陳國詩的英文分享平台

關鍵字彙：

anomaly/ benchmark/ creed/ criterion/ cue/ exemplary/ norm/ paradigm/ paragon/ precedent/ unprecedented/ yardstick

1. 「信條」、「行為準則」可用creed：

•His political creed is that a politician's character is more important than the party he belongs to.

•In any loyal American's creed, love of democracy must be emphasized.

2. 「標準」可用benchmark、criterion、norm或yardstick：

•The valuation becomes a benchmark against which to judge other prices.

•These figures are a useful benchmark for measuring the company's performance.

•What criteria do you use when judging the quality of a student's work?

•Success in money-making is not always a good criterion of real success in life.

•As far as English is concerned, this class is above the norm for the freshman year.

•Short-term contracts are now the norm with some big companies.

•She considered people to be products of the values and norms of the society they lived in.

•Profit should not be the only yardstick of successful enterprises.

•This yardstick may not be right now, even though it was right then.

3. 「可做典範的」、「足為楷模的」叫exemplary，「榜樣」、「範例」可用cue、paradigm或paragon，但paragon指的是幾近完美無缺的典範：

•Her exemplary behavior was praised at commencement.

•Follow the general's cue and fight more bravely.

•The stranger took his cue from the actions of the natives.

•Pius XII remained the paradigm of what a pope should be.

•The needs of today's children cannot be met by our old educational paradigms.

•The old gentleman is a paragon of virtue.

•The royal family could be relied upon as paragons of etiquette.

4. 「史無前例的」、「空前的」叫unprecedented，「前例」、「先例」叫precedent：

•The Prime Minister made some unprecedented changes in the government.

•This decision sets a precedent for future cases of a similar nature.

5. 「異常的人或事物」叫anomaly：

•A person with 12 fingers is an anomaly.

•The snake is an anomaly because it has two heads.