【常用新聞英文語彙】flirt with不只是調情!用於一般英文及新聞英文各有多種不同涵義!


flirt with(用於一般英文)
1.調情
All the men in the office flirt with me and try to date me. 辦公室的男人都跟我調情,想約我。

2. 調戲
He watched the stranger flirt with his girlfriend. 他看著陌生人調戲他女友。

3. 勾引
I had not expected that this shameless woman should flirt with her best friend's husband. 我沒想到這位無恥的女人會勾引閨密的老公。

4. 撩
He's flirting with all the ladies, and they're all flirting with him. 他在撩所有的女士,而所有的女士也都在撩他。

flirt with (用於新聞英文)
1.搞
Constituencies in all the new member nations flirt with nationalism. 所有新會員國的選民都在搞國族主義。
Only weeks after taking office, he is already flirting with dictatorship. 他就職不到幾星期就在搞獨裁。
2.考慮
He has flirted with retirement before. 他曾經考慮退休。
Uruguay and Paraguay are flirting with the bilateral trade deals that Washington is dangling before many Latin nations. 烏拉圭和巴拉圭正在考慮美國在許多拉丁美洲國家面前提出的雙邊貿易協議。

3.嘗試
He was flirting with Surrealism in the late ‘20s and early ‘30s. 二十年代晚期和三十年代早期他正在嘗試超寫實主義。

4.提及
Then there’s the issue the two leaders merely flirted with: the missiles that N. Korea uses to threaten the rest of the world. 另外還有兩位領袖稍加提及的議題:北韓用來威脅其他地區的飛彈。

5.面臨
As Sri Lanka once more flirts with civil war, she expects she will soon be adding one more picture to her gallery of ghosts. 當斯里蘭卡再度面臨內戰時,她預計自己很快就可以在她的亡魂畫廊上再增添一幅圖像。
GM is now flirting with bank-ruptcy. 通用汽車現在面臨破產。

6.一度興起
Americans flirt with the idea of abandoning their homeland after Bush’s election win this week. 本週布希贏得選舉後, 美國人一度興起放棄國土的念頭。

7.一度試圖
She threw chairs, lighted fires, cut the family phone lines, flirted with suicide. 她摔椅子、點火、切斷電話線,一度試圖自殺。
The Yankees flirted with signing him as a free agent last winter. 去年冬天他成為自由球員時洋基一度試圖簽下他。

8.試圖挑戰
LeBron James flirts with a triple-double in Lakers vs. Heat. 詹皇在湖人與熱火的對決中試圖挑戰大三元。



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