rent & lent

"租"錄影帶的租要用哪個字?? 我第一個想到的單字居然是lent @ @?

lent是lend的過去是，是借出的意思。

要"跟人租東西"要用rent才對，真容易搞混。

不過rent也可以用在"租東西給別人"上，

在rent的解釋中，居然有一個名詞意思為 a torn place in a piece of material or clothing

查看下才得知rent也是另一個單字rend的名詞態，

rend為動詞 意思為 to tear something apart with force or violence

相關片語為 Heart-rending = Heart-breaking

原來跟昨天探討的字 Tear 亦有關係。

以上例句、字義均來自google字典

Tear

今天威力帶了兩包瑞士妞(Swiss Miss)來加料(利用麵包機做麵包)，看到封口撕開處寫著「Tear Here」，想說Tear不是眼淚嗎？結果查了一下字典才發現，原來Tear這個字動詞與名詞的意思不一樣，念法也不相同。

【名詞】

1. a drop of liquid that comes out of your eye when you cry

【動詞】 變化：tore, torn

1. to damage something by pulling it apart or into pieces or by cutting it on something sharp; to become damaged in this way.

以上例句、字義均源自google字典

Avenge & Revenge

Avenge

Revenge

Master

Apprentice

as well as I

as well as me

Divine & Intervention

Divine is something related to God. coming from or connected with God. also can be used to describe something is wonderful or beautiful.

Intervene is a verb which means someone to be involved something for being improved.

Suicide bomber named Black Widow

今天吃晚餐時看到新聞，莫斯科地鐵遭到自殺炸彈客的攻擊，原本以為是類似蓋達組織那樣的恐怖攻擊事件，但看了cnn的報導，其中有句話提到 "This war is politically motivated, it is not about a religious ideology as in the case of al Qaeda, so everyone participates and it is ultimately irrelevant if you are a man or a woman," said Ayers.略知這件事不是信仰上的衝突，而是政治議題上的歧異，最大特徵在於蓋達組織是不讓女性成員上前線，他們認為女性就應該要躲藏起來，不應該露臉的。文章中有許多單字可以學習如下：

hallmark

salvo

midst

autonomy

grant

forcibly

irrelevant

prominence

militant

scum & skim & Sabbath

在Fish Ville的時候，系統常會出現詢問視窗，問你是否願意幫助朋友清理他們已呈現汙濁的魚缸，其中看到了scum和skim兩個字，在這邊可以加深點印象

scum

本字為名詞，可用來形容漂浮液體上的泡沫跟髒東西，當然也可用來罵人(廢渣)

1. a layer of bubbles or unpleasant substance that forms on the surface of a liquid 浮沫；浮垢；浮渣

A stinking water covered by a thick green scum.

2. an insulting word for people that you strongly disapprove of 罵人的話，如廢渣之類的

Don't waste your time to talk to the scum like that.

別的聯想字，通常看到scummy water會搭配些形容惡臭的詞如下

stinking

filthy

skim

再來則是看到了cnn的一篇報導，該篇報導提到了一個有趣的故事，話說創世的神當初在打造世界的時候，是工作六天，第七天是休息不上工的，也因此該天即稱為Sabbath

以上例句、字義均源自google字典

elude vs delude

[英文每日一題]Indonesia is a bird paradise, but hundreds of its 366 protected species are threatened by ＿＿＿ destruction and illegal activity.1-habitat2-prohibition3-residence4-province