AEE 1192: What's Your Greatest Asset? How to Talk About Advantages in English

enamored

adj

  • If you are enamored of something, you like or admire it a lot. If you are not enamored of something, you dislike or disapprove of it.
    I'm so enamored by it.
    I became totally enamored of the wildflowers there.

swing around

  • If someone swings around, they turn around quickly, usually because they are surprised.
    Another swing around the U.S. Right?
    In connection not perfection, swing around 的用法和词典上的完全不一样.

fair

作为adj,fair有公平的/合理的含义,fair也可以作为noun,表示露天游乐场,集市等

  • A county, state, or country fair is an event where there are, for example, displays of goods and animals, and amusements, games, and competitions.
  • A fair is an event at which people display and sell goods, especially goods of a particular type.
    Michelle, you took us to a fair where you were eating cotton candy[棉花糖] a few weeks ago

bring up

  • When someone brings up a child, they look after it until it is an adult. If someone has been brought up in a certain place or with certain attitudes, they grew up in that place or were taught those attitudes when they were growing up.
    His grandmother and his father brought him up.

  • If you bring up a particular subject, you introduce it into a discussion or conversation.
    Why are you bringing it up now?

  • If someone brings up food or wind, food or air is forced up from their stomach through their mouth.
    It's hard for the baby to bring up wind.

perk

Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense perks, present participle perking, past tense, past participle perked.
countable noun [usually plural]

  • Perks are special benefits that are given to people who have a particular job or belong to a particular group.
    One of the perks of being a student is cheap travel.

notion

Word forms: plural notions

  • A notion[观念] is an idea or belief about something.
    We each have a notion of just what kind of people we'd like to be.
    The first of a notion is that it's an advantage.Right?
  • Notions are small articles for sewing, such as buttons, zips, and thread.

niche

Word forms: plural niches
合适的

  • Your niche is the job or activity which is exactly suitable for you.
    Simon Lane quickly found his niche as a busy freelance[自由职业者] model maker.
    That's one kind of niche way to use that.

make sense

overarching

adj

  • You use overarching to indicate that you are talking about something that includes or affects everything or everyone.
    The overarching question seems to be what happens when the U.S. pulls out[脱离]?

forfeit

Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense forfeits, present participle forfeiting, past tense, past participle forfeited.

  • If you forfeit something, you lose it or are forced to give it up because you have broken a rule or done something wrong.
    He was ordered to forfeit more than £1.5m in profits.
  • If you forfeit something, you give it up willingly, especially so that you can achievesomething else.
    Do you think that they would forfeit profit in the name of safety?
  • A forfeit is something that you have to give up because you have done something wrong.
    That is the forfeit he must pay.

bubbly

  • Someone who is bubbly is very lively and cheerful and talks a lot.
    She had a bright and bubbly personality.
  • Champagne is sometimes called bubbly.
    Guests were presented with glasses of bubbly on arrival.

falafel

shout out

  • If you shout something out, you say it very loudly so that people can hear you clearly.
    I shouted out 'I'm OK'.

legitimate

Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense legitimates, present participle legitimating, past tense, past participle legitimated.

  • Something that is legitimate is acceptable according to the law.
    The government will not seek to disrupt the legitimate business activities of the defendant.
  • If you say that something such as a feeling or claim is legitimate, you think that it is reasonable and justified.
    That's a perfectly legitimate fear.

head off

  • If you head off a person, animal, or vehicle, you move to a place in front of them in order to capture them or make them change the direction they are moving in.
    He changed direction swiftly, turned into the hallway and headed her off.
  • If you head something off, especially something unpleasant, you take action before it is expected to happen in order to prevent it from happening.
    He would ask Congress to intervene and head off a strike.

tangent

  • A tangent is a line that touches the edge of a curve or circle at one point, but does not cross it.
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