英譯：
flutter one’s eyelashes at

例句：
All through the meal his wife was fluttering her eyelashes at the man sitting at the next table. (在整個吃飯過程中，他的太太一直對鄰桌一名男子擠眉弄眼)

She even very often fluttered her eyelashes at me. How could I resist? (她甚至對我頻送秋波。我怎能抗拒呢?)

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turn * off +
關掉 (電視、電燈、 收音機、水龍頭等)，關閉 (設備)
Don’t forget to turn off the iron before you leave the house.
I turned the TV off and went to bed.

turn on +
突然攻擊
The pit bull suddenly turned on the small child.
The neighbor’s dog turned on me when I tried to stroke it.

turn * on +
(在性方面) 使產生快感，刺激；激發…的性慾；使感興趣
Scientists have discovered that the smell of cinnamon turns many people on.
He’s very nice, but he just doesn’t turn me on.

turn * on +
打開 (電視、收音機 、電燈、水龍頭等)，開啟 (設備)
Turn on the TV. The baseball game starts in a few minutes.
I turned the radio on to get the weather forecast.

turn * out +
生產，製造
The weavers can turn out two or three rugs a month.
The factory turns out three thousand units a day.

turn * out +
關掉 (電燈)
Turn out the light before you go to bed.

turn out
(去) 參加
Over 100,000 people turned out for the concert.

turn out
結果是；原來是；最後證明是
She turned out to be the murderer after all.
It looked as if we were going to fail, but it turned out well in the end.

turn * over +
交出；交給 (當局)
The court ordered the company to turn over their financial records.

turn to +
求助於；求救於
She had nobody to turn to when her husband died.

turn to +
開始做，開始使用
He turned to drink after he lost his job.
He turned to drugs after his wife left him for another man.

turn up
(未經尋找而) 被找到，被發現
My keys turned up in the bedroom.

turn up (for)
出現，來到
She didn’t turn up for class today.
She failed to turn up for work on Friday.

turn * up +
調高，開大 (聲音、溫度或亮度等)
I turned the music up full blast.

type * up +
把 (手寫稿) 打出來
She typed up her lecture notes and printed them out.
I need to type up my report.

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(名詞) 追蝕族 (eclipse-chaser)；對日蝕有強烈興趣的人。這個字是由拉丁字 umbra (shadow, shade — 陰影) 和 -phile (愛好…的人) 拼綴而成。

umbraphile 也稱為 eclipsoid 或 eclipsomaniac，而前往日蝕或月蝕主要出現地點觀蝕的人亦叫做 eclipse-chaser。日蝕：solar eclipse 日全蝕：total solar eclipse 月蝕：lunar eclipse 月偏蝕：partial lunar eclipse

引句：
Commodities trader Rick Brown is an umbraphile. That neologism, coined by astronomer Glenn H Schneider, describes someone “addicted to the glory and majesty of total solar eclipses.”
—David Gura, “On Sunday, ‘Umbraphiles‘ Will Watch Total Solar Eclipse From 39,000 Feet,” NPR, July 8, 2010

A growing number of eclipse-chasers, or umbraphiles, as they are also called, travel to the corners of the earth specifically to see total solar eclipses, and tour operators have sprung up to get them there. Beyond providing the thrill of standing on the moon’s shadow, or umbra, an eclipse is often the centerpiece of a travel adventure in exotic climes.
—Christina Koukkos, “Eclipse Chasing, in Pursuit of Total Awe,” The New York Times, May 17, 2009

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(名詞) 當天往返、無需過夜的旅遊或其他短程的旅遊。這個字是由 day 和 vacation 拼綴而成。亦寫成 day-cation。
—daycationer (名詞)：從事當天往返或其他短程旅遊的人。

引句：
If you don’t have the time or the money for vacation this summer, maybe you can spare a few hours for a daycation. Somewhere between the staycations of 2008 and the naycations of last year there’s the daycation trend of 2010.
—Christopher Elliott, “6 tips for taking a summer daycation,” MSNBC.com, July 6, 2010

Seniors are invited to take a “daycation,” a day traveling with a group of people using the bus and/or light rail system to entertainment and shopping destinations throughout the area.
—”Campbell shorts,” San Jose Mercury News, April 15, 2010

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(名詞) 一個人出生第 10,000 天。亦寫成 10K day。

當你出生第 10,000 天時，你的年紀大約是 27 歲又 3 個月 15 天。

引句：
Approaching his tkday — or 10,000th day on Earth — Horne decided he wanted to leave a permanent mark on history, and as a lover of language and devout Countdown fan, he decided that the best way to do that would be to get a new word into the dictionary.
—Steve Bennett, “Wordwatching by Alex Horne,” Chortle, January 14, 2010

The 10k Day celebration — alternately called “Tkday” or “decimal birthday” — has become the new coming-of-age for Generation Y.
—Paola Loriggio, “Happy 10,000th day — let’s party,” The Toronto Star, February 23, 2008

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(名詞) 電子菸：一種可將攙有尼古丁的液體加熱成可吸入的煙霧的電子裝置。亦寫成 ecigarette。

引句：
Last summer, the FDA said it found a chemical used in antifreeze and other toxic chemicals in a small sample of e-cigarettes the agency analyzed. The FDA tried to block imported e-cigarettes, but a Washington, D.C., court ruled that FDA can’t regulate the products. In its appeal, the FDA argues e-cigarettes should be considered the same as gum and patches that help smokers try to quit.
—Michelle Manchir, “State hopes to snuff out e-cigarette sales,” Chicago Tribune, April 3, 2010

In court papers, the FDA said it considers the devices, also known as e-cigarettes, to be unapproved drug-delivery gadgets. e-cigarettes are the size of regular cigarettes and deliver a vaporized nicotine mixture to users. It contends that e-cigarettes are not traditional tobacco products and that the products promise, among other things, to “alleviate nicotine withdrawal symptoms.” The FDA compares the devices to nicotine gum, which it regulates because suppliers promote the gum’s ability to help people kick smoking habits. FDA officials are also concerned that e-cigarettes could increase nicotine addiction and tobacco use by children.
—Del Quentin and Lyndsey Layton, “FDA can’t block importing of ‘electronic cigarettes’,” The Washington Post, January 15, 2010

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sit on +
成為…的一員
She’s sat on the finance committee from the beginning.

sit on +
嚴加管教 (某人)，嚴厲管束 (某人)；壓制 (某人)；訓斥 (某人) 使其閉嘴或不鬧事
If his girlfriend finds out, she’ll get mad and sit on him.

sit on +
將…擱置不理；拖延
The government have been sitting on the report because it was so critical.

sit * out +
坐在一旁，不參加
I had to sit the game out because I was ill.

sit over +
慢慢地吃或喝
We sat over dinner discussing the plans.

sit through +
一直挨到 (不愉快之事) 結束；耐著性子聽完或看完
I was bored and wanted to leave halfway through, but we sat through the film.

sit with +
與…一致，與…相符
It’s hard to see how their new plan sits with the promises they made.

size * up +
評估；判斷
The doorstaff sized up everyone entering the club.

size * up +
使某物變大；製造尺寸較大的產品
Soft drinks manufacturers have sized up their products in recent years.

skive off
逃 (學)；逃 (課)；逃避 (工作)
I pretended I was ill and skived off on Monday.

slack off
減緩；減弱；減少；放鬆；鬆弛
Students usually begin the term well, then slack off near the end of the semester.

slag * off +
(嚴厲) 批評；詆毀；責難
The concert was terrible and all the papers slagged the band off.

sleep * off +
(尤指吃多或喝多後) 以睡眠來消除 (不適)；以睡眠來消除 (藥物的作用、生氣等)
She went to bed to sleep off the effects of the tequila.
He should be able to sleep off the effects of the drug within a few hours.

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(名詞) 森林浴 (在森林或類似自然環境中散步或旅行)。
—forest bather (名詞)：森林浴者；從事森林浴活動的人。

引句：
One study published in January included data on 280 healthy people in Japan, where visiting nature parks for therapeutic effect has become a popular practice called ‘Shinrin-yoku,’ or ‘forest bathing.’ … The scientists found that being among plants produced ‘lower concentrations of cortisol, lower pulse rate, and lower blood pressure,’ among other things.
—Anahad O’Connor, “The Claim: Exposure to Plants and Parks Can Boost Immunity,” The New York Times, July 6, 2010

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例句：
(英) They quickly lighted paraffin flares to signal the SOS.
(美) It smells of kerosene.

解釋：
(英) paraffin：煤油。
(美) kerosene：煤油。

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(名詞) 虛擬驗屍 (virtual autopsy)：利用醫學影像裝置來建立屍體詳細的三度空間影像後，再根據這些 3D 影像所進行的驗屍。

引句：
Prof Thali and his team carried out an autopsy on the woman, but not the kind we’re used to seeing in television shows such as CSI and countless police dramas. This was a scalpel-free, virtual autopsy, or “virtopsy” — a radical new approach to forensic investigation, in which Professor Thali is one of the pioneers.
—Laura Spinney, “Body of evidence: A radical new approach to forensic pathology,” The Independent, May 31, 2010

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