英文百搭詞彙筆記

Important

• Indispensable 

• Significant 

• Essential 

• Requisite 必要的

• Crucial 

• Imperative 逼切的

• Paramount 首要的

• Weighty 重大的 

• Influential

• Prerequisite of 

• It is of utmost importance ..

• It is of paramount significance ...

Not Important

• Unnecessary

• Insignificant

• Negligible

• Trivial 瑣碎的

• Frivolous 無聊瑣碎的

• Inconsequential 微不足道的

Problems/ difficulties

• Hurdles

• Seemingly insurmountable obstacles

• An uphill battle 

• Plight 困境

• Afflicted by 困擾

• Plagued by 困擾

• Tortured by / Tormented by 被折磨

• Guilty/sadness/… shrouded 籠罩 my days

Continuously

• Day in and day out (day and night)

• Round the clock

• Ceaselessly 不停地

• Off the reel 滔滔不絕地

• Relentlessly

• Unceasingly

Train

• Drill

• Hone your skills

• Polish your skills 

• Sharpen your skills

Big

• Massive

• Tremendous

• Enormous

• Giant

• Immense

• Mammoth (大/多得好誇張）

  • E.g. there is a mammoth amount of work to be done

  • E.g. the government began a mammoth rescue operation

Remove

• Eliminate

• Abolish (v) ／abolition (n)

• Waive 

Ease 減輕

• Mitigate

• Lighten

• Alleviate

Many 

• Ample

• Substantial

• Sufficient amount of 

• Mammoth amount of (誇張）

Surprise (v/n) / surprised (adj) / surprising (adj)

• Flabbergast (v) / flabbergasted (adj) (very shocked by anything good or bad)

• Speechless (very shocked)

• Astonished (positive/neutral)

• Astounded (positive or negative)

• Amazed (positive)

• Stunned 

• Jaw-dropped

• Confused

• Puzzled

• Bewildered

• Perplexed

• Baffled

Hong Kong

• The peninsula

• The Pearl of the Orient

• The international financial centre

• The coastal city

Young people

• People at a tender age

• Adolescents

• Teens / teenagers

• The younger generation

• The pillars of the future society

• Youngsters

Deliberately

• Purposefully

• On purpose

• Intentionally

INTRODUCE NEW POINTS (linking words)

• First and foremost, 

• In addition, Aside from this, / On top of this, / 

• Not only ___, but also ___ 

• Another justification deserving our attention is that …

• With regards to ___ / With respect to 

• …. is another factor worthy-to-note

• One of the reasons is the … which acts as a catalyst to them (+gerund)

GIVE EXAMPLES

• You can see ___, ___ and ___, to name but a few 

• ___ can be exemplified by ___ 

• ___ is a case in point / ___ is well illustrated by ___ / ___ is a striking example to illustrate ___ (my point of view) 

COMPARE THE PAST

• In the past,xxx. In this day and age, xxx.

• Gone are the days when s.v.o. Nowadays...

ELABORATION LENGTHENING

• To put it another way,

• As a matter of fact,

• It is irrefutable / indisputable / beyond doubt  that

INTRODUCE SOMETHING

• When it comes to ___,

• It is hardly surprisingly that ___

• As a matter of fact,

• It is also of vital / cardinal / utmost / paramount importance to know that …

• Another justification deserving our attention is that …

• In the light of ___ (this), / Taking ___ into account, / In view of ___ / Seen in this light, (formal)

• More often than not, 

• Strictly speaking, / To put it briefly, / To put it precisely,

• On the contrary, / Conversely, / Contradictory, / Paradoxically, 

• And most preposterous of all, (we are told that there is no way of ...)

• The crux of the problems lies in 

• … comprises ...

INTRODUCE BENEFITS OF SOMETHING

• … is conducive to … (+gerund)

• … is contributive / contributes to ...

• … is immensely beneficial / advantageous to …

• … is desirable (worth having)

• Upsides 

Drawbacks

• Shortcomings

• Disadvantages/ downsides

• Cons

• Bane

• Trade-off

• Detrimental, harmful, adverse 有害的

INTRODUCE SOLUTIONS

• It is simply not worth jeopardising ___ over such an issue. There are way better alternatives: ___, ___, to name but a few.

• In light of these findings, we have the following suggestions and recommendations to help solve the problem.

• One suggestion being put forward is ___

• It’s high time somebody did something (informal)

• The best course of action would be...

• I am in favour of…

• It seems/appears to me…

• It is my firm conviction that…

• As far as something/someone be concerned

• To my way of thinking/To my mind,...

• I am inclined to agree/think/believe

BUT / HOWEVER

• Yet / whereas / while (whereas / while → use when doing comparison)

• On the contrary, / Conversely / Contrary to / Comparative speaking

• Contradictory, / Paradoxically, 

A LOT OF (quantifying expressions) 

• <benefits> a host of / a world of / a range of / an array of / a multitude of 

• <people> a congregation of / a horde of

• <bad things> a spate of (car thefts)

• <sufficient, more than enough> a plenitude of / an abundance of (air / water)

• <money> an enormous amount of / a sizable amount of money

• A bombardment of / an influx of / a deluge of / an outburst of (complaints / questions / criticisms / information)

• wide-ranging

VARIOUS

• Multitudinous (activities / kinds)

• Multifarious (activities / kinds)

• An array of (activities)

• A wide spectrum of (opinions)

• A range of 

VERY

• Strikingly / Remarkably

• Stunningly 

• Tremendously

• Vastly / Immensely

• Significantly

• Extremely / Supremely / Absolutely

• Acutely (agitated / embarrassing)

• Desperately (deficient / frustrated)

• Deeply (lamented / remorseful / entrenched)

• Conspicuously (successful / prominent / silent)

INCREASE

• Skyrocketing 

• Soaring

• Galloping

• Surging 

• Mounting 

• Cumulative 

DECREASE

• Plummeting 

• Diminishing (recent years have seen a diminishing popularity of …)

• Shrinking 

• Fade away

BECAUSE

• It boils down to …

• Thanks to … (the fact that)

• Owing to …(the fact that)

• … inasmuch as …

• On account of … / On account to the fact that

• attribute something to something

• contribute to

• on account of (because of sth)

• the crux of (the most important part of a matter)

• call into question (to cause doubt about something)

• to trigger

• on the grounds that (for the reason that)

• put something into perspective

• Another way of viewing this

• In light of…

• It is evident that

• Another vital point to mention/ worth mentioning is…

• It all boils down to..

• Though it is true that

[RESULTS / IMPACTS]

• produce the result of

• provoke an outcry (to cause a reaction or feeling)

• something spells disaster

• prompt speculation

• wreak havoc (cause a lot of problems or damage)

• be in dire straits (to be in an extremely difficult or serious situation)

• pose a threat to

• together/ along with

• As a result, / Thereby (+ing) / Thus (+ing) / Accordingly, / Correspondingly, / Consequently, 

[Opening]

• Hong Kong is an intersection point of different cultures and styles, harmoniously merging traditional architecture with modern design. It is a financial hub for foreign investors, a cosmopolitan city notable for its international cuisines and a plethora of shopping brands. Yet behind this glamorous and affluent facade, thousands and millions of people are …., and the culprits behind such phenomenon are as follow.