世界上大多数人都喜欢好的东西。有许多人花很多精力和工夫就是为了争取成为一个出众的人。如果您有机会见到一些真正才华出众的人,你也许会同意这些人的确与众不同,能做到常人做不到的事情。今天我们要给大家介绍的两个习惯用语都是描写那些特别出众、水平超出一般的人或物。我们先来给大家讲第一个: one of a kind。
Kind这个字有很多解释;在这里,它的意思是:一个类别。任何人要是成为one of a kind那就等于是:只此一家,独一无二;那当然就很特殊,任何人都没法跟他比了。让我们来举个例子,这是一个学生在谈他所喜欢的音乐:
例句-1: "Normally I don't care much for classical music -- U-2 is more my style. But I can listen to Mozart all day long. Just imagine: he died at thirty-five and he wrote six hundred pieces of music. He was certainly one of a kind."
例句-2: "I've seen all the great fighters in the last thirty years. And I think the best was Muhammed Ali. He was one of a kind -- he could move faster and hit quicker than anybody else I ever saw."
例句-3: "Our firm is paying our new executive vice president two hundred thousand a year. But it takes a lot of money to hire a top-notch man these days."
例句-4: " When I'm in New York I always stay in this hotel. Everything here is top-notch: the rooms, the restaurants, the service. And it's close to most of the places I want to go."