6月14日商務(wù)英語(yǔ)

alarmist [?'lɑ:mist]

?

危言聳聽(tīng)者，喜歡咋呼的人（名詞）

?

(noun) A person who intentionally alarms others by inventing or exaggerating rumors of future catastrophe.

?

EXAMPLE: My cynical brother is well-known in our family as an alarmist who always predicts disasters at weddings and celebrations.

在我們家里，我那玩世不恭的兄弟出了名地喜歡咋呼，總是預(yù)言婚禮和慶典上要發(fā)生災(zāi)難。

a world apart

天壤之別

?

Collocation describing a condition, environment, or circumstance that is extremely different from normal life.

?

EXAMPLE: When he arrived at his new university, the young student who had worked in grim factories for years, found that his new life was a world apart.

這位青年學(xué)生曾在冷血工廠做了幾年，來(lái)到新大學(xué)后，他發(fā)現(xiàn)新生活與過(guò)去有天壤之別。