/ antagonism/ antagonize/ clique/ consort with/ coterie/ crony/ enmity/ estrange/ faction/ foe/ fracture/ hostile/ intimate/ malediction

1. 非正式用法中，可用crony表示「朋友」或「同伴」：

•John's gone out with some of his cronies.

•It is everybody's knowledge that Bert is Jimmy's crony.

2. 因共同興趣、嗜好而結合的小團體叫coterie。另外，大團體中的小派系、小圈圈叫clique或faction，兩個字的意思都有些負面，尤其是clique：

•She has only a small coterie of select friends.

•A coterie of writers often gather(s) in this cafe to discuss their works.

•Even a small class may have cliques.

•The quarrels and bickering of the two small factions within the club disturbed the majority of the members.

3. 「結交」朋友可用consort with，朋友關係「親密的」叫intimate：

•We frequently judge people by the company with whom they consort.

•The young girl was innocent to the point of thinking that everyone she knew was her intimate friend.

4. 「疏遠」用alienate或estrange，友誼的「結束」可用名詞fracture：

•His dishonesty and insincerity eventually alienated all his friends, even those among his best.

•Her arrogance estranged all her friends and colleagues.

•The bickering resulted in a fracture of their friendship.

5. 正式英文中，「敵人」用foe：

•As a pious Buddhist, he hopes that he can ultimately be compassionate towards everyone--friend and foe alike.

6. 「敵方的」、「具有敵意的」用hostile，「敵意」用animosity、antagonism 或enmity，「樹敵」用antagonize：

•The turmoil of the country gave its hostile neighbor a chance to invade it.

•Probably thinking that the guest was hostile to it, the otherwise tame dog kept on barking.

•There is a long history of animosity between the two nations.

•The Senator emphasized that he had no personal animosity towards the Prime Minister.

•Antagonism between the two families has finally ended.

•You both should work out a way to settle your long-time antagonism.

•He felt great enmity towards his brother.

•John and Bill are at enmity (with each other).

•South Africa has experienced generations of racial enmity.

•The habitual informer antagonized most of his colleagues.

•Deviation from his ideals caused the politician to antagonize some of his supporters.

7. 正式或文言的英文中，為傷害別人所發的「毒咒」叫malediction：

•The witch uttered maledictions against her captors.