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今天要來教大家兩個不良片語：eskimo brothers 跟 wiener cousins igloo Pic CC BY-NC-SA by  keltose "Eskimo Brothers" are men that have slept with the same woman. At one time or another, they 'shared an igloo'. It's similar to "wiener cousins". ( wiki.answers ) slept: sleep 的過去完成式，sleep 本來就可以翻成「與誰上床」的意思，依照前後文來看，在這裡就是這個意思。 igloo: 冰屋 a circular house made of blocks of hard snow, esp. one built by the Inuit people of northern North America. ( cambridge dictionary: igloo ) 「共用一個冰屋」(強調)，簡單來說，就是穴兄弟... 另外，也可以寫成 eskimo bros。 至於 wiener cousins... wiener Pic BY-ND by  mdssandwiches cambridge dictionary - wiener : a frankfurter (= thin, red-brown sausage) wiener 是維也納香腸，暗指小雞雞，剩下的不解釋。

WDYT = What Do You Think 你怎麼想？(詢問意見)/你覺得如何？ 有些人看到「你 怎麼 想」就以為  How do you think，但how是用來問方法的，這句話意思變成「你是如何思考的？」（回答：用腦袋啊！） How 是問方法，What 才是是問內容（你腦子裡想的東西）。 有一些類似的句型，例如問「程度」可以用 How much do you think...、 How XXX do you think... 之類的，但要問意見的話，就是要用 What do you think (of XXX). 對於「你怎麼想」的類似句子，朋友提供了兩個重點： 除非你真的是要問到「用腦袋想」之類的答案，才用How 只要用What說得通，就是用What 但記得，在口語上很多規則很難講清楚，例如語調不同也會表達出不同意思，就...也只能靠多學習吧！ 參考 "What do you think?" vs. "How do you think?" Q：在 "A: What do you think of this movie? B: So so." 這一對話中，What do you think…? 是否可以改為 How do you think…? how do u think還是what ? 熟英文的朋友

最常見是 to be honest 的縮寫 一般會翻成「老實說」 例句 To be honest, I don't like him very much. 老實說，我不太喜歡他。 to be honest 我用mac的字典查到的解釋是 speaking frankly frankly in an honest, sincere, and truthful way, even when this might make other people uncomfortable ( cambridge: frankly ) 當然也是有其他可用的縮寫，在 wiki: TBH 消歧義 上可以找到一些例子，例如日本的樂團The Back Horn（說到他們，就讓我想起 せめて、あの雪のように ...）

我挑了幾個常見/重要的縮寫全文，但其實還有 更多 ，在台灣最常見應該就屬廣告傳單了吧： D irect M ail 直郵廣告信 Advertising mail, also known as direct mail , junk mail, or admail, is the delivery of advertising material to recipients of postal mail. D iabetes M ellitus 糖尿病 Diabetes mellitus , or simply diabetes , is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced. This high blood sugar produces the classical symptoms of polyuria (frequent urination), polydipsia (increased thirst) and polyphagia (increased hunger). blood sugar: 血糖 insulin: 胰島素 polyuria: 多尿 polydipsia: 多飲 polyphagia: 多食 D eci m ete 公寸 A decimetre (American spelling: decimeter, symbol dm) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one tenth of a metre, (or ten centimetres) the SI base unit of length. SI: 萬國公制 (法文 Système International d'Unités) 需注意，公寸跟英寸是不一樣的 英吋 = 2.54 cm 公寸 = 10 cm ...

saturate to make something or someone completely wet, or to make a place completely full of something ( cambridge: saturate ) (Pic CC BY by  Horia Varlan ) 好像沒有太多可以講解的，所以我找了幾種不同東西的「飽和」，可以順便看一下他們的英解： 溶液濃度飽和 In physical chemistry, saturation is the point at which a solution of a substance can dissolve no more of that substance and additional amounts of it will appear as a separate phase ( wikipedia: Saturation ) * solution : 溶液 * dissolve : 溶解 色彩飽和 colorfulness, chroma, and saturation are related but distinct concepts referring to the perceived intensity of a specific color. ( wikipedia: Colorfulness ) 市場飽和 When the amount of product provided in a market has been maximized in the current state of the marketplace. ( investopedia: market saturation ) 最後，別忘了對應句子選擇適合的型 動詞 saturate 形容詞 saturated 名詞 saturation

FWIW 是 For What It's Worth 的縮寫。 通常會翻成：不論好壞、不管有沒有用、無論如何...等等。 但它的意思很難直接套用一個中文的詞，所以下面會用英解跟例句來說明它的意思： 解釋 said when you are giving someone a piece of information and you are not certain if that information is useful or important ( cambridge ) considering what limited worth this advice, opinion, or suggestion might have for you ( wiktionary ) Used to soften the presentation of unsolicited advice or information that may not be relevant ( wiktionary ) 1跟2解釋差不多，提供一個不知道有沒有用、重不重要、可能沒什麼用的資訊時說的，類似「 不知道講出來有沒有幫助 ，但就我所知是那樣那樣...」 例句 And that's my opinion, for what it's worth. They are, for what it's worth, the single most successful eastern arts group in the West. 3適用在含有歉意的情境，例如「雖然對你很抱歉， 但先不論好壞 ，他的處置是正確的」或「 我說什麼都沒用了 ，但對不起...我把事情搞砸了」 例句 For what it's worth, I'm sorry that I messed up your work. FWIAW 則是 For What It's All Worth 的縮寫。跟FWIW一樣的意思，但FWIW比較常用。 語源 有興趣也可以讀一下wiktionary的語源部分： "For what it's worth" is useful to emphasi...

Aluminium foil, Pic CC-BY by  wstryder Aluminium foil is aluminium prepared in thin metal leaves, with a thickness less than 0.2 millimetres, thinner gauges down to 6 µm are also commonly used. ( wikipedia: Aluminium_foil ) Aluminium foil剛好可以拆成鋁、箔兩個字來看： Aluminium  (鋁) Aluminium (or aluminum) is a chemical element in the boron group with symbol Al and atomic number 13. ( wikipedia: aluminium ) a light, silver-colored metal used esp. for making containers, cooking equipment, and aircraft parts ( cambridge: aluminium ) foil (箔) a very thin sheet of metal, used esp. for wrapping food. ( cambridge: foil ) 那為什麼會有錫箔紙的俗稱呢？ 因為早期的確是用錫做的（錫箔 Tin foil ），但因為錫味會留在食物上的缺點，現在市面上應該都是鋁製的了。