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[Ringle Review] 원어민이 쓰는 영어 표현! (2024-02-24 )

by 지나가는 행인의 왈왈 2024. 2. 25.

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miffed: slightly annoyed and hurt because of something that someone has said or done to you.

I was slightly miffed when ChatGPT was released when I was in the middle of writing my thesis.

 

eloquent: fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing.; clearly expressing or indicating something.

ChatGPT sounds too perfect, too eloquent.

 

complacency: self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies

It it sometimes bad to fall into complacency because you stop improving yourself.

 

umbrella term: A term used to cover a broad category of things rather than a single specific item

Artificial intelligence is an umbrella term because there are so many different technologies using artifical intelligence.

 

foolproof: not having a weakness

The instructions are foolproof. Nobody could mess them up!

 

crash course: a class in which a lot of information is taught in a short period of time

I recently was assigned to the American office of our company, so I needed to take an English crash course for two weeks before going.