22-02-14 That said实际使用中已经很常见，但许多词典里都查不到。 Merriam-Webster给出的英文解释是：despite what one just said，其实就是despite what was said。 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Oniline有一个having said that的用法，给出的释义为：somethin...

22-02-14 Cantankerous [kntkrs] 是一个形容词。在生活中，我们常会遇到这样一些人，无论你说什么或者做什么，他们总爱唱反调，这个词说的就是这样的情况。 Collins Online Dictionary给出的解释就是指日常说的杠精。 Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to...

21-11-22 《剑桥词典》日前宣布，2021年度词汇是perseverance（毅力）。该词的当选得益于美国宇航局的火星探测器毅力号。《剑桥词典》的编辑认为，该词也反映出过去一年来人们面对新冠疫情和气候危机带来的挑战所展示出的耐力。 Cambridge Dictionarys word of the year for 202...

21-07-15 Walking encyclopedia书也能走路？其实，这一搭配并不是说书会行走，而是强调一个人学识丰富、知识面广泛，什么都懂，就像一部活生生的百科全书。 Walking 这个词的意思是行走着的，也常与dictionary 词典和disaster 灾难搭配。Walking dictionary 指词汇量渊博的人，...

21-06-06 来自 Joonas Vakkilainen 的回答（芬兰语学士）： My method is write and pronounce. Writing words on paper leaves a visual memory trail of the words. If you just look words, you may forget them quickly, but writing them makes you concentrate on them mo...

20-12-03 For the first time, two US dictionary companies on Monday declared the same word their word of the year: pandemic. 本周一（11月30日），两家美国词典公司宣布了同一个年度词汇大流行病，这还是有史以来首次。 The challenges of 2020, Oxford Languages said,...

19-12-11 Merriam-Webster has named they its word of the year. 韦氏词典近日将they（他们/她们）评为2019年度词汇。 The US dictionary also recently added a new definition of they, reflecting its use as a singular personal pronoun for non-binary people. Searches...

16-07-17 Britons are pulling on budgie smugglers to go wild swimming, discussing starter marriages at stupid oclock and sipping craft beer while planning their next elimination diet. 英国人去野外游泳的时候会穿上budgie smugglers（指男士紧身泳裤），在stupid oc...

15-12-21 Merriam-Webster has picked a small but powerful suffix as word of the year: ism. 韦氏词典选取了短小却富有影响力的单词后缀-主义作为2015年年度词汇。 But not just any ism. The top isms to earn high traffic spikes and big bumps in lookups on the diction...