其實你知道很多人看我IG學英文，但我的外國朋友則是看我IG學中文嗎？今天來教一下「撿到槍」的英文跟中文。 昨天看到 @a2zenglishtutor 的 Danny 老師在他IG教了一個片語 jump the gun，我忍不住在IG動態上發文說，我這個人不只常常 jump the gun，還外加 found a gun 「撿到槍」。 我知道會有一堆粉絲DM我問「撿到槍」的英文怎麼說，所以我就未卜先知的先來教大家好了。 若你去Google「撿到槍」的英文，你很可能會看到有人寫 talk smack，而若你不交叉檢查就直接背，那麼我覺得就是犯了一種很多英文學習者常犯的錯，背錯意思了。其實若你反查talk smack，就會發現英文字典的解釋都是像這種的： to make critical or insulting comments to someone, especially an opponent （這解釋來自Cambridge dictionary），你讀了以後，覺得意思是你本來想的「撿到槍」的意思嗎？ 我個人認為跟很多中文特有的字串一樣（例如「坐月子」），英文並沒有剛剛好對應的用字，「撿到槍」這個這幾年突然開始通俗的新用法，其實需要長串解釋，外國人才有可能聽得懂。所以可能要講 If someone is usually mild and all of a sudden becomes quite bold and makes strong arguments, you can say 「他撿到槍了」。若真的要找一個很接近的英文片語， @sabisuvenuti 殺比老公說是 someone suddenly got fired up。 所以，如果你是外國人，快想想看有什麼情境可以跟你的台灣朋友講「你是撿到槍喔？？」，如果你是台灣人，快想想看有什麼情境可以跟你的外國朋友講 "Why did you all of a sudden get fired up??" #idiom #learnenglish #vocabulary #learnchinese #cambridgedictionary #片語 #學英文 #背單字 #學英文的正確方法 #學中文 #劍橋字典

我其實真係唔鍾意寫字，但又唔知點解出嚟會做文字工作、寫手文膽、又中又英咁。好老實，我見到依家D傳媒，好多時讀列D文章，D人不單止似唔識字，就連組織力、common sense、arguments、養份等等真係等於零，好似連去google查到懶咁。 Anyway，我幾日無post，因為我怕寫字，現在心入面更加有50度陰影，更怕寫完字有D唔識字扮博士又誤會我意思。市場上standard已經低落咗好多年，不過家下只會直線向下插。 我教自己D仔作文，重點唔係教句式gramma，重點係文章要有鋪排有structure，而且要到題仲唔好磨爛蓆，仲要言之有物唔好廢up同前言不對後語。有咗個framework，就先用自己識嘅字同gramma句式去寫。不過咁，呢個年代可能做人好似細細B咁，唔識字好過。 究竟我又up咗D乜？冇，我只係看圖作文啫！

在今天剛上線的Between Here and There（我的英文podcast），我們討論的題目是：個人職涯規劃和學習態度應該要「廣泛博雅」還是「精準深入」？其實兩邊都有好的論點可以支撐，每個人各別都有不同的立場，有趣的是真正要選邊站時，原來的態度又可能會改變！歡迎各位來收聽，加入我們這場有意思的討論！ While Tiger Woods, who was already playing golf at two years of age, seems to make a case for specializing and focusing on something early in life, Roger Federer’s winding path to tennis greatness suggests that sampling, rather than specialization, can often be the best route to eventual success. In this episode of Between Here and There, we discuss the pros and cons of being a generalist (sampling a bit of everything) vs being a specialist (going deep and early into a field). There are good arguments on both sides and when pressed for answers, you’d be surprised to hear which side people are actually on! This episode was recorded in my personal studio, because our usual studio had fire drills that day. As you can see we are well engaged in this topic! Catch our conversation here: Listen with Apple: https://bit.ly/bht-apple Listen with Spotify: https://bit.ly/bht-spotify Listen with Google: https://bit.ly/bht-google @btwnherethere @summer.shen @char_char_lot