陳國詩的英文分享平台

關鍵字彙：

affectation/ candid/ crisp/ demure/ fidgety/ hypocrisy/ hypocritical/ mortify/ outspoken/ prim/ prudish/ sanctimonious/ spontaneous/ squeamish/ timidity

1. 「坐立不安的」、「煩躁的」、「緊張的」可用fidgety（非正式）：

•With the approach of the big exam, Jack is growing more and more fidgety.

•The fidgety boy kept swinging his feet.

2. 「使尷尬或難堪」可用mortify，「害羞」、「羞怯」可用timidity：

•The mother felt mortified when her child behaved badly at the party.

•If you are to succeed as a salesperson, you must first get rid of your timidity.

3. 指女性或小孩「矜持的」可用demure，它有時可能暗示嚴肅正經過了頭。但如果要強調這種貶抑，prim、prudish或squeamish的語氣更強：

•When he said "I love you" to her, she gave him a demure smile.

•At the dance she did nothing but sip her soda and look demure.

•She tried to attract with demure behavior.

•She is a prim lady, easily shocked by vulgar language.

•Her prudish manner made everybody nervous.

•She is too squeamish to see a movie like that.

4. 「虛偽的」可用hypocritical或sanctimonious，「虛偽」叫hypocrisy，「做作」叫affectation：

•A hypocritical person may sometimes be more abominable than a gangster.

•Don't be fooled by his sanctimonious phrases.

•She was irritated to be accused of hypocrisy.

•The newly appointed spokesman was unversed in the smoother hypocrisies of diplomacy.

•The way society views the whole drug scene is riddled with hypocrisy and double standards.

•In this poem the poet satirized the hypocrisy of the 18-century upper class.

•The mayor made himself agreeable without any offensive affectation.

•She is sincere and quite without affectation.

5. 「坦率的」可用candid或outspoken，「乾脆的」、「爽快的」可用crisp，「自然流露的」、「非事先想好的」叫spontaneous：

•Sometimes it may not be a virtue to be wholly candid with a patient.

•A candid assessment is sometimes offensive.

•The president was terribly angered by the journalist's outspoken comments.

•We all like her because she always speaks in a crisp manner.

•The crowd greeted the hero with a spontaneous cheer.

•Poetry, according to William Wordsworth, is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.