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What words or phrases drive people crazy?
哪些词或者短语让人们抓狂?
获得4.1k好评的回答@Peter
"Free gift" - a gift is free. Even worse is "free gift with purchase"
“免费的礼物”——不要钱的礼物。“买还送”更糟糕。
"Pre-owned" - This implies that someone has done the owning for you. The word is "used".
“二手货”——这暗示在这之前别人已经用过了。这个词=“用过的”。
Literally - "literally, there is smoke coming out of my ears". No. If there were smoke coming out of your ears you would be dead and unable to speak. Figuratively, literally drives me crazy.
“从字面上来说”——“从字面意义上看,有烟从我耳朵里冒出来了”。不是的。如果有烟从你耳朵里冒出来的话,你早就死了,根本不可能还会说话。象征性地,“字面意义上的来说”这个词让我很抓狂。
“Irregardless