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1. vegan noun
原句: Fat-free and vegan desserts.
意思: a person who does not eat any animal products such as meat, milk or eggs. Some vegans do not use animal products such as silk or leather.
字源: 1940s: from vegetarian + -an.
例句: He's a strict vegan.
2. sinful adjective
原句: You can mix up your healful and sinful choices.
意思: morally wrong or evil
字源: Old English synfull (see sin, -ful).
例句: It is sinful to lie.
3. catch on phrase
原句: This [healthy cruising] is really something that's catching on.
意思:
a. to become popular or fashionable
b. to understand sth
例句:
a. He invented a new game, but it never really caught on.
b. He is very quick to catch on to things.
4. conscious adjective
原句: Said Randi Butcher, a 43-year-old health-conscious cruiser.
意思: being particularly interested in sth
字源: late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘being aware of wrongdoing’): from Latin conscius ‘knowing with others or in oneself’ (from conscire ‘be privy to’) + -ous.
例句: They have become increasingly health-conscious.
5. craze noun
原句: Group-buying websites—Groupon, LivingSocial and dozens of smaller ones—are the latest craze among price-odsessed consumers and an evolution of social media and shopping.
意思: an enthusiastic interest in sth that is shared by many people but that usually does not last very long; a thing that people have a craze for
字源: late Middle English (in the sense ‘break, produce cracks’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish krasa ‘crunch’.
例句: Doctors warned of the latest drug craze to sweep America.