Day228-budding

1. 认识这个词(基础篇)

词:budding

英英释义:beginning to develop or become successful

例句:The budding director’s debut has taken the country by storm.

2. 体会这个词 (进阶篇)

“budding”是形容词,意思是“崭露头角的”“刚刚起步的”,当我们想表示“新秀”“新产品”时就可以用到它。budding 名词 bud 表示“花苞“,因此 budding 有“萌芽”之意,是个很形象的表达, 在口语和外刊中都可以用到。我们通过几个例子掌握它的用法。

两个明星刚开始恋爱,公布后经常都会成为热点话题:

The budding romance between the two stars shortly became the talk of the town.

某位导演新秀的处女座一炮而红,全国轰动,就可以说:

The budding director’s debut has taken the country by storm.

剑桥词典上有个例句“还在学校时她就已崭露头角,凸显出她的天分”,英文是这样说的:

While still at school she was clearly a budding genius.

《经济学人》中也经常用到 budding:

1)The overall effect of the new regulations will be to slow the budding private economy.

2)We are looking for a would-be journalist to spend three months of the summer working on the newspaper in London, writing about science and technology. Our aim is more to discover writing talent in a science student or scientist than scientific aptitude in a budding journalist.(这是《经济学人》的一则实习生招聘广告)

3)Since the local government turned a budding local enterprise into China’s biggest wholesale flower market in 1999, Dounan has become the main supplier of blooms to courting couples and contrite husbands across the country: demand fuelled by a middle-class boom.

3. 从认识到会用(作业)

1)翻译下面的句子: 这位初露头角的女演员获得了一项奥斯卡提名。

(参考翻译:The budding actress was nominated for an Oscar.)

2)结合自己的生活、学习、工作、兴趣等,想象在什么语境下会用到这个表达。先简要描述这个场景,再造句。

She became a budding writer after working hard several years.

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