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👉🏼Officials seek remedies after contractor painted over ‘King of Kowloon’ Tsang Tsou-choi’s decades-old art👈🏼
🖋Summary: The electr...
#EnglishEverywhere🌋
👉🏼Officials seek remedies after contractor painted over ‘King of Kowloon’ Tsang Tsou-choi’s decades-old art👈🏼
🖋Summary: The electric switch box painted with “King of Kowloon” Tsang Tsou-choi’s black ink graffiti was mistakenly painted by a contractor on Wednesday night. Even though government departments were seeking solutions, it is believed the damage was irreversible.
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1️⃣Remedies (Plural noun)
🔸Meaning: a way of dealing with or improving an unpleasant or difficult situation
🔹意思: 補救/解脫方法
🔺Sentence: The government intended to take several remedies to cool the housing market but they failed.
🔻句子: 政府嘗試了好幾個解決方案都未能改變樓價高企的問題。
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2️⃣ Graffiti (Noun)
🔹Meaning: drawings or writing on a wall, etc. in a public place
🔸意思:塗鴉
🔺Sentence: In Hong Kong, graffiti is usually treated as an act of vandalism.
🔻句子:在香港，塗鴉大多被介定為蓄意破壞公物的行為。
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3️⃣ Rigorously (Adverb)
🔹Meaning: by strictly following particular rules or processes
🔸意思: 嚴格地
🔺Sentence: The country's press is rigorously controlled.
🔻句子: 這個國家的新聞自主被嚴正地控制。
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4️⃣ Numb (Adjective)
🔹Meaning: unable to feel, think or react in the normal way
🔸意思: 因震驚/恐懼而麻木和思想遲緩
🔺Sentence: We were all numb when we heard of the news.
🔻句子: 我們聽到這個消息時，全都嚇呆了。
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News source: SCMP (link posted on bio)
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