Infamous/聲名狼籍的

Infamous/聲名狼籍的：

He plays the infamous villain in the TV series.

Snippet(C)/片段

Snippet(C)/片段：

I just read an interesting snippet on the news paper.

It is easy to overhear snippets of conversations from other tables in restaurants.

Exacerbate(v.)/加劇/加重/使惡化

Exacerbate(v.)/加劇/加重/使惡化：

The constantly changing statements exacerbated the confusion and anger of the public.

Retract(v.)/撤回/撤銷/收回(聲明、承諾)

Retract(v.)/撤回/撤銷/收回(聲明、承諾)：

The parents has retracted charge against the teenager who injured their son. 

The company spokesperson retracted their early statement a few hours ago. 

Prequel/前傳

Prequel/前傳：

I am obsessed with the new TV series, "Carrie Diaries", which is the prequel of the previous hit "Sex and the City".

On my mind:
Almost all the girls/women/ around my age love (or at least know) the famous Carrie Bradshaw. Ha...now you might be able to guess my age. Deducting from my previous crush on the TV series, it is not difficult to know the authenticity of the aforementioned statement.

Dub/戲稱/取..暱稱

Dub/戲稱/取..暱稱，The press dubbed her the "Queen of Dance".

Staff vs. staffer

以前唸書只學過staff，但今天偶然看到staffer，但其實分別好像還算簡單，staff通常是指一個公司或組織員工(複數)，staffer則是指單一員工，不過staffer多用在政府組織與媒體公司。

趨勢論壇的英文

今天看到趨勢論壇這個字，突然很好奇大部分是怎麼翻的，其實還蠻簡單的，就是trends forum，The international news agency is going to hold a trends forum by the end of this year.

Tycoon／大亨

Tycoon／大亨，Mr. Black is a media tycoon.

Mass communication/大眾傳播; mass media/大眾傳播媒體

Mass communication/大眾傳播；mass media/大眾傳播媒體。

副刊/Supplement

報紙或雜誌的副刊/supplement，Jane loves this week's Sunday color supplement.

An op-ed article...（報紙）名人專家評論

An op-ed article/（報紙）名人專家評論，通常立場會與editorial（報社的）社論不同。

名嘴的英文

這個應該是超級常見卻很少人知道該怎麼說名嘴/pundit, 希望自己下次說的出來：

He is a political pundit and a regular on news channels.

又是一個小專業的單字...lithography

今天要來介紹一個小專業的單字，lithography/平版印刷術，lithography好像有特別製作功法，剛剛小小研究了一下，但還是不太清楚實際操作，這兩天有空再把差異性補上囉！