News of the Week (27/7/2015)
Social Issues
Lead water leaves residents high and dry
Tempers have been fraying since lead was detected in water collected from a public housing estate in early July. Although negligible amounts of lead, a heavy metal, do not pose a fatal threat to humans, the Centre for Health Protection reminded that exposure to lead for a long time is likely to cause damage to the brain and kidney.
Worried about the dangers of lead, residents in Kai Ching Estate are rushing to get bottled water frantically. Netizens expressed dissatisfaction with the way the government handled this matter – the government disclosed the identity of the plumber, which fuelled suspicions that they are intending to shift the responsibility onto him.
While the samples later collected from Kai Ching Estate met the standard of the World Health Organisation, the Centre for Health Protection urged that children below six and pregnant women use other sources of drinking water. Whether harmful to humans or not, water polluted with lead in Kai Ching Estate has revealed how the government approached a matter which concerns the safety of drinking water. The investigation is ongoing, and public fear is mounting too.
lead water是含鉛的水，正式應該寫成lead in water，但標題以言簡意賅為佳，因此寫成lead water已經非常清晰。water是水，有水理應不會乾，但標題則加上了dry一字，令標題加添了一份懸疑感覺，吸引讀者。leave someone high and dry其實是一整個expression，意思是「令…陷入困境、無人協助」。修辭手法oxymoron是指文字中加入矛盾，例如bittersweet (苦樂參半的)、you only have one choice (你只有一個選擇) 等等，都是運用了oxymoron。這個標題的語言概念與oxymoron概念相同，都是在句子中加入矛盾的元素。乍看並不會發現標題的特別之處，但細心閱讀後，便會發現water與dry的矛盾。
lead是「鉛」，讀音是/led/，即是與let的讀音 (le-) 相似；而解作「領導」時，則與need的 (-eed) 讀音相似。
Glossary:
1. temper [n.] 情緒
2. fray [v.] 煩惱；憤怒
3. negligible [adj.] 微不足道的
4. fatal [adj.] 致命的
5. Centre for Health Protection [ph.] 衛生防護中心
6. exposure [n.] 暴露
7. kidney [n.] 腎
8. frantically [adv.] 緊張忙亂地
9. disclose [v.] 揭露
10. plumber [n.] 水喉匠
11. fuel [v.] 令…惡化
12. suspicion [n.] 懷疑
13. shift [v.] 轉移
14. World Health Organisation [ph.] 世界衛生組織
15. approach [v.] 處理
16. ongoing [adj.] 持續進行中的
17. mount [v.] 增加
frantically意思 在 [字彙] 紅寶--p.211 - 看板GRE 的推薦與評價
https://xination.pixnet.net/blog/post/22513149
最近的天氣還滿舒服的
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fracture
fract(break)-ure
n.骨折 [ the breaking of a bone, cartilage(軟骨;ex.鼻子), or the like,]
v.使破裂 [ to cause or to suffer a fracture]
fracture <> cement n.水泥 v.黏牢
fragile
frag(=fract)-ile(easy to do)
adj.易碎的 [Easily broken, damaged, or destroyed; frail.]
adj.虛弱的;纖細的
fragment
frag(=fract;break)-ment
n.碎片 [A small part broken off or detached.]
n.未完成部分,或獨立的部分 [An incomplete or isolated portion]
ex. extant fragments of an old manuscript.
fragrance
fragr(smell sweet)-ance
n.芬芳;香味 [The state or quality of having a pleasant odor.]
n.香水 [A substance, such as a perfume or cologne, designed to emit a
pleasant odor.]
fragrant
fragr(smell sweet)-ant
adj.芳香的 [having a pleasant scent or aroma; sweet-smelling]
ex. The air in the garden was warm and fragrant.
花園裡的空氣溫煦而又芳香。
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flagrant adj.惡名昭彰的
fragrant adj.芳香的 [把r想成 = rose]
frail
adj.脆弱的 [Easily broken or destroyed; fragile.]
adj.身體虛弱的 [Physically weak; delicate]
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flail n.連枷 [有"l"的比較像棒棒]
frail a.脆弱的 // frail 延伸出--> friable adj.易脆的
frantic
adj.發狂似的 [desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.;
frenzied(frenzy-ed);delirious.]
什麼時候你會frantic來形容人或事呢，
比方說：支持的隊伍獲得總冠軍，frantic fans激動到跳河
或者，高興到發瘋，害怕到發瘋，疼痛的發瘋時你也可以用frantic這個字來形容
ex.范進中舉
frantic字源：c.1362, "insane," unexplained variant of M.E. frentik (see
frenetic). Transf. meaning "affected by wild excitement" is from c.1477.
frantic這個字最早的意思是"insane精神錯亂的;瘋狂的"，frantic與我們接下來會講的
frenetic是同源的
(補充：如果你已經不會搞混了，就不用看下面的解釋了)
fanatic n.狂熱者;盲信者(宗教上的)
frantic a.發狂似的
fraud
n.詭計;騙局(ex.為了汙錢的騙局) [A deception deliberately practiced in order
to secure unfair or unlawful gain.]
ex. The authorities took measures to prevent tax fraud.
當局已採取措施防止偷稅漏稅.
forgery:counterfeit＝embezzlement:fraud
偽造是仿冒＝貪污是欺騙
fraudulent
fraud-ulent
adj.欺詐的,欺騙的 [Engaging in fraud; deceitful.]
fraught
adj.充滿...的 [Filled with a specified element or elements; charged]
ex. She had a life fraught with hardship.
她的一生充滿了艱辛。
fraught的字源：c.1300, "laden" (of vessels), from M.E. fraughten "to load (a
ship) with cargo," from fraght "cargo, lading of a ship," var. of freight,
infl. by M.Du. vrachten "to load or furnish with cargo," from P.Gmc.
*fra-aihtiz (see freight). Figurative sense is first attested 1576.
fraught源於M.E. fraughten，意思是"to load (a ship) with cargo 將貨物運上船"，
fraught與等會要講的freight是同源的
experience fraught with tension <> idyll n.田園生活︰自由自在的經歷
freight
n.貨物 [Goods carried by a vessel or vehicle, especially by a commercial
carrier; cargo.]
v.裝貨於 [To load with goods to be transported.]
ex. They freighted the ship with grain.
他們把糧食裝船。
freckle
n.雀斑 [one of the small, brownish spots on the skin that are caused by
deposition of pigment and that increase in number and darken on exposure to
sunlight]
ps.
fleck
n.斑點 [A tiny mark or spot]
ex.flecks of mica in the rock.
freelancer
free-lance(長矛)-er
n.自由作家 [A person who sells services to employers without a long-term
commitment to any of them.]
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