Sophy's Notebook

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" the rain poured down "

pour: It's raining very hard.

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What is ahead for us？

學英文要注意 context (上下文)

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Molly joined other rescued animals there in what everyone thought was a safe place.

中文常常說「以為如何...」，

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A big group of people will always have more knoledge than just one expert.
(意同"三個臭皮匠，勝過一個諸葛亮")

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incompetent 沒能力；不能勝任
competent 有能力的；稱職的

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"But it's not the fluff on the outside that's important."

這句的意思其實就是 "The fluff on the outside is not important."

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「My wife and I are going to have a baby.」

having a baby 不可譯作擁有嬰兒

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compare: looking at two or more things and seeing what is similar and what is different
contract: to show the differences between things that being compared

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The Human Genome Project was an effort by a number of organizations to identify all 20,000 to 25,000 human genes.
→「人類基因組計畫」是很多機構共同努力的成果，目標是要辨識出所有兩萬至兩萬五千個人類基因。