學測考點
trust
動詞「信任」(few people will trust you)
學測原句
- 107 學測|詞彙題看這一題 ›Few people will trust you if you continue making hollow promises and never make efforts to keep them.如果你一直做空洞的承諾,又從不努力兌現,很少人會相信你。
- few people will…:few 是「幾乎沒有」,否定意味
- make efforts to V:「努力去做…」
- keep a promise:「遵守承諾」
- 106 學測|閱讀測驗 第 1 篇|第 4 段For example, a Charmer is a dog that trusts you so much that it would prefer to solve problems using information you give it rather than information it can get with its own eyes.例如,Charmer 是非常信任你的狗,牠寧可用你給的資訊來解決問題,也不用自己眼睛看到的資訊。
- so much that…:「如此…以至於…」
- prefer to V rather than…:「寧可…而不是…」
- information you give it / information it can get with its own eyes:省略關係代名詞 that
- 107 學測|綜合測驗 第 2 篇|第 3 段Matter of Trust is helping organize the collection of this unneeded hair and fur through thousands of salons, pet groomers, and ranchers.Matter of Trust 正透過數千家美髮沙龍、寵物美容師與牧場主人,協助統籌收集這些廢棄毛髮。
- organize the collection:「組織蒐集」
- salon:「美髮沙龍」
- pet groomer:「寵物美容師」
- rancher:「牧場主人」,ranch 是「牧場」
- help organize:help 後面可省略 to
- 107 學測|綜合測驗 第 2 篇|第 2 段Since its founding in 1998, Matter of Trust has collected donations of human hair and animal fur to clean up after the thousands of oil spills that happen each year.自 1998 年成立以來,Matter of Trust 蒐集捐贈的人類頭髮與動物毛髮,用來清理每年數千起漏油事件。
- since its founding in 1998:「自 1998 年成立以來」,founding 是 found(創立)的名詞;後面用現在完成式 has collected
- fur:這裡是動物的「毛」,不是「毛皮」
- clean up:「清理」
- 107 學測|綜合測驗 第 2 篇|第 2 段Matter of Trust, a nonprofit organization, has an innovative solution for removing the large-scale oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, using the ultimate renewable resource: human hair, of which there is an unlimited supply.非營利組織 Matter of Trust 想出一個創新的方法來清除 2010 年墨西哥灣的大規模漏油,使用的是終極的再生資源:人類的頭髮,而且頭髮的供應是無限的。
- nonprofit organization:「非營利組織」
- large-scale oil spill:「大規模漏油」,spill 是「溢出」
- renewable resource:「再生資源」
- of which there is an unlimited supply:of which 指 human hair,「頭髮的供應是無限的」
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