例句：

• Don’t give a false color to what she said, she didn’t mean it. (別曲解她的話，她沒有那個意思)
• Only John and Mary have unbiased view on Ted’s behavior while others put a false color on it. (只有約翰和瑪麗對泰德的行為沒有偏見，而其他人都會加以歪曲)

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(英) in tray：(書桌或辦公桌上用來存放待處理之文件和信函的) 收文藍 (收文盤或收文盒)。
(美) in box：(書桌或辦公桌上用來存放待處理之文件和信函的) 收文藍 (收文盤或收文盒)。

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引句：
We have peak cheap oil and global climate change combined with a shortage of phosphorus and water. We have reached the point where we will be unable to feed the population we have. Expect a decline not a growth. Some will starve, some will die in the inevitable resources wars and most of those wars will be over water not oil. I feel confident in predicting there will be less people on this planet in 20 years not more. We have reached peak people!
—Ron Beasley, "Denial is not a River," The Moderate Voice, May 6, 2011

The world is on the threshold of what might be called "peak people." The world’s supply of working-age people will soon be shrinking, causing a shift from surplus to scarcity.
—Doug Sanders, "The world’s losing its workers. How will we compete?," The Globe and Mail, February 11, 2012

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當然了，您也可以把這種裝置叫做「平板手機」，那麼它的英文就是 tabletphone。

引句：
This phone-tablet hybrid ("phablet"?) is meant to cater to those who want a bit of functionality from both camps. On one hand, you can make phone calls and access email, yet its supersized screen means you don’t need to squint to read e-books, watch video, play games or browse the web.
—Marc Saltzman, "Samsung Galaxy Note: Half smartphone, half tablet, all awesome (watch out iPhone, BlackBerry)," Toronto Star, February 3, 2012

Samsung’s Galaxy Note is coming to the U.S. on AT&T on February 19, and the "phablet"—that’s part phone, part tablet—has already sold more than a million units worldwide.
—Sascha Segan, "Enter the Phablet: A History of Phone-Tablet Hybrids," PCMag.com. February 13, 2012

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例句：

• Man, David’s girlfriend is only 14, he’s robbing the cradle! (老兄，大衛的女友只有 14 歲，他老牛吃嫩草!)
• You’re kind of robbing the cradle, man. (老兄，你有點老牛吃嫩草)

附註：至於吃嫩草的「老牛」則叫做 cradle robber。

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step back
退一步想，退一步思考
We should step back and try to see how our customers will view the scheme.

step down (or step aside)
辭職；讓位
The CEO stepped down after the share price dropped.

step * down +
減少；縮小；降低
Production is being stepped down because demand has dropped.

step forward
上前幫忙
John stepped forward and offered to change the tire.

step in
介入；干涉
I had to step in when they started fighting.

step on it
叫某人把車開快一點
I told the taxi driver to step on it as I was late for the meeting.

step out
暫時離開
I’ve stepped out for a cigarette.

step to +
對抗
Don’t step to those guys; they’ll kill you.

step to +
與某人攀談；找某人談話
He tried to step to her in the bar.

step * up +
增加
The police have stepped up the pressure on beggars working the Underground.

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例句：

• Our school principal thinks she’s the cat’s whiskers. (我們校長自以為是個了不起的人物)
• My new manager thinks he is the cat’s whiskers though he is no better than the last one. (我新來的經理並不比上任經理來得強，但他卻自以為了不得)

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Hardlink 亦稱為 physical world hyperlink (實體世界超連結) 或 object hyperlink (物品超連結)。

引句：
The key difference between the two dimensional QR code and the single dimensional barcode is the amount of data they contain. Quick Response codes are also known as hardlinks or physical world hyperlinks. QR Codes store up to 4,296 alphanumeric characters of arbitrary text. This text can be anything, for example, a URL, contact information, a telephone number, even a blog post!
—Bob Leah, "Create a Quick Response Code (QR Code) image using Google Chart," IBM developerWorks, March 14, 2011

Although invented in Japan in the 1990s, QR codes are only just being used by UK businesses. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. When the encoded information is accessed via an app on a smartphone it is termed hardlinking or object hyperlinking.
—"Code provides link to law firm information," The Plymouth Herald, July 28, 2011

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由於越來越多人太專注於手機的動態 (如來電和簡訊的鈴聲)，因此產生幻聽或幻覺的現象，一種新的病症於焉產生，叫做 "phantom vibration syndrome" (幽靈振動症候群)。

引句：
Psychologically, the key to deciphering phantom vibrations is "hypothesis-guided search," a theory that describes the selective monitoring of physical sensations, says Jeffrey Janata, director of the behavioral medicine program at University Hospitals in Cleveland. It suggests that when cellphone users are alert to vibrations, they are likely to experience sporadic false alarms, he says.
—Angela Haupt, "Good vibrations? Bad? None at all?," USA Today, June 12, 2007

It’s not a trivial problem, according to his study of stress levels in 100 smartphone users, including university students, retail workers and public-sector employees. Some users in the study were so hooked that they reported feeling "phantom vibrations" from non-existent text messages.
—Adriana Barton, "Smartphone stress: Can you say irony?," The Globe and Mail, January 22, 2012

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例句：

• John: I don’t understand why Ben doesn’t like to read science fiction. It’s the most interesting thing to read. Mary: One man’s meat is another man’s poison. (約翰：我不懂班為何不喜歡看科幻小說。那是最有趣的讀物。瑪麗：人各有所好)
• I don’t want to do her job, but she seems to love it very much. Oh well, one man’s meat is another man’s poison. (我不想做她的工作，但她似乎非常喜歡。啊，人真是各有所好)

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