Going to a quiz every so often is a great way to have fun with friends. But one surprising quiz round made me change the way I think about the English language.
之前有一次和朋友玩“猜詞兒”游戲，簡直打開了我對英語的“新世界大門”。
The theme of the round was contronyms (反義同形詞) ‑ words that have contradictory (對立的) meanings.
游戲主題是“反義同形詞”——就是那種，明明是同一個單詞，卻有截然不同的含義。
The English word “dust” is one of the examples. Dust can mean to clean up the house and remove dirt as well as mean to add powder (粉末) to something, such as covering a cake with sugar.
英文單詞“dust”就是一個例子。作動詞，它可以表達“清掃、撣土”也可以表示往某物上撒粉末，比如在蛋糕上撒糖。
