例句：
Cindy has been living from paycheck to paycheck for ages because money burns a hole in her pocket. (長期以來辛蒂一直是個月光族，因為她有錢就亂花)

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Barry arrived at work unshaven and skazzy. (貝瑞不修邊幅、蓬頭垢面就來上班)

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註：這成語字面的意思是「未到橋頭先著急」，即「事未臨頭先發愁」。

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• Mary’s always crossing her bridges before coming to them. She needs to learn to relax. (瑪麗老是杞人憂天。她必須學會放鬆自己)
• Sometimes we have to face the reality, but don’t cross a bridge before you come to it. (有時我們必須面對現實，但也別杞人憂天、自尋煩惱)

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解釋：
(英) diary：(每個日期下都有空白供安排或記錄要做之事的) 記事簿。
(美) appointment book, datebook, or calendar：(每個日期下都有空白供安排或記錄要做之事的) 記事簿。

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引句：
Is the internet really an amplifier for youth deviance, bad behavior, and risk? Or is it just the opposite? Are we simply applying age-old paranoia about youth (juvenoia) to the newest technology and coming to all the wrong conclusions?
—Sylvia Martinez, "The Internet, Youth Deviance and the Problem of Juvenoia," Generation YES Blog, December 3, 2010

And yet the overall rates of child sex crimes and of teen sex are down since the 1990s, as are juvenile crime, school violence and teen fighting. David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, calls this distance between anxiety and reality ‘juvenoia‘ and chalks it up to an ‘exaggerated fear about the influence of social change on children.’
—Emily Bazelon, "The Ninny State," The New York Times, June 26, 2011

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例句：
Kevin is a real snake in the grass. (凱文完全是個居心叵測的人)
Don’t be deceived by her sweet words; that babe is totally a snake in the grass. (不要被她的花言巧語所欺騙；那個美眉十足是個心懷不軌的人)

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註：transgernder 或 transgendered (形容詞) 意為「(未進行變性手術的) 變性的」，指生理是男性，但心理認同卻偏向女性或生理是女性，但心理認同卻偏向男性的人。當然了，絕大多數人都屬於 cisgender，僅極少數人為 transgender。

例句：
But when you have a term for one group of people, you need a word for the rest, and the one they’ve come up with is "cisgender". So the huge majority of us are now, "members of the cisgender community".
—Simon Hoggart, "Simon Hoggart’s week: Changing the gender agenda," The Guardian, June 25, 2011

"We don’t call being cisgender — which is when our bodies match up with our internal sense of gender — a personal choice. Both are about being who you are," she said.
—Lauren La Rose, "‘Dancing’ star Bono carries transgender flag," The Hamilton Spectator, September 21, 2011

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例句：

• Paul got hit hard with that baseball! He was bleeding like a stuck pig! (保羅被那個棒球狠狠擊中! 他血流如注!)
• I bled like a stuck pig when I cut myself. (我割傷自己後血流如注)

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例句：
Soap dodgers smell. (個人衛生習慣不好的人身上會有臭味)

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stop back
返回 (某地)
I’ll stop back this afternoon when you’re free.

stop behind
留下，留下來
I stopped behind at the end of the lecture to ask a couple of questions.

stop by +
順便造訪，順路停留一下，中途停留一下
I must stop by the supermarket and pick up some things for dinner.

stop in
待在家裡；留在家裡
I was feeling tired so I stopped in last night.

stop in
順便造訪，順路停留一下
I stopped in at my aunt’s after work.

stop off
中途停留 (與 stop over 同義)，路過停留一下
We stopped off for lunch about halfway there, then carried on driving.

stop out
徹夜不歸；待在外面
Her parents were annoyed because she stopped out all night.

stop over
中途停留 (與 stop off 同義)；在外過夜
I stopped over in Bangkok for a couple of days on my way back from Tokyo.
Because of the severe rainstorm, we couldn’t get home and had to stop over in a hotel.

stop up
熬夜
I stopped up last night watching the film.

stop * up +
堵住、塞住 (洞等)
I stopped up the bottle with a cork.

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