黃金閱讀5.0 25篇 - 英檢

※ 引述《qweqweqweqwe (啪)》之銘言：
: Paragraph 1:
: In 1769 in a little town in Oxfordshire, England, a child with
: the very ordinary name of William Smith was born into the poor family of a
: village blacksmith. He received rudimentary village schooling but mostly he
: roamed his uncle's farm collecting the fossils that were so abundant in the
: rocks of the Cotswold hills．When he grew older William Smith taught himself
: surveying from books he bought with his small savings and at the age of
: eighteen he was apprenticed to a surveyor of the local parish. He then
: proceeded to teach himself geology and when he was twenty-four, he went to
: work for the company that was excavating the Somerset Coal Canal in the south
: of England．
: 2. According to paragraph 1 which of the following statements about William
: Smith is NOT true?
: ○Smith learned surveying by reading and by apprenticing for a local surveyor
: ○Smith’s family lived in a small English town and possessed little wealth．
: ○Smith learned about fossils from books he borrowed from his uncle．
: ○Smith eventually left his village to work on the excavation of an English
: canal.
: 雖然好像有點蠢
: 但是B選項 little wealth = poor 嗎 囧 直覺想到小康
: 看到就選了
: 為了時間的關係
: 連C都沒看
: 雖然後來看C錯的比較明顯

不要用台灣方式來思考比較好喔
在這裡little不是小的意思
是"少"的意思
表示他們擁有很少的財富＝不太有錢
有很多名詞用little來形容就會變成這種情形
像是little care 就是說沒什麼憂慮，而不是小憂慮...

小康的話，通常來說都已經表示過得不錯了
可能會用moderately prosperous或well-off,-better-off等等來形容


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一個女人 在一生中被一個男人深深地愛過 是一種怎樣的幸福呢?

或者說

一個女人 在一生中錯過一個深深愛她的男人 又是一種怎樣的遺憾呢?

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